PBA has done many Ribbon Cuttings over the years but it was an honor to be there for Jack Brown, Jack’s Auto Sales 50th Anniversary. What a great milestone for this family owned and operated business. Liam Davis,
Community liason for Baltimore City County President Jack Young, Jerry Nicklow, Vice President of the Pasadena Business Association and Dottie Mitchell from the Coast Guard Yard were on hand to present citations. Delegate Nic Kipke (although the business is out of his district) stopped by to congratulate Jack and his family. Pastor Yon from Community Gospel Church lead us in an opening and closing prayer. Below is a brief bio of Jack’s 50 years.

Jack’s Auto Sales was founded in Nov 1965 by Jack Brown as a used car lot with quality cars. This family owned business expanded over the years with the opening of the Browning Automatic Transmission shop in 1980 with son Jeffrey. Growing again over the years and expanding the shop to full service repairs with ASE certified mechanics: daughter Jackie, grandson Jeff Jr and shop manager son, Joey. Jack has sold every type of vehicle imaginable over the years from Volkswagens to Vipers to double decker buses to race boats. This family owned Christian business has prospered over the years by providing exceptional service, fair prices and honest work. Located on Hawkins Point Rd just off beltway exit 1. Our cars are always clean and our shop is ready to serve.

Congratulations to Jack Brown and his family and we wish you many more years in business.

4 Season Land Care, LLC. - John Bridges, Owner/President
4 Season Land Care is a local, family owned landscape company that’s been providing Pasadena care since 2008.

We had a very successful Joint Networking Mixer with the Greater Severna Park & Arnold Chamber of Commerce. There were 70 business members in attendance for a fun evening of great appetizers and a great opportunity to network your business. We want to thank Twain’s Tavern for hosting the mixer. Stop in and visit the new Twain’s Tavern and say PBA sent you. It won’t get you anything but it is good for them to know we are helping promote them.

The PBA’s 5th Annual Veterans Day Ceremony was a great day to honor those present and past who fought to keep us safe. We had Veterans from every war, every branch of the service, and many active military in attendance. It was truly an honor to have them at our ceremony. The Veterans and Active Military stood up, introduced themselves, and told us where and when they served. Each was presented with a pin from their particular branch and a round of applause from the crowd. Mrs. Major’s second grade class at Bodkin Elementary School wrote letters to the veterans and they were so cute and heartfelt. Thank you to Mrs. Majors for teaching her students the meaning of Veterans Day and sharing the letters with us. We hope to have more letters next year so every veteran can have one. I want to thank County Executive Steve Schuh, Delegates Kipke and Simonaire, County Councilman Derek Fink, Chief of Police Tim Altomare, Eastern District Captain Shawn Urbas, and Dana Hendrickson with the Maryland Department of Veterans Affairs for attending and contributing to our ceremony. I want to thank the Chesapeake Vocal Ensemble, Navy Honor Guard, Emmanuel Lutheran Church Pastor Bob Stevens, Ft. Meade Chief Petty Officers, Captain Rick Barnes, Ph.D., of the MD Defense Force Band, Boy Scout Troop #773, Anne Arundel County Police and Reserve Officers, Anne Arundel County Recreation and Parks, Veteran Charlies Johns, Veteran Vince Kelley of Ft. Graphics, Veteran Mike Wist of Bay Country Rentals, Maher’s Florist, Chief Petty Officers Association of Ft. Meade, MD, PBA President Mike Jacobs and of course Lisa Hart of chairing this event again this year. We couldn’t do it without your support. I had several people come up to me after the ceremony who came because their dad who had past was a veteran and just felt they should be there to honor him. It brought tears to my eyes when talking with some of the veterans who had difficulty walking and standing but would not miss the ceremony. God Bless them and God Bless America.

PBA held their 12th Annual Golf Tournament at Compass Pointe on September 23. The weather was simply perfect for the nearly 60 golfers that came out to support PBA Community Assistance Programs. A huge thanks to our Corporate
Sponsors: Ace Hardware & Hearth, Glory Days Grill, McCully Polyniak Funeral Home, and Sheriff Ron Bateman.

