Manatee

Harold Wilson, 76, a Marine who won the Medal of Honor, the nation's highest award for military bravery, died Sunday in West Columbia, S.C., of lung cancer.He was a sergeant when he helped fight an enemy attack through the night of April 23-24, 1951, during the Korean War.Wounded in an arm, a leg, his head and a shoulder, he rallied troops, delivered ammunition and administered first aid as attackers swarmed his platoon's position. Only after the final attack had been repulsed at dawn did Mr. Wilson walk unassisted a half-mile to the aid station.

South Florida, Miami and environs in particular, is an otherworldly place. The closest my mind has ever come to grasping it is that being there is to walk, without map or compass, through an endless three-dimensional, megabass-wired Hieronymus Bosch painting populated, inter alia, by designer-drug-crazed pink flamingos bearing Uzis. One of its most exquisite excesses is Coconut Grove on Saturday night. Dave Barry gets that perfectly, grabs and holds it by the ears and throat and less mentionable anatomy and runs like hell.

A marine biologist for the National Aquarium in Baltimore searched Rock Creek in northern Anne Arundel County and parts of the Patapsco River but found no trace of Chessie, the manatee who first wandered into the Chesapeake Bay in 1994.The search was prompted by reports from two people who said they had seen the 10-foot-long, 1,500-pound sea cow in the creek Monday, said biologist David Schofield, who flew over the area in a Department of Natural Resources helicopter with a DNR police officer and a video photographer.

It's between an incumbent who dyes his hair gray to look mature and a challenger who dyes his black to look spry.Scientists speculate that life may have existed on Earth, but died out eons ago.Broadcasters promise to provide a little educational television, which children do not promise to watch.Chessie the Manatee has been spotted in the Patapsco, Prettyboy and Loch Ness.Pub Date: 8/19/96

A marine biologist for the National Aquarium will scan the waters around Rock Creek in northeast Anne Arundel County today, searching for Chessie, the manatee that first wandered into the Chesapeake Bay in 1994.Two people reported seeing the 10-foot, 1,500-pound sea cow Monday in the Patapsco River tributary.Dave Scofield, the marine biologist, said yesterday that the reports, while unconfirmed, are consistent with the profile of Chessie.Both callers described seeing round swirls about the diameter of a bushelbasket on the surface of the water, said Scofield.

Chessie is missing.The wandering Florida manatee, who made news with his summer ventures into the Chesapeake Bay in 1994 and to Rhode Island waters in 1995, has been separated from the radio transmitter used to track his movements.Scientists following the signal by satellite detected the separation July 10, when Chessie was north of Morehead City, N.C., near Pamlico Sound. Two days later, the region was swept by Hurricane Bertha.Tuesday, biologist Jim Reid of the National Biological Service's Sirenia Project traced the transmitter's continuing signal to the Intracoastal Waterway near the Neuse River in North Carolina.

All right already. Enough with the manatee.This is yet another story about Chessie, the spunky sea cow who sought out the Chesapeake Bay in summers past for his annual migrations from Florida.Rarely has there been so much hype over a 1,200-pound creature with a brain the size of a very small lettuce.For the third year in a row, folks along the Maryland shore are claiming they have seen him.If this keeps up, once again Chessie will get eaten up by the public (well, not literally because that's illegal)

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. -- Satellite technology monitoring "Chessie" shows that the peripatetic manatee has left Delaware Bay's north shore for the neon lights of Atlantic City.The manatee, so-named for his trek up the Chesapeake Bay last summer and fall, was shown Monday to have left quaint Victorian Cape May, N.J., and working northward in the Atlantic Ocean to Atlantic City.Juvenile male manatees are known to wander and explore, but experts say Chessie is 30 to 50 years old."He's something else," said Linda Taylor of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

MIAMI -- The homely manatee may be among the best-loved animals in Florida -- its picture is on a fund-raising license plate -- but it is a creature shadowed by extinction.So far this year, 47 manatees have been found dead in Florida -- double the rate at this time last year, when a total of 192 perished. An aerial survey last month spotted 1,443 of the animals -- down from a high of 1,856 three years ago.Scientists are alarmed."Unlike the extreme cold temperatures in 1990 -- the highest single year for manatee mortality, with 206 deaths -- no single large natural event occurred in 1994 to which we can attribute the high mortality," said Pat Rose of the Florida Department of Environmental Protection.

Chessie, the wayward manatee swimming north at a record pace, has made history by becoming the first documented creature of its species to journey to New England, marine experts said yesterday.Chessie has astounded marine biologists, who for the first time have documented this endangered species moving beyond the Middle Atlantic states.The manatee, also known as a sea cow, was spotted swimming and resting on the industrial shores of New Haven, Conn., on Saturday."We have never documented a manatee sighting north of the Chesapeake Bay," said Jim Reid, a biologist with the National Biological Service.

