Evergreen

On March 29, 2009 Edward, Sr., Friends may call at the Beverly D. Cromartie Funeral Service, 2700 Edmondson Avenue on Friday from 2-8 P.M. Family will receive friends on Saturday at the Evergreen A.M.E. Church, 3340 Old Frederick Road from 10:00-11:00 A.M. with funeral services to follow. Interment Loudon Park Cemetery

The current edition of School 33's annual juried exhibition has an engaging theme. The art, by the 12 selected artists, is quite uneven but, at best, original and well-executed. And the show as an entity holds the viewer's attention and rewards a visit.The curator was Steven Beyer, co-director of the Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia. In his essay accompanying the show, he writes that the artists are notable in their diversity but have in common an effort to find larger meaning in the objects and activities of everyday life.

Baltimore County police have identified a youth found shot to death along an Essex roadside as 16-year-old David M. Lafferty of Baltimore.Police found Lafferty's body Sunday morning in the 1400 block of Evergreen Lane after being called by a neighbor. Lafferty, of the 5500 block of Edna Ave., attended Northern High School in Baltimore, said Vanessa C. Pyatt, a city schools spokeswoman.City juvenile authorities placed the Baltimore native in the care of a foster family three weeks ago after he was charged with discharging a firearm in the city, Lafferty's family said.

Evergreen Marine Corp. has chosen Baltimore as its mid-Atlantic port for service to South America, marking the first new weekly container business for the port in more than two years.The latest service -- which will bring an additional 12,000 containers a year here -- is not expected to produce any new jobs but will mean extra work for longshoremen who load and unload the huge steel boxes known as containers, bay pilots who guide the ships into port, tugboat operators and others.While the new service hardly reverses the downward trend in container business at the port, it is seen as an encouraging sign by port officials.

For many people, half the joy of Christmas is decorating their homes. They bustle around happily, making wreaths of evergreen boughs adorned with berries or birds or cookies and fabulous bows. They relish concocting elaborate arrangements of magnolia and fastening homemade ornaments to them. Some wrap smilax around their banisters and attach even more Christmas doodads or lights. No holiday humbug for them.Some of us, however, consider the prospect of decorating for Christmas in the same category as a root canal.

Artist and art restorer Jacques Maroger (1884-1962) emigrated from France in 1939 and taught at the Maryland Institute, College of Art from 1940 to 1959. A student of andbeliever in the materials and techniques of the old masters, he passed on his knowledge of the subject to his students.Maroger became a mentor to a group of artists who later became known as the Baltimore Realists, and they have been followed by another generation who created in the same style. He was also a friend and instructor of Alice Garrett, who lived at the North Charles Street estate Evergreen (now Evergreen House, the Johns Hopkins University)

In Sunday's home and garden calendar, an incorrect date was given for the Hopkins Garden Festival. The event will take place from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday in the Carriage House at Evergreen, 4545 N. Charles St.The Sun regrets the errors.Pub Date: 5/07/97

An article in yesterday's Today section about the Best Dressed Sale at Evergreen Carriage House gave incorrect dates for the sale. The event takes place Oct. 3-5 at 4545 N. Charles St. For more information, call (410) 955-9341.The Sun regrets the error.Pub Date: 9/27/96

Just as the season of frenzied shopping begins, the Women's Board of Johns Hopkins Hospital is offering a holiday sale that many may find elegant, relaxing, worthy -- and possibly even practical.Picture yourself wandering through a 48-room, pre-Civil War mansion decorated with red roses and pine garlands, green pears and crystal. Throughout the house, Tiffany glassware sits on mantels, hall tables and in reading-room alcoves. The dining room is set with red-and-gold Tiffany china -- perhaps ready for a Christmas feast?

On the first day of a week-long trip to Asia, Gov. Parris N. Glendening announced an agreement yesterday in Taiwan with Evergreen Marine Corp. that should keep the Port of Baltimore's largest steamship line here at least another five years.Under the arrangement, Evergreen will continue to use Seagirt Marine Terminal through January 2002. Evergreen's current three-year contract was scheduled to expire the end of December.With the loss this year of Maersk Line, the port's other major carrier, the contract with Evergreen was seen as particularly critical.

