Garey

The morning after she voted against the mayor's choice for housing commissioner, city Councilwoman Lois Garey received a call from Kurt L. Schmoke's office: An important meeting scheduled tomorrow among the mayor, Ms. Garey and Federal Hill community leaders was off.Community leaders and Ms. Garey had sought the meeting, which had been on the mayor's calendar for almost a month, to discuss their continuing concerns about Southern High School. Neighbors say students threaten them and leave trash.

On September 30, 2004, JOHN PAUL ALFRED STEWART, of Glen Burnie; beloved husband of Elizabeth Reed Winslow Stewart; dear son of the late Harold G. and Sarah Poor Stewart; devoted father of Robert Garey Stewart, Sarah Poor Young and Elizabeth Tiemann; caring brother of Peter Dunnington Stewart; loving grandfather of Mary Clare, Robert Garey, Jr., Edward Randolph, Jacquelyn and Marguerite Stewart and Louis Robert "Tate" Tiemann. The family will receive visitors at the Singleton Funeral Home, P.A., 1 Second Avenue S.W. (at Crain Highway)

On June 20, 2003 HELEN M. KOCIS (nee Jackowski) beloved wife of the late Michael J. Kocis, loving mother of Connie Garey, Lorraine Zuromski and Ronald Michael Kocis, loving grandmother of Brad Garey and Renea and Brian Zuromski, Derek M. Kocis and Daniel Cockerham, great-grandmother of Alora and Ashli. Relatives and friends will gather at the Charles S. Zeiler & Son Inc., Funeral Home, 6224 Eastern Avenue (at Folcroft) on Monday 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 P.M. where a Christian Wake service will be held at 7:30 P.M. Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at Our Lady of Fatima Church on Tuesday at 10 A.M. Interment in Oak Lawn Cemetery.

COLLEGE PARK -- While Ludwig Field has been a virtual house of horrors for most opposing teams, No.5 Indiana marched in and didnt flinch, scoring three second-half goals to salvage a 3-3 tie last night. Jason Garey scored two first-half goals, including one on a spectacular bicycle kick, but the No.3 Terps could not hold the early lead and gave up the tying goal with five seconds left in front of 6,203 spectators the largest crowd to ever watch a mens soccer game in College Park. The Terps (13-3-1)

As it happens, I am sitting between Lois Garey, the East Baltimore city councilwoman, and a fellow named Pete, no last name, the night after John Cain allegedly throws a right hand into the lower stomach of Nick D'Adamo.Being council members themselves, both Cain and D'Adamo are widely known as genteel sorts. It's just that, in East Baltimore, the politicians pull no punches.Take Councilwoman Garey. She and this fellow, Pete, and I are sitting in a crowd at Tiffany East, on Lombard Street.

After a long political passage, a bill to ban new billboard construction in the city won the strong approval of the City Council yesterday. Next week, the council is scheduled to vote again on the measure, as a matter of protocol, and is expected to pass the bill a second time. Mayor Martin O'Malley has said he would sign it into law. Because the council rarely overturns itself, the result was hailed as a hard-won victory by several neighborhood activists. "I'm stunned, exhilarated into speechlessness," said Sharon Price, a Hampden resident who has spoken against billboard construction along the Jones Falls Expressway, near her home.

In the 1st Councilmanic District of southern and Southeast Baltimore, the three incumbent representatives -- John L. Cain, Nicholas C. D'Adamo Jr. and Lois Garey -- are seeking four more years in office in next month's Democratic primary.Their principal challenger, Charles Krysiak, just wants to find nine more votes.That's how many additional ballots Krysiak needed to gain the third spot in a 12-person field in the 1995 Democratic primary.Krysiak wound up with 7,557 votes to 7,565 for Cain in a race not decided until absentee ballots were tallied.

Bank employees in Carroll County got a dressing down last Friday. But it was for a good cause.About 800 employees in 14 local banks paid $5 each to cast aside their ties, power suits and pumps for one day of casual attire, as part of a fund-raising project for Christmas in April.Volunteers with the private, nonprofit organization spend one day each spring repairing and renovating the houses of low-income homeowners, particularly the elderly and disabled.Kathleen C. Garey, assistant treasurer at Westminster Bank and Trust Co., chaired a committee of representatives from four local banks who came up with the idea of dressing down.

The Sun incorrectly reported on Oct. 23 that the City Council waited until fall to mark the bicentennial of its first-ever meeting on Feb. 27, 1797. The City Council held a special meeting on Feb. 27 of this year to mark the bicentennial.The Sun regrets the error.OK, so the Baltimore City Council's re-enactment of its first meeting 200 years ago was lacking many 18th-century touches: Freight trucks rumbled over paved streets, nary a wig could be found and electricity supplied light and amplified sound.

A heated Baltimore City Council hearing on the Wyndham Inner Harbor East Hotel attracted about 100 people last night, with the crowd evenly divided among those opposed to the waterfront project and those in favor of it.Testimony focused on the size and impact of the 750-room hotel, which would cost $132.6 million and be financed with about $50 million in public subsidies.With 48 stories, it would be the city's second-tallest building.John Murphy, a lawyer for a coalition of several East Baltimore homeowner groups, told the council's Land Use Committee that approving the hotel would open the door to similar projects too large for their neighborhoods.