Midshipman Jeremy Ball joined Alderman Sam Shropshire with McGruff the Crime Dog at Annapolis’s National Night Out Against Crime.
Sam with Jan Chapman of Peace Action and Shahin Ismayilov who’s participating in a student-work exchange program in Annapolis. Shahin arrived from Azerbaijan to work at a local convenience store only to find there was no job for him and no place to live. Jan provided Shahin with a place stay. Work for Shahin was later found at Wendy’s Restaurant on West Street.
Sam joined Mayor Ellen Moyer and other City Council members in welcoming Mayor George Lawlor from our sister-city Wexford, Ireland. Here Sam and the group is pictured dedicating a park at the end of Prince George Street to the memory of Commodore John Barry, the first flag officer of the US Navy. Commodore Barry was born in Wexford.
Acting Mayor Sam Shropshire signed a contract on April 19, 2008, for processing of the City's recyclable waste by the Elkridge Recycling Center. In the future Annapolis could earn up to $80,000 per month for recyclables sent to the company for processing. Sam also signed City contracts with the Waste Management hauling company that will be picking up residential and business waste.
Photos taken at Elkridge Recycling Center where Annapolis Aldermen Sam Shropshire and Ross Arnett were guests on February 25, 2008. Millions of tons of plastics, glass and paper are recycled every day! Several tons of plastic checkout bags are removed daily from the recyclable materials moving down the conveyor belts. These plastic bags are taken to landfill or shipped by the tons to India! (Nobody knows why! Now that’s a really great use of deisel fuel! No wonder we’re facing climate change!)
These plastic checkout bags cannot be recycled, and they damage expensive recycling machines. In landfills they lie dormant for 500 to 1000 years! Just from America alone they are accumulating in landfill and the environment (on ground or in streams, rivers and our surrounding oceans) at a rate of 99 billion a year!
Shown is one of many Safeway supermarket bags workers pulled from conveyor belts of recyclable materials while Sam and Ross were at the recycling center. Photos by Susan Hartsfield.
Alderman Sam Shropshire with kids at the Step It Up Rally for the environment.
Alderman Shropshire encouraged the kids (and adults) to do their part to halt global warming.
Several of the young people came dressed as their favorite endangered species.
Alderman Ross Arnett and Alderman Sam Shropshire
cheer for Maritime Republic of Eastport victory in the upcoming 2007 tug-of-war between the MRE and USA.
The Diane Rehm Showis an award-winning National Public Radio call-in show with more than
1.4 million listeners. It is produced by WAMU and hosted by Diane Rehm. The show debuted on
WAMU in the 1970s as Kaleidoscope, a weekday morning arts and discussion program. Diane took
over as host in 1979, and it became The Diane Rehm Show in 1984. Sam appeared on the
Diane Rehm Show to speak about his proposed legislation to prohibit retail distribution of plastic checkout bags.
Alderman Sam Shropshire on a training exercise with the Annapolis Police Department
A number of concerned citizens met with me on Wednesday, July 18, at Zü Coffee to exchange ideas and hear from Craig Purcell, AIA, LEED. Craig is a principal with the firm Matrix Settles located in downtown Annapolis. His firm is designing its own LEED (Leadership in Environmental and Energy Design) certified office. He is an advocate for alternative forms of transit on the Annapolis Peninsula and a Comprehensive Plan advisor. Alternative transit perspectives in planning include walking, bicycling, buses, jitneys, smart trams, ferries, rail, etc. We had a lively discussed on Transit Oriented Development (TOD).
A strategy meeting followed to brief individuals interested in learning more about Sam's proposed ordinance (O-27-07) that will prohibit the retail distribution of plastic checkout bags within Annapolis. The Chesapeake Bay Foundation and the Sierra Club have now expressed their support for the legislation.
Pictured are Louise Smith, Tersheia Wells-Smith, and Deni Henson — producer of the Carr's Beach documentary film, The Sands of Time — with Alderman Shropshire at the April 30th dedication of the Carr's Beach commemorative sign. The Smiths are descendents of the former owners of Carr's Beach. The Rev. Johnny Calhoun, pastor of Mt. Olive AME Church, and Mayor Ellen Moyer officiated the dedicatory event. Alderman Shropshire also sponsored legislation to give Edgewood Road the commemorative name Carr's Beach Road. These new street signs were placed along Edgewood Road in May.
