Brethren

On Saturday, December 1, 2007, ANNE MARIE (nee Wright), beloved wife of the late Charles William Fridinger; loving mother of Gregory W. Fridinger and Barbara Lee Fleischman; devoted grandmother of Jill Herr, Kelly Keefe, Jon Fridinger, Sara Fridinger and Maggie Fridinger. Also survived by four great-grandchildren. She was predeceased by a granddaughter, Heather Fleischman. Friends may call on Wednesday, December 5 from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 p.m. at ELINE FUNERAL HOME, 934 S. Main Street, Hampstead, where funeral services will be held 11 a.m. Thursday, December 6. Interment New Lutheran Cemetery, Manchester.

An ecumenical drought conference today at the Brethren Service Center in New Windsor will focus on how to help farm families in Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania and West Virginia.Agencies, including Farm Aid, Orphan's Grain Train and Church World Services, are joining the Church of the Brethren in the effort, said conference coordinator Stan Noffsinger, manager of the Brethren Center's Emergency Response Services Ministry."People will consider the drought's impact on a heavily populated area with hundreds of family farmers," said Noffsinger.

On the third Friday evening of January 1979, 14 bereaved and heartbroken parents met in the parlor of the Westminster Church of the Brethren. Thus began the informal monthly meetings of the Compassionate Friends of Carroll County, a support group for parents who have experienced the deaths of their children.I was there.When the Compassionate Friends began in November 1978, Dott Hummel, who had lost two sons in a house fire, attended that first meeting. Residents of Carroll, the Hummels advertised in December to see if there a need existed for such a group in our county.

On the second anniversary of her daughter's death, the mother of a mentally disabled woman filed a $1 million lawsuit against the state and Carroll County officials for allegedly failing to help Theresa Lynn "Terrie" Mullinix, who was killed wandering down Route 140.Shirley Mullinix of the 100 block of Kenan St., Taneytown, said in the wrongful-death lawsuit filed in Carroll Circuit Court that her daughter had cerebral palsy, mental retardation, major depression...

The Brethren Service Center, whose shops, inn and humanitarian operations have for more than 50 years dominated New Windsor's Main Street, will continue to operate in the Carroll County town.The general board of the Church of the Brethren, based in Elgin, Ill., has renewed its long-standing commitment to the center and its ministries.The statement is no longer "if we stay in New Windsor," but "how do we stay in New Windsor," Judy Mills Reimer, executive director of the Church of the Brethren, wrote in a recent press release from Elgin.

The Rev. Dale H. Aukerman, a former pastor of several Church of the Brethren congregations and internationally known social activist and author, died in his sleep Sept. 4 at his home in Linwood, Carroll County. He was 69.As a pastor of Brethren churches, the Rev. Aukerman worked in Christian leadership and service roles in Maryland, Michigan, Indiana and in Europe for nearly 50 years. A plain-spoken man, he demonstrated against the war in Vietnam, the Afghan War, apartheid, the death penalty and nuclear arms.

After 27 years of lay ministry at Brethren Service Center in New Windsor, Westminster resident David Miller Davis is contemplating a call to the ordained ministry.It is a road he traveled first in high school, then in college 34 years ago as a pre-ministerial student at Bridgewater College in Virginia.But Davis, who retired last week as manager of emergency response and service ministries at the Brethren center, has begun to wonder if the intervening years have been a long detour.The stirrings began anew last fall when Davis, 56, was invited to a homecoming at the Virginia Church of the Brethren congregation where he grew up as a child.

The Carroll County Sheriff's Office has begun a search to fill the new position of director of support services.The director will handle daily operations involving personnel and budgets, training, development, risk management and bookkeeping.Applicants with a bachelor's degree and four years of experience in personnel-related employment, or an equivalent combination of education and experience, should submit a county job application to Sheriff Kenneth L. Tregoning, 100 N. Court St., Westminster 21157.

Life's simplest necessities are as close as the nearest mall for most Americans and as far away as a warehouse in Maryland for thousands of Kosovo refugees.Volunteers and staff members of Brethren Service Center in New Windsor are working to bring those things closer to the war-ravaged Balkans.Last week, they sorted tons of underwear, socks and toiletries, putting them into what they call family packs. The shipment will be on its way tomorrow to Albania, Bosnia and Macedonia."It will be airlifted from JFK International [Airport in New York]

The Illinois-based Church of the Brethren has decided that a $5 million-a-year New Windsor handcraft business that supports Third World artisans should make it on its own.The church's general board voted 18-5 during its fall meeting in New Windsor to make Sales Exchange for Refugee Rehabilitation Vocations International, or SERRV, a separate, nonprofit organization. The change ends SERRV's 49 years of service as an agency of the Elgin, Ill.-based church.The organization, which sells handcrafts created by Native Americans and Third World artisans in 30 countries, "has no plans to move at all" from the Church of the Brethren Service Center in New Windsor, said Kathleen Campanella, the center's coordinator of public information.

