It was jam-packed!
The Dundalk Farmers Market begins its 2009 Season on Saturday, July 11th! This Saturday!
The Farmers Market has some amazing produce, great local farmers, and you can also grab a coffee or bite to eat on the Historic Dundalk Main Street.
Market Times:
Every Saturday, 7am-12:30pm
July 11th-November 21st
Shipping Place, off Dundalk Ave
This event is sponsored by the Dundalk Chamber of Commerce.
Stop by this Saturday!
A Great Band, A Great Night for Dundalk
Hey all!
I hope everyone had a happy 4th of July! I am back from a short hiatus of blog posts and will do my best to keep things updated…
Here is the schedule of Concerts in the Park, located at Trading Place, Dundalk, MD 21222, at Heritage Park.
All concerts start at 7pm at Heritage Park
Mr. Mark Persiani does an incredible job with these events and this is his 18th year of holding this concerts for the community. The event is co-sponsored by the Dundalk-Eastfield Recreation Council and the Dundalk Patapsco Neck Historical Society.
If you have any questions please call 410-282-4116!
See you there on the 14th!
JH
DUNDALK HERITAGE FAIR
2009 Entertainment
Shipway Stage 1
Friday July 3, 2009
1:30 A Futuristic Beautiful (Pop Rock)
3:30 Trinidad & Tobago Steel Band
6:30 Opening Ceremony
7:30 The Mahoney Brothers LONG LIVE THE BEATLES and JUKEBOX HEROES LIVE!
Saturday July 4, 2009
12:30 Incognito (Variety)
2:30 Pet Rock(Pop & Rock)
4:30 Invasion (British Rock)
7:30 Ronnie Dove
Sunday July 5, 2009
12:00 Glenn & The Gemtone (Oldies/Variety)
2:00 Fins (Beach Rock)
4:00 Gene Vincentt & The Cadillac Cruisers(Classic Rock)
8:00 THE MONKEES Lead Singer MICKY DOLENZ
Garden
Sparkle and Dazzle (Karaoke) – Friday 1 to 4pm, Saturday 2 to 5pm, Sunday 1 to 4pm
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Dundalk Bicycle Club May 2009
Schedule of Events
Vol. 11, #6 CORRECTED
It is hard to imagine, but if you count by Newsletters, this is #6, the year is half over already. This month we have scheduled 2 relatively short rides, one local ride and one that could be a bit challenging for some, but still a very nice ride. All the rides scheduled for last month were successfully completed and we are hoping that the coming month goes as well. With no further comment, we have scheduled the following rides.
30 May 09 Quiet Waters Depart School at 9:00
Contact: Jack 410-282-4072
This is a relatively short ride with the option of adding a few extra miles if the group is interested. The park is extremely well maintained. The trail is paved and any street riding is in the park, very little traffic. There are some hills. but nothing most of you cannot handle. It is a scenic ride. We will eat out after the ride.
6 Jun 09 Tour of Dundalk Depart School at 9:00
Contact: Mary 410-288-0493
We will start riding right from the school. We will be street riding around the area, taking some areas of Dundalk that some of you may not be familiar with. Eat out as a group after the ride
13 Jun 09 Hanover Junction to York Depart School at 8:00
Contact: Norman 410-285-5029
The most challenging of this months rides. We will bike the Heritage Trail in Pa. This is a dirt and cinder trail, well packed and a fairly flat ride. We will have lunch in York before cycling back to Hanover Junction. This ride is about 22 Miles round trip.
17 Jun 09 Meeting Night Meetings Start at 7:30
Meetings do not take long. Bring a friend. Bring a ride suggestion. Let us know where you would like to go. Give us a date, we will make it happen. We meet at Logan E.S. on Merritt Blvd.
20 Jun 09 Downs Park Depart School at 9:00
Contact: Jack 410-282-4072
There is some street riding before we enter the park. The road shoulders are wide and once inside the park we ride on paved paths. Downs Park is located in AA Co. right on the Bay. It is a scenic run. This is one of our shorter rides. Distance on this trip is really decided by the group.
