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Mr. & Mrs. David Horn, of Marriottsville, MD, are pleased to announce the marriage of their daughter, Shari Lynn Horn, to Brandon Scott Ash, son of Richard and Mary Ash, of Randallstown, MD. The ceremony was held on April 24, 2004 at the Wards Chapel U.M. Church.

In the final segment of Raw, a Paul Bearer impostor (who looked like Paul Heyman) flanked by Druids mocked the Undertaker with the urn. The Deadman then got beat down by CM Punk before Punk opened the urn and scattered the ashes inside on 'Taker's body and bathed himself in it. The same questions will come out of Monday night that were asked the Raw after Paul Bearer passed away and the urn was introduced: Is this going too far? Is it in poor taste? And I will offer the same answers to these questions: this is WWE, where anything can happen, and what you see is designed to elicit a response.

On October 9, 2004, FELIX ASH of Pot Springs Road, Timonium. On Friday friends may call from 6 to 8 P.M. at Nicodemus Baptist Cnurch, 1300 W. Franklin Street: Family Hour 10 A.M. Celebration 10:30 A.M. Services entrusted to HARI P. CLOSE FUNERAL SERVICE, P.A. 410-327-3100

Firefighters were sent to put out a fire at an Abingdon home early Friday morning that investigators say was caused by a "misplacement of ashes from the fireplace," the Maryland State Fire Marshal's Office said. The fire at the single family home in the 900 block of Harvey Lane was reported shortly after 12:30 a.m. by a neighbor, according to a notice of investigation from the Fire Marshal's Office. The fire was brought under control in five minutes by 11 firefighters who responded from the Abingdon and Joppa-Magnolia volunteer fire companies, the Fire Marshal's Office said.

An Atlanta-based power company plans to build a recycling plant for ash produced by two of its coal-fired power plants in Southern Maryland. But spokeswoman Misty Allen denied a report that Mirant Mid-Atlantic plans to close its coal-ash landfill there, which is the focus of a state lawsuit alleging pollution of a Chesapeake Bay tributary. Allen said Mirant plans to build a processing plant in Charles County that would be able to treat all of the ash from the company's Morgantown and Chalk Point power plants.

On October 17, 2006 ALICE MAY SWANN (nee Benjamin) beloved wife of the late Richard Stanley Ash, Sr.; beloved mother of Richard Stanley Ash, Jr. (Mary Catherine), Carolyn L. Bankert, Ronald Douglas Ash (Patsy), Brenda J. Forgrave (Christopher P.), Ralph P. Ash and Robert B. Ash; sister of Norman Benjamin and sister-in-law of Joan Benjamin. Also survived by 15 grandchildren, 18 great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild. Services at Myers-Durboraw Funeral Home, 91 Willis St., Westminster on Friday at 11 a.m. Interment in Lake View Memorial Park, Sykesville.

On October 22, 2007, IDA MAE ASH. On Thursday, friends may call at VAUGHN C. GREENE FUNERAL SERVICES (RANDALLSTOWN), 8728 Liberty Road. from 4:00-8:00PM. On Friday, Mrs. Ash will lie instate at Leadenhall Baptist Church, 1021 Leadenhall Street, where the family will receive friends from 10:30-11:00AM, with services to follow. Inquiries to 410-655-0015.

On October 9, 2004, JAMES F. ASH, SR., beloved husband of the late Mary E., loving father of June Stielper, the late James F. Ash, Jr. and the late Patricia Lynn Fesseden, dear brother of Edward W. Ash and the late Gladys M. Fruhling. Also survived by 13 grandchildren, 19 great-grandchildren and nine great-great-grandchildren. Friends may call at the HUBBARD FUNERAL HOME, INC., 4107 Wilkens Avenue on Tuesday 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 P.M. Funeral Services will be held Wednesday 11 A.M. at the funeral home.

Question: Can I use the ash from wood stove pellets on my plants? My friends say the glue that holds the pellets together is unnatural and unsafe to use. Answer: If the pellet particles are bound together by lignin, a natural component of wood, as is commonly done, then they should be safe to use. Check the label on the pellet bag. If the label does not answer your question about pellet composition, then contact the manufacturer to...

A North County neighbors column named the wrong church that has scheduled Ash Wednesday services at 7:30 a.m. and 9:30 p.m. today. The church is St. John Lutheran at 226 Washburn Ave.The column also gave the wrong date for the Park Elementary School children's fashion show. The show is scheduled at 6 p.m. March 10.The Sun regrets the errors.The Lenten season begins Wednesday, and many area Christian churches will be holding special services. Everyone is invited to participate. St. John United Methodist Church, 226 Washburn Ave., will have two services on Ash Wednesday.

Leta Dunham got her breakfast order to go at a Roland Avenue Starbucks Wednesday morning: a grande triple skim latte in her cup and, on her forehead, an ashen reminder that we are all destined to become dust. Dunham was among Ash Wednesday observers who took advantage of Ashes to Go, a service offered by area Episcopal and Methodist churches at more than a dozen spots around the city and nearby counties, part of a national movement that began with an Episcopal church in St. Louis in 2007.

