Candlelight Vigil

The 2nd Annapolis/ Anne Arundel County International Overdose Awareness Day Candlelight Vigil

Thursday, August 31, 2017

7:15 p.m.

Arundel Christian Church, 710 Aquahart Road in Glen Burnie, MD 21061

Join Recovery Anne Arundel ROSC and Anne Arundel County for the 2nd International Overdose Awareness Day.  We wish to offer all who have been affected by overdose a chance to publicly mourn and help the community understand that fatal overdose is an issue that affects mainstream society.  The day also serves as a warning that no one is immune to overdose.  While this is a complex issue, it is not one without hope.  This is a ‘time to remember and a time to act”, and 2017 offers us a “time to heal”.

August 31st also brings the community together to highlight prevention and treatment efforts to put a stop to this epidemic, while we also gather to show support for our Annapolis/Anne Arundel County First Responders, who work so closely with behavioral health providers, faith-based organizations, law enforcement and our elected officials to carefully and compassionately understand and serve those who are affected by the disease of addiction.

 Filled with inspirational stories and music, the premiere of the “I Still Remember Memorial Photo Project and the “Comfort” Café, the event will begin promptly at 7:15 p.m.  While the doors do not open to the public until 6:45 p.m., we will be having a press Q&A at 6:00 p.m., should you be interested in attending.

 

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#endoverdose 

 

For more information, please contact:  Carol Boyer: cboyer@delphihealthgroup.com

; Stephanie Evans: sevans@arundelcc.org

 

edia Inquires: Lieutenant Ryan Frashure, p91400@aacounty.org 

MAA/FAA Noise Complaint Form

The FAA and MAA are looking at the data regarding noise complaints being generated as a result of the NexGen flight control systems. If you wish to submit a complaint regarding commercial air traffic (not general aviation or helicopters) you can do so here: http://www.maacommunityrelations.com/…/…/noisecomplaints.php

Please note that you must fill out and submit the form. The agency is overwhelmed by phone calls so please put it in writing.

Memorial Day Observance

The Linthicum Veterans Memorial will conduct a brief Memorial Day ceremony on Monday, May 29th at 12 noon
as a salute to those who have given their all in the service of their country.

The Veterans Memorial committee will also be hosting their annual community cookout from 11:00am until 2:00pm and all attendees can enjoy hot dogs and water.

The Linthicum Veterans Memorial is located in the heart of the Linthicum Heights Historic District at the corner
of Camp Meade and Maple Roads.

All are invited to join us in this tribute. For more information about the event or the Memorial, please contact
Paul Coakley, President at (410) 859 - 1604 or email at andoverinc@aol.com.

Community Grants Bring New Sidewalks

Enhancing Linthicum, One Stone at a Time

By Kevin Plessner

Many of LSIA’s efforts to preserve and enhance our community are intangible, such as acting as a watchdog against harmful rezoning and working with our elected representatives to enact and block legislation in ways that benefit Linthicum. However, the Transportation Community Enhancement Grant program provides a stark exception to this reality. It is through the Community Enhancement Grant program that LSIA has, for nearly 16 years, replaced and built sidewalks, noise barriers, speed bumps, signs and other transportation-related structures throughout Linthicum. In fact, LSIA has used more than one million dollars in funding to improve the transportation and transportation-related structures our community – and counting!

The Transportation Community Enhancement Grants Program was enacted into law following the 2001 legislative session. Since that time, LSIA’s efforts have culminated in Linthicum receiving a Lion’s share of the grant funds—Linthicum (through LSIA) has been by far the largest recipient of transportation grant funds from the program. LSIA has completed transportation improvement projects totaling almost $200,000 in grant funds in the current fiscal year alone (2017). Since 2001, LSIA has successfully completed thirty-three (33) transportation projects and has received $1,143,784.55 in funding to complete these transportation-related projects in Linthicum[1].

The bill that would eventually create that Transportation Community Enhancement Grants Program was first introduced in the Maryland Senate by Senator Ed DeGrange. Senators Astle, Bromwell, Jimeno, Kasemeyer, Miller and Neall were co-sponsors of the bill. Delegate Sophocleus, Delegate Love and Delegate Rzepkowski subsequently sponsored the bill in the House of Delegates.

Senator DeGrange created the idea for the Transportation Community Enhancement Grant Program to counteract the adverse effects of BWI to our community. DeGrange explained that he wanted to alleviate “the airport impact as it was growing, from both airplanes and the traffic impact associated with the growth around the airport. I wanted to benefit the communities on a daily basis.” He further explained that at the time he created the legislation, it was the only law of its kind in the country and that since that time, other communities have since contacted him for guidance. He has always been very proud that he was able to get the bill signed into law in the first year that it was introduced.

Compensation pursuant to the law is limited to the communities that are located in the “noise zone” surrounding BWI Airport. This is because these communities shoulder the most impact of the daily operations of BWI Airport (noise, traffic, strained traffic infrastructure, etc). The communities that may qualify for the grant funds must be within the certified “Airport Noise Zone” or within two miles or the outermost noise contour. The map of the most current Airport Noise Zone and noise contour is below, and is updated regularly:

This law is now codified the Maryland Transportation Code as section 5-414 and requires that “at least one dollar for every takeoff and landing of an aircraft that occurs at Baltimore-Washington InternationalThurgood Marshall Airport for the most recent available calendar year” will constitute the grant budget. Only community associations that are wholly or partially located in the certified Noise Zone or the border extending 2 miles outside of the certified noise zone may qualify funding from the grant program.

In order for LSIA to receive the grant funds, it first needs to submit a grant application to the Citizens’ Committee for the Enhancement of Communities Surrounding Baltimore/Washington International Airport (BWI) for consideration. The Committee meets quarterly and considers livability issues within the area that the application is proposing to use the grant money.[2] LSIA is responsible for obtaining multiple bids for each project, all necessary permits, project management and everything else that is necessary from the beginning to the end of the project, including expenditure reporting and accounting that must be submitted to the state.

LSIA most commonly uses grant funds to replace the sidewalks in the community that are the most in disrepair. However, LSIA has also successfully used the program for installation of fences, signs, speedbumps, noise barriers and trees. For example, the fence along the ballfield on Andover Road was built by LSIA, as were the speed bumps on Benton Avenue and the Linthicum welcome side at Maple Rd. and Baltimore Annapolis Boulevard.

Displayed below are some of the areas in Linthicum that have been improved by LSIA through the use of the Community Enhancement Grant program. However, please not that very incomplete historical data was used to create this map and it shows only a small fraction of the improvements that LSIA has completed.

 

 

“LSIA has done a great job in getting funding from the program and benefiting the community from a whole host of things that would not have gotten completed otherwise” opined DeGrange. “LSIA was the first and the leader in this, and to their credit, they were helping other communities with the grant process.” Indeed, LSIA continues to be at the forefront in collecting grant fund to improve Linthicum. We continue have a long list of grant requests that have come from various different members of the Linthicum Community. Although we realize that we cannot fix every sign, sidewalk, street, noise pollution and imperfect traffic pattern in Linthicum, we are certainly going to try!

[1] These figure was created using historical records obtained from both the MAA and LSIA.

[2] LSIA’s very own Senior Advisor Ken Glendenning sits on the Citizens Committee for the Enhancement of Communities Surrounding Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport (BWI) but he recuses himself from voting on all LSIA-sponsored grants.