Please remember that if you are planning to ride, it is important that you let the contact person for that particular ride know that you plan to ride. In the event there are changes or problems, the contact person can keep you posted.
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DRC will be launching a brand new website on Monday, June 1st!
Make sure you check it out…oh yeah…are you a member yet? If not, join and start supporting the Greening of Dundalk, Housing Renovations in your Neighborhoods, Safer Communities, and More Engaged Citizens!
www.dundalkusa.org
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Everyone is trying to cut costs and save money. As Dundalk is working its way toward being the "Green" Capital of Maryland, I thought this post would be helpful.
Black & Decker’s Thermal Leak Detector ($50; Bdonlinestore.com)
What it does: Helps you find air leaks. Those around windows and doors, even near electrical outlets or recessed lights, force your AC or heater to work harder. Point and drag the infrared Black & Decker Thermal Leak Detector around your home; the light changes color where the temperature is significantly higher or lower. So you’ll know where to caulk or weather-strip.
Payback time: Recoup the cost of the device (and the weather stripping) in under a year, based on leak-sealing savings estimates from Energy Star.
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Once again from the Dundalk Eagle, we learn about some amazing new programs that will be available at Dundalk High School.
These jobs, security, air traffic, and others will provide our students with opportunities to get great paying jobs that offer long term careers. My one hope for all of this is that Dundalk High School will be given a Magnet School designation. Every other school in the community has the designation, from Patapsco (Arts), Sparrows Point (Environ. Science), Kenwood (Sports Medicine), Eastern (Engineering), and Chespeake (Communications). I will be searching for the details from BCPS about the difference in funding streams from a regular "standard" high school compared to a magnet school. I am sure that the magnet schools receive a greater amount of funding…but I am not 100% sure. If you have details please send them in to the site and post them.
Anyway you look at it, this is huge and this is awesome. Thank you citizens for doing what you had to do to get this!
| DHS to offer homeland security, air traffic control courses |
| Thursday, 28 May 2009 11:18 | |
| Programs will be available only at Dundalk
by Bill Gates Dundalk High will not be getting any magnet programs. On the other hand, the school soon will be offering two programs that not only won’t be available at any other public school in Baltimore County but will be offered by few other schools in the entire country. Dundalk received the go-ahead last month to begin planning the curriculum for courses in homeland security and air traffic ccontrol. As yet, only one other high school in the country (in Florida) has an air traffic control program. Joppatowne High is the only other school in Maryland with a homeland security program. “That class will give an overview of what homeland security is,” said Carol Leonard Reynolds, who will coordinate the homeland security and air traffic control programs. |
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Hey all!
Sorry for being so tardy as of late. Lot’s of things have been going on. If you have read the Eagle, then you have a pretty good idea about what I am talking about.
Concerning this article and the Turner Station charrette, this is an absolutely incredible opportunity for the citizens of the 6th District and the residents of Turner Station. This is the fun and easy part, where citizens get to dream big, discuss ideas, and share stories of what will come. The next part, the hardest, and most important, is getting it done. Turner Station is full of energetic, action-oriented citizens that are willing to do anything to support the community their families have lived in for generations. What happens in the next couple of years with this revitalization will have a ripple effect for generations. Let’s all work together, and work as diligently and thoughtful as possible. It is an engaging and exciting time. Yet another huzzah for the region!
From the Dundalk Eagle……………
Neighborhood improvements to be discussed
by Joseph M. Giordano
It started back in July 2001 with the proposal for the Turner Station Community Conservation Plan.
Now, the residents of Turner’s will be able to participate in a charrette – a designers roundtable – with a five-day series of tours, discussions and finally a consensus of what the residents in the community want im-proved, according to Jeff Mayhew, division chief of community planning for the Baltimore County Office of Planning.
On Thursday at 8 a.m., members of Mayhew’s office, Turner’s residents and members of the Turner Station Conservation Team will tour the neighborhood to get a better idea of what needs to be improved.
“We would like to take a look at the empty lots in the community,” team vice president Gloria Nelson said. “Also, we would like to take a look at better lighting, wider sidewalks and a general streetscape for the area.”
