Safe Harbor, a shelter founded in 1991 in Calvert County for victims of domestic violence, is administered by the Calvert County Health Department, under the supervision of the Crisis Intervention Center. Since the shelter opened it has served oved 2,000 women and their minor children with temporary housing, counseling services, and referrals to mainstream resources. […]
SMECO Recognizes Calvert Schools for Reducing Energy Demand
Southern Maryland Electric Cooperative (SMECO) and energy management company Comverge/CPower recently issued Calvert County’s public schools almost $100,000 in bill credits and rebates for helping the cooperative reduce peak energy consumption during 2016. The Calvert County school system, which has participated in SMECO’s demand response program for six years, is able to shed load in […]
Peebles Presents Check to Calvert Hospice
Peebles Supports Calvert Hospice with Their ’30 Days of Giving’ Campaign Peebles runs a bi-annual Community Counts program called “30 Days of Giving,” in which they choose a local charity to support through donations at their registers. The local spring campaign ran April 1 – 30, and the Peebles store in Prince Frederick collected $1,867 […]
Safe Harbor Inc Presents Check to BOCC
During the meeting of the Calvert Board of County Commissioners (BOCC) on November 24, 2015, Safe Harbor Inc Board of Directors presented their annual check in the amount of $30,000. Safe Harbor was opened in 1991, when the former Central School was designated a shelter for abused women and children in Calvert County. In 1997 […]
Dominion Cove Point Presents Check to UMD
The University of Maryland Received a $50,000 Grant from Dominion Foundation. The award supports new research on high efficiency solar-powered cooling systems. On September 25, Dominion Foundation presented the University of Maryland (UMD) with a $50,000 educational grant. The grant, part of Dominion’s Higher Educational Partnership, was one of 40 awarded to colleges and post-secondary […]