Handyman

Volunteers are needed for a variety of positions including placing and picking up donation canisters, special event assistance, office assistant, assisting with recreational and crafts activities, handyman and gardening and yard work. Information: 410-224-4205.

A handyman was arrested yesterday by Baltimore County police after he was allegedly recorded on videotape stealing three gold coins worth close to $1,000 from the home of a Riderwood man who had hired him for a refurbishing job.The homeowner, Raymond Steward, said he hired the handyman and several other people early last month to work on parts of his newly purchased home.The job of the handyman, identified by police as 40-year-old Gilbert C. Kessler, was stripping old, upstairs oak balusters.

Sept. 14 Claude A. & Barbara J. Lemon, 35379 Wango Road, Pittsville, truck operators, jointly filed under Chapter 7. Assets: $82,690; liabilities: $355,897 Mammoth Sports Group Inc., 8005 Rappahannock Ave., Jessup, was involuntarily petitioned into a Chapter 7 filing by Kent Arett, J. Schmio & Associates and Professional Litho. Charles Thomas Davis, 445 Basil Ave., Chesapeake City, a.k.a. Tom Davis, a self-employed handyman, filed under Chapter 7.

A man sought by city police in the fatal shooting more than a year ago of a handyman in a Northeast Baltimore house was arrested yesterday at a Georgia carwash. Detective Vincent Stevenson of the Regional Warrant Apprehension Task Force in Baltimore said that Kevin Armstead, 24, of the 700 block of E. 43rd St. was featured Saturday on America's Most Wanted and that several tips on his location came in. Stevenson said U.S. marshals and Decatur, Ga., police responded to a carwash where Armstead was working and arrested him without incident about 12:40 p.m. Stevenson said Armstead, who was living in a homeless shelter in Decatur, was expected to be extradited to Maryland next week.

A bail review hearing was set today for a handyman charged with the fatal stabbing yesterday of a Govans woman in her home.James E. Davis, 39, of the 4200 block of Oakford Ave. in northwest Baltimore, being held at the Northwestern District police station on charges of first-degree murder in the death of Lucy Martin McIntyre, 63, of the 500 block of Richwood Ave.Davis also is charged with robbery with a deadly weapon and possession of a deadly weapon.Police...

An Annapolis man was indicted yesterday by a county grand jury for the January rape and murder of an Arnold woman, for whom he'd worked as a handyman.Albert Gustav Givens, 37, of the 100 block of Roselawn Road, was arrested and charged July 31 with the stabbing death of Marlene "Pat" Kilpatrick, which occurred sometime between 11 p.m. Jan. 1 and 7 a.m. Jan. 2.Mr. Givens was indicted for first-degree murder, said Gerald Anders, deputy state's attorney.Mrs. Kilpatrick, 55, of the 100 block of Church Road, has been retired from the Anne Arundel County Board of Realtors since 1985, when she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.

IS TRYING TO balance on a ladder in the same category for you as scaling the side of Mount McKinley -- because, quite frankly, you're not as young as you used to be? Help may be just a phone call away. Partners in Care, a nonprofit organization that assists elderly and disabled adults, has a Handyman Program that offers the elderly a solution to many household maintenance problems. "Next to transporting seniors and disabled individuals to medical appointments and to get groceries, which is our No. 1 service, the most important service we offer is the Handyman Program," says Maureen Cavaiola, volunteer coordinator for Partners in Care.

I WOULD JUST like to say, here at the outset of this little story from the edges of human experience, that I have respect for Jim and Christy Ferrens, and you will not hear me ridiculing what they did. Far be it from me! They did what I believe most men and women would do for $340 - stoop to a new low, slog through mire, pan through muck. It's not as if this young couple - and new parents - from the Towson area submitted themselves as contestants on NBC's Fear Factor, although it was something like that.

A 48-year-old handyman staying in a Frederick County house he was renovating was killed last night when a fast-moving one-alarm fire raced through the dwelling.Deputy State Fire Marshal Bob Thomas said the man was pronounced dead about 9 p.m. The victim was not identified pending notification of his family in Virginia.The man was working on the frame house in the 6900 block of Old New Londontown Road west of Mount Airy when a fire broke out in the kitchen, Thomas said.The blaze quickly spread through the two-story structure.