Family Fun Festival highlights fishing and Huck Finn fun
At Baker Park's Culler Lake the 10th annual Family Fun Festival offered a morning of fishing contests won by nine youths led by Melissa Deveney with a 4-pound catfish. Judges named Chris Main and Holly McArdell best suited to Huck Finn and Becky Thatcher looks. The event featured an Army National Guard Cobra helicopter, antique fire engine parade, bucket brigade mock fire, athletic demos, K-9 police show, wheelchair aerobics, health check booths, karate, face painting, and youth outreach booths.
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Huck Finn
Becky Thatcher
Frederick
Culler Lake
Baker Park Lake
Melissa Deveney
Life Underwriters Association
Frederick County
Army National Guard
Baker Park
Gov. Thomas Johnson High School
Bucket Brigade
Chesapeake Antique Apparatus Association
Shane Zimmerman
C. Kurt Holter
Maryland farmers study of credit crunch eyed by subcommittee
A U S House Agricultural Subcommittee hearing set for 2 30 p m Monday May 13 at Carroll County Agriculture Center Westminster will hear Maryland leaders including Secretary of Agriculture Wayne Cawley. Maryland farmers remain largely sound due to high land values tied to the Baltimore Washington metro area but drought and rising costs threaten some.
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Maryland
University of Maryland
Agricul
Tural
U.S. House of Representatives Agricultural Subcommittee
Carroll County Agriculture Center
Westminster
Wayne Cawley
Robert Beiter
Baltimore- Washington
West
Max Huckel
Maryland National Bank
Buckel
William Borsa
Frederick
Borsa
Police clash with rioters near Johannesburg and Port Elizabeth
Police report fighting black rioters near Johannesburg and Port Elizabeth where a 15 year old boy was killed by shotgun fire for allegedly robbing a bus and attempting arson. Authorities also found a cache of Soviet bloc arms including 31 land mines on a farm in Orange Free State as they hunted for more weapons.
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Johannesburg
South Africa
Port Elizabeth
Orange Free State
African National Congress
New Brighton
Weather and Mother's Day Feature Mixed in Patchy Issue
Fair and mild weather continues through Sunday with highs around 80 to 85 and nightly lows near 55 to 60. Western Maryland weather map reference appears beside a Mother's Day section highlighting poems art and an interview with Debbie Hourahan who left nursing to be a full time mother. The issue quotes Solzhenitsyn on hastiness and superficiality as a 20th century psychic disease.
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Maryland
Mading
Debbie Hourahan
Reagan lauds Senate vote on spending package in Europe trip wrap
President Reagan praised the Senate for passing a spending package that freezes Social Security increases and lets military spending rise only with inflation. He warned he may request supplemental funding if national security is threatened and emphasized no tax increases and “spending restraint.” He spoke after a 10 day trip to France, Spain, Portugal and Bonn and noted strengthened U S German ties and closer talks on trade and nuclear arms.
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Washington
Reagan
Europe
Pentagon
White House
Senate
George Bush
America
France
Spain
Portugal
Bonn
West Germany
Lisbon
Air Force One
U.S
Swank Seeks Frederick Alderman Seat
Republican Steven T. Swank announced his candidacy for one of Frederick's five alderman posts, becoming the third contender. The 40 year old self employed real estate broker spoke with reporters near the old courthouse, soon to be City Hall, accompanied by his wife Paula and his children. Swank emphasized optimism about service and continued involvement with local politics.
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Frederick
Steven T. Swank
Swank
City Hall
Paula
Lee Lee Jr earns HRC Honor Award for Human Relations
At Erin's Italian Kitchen Frederick County HRC awards dinner William O Lee Jr the retired West Frederick Junior High principal became the fourth recipient of the annual HRC Honor Award. Nominated by the Frederick County YMCA and Kiwanis Club he received a plaque praising endless service of love and concern for all.
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Erin’s Italian Kitchen
Human Relations Commission
Frederick
William 0. Lee Jr
HRC
West Frederick
Frederick County
YMCA
Frederick Kiwanis Club
Lee
Nomi
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News-Poat
Mark Twain
Chris Main
Myersville
Holly McArdell
Heart Association
Cancer Society
HomeCall
City of Frederick
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Big Brothers
Big Sisters
National Guard
The
Mental Health Association
Nicaragua
Managua
Sergio Ramirez
United States
Soviet Union
Western Europe
Latin America
Ramirez
Italy
Rome
Bettino Craxi
Craxi
Socialist Party
Christian Democrats
Social Democrats
Inside the News
Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
Ionane C-19
Church News
Tye
Congress
News-Post
Steven T, Swank
Dan Shackelford
Bryan Denson
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