During the 1950s and early 1960s, Anne Arundel County was still segregated and the beaches for African Americans were Carr's Beach and Sparrow's Beach in right here in Ward 7, and the beach communities of Highland Beach, Arundel-on-the-Bay and Columbia Beach in the County. Carr's Beach was the most famous of the beaches and was affectionately called "The Beach." During the week "The Beach" was a place for day camp, church picnics, etc. But on the week-ends, especially Sunday afternoons, Carr's Beach had the unique distinction of being a major stop on the "Chitlin Circuit."
Saturday nights grown-ups would go to Carr's Beach and see stars such as Ray Charles, Bill Doggett, Dinah Washington, Author Prysock, etc. Sunday afternoons there was family fun. Thousands of people from as far away as Philadelphia would come to Carr's Beach to swim and picnic. But at three o'clock it was showtime and people would pack into the pavilion to see and dance to the Major R&B stars of the day — stars such as Little Richard, James Brown, Lloyd Price, Etta James, The Shirelles, The Coasters, The Drifters. You name 'em, they played Carr's Beach.
To learn more about Carr's Beach click here.
Sam Shropshire with Susan Wilhoit, a long-tiime friend and renoun watercolorist, with Maryland Lt. Governor Anthony Brown. Ms. Wilhoit, from Dayton, Tenn., is in the midst of a five-year project painting the capitol buildings of all 50 states. "The various state capitols collectively represent a monumental record of public architecture reflecting the unique heritage of each state," she said. Her original painting of Maryland's State House is on loan to State House offices until June 30, 2008.
Sheila Finlayson, the Ward 4 Democratic winner, center, chats with supporters Adrienne and Clarence Goldberg and Alderman Sam Shropshire, D-Ward 7, during a victory party at the Annapolis Walk Community Center last night. Ms. Finlayson will face James M. Conley in the special general election Jan. 30, 2007, to fill the seat left by Wayne Taylor. (originally published in The Capital on Jan. 4, 2007)
December 2006--Acting Mayor Sam Shropshire welcomes mayor and delegation from Hunan, China. The delegation was in Annapolis to inquire about Annapolis's preservation of historic buildings and to discuss planning and zoning.
Congratulations and thank you to Lee Caudle of Fairwinds.
She shown here with Mayor Ellen Moyer signing registry
book
at City Hall after being sworn in as a member of the
City's
Election Board.
On August 5, 2006, the Chesapeake Outdoor Group sponsored its third annual Build a Beer Can Regatta at Port Annapolis Marina to benefit the Annapolis Maritime Museum. The event was great fun and all for a good cause! See the photos below.
Sheriff George F. Johnson IV is greeted by Annapolis Alderman
Sam Shropshire at a recent political gathering in Linthicum. Sheriff
Johnson
ran away with the Democratic nomination for county executive.
Rani Jenkins (right) of Ward 7 was recently appointed by
Mayor Moyer (left) to Annapolis' Arts in Public Places
Commission.
Congratulations, Rani! We're proud of you!
Rani Jenkins is the CEO of Nalro Enterprises, Inc. After graduating from Annapolis High School, Ms. Jenkins received a BFA in Arts Management from Howard University and an MA in Communication from Montclair State University. Rani is currently partnering with Annapolis High School to present a Summer Enrichment Academy, a reading program that exposes students to the performing arts.
Alderman Sam was one of three aldermen to ride with the Annapolis Fire Department
in late February 2006. He gained a real appreciation for the risks these public servants
take every day. Pictured with Sam is Chief Jerome Smith. Read The Capital story
Sam with Kweisi Mfume, former congressman and president of the NAACP, former candidate for US Senate.
 Sam and daughter Jana discuss Back Creek charter business with Sun Sail assistant manager Mathias Capurro. |
 Sam and daughter Jana at Fairwinds with neighbors Anna Hagner, Brenda Castle-Young, Delores Grauel and "Shannon." |
Sam being sworn in for office as Aldermand with
two midshipmen
he sponsors and Mayor Ellen Moyer.
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