Friday, February 15, 2013
One man wins big in a contest to promote the use of a new parking application in the Historic District of Ellicott City.
When a stranger calls and asks a kid for her parent’s cell phone number, the responsible child politely declines. Even if it’s the County Executive asking. The young woman who identified herself as Mark Kinzie’s daughter to Ken Ulman did just that Thursday after Ulman called to let Kinzie know he had won Howard County Tourism’s “Download for Date Nights” promotion. To support her responsibility, perhaps Kinzie will take his daughter out to dinner at one of the half-dozen restaurants that donated $400 worth of gift certificates to the promotion, or take her to a show at Merriweather Post Pavilion. In all, the Ellicott City resident won more than $4,000 worth of free goods, services and gift certificates donated by local businesses as …
Thursday, February 14, 2013
Find out where to find flowers, chocolates and romantic places for Valentine’s Day 2013.
Sunday, February 10, 2013
Nineteenth-century love letters and modern sweet tweets prove that communication for couples is timeless.
By Allison Goldstein, Capital News Service When U.S. Navy Surgeon David Shelton Edwards was serving at the Washington Navy Yard in the late 1830s, he kept the spark in his marriage alive by writing eight love letters home to his wife, Harriet Eliza Henry. "Your letters are a sweet cordial to this loving heart of yours, for there can be no substitute for them until I have your own dear self here," Edwards wrote in a July 1835 note to Henry. Over a 13-year span from 1835 to 1848 working in Washington, Pensacola Navy Yard, FL, and aboard several Mexican-American War naval vessels, Edwards wrote his “dearest Eliza” more than 40 notes now part of the National Postal Museum’s collection of thousands of letters in Washington. Today, Skype and …
Friday, February 8, 2013
Find out where to find flowers, chocolates and romantic places for Valentine’s Day 2013.
Monday, January 28, 2013
One person will win a year of dining, activities and pampering.
How do you keep the spark alive? One word: dates. Howard County Tourism thinks there are plenty of local places to take a new flame or your long-time sweetheart for a romantic get-together and is offering one person the chance to see first-hand. To promote Streetline's Parker application, which shows available parking spots in the Historic District in Ellicott City, Tourism is running a promotion - prove you have downloaded the application to your smartphone and you could win a year of free dates. Just download the app and bring your phone into the Howard County Welcome Center on Main Street in Ellicott City, or take a picture of your phone running the app and share it on the Howard County Tourism Facebook page. The winner will receive an…
Sunday, January 27, 2013
From Charlotte's Web to Where the Wild Things Are, share these classic books with your children and encourage their love for reading.
“Where’s Pa Going with that Axe?” The Enduring Quality of Children’s Classics By Anita Silvey Courtesy of James Patterson's Read Kiddo Read Foundation The opening line of E. B. White’s Charlotte’s Web— “Where’s Pa going with that axe?”—has now been read by adults to eager young listeners for more than 60 years. Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time and Ezra Jack Keats’s The Snowy Day have been picked up with enthusiasm for more than 50 years. For 75 years, parents have shared The Hobbit, and this year Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are turns 50. These books and others like them (Eric Carle’s The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Virginia Lee Burton’s Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel, and L. M. Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables) bring …
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Is it Valentine's Day?
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Wednesday, February 15, 2012
"It’s a Hallmark holiday." "I don’t need the corporate definition of a relationship." "I’m not buying into some cheap facsimile of ‘love’ packaged in a heart-shaped box." You have probably said one of the above lines, or some reasonable approximation thereof, most likely while standing in line at Rite-Aid clutching an ignominious $3 piece of cardboard. No holiday is more reviled than St. Valentine’s, a day that manages to make martyrs of us all. You can’t force love, conventional wisdom says, so why should we force a celebration of it? At this point, lonely, bitter singles sitting alone on Feb. 14 have become such a trope it’s unclear if the American sitcom or romantic comedy could exist without the crutch. Like its fellow rooted-in-…
