Broadneck High School

Four days after the 12 days of Christmas, two area high schools are joining forces to celebrate the holidays.It may seem an odd time to do Handel's "Messiah," says Carole Frederick, choir director at Severna Park High School, but the weeks before Christmas were "too hectic, with all the other concerts we have to do.""Besides, I wanted it to be set apart and special," she says. "And it's close enough to Twelfth Night [Jan. 6] to count."So she and Jane Daugherty, choir director at Broadneck High School, are combining their best ensembles, each with 62 voices, with the 12-member Maryland Hall Chamber Orchestra, seven soloists and choral alumni of the two schools to do the Christmas portion of "Messiah."

HOW ABOUT A Fourth-of-July photo with your ham-on-rye, or a nautical scene with your BLT?Eastport photographer Diane Knaus-Diamond is exhibiting some of her work at the Eastport Plaza Delicatessen through September."

Twelve first-graders from Mayo Elementary School marched onto the Broadneck High School auditorium stage to show off songs they had learned in French, Spanish, Japanese and an African language.They joined five groups from the community and Annapolis, Broadneck, South River schools to present music, dances and literature from other nations as part of the Third Annual Multicultural Arts Forum.The evening centered on the African proverb: "It takes a village to raise a child: Unify the village," a theme that celebrated the county's diversity.

Thirty-six students from across Maryland's 1st Congressional District have been nominated by Rep. Wayne T. Gilchrest to attend service academies this fall. Each academy will review the nominees over the next several months and offer appointments to the most-qualified candidates.The local students nominated were:To the Naval Academy: Lindsay Axelsson, daughter of Pamela Axelsson-Gifford of Annapolis, and a senior at Annapolis High School; Michael Evans, son of Howell and Bette Evans of Glen Burnie, and a senior at North County High School; Marcus Johnson of Annapolis, son of Julie Johnson of Annapolis and Strephon Johnson of Baltimore, a graduate of the Marine Military Academy and a current student at the Hill School on a Naval Academy Foundation Scholarship; Dana Kaegel, daughter of Delbert and Diana Kaegel of Millersville, and a senior at Severna Park High School; Danny Stubbs, son of Daniel Stubbs and Mary Beth Jenkins of Glen Burnie, and a senior at Granite Baptist Church School.

Parents and community representatives gave overwhelming approval last night to a proposal to place Belvedere Elementary School students in the feeder system for Broadneck High School.The public hearing last night at Broadneck High in Arnold, attended by about 60 people, was the second to last in a series scheduled by the school board to discuss redistricting. The board will decide on final redistricting plans next month.The redistricting plan for the feeder systems of Severna Park and Broadneck high schools calls for renovations and additions to two schools and has very little effect on students.

Broadneck High School may be the only Anne Arundel County school construction project submitted for state approval in the next fiscal year, and so far no others have been planned for submission in 1997.And that's just one of the problems facing school planners, board members learned at a workshop last night on school construction plans and budget."Last year, the board got a decent percent of the county budget," said Walter Chitwood, former chief administrative officer for County Executive Robert R. Neall and a newly %J appointed assistant school superintendent.

Who wouldn't want to live in a small college town?Although not quite the ivy-covered community idealized in films of the 1940s, Central County comes very close to duplicating this stimulating atmosphere with its spirited schools.And the action peaks with the colors of the leaves.A Friday night or Saturday afternoon, a high school football game at Severna Park or Broadneck makes a great family outing. Or choose collegiate-level sports at Anne Arundel Community College: women's volleyball tomorrow at 5 p.m.; women's soccer regional semifinals on Thursday and finals on Nov. 5; or a weekend of men's tennis tomorrow Saturday and Sunday.

Fifteen-year-old Gregory Miller never expected to win the Anne Arundel County Science and Engineering Fair."I was just hoping to get first place in my category," Gregory said.It's a good thing the Arundel Middle School student sat near the front of the auditorium at Broadneck High School when they announced the winners last month. Gregory had to make several trips to the stage as he took home first place in physics, received 10 special awards and won the grand prize of the science fair.Coincidentally, the trophy Gregory received from the Air Force for participating is shapedlike a rocket.

There's nothing like a life insurance policy that will send you overseas, all expenses paid.Eighteen students from Japan will visit Anne Arundel County this summer through a policy their parents took out at their births. When the youngsters graduate from high school, their families have the option of cashing in the policies or opting for the foreign travel choice.The teen-agers, all from one high school, will attend Broadneck High School during their visit. Families from Severna Park, Arnold and Annapolis will have the chance to experience Japanese culture first-hand by taking in a student for three weeks.

Jerry L. Haines smiled in the photographs propped next to the steel casket and in the thoughts of his friends and family. Funny guy, always ready with a joke, always walking around with a pocket full of smokes and bumming cigarettes from his buddies, always there when you needed him.On this Thursday evening at the Barranco & Sons Funeral Home in Severna Park, the 19-year-old's friends and relatives gathered to weep and talk in muted voices. They stared into space and shook their heads because there was no sense to be made of it."

