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INTRODUCTIONS...
« Thread started on: Nov 16th, 2002, 2:23pm » |
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HELLO! My name is tedley, and as you've probably figured out by now, I'm the administrator around here.  Anyway, please introduce yourself. If you have anything to say, about any of the topics, please, go to that topic and post your thoughts on it. If you have any questions just click the 'help' button, that is at the top of any of these pages. If you don't find what you need that way, hopefully you'll be able to ask it in the 'questions' thread. Lastly, I'd like to urge you to register(it's free, easy, non-intrusive etc.), or at least try to pick a 'handle' or 'username', and stick with it. The sense of 'community' on these boards is somewhat dependent on that. If you know someone locally, who always seems to have a a lot to say, steer them in our direction. I hope you'll enjoy S.A.D.!
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Re: INTRODUCTIONS...
« Reply #1 on: Nov 19th, 2002, 3:27pm » |
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Hello everyone. I am Brian Young, the founder of an organization at Salisbury University known as the Union for Community Action (UCA). Our purpose is to work together to foster attempts to improve the community, regardless of how our members (and anyone may become an active memeber) feel that this may be done. With this in mine we hosted "DEBATE 38!" on October 20th, which allowed for citizens to get to know the candidates for House of Delegates 38A and 38B more thoroughly.
Further, the Union wishes to improve relations between the University and the city. I hope that this website will help with this- thank you, Tedley, for helping us with this. If anyone has anything they would like to say in regards to working to improve relations, working on 4-2, or about the council, please post to this website and send a copy to compromise4salisbury@hotmail.com
UCA is also looking for an Eagle-project sized community service project to work on, and I'd appreciate it if anyone could give us any ideas in this regard.
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Re: INTRODUCTIONS...
« Reply #2 on: Nov 19th, 2002, 3:48pm » |
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Brian,
It's nice to see you here!! I hope this site will help in your efforts, thats why it's here.
Thanks for stepping forward not only here, but especially in the local community. I for one, greatly respect and appreciate your involvement in both.
Any suggestions are welcomed---- and I hope to see you here.
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« Reply #3 on: Nov 23rd, 2002, 5:18pm » |
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Ok, Tedley, maybe its just that everyone with interesting opinions has already hit the road, leaving Smallsbury and thoughts of it behind?
But, even across the miles, similar problems arise - for example, why exactly is it we can't use small tactical nuclear weapons on college students who cross the road without looking both ways? Perhaps because we should turn those weapons on their slumlords, who drag down everyone else's property values? Or maybe on the admissions department that lets in more of the yet-to-be-domesticated pre-humans without having adequate housing for them? Yeah, yeah, yeah, they boost the economy by providing lots of jobs at fast food outlets, the local gap, and numerous convenience stores that sell beer to those underage, but that's much easier to appreciate when they don't live next door. I think compulsory national service (not necessarily military, seems the environment and infrastructure pretty much bite too) is the answer to all of the problems.
All those smilies and tags confuse me, so I am au naturale. Do you think a predilection to sarcasm is genetic?
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« Reply #4 on: Nov 23rd, 2002, 5:38pm » |
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on Nov 23rd, 2002, 5:18pm, erinys wrote:| Do you think a predilection to sarcasm is genetic? |
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No. I think sarcasm is more often force-fed, and is hewn from the forrests of proximate familiarity, not genetic 
Nice to see you found the boards here. I'm all about sarcasm.
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Re: INTRODUCTIONS...
« Reply #5 on: Dec 31st, 2002, 1:14pm » |
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Hello, My name is 4 fingers. I was born at PGH and grew up on Benjamin Avenue. To all you folks out there that is off Old Ocean City Rd about 1 Mile East of the Banks Store. Mayberry back then, or so it seemed had close to a whopping 20,000 residents. This regular old Peyton Place town, and still is, seems to be going through some growing pains. Looks to me like Mrs. Boss Hogg (Barrie Tilghman) wants more controll so she can put more pork rinds into her Tax Barrel... And for what.
Salisbury, the place I know and love, has been plagued by blundering boobs over the past 10 or so years. And here is how I see it. Looks to me like the tonw has a brand new By-Pass. Thats right folks how better to leave this place in history than to just By-Pass it. The industry there seems to be crumbling, and of course don't support it with the University. Dresser folded (I knew that 3 years ago when they went into private negotiations with sheet metal vendors from Milwaukee - Accutech) as well as Eaton. The industrial park sure offers lots of employment if you want to sling polyester resin, build boxsprings, press pills, cap bottles, print junk mail or hosptial forms. Oh the only industry that seems to be doing half well is the RF world of Microwave filters and assemblies (This the College does not support with engineering or technical degrees, to my knowledge).
Check this out Now the Local Hogg Union of Lavonella Siggers, Joseph L Scott, Hichael Day, Rachel Polk, and Low and Behold a Webster (probably from Wenona) are putting into place an action that would kick the people on the bottom by limiting housing so that they dont have to see it in their neighborhood. Look at University towns around the country with a growing and vigorous population. They all have figured out how to fleece the parental cash flow and let the student body flourish. Let them live togeather and have a high ho time! We were kids once and after all all of you parents pay for their housing. Also give them a reason to stay instead of worrying how to screw em.
