Our December General Membership Meeting was held at The Gathering Place at Our Lady of the Chesapeake. The hall was beautifully decorated for Christmas. Their hall is a great place for a party or meeting. Pat’s Select Pizza & Subs catered the lunch and the food was outstanding. Pat’s Select is always willing to help the PBA with our events and providing dinners at Christmas. Our members are awesome. Deputy Fire Chief Ron Stroble and Chief Dinkel, from the Anne Arundel County Fire Department spoke to our membership and showed us some renderings of the new Lake Shore Fire Station on Mountain Road. We thank both of them for taking time from their busy schedules.

Everyone’s dues are due on January 1, 2016. Dues invoices were generated by our new website and emailed to you. We have also mailed out invoices if you prefer to pay by check.

Happy Holidays!

It’s hard to believe that my year a Vice president is ending already. It seems like it just started yesterday. December is here and the holiday shopping season is upon us. When you are planning your shopping trips, please remember to shop local whenever possible. Doing so will help keep our local economy going strong. Small businesses are the backbone to the local economy. Statistics show that for every dollar spent at a locally owned business, 68 cents stays in the local economy. That is a huge number. So when you shop at a locally owned business, you are not helping a corporate CEO fuel his or her company jet, or paying for their vacation home. When you shop local, you are helping one of your local citizens pay their mortgage, car payment, or for their children’s college education. Shopping local also allows the business owner to provide much needed jobs for our friends and neighbors. Keeping the money local also makes it available for the business owner to spend at your local business. So when you are getting ready to order that gift online, take a minute and think about whether or not you can purchase that gift at a local store to keep your money at home. It may take a few extra minutes, but it will be well worth the effort.

My year as vice president of the PBA has been a great year. We have had several very successful events. Looking forward to 2016, we need to keep the momentum going and work together to keep our local business community vibrant. One simple way we can do that is to shop local whenever possible.

I wish you and your families a safe and enjoyable holiday season!




Jerry Nicklow
Vice President

We held a fundraiser at Primo Pasta to benefit our Scholarship Program and we made $195.00. Thanks to Primo Pasta and everyone who came in for dinner that night. The food was great and we were able to raise some money.

Baxter Tire & Auto celebrated 30 years of community service on Nov 17, 2015. Congratulations! We appreciate your contributions to the PBA and also the community. We wish you many more successful years.

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!