Election Time

The following people have agreed to take time out of their busy lives to serve as your officers for the next two years. We know you will support and appreciate their efforts. The slate is as follows:

President: Ed Pachico
Vice-President: Adrian Birney
Recording Secretary: Marian Weber
Corresponding Secretary: Stacy Allen
Treasurer: Melinda Zimmerman
Membership Chairman: Lynne Pachico
Director (3 year term): Bob Tait

Many Thanks to our outgoing team for their dedicated service. While Adrian Birney continues as Vice-President and Melinda Zimmerman as Treasurer, Sheila Stout, Joy Baker and Margaret Pennington are stepping down. We appreciate all your efforts on behalf of our community!

Please join us for election night at the next meeting: August 26 at 7:30 p.m. The agenda will also include discussion on the proposed nature trail from Rose Haven to North Beach through the wetlands.

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Bernie Loveless reports that additional rock will be placed along the seawall at Cherry, Hemlock and Holly Avenues starting on Tuesday, September 5. We hope there will be no hurricane to slow things down like last year! The Loveless's could use a volunteer or two to take Dorothy to Prince Frederick for dialysis while Bernie is on the "rock pile" job. Call Dorothy @ 301-855-6472.

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Anne Arundel County is considering a change in our weekly trash collection to prolong the life of the landfill, increase recycling and reduce truck traffic.

They propose to change residential collection to:

One trash collection One yard waste pickup One recycling bin pickup per week.

They want your input: call Molly Cannon, Solid Waste Program Manager at 410-222-6108 or fax: 410-222-6105 or e-mail: mollycannon@yahoo.com for questions or concerns. The first thing that pops in my head is — less trash is a great idea, but how will the money saved by fewer pickups be used to benefit our community? It is our tax money, after all.

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On the facing page is the map which North Beach's Mayor Mark Frazer presented at the July association meeting. Apparently, the development of the North Beach–Rose Haven nature trail has been a collaborative effort over the last year between the Maryland Department of Natural Resources, Maryland Department of the Environment, Steuart Chaney and Mayor Frazer, among others, including State Senator Mike Miller and Delegate George Owings, and is being considered as an integral part of a planned nature museum/center to be built on the current site of the North Beach municipal parking lot. The primary route is proposed to be for the most part on Mr. Chaney's land, running from the Herrington Harbour Marina, behind Rose Haven and continuing south along the edge of the marshland all the way to the museum site in North Beach.

The Mayor is looking for input from Holland Point and Rose Haven as to our interest and support or non-support of the proposed nature trail. For instance, he wants to know what features we would like incorporated in such a trail or, alternatively, why we would be opposed to such a trail. Also, the currently proposed route is just a starting point. For instance, there is no access to the trail from Holland Point. Do we want access and if so from where? It has been proposed that the trail be a 10-foot wide boardwalk with 4-foot railings on either side which would allow multiple use of the path by bicycles, pedestrians and even wheelchairs. What do we think? With regard to safety, it was suggested that access to the path would not be allowed after dark. Who's going to see to that? It is these kind of questions on which the trail planners want our opinions and suggestions. They want to know what they haven't though of. Other possible issues to be addressed and for which input is sought include: security, preservation of existing habitat, maintenance responsibility, funding sources and liability. Community concerns need to be heard and addressed.

The Mayor, along with Steuart Chaney, Senator Miller and Delegate Owings will again speak at our September meeting. Please consider the above issues and come prepared with questions and/or suggestions. In the meantime, you can contact the Mayor at the courthouse on 301-855-6681 or e-mail your thoughts to trail@rosehavenmaryland.com.

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Last October, over 50 volunteers slogged and hacked their way along approximately 65 miles of stream banks and shorelines in the Herring Bay watershed to identify pollution sources. Now it is time to review the results. Please mark September 19 on your calendars and plan on attending this meeting at Herrington Harbour at which the results will be presented and photographs of various parts of the watershed will be displayed, both aerial and ground level. Your ideas and suggestions for proposed solutions to the identified pollution sources would be greatly appreciated. See the invitation on the last page of the newsletter for details.

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(No, hookups have not begun yet, but Tim Randle assures us it will begin one day soon) Not all plumbers perform the metered account service. One that does is Paul Hayden in Huntingtown at 410-257-3025 or let your "fingers do the walking." Costs will vary for individual homes. Department of Public Works says it may be to your advantage to choose a metered sewer account if you are either a part-time resident or have a family smaller than three. (County utility customers are charged a flat rate for usage without this type of account.) In order to change to a metered account, you must contact a private plumber to install the meter. The plumber is required to obtain a water connection permit. (Application fee: $25.00; Meter fee: $135.00; Inspection fee by County plumbing inspector: $30.00.) After installation, you contact DPW Meteor Services at 410-222-8455 to schedule the inspection and set up the account. You are responsible for repair and maintenance of the meter and the remote register. For additional information, call Meter Services at 410-222-8455. Remember, DPW has a web site at http://www.aadpw.org.

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The grass at the South entrance sign to Holland Point was cut nice and pretty Saturday afternoon. We did not see who the kind person was, but later found out he was the son-in-law of Mrs. Wilda Albaugh. So our thanks to him from all of us.

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Our boundary marker enclosure project was slowed down by all the rain and wet ground leading into it from both Cedar and Cherry Avenues. The iron picket enclosure is finished and the contractor will deliver it when the pathway leading in is dried out. The marker is granite — 16" x 40" with the words "Anne Arundel" on one side and "Calvert" on the other and both sides dated "1824"! The Anne Arundel County Trust for Preservation provided us an $800 grant to cover the cost of the enclosure.

Several volunteer workers are needed to help erect the enclosure. Call Bernie at 301-855-6472 for details.

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