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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1997
Page
1
Christina Shorten, a Brunswick High junior at 16, plans to graduate in June a year early and pursue a college major in foreign languages. She says blindness from birth shapes her ambition and she hopes for a travel-oriented career, noting she has never seen and does not miss anything.
Students and faculty at Mount St. Marys University celebrated the life of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in the Chapel of the Immaculate Conception Monday night. About 150 attendees joined in song, poetry and speech, marking the first student organized MLK event. Chanetta DePugh read Peace by Any Means as she urged King’s legacy and civil rights progress.
State fire marshal investigators planned to return to SuperPetz on U.S. 40 to determine the blaze’s origin. The Independent Hose Co. said the fire began in a second floor storage closet near a break room. Damage was minor with no animals harmed, though smoke reached part of the floor. Firefighters extinguished the fire in about 30 minutes as other units covered stations.
President Clinton returns to office in a festive mood after inaugural balls as he pledges bipartisanship while facing urgent tests. He aims to push a balanced budget amendment and tougher campaign rules, even as Republicans plan investigations into foreign contributions and the Whitewater matter.
Frederick County Commissioner Mark Hoke's high pressure sales doomed a bill to privatize the Economic and Community Development Commission. The Frederick County delegation voted 6 to 2 to kill the proposal after a Friday pitch, with Sen. Tim Ferguson blaming the approach for turning legislators against the measure.
Walkersville contractor towed two abandoned vehicles from the Monocacy river as the sheriff and Phoenix Inc. push cleanup after residents complained of trash and animal carcasses along the riverbank. towing costs and owner restitution are being pursued.
Former Brunswick Mayor Jess David Orndorff died Monday night at Homewood Retirement Center in Frederick where he had resided since earlier this month He also served on the Frederick County Liquor Commission and was Brunswick mayor from 1968 to 1980 the longest tenure in the city history Continued on Page A 11
Agriculture portions of the Frederick News post are printed daily in a 400 percent recycled paper edition. The layout emphasizes farming notes and rural matter with local updates.
Annapolis reports that locally sponsored measures would grant charitable organizations like fire companies veterans and other groups up to 14 consecutive days of food sales, four times a year, and permit physical therapists to administer topical drugs. Delegate J Anita Stup of Frederick is the primary sponsor, responding to Frederick County Grange concerns.
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