Fairfax

On May 31, 2003 in Towson, MD. GLENN R. MUNCH, survived by his mother Yvonne M. Munch, two brothers William R. Munch of Vienna, VA. and Richard A. Munch of Clifton, VA. He is also survived by his sister-in-law Marty Clark (Munch), two nieces Katie and Jenna Munch and two nephews Robbie and Ricky Munch, all of Clifton, VA. Friends may call at Everly Funeral Home, 10565 Main Street (Rt. 236), Fairfax, VA., on Thursday, June 5 from 2-4 and 6-8 P.M. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at St. Leo's Catholic Church, Fairfax, VA., on Friday, June 6 at 11 A.M. Interment at Fairfax City Cemetery.

Another federally subsidized low-income apartment complex in West Baltimore is shutting down and residents there are being told they will have to find other housing. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has decided to discontinue providing a subsidy to Fairfax Gardens Apartments in Forest Park because the complex is "not providing an adequate housing environment to the tenants." Ending the subsidy would begin the process of closing the complex, in the 4500 block of Fairview Ave. near the Forest Park Municipal Golf Course, according to a notice to tenants by the federal housing agency.

On May 3, 2003, CARL BEHM, JR.; beloved husband of the late Margaret A. Behm (nee Wiechman); devoted father of Carl Behm III and Mark E. Behm; dear grandfather of Jennifer Behm Roberts, C. Justin Behm, Scott A. Behm and Craig R. Behm. Also survived by two great-grandchildren. Friends may call at the family owned Mitchell-Wiedefeld Funeral Home, Inc., 6500 York Road (at Overbrook), on Tuesday 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 P.M. Service and Interment private. If desired, a donation may be made to The Nature Conservancy, 4245 N. Fairfax Drive, Suite 100, Arlington, VA 22203.

The Maryland Department of the Environment, complying with a court order, issued a permit yesterday that allows Fairfax County Water Authority to build a new intake pipe halfway across the Potomac River. The department had appealed in Baltimore Circuit Court a decision by its own hearing officer, Bernard E. Penner, to issue the permit and asked to delay the effect of that decision until the case is heard, but Judge Evelyn O. Cannon refused. Her ruling could be the final blow in Maryland's 3-year-long attempt to deny the permit and is another strike against Maryland in its centuries-old battle with Virginia over rights to the river that forms their common border.

Pennsylvanian Cary Kolat, trying for his third world freestyle wrestling gold medal at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va., this weekend, is known internationally for his wrestling prowess. He also has ties to a couple of Baltimore-area wrestlers and has a chance to mold another. Kolat will compete at 138.75 pounds as a U.S. team attempts to win its eighth of the past 10 World Cup titles in a round-robin, dual-meet event that ranks second in prestige internationally only to the upcoming 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney.

The first of five indoor Golden Spike Tour track and field events will play the George Mason University Field House in Fairfax, Va., today, a legion of Summer Olympic hopefuls being joined by several hundred high school and collegiate athletes in a day-long meet. High schoolers have been competing and qualifying both individually and as relay teams for a month, and their trials, along with those of several area colleges, will get under way at 10 a.m. At 2: 30 p.m., the elite athletes will take over in a 12-event program, which will be videotaped for later showing on NBC and ESPN.

Constellation Energy Group Inc., continuing an effort to shed its real estate holdings, yesterday agreed to sell all but one of its senior assisted-living facilities to a Virginia company for $88.2 million in cash and assumed debt.Fairfax, Va.-based Sunrise Assisted Living Inc.'s purchase of the 12 existing facilities -- together with three under construction and land for six others -- represents another major step in the company's quest to pare its real estate.In December 1998, the corporate parent of Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. sold the bulk of its commercial real estate portfolio to a Philadelphia real estate investment trust for $153.

FAIRFAX, Va. - From a musket that came over on the Mayflower to an M-16 from the Vietnam War, from Annie Oakley's rifle to the pearl-handled pistol Teddy Roosevelt kept by his White House bed, from a buffalo hunter's Sharps carbine to a baby boomer's Daisy "Red Ryder" BB gun, a new museum recalls the nation's history through its guns.The National Rifle Association's $3.1 million National Firearms Museum provides an array of dramatic displays illustrating the notion that guns are as all-American as baseball or Old Glory - a controversial concept in an era when schoolchildren shoot classmates and politicians bemoan the availability of assault weapons.

STAMFORD, Conn. -- Xerox Corp. said yesterday that it will sell its Crum & Forster Holdings Inc. subsidiary to Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd. for $680 million, completing its five-year exit from the financial services industry.Fairfax, a Toronto insurance and investment management company, will pay Xerox $565 million in cash for the commercial property and casualty insurer and assume $115 million of its debt.The purchase is the latest by Fairfax Chairman Prem Watsa, who has built a reputation for buying and turning around insurers.

"The Education of Oscar Fairfax," by Louis Auchincloss. Houghton Mifflin. 225 pages. $21.95 Rarely is it possible to single out the stupidest thing ever written about someone, but in the case of Louis Auchincloss, the booby prize undoubtedly goes to a piece published a quarter-century ago in the New York Review of Books. The author, boggling at the undeniable fact that Auchincloss' novels are all about New York's moneyed families, wrote, "I can believe the upper class is human ... but fiction seems the wrong medium for the privileged life, which belongs, if anywhere, in the spreads of Country Life or the New York Times society page, or in the moments of awed intrusion that TV likes to purvey."