Banquet

The One Hundred Club of Anne Arundel County will hold its 10th annual fundraising banquet April 26 at Michael's Eighth Avenue in Glen Burnie. The organization assists families of paid and volunteer firefighters, law enforcement and emergency medical workers who die in the line of duty. The banquet begins at 6 p.m. For information and tickets, call Charlie Parks at 410-437-3139.

Twenty-four graduating high school student-athletes, representing Harford County's 12 senior classes, will be honored at the 28th Annual Al Cesky Scholarship Fund's (ACSF) awards banquet Wednesday at the Richlin Ballroom, beginning at 6 p.m. Tickets are $40 each, with a student price of $35. Call 410-838-6787 or visit http://www.alceskyscholarhsip.org for more information. Two of the scholarship winners, one male and one female, will receive scholarship awards amounting to $5,000 each from the ACSF to help defray the cost of their post-secondary education.

Twenty-four graduating high school student-athletes, representing Harford County's 12 senior classes, will be honored at the 28th Annual Al Cesky Scholarship Fund's (ACSF) awards banquet Wednesday at the Richlin Ballroom, beginning at 6 p.m. Tickets are $40 each, with a student price of $35. Call 410-838-6787 or visit http://www.alceskyscholarhsip.org for more information. Two of the scholarship winners, one male and one female, will receive scholarship awards amounting to $5,000 each from the ACSF to help defray the cost of their post-secondary education.

Sarah Dorl and James Frieson both regularly took care of many jobs that helped their respective teams, tasks that wouldn't show up in a score sheet. But the work Dorl did for the Dulaney basketball team and Frieson put in for Towson football finally earned some notice Monday night when they won top honors at the 73rd Annual McCormick Unsung Heroes Awards banquet at the Hunt Valley Inn. Dorl and Frieson became the 70th and 71st winners of the Charles Perry McCormick Scholarship, established in 1969.

During their annual awards banquet Saturday, members of the Abingdon Fire Company took time out to honor the memory of a longtime former chief who died last year. In addition to remembering the late Lewis Espey, who had 58 years of service as a fireman, a memorial candle was lit to also remember his wife, Francis, and George Sills, Albert Kilduff and George Morgan, who also died in the past year. A special Couple Award was also established in the Espeys memory and was presented for the first time to Joe and Ruth Tolliver by Bob Ellis and Shiryl Eller, the Espeys' children.

Juan Gonzalez joins Roger Maris (1960-1961), Mike Schmidt (1980-1981) and Cecil Fielder (1990-1991) as a back-to-back winner of the Babe Ruth Crown tomorrow night.The American League's leading home-run hitter the past two years, Gonzalez headlines the Maryland Professional Baseball Players Association's 41st annual Tops In Sports banquet at Towson State.The Texas Rangers slugger has hit 89 home runs in the past two years and tied the San Francisco Giants' Barry Bonds for the major-league leadership with 46 in 1993.

A SPORTING CROWD is expected to turn out tomorrow night at Martin's West for the annual Sports Boosters Banquet honoring Marylanders who've excelled in sports.Among the attendees sharing the honors are Billy Ripken and Dave Johnson from the Baltimore Orioles; the Oakland A's Harold Baines; the Cleveland Browns' Ernie Accorsi; Toots Barger, the top womens duckpin bowler; and former Pimlico Race Course owner Ben Cohen. Veteran sportscaster Tom Davis will emcee, and tickets (at $50) are still available by calling 561-0065.

Maryland football Vellano receives 3 awards at season-ending banquet Maryland's Joe Vellano led the way by taking home three awards at the team's annual season-ending banquet Sunday. The junior defensive tackle was named the Ray Krouse Award winner as team Most Valuable Player, best defensive player and top lineman. Vellano had 94 tackles — including 7.5 tackles for loss and 2.5 sacks — four pass breakups and two fumble recoveries this season. He was a first-team All-Atlantic Coast Conference choice and a second-team Walter Camp All-American.

Former Orioles Al Bumbry and Kevin Hickey are speakers at the Eastern Shore Baseball Hall of Fame Foundation banquet from 4 to 6 p.m. tomorrow at the Moose Home on Snow Hill Road in Salisbury.Tickets are $15 per person.For more information, call (410) 749-3806.

