AOPA Fly-In draws thousands to Frederick event
About 3,000 people attended the fifth annual AOPA Fly-In and Frederick's Airport Appreciation Day in 89 degree weather. Some 300 aircraft were on site as seminars on GPS technology and aviation safety attracted crowds including Dana Salkeld of Gaithersburg who praised satellite navigation for its reliability and new approach-to-flight capabilities.
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Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association
Frederick
Dana Salkeld
Gaithersburg
AOPA
Sal
Salkeld
Baltimore-Washington International
Dulles International
Washington National
D.C
Mr. Salkeld
Champion koi Cody Hamburg shines at Lily Pons Days show
Eleven year old Cody Hamburg admires top koi on display during Lily Pons Days at Lily Pons Water Gardens over the weekend. Staffer Richard Koogle assists as the festival honors opera singer Lily Pons who gave the venue its name 59 years ago. The event includes artists, entertainment, canoe rides, lectures on water gardening and a koi show sponsored by the Potomac ZNA Koi Club.
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Cody Hamburg
Lily Pons Water Gardens
Richard Koogle
Lily Pons
Potomac Zna
Chechen Rebels Free Hostages in Budyonnovsk Standoff
Chechen rebels release about 1500 hostages from a Budyonnovsk hospital then leave with a refrigerated truck of their dead after Moscow agrees to a cease fire and renewed peace talks. A convoy of buses carries the hostages and Russian officials as negotiators press for concessions and safe passage for the gunmen.
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Budyonnovsk
Russia
Moscow
Chechnya
Alexander Mogilny
Viktor Chernomyrdin
Mogilny
Caucasus Mountains
Chernomyrdin
Board votes tonight on raising class sizes to cut budget
Frederick County school board considers increasing high school student teacher ratio by 0.5 to save 318000 in salaries and benefits for fiscal 1996. Current ratio stands at 229 students per teacher. proposal would drop nine new hires and eliminate up to 11 class sections, with principals noting tighter schedules and crowded classrooms.
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Daniel Gadra
Frederick County
Daniel Cunningham
Frederick High School
Cunningham
Frederick High
Restaurants divided over smoking rules in Frederick area
At the Sizzler on Frederick's Golden Mile manager George Snyder notes positive views on a smoking section but says elimination is planned to meet new state rules. A county survey found 24 of 36 restaurants permit smoking, 12 do not, with liquor license status shaping policy. Ground Round, Bob's Big Boy, and Truck City report varied effects on business, some up, some unchanged, as others reduce or keep smoking areas.
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Frederick
Golden Mile
George Snyder
Snyder
Christina Boland
Friendly’s
Frederick Towne Mall
Alicia Bowie
Cp Coblentz
Bob's Big Boy
Mount Arry
Truck City
South Market Street
Millard Bolyard
Woman killed in car crash at Point of Rocks
Maryland State Police said a Virginia man ran a stop sign at U S 15 and Md 464, colliding with Debra Kotch of Sterling. The pickup traveled east on Md 464 as Kotch drove south on U S 15 at about 10 p m, sending both cars over a guard rail and embankment. Passenger Paul Curlings was injured.
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Point OF Rocks
Virginia
Maryland
Christopher Lackfiel
Dale City
U.S. 15
Debra Lyn Kotch
Sterling
Ms. Kotch
Hamfest Recycles Technology Draws Thousands in Walkersville
Mount Airy ham radio operator Alex Benitez says one man’s garbage is another’s treasure at the Frederick Radio Amateur Hamfest in Walkersville. The event drew about 4,000 attendees as vendors offered items from simple TV knobs to modern short wave radios at a ground behind the town fire station. Benitez notes the hobby lets individuals build and repurpose gear in a unique private radio service.
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Alex Benitez
Mount Airy
Benitez
Frederick
Walkersville
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