Thank you to our Tee Sign sponsors other than already listed above: Bay Country Rentals, Cityline Business Park and Kurtz’s Beach. Although the turnout was lighter than normal we still had a great time. Thanks to everyone who played golf with us and all of the volunteers, especially Linda Loane from The Bank of Glen Burnie and Lisa Hart from
Arundel Federal Savings Bank that made the day possible.


We want to thank the following businesses for their donations: Esskay Quality Meats, Lauer’s Supermarket & Bakery, BWI Airport, Cheshire Crab, Glory Days Grill, Mutiny Pirate Bar & Island Grill, Arundel Federal Savings Bank and Able Contractors.

The profit from this tournament goes in toward the Community Assistance projects which include: Scholarships, the Veteran’s Day Ceremony, The Tree Lighting Ceremony and A Child’s Christmas so please think about helping us out next year and getting a foursome together. We’re already looking forward to next year’s tournament!

A CHILD'S CHRISTMAS - Jacqueline Dunn, Chair, jadunn@aacps.org

The schools have been sending their numbers. Wish lists are due by November 9th.
There are several ways you can participate:

SPONSORS: Let Sandi or Jacqueline know if you are willing to sponsor a child, children, or family. We will provide you with a wish list from the child with sizes, necessities needed and of course toys and other items wanted. If you want to sponsor a child, children or a family but shopping is not an option we will do the shopping for you.
Send your monetary donation payable to PBA but earmarked A Child’s Christmas and Sandi will be happy to assign you a child or family and do the shopping for you.

FOOD: Last year, we didn’t have a lot of food to give to families, so we’d appreciate it if a few businesses would be willing to place a box in their businesses to collect non-perishable food.

TOYS: Businesses may also want to place a collection box for toys or other gifts.

GIFT CARDS AND CASH DONATIONS: If your business wants to decorate a gift tree for those who prefer, we are accepting donations of gift cards or money that can be sent to the PBA office earmarked for A Child’s Christmas.

SINGLE GIFT ITEMS: Lastly, if you’d like to purchase a gift such as a bike, electronic game, or a single gift let Jacqueline or Sandi know and we can select a gift from one of the wish lists.

OTHER IDEAS: Businesses can collect like items such as hats, mittens, gloves, socks, underwear, etc.

Jacqueline can also print a wish list onto paper ornaments if you want to decorate a tree where your employees and/or customers can pick a gift to buy.

Our November General Membership Meeting was held at Cheshire Crab with Sharrie Wade of Clark & Anderson, CPA’s giving us some tax tips. Sharrie steps up every year to help our members understand some of the new tax laws and how it can affect their business. Thanks to Sharrie for taking time out of her busy schedule and Cheshire Crab for hosting the meeting. Cheshire Crab is open all season, check out their hours, and stop in for a meal. Thursday special is show your drivers license with 21122 and get two appetizers for $11 and two entrees for $22. That is a great deal starting at 5 PM.

PBA held a Ribbon Cutting for E Water Company. They moved to a new location, 8010 Hog Neck Road, Suite 100, Pasadena. Jerry Lloyd started the company in 2011 but has been in the water business for almost 20 years. Jerry and his family were presented citations from Senator Simonaire, Delegates Kipke and Simonaire, County Executive Steve Schuh, Councilman Derek Fink, Sheriff Ron Bateman, BWI Airport and the Pasadena Business Association.

The 20th Annual Caring and Sharing parade was held on Sunday, November 1st with rain in the morning turning to a nice afternoon. We started the Parade off with a Tribute to Tom Redmond who had recently passed. Tom was the founder of the Parade and many other PBA events so we wanted to take a moment to honor him. Our Grand Marshals were several WW II Veterans. We wanted to honor them in celebrating the 70th Anniversary of the ending of the war. They were Elwood Trapp Sr. – US Army Combat Engineer, Earl Daff – US Army served in France & Germany, Charles R. Howard – USMC 3rd Division 29th Battalion , Doc Stallings – Army Air Core Philippians, Paul Kline – US Navy Radar man in South Pacific & Asia . We want to thank Veteran Charlie Johns for driving the WWII Veterans in the Parade.

