Welcome to FiND iT FREDERiCK, the magazine that fuses funky with functional! In this issue of FiND iT FREDERiCK you'll find…

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RENE BOND
For a lot of young people, the years spent in high school are best described as social time, with a mix of extracurriculars, and if there's time...a dash of studying the basics. For others, as in the case of local florist Rene Bonde Shiffler, it's a time when passions and talents begin to reveal themselves, and mentors plant the seeds of a future bright with promise.
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JUST DANCE by Naomi Pearson
Skipping in a circle along with everyone else warming up, I feel like a little girl again. However, this skipping has a specific form and rhythm, as performed by the Frederick Scottish Country Dancers (FSCD) with whom I’m taking lessons in Walkersville each Monday evening.
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FARM FRESH AND DELISH by Melissa Howes-Vitek
The first time I heard this song was a few years ago, as I sat with family and friends, enjoying an evening of music under some Western Maryland stars. The duo playing the John Denver tune enthusiastically sang about those tomatoes with such passion and conviction that I have never been able to eat a tomato in the same way since. Because, like the song says...what WOULD life be like without home grown tomatoes?
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COME ON IN...THE WATER'S FINE by Jeanne Marie Ford
My name is Jeanne, and I am a beach snob. I spent my formative years in Hawaii where I dipped my toes in the waters of Waikiki Beach every weekend. The first time I saw the gray waves of the Atlantic, I cried. While the summer trek to Ocean City is a beloved ritual of many of my fellow Marylanders (my husband among them), I proudly swim against the tide. I realize O.C. is as much about the ambience as it is the ocean, but I just can’t do it. Give me a pool, give me a lake, give me a water park.
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A POLE NEW YOU by Amanda Rodriguez
When I arrived at the studio a full 10 minutes before my class was to begin, I fished my cell phone out of my bag and punched in my best friend's phone number. I figured I needed to let someone talk me off the ledge, and who better to do it than her? She told me to calm down, take some deep breaths, and remember that none of the other class attendees would be professionals either.
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ART, ART, EVERYWHERE ART! by Melissa Howes-Vitek
The folks that live here in Frederick have always known that, as far as the arts go, Frederick is one rich city. Thanks to the hard work and determination of the Frederick Arts Council as well as anyone and everyone that voted in support of our fair city, now…the whole country knows! Back in May, the national publication AmericanStyle Magazine named Frederick as one of the Top 25 Small Art Cities in the United States.
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ALL ABOUT MEN by Amanda Rodriguez
Joey Kline and his wife Kim have been a fixture at the Monocacy Shopping Center off of Kingfisher drive in Frederick for many years now. Their barbershop, which caters exclusively to men and boys, originally opened its doors in December of 2004. Given the healthy stream of customers heading in to get their Easter haircuts when I stopped in a few weeks ago, don't expect them to go anywhere anytime soon.
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KIDS UNEXPECTED HEROES by Ty Unglebower
Gabe O’Neill of Kids Are Heroes politely corrected me not long after I began speaking to him on the phone for this piece. He was quite right to do so. In my nervous haste to take up as little of this busy man’s time as possible, I asked him about the organization by referring to it as “this idea you had.”
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FOR YOUR AUDITORY AMUSEMENT by Joanna K Lubbes
Child-like, quirky, tongue-in-cheek: words to describe a comedy or a Saturday morning cartoon. In this story, these words describe language, hip-hop and the art of “Retro” Ricole Barnes.
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GOTTA GO TO FRISCOS by Melissa Howes-Vitek
I admit it. In addition to roaming Frederick County (sometimes accompanied by my quasi-enthusiastic husband, or an unsuspecting friend), I follow lots of blogs and tweets to help me “find” all the greatness that we then have the privilege of sharing with you between these very pages. A recent perusal of a certain blogger's entry regarding the local eatery a.k.a. Friscos (I had not yet heard of such a place), had my now TOTALLY enthusiastic spouse, aiming the navigation system and waiting anxiously in the car.
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DAYTRIP TO YESTERDAY by Jeanne Marie Ford
rive south down Route 15 through green forest. Cross the Potomac and, 15 minutes from Frederick, you’ve navigated ever so gently into the Old South. Road signs commemorate Mosby’s Rangers and those famous Virginian Founding Fathers, James Madison and James Monroe. Troops marched to the Battle of Antietam along this route in 1862. Belying its storied past, this is a tranquil area dotted with funky antique stores, a smattering of vineyards and tasting rooms, and the white fences of horse country.
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