Eddie

Eddie Boyd Jr., an auto salesman who had been the Green Party candidate for Maryland governor in 2006, died of lung cancer Monday at Good Samaritan Hospital. The Waverly resident was 46. Mr. Boyd was born in Miami and was raised there and in Aynor, S.C. After graduating from Aynor High School in 1979, he enlisted in the Navy, where he was a firefighter until being discharged in 1987. After leaving the Navy, Mr. Boyd lived in Vermont for several years before moving to Baltimore about a decade ago to begin his recovery from drug addiction and to work with homeless veterans.

Eddie VanKirk settled scores with his fists as he grew up on the tough streets of Southwest Baltimore. He went on to box professionally for 13 years as a welterweight and confidently took on competitors. Mr. VanKirk died Sunday at the University of Maryland Medical Center of complications from an infection. He was 45. The circumstances of his death mirrored the ups and downs in his life. He was recuperating from a gunshot wound that he suffered in November last year during a home invasion in the 300 block of Parrish St. Police said the gunman demanded money and drugs.

Happy 49th birthday. You are in our hearts forever. Love Mom, Dad, Eddie & Mark

When jockey Jeremy Rose and his mount Arcata passed the finish line yesterday in the $80,000 Harrison E. Johnson Memorial Handicap for older horses at Laurel Park, the jockey was steaming. "I didn't think I'd won, and I was [peeved]," said Rose, who rode back to watch the replay of the photo finish between Arcata and Eddie C. and learned he actually had won - by a head bob. "I had told [the horse] we had the race won if he'd just keep running. He has a tendency to wait for the other horses when he gets the lead.

On January 13, 2008, SALLY ANN GRACEY, beloved wife of the late Gary N. Gracey, Sr., devoted mother of Patty and Eddie, Kim, Grace, Gary, Jr. and Karen and the late Cindy and Billy, loving grand-mom of Eddie, III, Heather, Stacey, Shelby, Kyle, Lori, Khrysta and Gary, III, great grand-mom of Jaelyn. A funeral service will be held at the family owned Duda-Ruck Funeral Home of Dundalk, Inc., 7922 Wise Avenue on Wednesday at 12pm. Interment Holly Hill Memorial Gardens. Friends may call on Tuesday 3 to 5 and 7 to 9pm.

On January 4, 2008, EDDIE JAMES GREEN JR., survived by his loving mother, Hattie Green, brothers Ronald G. Green and Darryl W. Green of NY, sister, Avis G. Terry and a host of other family and friends. Friends may call the family owned WYLIE FUNERAL HOME P.A. OF BALTIMORE COUNTY, 9200 Liberty Road Thursday from 6-8PM. Services Friday in the chapel of the above mentioned funeral home, 9:30 AM wake, 10 AM funeral. Interment Following. Inquiries at www.wyliefuneralhome.com.

It's a year this week since he lost his son. You try to get away from it, he says, try to heal. But that's hard to do when everywhere you go, people know you, know what you're going through. They even approach when you're onstage, stop you in the middle of a song. "No matter where I'm at," says Eddie Levert, "there's someone who wants to give me their condolences because, `We loved your son and we love you.' I understand all of that, but somewhere along the way, we've got to let him rest in peace."

Each Thursday, a member of The Sun's staff visits three grocery stores in the same part of the Baltimore region to compare prices of selected items. Prices featured this week are from grocers in Baltimore: Giant Food in the Rotunda at 711 W. 40th St., the Superfresh at 1020 W. 41st St. and Eddie's at 5113 Roland Ave. Item Amount Giant Superfresh Eddie's Choice boneless strip steak 1 lb. $10.99 $10.99 $14.99 Breyers vanilla ice cream Half gallon 5.99 4.99 6.39 Pepsi 2 liter 1.89 1.79 1.89 All detergent 100 oz. 4.99 4.99 6.59 Kleenex tissues 120-count box 1.99 1.29 1.39 Arnold whole wheat bread 1.5 lb. loaf 3.39 3.59 3.59 Large white eggs Dozen 1.79 1.99 1.69 Fresh tomatoes 1 lb. 1.49 3.49 3.99 Mrs. Smith's deep dish frozen apple pie 3.1 lbs. 7.59 7.99 7.59 Purina dog chow 4.4 lbs. 4.69 4.89 4.99 Total --- 44.80 46.00 53.10

"There's only one place that I long to be," sings Rodolpho, an illegal Italian immigrant who unknowingly stirs up the tragic emotions that drive William Bolcom's A View from the Bridge, "and that's New York, and the New York lights." Rodolpho's innocent delight in the big city - or at least the Red Hook neighborhood of 1950s Brooklyn, where the action takes place - is shattered in the course of this big, powerful opera based on the classic Arthur Miller play. Premiered in 1999 by the Lyric Opera of Chicago and subsequently presented at New York's Metropolitan Opera, A View from the Bridge arrives in this region Saturday, thanks to Washington National Opera.

Eddie Bauer Holdings Inc. Shares declined $1.74, or 18 percent, to $7.98 after the outdoor-clothing maker reported a loss of 73 cents a share in the second quarter on sales of $227 million. It was the fifth loss in six quarters.