Man dies in Laurel crash; passenger critically injured A 20-year-old man died Wednesday after his car veered off a road and hit a utility pole in Laurel, Anne Arundel County police said. Oscar Ivan Patrinos Lara was driving his 1997 Volkswagen Golf with one passenger, Angelica Guillen Tovilla, 18, police said. Lara and Tovilla shared an address on Shiloh Court in Laurel, according to police. Lara was driving north in the 8300 block of Brock Bridge Road about 1:15 p.m. when the car crossed into the oncoming lane, nearly hitting other cars, police said.

One of Florida's endangered manatees paid a social call on Havre de Grace over the weekend, swimming close enough to the dock to be filmed and even touched, officials at the National Aquarium said yesterday. Video shot by a town police officer of the visitor was clear enough to allow federal biologists in Florida to identify the manatee as a teenager named Ilya, last sighted near Miami three years ago, said Jennifer Dittmar, coordinator of the Baltimore aquarium's marine animal rescue program.

We're asking readers to show us a souvenir from their recent summer travels. Some of the best vacation souvenirs are the least tangible, such as the smell of the sea or the color of a sunrise. But we're not talking about those. We're talking about that manatee snow globe you brought home after a weekend in Key West. Or the sequined sombrero from a cruise to Mexico. The real mementos of a perfect (or not-so-perfect) summer trip. Send us a photo of the souvenir along with a few words about why it's a favorite by Friday.

We're asking readers to show us a souvenir from their recent summer travels. Some of the best vacation souvenirs are the least tangible, such as the smell of the sea or the color of a sunrise. But we're not talking about those. We're talking about that manatee snow globe from Key West. Or the sequined sombrero from Mexico. The real mementos of a perfect (or not-so-perfect) trip. Send us a photo of the souvenir along with a few words about why it's a favorite. We'll include as many as we can in a future Travel section.

We're asking readers to show us a souvenir from their recent summer travels. Some of the best vacation souvenirs are the least tangible, such as the smell of the sea or the color of a sunrise. But we're not talking about those. We're talking about that manatee snow globe from Key West. Or the sequined sombrero from Mexico. The real mementos of a perfect (or not-so-perfect) trip. Send us a photo of the souvenir along with a few words about why it's a favorite. We'll include as many as we can in a future Travel section.

On February 8, 2006, EARL E. CLARK, JR., age 70, of Parrish, FL, formerly a resident of Bel Air, MD. Earl retired from the Baltimore City Public School System in 1993 after serving 30 years as a vocational teacher and administrator. Earl was an alumni of the University of Maryland and Florida State University. He was a member of Phi Delta Kappa Educational Society, Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society and Florida State University Manatee Seminole Club. He is survived by his wife of 43 years, the former Carolyn Brookhart; his son, Scott, of Tampa, FL and two daughters, Sheryl Metzbower, of Hunt Valley, Cathi Kreis, of Gainsville, VA and four grandchildren.

On Thursday, May 6, 2004, REV. JAMES HOLCOLMB MULHOLLAND, 84, of FL, formerly of Randallstown; beloved husband of 57 years to the late Dr. Jean Mulholland, currently married to Betty; devoted father of Terry Ridgely and Sharon Mulholland; loving grandfather of Rachel Kopec, Julie, Ross, Bryan, Jenna, Amy, Nicole, Ryan, Tirza and Heather. Also survived by great-grandchildren, Nathan, Joshua, David, Luke, Maya, Tia and Olivia. Graveside Services will take place Saturday, May 15, 2004, 10 A.M. at Wards Chapel United Methodist Church Cemetery, Randallstown, MD. Memorial contributions may be made to First Presbyterian Church, 1402 Manatee Avenue, W. Bradenton, FL 34205 or Scripture Ministries of India, 22 S. Main Street, Dover, PA 17315 or Hospice of Southwest Florida, 4151 37th Street, East Palmetto, FL 34221.

NORFOLK, Va. - Boaters at Taylor's Landing Marine Center at Little Creek were startled at the sight of a large gray form cruising from boat to boat, from pier to pier, then suddenly surfacing with soft puffs of air. It was a full-grown manatee, one of the planet's most endangered marine mammals, in a rare public appearance this far from its home in Florida. Children sprayed it with fresh water, which it seemed to love, and reached down from the floating docks to touch its soft, scarred back.

An endangered manatee paid a visit to the Chesapeake Bay this summer -- the first confirmed sighting here in six years, marine mammal experts said. And they suspect the stealth visitor was Chessie, the celebrity manatee who won hearts along the East Coast during a 1995 jaunt to Rhode Island. Acting on a tip from a pair of startled water-skiers, marine animal rescue coordinator David Schofield of the National Aquarium saw a manatee Aug. 23 in Cornfield Creek, a tributary of the Sassafrass River, which divides Kent and Cecil counties on the Upper Shore.

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