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Tom Straehle, left, helps Marcy Damon unload a truckload of small trees in New Windsor Wednesday. Coldsprings
Farms in New Windsor will rely on volunteers to help plant the trees Saturday in a floodplain along Little Pipe Creek
from the Chesapeake Bay Foundation.
Helping the bay
Volunteers to plant trees to prevent nutrient runoff into the Chesapeake
BY CARRIE ANN KNAUER
TIMES STAFF WRITER
Volunteers from across the
state and beyond will con-
verge at a New Windsor dairy
farm this weekend to plant
trees that will help reduce nu-
trient runoff into the Chesa-
peake Bay.
Coldsprings Farms in New
Windsor, owned by the Hoff
family, will receive 1,000 trees
to plant in a floodplain along
Little Pipe Creek Saturday
from the Chesapeake Bay
Foundation.
The project is part of the
foundation’s farm steward-
ship program, said Rob Schn-
abel, a restoration scientist
with the Maryland office of
CBF.
The Hoff farm was chosen
for the project because of the
conservation work it had al-
ready done on the farm, and
because of its proximity to
Little Pipe Creek, which feeds
into the Monocacy River, one
of the CBF’s targeted water-
sheds, Schnabel said.
Matt Hoff said the farm has
finally completed fencing the
stream throughout the farms
so that no cattle can gain ac-
cess to the water.
Teen dies after battle with cancer
Loved ones remember Stuck as
someone who put others first
BY CHRISTIAN ALEXANDERSEN
TIMES STAFF WRITER
Though she only lived for
13 years, MacKenzie Stuck,
of Mount Airy, made a big
impact on those around
her.
Her friends and acquain-
tances describe Stuck as a
girl always willing to help
others, though she spent
much of her life battling
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Marcy Damon carries small trees, which will be planted Saturday, into a field at Cold-
springs Farm in New Windsor Wednesday.
The planting of these trees
will convert a field he wasn’t
planning to use for the farm
operation back into forest,
cancer. Nothing, not even
multiple surgeries to re-
move four brain tumors,
could dampen the little
girl’s spirit, they said.
MacKenzie, who attended
Mount Airy Middle School,
was surrounded by her fam-
ily when she died at her
home Tuesday night, about
five years after she was ini-
tially diagnosed with
Medulloblastoma.
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Hoff said, and further help conservation groups working
improve the stream’s water to reduce the nutrient pollution
quality. Keeping cattle out of
streams is a major priority for
MacKenzie was one of the
first children to become
part of the Cool Kids Cam-
paign, a nonprofit that pro-
vides a higher quality of life
for children with cancer
and their families as they
face the challenges of can-
cer. Those around her said
MacKenzie served as an
ambassador and was a shin-
ing example of how to be
positive while fighting the
disease.
“Even through her sec-
ond, third and fourth brain
tumors, she always wanted
to help kids going through
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Thursday, October 21, 2010
Hampstead
Course
appeals
verdict
Attorney: Oakmont
Green Inc. trying to
protect property rights
BY ALISHA GEORGE
TIMES STAFF WRITER
Attorneys for a Hampstead golf course
have filed an appeal concerning the
town’s need to acquire the land and the
amount of compensation that a jury de-
cided the town should pay to take about
10 acres from the golf course.
DYLAN SLAGLE/STAFF PHOTOS In September, a nine- member jury said
the town should pay $760,000 for the
10.036 acres it claimed under eminent
domain for the purpose of getting an ir-
rigation well on the golf course.
The Town of Hampstead has since paid
the compensation award into the circuit
court for the property.
The appeal to the Maryland Court of
Special Appeals, filed Oct. 13 in Carroll
County Circuit Court, is a continued ef-
fort by Oakmont Green Inc. to protect its
property rights from seizure by the town,
said Oakmont attorney Richard Titus.
“My client respectfully maintains that
no public necessity was proven that
would justify the seizure of its land,”
Titus said.
Hampstead Town Manager Ken Decker
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MacKenzie
Stuck, 11,
embraces her
sister Lauren,
cancer,” said Sharon Per- 15, at the
fetti, the organization’s ex- Stuck home
ecutive director. in Mount Airy
“She had a really amazing after return-
outlook on life and always ing home for
put on a happy face,” Per- the first time
fetti said. “She was incredi- after under-
ble. There will never be going treat-
anyone like her.” ment for a
Sue Stuck, who was hold- brain tumor
ing her daughter when she at Johns
died, said she appreciated Hopkins Chil-
the support from those dren’s Center
around her. Sept. 28,
Before MacKenzie died, 2008.
Stuck said, all her daughter
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