Abel Wolman

Funeral services for George L. Winfield, director of the Baltimore City Department of Public Works, will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday at Israel Baptist Church, Washington and Preston streets. A 10 a.m. wake precedes the service. Mr. Winfield, who was 64, died Saturday after suffering a stroke. Department of Public Works officials will have a book of condolences available for signing in Abel Wolman Municipal Building lobby, Holliday and Lexington streets, tomorrow from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Police Blotter is a sampling of crimes from police reports in Baltimore and Baltimore County. Baltimore Central Victim identified -- Police identified yesterday as Glenn Carlton, 38. the victim of a shooting Thursday night in Seton Hill. Police said he was found in an apartment in the 600 block of W. Franklin St. and had been shot about 10 p.m. Theft -- Seven computers -- all valued at nearly $11,000 -- were reported stolen early Thursday from a city Department of Public Works storage room in the Abel Wolman Municipal Building in the 200 block of N. Holliday St. Theft -- Two cell phones were stolen Thursday from a 2000 Chevrolet Tahoe parked in the 700 block of St. Paul St. Baltimore County Pikesville Armed robbery -- A man was seated in his parked car in the 100 block of Reisterstown Road about 7 a.m. Thursday when a man with a handgun and a woman carrying a knife robbed him of $1,100.

If the Ravens continue their winning ways, winter in Baltimore may resemble a huge, grape-flavored snowball. That's because city officials are considering using purple-colored road salt should the playoff-bound Ravens advance to the Super Bowl - and should it snow. "It's just an idea, but right now we have the blue salt and we're considering purple salt," said David Brown, spokesman for the city Department of Transportation. "We have to check with the manufacturer to see if it's possible."

Baltimore officials expect thousands of people to line up today and tomorrow to pay their overdue parking tickets during a two-day amnesty on late penalties. Drivers will be required to pay the original fine and any fees for booting, towing, storage of impounded vehicles, bad checks or court costs, according to city officials. Late penalties will be waived. In anticipation of the crowds at the Abel Wolman Municipal Building, 200 Holliday St., the city is closing Holliday Street from Saratoga to Lexington streets today and tomorrow, city officials said.

JOHN WOOD would like to live a normal life, but it's not going to be easy for him anymore. Take, for example, what he faces tomorrow: a luncheon in his honor and a day in his name.The city sanitation worker, whose personality inspired producers Fox TV's sitcom 'Roc,' will be honored by Mayor Kurt L. Schmoke during a brown-bag luncheon at the Abel Wolman Municipal Building on Holliday and Lexington streets. The mayor will declare John Wood Day and will present to Wood a proclamation from the city.

Joan W. Hollander, a homemaker, volunteer and pianist, died of breast cancer April 9 at her Chevy Chase home. She was 80. Joan Wolman was born in Baltimore and raised in Windsor Hills. She was the niece of the late Abel Wolman, the world's foremost expert on sanitary drinking water. When she was 6 years old, she began studying piano at the Peabody Conservatory of Music. She was a 1944 graduate of Park School and earned a bachelor's degree in music at Vassar College in 1948. She taught piano at the Longy School of Music in Cambridge, Mass.

City's drug problem demands a spectrum of addiction servicesThe Sun's recent editorials concerning addiction in Baltimore and the Baltimore Substance Abuse Systems (BSAS) (June 27-28) missed the mark by failing to call for a dramatic increase in treatment funding and ignoring the need for a broader continuum of addiction services.An effective continuum of addiction services ought to include harm-reduction activities, affordable housing, health care and adequate incomes.Baltimore has begun to address the last two issues by advocating a single-payer system of universal health care and adopting living wage legislation.

CURRENT volunteers' news and needs:The Learning Bank of Coil Inc. has received the Eleanor Touhey Smith ''Affiliate of the Year Award'' from the Literacy Volunteers of America, one of the largest national literacy support groups, according to its founder and director, Sister Mary Judith Schmelz. The award was presented during the LVA conference last month in Orlando, Fla. The award is sponsored by Kraft General Foods. For Learning Bank details and to volunteer, call 859-5452.House of Ruth needs volunteers for answering the hot line, counseling programs, legal clinic and other help necessary to operate the shelter.

A once-in-a-decade chance to duck parking ticket late fees prompted about 50,000 delinquent motorists to dust off old citations and open their wallets - forking over $3.6 million in fines while avoiding $32.7 million in penalties. Drivers paid off 107,321 tickets - some dating back to the William Donald Schaefer administration - during the two-day amnesty program, which had lines wrapping around the block this month at downtown's Abel Wolman Municipal Building. Saddled with the task of opening 35,000 letters from drivers who settled their debts by mail, city officials took a week and a half to determine how many people participated in the amnesty on Oct. 9 and 10. But in announcing the figures yesterday, officials took pride in how efficiently they had handled crowds over the two-day period.

Boys' Latin razes another city treasure Driving by my alma mater recently, I was stunned to notice something missing: The Boys' Latin Middle School building had been razed. I didn't think of personal memories of the building but of the irony that in a year when a Laurence Hall Fowler-designed residence, Castalia, was landmarked by the city ("Calvert School prevented from razing house," March 12), another house he designed was demolished with nary a whimper. When Castalia was landmarked, I thought perhaps we had turned the corner in recognizing Mr. Fowler's importance as a residential architect in Baltimore.