In a new twist on a centuries-old tradition, the Rev. Sheila McJilton of St. Philip's Episcopal Church offered Ashes to Go at the Laurel MARC station during the morning commute on Ash Wednesday. "Ashes to Go is a way to bring the presence of God into the world," McJilton said in a release. "God is not found just withing church walls. " This is the first year St. Philip's is participating in a national movement that brings clergy out of churches and into public places, such as coffee shops and train stations, to mark foreheads with ashes, following the Christian tradition of starting the holy season of Lent.

I am the Realtor that was the agent for the seller of the land that was sold to the Chin Baptist Church. Shortly after this became public knowledge I was approached by a neighbor. He told me this had to be stopped because if you let one Korean into the neighborhood than other Koreans will want to move into the neighborhood. By the way they are not Koreans. Later my son came home and told me that an adult had told him that I was the person who let the gooks into the neighborhood. I don't know if this person was serious or not. The first public hearing was on an Ash Wednesday.

The operator of three coal-fired power plants in Maryland has agreed to pay a total of $2.2 million in penalties and fix long-standing pollution problems at the landfills in Southern Maryland and Montgomery County where it disposes of the ash from those plants, according to court documents. In a proposed consent decree filed recently in U.S. District Court, subsidiaries of GenOn Energy, a Houston power company, agreed to settle lawsuits by Maryland and environmental groups alleging that the company's Brandywine, Faulkner and Westland coal-ash landfills have been polluting groundwater and nearby streams.

Alimay Thompson Kendrick sits in her dining room and recalls the first meeting of a neighborhood club she joined in 1959. It was a garden club, composed of both men and women, all African-American, formed to represent the neighborhoods of Forest Park, Windsor Hills and Ashburton. It was named For-Win-Ash and its aim was to keep these communities green, clean and beautiful. Most of Baltimore remained racially divided at that time, although public schools were integrating. Black professionals were moving into the three neighborhoods and adjacent areas, such as Callaway-Garrison, where she and her husband, physicist Webster Moyse Kendrick, had recently bought a home.

A man who was shot Saturday afternoon in Baltimore's Reservoir Hill neighborhood died a short time later from his injuries, police said. It was the second fatal shooting in Baltimore in less than 24 hours. Police responded to a report of a shooting about 2:05 p.m. and found the victim, who had not been identified Saturday evening, outside in the 800 block of Brooks Lane. He was taken to the University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center, where he died, police said. Police said the victim had been approached by at least one person, who shot him at least once.

The Fifth Book of Peace, by Maxine Hong Kingston. Knopf. 216 pages. $26. We all fear fire; it's primordial, practically imprinted on our chromosomes. None fears fire like a writer whose life is woven into that delicate, danger-laced weft upon which we weave our words: paper. In September 1991, Maxine Hong Kingston was returning to her Oakland, Calif., home after funeral services for her father. The Santa Ana had done what it so often does in California in early autumn: the hot, fierce wind had blown down the coast and swept the tinder of a too-dry landscape into one big bonfire.

A Carroll recycling corporation's plan to remove ash from an old pit on its property will be the topic of a special Environmental Affairs Advisory Board meeting March 16.Phoenix Recycling Inc. is seeking a variance from county forest ordinance requirements as corporate officials consider whether to remove the coal ash from a pit on the recycler's Finksburg property. The ordinance applies because the recycler plans to disturb more than 1 acre of land.Waste Management requested a meeting to speed the permit process because of an approaching deadline on an agreement with the previous owner, Haden Trash Removal Inc, said James L. Loveland, regional environmental manager for Waste Management Inc., which owns Phoenix Recycling.

Though he's long since moved away, award-winning sports writer and Baltimore native Frank Deford feels the same way about the Orioles and owner Peter Angelos as someone who never left.   “He was great at asbestos,” Deford, a Gilman graduate, said. “He's not so great at baseball.”   During an interview given Wednesday afternoon after Deford spoke to a group of students at Garrison Forest School in Owings Mills, the author and Sports Illustrated mainstay -- his work also appears on NPR and HBO -- said the team's fortunes have clearly transformed since Angelos took over.

I received a piece of clarification on one of the photos used with yesterday's retrospective of the Ash Wednesday Storm that I found interesting. As one reader remembers it, the "motel" shown above was perhaps a forebear of the condominium towers that arose from the beaches of Ocean City in the 1970s. As the article pointed out, the storm helped clear the way (literally) for towering development over the following decades. Writes Neal Haynie of Reisterstown: Just wanted to thank you for the article in today's SUN - and to identify the photo on page 8. The "motel" was actually the Ocean Side Apartments.  It was built by Alger "Tiny" Abbott and wife Ann, local well-known denizens of O.C.  The two cottages behind the right side of the destroyed complex were their first two ventures (on 36th St.)