This weekend, the Pratt presents one of the most joyous surprises of recent feature-length cartoons: George Miller's "Happy Feet," in which two very different superstars play Mumbles the penguin. Frodo himself, Elijah Wood, provides the character's voice. More important, tap genius Savion Glover provides the character's moves as dancer and choreographer. You see, in an emperor penguin society that values vocalizing, little Mumbles can't carry a tune. But the lad can dance, and he eventually finds five new buddies who declare him their "Big Guy."

On March 29, 2009 Edward, Sr., Friends may call at the Beverly D. Cromartie Funeral Service, 2700 Edmondson Avenue on Friday from 2-8 P.M. Family will receive friends on Saturday at the Evergreen A.M.E. Church, 3340 Old Frederick Road from 10:00-11:00 A.M. with funeral services to follow. Interment Loudon Park Cemetery

Midwest cutting air service Milwaukee-based Midwest Airlines, scrambling to avoid bankruptcy, will drop service to Baltimore and 10 other cities in September as it cuts more than a quarter of its daily schedule. The reductions follow the airline's recent decision to lay off 40 percent of its work force and ground its entire fleet of older, gas-guzzling Boeing MD-80 planes. 3,000 customers to test meters More than 3,000 utility customers in Baltimore and Westminster will participate in a test of advanced electric meters that could save them money and reduce energy usage during times of peak demand, Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. said.

Taiwan-based Evergreen Marine Corp. will sign today an agreement to continue service to Baltimore for 10 years as it eyes an increase in traffic between the East Coast and Asia. The new longer-term contract keeps Evergreen's guarantee to move at least 40,000 loaded containers through Seagirt Marine Terminal annually. Evergreen is the second largest container line operating in the port and the only one to provide direct service to Asia, a market port officials have tried to expand in recent years.

Got a milk mustache? The Milk Mustache Mobile Tour continues to make stops in the area through Sunday to encourage healthy living and celebrate moms who create nutrition-conscious homes. Visitors can get mustache photos taken, sample low-fat and fat-free milk from local dairies, win prizes, get exercise advice from fitness experts and speak with a registered dietitian. Baltimore residents can also submit a 30-second video nominating a local mom for the inaugural Chief Health Officer Contest.

Laurence Hall Fowler was one of Maryland's most admired and influential residential architects during the first half of the 20th century. This spring, a landmark on which Fowler worked for more than 20 years, the building now known as Evergreen Museum & Library at 4545 N. Charles St., is being modified to pay homage to Fowler and his architectural legacy even more than it does today. James Archer Abbott, curator of the Evergreen Museum & Library, is leading an effort to turn a space there that was formerly occupied by a gift shop into the Laurence Hall Fowler Study Room.

On August 23, 2007, CHARLES MICHAEL; beloved father of Cara M. Krauch and C. Elizabeth Mays (Frank). Also survived by four grandchildren. Services at Myers-Durbarow Funeral Home, 91 Willis Street, Westminster on Monday at 11 A.M. Internment in Evergreen Memorial Gardens. The family will receive friends Monday 10 A.M. until time of service at the funeral home

Symphony circus The lowdown -- Combine the fun of a circus with the music of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra at Cirque de la Symphonie. Watch aerial feats, strongmen, contortionists and jugglers while listening to classics such as Dvorak's Carnival Overture and Khachaturian's "Sabre Dance." If you go -- The event is at 8 tonight at the Music Center at Strathmore, 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda, and at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow at the Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, 1212 Cathedral St. Tickets are $30 at Strathmore; $25 for adults and $12.50 for children at the Meyerhoff.

On May 24, 2007, MR. BAGWELL. Visitation at 2140 N. Fulton Avenue, on Wednesday 3 to 8 P.M. The family will receive friends at Evergreen A.M.E. Church, 3342 Old Frederick Road, on Thursday at 11 A.M. Funeral at 11:30 A.M.

Did you know?--The leaves of evergreen plants, such as camellias, are often coated with a waxy substance to protect against drought. - e. encyclopedia science