Children's Theatre of Annapolis offers life lessons to young people through such classic tales as Beauty and the Beast that teach children to think of others ahead of themselves. It is when the Beast learns to put Belle's happiness above his own that he feels love and begins his transformation from Beast to Prince, and Belle learns that goodness can exist beneath a fearsome exterior. Other hallmarks that distinguish CTA productions are evident in this Beauty and the Beast, which continues through the weekend at Anne Arundel Community College's Pascal Center for the Performing Arts.

A volunteer lacrosse coach and 2001 Broadneck High School graduate has been barred from all activities at the school after police said he supplied several students with alcohol, leading to hospitalization for two of them. Gregory James Karanzalis, 24, of the 1600 block of Elkwood Court, was charged Thursday with furnishing alcoholic beverages to minors, Anne Arundel County police said yesterday. Cpl. Mark Shawkey, a police spokesman, said the students were hospitalized after officers responded to a convenience store in the Cape St. Claire area about 3:30 p.m. Tuesday for a reported alcohol overdose.

Girl, 2, injured in 10-foot fall from window A 2-year-old girl fell from a second-story apartment window in Glen Burnie yesterday, sustaining serious but not life-threatening injuries, an Anne Arundel County fire official said. "The child was standing up at the window ... watching some children at a bus stop, and the screen gave way," said Capt. Michael Cox, the Fire Department spokesman. The toddler fell about 10 feet, suffering head, neck, back and internal injuries, Cox said. She was taken by ambulance to the pediatric emergency unit at Johns Hopkins Hospital.

On June 16 the Londontowne Symphony Orchestra will travel north to Broadneck High School in Annapolis to perform a concert to end its third season of providing classical music. Most future concerts of the 40-member symphony orchestra will be held at the usual venue, at Southern High School auditorium in Harwood. However Londontowne Orchestra President Kathy Solano recently explained, "We have a goal of finding new venues where we can expose the Londontowne Symphony to more citizens in Anne Arundel County."

Anne Patricia Neidhardt, science teacher at Broadneck High School, will receive the 2002 Jan Hollmann Environmental Education Award at an awards ceremony at 2 p.m. Sept. 22 at Arlington Echo Outdoor Education Center in Millersville. The award, established in 1994 to recognize the life and environmental accomplishments of Jan Hollmann, who died of cancer at age 44, is given annually to one or more people or an organization in Anne Arundel County with notable achievements in environmental education.

After a runoff vote, Brandon Van Bibber, a junior at Glen Burnie High School, won a seat yesterday on the county school board - the only student board member position in the state that carries full voting privileges. The 17-year-old was elected to the post on a second ballot by middle and high school delegates to the Chesapeake Regional Association of Student Councils (CRASC). The first vote on the four-candidate slate failed to yield a majority. Van Bibber battled it out in the second ballot against Jeremy Horine, a junior at Broadneck High School.

HOW ABOUT A Fourth-of-July photo with your ham-on-rye, or a nautical scene with your BLT?Eastport photographer Diane Knaus-Diamond is exhibiting some of her work at the Eastport Plaza Delicatessen through September."

Four days after the 12 days of Christmas, two area high schools are joining forces to celebrate the holidays.It may seem an odd time to do Handel's "Messiah," says Carole Frederick, choir director at Severna Park High School, but the weeks before Christmas were "too hectic, with all the other concerts we have to do.""Besides, I wanted it to be set apart and special," she says. "And it's close enough to Twelfth Night [Jan. 6] to count."So she and Jane Daugherty, choir director at Broadneck High School, are combining their best ensembles, each with 62 voices, with the 12-member Maryland Hall Chamber Orchestra, seven soloists and choral alumni of the two schools to do the Christmas portion of "Messiah."

Twelve first-graders from Mayo Elementary School marched onto the Broadneck High School auditorium stage to show off songs they had learned in French, Spanish, Japanese and an African language.They joined five groups from the community and Annapolis, Broadneck, South River schools to present music, dances and literature from other nations as part of the Third Annual Multicultural Arts Forum.The evening centered on the African proverb: "It takes a village to raise a child: Unify the village," a theme that celebrated the county's diversity.

Thirty-six students from across Maryland's 1st Congressional District have been nominated by Rep. Wayne T. Gilchrest to attend service academies this fall. Each academy will review the nominees over the next several months and offer appointments to the most-qualified candidates.The local students nominated were:To the Naval Academy: Lindsay Axelsson, daughter of Pamela Axelsson-Gifford of Annapolis, and a senior at Annapolis High School; Michael Evans, son of Howell and Bette Evans of Glen Burnie, and a senior at North County High School; Marcus Johnson of Annapolis, son of Julie Johnson of Annapolis and Strephon Johnson of Baltimore, a graduate of the Marine Military Academy and a current student at the Hill School on a Naval Academy Foundation Scholarship; Dana Kaegel, daughter of Delbert and Diana Kaegel of Millersville, and a senior at Severna Park High School; Danny Stubbs, son of Daniel Stubbs and Mary Beth Jenkins of Glen Burnie, and a senior at Granite Baptist Church School.