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Last season, bad weather washed out what would have been the first White Marlin Open Release Classic in Ocean City. Next ** month, tournament organizers will try again."

Mondawmin Mall, a West Baltimore landmark and the city's oldest shopping mall, will be spruced up and expanded with a large new supermarket and a warehouse-size specialty chain, mall representatives said yesterday.The mall's owner, Rouse Co., will build a 58,000-square-foot grocery store on the southern edge of the center and, in a second phase of development, construct a 132,000-square-foot store at the northwest corner, said Brian K. Gardiner, vice president and general manager for Mondawmin.

Peter Sellers is extraordinary as Chauncey Gardiner (he's really Chance, the gardener, and therein lies the tale) in "Being There" (8 p.m.-10: 30 p.m., Comedy Central), as a simpleton whose entire view of the world is based on what he's seen on television. Abruptly thrown into the real world, armed with only a satchel and a remote control, he somehow not only fends for himself but becomes the next big thing in Washington.Director Hal Ashby's take on Jerzy Kosinski's novel is a sly triumph, a biting satire on the role of media in today's society.

Two police officers were treated for smoke inhalation after helping rescue people from an apartment house in downtown Aberdeen early yesterday, state and Harford County fire officials said. Close to a dozen people escaped the fire without injury, but a pet dog died in the fire, the officials said. A passer-by reported the fire at 15 S. Rogers St. shortly before 5 a.m. Two Aberdeen police officers - Sgt. Albert Severn, 47, and Patrolman First Class Christopher Reiber, 30 - arrived before firefighters, and began rescue efforts, said Rich Gardiner, chief spokesman for the Harford County Fire Department, and Joseph Zurolo, a deputy state fire marshal.

When the calls came in requesting emergency medical help, police say 24-year-old Rob Smith would throw on an Abingdon EMS coat, slide on a pair of bunker pants, grab his fire radio and head out to the scene to assist with patient care. But Smith wasn't a member of the Abingdon Fire Company nor was he licensed through the state to provide emergency medical services, police said. This week, Harford County sheriff's officers arrested Robert Joseph Smith of the first block of Stevens Circle in Aberdeen on charges of impersonating an emergency medical services provider and theft.

A 20-year-old man was taken to a local hospital in grave condition Tuesday evening after an incident at Pier One on Old Philadelphia Road in Aberdeen, Harford County fire officials said. It was unclear how the incident occurred, but it was originally reported as an accident involving a piece of machinery, according to Rich Gardiner, spokesman for the Harford County Volunteer Fire and EMS Association. The accident may have been secondary, however, he said. Gardiner did not have additional information available around 8:30 p.m. Tuesday.

Gardiner Realty adds 2 buildings at business park Gardiner Realty and Development Co., a commercial real estate company based in Crofton, has two new single-story flex space buildings at Priest Bridge Business Park. Designed by Robert T. Hofmann Inc. and built by Gardiner and Gardiner Inc., the buildings at 2139 and 2140 Priest Bridge Court in Crofton have a combined size of 72,160 square feet. The first building is complete and nearly 85 percent leased, and the second building is nearly finished.

Ken Brewer, the Utah poet laureate whose diagnosis of pancreatic cancer led him to write poems almost daily about the ravages of disease and his mortality, died Wednesday in Salt Lake City, said a Utah State University spokesman. He was 64. Brewer published several books including The Place In Between and Lake's Edge. He also published more than 300 individual poems and delivered more than 200 readings of poetry and essays throughout the West. Brewer was retired from Utah State University, where he had been an English professor.

John Miller was grateful when Jim Rogers let him live in a trailer on his Davidsonville farm.Miller, 53, couldn't do much work. He had lost an eye and part of a hand to an artillery shell in Korea in 1958. Over the years, degenerative arthritis had crippled his hands andback. But he could help Rogers care for his horses, and that was enough."We couldn't afford a place to live," said Betty Miller, John's wife. "Then we heard about Jim, came to see him, and we moved in the next day."That was three years ago. The Millers, and their 15-year-old daughter, Carol, may soon be out on the street.

UMBC walked on its court last night with the nation's leading rebounder in Monica Logan and visions of pulling off an upset over longtime nemesis Mount St. Mary's.The Mount came out as the runaway leader in the Northeast Conference, armed with a high-profile coaching staff and the second-leading scorer in the conference in senior forward Megan Gardiner.Chalk up another victory for Mount St. Mary's, which is coached by former Mount standout Vanessa Blair and her first cousin Adrian Branch, who is third on Maryland's all-time men's scoring list and won an NBA title with the Los Angeles Lakers.