Through the generosity of community residents, businesses, and organizations, the event generated approximately $10,000 in food donations! A special thanks to Lauer’s Supermarket for their continued support of this event. They make food donating easy by offering bags of non-perishable food items at cost to customers for any dollar donation of their choosing. The food is also collected along the parade route by the Northeast High School football players who assist Lauer’s in the moving and unloading of all of the food. The food was unloaded this year at Chesapeake Christian Center and then sorted and distributed to local food pantries. We would like to thank our corporate sponsors for their continued support. Without them, this parade wouldn’t be possible. This year’s sponsors included Ace Hardware & Hearth, Bay Country Rentals, BB&T Bank, Chesapeake Bank, Cityline Business Park, Friends of Downs Park, Frank & Bill’s Auto Collision Center, Gable Signs Inc., Kurtz’s Beach, McCully-Polyniak Funderal Home, Pasadena Pawn & Gun, and Redmond’s Towing.

This year we had 45 entries in the parade including many area businesses, schools, and community organizations. The winning floats this year were: BEST BUSINESS – Angey’s Tangles, MOST ORIGINAL - Cityline Business Park, BEST PATRIOTIC –Liberty Tax Service, (a new participant this year), BEST YOUTH GROUP – Chesapeake Bay Middle School Drama Club, BESTMUSICAL/PERFORMANCE- Chesapeake High’s Vocal Ensemble, BEST COMMUNITY ENTRY – Magothy Cooperative Preschool, and BEST OVERALL - Chesapeake Christian Center. with their Frozen float and a beautiful Elsa singing. As always with a function of this size, there are many, many people to thank. First, I would like the Anne Arundel County police department and their Reserve Officers. They are always on hand to help us with our events. They play a huge part in keeping everyone safe. Also we would like to thank Anne Arundel County Recreation and Parks for helping us with the parking issues. There are many other people to thank when you have a large project like the parade.

There’s Antiques To Go for letting us use their parking lot for the reviewing stand, Chesapeake Christian Center for allowing us to use their hall for food sorting, Doug Cashmere and Scott Ellis from Ace Hardware & Hearth for putting up and taking down the road signs, helping at the park in the am with traffic control, and Doug for getting everyone out of the park along with Hayley Gable Bowerman from Gab Communiciations., Himmel’s Farm and Garden for providing decorations, Mike Agro of Cityline Business Park for getting everyone in the stadium area lined up and helping in the am with the parking issues, John Clark, Bunnie Clark, Donna Reeder, Hayley Gable Bowerman for judging, and all of those who did other tasks that day including Lisa Hart of Arundel Federal Savings Bank who coordinated the Veterans, Linda Loane of The Bank of Glen Burnie for working the park, and Dick Parrish for the sound system. We also want to thank County Executive Steve Schuh for stopping by and helping with check in. And a big thank you to our emcees who filled in at the last minute due to an illness. I called Delegate Nic Kipke the morning of the parade and he was so gracious to help us and also Jim Goetz who came to give Nic a hand. They did a great job. We want to thank Tracey Jessilonis of Country Club Automotive and Hayley Gable Bowerman of Gab Communications for helping co chair this year.

We had another successful year in our goal of Caring and Sharing. See you next year.

Parade Videos

The Parade videos are available for $15 each. Anyone can purchase them at Arundel Federal Savings Bank, Lake Shore Plaza, or members can purchase them at the January General Membership Meeting.

All of the food from the Parade food drive was taken to Chesapeake Christian Center and sorted by our food volunteers. This is always a great time after the hustle bustle of the parade to look at the food that we were able to collect and realize how many families we will be helping over the holidays. Our 7 local food pantries are very grateful for the donation. I want to thank everyone who helped with this food drive: Lauer’s Supermarket and Bakery and Gable Signs and Grapics for their efforts in collecting before the Parade, the Northeast High School Football Team who walks in the parade, loads and unloads all of the food, and of course Chesapeake Christian Center for giving us their hall to sort. The food sorting is done by volunteers from Magothy United Methodist Church, Our Lady of the Chesapeake, Community United Methodist Church, Chesapeake Christian Center, Emmanuel Lutheran Church and the Interact Club from Northeast High School. This process goes so quickly with all of the volunteers from these churches so thank you so much for your support of the PBA food drive. I want to thank everyone who donated food for this worthwhile endeavor and know that you are helping someone in Pasadena have a nicer holiday. Pasadena has great people who are always willing to help.