The former Marine officer Matthew Hoh, who resigned his Foreign Service post in Afghanistan because he feels the war is pointless and not worth dying for, deserves all the attention he's gotten and more. The Obama administration faces hard decisions there, and the man made a good case against deeper American involvement. He says that our presence among the Pashtun people, the rural, religious people, is only aggravating a civil war between them and the urban, secular (and, it seems, fraudulent)

On September 18, 2009, BETTY. Visitation 2140 N. Fulton Avenue Thursday 4 to 8 P.M. Family will receive friends Friday at the First Church of the Brethren, 4500 Liberty Heights 10:30 A.M., funeral to follow at 11 A.M.

On Saturday, December 1, 2007, ANNE MARIE (nee Wright), beloved wife of the late Charles William Fridinger; loving mother of Gregory W. Fridinger and Barbara Lee Fleischman; devoted grandmother of Jill Herr, Kelly Keefe, Jon Fridinger, Sara Fridinger and Maggie Fridinger. Also survived by four great-grandchildren. She was predeceased by a granddaughter, Heather Fleischman. Friends may call on Wednesday, December 5 from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 p.m. at ELINE FUNERAL HOME, 934 S. Main Street, Hampstead, where funeral services will be held 11 a.m. Thursday, December 6. Interment New Lutheran Cemetery, Manchester.

When she was first asked to reconstruct the dance performance "How Long, Brethren?" Dianne McIntyre had some serious sleuthing to do. Little evidence remained of choreographer Helen Tamiris' powerful depiction of African-American life created for the WPA Federal Theatre Project in 1937. But McIntyre, an internationally acclaimed choreographer herself, was well suited to the assignment from George Mason University, home of the Project's archives. There, in 1991, "How Long, Brethren?" was staged for the first time since its debut.

In Baltimore with friends Sunday morning, a splendid fall day under blue skies, we marched off to the nearest church and found ourselves in an old brownstone temple of 1852, wooden box pews, stained glass on all sides, old tiled floor, for a High Anglican-Catholic Mass, a troop of choristers in white, altar boys, bearded priests in medieval vestments, holy water and puffs of smoke and bells and chanting of Scripture, precision bowing and genuflecting, all...

Tight end Quinn Sypniewski caught his first career touchdown pass in the Ravens' 27-13 loss to the Cleveland Browns last Sunday. But the weekend was not a total loss for the former Colorado Buffalo. How did you feel about Colorado upsetting then-No. 3 Oklahoma on Saturday? That was great. Colorado has had some struggles the last few years. So to get a win like that is definitely a boost for that program. It was definitely nice to be able to come back on Sunday and talk a little smack to some of our Oklahoma brethren [Chris Chester, Mark Clayton, Kelly Gregg and Corey Ivy]

PARIS -- Long the weirdo of the men's tennis majors, the French Open has become a veritable homecoming king. It's the new global leader in intrigue and pertinence. Its three brethren - the Australian Open, Wimbledon and the U.S. Open - have become those tournaments Roger Federer always wins, and while few could yawn watching Federer play tennis, only the French Open retains the peerless mystery of an ongoing Federer climb. French Open Today through June 10, Roland Garros, Paris TV today: Noon, ESPN2

On March 25, 2007, BARBARA E. YELTON (nee Forwood), beloved mother of Jeffrey B. Yelton and Sherry L. Reese and her husband Ronald, sister to Kathleen Bohn, Helen Freeland and the late Ronald Forwood, also survived by grandchildren, Brittney N. and Curtis D. Reese. Relatives and friends may call at the Meadow Branch Church of the Brethren on Wednesday March 28 from 10 A.M. to 12 noon at which time funeral services will begin. Interment Meadow Branch Cemetery. Memorial donations may be sent to the Carroll Hospice Dove House, 292 Stoner Avenue, Westminster, MD 21157 or Meadow Branch Church of the Brethren, 818 Old Taneytown Road, Westminster, MD 21158.

On July 5, 2006, HARRY EDWARD CREAMER, JR. of New Oxford, PA, formerly of Highlandtown. A Memorial Service will be at 10 A.M., Friday, August 4, 2006, in the Nicarry Meeting House, at the Brethren Home Community, 2990 Carlisle Pike, New Oxford, PA 17350. Interment of cremains will be in Crownsville Veterans Cemetery.

On February 28, 2006 VERLA H. SPENCE; beloved wife of the late Charles Spence; dear mother of Charles Spence, Jr. and Norma Lee Barclift. Services are private. In lieu of flowers donations may be made to Woodberry Church of the Brethren, P.O. Box 4844, Baltimore, MD 21211.