Month: October 2019

Waterfront Partnership’s 12 Annual Harbor Harvest Fall Children’s Festival

Waterfront Partnership’s 12th annual Harbor Harvest Fall Children’s Festival will once again transform Rash Field into a fall extravaganza with its family-friendly Inner Harbor tradition!

The free event will be held on Sunday, October 6, 2019 from 10 am to 3 p.m. and will feature an urban pumpkin patch with over 3,000 pumpkins to choose from, over 25 farm animals on site including horses, goats, sheep, ducks, pot belly big and more, kids play/hay maze, professional pumpkin carving demonstration, bubble fairies, face painting, pumpkin decorating, pony rides, train rides and live kid’s entertainment from interactive children’s bands Rocknocerus and The Uncle Devin Show.

Waterfront Partnership’s 12th annual Harbor Harvest Fall Children’s Festival will once again transform Rash Field into a fall extravaganza with its family-friendly Inner Harbor tradition on Sunday, October 6th from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Waterfront Partnership’s 12th annual Harbor Harvest Fall Children’s Festival will once again transform Rash Field into a fall extravaganza with its family-friendly Inner Harbor tradition on Sunday, October 6th from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Other additions to this year’s event include kid’s activities by The Baltimore Beach Club and Amuse Toys, a kid-friendly movie screening by Baltimore Recreation & Parks’ Rhythm and Reels with hay bale seating, free popcorn and lots more.

All of this activity will be sure to build up an appetite. Guests can enjoy food from local food truck favorites like The Smoking Swine, The Lunchbox Lady, Kora Lee’s Gourmet Dessert Café and Funnel Fare.

Entry to the festival is FREE; Pony rides, train rides, and the pumpkin patch require a pass to participate. The Harbor Harvest All-Inclusive Kid’s Pass includes a pumpkin; pumpkin decorating; 1 train ride and 1 pony ride for $12. Tickets will be available at the event. Single purchase train ride, pony ride and pumpkin patch admission will be offered at the event for $5 each.

For more information, visit: www.waterfrontbaltimore.org.

SCOM Majors Honored by The Visit Baltimore Foundation At M&T Bank

Congratulations to Baltimore Times Interns and Morgan State University SCOM Majors Justus Hawkins and Mori Johnson who were honored by The Visit Baltimore Foundation at its annual meeting at M&T Bank Stadium.

Although notified last month about the award, today they were acknowledged before a crowd of 500 leading citizens of Baltimore including: The Hon. Mayor Young with whom they are photographed, Baltimore Ravens President Dick Cass, Baltimore Orioles President John Angelos and a host of other glitterati.

There were more than a dozen applications for the scholarships totaling $10,000. Mori and Justus took home $2,500 each. The other two scholarship students are graduate students (also from Morgan) but who are studying hospitality and tourism. Mori and Justus are the first SCOM students awarded this scholarship. They were selected based on their writing and quality of their applications.

You can check-out photos from today’s event here as well as hear reaction from them by clicking on the following links.

https://twitter.com/professordavem/status/1177331350787022848?s=20

https://twitter.com/professordavem/status/1177332591030079495?s=20

“Congrats Justus and Mori! You represented all of us very well today.” – Prof. David Marshall

Maryland Legislature To Raise Tobacco Age To 21 Takes Effect

Beginning October 1, 2019, the new minimum sales age for all tobacco products in Maryland is 21 (“T21”). This includes sales of all electronic smoking devices—e-cigarettes, vapes, pod devices such as JUUL®, e-liquids, and component parts and accessories.

A tobacco product includes cigarettes, cigars, pipe tobacco, chewing tobacco, snuff, and snus, electronic smoking devices (ESDs), and filters, rolling papers, pipes and liquids used in electronic smoking devices, regardless of nicotine content, as well as accessories and components.

There is no “grandfathering,” phase-in, or grace period. As of this October 1, 2019, no tobacco sales are permissible to customers under 21.

Those who are active duty military and at least 18 years of age are exempt and may be sold tobacco if a valid military identification (ID) card is provided. The Common Access Card is valid military ID.

Retailers are required to post a sign in a clearly visible location using letters at least one-half inch high that states, “NO PERSON UNDER THE AGE OF 21 MAY BE SOLD TOBACCO PRODUCTS WITHOUT MILITARY IDENTIFICATION.” The Maryland Department of Health is mailing T21 compliant signs to all licensed tobacco retailers, including vape shops, across the state.

In 2018, the U.S. Surgeon General warned that e-cigarette use among youth is now an epidemic. Between 2017 and 2018, current e-cigarette use increased 78 percent among U.S. high school students; in 2018, more than 3.6 million U.S. youth, including 1 in 5 high school students and 1 in 20 middle school students, reported current e-cigarette use. Raising the sales age to 21 helps reduce youth access to e-cigarettes and other tobacco products, which reduces the likelihood of them ever starting to use tobacco. Most adults who smoke or use tobacco started by age 21.

A current (not expired) driver’s license or valid government-issued ID (e.g., passport). School and employer-issued ID are not acceptable.

As of October 1, 2019, there are no penalties for underage purchase or possession of tobacco. Youth purchase and possession laws have not been shown to be effective in reducing youth access and may unfairly target certain groups, including minority groups.