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Maryland Deaf Community Center buys property to build new facility
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Aug. 20—There’s an expression in American Signal Language by which individuals place their two index fingers at their mouth, then level them up on the sky.
It interprets to “Pah!” in English — or “Lastly!”
That phrase sums up how Linda Stoltz, president of the Maryland Deaf Group Middle, and different members of Frederick’s Deaf and Laborious of Listening to group have been feeling recently.
On Friday morning, the nonprofit closed on the acquisition of a 1.7-acre property to create a brand new middle on North East Avenue, beside Rockwell Brewery.
When the middle opens — which Stoltz hopes might be in about two years — the nonprofit says it should turn out to be a spot the place Deaf and Laborious of Listening to individuals will be capable to entry assets, socialize, get recommendation and discover group.
“It is about time. I am going to let you know, it is about time,” Stoltz signed in an interview as an interpreter translated. “The Deaf group has actually been preventing for a really very long time.”
Final fall, the Maryland Deaf Group Middle opened its first bodily location within the Plane Homeowners and Pilots Affiliation constructing on Aviation Means. It was the primary group middle for Deaf and Laborious of Listening to individuals within the state.
For 4 months, the workplace gave the nonprofit an area to carry sport nights, provide signal language lessons and supply workshops. Deaf seniors gathered on the middle to speak and play playing cards. The Japanese Motorbike Membership for the Deaf hosted a vacation occasion there.
However in January, the nonprofit was notified that American Signal Language Interpreter Corps — the enterprise it was partnering with to hire the area — had gone bankrupt. Once more, the group was with out a house.
The next month, Stoltz and different members of the nonprofit’s board of administrators met with Ron Younger, a state senator representing Frederick County. They informed him in regards to the Maryland Deaf Group Middle and what it might provide to the state, if it had a bodily area.
“He simply made that remark of, ‘We are going to assist you,’” Stoltz mentioned. “And that was sufficient to get every little thing going.”
With Younger’s assist, the nonprofit obtained a $2.5 million grant from the state to assist it set up a group middle.
The property the nonprofit bought on Friday value $1.4 million, Stoltz mentioned. It at present homes three buildings, together with an previous crimson farmhouse with wood paneling.
Initially, the nonprofit deliberate to renovate the farmhouse for the middle, she mentioned. However after inspectors took a have a look at the construction, the board of administrators determined it will make extra sense to demolish the buildings and begin from scratch.
Larry Cohen, treasurer for the Maryland Deaf Group Middle, mentioned he does not assume any of the property’s neighbors will thoughts.
“It has been sort of an eyesore for the group for some time — simply left sitting right here, actually doing nothing,” he signed as an interpreter translated. “And now, it may be a pleasant, brand-new constructing that is going to do one thing good for the group.”
The nonprofit has employed an architect to attract up plans for the middle. The constructing will embrace a convention room, school rooms for signal language lessons and a giant multipurpose room, the place individuals will be capable to socialize and take part in workshops and different actions, Stoltz mentioned.
The Maryland Deaf Group Middle additionally obtained $500,000 from town of Frederick for the middle. The cash will assist the nonprofit be sure that the constructing meets Individuals with Incapacity Act requirements, Stoltz mentioned, together with having automated doorways, a ramp and flashing lights all through the constructing for visible fireplace alarms.
The nonprofit can also be working with the state to safe steady funding for the middle, to make sure it will likely be capable of keep open, Cohen mentioned. It will likely be receiving further grant cash to rent a full-time director for the power, Stoltz mentioned.
With one campus for the Maryland College for the Deaf off South Market Avenue and Gallaudet College close by in Washington, D.C., Frederick has an enormous Deaf and Laborious of Listening to group. And it is rising, Stoltz mentioned.
The Maryland Deaf Group Middle would like to see extra assets come to the world to serve the inhabitants, Cohen mentioned. He pointed to different states, the place there are nursing houses and rehabilitation facilities particularly for Deaf and Laborious of Listening to individuals.
“That is actually step one in all that lengthy course of,” he mentioned of the group middle.
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Michigan State football opens as sizable underdog vs Maryland
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Who’s ready for Big Ten play to begin? In all honesty, I am not. I really wish Michigan State football had more tune-up games after seeing them struggle against Florida Atlantic and only win 16-10. But unfortunately, that is not how the schedule unfolds for Michigan State this season.
The Spartans will hit the road for an early Big Ten game as they face Maryland on Saturday at 3:30 pm. Going into the season I thought Michigan State and the Terps were on a pretty level playing field, but after seeing both teams play week one that doesn’t appear to be the case.
And Vegas agrees.
Michigan State opens as a 7.5-point underdog next week at Maryland. My guess is that grows to 8, 8.5.
