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On May 18, 2006, ADA GENEVEA (Miller) Dasher of Howard County, beloved wife of the late Clyde Dasher, devoted mother of Geneva Sauder of Howard County and Marian Nazelrod of Clarksville, DE. Grandmother of Carol, David, Jerry and Jeff Sauder, Sharon Miller, Burt and Neal Nazelrod. Great-grandmother of 8. In addition to her husband, Ms. Dasher is predeceased by her seven siblings. Friends may call at the Family owned Slack Funeral Home, P.A. 3871 Old Columbia Pike, Ellicott City on Sunday 3-5 p.m. Funeral Services will be held Monday 10 a.m. at the Emory United Methodist Church, 3810 Church Road, Ellicott City, MD 21043.

COLLEGE PARK - - The play wasn't designed for Chris Turner to run. But, with Maryland ahead of James Madison by eight points in the second quarter, the quarterback pump-faked and took off for the end zone. Turner's 3-yard score might have came on a busted play - he had no lane to throw - but coaches say they have encouraged the fifth-year player to run more often this season than last. While Turner won't lead the Terps in rushing, coaches want him to keep the defense guessing by presenting at least the threat of a scamper out of the pocket.

"Staying on the green" is a big topic at Dasher Green Elementary School. But don't grab your clubs for a quick game of golf quite yet. "Staying on the green" simply means behaving yourself. The phrase is a motto of the Beary Good Club, a new school-wide behavior program at Dasher Green. Named for the school mascot - the bear - the program uses the colors of the traffic light to rank behavior. Green stands for good behavior, yellow, for an infraction of the rules and red means serious trouble.

A 59-year-old organic farmer was sentenced yesterday to a year of unsupervised probation and ordered to pay a $5,000 fine for firing a shotgun in his Baltimore County home with a former employee in the next room. James J. Dasher, owner of a nonprofit farm in Worthington Valley that provides food for Maryland soup kitchens and homeless shelters, was convicted in March of reckless endangerment. A jury acquitted him of first-degree assault, a more serious charge that stemmed from the former employee's contention that Dasher twice fired the shotgun at him while accusing him of having an affair with his fiancee.

An Ellicott City developer has proposed building about 22 homes on a 10-acre parcel of the Dasher Homestead property, a remnant of the large farm that became an integral part of Columbia's Owen Brown Village.James R. "Rob" Moxley III, vice president of the SDC Group Inc., plans to subdivide the property into quarter-acre lots on the west side of Oakland Mills Road, south of Homespun Lane. The development would be tucked between the Elkhorn and Hopewell neighborhoods, a short distance from Lake Elkhorn and adjacent to a Baltimore Gas and Electric power line right-of-way.

Two small fires at Columbia's Dasher Green Elementary School forced cleanup crews to work through the Labor Day weekend but did not affect the school's reopening yesterday, according to school and fire officials.No one was injured in the two fires, which caused an estimated $5,500 in damage to school buildings, said Robert B. Thomas, deputy state fire marshal."All indications at this point are that the fires are juvenile activity," Thomas said.Said Friedel Warner, principal at Dasher Green: "Apparently it was vandalism.

When Dasher Green Elementary School students visit the new senior center in the East Columbia Library next door, they will see patches of their school history.At the grand opening of the East Columbia Senior Center on Dec. 12, 25 of the schools' fourth-graders presented the seniors with a 13-panel green quilt they designed when they were third-graders in the school's gifted and talented program. The county requires that third-graders learn historical research, so the Dasher Green students researched the history of their school and designed the quilt.

As state educators are looking to require that beginning kindergartners be older to ensure they're prepared for the rigors of the classroom, Howard County officials are hoping to catch children younger and younger - for the same reason. Running Brook Elementary School in Columbia has initiated a new Parents as Teachers program, bringing teachers into homes to teach parents how to teach their infants and toddlers. The county will break ground on its third Head Start facility in a matter of weeks.

"Is this a famous math class?" Haley Payne 8, wanted to know as a stream of adults wearing suits -- trailed by a photographer -- strode into her Dasher Green Elementary school classroom. Principal Friedel U. Warner led Howard County executive James N. Robey, other school officials, a reporter and photographer on a tour of the youngster's crowded, 24-year-old school. Haley's math class isn't famous, but big things are in the works for Dasher Green and Owen Brown Middle School, which share a building on Cradlerock Way in Columbia.

Plans to build a seven-classroom building for the federal Head Start program as an addition to a Columbia school ran into opposition from a small but determined group of Owen Brown parents last night. About 20 parents active at the combined Dasher Green Elementary/ Owen Brown Middle schools said they have no objection to the building as long as it's constructed someplace else. Their neighborhood school is crowded, they said, and putting 100 more children onto the property will only worsen that.

