Advisory Board

martinsburg@herald-mail.com Plans are being made to expand a Berkeley County farm museum devoted to preserving local agricultural history and educating younger generations about the toil of their ancestors. "These are things from the past," Glenn Welsh said as he looked at old thrashers, bailers, wagons, buggies, axes and other items that speak of a time long gone. Welsh is a farmer and a charter advisory board member for the L. Norman Dillon Farm Museum, off W.Va. 9 on Ridge Road in Hedgesville, W.Va.

Community briefs The Friends of South Mountain State Battlefield Inc. will hold a membership meeting Saturday, May 12, at 11a.m., in the Visitor's Center at Greenbrier State Park, 21843 National Pike (Route 40), Boonsboro. The membership meeting is open to the public. The annual membership picnic will follow the meeting and is open to all members and their families. Members are asked to bring a covered dish. Prior to the membership meeting, FSMSB will hold its executive meeting at 9 a.m., at Greenbrier State Park.

Advisory board to be formed in Berkeley County By BOB PARTLOW / Staff Writer, Martinsburg MARTINSBURG, W.Va. - Berkeley County residents soon will be able to sound off about the county sheriff's department's operations to a new community advisory board, according to Sheriff Randy Smith. Smith told the Berkeley County Commission last week he plans to establish a community relations and advisory board to solicit feedback from the community. He proposed the advisory board should have no more than 16 members, and meet four times a year and whenever specific issues arise that need review.

Can you tell us what to do? Four years ago, at the suggestion of Publisher John League, I put out the call for readers to serve on a citizens advisory board for Herald-Mail's editorial page. Since 1997, the group has met monthly to talk over issues for the editorial page and suggest topics for my own personal columns, which appear on Thursdays and Sundays. The group has hashed over everything from the allowable length of letters to the editor to which syndicated columnists we should run, and a lot of ground in between.

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Salvation Army rings in holiday kettle drive By MARLO BARNHART / Staff Writer John Barr said his early memories of the Salvation Army kettle drive were when his late father, Jack Barr, would call him on the telephone and say he'd pick him up in five minutes. "I'd ask where we were going, and Dad would simply say to get ready," John Barr said with a smile. Each time, he said, he would find himself at the holiday kettle drive kickoff. On Friday, Barr again helped kick off the 2000 campaign at Wal-Mart in the Centre at Hagerstown.

University System of Maryland officials could begin deciding next month how much of the Baldwin House complex can be used for an education center. The structural and environmental analyses on the 32-46 W. Washington St. complex are expected to be completed by April 10, said Robert P. Sweeney, project director for the planned University System of Maryland education center. Sweeney and Charles R. Middleton, vice chancellor of academic affairs, gave the Washington County Commissioners and Hagerstown's Mayor and City Council a project update on Tuesday.

GREENCASTLE, Pa. ? When Heather Slatoff received an invitation to join Buzz Aldrin, Anousheh Ansari, Frank White and others on the Teachers in Space (TIS) advisory board, the Greencastle-Antrim Elementary School teacher asked one question: "Why me?" But there was no question in the mind of TIS project team leader Bill Boland. "Heather is clear-thinking, energetic, vibrant, and so obviously committed to teaching," Boland said. "After meeting her, I said, 'That's the teacher, that's why we're in this.

KEEDYSVILLE- The mayor of Sharpsburg and a state delegate are joining forces to revive a community health clinic in Keedysville. Mayor George Kesler is urging concerned citizens to join him at the Little Antietam Community Center on Nov. 8 at 6 p.m. to discuss the status of the Washington County Health Department-sponsored clinic that has been operating in the center for nearly 20 years, he said. The health clinic apparently closed in late August, said Kesler, who serves on the advisory board of the Senior Nutrition Center at the same 39 Mount Vernon Dr. location.

Before I'd said 10 words, I could tell former mayor Steve Sager was angry when he called Monday. He hadn't read Monday's editorial, though he said somebody had read it to him and the time stamps on the faxes he's sent me were testimony to the fact that he'd been up all night. The former Hagerstown mayor is a man on a mission - to bring the proposed University of Maryland Systems campus downtown, to the old Baldwin House, though many clearly favor the location already chosen in Allegheny Power's Friendship Technology Park, across interstate 70 from Martin L. "Marty" Snook Park.