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Artwork by 13 Freedom Elementary School students appears in the Human Services Programs section of the 1997 Carroll County Calendar.The students are Josh Lapps, Jenna Keyser, Jessica Beaty, Jessica Hoffman, Jackie Rettberg, Brandon Tracey, Kristen Bleach, Matthew Hammond, Tyler Kraus, Liz Edwards, Sarah Middleton, Eric Widman and Samantha Schneeman.Josh Lapps, Lindsay Parker and Matt Davis also were winners in the Westminster City Police Department's 1996 "Safety Is Only a Click Away" contest.

On a visit to the Caribbean island of St. Barthelemy about five years ago, Kelly Gary was taken with the beauty of the white-sand beaches and quaint villas. She photographed the tropical scenes but later desired to render the images in a more meaningful way. So, after a 15-year hiatus from painting, she pulled out her watercolors and put her impressions on paper. "I wanted to bring the island to life with my watercolors," said the 47-year-old real estate appraiser, who has since painted more than 200 scenes that she copies and sells as prints, note cards and calendars.

On the day before all of the political geniuses who got us into this mess in the first place gather in Annapolis, Rick Kollinger makes one thing clear: He loves William Donald Schaefer and adores the eccentricities that make the governor of Maryland an editorial cartoonist's dream."

IN OBSERVANCE of the new millennium, four Bryant Woods Elementary School pupils will keep track of the days on a 2000 calendar they created. Rachel Boyer, Eliza Fishbein, Rachelle Marcelin and Marian Creasy designed the calendar as a Type III project in the Gifted and Talented Program last year.In a Type III investigation, says Gifted and Talented Program resource teacher Leslie Weinberg, pupils identify a problem and create a product that addresses it.The fifth-grade girls decided to research breast cancer because they knew women who have had the disease.

JUST IN TIME for your holiday shopping: the Susan Reimer Tearaway Calendar. Three hundred sixty-five days of Susan Reimer. A lively quote, a muttered curse, a sardonic comment or biting sarcasm for each day of the year. The perfect gift for the newspaper reader who really enjoyed Susan Reimer's last column, but can't remember what it was about.Purchase a shopping bag full of these desktop calendar cubes for Christmas. They make ideal gifts for women friends, thoughtful neighbors and your children's teachers.

THERE ARE FEW, if any, good reasons to divide a community. Deciding how to fit two days into a public school calendar certainly is not one of them.That seems to be what is occurring in Harford County, where dozens of supporters of the agricultural 4-H program attended a recent board meeting, complete with the bejeweled "Farm Queen" herself, to convince the board not to open the school year with the State Fair in mid-gallop.The conflict isn't about this fall, when Labor Day is early enough so that schools can begin the first week of September after 4-H'ers wrap up at the fair in Timonium, a century-old tradition in Maryland.

THERE ARE FEW, if any, good reasons to divide a community. Deciding how to fit two days into a public school calendar certainly is not one of them.That seems to be what is occurring in Harford County, where dozens of supporters of the agricultural 4-H program attended a recent board meeting, complete with the bejeweled "Farm Queen" herself, to convince the board not to open the school year with the State Fair in mid-gallop.The conflict isn't about this fall, when Labor Day is early enough so that schools can begin the first week of September after 4-H'ers wrap up at the fair in Timonium, a century-old tradition in Maryland.

Howard County parents should begin receiving their school calendars this week, now that all of the covers have been replaced at little cost to the school system, Howard schools Superintendent Michael E. Hickey announced last week.The covers of 43,000 calendars had to be replaced because the cover photo was deemed by some to be racially insensitive.While the covers were being replaced, parents received photocopies of the first two months of the school system calendar.The cover photo showed white students in the foreground and African-American and Asian students in the background -- something Hickey called "an unacceptable representation of the school system's beliefs and diversity."

CHICAGO -- Less than three months before the midterm congressional elections, members of the Democratic National Committee approved a new 2008 presidential nominating calendar yesterday and left Chicago vowing to win back control of Congress this fall. In the first major restructuring of the presidential nominating process in a generation, the DNC agreed to insert Nevada between Iowa and New Hampshire at the start of the nominating season, closely followed by a South Carolina primary. The changes are meant to give African-Americans and Hispanics a bigger voice in the selection of the Democratic nominee, while also better reflecting the importance of the South and West in the Electoral College.

Of all the 2007 calendars I came across, the one I couldn't wait to get my mitts on was the one that tracks trash pickup. As soon as the 2007 Baltimore Department of Public Works calendar arrived in the mail last week, I flipped it open to make my plans for the year. Right off the bat, I saw that today and tomorrow are opportunities to feed my Christmas tree to the blades that will be whirring away until 2 p.m. on the Polytechnic Institute parking lot at Cold Spring Lane and Falls Road.