After deliberating an hour and 45 minutes, a Baltimore County jury found an organic farmer not guilty yesterday of firing a shotgun at a former employee who told police that the farmer had accused him of having an affair with his fiancee. James J. Dasher, 58, owner of a nonprofit farm in Worthington Valley that provides food for Maryland soup kitchens and homeless shelters, was acquitted of first-degree assault but convicted of reckless endangerment for accidentally discharging the weapon.

In the wake of what he says was the accidental firing of his shotgun, James J. Dasher tidied up the mess that had been made in his home. He told police he swept up shotgun pellets that had sprayed across the fireplace, officers testified yesterday. He tossed the casings of spent shotgun shells - although he later said he couldn't remember where. And he dumped a piece of plywood that had been hit by the blast into a trash pit on his sprawling organic farm in northern Baltimore County. "He was cleaning up," Officer Kyle Blackburn testified yesterday at Dasher's assault trial.

Told that he was about to receive a big gift to reward his "integrity," David L. Wonderlin peeked through the swinging doors of his former boss' kitchen and spotted something that he said stopped him in his tracks: Eighteen inches - maybe more - of the barrel of a shotgun. "I turned and ran, and there was a shot," the farmhand and carpenter testified yesterday in Baltimore County Circuit Court. He later added, "I was running for my life, as fast as I possibly could, and wishing I was in better shape."

On May 18, 2006, ADA GENEVEA (Miller) Dasher of Howard County, beloved wife of the late Clyde Dasher, devoted mother of Geneva Sauder of Howard County and Marian Nazelrod of Clarksville, DE. Grandmother of Carol, David, Jerry and Jeff Sauder, Sharon Miller, Burt and Neal Nazelrod. Great-grandmother of 8. In addition to her husband, Ms. Dasher is predeceased by her seven siblings. Friends may call at the Family owned Slack Funeral Home, P.A. 3871 Old Columbia Pike, Ellicott City on Sunday 3-5 p.m. Funeral Services will be held Monday 10 a.m. at the Emory United Methodist Church, 3810 Church Road, Ellicott City, MD 21043.

What's in a name? Plenty, if you ask pupils at Dasher Green-Owen Brown School in Columbia. Although Shakespeare suggested in Romeo and Juliet that a thing is what it is and not what it is called, the schoolchildren at Dasher Green-Owen Brown might beg to differ. For four months, the children have researched new names for their school to create unity among the recently merged elementary and middle schools. "I think the process is a challenge, but I've enjoyed doing it. It's a great opportunity for kids to help find a new name," said Kara Smalley, a 12-year-old seventh-grader.

AT DASHER Green-Owen Brown School, members of the Tri-M Music Honor Society spread good cheer by holding a party for senior citizens Dec. 12. Twenty-five sixth-, seventh- and eighth-graders prepared for the big event for six weeks, said Belinda King, the school's band director. Children made decorations, baked cookies, painted ornaments, rehearsed music and organized for the occasion. On the day of the party, about 40 members of the school band joined honor society band members and presented a concert for the seniors in the school cafeteria.

Dasher Green Elementary School will plant a tree in memory of Rick Stohler, a teacher and star of numerous dinner theater productions throughout the region, who died April 10. The tree will be dedicated at the school June 4. Toby's Dinner Theatre, where Stohler starred in several productions, is planning an event sometime in June to celebrate his life. Stohler, who died from complications of renal cancer at his Columbia home, taught third grade at Dasher Green Elementary School in Columbia from 1997 until he was forced to stop teaching because of his illness.

What's in a name? Plenty, if you ask pupils at Dasher Green-Owen Brown School in Columbia. Although Shakespeare suggested in Romeo and Juliet that a thing is what it is and not what it is called, the schoolchildren at Dasher Green-Owen Brown might beg to differ. For four months, the children have researched new names for their school to create unity among the recently merged elementary and middle schools. "I think the process is a challenge, but I've enjoyed doing it. It's a great opportunity for kids to help find a new name," said Kara Smalley, a 12-year-old seventh-grader.

After scouring catalogs and online purveyors of fine goods, our astute trend spotters have come to two conclusions: This holiday season, scarlet is the new black and, perhaps more shockingly, the moose is the new reindeer. Don't be confused by the fact that the two animals both have antlers. Moose are easily distinguished by their longer snouts and their general lack of sleekness. Much the same way as you would tell the difference between your Great-aunt Martha and a Victoria's Secret model.

When classes start next week, most kids in 7-year-old Kaleb Jareaux's neighborhood will attend Dasher Green-Owen Brown School in Columbia, which is on a state list of struggling schools. His mother says there's no way her son will go there. The Howard County school system says she doesn't have a choice. Marlena Jareaux is caught in a battle of semantics with the school system, which she says interprets too literally the eligibility requirements in a federal law that allows parents to pull their children from failing schools.