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Alliances Gardiners Furniture will provide furniture and accessories for the ABC-TV show Extreme Makeover: Home Edition as it replaces the home of a Port Deposit family. Awards Jeff Aleshire, a Susquehanna Bank executive vice president, was named Consultant of the Year by the Home Builders Association of Maryland Land Development Council. Debt Shield, the Columbia-based debt settlement firm, has been awarded a Torch Award for marketplace ethics by the Better Business Bureau of Greater Maryland.

Advertising Vertis Communications announced the appointment of David Glogoff as vice president and deputy general counsel for the Baltimore-based communications and marketing firm. Banking and finance SunTrust Bank, Maryland appointed Jeffrey F. Weidley, in the business banking division, and Michael E. Major in the retail division, as vice presidents for the regional bank. Provident Bank selected Shelley J. Lombardo, corporate marketing division, and Phillip Mosco, small business division, as vice presidents.

An article in yesterday's editions of The Sun made it unclear which office of George Soros' Open Society Institute issued a grant to Civil Justice Inc., a project to mentor lawyers in small firms. The institute's U.S. headquarters in New York issued the grant, not the Baltimore office.Pub Date: 2/13/99

New positionsBethlehem Steel appoints Wirick at Sparrows PointBethlehem Steel Corp. appointed David P. Wirick to be manager of quality, technology and logistics for its Sparrows Point division.He had been manager of the rolling mills at the company's Pennsylvania Steel Technologies in the Steelton, Pa., plant.An engineering graduate of Grove City College, he also holds a master's degree in business from the University of Pittsburgh and is active in several professional organizations, including the American Iron & Steel Engineers and the American Society of Metals.

New positionsNeuristics names Cooper chief operating officerNeuristics Corp. named Michael B. Cooper chief operating officer with the mission of leading the 6-year-old Hunt Valley-based predictive modeling firm from its development phase to the offering of its products and services to a wider range of clientele.He formerly was president of Pitney Bowes Software Systems and is an MBA graduate of the University of Toronto.ProfessionalCover is planner, manager of McCrone Annapolis officeMcCrone Inc. named Steven R. Cover director of planning and branch manager for the Annapolis headquarters office of the engineering consulting firm.

As the operator of four McDonald's restaurants in Howard County, Cathy Bell spends a lot of time thinking about how to improve service and boost business.She was doing just that one day last summer when the lyrics of Donna Summer's 1983 hit, "She Works Hard for the Money," ran through her head. Why not use it for a McDonald's commercial? she asked herself.The 41-year-old Columbia woman's brainstorm has turned into a new $1 million-plus McDonald's television and radio advertising campaign that's being launched today in 10 U.S. markets, including Baltimore, Boston, New York, Hartford, Conn.

The federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and Franklin Square Hospital announced an agreement yesterday under which the hospital will pay $325,000 to African-Americans who were denied nursing and file clerk jobs from 1993 to 1997.Judy Navarro, an investigator in the Baltimore office of the EEOC, said this was the largest such agreement reached by the office in several years. As part of the agreement, she said, Franklin Square will not only compensate people denied jobs but will be "monitoring its applicant flow with the goal of expanding on diversity."

A year and a half after demoting its Baltimore office from a co-headquarters to a division, Doner advertising agency said yesterday that the head of its office here is being transferred to the home office in Detroit.Tony Everett will move to Detroit near the end of the year but will remain president of Doner Direct, the firm's locally based direct-advertising arm. The office, which has 140 employees, handles direct-response television and print ads -- those that prompt consumers to call a toll-free number or log onto a Web site to find out more about a product -- and direct mail.

Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, the Washington-based law firm that is hiring Mayor Kurt L. Schmoke, yesterday recruited two Piper & Marbury partners to its Baltimore office.The addition of Mark Pollak and Ted Millspaugh from Piper & Marbury puts the number of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering Baltimore lawyers at 12. It comes three weeks after the firm said Schmoke would join the Baltimore office at the end of his term in December."Our legal practice is alive and well in Baltimore," said George P. Stamas, who left Piper & Marbury three years ago to open Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering's Baltimore office.

David R. Knowlton, special agent in charge of the FBI's Baltimore field office, has been named deputy assistant director at the agency's Washington headquarters, where he will lead investigations of organized crime, drugs and violent crimes, and supervising criminal intelligence.Knowlton, 46, who took over the Baltimore office two years ago, has been with the FBI for 28 years. No successor has been named.In Baltimore, Knowlton supervised the investigation of several cases of national interest, including one that led to the successful prosecution of Thomas Capano, the Wilmington, Del., lawyer convicted of the 1996 murder of his mistress, Anne Marie Fahey.

