Rwandan border reopens but mass exodus stalls
Three thousand refugees head home after Zaire opens the border, while up to one million remain trapped in Goma camps. cholera hunger and heat claim hundreds daily. aid efforts rush to deploy waters and food with 540 tons linked to Kampala and a 120 bed hospital arriving from Israel as the border quiets.
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Goma
Zaire
Rock Bottom
Ray Wilkinson
U.N. High Commissioner For
Kampala
Uganda
Israel
Rwanda
Jean de Dieu Kadogo
O Connors Host Old Time House Raising
Mr and Mrs O Connor hosted a log house raising at their Knoll Road home near Mount Airy. About 18 volunteers built the first story walls over the weekend in near ninety degree heat as generators powered tools. Both work for the Defense Department and hosted friends and neighbors who helped assemble the ten and a half acre Cape Cod style two story log house.
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Beth
Todd O'Connor
Mrs. O'Connor
Knoll Road
Mount Airy
Mr. O’connor
Pennsylvania
O’connors
White Pine
O' O'Gavor
Defense Department
Chuck Mroesk
Mr Mrozek
Revel
Society reenactors gather in Baker Park for medieval crafts and combat
Local members of the Society for Creative Anachronism meet Sundays in Baker Park to practice rattan sword combat, wear armor, and use shielded drills. They also study arts, crafts, cooking, and medieval life, with members from Frederick and Washington counties sharing tasks from sewing tunics to weapon making.
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Society For Creative
Baker Park
Isbella Stere
Sherry Shaner
Isbella
Konrad der
Tuhige
Jay Shaner
Frederick
Washington
Konrad
Solarex
Seneschal
Diedre
Aodhfionn
Jean Lewis
Lady Diedre
Teleri Grwydryn
Elisabeth Zamora
My Lord
Project House seeks applicants for low income home on Madison Street
About 18 volunteers from Project House, a non profit group building homes for low income families, worked to raise a roof panel on an unfinished Madison Street house. The project seeks qualifying buyers with annual incomes between 18000 and 27650, good credit and first time homebuyer status. Four couples have applied, none meet all criteria, a fifth awaits loan approval.
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Madison Street
Ieach House
Dave Ballantine
Frederick
One dead in blazing U S 340 accident near Sandy Hook
An unidentified person died in a 5:30 am crash on the U S 340 bridge over the Potomac near Sandy Hook. Four vehicles were involved. Investigators from the Hagerstown Maryland State Police barracks were on the scene as witnesses reported a Jeep Wagoneer crossing lanes and colliding with a Nissan Pathfinder and an eastbound pickup, all bursting into flames.
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Maryland
Hagerstown
U.S
Sandy Hook
Potomac River
Health department begins TB testing mass screening
The Frederick County Health Department opened a mass TB screening on Monday with doors at 7 30 a m. About 20 people had skin tests before the official 8 a m start. The event runs to 7 p m, at 350 Montevue Lane, with free tests for the public and additional testing at the department for those unable to attend.
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Frederick County
Health Department
James Bowes
Montevue Lane
Recycling proves cheaper than landfill dumping in Frederick County
Linda Norris of Frederick County recycles at a cost of 36.56 per ton versus 52 per ton to dump in a landfill. The savings arise from including collection and transportation costs and from deriving the figure from the 1993 budget divided by 31,588 tons recycled.
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Linda Norris
Frederick County
Phil Bresee
Norris
Vanishing Barbershop Featured In Local News
Cloudy conditions with a chance of showers tonight and tomorrow bring near 70 and near 90 degree highs. A short, unclear note references a barbershop and a few stray phrases about poetry and recycled paper, with no coherent extra details.
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Pagvat al Ornare
Grecy CDI
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Martha Eliassen
News-Post
Timothy Jacobsen
Michael Blair
Prost House
Project House Group
Project House
Ray Rother
Ballantine
Rother
Eniernelte
Mr. Rother
U.S. 340
Germantown
Teresa Franklin
Inside the News
Babe Ruth
Aredensesatsen
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