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CHICAGO -- Julie Garber, a California real estate developer, was 28 when she succumbed last December to acute lymphoblastic leukemia.Her death left her parents inconsolable."

My two sons, who are 7 and 8, are on medication for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. I am trying to find alternative remedies. Can you help?...CindyAkron, OhioThere's no one magic cure for attention problems. The best approach is to combine strategies.As the use of drugs like Ritalin has exploded in the past few years, many experts have become concerned that drugs are being prescribed too hastily and in doses that are too high."Ritalin use is up over 500 percent in the last five years, while the medical establishment is still unclear about what causes ADHD and exactly what it is," says Thomas Armstrong, author of "The Myth of the A.D.D.

The make-believe games Teresa L. Baker played with her siblings growing up in Hollidaysburg, Pa., foreshadowed the career she pursued on her way to becoming St. Philip Neri Catholic School's new principal."

The longer I live in Carroll County -- 24 years and counting -- the more I am convinced that some of the most kind and giving people make their homes here as well. One such person was honored recently with an award.Last month, Carolyn Garber was named Maryland's National Trail Day Vibram Volunteer of the Year. Mrs. Garber's numerous hours spent promoting the development and use of multiuse trails throughout Carroll County were the basis for the award.The Sykesville native developed an interest in trails for hikers and equestrians when she purchased her first horse some eight years ago. When Mrs. Garber found the county lacking in what are known as multiuse trails, she began her efforts to have more trails created and to have existing trails improved.

By 1988, the Lake in the Woods apartment complex in Lansdowne was one of the saddest, most worn down, rat-infested and crime-ridden places to live in Baltimore County, if not the worst.Residents were afraid to go out at night. Crack dealers ruled Lakebrook Circle, where there were no street lights. Vandals repeatedly broke hall and stairway lights."It was a war zone," said Officer Robert E. Garber of the Community Oriented Police Enforcement unit, or COPE. Since 1988, COPE has been trying to make life better at the apartments.

County residents and visitors were able to learn everything they always wanted to know about the area's horses at last week's LeisureExpo at the Cranberry Mall in Westminster."

Stepping elegantlyAfter business is settled, assignments dispersed and plans drafted the conversation will turn to shoes. Women who juggle career, family and a heavy social schedule want to walk in high fashion even when they are on the run. It takes a woman of style and sensibility to under-stand that need. Charna Garber, who with her daughter Ellise Garber designs the d'Rosanna shoe line, has that dramatic sense and the answers.The creative initiative was taken by Charna Garber, who after many years experience in the shoe business decided to strike out on her own. The designs clicked with women of fashion and buyers for the finest stores.

Congratulations to the new Severna Park Jaycee officers: Joe Hanna, president; Judi Wood, Doug McGettigan, Valerie Garber and John Milone, vice presidents; William DeKroney and Mary Ann Rohr, secretaries; Sean Haggerty, treasurer; and Roxane Brown, Joel Garber, Tim Capps, Cindy Parlato, Dory Tate and Maria Catroppa, directors.The state director is Anne Magrath and chairman of the board is Bill DeHoff, the immediate past-president.Information: 360-8904.*If you are ever unfortunate enough to endure a house fire, your best friends could belong to the Earleigh Heights Volunteer Fire Company.

Mother Nature is constantly encroaching in the world of trail riders.She provides scenery, shade and the trails but at the same time gives thorns, brackens and overgrowth that must be dealt with.On a recent glorious Saturday afternoon, Carolyn Garber of Taylorsville set off on foot armed with an anvil pruner to do battle with branches that had overgrown the bridle paths at Piney Run. The occasion was the first of the summer's planned trail-clearing expeditions of the county trail system.Garber was joined by three riders and their horses who were sent off to a "major sticker area" to clear away the growth.

WASHINGTON -- Some of the nation's most generous political contributors took a stand yesterday against a proposed rule that would bar foreign-owned American companies from forming political action committees to help finance U.S. election campaigns.If adopted, the rule could knock out close to $3 million in donations from the next election cycle. Foreign-owned companies contributed $2.8 million to political races in 1988.But company employees, not owners, supply the money that fuels PACs, and barring foreign-owned company PACs would unfairly penalize employees of those companies, according to Martin D. Garber Jr., president of the National Association of Business Political Action Committees.

