tournament in the country to come
to the Wicomico/Worcester County
region, and the Town of Ocean City
approved a final measure this week
the USSSA World Series Opening
Ceremony.
29 on the beach on the south side of
the pier. The series will take place
throughout three weeks, from July
17-Aug. 3.
the event came forward in February
and was presented by Ocean City's
Tourism Advisory Board (TAB).
kes came before the Ocean City May-
or and Council explaining the USSSA
intends to hold its Girls World Series
in the Wicomico/Worcester County re-
gion for its seventh consecutive year
in 2013.
ment featuring teams ranging in age
from 8 to 18 and represented by 13
states and Canada.
families, participated, making it the
ductions, a DJ, several speeches,
food for players and coaches and
low-impact games.
would a 16-year-old or an 18-year-
old young lady want to be? Spend-
ing some time on the Boardwalk be-
fore they begin to play and enter the
spirit of competition," Wisk said.
"This will be a fun night and this is
when they can take a bow in making
it this far in the process and Ocean
City is the perfect backdrop for this."
opportunity for Ocean City to part-
ner with Wicomico County.
going to be as an area and a bigger
draw we are going to be for the
sports market, which is a tremen-
dous market for tourism," the mayor
said. "Wicomico County has all the
fields; we've got the hotel rooms so
it's a perfect partnership"
bookings made for the event.
during the time period, and during
the weeks we were looking to rent
rooms," the mayor said.
event as presented.
ment on the East Coast next to the
series held at Disney's ESPN Wide
World of Sports in Orlando.
players, and a total attendance of
over 75,000 people. The event's ec-
onomic impact is estimated at more
than $8 million.
between equipment, labor and loss
in revenue at the Inlet Parking Lot,
the potential positive economic im-
pact from lodging, food and bever-
age, recreation and other incidental
expenditures far exceed the cost.
and they are coming as far away as
Canada, the midwest and the south-
east, and this is one of the largest
girls softball world series of its kind
in the country," Wicomico County
Deputy Director of Recreation,
Parks and Tourism Andy Wisk said
this week. "So we reached out to
you all and TAB for a stronger part-
nership to host the event, and that
was developed, and I am very
pleased to stand here to show you
that even before we go through the
year it has gone beyond even our
expectations."
softball tournament hosted in Wi-
comico County. The ceremony will
thrown Worcester County Commis-
sioner Districts out of alignment, the
county will move to adopt a new re-
districting map this summer.
commissioners a look at the current
draft map this week, which would
re-cut districts in a manner that
would prevent huge population dis-
crepancies and still retain a majori-
ty-minority district.
ered in the 2010 Census. That study
found that the population in Worces-
ter reached 51,548 and grew by
5,005, or 10.8 percent, from 2000 to
2010.
Because minority growth was lower
than the other population, maintain-
ing a district with a majority of mi-
norities requires adjustments.
retain the majority-minority district
and would result in an unacceptable
population deviation of up to 24.8
percent in the Sinepuxent District,"
wrote Tudor in a memo to the com-
mission, "as compared to the ideal
population of 7,364 per district.
Maximum deviation should be no
38C, again to the extent possible.
agree to set three public meetings
when county residents will get a
chance to study the redistricting and
submit questions, comments or
concerns.
dates have not yet been decided.
There will be one hearing in the
south end of the county, one in the
central and one in the north.
viewed on Aug. 6, at which time the
draft map can be amended, "if nec-
essary."
new map. A public hearing will fol-
low on Sept. 17 for the legislative
bill with the commission then being
able to cast a final vote on adopting
the new commissioner districts.
sion agreed that public awareness
is vital. The new draft map will be
posted near Tudor's office as well
as the commissioners meeting ar-
ea, both in the government building
in Snow Hill. The map will be avail-
able at all three of the initial public
hearings at the end of July, which
will take place at 7 p.m. It will also
be posted online at www.co.worces-
ter.md.us.
successfully retains the majority-
minority district with acceptable
deviations."
Ocean City, would drop from 9,188
to 7,485, only 1.64 percent from the
district ideal of 7,364. The other six
districts would also change to come
as close to that 7,364 ideal figure as
possible. No district on the new map
would have more than a 4.9-percent
deviation from that population
benchmark.
which is required by law. As of the
2010 census, Worcester had a mi-
nority population of 18.1 percent.
That number had only grown by 6.5
percent, or 570, from 2000 to 2010.
Boundaries would be altered in a
way that the central district would
exist with a slight minority majority,
in this case 395 more people who
were identified as a minority com-
pared to the white population. The
central district comprises parts of
Newark, Snow Hill and Berlin.
tion. We've got a map available now
that we believe meets all of the
parameters," said Tudor.
the boundaries of current districts
"to the extent feasible" and to re-
spect the boundaries of the new
communities where we do busi-
ness. It's this kind of partnership
which aligns with our company's
core values that enables us to
fulfill that belief and our commit-
ment to the community. It gives
me great pleasure to present
this grant for $25,000 funded by
the Arthur W. Perdue Founda-
tion to the Cal Ripken Sr. Foun-
dation."
latest entity to join the Oyster
Recovery Partnership's efforts
to collect recycled oyster shells
at county transfer stations to aid
in the Chesapeake Bay restora-
tion efforts.
came the newest member of the
ORP's Shell Recycling Alliance,
the region's largest group of res-
taurants, caterers, seafood dis-
tributors and private citizens
who recycle oyster shells to aid
in Chesapeake Bay oyster res-
toration. Each recycle shell can
provide homes for 10 new oys-
ters.
drop-off sites for used oyster
shells. The recycling locations
will allow area restaurants and
residents to take advantage of
the new oyster shell recycling
tax credit. Beginning July 1, res-
idents and restaurants will be
able to receive a one-dollar tax
credit per bushel of recycled
shells up to $750 per year.
is warning local residents and
visitors about the recent resur-
gence of a telephone and com-
puter scam in which the caller
tells potential victims their com-
puter has a virus and they can
clean it up if they allow remote
access.
scam has occurred with increas-
ing frequency in recent weeks.
The scammer will call a victim
pretending to be a computer
technician and warn the victim a
virus has been detected on his
or her computer. The caller then
tells the victim the computer can
be cleaned up and the virus re-
moved if the victim allows the
scammer to have remote ac-
cess to the computer.
scanned and cleaned for a fee
and is the supplied with credit
card information. Once the
transaction is complete, the
scammer then has remote ac-
cess to the victim's computer
and any sensitive information
stored on it.