No Kid Sleeps on the Floor in Our Town
Help Sleep In Heavenly Peace reach its mission — check the website March 1 to volunteer for the next build day March 14, 2020 — so no kid sleeps on the floor in our town.
Canceled: JSHS Regional Symposium Returns to SMCM
The Patuxent Partnership again brings the Junior Science and Humanities Symposium Maryland Regional Competition to St. Mary’s College of Maryland, March 28, 2020. Regional participants will present their original research and experimentation in the sciences, technology, engineering, and mathematics at the symposium. Regional winners progress to the National Symposium in Norfolk, VA, in April.
Perfect Pilot Training at St. Mary’s Airport
There are few more perfect spaces to learn to fly than from St. Mary’s County Regional Airport, according to Piedmont Flight Center student Megan Deaton, let alone the views of the Chesapeake Bay.
Rusty Pilot Update Draws 50 Pilots
If all of aviation got together to compose a shared recruitment poster it might be a Rusty Pilot. St. Mary’s Regional Airport offers some ways to get current and fly again. Expect more programming to get your license, maintain your credentials, and refresh them at the airport. The next training session is slated for March 14.
Feb. 27 Dahlgren Job Fair @ Mary Washington Campus
JobZone opens its 2020 career fairs at the University of Mary Washington, Dahlgren Campus, Thursday, Feb. 27, 2020, from 3 to 7 pm. All job seekers are invited to attend the Dahlgren job fair.
Lt. Gen. Reynolds to Give March 18 Briefing
Lt. Gen. Lori Reynolds, the Marine Corps’ deputy commandant for information, will offer a briefing sponsored by The Patuxent Partnership on March 18, 2020, at the University System of Maryland at Southern Maryland Building 2 in California, MD.
Be Cyber-Compliant Or Be Gone
DoD will begin requiring all companies seeking any type of military contract be cyber-compliant beginning with the Requests for Proposals issued in September 2020. DoD’s chief information security office is setting up routes to assist contractors achieve compliance as well as helping an industry-designed nonprofit establish itself as the certification agency issuing compliance certifications.
First MD Housing Needs Assessment Begun
Maryland has named and convened a Housing Advisory Committee to drive the creation of the state’s first-ever needs assessment of affordable housing. The assessment was called for during the 2018 Maryland legislative session. Draft findings are due in June.
Patuxent Cove Taking Apps for First Tenants
St. Mary’s newest apartment complex — Patuxent Cove — is taking applications for the apartments’ first tenants. Patuxent Cove is a mixed-income community on Pegg Road, 1.5 miles from Gate 1 of NAS Patuxent River.
St. George Is. Opens 1776 Revolutionary War in MD
This Message from the Cap’n — “St. George Island History”– carries the islander patriots forward from 1639 to 1921 — with some links to local historians Joe Norris and Jason Babcock.