Katharine Bissert Garber M-BM- A memorial service will be held at Granite Presbyterian Church, 10637 Old Court Road, Woodstock, Maryland at 1 P.M. on Friday September 18th.M-BM- In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to American Diabetes Association 1-800-342-2383. Arrangements entrusted to Maryland Cremation Services

Katharine Bissert Garber M-BM- A memorial service will be held at Granite Presbyterian Church, 10637 Old Court Road, Woodstock, Maryland at 1 P.M. on Friday September 18th.M-BM- In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to American Diabetes Association 1-800-342-2383. Arrangements entrusted to Maryland Cremation Services

You've fought your way through a grueling job-search process and gotten called back for an interview. Now what? How do you prepare and make sure you make an impression when your competitors are likely to be just as hungry and enthusiastic? Jeff Garber, co-founder of 360JobInterview.com, who visited Baltimore recently to promote the launch of his company, offered some tips and advice on having a successful interaction with a prospective employer. "A lot of people feel lonely and anxiety-ridden in the process," says Garber, whose firm has more than 300 human resources specialists in 55 industries that provide interview and career coaching via the online video service Skype.

John Travolta plays a brawny, brainy thug, chugging down New York streets into the bowels of the city with a grim, directed bravado that's the opposite of his gleeful swagger 32 years ago in Saturday Night Fever. Denzel Washington plays the subdued, out-of-shape subway supervisor who improbably becomes the chief negotiator for the city when Travolta and his gang commandeer a subway cab and two passenger cars and hold a score of hostages for $10 million. That rat-and-cat game isn't enough reason to see The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3. It's a remake of the effective 1974 suspense film that starred Robert Shaw and Walter Matthau in, respectively, the rough equivalent of Travolta's and Washington's roles.

Susan Garber believes that every child should have a voice. After 30 years of helping children with disabilities and their parents and teachers, Garber discovered one obstacle: money. That's why the former special education teacher founded AT: LAST Inc., the nonprofit Maryland Assistive Technology Cooperative, in 1998. "If you don't get a child on technology early, so that they can influence their environment, they will become quite content to do absolutely nothing and have people do for them," Garber said.

Michael McLaughlin and Eric Garber spend their days lacing milk chocolate and fruit juice with the deadly toxin ricin. But don't call the FBI. McLaughlin and Garber are U.S. Food and Drug Administration scientists conducting research on how bioterrorists might attack and how Americans can be protected. "The question was, could we detect ricin in food and cosmetics?" Garber says. "The good news is, we were able to detect it in all products at levels way below what a terrorist would be likely to use."

Edward Eugene Garber Sr., a truck salesman and car enthusiast, died Tuesday of complications of diabetes at Northwest Hospital Center. The Eldersburg resident was 73. Born in Brooklandville and raised in Garrison, he was a 1946 graduate of Franklin High School in Reisterstown. He then served in the Army in Alaska. He retired two years ago from American Freightliner of Washington, where he sold emergency vehicles and trucks. He previously had worked for Baltimore Freightliner. Mr. Garber earlier was employed in the downtown Baltimore office of General Motors Corp.

On Tuesday, August 5, 2003, EDWARD EUGENE GARBER, SR., of Eldersburg, devoted husband of Augusta Garber (nee Cook), dear son of the late Charles Walter Garber and the late Hilda V. Whitcomb Hiers and her spouse the late John Leon Hiers, beloved father of Edward E. Garber Jr., and wife Michele, W. Brad Garber and wife Carole, Timothy S. Garber and companion Sheryl Stachow, loving grandfather of Travis, Caitlin, Megan, Kevin, Brandon, Ryan and Logan Garber,...

John F. Ehlers. Survived by nephews Jack Garber, Michael Garber and niece Lillian Swanson. Memorial Services will be held on Saturday, July 5, at 10:30 A.M. at the Evangelical Presbyterian Church, Ridgely Avenue and Wilson Road Annapolis. Entombment in Lorraine Park Cemetery, Thursday, 11 A.M. Arrangements by John M. Taylor Funeral Home, Inc.

Jean Garber Huang, a missionary and nurse-midwife, died Tuesday in Reston Hospital Center in Reston, Va., of complications from a liver laceration. She was 73 and lived in Herndon, Va., but had lived in Abingdon and in Baltimore County for many years. Born Jean Garber in Elizabethtown, Pa., she attended local schools and earned a bachelor's degree in nursing from Eastern Mennonite College in Harrisonburg, Va. From 1955 and 1965, she served as a missionary nurse in Honduras for the Eastern Mennonite missions.