Mc Henry, MD

It's beautiful in Deep Creek Lake and Garrett County. Ski conditions are fabulous and the ice fshermen have set up their tents on the lake! I hope you can come and experience February for yourselves!

See you at the Wisp! Carol and Sam

Do the Dunk at the 11th annual Deep Creek Dunk on Saturday, February 28!
Come on out and "Do the Dunk" alongside the rare breed of thousands of Maryland Dunkers who dare to bare it all each year for the 10,000 athletes of Special Olympics Maryland! For just $50 in pledges, Dunk participants take a quick dip in Deep Creek Lake behind Uno's Bar and Grill to raise funds for Special Olympics Maryland, the state's largest year round organization devoted to sports training and competition for children and adults with intellectual disabilities. The event is free to spectators, and Dunkers receive the commemorative sweatshirt, group color photo, and the great feeling of freezing your "fur" off for a truly worthy cause! Registration is at noon and the Dunk is at 2 pm, so bring your friends and family and dunk for the Maryland Special Olympics athletes. Long & Foster is proud to be the Official Lodging Sponsor of the Dunk. To register online, please visit www.plunge@somd.org.

The Maryland Special Olympics Winter Games begin on March 1 and run through the 3rd at Wisp Resort. Athletes from counties all over the state eight years of age and older with mental retardation and closely related developmental disabilities participate in events such as snow shoeing, alpine skiing, snowboarding, cross-country skiing and more.

The mission of Special Olympics is to provide year-round sports training and athletic competition in a variety of Olympic-type sports for citizens with intellectual disabilities, giving them continuing opportunities to develop physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a sharing of gifts, skills and friendship with their families, other Special Olympics athletes and the community.

February is also a time for a romance and long weekends. It's a great time to come up and visit the Deep Creek Lake area. New communities afford many families the opportunity to make the mountains of western Maryland a place to call their own. We look forward you seeing you soon.

Stay & Play Packages Available through Long & Foster Resort Rentals!

Rent one of our vacation homes for two nights and purchase a multi-day lift pass for Wisp Resort and get the third night's stay and third day lift ticket free! Call us at (800) 336-7303! (Non-holiday)

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In addition to finding you the best retreat to fit your personal lifestyle, our goal at Long & Foster is to bring you the total home ownership experience. We've been in the business of buying and selling homes for over 40 years and have built a reputation on understanding the needs of our clients and customers. It's one of the reasons why Long & Foster REALTORS ®, the largest privately owned real estate firm in America, is ranked as the top independently owned company for 2008 and is consistently ranked as one of the top five real estate agencies in the U.S. It's no surprise that we are also number one in volume in western Maryland.

We provide services that go beyond the exchange of real estate. We can help with your mortgage, title, and insurance with on-premise professionals from Prosperity Mortgage, RGS Title LLC and independent agents through Long & Foster Insurance. Our resort rental management office will assess your home and provide you with income projections if you plan to put your home in Long & Foster's Resort Rental program.

We want to make every part of your buying and selling experience as simple as possible. Our website offers up-to-date listings of all properties in Garrett County, western Maryland, Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Please visit our website at www.deepcreeklakemd.com.

Simply put, Long & Foster REALTORS^® offer you a total buying and selling experience that no one else in our area can deliver. With the strength of the Long & Foster brand and our in-house services, we hope to provide you with the peace of mind and confidence you are looking for in a real estate company.

February Events

This Month's Recipe: Toffee Brownies

Courtesy of Paula Dean

1 (17.6-ounce) package brownie mix with walnuts

Vegetable oil cooking spray

3 (6-ounce) candy bars with almonds and toffee chips (recommended: Symphony brand)

Prepare the brownie mix according to package directions.

Line a 13 by 9-inch cake pan with aluminum foil and spray with vegetable oil cooking spray. Spoon in half of the brownie batter and smooth with a spatula or the back of a spoon. Place the candy bars side by side on top of the batter. Cover with the remaining batter.

Bake according to package directions. Let cool completely, then lift from the pan using the edges of the foil. This makes it easy to cut the brownies into squares.