Germantown

Traveling art exhibit Taking a peek into African-American art becomes easy this weekend when Glimpses of America comes to Cape May, N.J. Starting on Saturday, the traveling exhibit of 17 contemporary artists will be showcased at the Carriage House Gallery, located on the Physick Estate. Co-sponsored by the Center for Community Arts and the Mid-Atlantic Center for the Arts, this show will feature a variety of art forms, from paintings to sculptures to collages to tapestries and more. Admission is $2 for adults and $1 for children ages 3-12.

Most people who sign up for an online dating service hope they might meet someone nice, have a few dates, maybe see romance blossom. But a trio of online daters from Maryland made a different kind of match - they started their own online dating site. After striking out romantically when they met through an online dating service, Sandra Furton Gabriel, George Paley and Perry Wheelock joined creative forces to launch www.love homepage.com. It's a new Germantown-based service that provides each client with his or her own home page to mix and mingle with others seeking love, friendship or, perhaps, even business relationships.

Cecil L. Keseling, an area home builder for three decades, died Saturday at Glade Valley Nursing Home in Walkersville of an apparent heart attack. He was 91. Born in Baltimore, Mr. Keseling graduated from Polytechnic Institute in 1932 and attended night classes at the Johns Hopkins University. He worked in the family home-building business, George H. Keseling and Sons, from the 1940s to the 1970s. He and his brother, George, built the Shirley Hills, Kimberly, Kimberly West and Kelbrooke developments in western Baltimore County.

Caryn J. Ray, a homemaker and former secretary, died of cancer Monday at her Germantown home. She was 39, and had moved in June from Sykesville to Germantown. Born in Washington and raised in Laurel, Caryn Joan Tiren was a 1980 graduate of Laurel High School. She worked as a secretary for several years. She was married in 1985 to Cameron A. Ray, owner of RABCO Inc., a Sykesville manufacturer of decorative tiles. Mrs. Ray had volunteered for several years at Liberty Christian School in Owings Mills, where her two children had been students.

On April 18, 2003 LILA BELLE RENBAUM (nee Kahaner); loving mother of Judi Kletz of Germantown, MD and Lauren Wayne of Dunwoody, GA; dear mother-in-law of Bruce Kletz and Mark Wayne; sister of Harriet Kaplan; loving grandmotherAlexandra and Elise Kletz and Joshua and Ilana Wayne. Services at Oheb Shalom Memorial Park, Berryman's Ln. on Friday, April 25 at 1 P.M. In lieu of flowers contributions may be made in her memory to the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, 200 E. Joppa Rd. Towson, MD (21204)

Acterna Corp., a holding company, will join its Maryland subsidiary - which makes communications testing equipment - in a new Germantown complex that will consolidate office and manufacturing operations. The parent corporation moved its headquarters from Burlington, Mass., to Germantown this week in preparation for the move to the new complex this spring. It had 20 employees at its Massachusetts location, less than half of whom will be coming to Germantown. Acterna Corp. and its 850-employee subsidiary, Acterna, will move into a new six-story building with an adjoining manufacturing facility in the Milestone Business Park around March or April, according to company spokeswoman Alice Ducq.

A federal grand jury in Baltimore has handed up a 15-count indictment charging the former head of a Frederick clothing manufacturing company with filing false income tax returns, mail fraud and making false statements when he applied for a $1.6 million loan. Benjamin J. Gilbert, 54, of Germantown is accused of defrauding Hartz and Co. by creating false invoices for $200,000 worth of goods and services that he billed to the company and gave to himself, according to the indictment announced yesterday by the U.S. Attorney's Office.

Sporting pink Powerpuff Girls backpacks and toting Pokemon lunch pails, their hair neatly braided and their shirts white as in a detergent commercial, 400 boys and girls streamed into Annapolis' Germantown Elementary yesterday morning for the first day of school. At last. "It's back to reality!" one mother chortled to another. The kids were just as delighted. "I want to be in school and learn some more," said Sarah Landis, 7, a third-grader with freckles and a wide grin. Her friend Jamie Newark, 8, was pulling at her arm to get into the school building.

GERMANTOWN - A Montgomery County woman and three children were killed yesterday when the Honda Civic they were traveling in hit a guardrail and was then struck by a Dodge Ram pickup truck, police said. Laura Delgado, 29, of the 10600 block of Huntley Place in Silver Spring, and the children were traveling north on Clopper Road, near Waring Station Road, in Germantown, when Delgado lost control of her car on the wet pavement, crossed the median and crashed into a guardrail, police said.

GERMANTOWN, Pa. - Not far from where Awbury Arboretum's state-champion river birch spreads its improbably wide branches to the sky, Sidney Jones ran a crack house, raking in $1,500 a week. He doesn't make nearly that much now. Jones, a recovering addict from East Falls, Pa., is one of 13 men struggling to refocus their lives through a program at the Germantown arboretum that teaches landscaping skills and offers a chance at a paying job. It's dirty work of a different sort, for which Jones and the other trainees get $20 a week, a transportation pass and a chance to roam the 55-acre urban sanctuary, a place lush with trees and bird life.