Cindy

''Over the river and through the woods to Grandfather's house we go . . .''LIBBY couldn't decide whether or not to go to Florida for Thanksgiving to be with her mother and father and two sisters.''I only have three days off, and it's a long and expensive flight from here. But then they are in their late 70s . . . whatdya think?'' she asks me.She and her sisters live in different parts of the country. Their parents retired and moved to Florida last year.''I think you should go. You'll regret it if you don't, and they probably don't have too many new friends there, yet,'' I tell her.Then she tells me how it was last Thanksgiving.

A demure Cinderella in a flowing gown and glass slippers may have enchanted a prince at a ball in the fairy tale, but in today's version, Cindy would show up for a rock party in a black mini-dress and pumps to meet a handsome lawyer. And she would look remarkably like Barbie.At least that's the way Sheila Bailey, Annamarie Damron, and April Watts see it. The three used Barbie dolls, a 35 mm camera and a little imagination to create a slide show version of "Cinderella" that won them an award at the International Student Media Festival, sponsored by the Association for Education, Communications and Technology.

A YOUNG Parkton family is happily raising a Great Dane named Duke who is black and white, healthy and friendly.Duke hogs the television, sleeps with family members, is spoiled and thinks he is a person. But the family is convinced if their safety was challenged Duke would be their protector.Duke's owners, Cindy and Larry Price, and their two children, Larry Jr., 13, and Barbara, 4, don't know Duke's weight exactly, but they say Duke doesn't seem as large to them now as he did when he was a puppy three years ago when they purchased him.''At just a few weeks, Duke was so big as a puppy, he could already reach to kiss Barbara,'' says Cindy, who had insisted upon a dog and she wanted a big one.The couple, in their 30s, are deeply religious and dedicated to the Church of God.All four family members attend Sunday school and church on Sunday, go back for evening services and on Wednesday evening attend a family training class at church.

One Wednesday night in the late '70s, Sonia Rutstein and her sister Cindy were playing Joni Mitchell's "Real Good for Free" on guitar at the old Peabody Bookstore and Beer Stube on Charles Street. She was only 16 or so, too young to be in a bar, but it was her first paying gig ($50 per week) and she loved the place. The crowd - mostly writers, musicians and intellectuals - was chattering about whatever that kind of crowd chatters about. Then one long-haired fellow started playing the song's trademark clarinet riff on his flute, which cut through the air and quieted the crowd.

June 11: Dinner dance. Benefits Bradley Family Treatment Center. Buffet dinner, dancing, door prizes. Heritage Parkville Gardens, 7631 Harford Road. 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. Tickets $30 at the door. June 12: "A Wine Tasting and Recognition Event." Benefits Leave a Legacy Maryland. Boordy Vineyards wines, hors d'oeuvres. Pisces Restaurant, Hyatt Regency Baltimore, 300 Light St. 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. Tickets $10. Call 800-842-1012. June 13: "Summerfest 2000." Benefits Ulman Cancer Fund for Young Adults.

Like Madonna, Enya and Cher, Sonia is a one-named singer. Even so, people often give her a last name, anyway. But it's not Rutstein, the name on her driver's license; it's "from disappear fear." As in "Sonia from disappear fear."Not that you can blame them. After all, Sonia has spent most of the last decade writing songs and singing with her sister, Cindy Frank, as disappear fear. Initially a Baltimore-based duo, the group grew to full-band status over the years and continued to tour even after Cindy semi-retired to stay home with her husband and child (she still sang on the albums)

WHEN ARTIST Cindy Fletcher-Holden goes to her regular job, she brings paint by the thimbleful. "I measure it in tablespoons," she explained.Working sometimes upside-down over a transom, she paints names on boats. Lots of boats, maybe 300 a season.She has switched gears, though, and just started her most prodigious job, not with tablespoons, but with 50 gallons of paint, creating a maritime mural on a blank, 17-by-90-foot wall.It's going up on the Hopkins Furniture warehouse at Fourth and Chesapeake, a site that's been called an eyesore for years.

Cindy's other workoutThough no one would describe her face as basic, the ultimate supermodel has published a makeup workbook called just that -- "Cindy Crawford's Basic Face." The 109-page guide is chock-full of photos and inspirational cartoons, like the one with a stick-figure Cindy teaching readers how to "make friends with makeup." There are quite a few practical tips, too: how to cover a pimple, how to correctly curl an eyelash, how to create beauty marks (for readers not blessed with Cindy's perfectly placed above-the-lip mole)

Former champion Cindy Peterka, a runner-up last year, posted 39-3877 and took a two-stroke lead after the first round of the annual Women's Golf Association stroke-play championship at Hillendale Country Club yesterday.Susan Schuh, with 35-4479, was the only other golfer to break 80 in the 51-player field. The Hunt Valley GC member played the back first and soared six over par in a four-hole span, then charged back with three birdies and a bogey on the front nine.Peterka, from Sparrows Point CC, was more consistent, keeping the ball in play and handling difficult greens well.

AT THE RISK of going all gooey on you, this is one of those stories with an ending so sweet you could gag on it, which is why I love it. It involves a woman named Cindy Vinyard, 41, who lives in southwest Oklahoma, but who now considers Baltimore the garden spot of the East Coast and its citizens perhaps the finest people God ever put on this earth. Vinyard's story begins on a gentle afternoon in May at Camden Yards, where she was attending the Orioles game against the Texas Rangers. At the time, she was helping chaperone a group of seventh-graders from Alpus, Okla.