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Realtors board to swear in new board members The Greater Baltimore Board of Realtors is scheduled to swear in its 2004 board members this week during the group's 146th annual installation of officers ceremony. Cindy G. Ariosa of Long & Foster Real Estate will serve as the group's 2004 president. She will serve a one-year term for the 3,300-member trade association. Ariosa replaces Jan Hayden of Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage, the group's president during the past year. Other officers include: Henry A. Strohminger III, president-elect, who works for Long & Foster Real Estate; Katie E. Grove, vice president, who works for Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage; and William L. Yerman, treasurer, who works for Fountainhead Title Group.

The buyers of a home nestled on more than 7 acres in Cockeysville's Nicholsons Manor are getting a property with all the perks. This traditional mansion, which sold for $1,550,000, is at the end of a cul-de-sac and boasts a large blue stone patio in a hardscape backyard. A hot tub is tucked into a gazebo and an outdoor room, complete with a beamed ceiling, wet bar, fireplace and powder room. The stone and insulated stucco exterior features a four-bay connected garage and is defined by a balcony, bump-outs, floodlights and screened porch with slate flooring.

Shavon Henley did not receive a large amount of recognition while playing for Randallstown's girls basketball team. The forward often remained in the shadow of others, but wound up helping the team find success.Jeff Schroeder illustrated to his Hereford football teammates the definition of the word "unselfish." While the Bulls put together the best season in school history, Schroeder quietly moved from wide receiver to offensive line to help his team.But the spotlight finally found both Henley and Schroeder last night as they were presented with the 57th annual McCormick Unsung Heroes Awards at Marriott's Hunt Valley Inn.As the Unsung Heroes Award winners, Henley and Schroeder became the 38th and 39th recipients of the Charles Perry McCormick Scholarship, which has a $20,000 value over four years for each person.

Editor: CASA of Harford County would like to extend a tremendous thank you to all of the individuals and companies that helped to make our second annual Bull and Oyster Roast on Feb 25, such a huge success. Thank you first to Sterling Caterers of Jarrettsville Gardens for providing such a wonderful location for our event. Thank you to all of our hardworking volunteers who worked tirelessly to make sure the event went off without a hitch. Most importantly, CASA of Harford County would like to thank the business community here in Harford County for their generosity in choosing to sponsor our event.

The death of former Ravens owner Art Modell has unleashed a flood of warm memories in Baltimore, but Modell is a more complicated figure for many people, who struggle to forgive him for moving his franchise from Cleveland. That conflicted sensibility lies at the heart of Modell's inability to get into the Pro Football Hall of Fame despite his 43-year legacy as an owner and shaper of the league's television dynasty. And voters say it's not at all clear that his death will improve his chances.

Last Thursday's pre-game show appearances by Cal Ripken on the Orioles' radio and television outlets no doubt seemed like your garden-variety discussions with a future Hall of Famer, and in the grand scheme of things, no harm was done to the republic.But Ripken's tour of Home Team Sports and the radio network served as another example of the cozy relationship that exists between just about any club and its broadcasting partners.After a story and column appeared on these pages last Thursday questioning whether Ripken's back injury was hampering his ability to play, the third baseman, who was quoted extensively in both pieces, sought a forum to air his side of the story.

The speeches were short, and the dinner was long. "We just come and eat, and enjoy each other's company," said WMAR-TV sports director Scott Garceau of Give Kids a Chance, the party he and his wife, Georgeanna, co-chaired with Doug and Cheryl Goodell at Hillendale Country Club. This was the eighth annual gala fund-raiser for FACETS, a Catholic Charities group home for troubled teens in Harford County. Enhancing the evening's enjoyment factor was a six-course gourmet meal, featuring taste treats such as blackened alligator, New York strip topped with shiitake mushrooms, jumbo lump crab meat and Smithfield ham, and chocolate Chambord torte.

Baltimore's Ed Block Courage Award Foundation has put another building block in place toward making its goal of assisting abused children a national project. The Miami Dolphins are now included.Officers and volunteers of the Baltimore-based Courage Award visited Boystown of Florida yesterday to present a check for $10,000 to the home for troubled and youths. The award was given in the name of the late Joe Robbie, founder and owner of the Dolphins.As an endorsement of the Block committee, the Robbie family, represented by son Tim, the team president, and daughter Janet, added a check for a similar amount that will go to Boystown of Florida, which has no connection to a similar school near Omaha, Neb."

What do Chuck Thompson, Johnny Unitas, Chris Redman, Ernest Byner, Scott Garceau, Ted Marchibroda, Don Scott, Stan White, Matt Stover, Jesse Jones and Mike Jaskulski have in common? They're all local sports and / or broadcasting celebrities? Sure, that too. But, they all love golf. That's why they all could be found at the Chestnut Ridge Country Club, enjoying drinks and dinner at the fifth annual Celebrity Golf Classic for Leukemia awards banquet, benefiting the Maryland chapter of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.

John Steadman, the late Baltimore sports columnist, was definitely responsible for Colts tight end John Mackey having a hard time getting inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Steadman was on the board of selectors for years, and there was always speculation that he didn't vote for Mackey, which made it almost impossible for Mackey to get in. The year before Mackey was inducted in 1992, I wrote a story for The Sun about Mackey not getting enough votes. I interviewed Steadman, then a sports columnist for The Evening Sun. My story quoted Steadman as saying Mackey shouldn't be in because he dropped a lot of passes and didn't have good hands.