Pintail Point offering Beretta, Orvis, Under Armour, Cutter Buck men’s & ladies outerwear, casual sportswear, new & used guns, shooting & hunting accessories and gift certificates in any amount good for one year! Gift wrapping available.

Hunters Oak offering Greg Norman, Foot Joy & Ahead men & ladies outerwear, Taylor Made, Titleist & Cobra equipment and accessories, Garmin GPS, Gift Certificates available in any amount. Gift wrapping available.

Pintail Outfitters located at the Chesapeake Hyatt Regency, Cambridge, Maryland offers a diverse line of women’s upscale apparel, accessories, unique holiday gifts, & fun stocking stuffers. Designers include: Lily Pulitzer, Vera Bradley & Christopher Blue. Gift Certificates and gift wrapping available.

For more information call 1-800-697-1777 or go to www.theriverplantation.com

Eagle Line Railroad, Engineer Talley Ober, is ready to provide family fun and entertainment for the eleventh year.  Mr. Ober’s personal collection of Lionel Trains will be open to the public every Tuesday and Thursday evening from 7:00 pm until 9:00 pm from December 1st until January 7th except for Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve.  This layout includes sixteen running trains and many bells, buttons and whistles for each child and adult to enjoy.  The layout is housed in Mr. Ober’s 40 foot by 40 foot building.  With no admission fee, over 600 visitors each year has enjoyed the sights and sounds that this display has to offer - the BEST on the Shore! Eagle Line Railroad, 12169 Ober Lane, Ridgely, Md. 21660 (1/2 mile north of Ridgely off Rt. 480)  For more information: 410-634-2785.

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BEHAR: Alexis Hutchinson is a cook in the United States Army. She`s also the single mother of a 10-month-old. She`s been ordered to Afghanistan but she can`t find anyone to take care of her son so she`s not going and now she`s in a lot of trouble.

Here now to discuss this story is Alexis Hutchinson`s attorney, Rai Sue Sussmann. Rai Sue, thanks for joining me. Is your client an AWOL soldier or desperate single mom with nowhere to turn?

RAI SUE SUSSMAN, ALEXIS HUTCHINSON`S ATTORNEY: Well she was AWOL for less than 24 hours and then she voluntarily returned to the Military with her baby. At that point the Military although they had other options decided that they would arrest her and put her in jail and took her child from her and placed him in Child Protective Services even though she had voluntarily returned to the Army.

BEHAR: Where is the baby now?

SUSSMAN: The baby — when the baby`s grandmother, Specialist Hutchinson`s mother found out that Kamani was going to foster care in Georgia, she got on a plane and went and got him out of foster care in Georgia, and she took him back to Oakland. However, she maintains that she can`t take care of him in the long-term.

BEHAR: Why not? She has other people to take care of?

SUSSMANN: She`s got other people to take care of. She herself has a young daughter who has special needs and medical issues. She also is one of the primary caregivers for her ailing and aging mother. And she just found out that her sister`s medical problems are about to get a lot worse so her sister had asked for extra care for herself and her family

BEHAR: And Hutchinson, where is she now?

SUSSMAN: She`s currently under heavy restriction on her base at Hunter Army Air Field in Georgia.

BEHAR: They`re just holding her?

SUSSMANN: They`re just holding her there, and she`s under 24-hour watch from what I can understand.

BEHAR: OK, the Army released a statement saying “The chain of command has a legal obligation to the citizens of the United States to investigate and deal fairly with Specialist Hutchinson`s alleged misconduct. Anything less would be irresponsible to our citizens and the thousands and thousands of soldiers who have deployed overseas despite difficult personal situations.”

Is that being fair to your client? I mean, they do have a lot of other people who would like to have special treatment, and they can`t give it to everybody. So what do you say to that?

SUSSMANN: I think that the way they treated her was not fair. The Army when presented with her child care emergency had other options for how they dealt with her. They did not have to arrest her and they did not have to remove her child from her. The Army in fact, has regulations — at this point the Army has 85,000 single parents, and so they do have regulations for how to deal fairly when single parents in the Army have child care emergencies or child care failures.

BEHAR: Well, my information is that more than 30,000 single mothers have been deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan.

SUSSMAN: I have that — I have heard that number, too, and I also have a number that since 9/11 115,000 single parents of both sexes have been sent in the war on terror, have been deployed.

BEHAR: Thank you very much, Rai Sue.

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Tickets are $175 each and include:
Cocktails, Hors d’oeuvres, Elegant Dinner, Live and Silent Auction and Live Entertainment by The Fabulous Hubcaps!

For more information, contact: Rita Melvin at 410-268-4388 ext. 120
Email: rita.melvin@aacspca.org

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The Boys and Girls Club of Annapolis and Anne Arundel County at Bates will host its third “Be A Kid for a Night” on November 13th, 2009 from 7pm-bedtime. This has been called the “Party of the Year” by the Capital Newspapers (2006).
Put on your jeans and go back in time to being a kid! Partygoers will experience first hand what the kids do everyday behind the doors of the Boys and Girls Clubs in Anne Arundel County.
An assortment of food donated by local caterers will be served, as well as Adult Libations prepared by Moveable Mixtures. Entertainment, live music and surprises in every room of the club. It’s a night to celebrate “the Positive Place for Kids”.
The public is invited to join in the fun ~ have your fortune read by a tarot card reader, take a swing at the golf simulator, have your handwriting analyzed or belt out your favorite tune in the teen center with Dancing Head Karaoke!
There will be line dancing lessons, hoola-hoop contests, body bingo, a full casino and much more. Seniors from the senior center next door to the club have offered to come and teach our guests how to be a pool shark!
Live music by Classic Case will round out the evening performing classic rock and roll the way you want to hear it, using well balanced instrumentation and strong vocal harmonies, tempered with a sincere love for the music that we all grew up with. We invite you to sit back and relax and enjoy! 
Tickets are $100 and include open bar, food and entertainment. For sponsorship or volunteer information, contact Jennifer Lagrotteria at 410.263.2542 or visit www.bgcaa.com