25th Anniversary

PHILADELPHIA -- The Philadelphia Flyers have cast off their anti-Soviet past and welcomed 27-year-old winger Andrei Lomakin from Moscow Dynamo.For general manager Russ Farwell, Lomakin's participation in the Flyers' practice Thursday at the Coliseum in Voorhees Township, N.J., culminated nearly a year of delicate negotiations.For older members of the organization and many fans, the addition of Lomakin ended a long and sometimes bitter relationship between the Flyers and the Soviets.It was the Soviet Red Army team that walked off the Spectrum ice in the 1976 Super Series.

Elvis may have left the building, but his doppelganger has come to the beach. In recognition of the 25th anniversary of the King's death, Elvis impersonator Jesse Garron brings his "Tribute to Elvis Presley" show to Bethany Beach, Del., tomorrow and to Ocean City Sunday. Performing Elvis hits of the '50s, '60s and '70s, in a voice that even wise men might say was surely the King's, Garron becomes Elvis, from his long sideburns to his bell-bottomed polyester suit. If you've never experienced an Elvis concert, this may be the next best thing.

Gary and Paul Gait are among 10 new inductees to the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame. The Gait twins, from Syracuse, are members of the hall's 48th class announced yesterday by US Lacrosse, along with Mildred Barnes, Jack Emmer, Norm Engelke, Susie Ganzenmuller, Tom Haus, Dottie Hayden, Mandy (Moore) O'Leary and Gillian Rattray. The honorees will be enshrined on Nov. 12 at the Grand Lodge in Hunt Valley. Their plaques will be in the Lacrosse Museum and National Hall of Fame at US Lacrosse headquarters at Johns Hopkins University.

As its 25th anniversary production, the Howard County Summer Theatre is re-mounting "Hello, Dolly!", a show the theater first produced in 1987. Conni Ross stars as Dolly Gallagher Levi in this Jerry Herman-Michael Stewart musical adaptation of Thornton Wilder's "The Matchmaker." The cast of more than 80 will be directed by Tom Sankey, who also staged the theater's previous production of "Dolly." Proceeds after expenses will benefit the Listening Place, Child Advocacy Center, a Howard County facility that works with victims of child abuse.

A Baltimore sculptor and performance artist who created an 8-foot-tall Japanese mask with glowing blue eyes and papier-mache skin yesterday was named the first winner of the $25,000 Janet & Walter Sondheim Prize. Laure Drogoul, 47, won the new award, named after the long-time Baltimore civic leader and his wife. It's aimed at highlighting Baltimore's support for regional artists during the 25th-anniversary celebration of Artscape, the city's annual outdoor festival of the arts. The Janet & Walter Sondheim Prize Exhibition runs through July 30 in the Maryland Institute College of Art's Decker and Meyerhoff galleries, in the Fox Building at 1303 Mount Royal Ave. Call 877-225-8466.

A year has passed since the 25th anniversary of the first Earth Day and many believe progress has been made in recycling efforts nationwide.On the eve of Earth Day 1991, we would like to know whether your habits of disposing of household waste have changed in the last year.To register your response, call SUNDIAL, the Baltimore Sun's directory of telephone information services, at 783-1800 (or 268-7736 in Anne Arundel County) until midnight Sunday.After you hear the greeting, you'll be asked to enter a four-digit code on your touch-tone phone.

Baltimore's movers and shakers were at the American Visionary Art Museum for "Harbor Lights: Leading the Way Home". The event celebrated the 25th anniversary of Enterprise Homes and the 10th anniversary of the Enterprise Women's Network, and honored Bart Harvey, the former chairman and CEO of Enterprise Community Partners. Baltimore's movers and shakers were at the American Visionary Art Museum for "Harbor Lights: Leading the Way Home." The event celebrated the 25th anniversary of Enterprise Homes and the 10th anniversary of the Enterprise Women's Network, and honored Bart Harvey , the former chairman and CEO of Enterprise Community Partners.

In the 2002 hit "Air Force Ones," the rapper Nelly extolled his love for the sneaker in the song's title: "I need two pair," he drawled. "Give me two pair." Clearly Nelly is not from Baltimore. If he were, he'd have far more than just two pairs. Nike is launching a major promotion for the 25th anniversary of its Air Force 1 - a sneaker that Baltimore had a major role in saving and helping to become an urban fashion sensation of the past generation. In contrast to the product hype often manufactured on Madison Avenue, the sneaker's following grew initially by word of mouth, before the Internet and with little TV advertising.

The Senator theater is offering fans of the "Star Trek" movies a chance to "sit long and prosper" with a marathon screening Saturday of all five movies in the series.The films will be shown in order, beginning at noon but including a 6:30 to 8 p.m. dinner break. The first three, "Star Trek -- The Motion Picture" (1979), "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan" (1982) and "Star Trek III: The Search for Spock" (1984), will be shown from noon to 6:30. The final films, "Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home" (1986)

BETHEL, N.Y. -- High above the tents and campfires and drum circles, where several thousand music lovers were celebrating the 26th anniversary of the original Woodstock festival, a gray banner bearing the grinning-skull logo of the Grateful Dead glowed against the night sky, illuminated by a flashlight.Its owner, Ronald De Graw, said he was letting the battery run down, allowing the symbol of his favorite band to fade into the darkness.It was something of a tribute to Jerry Garcia, the Grateful Dead's spiritual center and lead guitarist, who died Wednesday.