In Baltimore County
Church bus hits concrete culvert on Frederick Co. road
TIMONIUM -- A school bus carrying 39 members of a Timonium church home from a trip to Pennsylvania struck a concrete culvert on a road in Frederick County yesterday afternoon, sending them and the driver to hospitals for treatment of minor injuries or precautionary examinations, authorities reported.
The bus, driven by Ella Thomas, 66, of Glen Burnie, was one of five in a caravan and carrying mostly young members of Grace Fellowship Church when the vehicle veered off Hampton Valley Road in Emmitsburg and struck the drainage culvert, the Frederick County Sheriff's Office said.
Thomas and six children were taken to Gettysburg Hospital in Gettysburg, Pa., after complaining of head and neck pain, the sheriff's office said. Thirty other children and two adults were taken by bus to Carroll Hospital Center in Westminster for evaluation and were expected to have been released last night, said Teresa Fletcher, a hospital spokeswoman.
The accident remained under investigation.
Special birth certificates to raise funds to stop abuse
TOWSON -- The Greater Baltimore Medical Center is bringing renewed energy to a program that sells commemorative birth certificates to raise money for child-abuse prevention efforts.
The certificates, designed for framing, are available to anyone born in Maryland, and GBMC is distributing information about them to all mothers who deliver babies there, said hospital spokesman Michael Schwartzberg. The cost is $30, with proceeds going to the Children's Trust Fund, which provides grants to public and private agencies for preventing child abuse and providing treatment.
The idea for the birth certificates originated during the administration of former Gov. Parris N. Glendening. But sales have been slow, so Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr.'s Office for Children, Youth, and Families approached GMBC about renewing the effort to promote them, Schwartzberg said. The effort will be marked by a ceremony at 11 a.m. today in the Yaggy Atrium at GBMC.
Glenn L. Martin aircraft will be topic of talk
MIDDLE RIVER -- An illustrated discussion about aircraft manufactured by the Glenn L. Martin factory for World War II will be held at 7 p.m. today at the Lockheed Martin Auditorium, 2323 Eastern Blvd.
Stan Piet, an aviation historian, will talk about the A-30 Baltimore and B-26 Marauder aircraft and the seaplanes made by Martin. He will also discuss the activities of these planes worldwide.
