Christian Academy

Chapelgate Presbyterian Church in Ellicott City announces the opening of Chapelgate Christian Academy for middle and high school students in the fall of 1991.Emphasizing high-quality, college preparatory education from a Christian perspective, Chapelgate Christian Academy will offer classes for students in grades six through nine its first academic year and will add one grade per year to complete its high school program.The school will be on the church's new property at Marriottsville Roand and Route 40. Information 465-7877.

The IAAM C Conference girls lacrosse championship between St. Timothy's and Chapelgate has been moved to Monday at 7 p.m. at Stevenson University. The game was originally scheduled for Sunday to preceed the A and B Conference finals, but Chapelgate is a Christian Academy and its teams do not play on Sunday. The A and B Conference games remain the same, Sunday at Stevenson. Friends will play Park for the B Conference title at 1 p.m., followed by No. 1 McDonogh vs. No. 5 Maryvale for the A Conference championship at 5.

The sounds of construction reverberate through the Long Reach Church of God on a daily basis.The church's pastor, Rev. Robert S. Davis Sr., doesn't mind. He knows a permanent guest is coming: A new $700,000 educational wing for the church at 6080 Foreland Garth."I can put up with it," said the pastor of the 20-year-old, 800-member congregation. "It's another milestone."The 17,000 square-foot educational wing, scheduled for completion by Thanksgiving, will provide badly needed room for the church's year-old Christian Academy, along with office space for the church.

The empty desks in the computer room, left with nothing more than dust and a few old cables, tell the story of the burglary as vividly as any anecdote. Thieves who broke into a private Christian school in Northeast Baltimore over the weekend seemed to know exactly where the most valuable items were, school officials said Wednesday, prompting the theory that the perpetrators are former students. The burglars made off with 17 new desktop computers that had been set up just two weeks ago, as well as sound and music equipment from behind a stage.

During the summer, Tamir Goodman gave the odometer a workout in regular trips to College Park for pickup basketball games at the University of Maryland, the school that offered him a scholarship earlier this year.Those trips to the Washington area apparently won't end anytime soon. The 17-year-old has transferred from Talmudical Academy to Takoma Academy, a Seventh-Day Adventist institution, and will commute daily to the Takoma Park school.Chava Goodman, his mother, and Takoma Academy coach Joe Perrone both confirmed the move yesterday, though neither would comment further.

Donald W. Fisher can still hear his public school teacher, Mrs. Haslup, reading the "love chapter" from the New Testament.It was nearly a quarter century later, in 1951 and before public school prayer was ruled unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court, that he received his charge to build a Christian school."

The Unitarian Universalist Society of Howard County has recently ordained and installed Steven Dowell Beall as its new minister.The Rev. Beall lives in ColumbiaCHRISTIAN ACADEMY TO OPEN IN 1991Chapelgate Presbyterian Church in Ellicott City announces the opening of Chapelgate Christian Academy for middle and high school students in the fall of 1991.Emphasizing high-quality, college preparatory education from a Christian perspective, Chapelgate Christian Academy will offer classes for students in grades six through nine its first academic year and will add one grade per year to complete its high school program.

It had been quite some time since the Greater Grace Christian Academy had won the Maryland Christian Athletic League championship.Some said too long."I thought we were going to be like Duke or something," said forward Jimmy Carter. "It's tough to go all that time without winning."Carter scored a game-high 14 points and grabbed 14 rebounds to lead Greater Grace to a 51-39 win over Lanham Christian Acad MACL championshipsemy before a standing-room-only crowd last night at Essex Community College.

On July 26, 2005, MARGARETTA O. (nee Warwick); beloved wife of the late Edward J. Hucke, Sr.; devoted mother of Milton E. and Edward Hucke, Jr. and the late Mary L. Benz; dear sister of Edward J. Warwick. Also survived by 10 grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. Relatives and friends may gather at MILLER-DIPPEL FUNERAL HOME, INC., 6415 Belair Road, on Thursday and Friday, 6 to 9 P.M. Funeral service will be held on Saturday, 11 A.M. Interment Parkwood Cemetery. Contributions may be made in the name of Margaretta to the Open Bible Christian Academy - Hucke Fund, 13 Open Bible Way, Kingsville, MD 21087.

The IAAM C Conference girls lacrosse championship between St. Timothy's and Chapelgate has been moved to Monday at 7 p.m. at Stevenson University. The game was originally scheduled for Sunday to preceed the A and B Conference finals, but Chapelgate is a Christian Academy and its teams do not play on Sunday. The A and B Conference games remain the same, Sunday at Stevenson. Friends will play Park for the B Conference title at 1 p.m., followed by No. 1 McDonogh vs. No. 5 Maryvale for the A Conference championship at 5.

