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Performing artists are reaching out to mural artists in an exchange of talents to help a Severna Park nonprofit enhance a section of the B&A Trail. ASPIRE, or the Association for Severna Park Improvement Renewal and Enhancement, is raising money for its Centennial Murals project, commissioned artworks depicting the community's history that will be painted along the commercial section of the trail. The only completed murals are behind the Carr Building at Riggs Avenue and B&A Boulevard, where artist Cindy Fletcher-Holden has created a stunning rendition of the railroad that once ran through Severna Park, and around the corner is her tranquil beach scene.

Nathan S. Ancell, 90, co-founder of the Ethan Allen furniture company and pioneer of the concept of selling furniture in room-style settings, died Monday at his home in New Rochelle, N.Y. Mr. Ancell and his brother-in-law, Theodore Baumritter, started their company in the 1930s in Beecher Falls, Vt., out of a bankrupt furniture factory. Its headquarters eventually moved to Danbury, Conn.Vaclav Benda, 52, a Czech senator, mathematician, philosopher and former anti-communist dissident, died yesterday in Prague, Czech Republic, the news agency CTK reported.

J. Ronald EarhartHopkins physicistServices for J. Ronald Earhart, a physicist at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, will be held at 2 p.m. today at St. Paul's United Church of Christ in Westminster.Dr. Earhart died early Thursday after a heart attack at his home in Westminster. He was 50.Since 1984, he had headed the Aegis 21 project analyzing the Navy's need for surface ships into the next century.He had been a member of the laboratory's Naval Warfare Analysis Department since 1979.

Rennie Bullock, 17, of Crownsville, a senior at Old Mill High SchoolAccomplishments/Interests: Rennie has been a member of the Civil Air Patrol nearly four years and has risen to the rank of cadet major in the Arundel Squadron. As one of the highest-ranking cadets, she has earned both the Billy Mitchell and Amelia Earhart awards, given to cadets who meet a variety of requirements and successfully complete performance tests.She is working on requirements to receive the Carl E. Spaatz Award, the CAP's highest honor.

Will we ever know for sure what happened to Amelia Earhart, whose disappearance 60 years ago remains one of aviation's greatest mysteries? Check out ABC tonight."

Rock opera, Amelia Earhart and human sculpture will meet on New Year's Eve during the annual First Night Annapolis event.Admission pins will go on sale tomorrow.More than 300 performers will take over the churches, courtrooms, storefronts and streets of the state capital for the daylong celebration of the arts that ends with a midnight fireworks display.Admission pins go on sale tomorrow at First National Bank of Maryland branches and participating Giant Food stores.Tickets will cost $10 through Dec. 23 and $14 afterward.

Coach: Ron Vanderlinden (fourth season) Last year: 5-6 Conference: Atlantic Coast Radio: WBAL (1090 AM), WTEM (980 AM) Stadium: Byrd (48,055) Offense: Multiple Defense: Multiple Top returning players: TB LaMont Jordan, OLB Aaron Thompson, FB Matt Kalapinski, C Melvin Fowler, QB Calvin McCall, WR Guilian Gary, ILB Marlon Moore, K Brian Kopka, P Brooks Barnard, SS Tony Jackson, FS Shawn Forte, ILB Kevin Bishop, CB Tony Okanlawon, ILB E. J. Henderson....

THEATER 'MURDER' AT CENTER STAGE The Murder of Isaac, Israeli Motti Lerner's play about the 1995 assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, makes its American and English language debuts at Center Stage's Head Theater beginning tomorrow. The play, which has never been produced in Israel, places the action in a hospital where patients with post-traumatic-stress disorder stage a re-enactment of the murder as part of their therapy. Irene Lewis directs a cast headed by Broadway actors David Margulies in the role of the patient who portrays the prime minister; Mia Dillon, as the prime minister's wife; and Olek Krupa, as the leader of the opposition.

WASHINGTON - -Southern belle. Fairy-tale princess. Nun. Pioneer aviatrix. Is there any role Amy Adams can't play? Maybe. It's hard imagining her as a victim in the next Friday 13th sequel, or as a lethal cyborg in the Terminator franchise. But just about everything else seems possible, especially after her star turn as a saucy Amelia Earhart in the summer-blockbuster in waiting, Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian. "I don't know that there's a better actress in her generation," says Smithsonian director Shawn Levy, who was in Washington on Thursday evening for the movie's world premiere at the Smithsonian's National Air & Space Museum.