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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1996
Page
4
Maryland will make licensed physician records available to the public via personal computers and modems in spring. The database from the Board of Physician Quality Assurance will include medical education specialty disciplinary and malpractice histories to help patients evaluate doctors beyond word of mouth.
Carole A. Werking argues the city mismanaged the Weinberg Center after taking over operations from the Frederick Arts Council. She recalls past successes, the shift to a management committee, ongoing funding strains, and calls for private foundation control and a Weinberg Center endowment to ensure lasting city cultural vitality.
A city memo outlines Weinberg Center for the Arts facing a 240,000 deficit funded by taxpayers with a daily 1,445 cost to operate. It details staff, climate control, and maintenance needs for a 70 year old building, plus historic lenient fee structures. The writer urges unity to preserve cultural arts in Fred.
Freshmen YMCA members at Hood College Nancy Highee Margaret City New Jersey Ann Tresselt Thurmont Joan France Yonkers New York Barbara Smith West Collingswood New Jersey Dorothy Wall Schenectady New York Doris Work Quarryville Pennsylvania and Alice Stoddard Westminster Maryland entertained underprivileged Frederick children at Christmas party at the Y Hut College trucks provided transport to the campus for the children Hood College students Colleen Crowhurst Nutley New Jersey Evelyn Yelde Washington Harriet Riddle Cheverly Lorene Myers Springfield Pennsylvania Isabel Gill Hurly Elmira New York Mary Kinaman Elmira New York presented a Christmas program of songs for Rotarians and guests at their Francis Scott Key Hotel luncheon meeting Dr Henry J Stahr president of the college and club member gave a short Christmas message to fellow club members Superintendent Eugene W Pruitt credited fireproof construction with preventing serious damage by checking the recent fire at Frederick High School John Moxley of the State Department of General Services said Secretary George R Lewis told the Board of Public Works to halt further approvals on the county state courthouse complex unless Frederick City guarantees measures will contain Carroll Creek in another flood Frederick Mayor Ronald N Young criticized a Hagerstown newspaper report as slanted for withholding information about the long proposed courthouse project Hundreds of toys were collected in the Christmas Cash for Kids campaign donors from the ancient three cath neon aden pledged thousands to help area underprivileged children have a merry Christmas
Dorothy Hull details days of wait times at Frederick Memorial Hospital after a friend's fall and difficulty obtaining timely care and prescriptions. She notes delays in X rays and doctor contact, and describes switching HMOs amid frustration with appointment lead times and medication refills.
Community organizers defend Christmas in New Market as non commercial and aimed at goodwill. Since August 1996 volunteers from Garden Club and others decorated the town and ran a raffle to cover costs. Girls Scout servers and cookie bakers contributed to the effort.
In a letter Jim Higgs co chair of the Christmas in New Market Committee thanks volunteers and drivers for an excellent event despite weather and calls praise for entertainers churches firemen and school participants while criticizing sheriff office morale over overtime budget underspending and leadership. He argues personnel are an organization’s greatest asset and unions arise from incompetent leadership.
Deputies from Frederick County Sheriff's Office met with Teamsters Union officials on December 9 to discuss low pay unsafe conditions staffing and overtime freezes. The move signals a vote of no confidence in leadership amid morale decline and high turnover among correctional officers.
A Walkersville mother confronted youths tormenting her nieces amid concerns about eroding empathy in modern teens. The writer laments rising selfishness in a competitive society, noting sibling quarrels and the miscast blame on brain dysfunction. A nurse friend called youth indifference scary, while media like TV and computers further reduce face to face social skills. Nancy Hanel Wamsville.
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