Church Creek

Church Creek Elementary, its groundbreaking delayed for four months for soil tests, is now another 22 days behind schedule because of rainy weather.That means the building may not be ready in time for the first day of school, Ray R. Keech, the school superintendent, told a meeting of the Harford County Council of PTAs."

Church Creek Elementary School was evacuated briefly Friday morning while firefighters investigated a possible gas leak. Around 8 a.m., the school's chief custodian reported an odor of gas in the boiler room at the school at 4299 Church Creek Road, according to Lindsay Bilodeau, communications specialsit for Harford County Public Schools. Per the school system's normal procedures, the building was immediately evacuated and the fire department, BGE and school system facilities crews were notified to respond to the school, Bilodeau wrote in an email.  It was determined that a pilot light was out in one of the boilers.

Riverside-area parents are frustrated because they say the school system is stonewalling them by refusing to say when construction on Church Creek Elementary School will resume.The school was to have been completed Aug. 15 but education officials announced in April that the building, at Riverside Parkway and Church Creek Road, would not open until the start of school next year. Officials cited earlier construction problems with the compactibility of soil beneath the building."I'm real tired of being patient and understanding," said Pat Benedict, who lives in Riverside and has two children who would attend Church Creek.

Lucille Bork Jones A celebration of her life will be held on Tuesday, December 29, at 11:00 A.M. at Old Trinity Episcopal Church located in Church Creek, Maryland. Tributes at www.beinhauer.com

On Friday, March 3, 2006, WILLIAM M. HANF, of Church Creek, formerly of Catonsville, MD. He is survived by his wife Shirley Robinson Hanf. A Funeral Service will be at the convenience of the family. Memorial contributions may be made to Church Creek Vol. Fire Co., P.O. Box 16, Church Creek, MD 21622 or Shriners Hospitals for Children, P.O. Box 9695, Baltimore, MD 21237.

The gates are locked, construction has stopped and a new contractor is being brought in to complete Church Creek Elementary School in Belcamp, whose scheduled Aug. 30 opening already has been pushed back a year.Victimized by a contractor that has declared bankruptcy, Church Creek is the second new Harford County school to have its opening delayed this year. Fallston Middle, at Route 152 and Carrs Mill Road, opened two weeks late because of what the school system said were problems with its contractor, Triangle General Contractors Inc.School board Vice President Ron Eaton said he could not comment on construction problems at either school because of potential litigation.

The gates are locked, construction has stopped and a new contractor is being brought in to complete Church Creek Elementary School in Belcamp, whose scheduled Aug. 30 opening already has been pushed back a year.Victimized by a contractor that has declared bankruptcy, Church Creek is the second new Harford County school to have its opening delayed this year. Fallston Middle, at Route 152 and Carrs Mill Road, opened two weeks late because of what the school system said were problems with its contractor, Triangle General Contractors Inc.School board Vice President Ron Eaton said he could not comment on construction problems at either school because of potential litigation.

On Wednesday, August 29, 2007, SHIRLEY M. CAMBRIDGE-HANF (77) of Church Creek, MD, formerly of Baltimore, passed away at the Mallard Bay Care Center . Survivors include a brother, Earl H. Robinson and wife Maxine of Baltimore; niece Lynn M. Robinson of Baltimore; nephew Michael L. Robinson and wife Anna Tsao of Baltimore, and close friends William and Betty Harrison of Church Creek. Funeral services will be held 11 a.m. on Tuesday, September 4, 2007 at Thomas Funeral Home, P.A., in Cambridge.

Lucille Bork Jones A celebration of her life will be held on Tuesday, December 29, at 11:00 A.M. at Old Trinity Episcopal Church located in Church Creek, Maryland. Tributes at www.beinhauer.com

Severe winter weather has played havoc with construction of Church Creek Elementary in Belcamp and Emmorton Elementary Bel Air, putting both schools at least a month behind schedule.Church Creek, at Riverside Parkway and Church Creek Road, was to have been finished by July 27 this year. It is about 50 percent complete, said Donald R. Morrison, the schools spokesman.Emmorton Elementary, near the Harford Glen Environmental Education Center on South Wheel Road, was to have been completed Aug. 1. About 30 percent of that building has been finished, he added.

Stacey Sewell vividly remembers her physical education teacher. Sewell said she thought the teacher had the greatest job. "I watched her and thought that her job was more exciting than an academic teacher," Sewell said. So it seemed only fitting that she would become a physical education teacher. Twelve years later, Sewell has made her mark in physical education. Later this month, she will receive the Simon McNeely Award from the Maryland Association of Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance.

