Earleigh Heights

Have you ever considered the unthinkable: not putting up the Christmas tree?Not that the results aren't worth the effort -- dragging boxes from attic and basement, and suffering the stabs of pine needles arranging lights and decorations -- to produce the traditional holiday centerpiece.The dreaded part is taking the tree down, rewrapping that collection of ornaments, climbing to the attic or burrowing through basement shelves.Betty Gibbons of Arnold says her husband, Ed, came up with the perfect solution.

No one knows how many bull-and-oyster roasts they've held at the Earleigh Heights Volunteer Fire Company in Severna Park. After 92 years, it can be tough to keep track. Even Bill Weitzell scratches his head at the question, and he knows as much about this kind of thing as anybody. "To be honest, I'm not sure," says Weitzell, a Severna Park resident who joined the company when Franklin D. Roosevelt was president, gas cost 10 cents a gallon and a fireman was lucky if his rescue ladder reached the roof of a two-story house.

Florida Greenery sells lilies in the spring and pumpkins in the fall from a field next to the Earleigh Heights Volunteer Fire Station on Ritchie Highway, but if the Woodbridge Forest Community Association has its way, the firm may not be selling anything there.Community association leaders have asked Anne Arundel County zoning officials to stop the commercial use on land zoned for residential development, but the fire department is fighting to continue to be allowed to sell plants.Closing the operation, which sells plants from early spring until December, would mean a loss of about $15,000 in revenue for the department when it must meet increased safety requirements, Chief Michael Robinson said.

On January 12, 2009, HENDRICE M. ROBINSON, The family will receive friends at Silas First Missionary Baptist Church, 91 W. Earleigh Heights Road, Severna Park, MD 21146 on Thursday at 6 PM. Funeral Services will follow at 6:30 PM. Arrangements by the family-owned MARCH FUNERAL HOME , 1101 E. North Avenue.

On February 11, 2007 JOHN L. WEDINGTON, SR. Friends may call at the family owned MARCH FUNERAL HOME WEST, INC., 4300 Wabash Avenue on Thursday after 8:30 A.M. The family will receive friends at Silas First Baptist Church, 91 Earleigh Heights Rd. on Friday at 6 P.M. Funeral Services will follow at 6:30 P.M.

On January 20, 2009, WILLIAM E. JORDAN, SR., devoted father of Natalie Roberts and William E. Jordan Jr. Friends may visit the: family-owned MARCH FUNERAL HOME WEST, INC., 4300 Wabash Avenue on Sunday after 10:00 A.M. The family will receive friends on Monday at the Silas First Baptist Church, 91 West Earleigh Heights Road, at 6:30 P.M. followed by funeral service at 7:00 P.M.

A bull roast to benefit the Ruth P. Eason School for handicapped children will be held from 1 to 6 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 27 at the Earleigh Heights Fire Hall on Ritchie Highway in Severna Park.The event is being held in memory of Megan Ensey, a former student at the Millersville school who died in 1991, and her mother, Diane "Dee" Ensey, who was killed in an automobile accident in February.Tickets are $23 each.For more information. call Renee Alvarez at 850-9126.

A Severna Park bar owner placed on probation yesterday for illegallypossessing explosives denied planning to blow up the house of a neighbor who wanted the bar closed.David G. Paff, 64, owner of the Earleigh Heights Tavern, had been indicted on a more serious charge of "possession of explosives with intent to terrorize." He pleaded guilty yesterday in county Circuit Court to a reduced charge of possessingan explosive device without a license.The earlier charge was brought after police found explosives lastMay in Paff's home above the tavern.

The firefighters at the Earleigh Heights Volunteer Fire Station are on the lookout for new medical equipment that will help them help give heart attack victims a better chance to survive.And there's a good chance they will get it, thanks to the county budget and corporate grants.The budget adopted by the County Council in May includes $119,140 to place automatic external defibrillator machines (AED), which use electrical shocks to re-start a heart stopped by cardiac arrest, in each of the county's 29 fire stations by January 1996.

Anne Arundel County police are investigating allegations that three volunteer firefighters at the Earleigh Heights Volunteer Fire Company sexually assaulted another volunteer last week.Sgt. Jeff Kelly, a county police spokesman, said the probe by county police and the state's attorney's office is in its preliminary stages."All we're saying right now is that we have received the complaint, and we're investigating the allegations," Sergeant Kelly said.The three volunteer firefighters reportedly were dismissed after an internal probe of allegations that a male volunteer who is not a firefighter was abused.