This Friday and Saturday, the 31st annual Chestertown Wildlife Festival takes over downtown.  Exhibits and sales run the gamut from A to about G — carvings, decoys, wildlife paintings, photographs and prints as well as the workboats of Harry Collins, Jr. Exhibits and sales will be found in multiple venues — churches, banks, offices and businesses throughout downtown.

Admission is free, though donations are welcome. Some events connected with the festival require tickets. For more information go to:

https://www.chestertownwildlife.org/

The League of Women Voters’ general election forums will  begin on October 11.

Monday October 11 — two forums at the Kent County Board of Education Building on Washington  Avenue, Chestertown

6 – 7 PM:  Local candidates, e.g., register of wills, clerk of courts, state’s attorney, etc.

7 – 8:30 PM:School Board (general election)

Both forums will be moderated by Alice Ritchie

Sunday October 17, 2:00 PM, Queen Anne’s County High School, Centreville

U.S. House of Representatives (general election), the  only scheduled appearance of these two candidates together in a forum

Moderated by Dan Premo

Monday Oct 18, 7 PM  Kent County Board of Education Building, Chestertown

Kent County Commissioners (general election)

Moderated by Alice Ritchie

Tuesday October 19, 7 PM Kent County Board of Education Building

36thDistrict-State Legislature (general election)

Moderated by Dick Hawkins

Kent County’s First Low Cost Spay/Neuter Clinic will take place Saturday, October 30th, 8-5 at the Kent County Humane Society Augustine Herman Hwy, north of Chestertown.  This will be for cats only, males or females. Cats of any age accepted, but must be over 2 pounds for surgery.  The cost will be $25 for males and $45 for females.  Additional services include rabies vaccine for $5 and feline distemper vaccine (FVRCP) for $5. Services provided at no charge include nail trimming, ear cleaning, flea/tick assessment and treatment if necessary, basic deworming, and ear tipping.

Call Stephenie Horne or Candice Shauber at KCHS to schedule an appointment 410-778-3648

According to a piece in Eastman’s Online Genealogy Newsletter (EOGN)– sent to us by a dedicated community member –the Linkedin emails that some people, including this spy, have been receiving are malware; they attempt to steal passwords and account info.  The ‘Linkedin’ message says the recipient has unread messages, and urges him/her to clink the link to check them. According to EOGN’s warning, it takes a while to access during which time it’s not accessing anything but is instead  infecting the recipient’s computer with ZeuS data theft malware. While it’s doing this, there is a message:  ‘PLEASE WAITING…’ Odd English is usually a dead giveaway that you’re dealing with foreign-origin malware or an attempt at a scam. One safe way to deal with anything that comes into email that is the slightest bit iffy is to make a habit of going out of your email to access social media and get there via the legitimate main site. Bogus Facebook notifications (which this spy has received as well) are treated the same way.

For the whole EOGN blog post, go to:

https://blog.eogn.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2010/09/fake-linkedin-spam-can-steal-your-bank-passwords.html

The Kent County Public Schools’ Board of Education voted last night to change the date of the November 1, 2010 Board meeting to November 8, 2010. The meeting will be held in the Board meeting room of the Kent County Board of Education building, 215 Washington Avenue, Chestertown at 6:30 pm.

WCTR’s Keith Thompson and the Spy’s Dave Wheelan interviewed Walter Coryell last week as part of Election Profiles 2010. With a long career in law enforcement,  Coryell is eager to make big changes if elected a Kent County commissioner in November. The former Chestertown chief of police feels the county must have better financial oversight and more active support of private business and government partnerships to help keep budgets balanced. He would have supported the FASTC campus coming to Kent County and would like to prioritize county spending in the years ahead.

Listen Here: [audio:coryell election.mp3]

Sudelersville Commnity Betterment Club and the Sudlersville Train Station Museum will hold Old Baseball Days 1860 – 1950’s to raise funds for the museum’s expansion project. On the 16th of October from 10Am-3PM visitors can meet with baseball authors, including Bill Jenkinson, Mike Lambert, and Mark Millikin at the Sudlersville Middle School. There will be an All American Girls Professional Baseball League Exhibit,  Fair Plays Baseball Club Exhibit, Eastern Shore Baseball Museum Exhibit, and the Philadelphia A’s Historical Society is offering limited edition Jimmie Foxx bobble head dolls for sale, plus other Foxx memorabilia. For info 410-928-3406 or 410-648-6781.

Here is some background info regarding this event:

The Museum is experiencing growing pains – our collections have expanded beyond the limits of our current building.  In 2006, we received a donation from the Sudlersville American Legion Post #192, which enabled us to purchase land across from the current RR Station.

The next phase is to raise the money needed to erect a new building that will house all of our Jimmie Foxx and baseball displays, as well as other items of history from our town.  We will still continue to operate at the original Station site.

We received a recent challenge from an anonymous donor.  This pledge would give us a match donation of up to $50,000 for money raised within the next two years.  This was a opportunity we could not ignore.  Thus the kick-off fundraiser is October 16th.

Pepco Holdings, Inc., the parent company of Delmarva Power, will host a Low-Income Energy Assistance Summit for 150 social service agency representatives from Delaware, Maryland and Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, October 6 at the Sheraton in Dover, Del.  The summit will give social service providers valuable information to better assist low-income utility customers, many of whom have difficulty paying their energy bills.

Here are the details on the Summit:

What:  Low-Income Energy Assistance Summit

Where: Sheraton, Route 13 in Dover, Del.

When: Wednesday, October 6, 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

Who: Pepco Holdings will host workshops designed to provide useful information on how to help low-income utility customers better manage their energy bills and deal with various socioeconomic issues.

The Summit agenda is attached.  The news media is invited to cover this event.