On Wednesday, August 29, 2007, SHIRLEY M. CAMBRIDGE-HANF (77) of Church Creek, MD, formerly of Baltimore, passed away at the Mallard Bay Care Center . Survivors include a brother, Earl H. Robinson and wife Maxine of Baltimore; niece Lynn M. Robinson of Baltimore; nephew Michael L. Robinson and wife Anna Tsao of Baltimore, and close friends William and Betty Harrison of Church Creek. Funeral services will be held 11 a.m. on Tuesday, September 4, 2007 at Thomas Funeral Home, P.A., in Cambridge.

On Friday, March 3, 2006, WILLIAM M. HANF, of Church Creek, formerly of Catonsville, MD. He is survived by his wife Shirley Robinson Hanf. A Funeral Service will be at the convenience of the family. Memorial contributions may be made to Church Creek Vol. Fire Co., P.O. Box 16, Church Creek, MD 21622 or Shriners Hospitals for Children, P.O. Box 9695, Baltimore, MD 21237.

It all began with a birthday invitation in February to a second-grade pen pal class in Minnesota. Abby Schultheis, a pupil at Church Creek Elementary School in Belcamp, thought it would be fun if her class could meet their pen pals. "It was pretty much all my idea," said Abby, who turned 8 on May 24. However, she didn't realize the amount of hard work it would take to make her birthday wish a reality. With an outpouring of community support and fund raising, the Cass Lake-Bena Elementary School pupils, residents of the Leech Lake Indian Reservation and members of the Ojibwa tribe, made her wish come true.

On March 10, 2003, BERNARD C. STOCKTON, (68) of Joppa at Union Memorial Hospital. He is survived by his wife Anita, three daughters Amy Birch of Essex, Kim Stockton of Savannah, GA., and Tracy Erickson of Ingleside, TX, six grandchildren and two sisters, Shirley Tilman of Salisbury and Loretta Richardson of Cambridge and several nieces and nephews. A graveside service will be held at 1 P.M., Saturday afternoon in Old Trinity Churchyard, Church Creek, MD. Memorials may be made to the American Cancer Socity.

Maryland's Department of Natural Resources officials said that two more people were served with citations during the weekend for alleged state wildlife conservation violations as a result of a four-year investigation of a Dorchester County hunt club.Martin A. Regalia, 49, of Gaithersburg and James E. Vance, 49, of Washington were charged with violations including failure to register deer kills with the state, according to a DNR spokesman.The investigation began in February 1995 after Maryland Natural Resources Police received information about alleged illegal hunting practices at Golden Hills Farms in Church Creek.

The opening of Church Creek Elementary in Belcamp will be delayed until September 1994 instead of next winter, Harford County school officials announced last week.About 100 parents who met with Superintendent Ray R. Keech on Wednesday night at William Paca/Old Post Road Elementary in Abingdon wildly applauded the announcement.The school system had planned to open the 600-student school, which has been delayed because of bad weather, in January 1994. But parents opposed the proposed opening date, saying that uprooting children midway through the school year would be disruptive.

The Harford County school system signed a contract with H.A. Harris Co. of Baltimore Friday to take over construction of Church Creek Elementary School in Belcamp.Harris will begin work at the site at Riverside Parkway and Church Creek Road tomorrow, said Donald R. Morrison, spokesman for the school system.Harris, which built Ring Factory Elementary in Bel Air and is in the process of building Country Walk also in Bel Air, replaces Peter J. Scarpulla Inc. of Baltimore.Scarpulla, citing "financial difficulties," stopped work on the school Sept.

The Anne Arundel County Council has given the go-ahead to plans to build a 31-home subdivision on environmentally sensitive farmland beside Church Creek south of Annapolis.The 7-0 vote Monday night means that the Homeport Farms Limited Partnership will build $250,000 homes on the 81-acre property and donate about 25 acres to the county for a park.Dozens of residents packed a public hearing in council chambers, with some applauding the parkland donation, but most expressing fears that the project will bring more traffic and pollution.

CHURCH CREEK -- Whatever you expect to see on the road to Taylors Island, it isn't this. An 8-foot mosquito made of wire perches on the sign for Maryland Wire Belts Inc.Tilting forward toward Route 16 where it winds through the handful of houses and a business or two that constitute Church Creek, the mosquito sits at the edge of the Kentuck Swamp in an area where the insect that inspired it is voraciously abundant."