Hair Salon

Just weeks after Baltimore's historic preservation board approved a list of Mount Vernon properties deserving of protection, a developer is asking for approval to demolish four of them, small carriage houses that date to 1895. Though Mayor Martin O'Malley, City Councilman Keiffer J. Mitchell Jr. and Baltimore's planning director support the demolition and the construction of condominiums, preservationists are poised for a fight as the Commission for Historical and Architectural Preservation considers the plan Nov. 8. "To me," says former Baltimore Heritage President John Maclay, "it doesn't send a good message about the city's interest in historic preservation."

Uprising reveals Iraq occupation is doomed to fail As Iraq degenerates into a general uprising against American occupation, it is time to ask at what point the United States realizes its policy is doomed to failure ("U.S. forces battle for Fallujah," April 8). Last week, The Sun suggested that the occupation of Iraq may come to resemble Israel's occupation of the West Bank ("A lynching," editorial April 2). Is this what Americans want? The Israelis have pursued their failed occupation policies for 37 years, with no end in sight.

Yvonne Young has joined Model Hair Salon of Columbia as a stylist and consultant.Young, who has 16 years of experience, is licensed as a senior cosmetologist by the state of Maryland.WILL CONDUCT SEMINARJohn J. Long of Creative Real Estate Consultants in Columbia is conducting a seminar on buyer's brokerage and discount brokerage vs. traditional brokerage at 7 p.m. March 31 in the Eldersburg branch of the Carroll Public Library.The seminar is open to the public, and no registration is required.

Services for Ruby Lee Tribull, retired owner of Bruce Coiffures in Waverly, will be held at 11 a.m. tomorrow at the Schimunek Funeral Home, 3331 Brehms Lane.Mrs. Tribull, who was 66 and lived on Limit Avenue, died Sunday at St. Joseph Hospital after a stroke.She owned the shop on Greenmount Avenue from 1960 until 1988. After selling it, she was a hairdresser at Beauty International in the Carrollton Condominium.Born Ruby Lee Jernigan in Benson, N.C., she came to Baltimore in 1955 and graduated from the Baltimore Studio of Hair Design.

When Donna (Meeks) Powell died in May 1993 of breast cancer at the age of 32, she left a husband, three children and her parents to mourn.The family was helped by Carroll Hospice, which offers physical and emotional support to terminally ill patients and their families.Now, a year later, Carroll Hospice is still in touch with the family and has suggested to a business that Mrs. Powell's children could benefit from its annual fund-raiser."We have a client who works at Hospice and they put us in touch with someone to help," said Sherry Waddell, owner of Attitudes Unlimited, a unisex hair salon in Hampstead.

County police are investigating four burglaries at hair salons from Hanover to Pasadena early Thursday in which thieves smashed windows with rocks and got away with as much as $150.Police said the first two burglaries, at salons in Odenton and Hanover, might be related, but authorities are not sure about the other two.The burglaries began shortly after 3 a.m. when someone threw a rock through the front window of Reflections Hair Salon in the 8300 block of Piney Orchard Parkway. The burglar rummaged through a desk but left empty-handed, police said.

Twenty customers and employees were forced out of the Hair Cuttery at Cranberry Mall after a small amount of pepper gas was released accidentally in the store Friday afternoon.City police said an employee knocked a ring of keys, which also contained a canister of the gas, off a counter. When the employee bent to pick up the keys, she apparently touched the button and released the gas.Within seconds, people in the shop began to feel short of breath and a tightness of the throat and went outside the mall for air. Engines from Westminster and Reese and a medic unit were sent to the shop, but no one required medical treatment.

Three Hampstead hair salons have been burglarized since May 28, according to town police.The most recent burglary occurred Sunday at Creative Hair Dressers in the 700 block of Hanover Pike. Employees told police about $250 was stolen. The shop's front door was pried open.On May 30 or early May 31, someone broke into A Flair with Hair in the 4500 block of Lower Beckleysville Road and stole about $75 and prescription drugs, police said.Police said someone broke into Creative Cuts in the 1000 block of S. Main St. on May 28 and stole $25.If you have information, call Hampstead police at 410-239-8954.

A Walmart Supercenter is scheduled to open Oct. 17 on Liberty Road in Randallstown, and Baltimore County officials hope it will give a boost to a corridor targeted for revitalization. County officials and community leaders expect that the store at Liberty Plaza will attract attention from other major chains to the area. Consumers in Randallstown have high levels of education and income, they say, but the area has struggled to draw national retailers and restaurants. Residents complain that there are too many fast-food restaurants and low-quality stores.

Suzana Pesa was disgusted by the images of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico that she saw on television. She jumped on the Internet and was soon linked to a Facebook effort to gather hair clippings from local salons to make hair booms to soak up the waves of black, greasy gook. "When it happened, I was really upset," said Pesa, a dental assistant living in Mount Vernon. "I was looking for anything I could do to help." In two weeks, Pesa gathered two garbage bags filled with hair clippings from 10 salons in Baltimore.