Bethany Beach

Steve Job's death had the same impact on the younger generation of today that the death of John F. Kennedy had on a previous generation While it is difficult to quantify the impact of one person on an entire generation, it is safe to say that the passing of Steve Jobs had the same impact on the younger generation of today that the death of John F. Kennedy had on a previous generation. For those who witnessed both events, we will always remember where we were and what we were doing when both of these heroes passed on. Paul Jankovic, Bethany Beach, Del.

Concerts at the beachAfter a day in the sun, you can enjoy an evening of music at the beach this summer in Bethany Beach, Del. The Monumental Brass Quintet, artists-in-residence at the Levine School of Music in Washington, will kick off the 1997 "Concerts at the Beach" season Saturday. After the concert, concertgoers can meet the artists at a reception.A project of the College-University Resource Institute in Washington, this season's "Concerts at the Beach" also include performances by the Sunrise String Quartet July 25 and pianist Leanne Rees Aug. 30.All concerts start at 8 p.m. at St. Martha's Episcopal Church, Maplewood and Pennsylvania avenues.

In January it was named Barriga (stomach). By April it had become Rosita's Cantina. Unfortunately, the owners found that the new name was copyrighted by the Lone Star Grill. So now Towson's soon-to-be-opened Southwestern restaurant at 418 York Road will be called -- ta-ta! -- Flutie Garcia's. Stay tuned for further changes; that still isn't the catchiest name I've ever heard.* I didn't think there were many restaurants around I didn't know about, but Phyllis' Caribbean-American Cuisine has been open for two years, and I had never heard of it. Located at 2101 N. Charles St. (you have to enter on 21st Street)

When you think of a week at the beach, you think of sun, sand or lying prone with a book among happy people while the surf pounds the shore line.Not me this summer. I was determined to do something I'd never done before and had always wanted to do. I wanted the kids to know I'm a cool cat and don't want to go out of style. I wanted them to remember me this summer, for a good laugh.In other words, I didn't want to sit on my duff at the beach all day. Also, I think the ocean temperature was in the 70s that week.

Horse racing Tell a Great Story wins by a nose at Delaware Park Sagamore Farm's Tell a Great Story prevailed over Ile St. Molly in the $75,125 Go For Wand Stakes at Delaware Park on Saturday in Wilmington. The Go For Wand Stakes is a prep for the 1 1/16-mile $300,000 Grade II Delaware Oaks on July 13. With Forest Boyce (Garrison Forest) astride, Tell a Great Story, a Maryland-bred conditioned by Ignacio Correas IV , defeated Ile St. Molly by a nose, finishing in 1minute, 40.80 seconds.

Elizabeth C. "Betty" Michaels, a former registered nurse and homemaker who enjoyed baking and cooking, died Saturday of an embolism at the Broadmead retirement community in Cockeysville. She was 103. She was born Elizabeth Colburn, the daughter of a Baltimore Gas & Electric Co. employee and a homemaker, and raised in Bolton Hill. She was a 1927 graduate of Bryn Mawr School and earned her nursing degree in 1931 from the Union Memorial Hospital School of Nursing. She worked in the hospital's Robert Garrett Dispensary until her 1938 marriage to Albert Hillsman Michaels.

More castles in the sandIf you missed the Castle in the Sand's annual sand sculpture contest in June, take heart. Another contest will be held Thursday on the beach at 92nd Street.Registration is slated for 10 a.m., and contestants will be given a pail, shovel and hat. Trophies will be awarded in a variety of categories, including most creative and most elaborate, and competition is divided into four age groups: age 7 and under, ages 8 to 11, ages 12 to 15 and age 16 and older. Awards will be presented at 1 p.m.Sand sculptor Randy Hofman, who creates a religious tableau every night on the beach at First Street, will be on hand to zTC demonstrate sculpting techniques and to create a giant castle as a centerpiece for the event.

Services for Albion K. Parris III, retired executive director of the Maryland-District of Columbia-Delaware-Virginia Hospital Association, will be held at 2 p.m. today in the chapel of the Episcopal Church of the Redeemer, Charles Street and Melrose Avenue.Mr. Parris, who was 79 and lived on Cardington Way in Cockeysville, died of pneumonia Wednesday at Union Memorial Hospital.He retired in 1976 after having worked for the association since 1947. Earlier, he spent a year doing public relations work for Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Maryland and worked as a reporter and copy editor for The Sun.He came to Baltimore in 1936 from Cincinnati, where he had worked two years for the Enquirer.

Two-for-one from Wyndham Vacation Rentals What's the deal? Wyndham Vacation Rentals (ResortQuest) is offering customers who book a minimum five-night beach vacation rental at a qualifying beach destination — including the Charleston islands, Delaware beaches, Hilton Head Island, Myrtle Beach and Northwest Florida — a complimentary seven-night vacation certificate. A qualifying Delaware property is the SeaColony resort in Bethany Beach, and you have to call 888-500-4271 to book.

Mary F. Hewes, a former newspaper reporter and longtime Charles Village resident, died May 16 from cancer at Mount Pleasant Hospice. She was 81. The daughter of a real estate broker and a homemaker, the former Mary Frances McClatchy was born and raised in Berwyn, Pa. After graduating from Villa Maria High School in Malvern, Pa., she earned a bachelor's degree in 1954 from what is now Immaculata University, also in Malvern. After a hitchhiking tour of the U.S. and Europe, she went to work as a newspaper reporter for The Stratford News in Stratford, Conn.