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It seemed every seat was filled during the Baltimore Orioles' exciting playoff run last season except the one that belonged to Matt Hersl. Friends say the rangy, baldheaded Orioles regular never sat during games but ran around Camden Yards, laughing with season ticket holders, keeping an eye on the batter to make sure he had the best vantage point to snag an errant fly ball or a home run souvenir. Hersl was a vigilant "ballhawk," and brought the same sharp eye and enthusiasm to his Little Italy community, where he served as the neighborhood watch leader.

On June 30, 2006 MARTHA TODD HURTT SCHAFER beloved wife of the late John Frederick Schafer; loving mother of Susan Howard Lake; cherished grandmother of Duff Mc Culloch, III and his wife Lisa Marie, Martha Todd Campanella and her husband Martin Joseph and Peerce Mc Culloch Lake Jr. and his wife Caty Brooke; great-grandmother of Duff Mc Culloch Lake III, Annabel Bristol and Oliver Henry Campanella; loving sister of Henry B. Hurtt, Ann Griffin Bell and...

The Carroll County Chamber of Commerce recently honored 21 local businesses, organizations and individuals at its annual Hats Off Awards Breakfast. The Hats Off program recognizes major milestones or events that affect the county's business community. Those honored were: National Award: Commissioner Julia Walsh Gouge; Kirsten Sauter, Manpower. State Award: JoAnn Goldberger, Carroll Child Care Centers Inc. 15th Anniversary: Vince Campanella, Campanella and Associates; Barry Willen, Sylvan Learning Centers.

Free holiday parking is called a hitFree parking in downtown Westminster during the holidays got a good reception from shoppers, said Kathleen R. Campanella, promotions director for the Westminster Business Association.Parking meters did not have to be fed from Thanksgiving Day through Jan. 1 as part of a City Council-supported effort to bring shoppers downtown for the holidays. City Finance Director Stephen V. Dutterer estimated the revenue loss at $4,000.Ms. Campanella said individual merchants made it a point to publicize the free parking.

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.

Because of racism, his major league career didn't begin until he was 26. It ended prematurely 10 years later in a car crash. He spent the final 35 years of his life as a quadriplegic.For most men, these setbacks might have produced bitterness. But in Roy Campanella, it produced a role model extraordinaire. He helped shatter baseball's racial barrier. He was the preeminent catcher of his day. And after tragedy struck, he became a spokesman for the handicapped.On the ball field, he won Most Valuable Player three times; set a single-season record (for a catcher)

Members of the Bonds Meadow Rotary club in Westminster are traveling to Tanzania today to help world health organizations battle river blindness, a debilitating disease that has affected hundreds of thousands of people and devastated farming communities in central Africa. Vince Campanella, chairman of Carroll's Economic Development Commission, and Paul Derstine, director of Interchurch Medical Assistance in New Windsor, will spend 10 days in remote villages of Tanzania. They will meet with Tanzanian officials and members of other Rotary clubs.

The Jack B. Poage Airshow in Westminster this weekend will feature a plane modified for aerobatics 32 years ago by the veteran pilot who was killed when he crashed a plane during an air show in 1990.Bel Air pilot Ned Surratt will fly the MidWing Special that he and Poage co-owned. June Poage, Jack's widow and president of Westair Inc., which operates Carroll County Regional Airport, is producing the show."We flew together in many shows," Surratt said of Poage. A manager of chemical engineering at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Surratt started flying in 1963 and got into aerobatics a year later.

The contestant from Maryland was the runner-up in the Miss USA pageant Sunday in Las Vegas. Miss Maryland USA Nana Meriwether, a 27-year-old from Potomac, finished second to Rhode Island's Olivia Culpo at the Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino. After beating out a field of 51 contestants that included Meriwether, a former volleyball player at Duke and UCLA, Culpo will be the U.S. representative in this year's 61st Miss Universe pageant. After the pageant's three competitions - swimsuit, evening gown and interview question - Miss USA 2011 Alyssa Campanella crowned Culpo, a 20-year-old cellist, her successor.