Baltimore County Councilman John Olszewski Sr. (7th District), who sponsored the initial bill in 2001, plans to attend at least one day.
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Kara Ewing, Isabella Logan and Taylor Schreiber (from left) are among the five-year-olds taking dance class at Watersedge Community Center, which is home to a variety of activities including basketball, indoor soccer and dance classes for all ages. (Baltimore Sun photo by Elizabeth Malby / April 28, 2009)
The new Watersedge Community Center in eastern Baltimore County means the youngest soccer hopefuls in the neighborhood can play the game indoors year-round.
The $2.4 million brick building, which the county’s Department of Recreation and Parks officially opened April 17, puts a long anticipated basketball program on a court in a school-sized gymnasium, and it gives the Watersedge Dancers a studio to call their own.
“Basically, we can bring the whole council under one roof and expand our programs,” saidTodd Smith, president of the Watersedge Recreation Council. “We are going to fill that building every night of the week.”
The 9,000-square-foot center at 7894 Dundalk Ave. is a spacious gym with walls painted soft gray and deep green to reflect the colors favored by the Marlins, the name imprinted on Watersedge team uniforms. Natural light streams in from windows that line the top of three walls, and portable bleachers will accommodate spectators.
The building also includes a studio, complete with a mirrored wall and a ballet barre. There is an office, restrooms and meeting space, so that when the recreation council gathers, members won’t have to jockey for available spots throughout the community.
The center sits on an 11-acre parcel that slopes down to a cove off Bear Creek. While wetlands spread across the remaining property, the site provides ample ground for a proposed walking trail and possibly a playground. The project meant razing a post World War II shopping center that neighbors said had outlived its appeal.
“The center makes a great positive out of a big negative,” Smith said. “We have the building and open space where there was once a blighted shopping center with absentee owners who had no care for the community.”
Outdoor sports have always been popular in this peninsula community. The opening of baseball season every May is celebrated with an annual parade down Dundalk Avenue to Fleming Park, where four baseball diamonds and a multi-purpose field stretch along Bear Creek.
The park has provided the community’s young athletes decades of opportunities to play ball in fair weather, and its brick beach house served as a headquarters for the council. But the aging structure did little more than provide shelter and storage. The neighborhood continually scrambled for space at area schools for any indoor sports or activity.
“This community never had its own facility,” said Rich Johnson, center manager. “It always had to borrow space in a school or be the guest of another rec council.”
Smith already has coaches lined up for basketball this fall. He is organizing a Mommy and Me program for the preschool set and is looking into opportunities for seniors. He expects to draw as many as 500 children into all manner of center activities, he said.
“Our rec council has a vast drawing area,” he said. “Our existing programs will keep growing and we won’t have any trouble filling new ones.”
For Mary Bolyard, who has seen her dance classes grow from 29 students in 2002 to 119 this year, the center means she can eliminate a waiting list, extend class hours and possibly double the number of students who want to learn jazz, tap and ballet.
“We have had phone calls galore since the center opened and we can handle it all in our new wonderful studio,” she said.
At the center, she may be able to schedule summer, Saturday and late evening classes, she said. “There has been a real revival of interest in dance, which is great exercise for these kids,” she said. “They like coming in and learning new steps.”
For Smith, a lifelong Watersedge resident, who has coached for many years, the center will provide area children many outlets for their energies.
“This really is for the kids,” he said. “They are what this is all about.”
It’s that time again! The 2009 Heritage Fair is scheduled for Friday July 3, Saturday July 4th and Sunday July 5th. This year will be the 35th year of the Heritage Fair and the 75th year of the Dundalk 4th of July parade. We are expecting huge crowds this year with an estimated 70,000+ people at the parade on Saturday and over 50,000+ attendees at the fair throughout the weekend. There are several changes this year that will enhance your experience along with the attendees.
If you would like to hear about Vendor Information, please leave a message at 410-284-4022 or please email jordan.hadfield@gmail.com with your business/organization and what you would like to do at the fair. This information will be forwarded on to the Heritage Fair Committee.
Thanks!
JH
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