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By Lisa Breslin and Lisa Breslin,SPECIAL TO THE SUN | June 8, 1998
MEMBERS OF THE Carroll Garden Club recently brought home honors from the State Flower Show at Anne Arundel Community College.The show is held every five years at locations throughout Maryland, and this one proved to be unique, thanks to El Nino.The show featured more roses than any other flower, no tulips and "one woman managed to have two daffodils," said Mary Ellen Bay, garden club member and winner of a blue and a yellow ribbon in this year's competition.The Carroll Garden Club was honored for having the highest percentage of club members participating, an award few members anticipated.
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By Lisa Breslin and Lisa Breslin,SPECIAL TO THE SUN | December 29, 1997
CHRISTMAS CAROLS echoed through the halls of Bethany Care Center in Westminster last week as members of the STARS Club entertained residents. They sang because this is the season of giving, but this group's dedication to service is year-round.Officially called GFWC -- General Federation of Women's Clubs -- STARS Juniorette Club of Westminster, the group was started in 1994, under the auspices of Babs J. Condon, who remembered the days when most girls volunteered at a hospital or joined the Girl Scouts or a service organization.
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By Mark Guidera and Mark Guidera,Staff Writer | April 16, 1993
At the monthly meetings of the Columbia Ski Club, discussions can swing from the planning for the March of Dimes Walk-a-Thon to the prospects for the new softball season.And if you stop by a meeting, don't be surprised if anyone asks you if you favor windsurfing, biking or tennis.Such topics may seem unlikely chatter for a ski club. But this ski club, which boasts about 500 members from the Baltimore-Washington area (and one from Australia), has a penchant for more than downhills, lifts and apres ski.The close of the ski season doesn't mean members go into hibernation until the first flurries of winter.
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By Geri Hastings and Geri Hastings,SPECIAL TO THE SUN | August 6, 1998
MEMBERS OF the Happy Hounds 4-H Club are excited about the start of the 53rd Annual Howard County Fair on Aug. 15.The young people, who range in age from 8 to 18, have been working with their canine companions to prepare for the dog match at the fair.Since January, the club has almost doubled its membership. Recently, the club has welcomed new members Jenny Fox, Holly Fox and Kathy Rockstroh.Jennifer Melichar, who will be a ninth-grader at Glenelg High School this year, is club president.
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By Justin Fenton and Justin Fenton,SUN STAFF | September 18, 2005
Two years ago, when storm surge from Tropical Storm Isabel sent the waters here rising, the boats docked in Otter Point Creek floated up along with them. The Otter Point Yacht Club, however, did not. Nearly eight feet of water rushed inside the tiny clubhouse after a part of the front wall gave in. The drenched interior was destroyed - an overturned jukebox, chairs bobbing in the murky waters, boxes of food submerged. But true to its motto as a "working man's yacht club," a point of pride among members, the club rallied, rebuilding the nearly 60-year-old watering hole by themselves into a sleek new retreat with a stunning view.
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By DAVID NITKIN and DAVID NITKIN,SUN REPORTER | November 11, 2005
The Elkridge Club, the exclusive golf venue where Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. held a much-criticized fundraiser this year, has admitted an African-American member for the first time in its 127-year history, a club newsletter shows. Developer Theo C. Rodgers and his wife, Blanche, are listed as newly elected members in the September newsletter, a copy of which was provided to The Sun yesterday. But as Rodgers writes a new chapter in Elkridge history, a sister facility - the Green Spring Valley Hunt Club, founded in 1892 for fox hunting - awaits its first African-American member, club members say. One member of the Baltimore County club is Jervis S. Finney, the chief legal counsel and ethical adviser to Ehrlich.