The housing law I feel is probably a campain against the student body and not so much those living on the West Side or those hanging around near Isabella Street. But those close to Camden Ave...Please correct me if I am wrong (Mrs. Barrie Tilghman).
My guess is that the union of Hogsters running Council cumulative votes is less than 1/4 of the student body...I'll post the numbers when I get em.
Thanks for putting up with my Rant Folks.
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Re: INTRODUCTIONS...
« Reply #6 on: Jan 1st, 2003, 09:07am » |
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Thanks? That's what this place is here for.
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« Reply #7 on: May 6th, 2003, 2:10pm » |
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Hello folks. I gave myself the screename of Cousin because if your family is from the Eastern Shore then I am probably some kind of cousin of yours. Conversely, if I am not even a roundabout relation of yours then your family is probably not from the Shore.
I read the Daily Times online just about everyday from Florida just to keep up on who's doing what and who died.
Nine hundred miles away and thirty years later Salisbury seems so different through the pages of the Daily Times and even from reports from family still residing there and surrounds.
Though there seem to be many new people in the paper, I still see many familiar names even if they are not personally known to me or my parents.
It seems to me that the city council could be vastly imporved by drawing up new election districts along East-West lines of equal population. This would mean that each councilperson would have to be elected by a broadbased constituency. Failing that, the only solution would be at large elections. Right now it seems that the council is made up of competing and uncooperative interests. More disturbing are the election numbers for the sitting councilmembers. Some of them were elected with very few votes, as little as one third of the votes necessary for the others to get elected. You can't force the people in a district to vote, but still it's absurd that one councilmembers is seated with 500 votes and another got 1500.
It's been said that "they always come home" to the Shore once they have "sand in their shoes". Time will tell. I remember my childhood in Salisbury fondly and the thought has crossed my mind more than once that I might go home eventually, before or after my demise. I just wish you could do something about the weather.
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Re: INTRODUCTIONS...
« Reply #8 on: Nov 11th, 2003, 6:21pm » |
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Hello all-
My name is Jacob Day. I am a graduate of James M. Bennett High School, and lifetime native of Salisbury, Md. However, I currently reside in College Park, MD and attend the University of Maryland. I am the President of the American Institute of Architecture Students chapter here at U of M, which happens to be the largest chapter in the country. I am also currently running for national president of AIAS.
Since 1970, architecture students across the nation have completed nearly 300 theses based on a project in the downtown Salisbury area. That's right. The future builders and shapers of this country have spent the culminating year or two years of their architectural education designing an intervention in downtown Salisbury, MD. I have always loved Salisbury myself, and believe it has potential beyond the suburban and exurban sprawl that dominates the Salisbury RPA's landscape.
I am also a summer/winter employee of Becker Morgan Group, an architecture/engineering firm headquartered in Salisbury (Port Exchange Building) and with offices in Dover, DE and Wilmington, DE. BMG is approximately a 90-person firm doing the bulk of the high end work in the Salisbury area. Here at the University of Maryland, there are 3 current or former employees of BMG studying at present.
I tell you this because AIAS Maryland is currently running a national design competition for a visitors center with commercial and retail space for downtown Salisbury. The students competing include students from the University of Maryland, the University of Virginia, Anne Arundel Community College, Syracuse University and Hampton University as well as others. The competition is based on a Urban Salisbury, Inc. project. The design asks for a building that literally bridges, US 50, thus reconnecting downtown with its divided other half, Newtown. The building should be iconic so as to notify one of their arrival to downtown Salisbury. For more information visit www.arch.umd.edu/aias.
Jurors for the competition include Thomas Becker, AIA (BMG), Ernest Olds, AIA (BMG), Gary Bowden, AIA (RTKL), Michael Wigley (DBF) and a representative from the State Highway Administration. Other invited jurors include Mayor Barrie Tilghman and Michal Day, of the city council. The competition takes place on Saturday, November 22nd. For anyone interested in coming, please email me at umd_aias@hotmail.com or call at 443.235.6233.
It's great to see that conversation exists outside of the theoretical world for change and rehabilitation in Salisbury. Sorry to be so long-winded. I hope there is continuing discussion, talk to you all soon!
Jacob R. Day
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school of architecture, planning and preservation
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Re: INTRODUCTIONS...
« Reply #9 on: Nov 13th, 2003, 6:40pm » |
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Jacob,
Thank you for your input. That's pretty interesting stuff, to me anyway. I too went to JMB and have watched Salisbury change a lot over the years. This site never really took off as I thought it might, but every so often someone happens upon it as you just did... glad to see it.
If you know other people who may be interested in local issues, by all means, please direct them here.
I'm curious to see the ideas that come out of the design contest project.
Good luck to ya! 
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