The kinkling lady marks 94th birthday in Frederick
Mable Thompson Weedon, long known as the kinkling lady for selling kinklings, celebrated her 94th birthday with family in her All Saints Street yard. Still sharp, she recalls a hard life from sharecropping to domestic work, stresses kindness, and notes strides against segregation.
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Mable Thompson Weedon
All Saints Street
George Smith
Frederick Memorial Hospital
Lowell Willis
Mrs. Weedon
Mrs. Smith
Bill Green
Mable Weedon
West All Saints Street
Carl Smith
Malcolm Smith
Abrei Hill
Kyndel Brown
Travion Williams
County replaces Waterside water with city supply amid contamination
The Waterside well with a cryptosporidium finding is shut. The county pumps city water via a temporary plastic line from Md. 26 and plans a permanent under ground tunnel under Md. 26. The lab detected one cryptosporidium organism. health risk varies by immune status.
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MD. 26
Michael Marsehner
Marschner
Waterside
Frederick County
Lockheed to buy Comsat in 2.7 billion deal
Lockheed Martin will acquire Comsat Corp. in a two phase cash and stock deal valued at 2.7 billion, subject to shareholder and FCC approval. First phase covers up to 49 percent of Comsat for 45.50 a share, with a 33 percent premium, while the second phase swaps Lockheed stock at two to one, pending privatization legislation.
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Bethesda
Lockheed Martin Corp
Comsat Corp
Comsat
Federal Communications Commission
Lockheed
New York Stock Exchange
Lockheed’s
Northrop Grumman
Milken Award Honors Bayside Teacher Roberta Leaverton
Walkersville High graduate Roberta Derr Leaverton, a Bayside Elementary special education teacher in Queen Annes County, won the 1998 99 Milken Family Foundation National Education Award, receiving 25000 dollars. State Superintendent Nancy Grasmick praised the system and presented the honor at Bayside Elementary as hundreds of students and principals looked on. She helped develop the schools inclusion model with before school tutoring for students.
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Bill Green
Walkersville
Roberta Derr
Leaverton
Milken Family Foundation
Josephine Derr
Roberta Derr Leaverton
Ms. Leaverton
Bayside Elementary
Queen Anne’s County
Nancy Grasmick
Grasmick
Queen Anne’s
Milken
Maryland
Dr. Grasmick
Milken Educator Award Honors Maryland Teacher Leaverton
A Maryland teacher, recognized for improving inclusion and reading through team learning between special needs and regular classrooms, will receive the Milken Educator Award established by the Milken Family Foundation in 1985. This year 152 teachers nationwide share the honor with 38 states participating and 24 other Maryland educators already honored. Leaverton will be celebrated at a luncheon on Nov. é.
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Milken
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