Gary Kachadourian is making a career move as bold as some of the exhibits he's championed in his 22 years overseeing the visual installations at Artscape. The 52-year-old has quit his job at the Baltimore Office of Promotion & the Arts - his last day was Tuesday - to enroll in a master's degree program at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Kachadourian will study digital imaging, teach part time and devote more time to his own artwork. "Gary has been a terrific asset," says his former boss, Bill Gilmore, executive director of the Baltimore Office of Promotion & the Arts.

A Reisterstown pharmacist was arrested Tuesday morning on federal charges claiming he illegally sold more than 23,000 prescription pills. The amount is the equivalent of 63 kilograms of cocaine or nearly 28,000 pounds of marijuana, federal authorities said. A six-count indictment, unsealed Tuesday, alleges that Ketankumar Arvind Patel, 47, used his Medicine Shoppe Pharmacy at 11813 1/2 Reisterstown Road to fill phony prescriptions for the anti-anxiety medication Xanax, along with thousands of Oxycontin and Percocet pills, both of which contain oxycodone.

On June 25, 2009, Linda S. Terziu Memorial services will be held at the CONNELLY FUNERAL HOME OF ESSEX, 300 Mace Avenue on Monday at 7:30 P.M. Visiting hours Monday, 7 to 9 P.M. In lieu of flowers donations may be made to the American Diabetes Association, Baltimore Office, 800 Wyman Park Drive, Suite 110, Baltimore, MD 21211 or the American Liver Foundation, 7410 Georgia Ave., N.W., Suite 4, Washington, DC 20012. Interment Private.

Joseph F. Welsh Jr., a retired official of the Baltimore office of investment bankers Merrill Lynch and a World War II veteran, died of pneumonia Monday at St. Joseph Medical Center. He was 84 and had lived in the Pinehurst/Cedarcroft neighborhood for many years. The Northeast Baltimore native attended Shrine of the Little Flower Parochial School and won a scholarship to Mount St. Joseph High School. At 16, he left school to support his three younger brothers after the death of their mother.

The owner of a now-defunct used-car business in Baltimore was sentenced yesterday to nearly 11 years in prison for distributing cocaine and funneling more than $1.7 million in drug sales through his business on Reisterstown Road, according to the Maryland U.S. attorney's office. Harrington Campbell, 34, of Jamaica was found guilty after a weeklong trial in U.S. District Court in Baltimore on charges of drug distribution and money laundering, federal prosecutors said. Authorities said he will be deported after he serves his sentence.

Free Fall Baltimore, the annual collection of no-charge arts and entertainment, will return for a third go-round in October, city officials said yesterday. The celebration includes more than 300 free events scattered throughout the month, at more than 70 museums and cultural institutions. Participants range from large museums to tiny theater companies and arts collectives. They include Center Stage, the Baltimore Public Works Museum, the Baltimore Improv Group, the Maryland Film Festival, the Baltimore Women's Film Festival, the Theatre Project, the Baltimore Chamber Orchestra and the Baltimore Streetcar Museum.

Advertising * MGH announced the appointments of Perri Hochwald as vice president interactive channel strategist, Cheryl Peluso as vice president account director and Ashley Pirro as an account coordinator for the Owings Mills-based marketing communications agency. * gkv, based in Baltimore, named Molly Miller as a traffic coordinator and Joey Antonette Reedy as an account executive for the marketing firm. Banking * Provident Bank appointed Randall James as a vice president within the finance and control division at the regional bank's Baltimore headquarters.

Awards *Inc . magazine presented Baltimore-based Barcoding Inc. with an Inner City 100 award as one of the top 100 inner-city companies in the nation. The local company, which specializes in automated data collection, was ranked 68th. *The Residences at Bulle Rock received a Nationals regional award from the National Sales and Marketing Council for Best Landscape Design for a Detached Community. Kudos *Robert W. Cannon, a partner in the Baltimore office of Saul Ewing, was named by the Maryland Bar Association's Real Property, Planning and Zoning Section as 2008 Distinguished Real Estate Practitioner of the Year.

Amy Jo Lyons does not appear easily daunted. As the new chief of the FBI's Baltimore office - which oversees Maryland and Delaware - Lyons is only too aware of the devastating crime rate of the area's biggest city, one of the worst in the country. "It's a huge task," Lyons said yesterday as her third week at the helm of the regional office drew to a close. "I see there's a great need for strong law enforcement, and we're ready to fill it, along with our partners. It means there's a calling for us to be here."

Banking and finance * SunTrust Bank announced the appointment of Jonathan Holloway as a vice president in the regional bank's Baltimore commercial division.. Health care * Erickson Retirement Communities appointed Donna Samulowitz as its chief marketing officer. She is responsible for the marketing and sales organization of the Catonsville-headquartered national chain of retirement communities. Legal and insurance * Saul Ewing LLP said Randall M. Lutz joined the Baltimore office of the regional law firm as a partner in the environmental department and a member of the energy and utility practice group.