Frederick County high schools honor Tandy Technology Scholars
Frederick County seniors and teachers are honored in the Tandy Technology Scholars program. Four students from TJ Gov Thomas Johnson and other schools receive certificates and potential 1000 scholarship awards. teachers compete for 2500. Top 2 percent of seniors also earn certificates. The program, in its seventh year, is funded by Tandy Corp and run by Texas Christian University.
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Frederick County High School
Tarty Corp
Tandy Corp
Tandy
Kristin Meade
Gov. Thomas Johnson High
Scott Lanner
Jasmine Leichert
Prospect Hall
Jessica White
Catoctin
Elizabeth McCullough
United States
Tandy Technology
Texas Christian University
EPA cites unacceptable cancer risk from p ropargite on fruits and vegetables
The EPA has halted use of the mite killer propargite on apples and nine other fruits and vegetables after new studies show an unacceptable cancer risk. Uniroyal Chemical Co. agreed to the voluntary withdrawal, affecting apples and crops including apricots peaches pears plums figs cranberries strawberries green beans and lima beans while some uses on grapes and nectarines continue. Environmentalists praised the move as part of a broader pesticide reevaluation though some groups urged broader bans.
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Washington
Environmental Protection Agency
EPA
Uniroyal Chemical Co
Middlebury
al Meyerhoff
Natural Resources Defense Council
Bikers Plan MDA Ride for Life on May 5
Motorcycle riders from the mid-Atlantic join for Ride For Life IX to aid the Muscular Dystrophy Association. Since 1988 Eastern Harley-Davidson Dealers Association has raised over 2 million dollars for MDA. Harley-Davidson of Frederick is among 50 sign up sites. Riders travel to Shearer's Barbecue Ranch in Sinking Spring near Reading, Pennsylvania. Top prize is a Daytona Beach trip in March 1997. Call (301) 694.8177 for details.
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mid-Atlantic
Ride For Life
Muscular Ly Association
Harley-Davidson Dealers Association
MDA
Harley-Davidson of
Frederick
Shearer
Sinking Spring
Reading
Daytona Beach
Fla
Call
Mali kora concert and lecture at Hood College
David Gilden of Frederick presents a slide lecture and concert featuring the kars a Mali string instrument on April 11 at 5 30 p m in the Underground of Coblentz Hall Hood College The Mali musician Cheikh Amallah Debate will accompany him The public is invited to attend Parking is available in the Coffman Chapel lot Gilden has toured Mali and West Africa performing and teaching the kora which sounds like a lute and harp
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David Gilden
Frederick
Kars
Hood College
Cheikh Amallah Debate
Silver
Coblentz Hall
Gilden
Mali
United States
West Africa
Coffman Chapel
Last-minute push seeks police powers for Frederick County
A late bid by Frederick County lawmakers to grant police powers to investigators in the State's Attorney's Office faced skepticism in a hastily called House Judiciary Committee hearing. The bill would let the county sheriff deputize prosecutors' investigators, but lawmakers questioned oversight and civil liability while the panel had not yet voted presstime.
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Annapolis
Frederick County
House
Judiciary Committee
Joseph Vallario
Prince George’s
David Brinkley
Frederick
Brinkley
Scott Rolle
Rolle
Jim Hagg
Mr. Rolle
State’s Attorney’s Office
Mr. Vallario
Local residents sworn in to Maryland Army National Guard units
Frederick residents David Casterlin Scott Whitacre and Charles Fisher joined Company A 1st Battalion 115th Infantry Maryland Army National Guard with Sean Geller of Frederick also sworn in. Matthew McGraw of New Market entered Headquarters Company 3rd Infantry Brigade Maryland Army National Guard in Pikesville. James Grimes earned promotion to senior airman in the U S Air Force and works as a telephone switching specialist at Keesler AFB Mississippi, son of James and Sandra Grimes of Thurmont. His wife Temple is the daughter of Thomas Bradley of Jacksonville. The sergeant is a 1991 graduate of Catoctin High School Thurmont.
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115Th Infantry
Maryland Army National Guard
Frederick
David Casterlin
Scott Whitacre
Charles Fisher
Walkersville
Sean Geller
Matthew McGraw
New Market
3Rd Infantry Brigade
Pikesville
James Grimes
U.S
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Michael Strauch
Keith Adelberger
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Karyn Fenimore
Jasmine Gee
Emma Hedges
Windsor Knolls Middle School
Windsor Knolls Middle
James Shank
Citizens Bank
Janine Vito
Green Valley
John Carrier
Ace Hardware
Donna Carroll
Susan Alberding
Busy Ditch Inc
Lawrence McIntyre
National Coalition Against
Jay Feldman
Jim Aidala
Ferguson
Scholl's Lane
Ants
Path de Katcher Gallery
Douglas B. Bowman
Farmers and Mechanics National Bank
Baquact Teater
Jessie
Santzer
Ajaistat
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AD Heys
Imlatwey Edesos
Jon Sov Tor
Elet
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Pate
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Denise Mayer
Randy Mann
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