New Orioles general manager Pat Gillick, owner Peter Angelos and team MVP Rafael Palmeiro will be among the celebrities at the 43rd annual Tops in Sports banquet, Jan. 12 at Towson State.Other guests include Hall of Famer Johnny Bench, Cleveland Indians pitcher Dennis Martinez, Orioles minor-league standouts Rocky Coppinger and Scott McClain, Indians GM John Hart, Orioles director of player development Syd Thrift and American League umpire Durwood Merrill.Cocktail hour begins at 5:30 p.m., and tickets are $50. To purchase tickets, call (410)

On March 10, the Blue Ribbon 4-H Club made table decorations to be used at the Annual 4-H Achievement Night Banquet. The club also collected food for the Mason Dixon Food Pantry which was organized by Madie and Katie Poteet.

Officials from the 50th Scholar Athlete Dinner -- a football banquet -- will make a decision Tuesday at 6 p.m. about whether it will take place on Wednesday or be moved back two weeks due to the possible upcoming storm. Dinner chairman Ken Mills said in an e-mail Monday that, if they wanted to postpone the banquet due to the expected storm on Wednesday, it would be shifted to March 20 at Martin's West. Mills also said that this decision is going to be posted on the www.nffbaltimore.com web site.

During their annual awards banquet Saturday, members of the Abingdon Fire Company took time out to honor the memory of a longtime former chief who died last year. In addition to remembering the late Lewis Espey, who had 58 years of service as a fireman, a memorial candle was lit to also remember his wife, Francis, and George Sills, Albert Kilduff and George Morgan, who also died in the past year. A special Couple Award was also established in the Espeys memory and was presented for the first time to Joe and Ruth Tolliver by Bob Ellis and Shiryl Eller, the Espeys' children.

Stefon Diggs was the big winner Sunday during Maryland's annual team awards banquet. The true freshman from Good Counsel was named the Terps' Most Valuable Player. A second-team All-ACC selection, Diggs finished 2012 with 1,896 all-purpose yards -- the second-highest single-season total in team history. He scored six touchdowns, including two on kickoff returns and one passing. Here's a list of every Maryland award-winner. Bennett Fulper: The George C. Cook Memorial Award for the senior with the highest academic average.

CACI, one of the dozens of defense contractors at Aberdeen Proving Ground, wanted a large-scale meeting between corporate leadership in Arlington, Va., and the 350 employees scattered in different locations on the post in Harford County. Its management quickly realized that no facility on post or nearby could handle that large a crowd. "From time to time, we need a large space," said Ed Thomas, spokesman for the information technology company. "At this point, we have to travel to Baltimore to find that space.

Editor: The Al Cesky Scholarship Fund, Inc. celebrated the 27th anniversary of the Al Cesky Scholarship Awards Banquet on May 16, at the Richlin Ballroom. At the banquet, the Fund awarded $54,000 in scholarships to 24 outstanding Harford County student-athletes. Those scholarship winners embody the purpose of the Al Cesky Scholarship Fund, Inc., namely, to preserve and keep visible the values reflected in the life and work of Al Cesky, with special reference to his contributions to the spiritual, emotional and intellectual development of youth and his role in fostering community life.

Parkton American Legion Post 256 received 129 essays from students at Prettyboy, Fifth District and Our Lady of Grace schools for its annual Americanism essay contest. This year's title was "How Can I Show My Patriotism in My Community" Jonathan Marker, a fifth-grader at Fifth District and Joshua Beach, in eighth grade at Our Lady of Grace, were honored at a banquet on May 3 in Baltimore for their third-place finishes in their grade levels in competition against 18 legion posts in the northern central district.

Twenty-four graduating high school student-athletes, representing Harford County's 12 senior classes, will be honored at the 27th Annual Al Cesky Scholarship Fund's awards banquet. The banquet will be Wednesday at the Richlin Ballroom, beginning at 6 p.m. Tickets are $40 each, with a student price of $35. Call 410-838-6787 for further information. Two of the scholarship winners, one male and one female, will receive scholarship awards amounting to $5,000 each from the Cesky fund to help defray the cost of their post-secondary education.