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Carter Walsh, younger brother of Tyler, who is battling for his life in Shock Trauma in Baltimore, is pictured being passed around by members of the girls soccer team as well as attendees who rushed the field Monday night.
Community rallies for Walshes after collision By Steve Green Executive Editor (Sept. 19, 2024) Approximately $11,000 was raised for the Walsh family at Stephen Decatur High School Monday night, as the community continues to show love and support after 16-year-old Tyler Walsh was critically injured last Fri-
day night in Ocean City. “Tonight was nothing short of amazing,” the Stephen Decatur Athlete Boosters posted Tuesday morning on Facebook after the varsity girls soccer game. “Thanks to our generous community the Athletic Boosters were able to raise over $11,000 for The Walsh Family.
Please continue to keep Tyler and family in your prayers.” Tyler Walsh, a junior at Stephen Decatur who lives in Selbyville, Delaware, was walking in a marked crosswalk on 12th Street in Ocean City on Friday night around 9:30 with a group of friends when he was struck by a speeding motorcyclist,
Michael Scot Schneider, 51, of Ballston Spa, New York. Walsh was flown immediately to Shock Trauma with life threatening injuries. Schneider fled the scene before being apprehended in the park and ride in West Ocean City showing See COMMUNITY Page 8
OPA will test market on food operations Directors solicit proposals to manage clubs, grills currently run by Matt Ortt By Tara Fischer Staff Writer (Sept. 19, 2024) The Ocean Pines Association is testing the restaurant management and operations market
by requesting proposals from operators in that field who might want to handle the food and beverage service at the Ocean Pines Yacht Club, the Ocean Pines Beach Club and the Clubhouse Bar and Grille. Matt Ortt Companies is the community’s current food and beverage vendor. The group, which also operates Coastal Salt and the Ocean City
Rum Shack on the 16th Street Boardwalk, signed a two-year deal with OPA to manage the neighborhood’s food service locations in March 2018. The agreement involved a $12,500 monthly management fee with eight payments due May 2018 through Dec. 2018, totaling $100,000, and eight payments due May 2019 through December 2019, also totaling
$100,000. The first year of the agreement included a budget bonus and a profit bonus. The budget bonus would pay “fifty percent of every dollar of net income generated … that exceeds the budget,” up to $50,000 at each facility. The yacht club budgeted a $92,961 net loss and the beach club See AS Page 6
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