Erdman

Baltimore police said they need the public's help searching for a driver who ran over and dragged a 65-year-old man about 40 feet last month on an East Baltimore street. After suffering a broken pelvis and other internal injuries, the man died six days later. Police said the victim, Charles R. Erdman, and the driver of a sport utility vehicle were involved in a minor accident on Erdman Avenue on March 3, in front of the auto parts store where Erdman worked. Police said Erdman tried to get insurance information from the SUV driver, but the driver accelerated and ran over Erdman.

Timely baskets from guard Vanessa Collier, a fine all-around effort from forward Kelsey Erdman, and scrappy defensive play enabled the River Hill girls basketball team to come away with a 47-46 win over visiting Centennial in Howard County play last night. Collier scored a team-high 13 points -- including a three-pointer midway through the fourth quarter to give River Hill a 43-40 lead -- and Erdman added 10 points and 13 rebounds as the No. 15 Hawks were able to avenge an early-season loss to the Eagles.

Moments after Charles R. Erdman's old Ford pickup truck had been struck by a sport utility vehicle on Erdman Avenue in East Baltimore, he stepped out to talk to the driver. Standing in front of the auto parts shop where he worked, all Erdman wanted was the man's insurance information, police said. But the driver of the green Ford Explorer refused - police said the vehicle had a stolen license plate - and hopped back into the SUV and accelerated. He drove into the 65-year-old man, whose head and arms hit the top of the truck's hood.

An infant was killed yesterday when a small hatchback in which she was riding was rear-ended by a car driven by a man on a rain-slicked street in East Baltimore, city police said.Moments after the crash at 11 a.m. on Erdman Avenue, witnesses said, the child's distraught mother carried the injured 5-month-old girl into the Garden Bar, where a patron and later a police officer administered cardiopulmonary resuscitation."The mother was screaming and the baby wasn't breathing," said Josh Evans, 34, who works nearby and helped carry the baby inside.

City police were searching last night for a gunman who shot and killed a 25-year-old woman and wounded two companions as they sat in a car in Northeast Baltimore -- one of two slayings reported early yesterday.Police said Rotanya Dickerson, 25, of the 300 block of Whitridge Avenue was killed about 2: 30 a.m., shot multiple times by an unidentified man as she sat in the car in the 4200 block Erdman Ave.One of the wounded women managed to drive the car the 5100 block of Sinclair Lane, where a passer-by called 911.Police said Bridgette Curry, 29, and Betsy Davis, 23, were released after treatment for minor wounds at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center.

Mayfield residents have a proclivity for hanging around their neighborhood -- for years, and often, for decades and decades.Ruth Barker grew up in Mayfield, then stayed to get married and raise two children.Nick and Geri Broccolino moved there in 1967 and still reside in the neighborhood. (As do a myriad of other Broccolinos: their son, brother, nephew and niece.)Arthur Beksinski moved there when he was a youth -- and stayed for 53 years.But today, Barker has moved on, and Beksinski has his house on the market.

Get carded: Home Office Computing magazine, a proponent of technology for entrepreneurs, says business cards are still great advertising. The magazine interviewed Ken Erdman, who's opened a business card museum, and passed along some advice from him: Use color, embossing, logos and any other visual tools that will help your cards stand out. And be sure to use a card holder, he said, so you're not handing out grubby cards.No time to spare: Christian & Timbers, an executive research firm, surveyed 100 chief executive officers of big and small firms, and found that while 85 percent want to give more time to their families, only 7 percent believe it will happen.

A man who suffers from cerebral palsy and who gets around in a wheelchair was slashed with a knife yesterday during an attempted robbery on a parking lot in East Baltimore, city police said.Charles Edward Watson, 33, of the 900 block of Quantril Way in Armistead Gardens was on the Erdman Shopping Center lot in the 4500 block of Erdman Ave. about 12: 20 p.m. when a man demanded money, police said.They said Watson didn't understand his assailant or didn't comply fast enough and was slashed across the chest.

It's the last of its breed in Baltimore, and so are they. For decades now, Joe Lancione, Belle Sherman, Ann Harris, Mark Serio and the rest of the regular crowd have been coming to this White Tower Restaurant on Erdman Avenue in East Baltimore. Maybe all they do is sit and talk and ignore the No Smoking sign and wait for someone else to pay for their next cup of coffee. But though some of their cohorts have died, there's still plenty of life left in these folks, just as there's life left in the little eatery they pretty much call home.

TCFinding the family recalled by the streetEvery time she rides along the avenue that bears her family's name, Lorrie Erdman feels a twinge."It kind of gives me the chills to think that all this used to be their farm," says the woman who 13 1/2 years ago married into the family that gave Erdman Avenue its name -- and who has since become the Erdman clan's foremost chronicler.As a tribute to her father-in-law, the former Lorrie Rutkowski has been combing libraries, archives, historical societies and cemeteries looking for all things Erdman.