— Graham Couch (@Graham_Couch) September 1, 2024
As you all know, Michigan State only beat Florida Atlantic by six and did not look very impressive, especially on the offensive side of the ball. So it’s no surprise that MSU will be the underdog next week. But 7.5 points feels like a lot, and according to the Lansing State Journal’s Graham Couch, it likely will only go up from there.
So does Vegas have it right or are they underrating Michigan State?
Looking at Maryland’s week one game against UConn it appears Vegas has this line right. The Terps were up 23-0 at halftime and never looked back and went on to win in dominant fashion 50-7. UConn and FAU are very similar in terms of what level they’re at in college football, so that drastic of a difference in the final score is very scary.
So Vegas probably could’ve gotten away with Maryland being even bigger favorites in this one.
But maybe Vegas saw what I did and thinks a lot of Michigan State’s mistakes on Friday are easy to fix. Maybe they think Aidan Chiles will be much better next week. The Spartan’s defense was also fairly dominant so there isn’t much of a chance Maryland scores 50 points next week either.
I tend to not bet on Michigan State games, but even if I did this would be a line that I would avoid because who knows how much Jonathan Smith’s squad will improve by next week, and who knows how much Maryland might struggle against a Power Four opponent.
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University of Maryland reverses decision to allow anti-Israel protest on October 7
The University of Maryland on Sunday reversed its decision to allow an anti-Israel protest on the first anniversary of the October 7 Massacre, following backlash from local Jewish groups.
UMD Students for Justice in Palestine and UMD Jewish Voice for Peace had been set to hold their October 7 vigil for Gazans killed in the Israel-Hamas War at the campus’s Mckeldin Mall, but the University System of Maryland (USM) said in a statement that on the day of the Hamas-led pogrom it would limit campus events requiring permits or approval to those supporting “a university-sponsored Day of Dialogue.”
“From the beginning of the war, we have come together as a University System to urge that we use this moment to encourage conversation, compassion, and civility; to engage with one another across our differences and draw on our shared humanity and our shared values to bridge what divides us,” said USM. “These dialogues aren’t new. Many of our universities have been hosting this kind of programming for several months. Reserving Oct. 7 gives us a chance to continue these urgent conversations and to mark this solemn anniversary in a way that gives students—all students—the time and space to share and to be heard.”
USM said that its intent was not to infringe of the free expression and speech of students, but to be sensitive to the needs of students as October 7 was a “day of enormous suffering and grief for many in our campus communities.”
UMD Jewish Student Union, Maryland Hillel, Terps for Israel, and Israeli American Council Mishelanu at Maryland welcomed the USM decision and thanked UMD leadership in a joint social media statement on Sunday.
“October 7, the largest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, is a day of mourning for the Jewish and Israeli community,” said the UMD JSU. “We are relieved that SJP will no longer to be able to appropriate the suffering of our family and friends to fit their false and dangerous narrative.”
The Jewish groups said that it was distraught that the decision to only hold university-sponsored event had to be made at all, and wished to used the campus space to “grieve together as a community” to promote unity at the university. The unideal situation was necessary, according to the Jewish groups, to ensure the physical and psychological safety of students on the day of mourning.
UMD JVP and SJP attacked the decision to cancel the event, claiming that the vigil for Palestinians killed since the October 7 Massacre was attacked without familiarity of the content. The anti-Israel groups said that the discourse was “the continuation inherently racist, Islamophobic, and dehumanizing rhetoric surrounding Palestinians.” JVP and SJP said that the actions against their event were an attempt to paint “Muslim, Arab, and anti-Zionist Jewish students as barbaric.”
The anti-Israel groups asserted that their vigil for Palestinians who died in the war was no threat to the campus’s Jewish community, but conflation of Zionism and Judaism did threaten UMD and the Jewish community.
“To claim that Palestinians cannot hold a day of remembrance in mourning one year of genocide, or lay claim to that date is an insult to every life lost in the Zionist entity’s genocidal campaign,” UMD SJP and JVP said on Instagram on Sunday. “The disproportionate scale of suffering experienced by the Palestinians over the past year necessitates their remembrance and our solidarity on this day. The suffering of all innocents killed must not be monopolized and necessitates a fair and just representation.”
SJP and JVP demanded the right to organize and exercise their right to free speech, accusing Zionists of attempting to stifle Palestinian voices.
The organizations indicated on their Sunday Instagram post that they still planned to hold their all-day event at Mckeldin Mall, and on Monday a link to register still active and listing the campus building as the rally location.
UMD Jewish groups said that they would be holding their own event to memorialize the victims of the October 7 pogrom at the Maryland Hillel.
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Sunshine for your Labor Day in Maryland
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