Family Center

State officials have awarded almost $230,000 to Knox Community Development Corp. for the creation of the Dawson Safe Haven for Children, Youth and Families. The Dawson Safe Haven will be a community center that provides safe activities for children and families, state officials said. The check - presented in a ceremony Friday at Knox Presbyterian Church with Lt. Gov. Michael S. Steele and State Housing and Community Development Secretary Victor L. Hoskins - comes from Maryland's Community Legacy program.

Carroll County will pay $30,000 to make sure low-income families have affordable day care for the next several months. The county commissioners voted yesterday to fund the "purchase of care" vouchers through June. The money will allow the Carroll County Family Center to continue to offer childcare to the working poor at a reduced cost. State grant money for the five-year-old program will run out at the end of this month and has yet to be renewed. Absent the commissioners' contribution, many parents of infants and toddlers would have no child-care options and might have to resign from their jobs.

Carroll County will pay $30,000 to make sure low-income families have affordable day care for the next several months. The county commissioners voted yesterday to fund the "purchase of care" vouchers through June. The money will allow the Carroll County Family Center to continue to offer child care to the working poor at a reduced cost. State grant money for the five-year-old program will run out at the end of this month and has yet to be renewed. Absent the commissioners' contribution, many parents of infants and toddlers would have no child-care options and might have to resign their jobs.

County public works department announces road projects for week The Carroll County Department of Public Works has announced road projects for the week. For information on the following projects, contact Carroll County Bureau of Engineering at 410-386-2171: Curb and storm drain installation: Gorsuch Road and Center Street roundabout. Paving and storm drain installation: Old Westminster Pike at Fielding Drive and Seminole Lane. Closed for bridge reconstruction: Stoney Lane (at the bridge)

The Annie E. Casey Foundation has a national reputation for helping disadvantaged families, but this year the Baltimore-based organization decided to award some of its most lucrative grants to nonprofit groups in its back yard. The Casey Foundation announced yesterday $3.5 million in grants to seven Maryland nonprofits that help low-income families. The groups, which will receive $500,000 each, can use the money as they wish over the next five years. "We like to say that children do well when families do well, and families do well when they are in supportive environments," said Miriam Shark, a senior associate who coordinates the program, known as Families Count.

Anita Sadler Weiss, a retired Jewish Family Services social work department chief, sculptor and poet, died of cancer Sunday in her Mount Washington home. She was 96. Born Anita Lillie Sadler in New York City and raised on Long Island, she earned an undergraduate degree in English from Cornell University and a master's degree from Columbia University's School of Social Work. She moved to Mount Washington in 1949 and began working at the old Jewish Family and Children's Bureau at Centre and Eutaw streets in 1951.