Given the choice of attending a bachelor's party or meeting his Orioles hero, Bryan Erdman didn't blink. "I bailed on the party," Erdman, 28, of Parkville said. Instead, he stood in line Friday night at Camden Yards with several hundred fans to get autographs of four players from the 1989 Orioles, the "Why Not" club that nearly won a pennant. For an hour before the Orioles game, fans hobnobbed with outfielder Mike Devereaux, catcher Mickey Tettleton and pitchers Dave Schmidt and Dave Johnson, reminisced about that glorious summer and gathered autographs.

On Feburary 27, 2009, CLYDE. Friends may call at the CHATMAN-HARRIS FUNERAL HOME EAST, 4210 Belair Rd, Thursday 1 to 8 P.M. The family will receive friends at the Laborers for Jesus Church, 4714 Erdman Ave. Friday 10 A.M. Funeral Services will begin 10:30 A.M. Interment private.

On February 9, 2009, (nee Erdman); formerly of Baltimore, MD; beloved wife of the late Jacob "Jack" I. Losin; loving mother of Sharon (Max) Silverman of Gaithersburg, MD and Alan Losin of Baltimore, MD; devoted sister of the late Earl Erdman and Anita Erdman; adored grandmother of Michael (Dr. Cynthia Fishman) Silverman, Lindsay Silverman, and Steven Losin; loving great-grandmother of Marisa, Jake, and Bradie Silverman. Funeral services and interment will be held at Beth El Memorial Park - Randallstown, on Tuesday, February 10, at 12 Noon.

Charles T. Erdman Jr., a retired Bethlehem Steel Corp. manager and Navy veteran, died Nov. 17 of heart failure at his Arnold home. He was 80. Mr. Erdman, who was born and raised in East Baltimore, was a graduate of Patterson High School. He served in the Navy as a radio operator aboard the USS Caloosahatchee, a fleet oiler, from 1945 until 1948. In 1948, Mr. Erdman went to work for Bethlehem Steel's Buffalo Tank Division. During his 40-year career he held management positions at the company's plants at Sparrows Point, Buffalo, N.Y., Hallandale, Fla., and Dunellen, N.J. He was working in Baltimore when he retired in 1988.

On October 2, 2008, ELIZABETH Z. ERDMAN (nee Hollie); beloved wife of Howard C. Erdman III; devoted mother of Deborah Lynn Wern and her husband Jeffrey; loving grandmother of Melissa Wern; , dear sister of Jackie Wright, Faye Heier, Mandy Hollie, Steven Hollie and the late Ernest Hollie. Also survived by numerous nieces, nephews and other relatives. A funeral service will be held at the family owned Leonard J. Ruck, Inc., Funeral Home. 5305 Harford Road (at Echodale) on Saturday at 10 a.m. Interment Parkwood Cemetery.

City prosecutors dropped manslaughter charges yesterday against a driver accused of running over a 65-year-old man and dragging him about 40 feet last year in East Baltimore. Margaret T. Burns, a spokeswoman for the state's attorney's office, said police have not been able to identify the author of an anonymous letter who identified Montay Jackson, 35, as the driver of the SUV that ran over Charles R. Erdman after a minor accident March 3, 2007. The accident occurred in the 5800 block of Erdman Ave., in front of the auto parts store where Erdman worked.

THE PROBLEM -- Three street light poles are missing at Belair Road and Erdman Avenue. THE BACKSTORY -- Patrick Glenn noticed several months ago that the lights were not shining as brightly at a Northeast Baltimore intersection as they used to. Car accidents had felled two street light poles on Belair Road just north of Erdman Avenue in Belair-Edison. A cone also marked the location of a missing pole on the northwest corner, near a CVS and a bus stop. Glenn, who has lived in the neighborhood for 30 years, said he called the city's 311 service as well as Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. "They said it belongs to the city," Glenn said.

THE COUNT Homicides since Jan. 1: 174 The second of two men shot Sunday night in the 5700 block of Radecke Ave. in Northeast Baltimore has died. The victims were identified as Maurice G. White, 22, of the 3400 block of Chesterfield Ave. and Wayne G. White, 24, of the 2900 block of Erdman Ave. Police said they were not related.

Baltimore police said they need the public's help searching for a driver who ran over and dragged a 65-year-old man about 40 feet last month on an East Baltimore street. After suffering a broken pelvis and other internal injuries, the man died six days later. Police said the victim, Charles R. Erdman, and the driver of a sport utility vehicle were involved in a minor accident on Erdman Avenue on March 3, in front of the auto parts store where Erdman worked. Police said Erdman tried to get insurance information from the SUV driver, but the driver accelerated and ran over Erdman.

Moments after Charles R. Erdman's old Ford pickup truck had been struck by a sport utility vehicle on Erdman Avenue in East Baltimore, he stepped out to talk to the driver. Standing in front of the auto parts shop where he worked, all Erdman wanted was the man's insurance information, police said. But the driver of the green Ford Explorer refused - police said the vehicle had a stolen license plate - and hopped back into the SUV and accelerated. He drove into the 65-year-old man, whose head and arms hit the top of the truck's hood.