Lake Clifton forward Will Barton, The Baltimore Sun All-Metro Player of the Year, and his brother, Antonio, the Lakers' starting point guard, have made oral commitments to play college basketball at Memphis. The Bartons chose Memphis over Xavier, Miami, Virginia and Syracuse, which all recruited both brothers. "It was always our plan to go to school together, but we were ready for anything, [even] if it was to split up and go to different schools," said Antonio Barton, who was in Memphis along with his brother for an elite camp.

The St. Frances girls team used its defensive pressure to force plenty of turnovers and converted them into baskets as it defeated Blair Academy (N.J.), 69-30, in the Festival of the Phoenix in Newark, N.J., yesterday. The Panthers (8-0) started strong behind Shatyra Hawkes, who scored 11 of her 18 points in the first half as St. Frances built a 22-point lead. Deanna Harmon had 16 points and 10 rebounds to go with seven steals, and the Panthers made 12 three-pointers. Tasia Bristow added 13 points in the win. The Panthers were also scheduled yesterday to play St. Michael's (N.Y.

Four top high school rock bands will play a free concert at the Annapolis Harbour Center pavilion from noon to 4 p.m. Saturday. Headlining the concert, part of the Kick Butts Tour, sponsored by the Smoking Stinks program of the Anne Arundel County Department of Health, will be the winner of Battle of the Bands 2008, Stockyard of Severna Park High School. Also on stage will be Choice (Southern High School); Kramer & Nelson (South River High School) and Mount Weather (Annapolis High Schools)

High school spring plays in Howard County Atholton -- Seussical, Thursday to Saturday, 7 p.m.; March 9, 3 p.m. 410-313-7065. Centennial -- West Side Story, April 2-4, 7 p.m.; April 5, 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. 410-313-2856. Chapelgate Christian Academy -- Don't Drink the Water, March 15, 7 p.m. 410-442-5888 Hammond -- Honk!, Thursday and Friday, 7 p.m.; Saturday, 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. 410-313-7615. Howard -- You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown, March 27-29, 7 p.m. 410-313-2867. Long Reach -- The King and I, April 3-5, 7:30 p.m.; April 6, 2:30 p.m. 410-313-7117.

The staff meeting had just ended at the radio station as the chief executive officer struggled with a computer program to pay a bill. Frustrated, 11-year-old Rebecca Forrester lost it when a colleague allowed a friend to give a shout-out on the air. "You have to pay for that!" she yelled to her disc jockey. Rebecca slapped her hand to her head and turned back to her computer screen. It's tough being boss, even of a pretend Christian rock radio station. Last week, Arundel Bay Christian Academy in Lothian was the first school to get a daylong dip into the business world at Junior Achievement's new simulated community, called BizTown.

`The Real Me' set as Journeys topic Journeys Community, a nontraditional Christian seekers' group, meets at 10 a.m. Sundays in the second-floor auditorium of Vantage House Life-Care Retirement Community, 5400 Vantage Point Road in Town Center, Columbia. This week's topic is "Will the Real Me Stand Up! -- Discovering Our Authentic Voice." Journeys Community has published a book, Seeking the Spirit: How to Create a Community of Seekers. The book describes the history of the Columbia group and its nontraditional liturgy, which draws on many cultures and faith traditions and includes readings, music and film clips from sources such as Mother Teresa, Thich Nhat Hanh and Stevie Wonder.

Services for Virginia Lee Thompson, a retired educator, will be held at 11:30 a.m. tomorrow at the Faith Christian Worship Center, 125 N. Hilton St., where she had worked as a counselor and principal of the Mark of Excellence Christian Academy.Miss Thompson, who lived on Kenshaw Avenue, died Saturday at Levindale after a long illness. She was 59.She retired in 1988 after a year as a worship center counselor at the Christian academy and two years as its principal.From 1966 to 1984 Miss Thompson worked in the Baltimore school system.

In 1995, John Bressler of Odenton took his four sons to their first wrestling practice at the Arundel junior league in order to fulfill a physical education requirement for the family's home school program. The boys' performance, Bressler remembers, left much to be desired. "When we first started wrestling practice, it was pretty clear that they were all pathetic," Bressler said. "My oldest son John could only do two honest pushups." So Bressler put his four sons - John, Paul, Michael and Josh - on a morning workout routine.

The Rev. Jerry Falwell doesn't body surf anymore. In years past, Liberty University's famed founder and chancellor, a self-described "sports nut," occasionally allowed himself to be passed hand by hand up seating sections by delighted students during football and basketball games at the Lynchburg, Va., school. But with age creeping up on him, the 72-year-old has mellowed a bit. "I bruise easily and heal slowly, so I haven't done that recently," he said by phone last week. But Falwell still loves to win, which makes the events of this fall that much more painful.