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TOWSON -- A bill making it easier to remove dangerous animals and one that seeks to begin reducing false burglar alarms are expected to be approved at tomorrow night's County Council meeting.The council will consider amendments submitted by animal rights activist Mark Rifkin to the animal control bill before voting on the measure. It is intended to allow quicker removal and hearings for animals -- mainly pit bulls and Rottweilers -- that appear dangerous and ill-confined, but which haven't attacked anyone.

Stephen G. Heaver, a builder and developer whose fascination with fire trucks and apparatus led him to create the Fire Museum of Maryland, died Monday of lung failure at Greater Baltimore Medical Center. The Lutherville resident was 80.Mr. Heaver loved fire trucks all his life. As a boy, he would sit on the curb near his Roland Park home -- around the corner from a fire station -- to watch them rumble past.He bought his first piece of fire equipment in 1962 and founded the Lutherville museum in 1971.

Mission: To preserve and interpret the history of firefighting and to educate the public on fire safety and prevention. On display at the 20,000-square-foot facility in Lutherville are 42 hand-pulled, horse-drawn and motorized firetrucks dating from 1806.Latest accomplishment: Last month, the museum opened the Discovery Room, a hands-on children's exploration area. And last year, the museum acquired a Fire Safety House, a scaled-down version of a home filled with simulated smoke that teaches children and adults how to escape from a fire.

David Dean couldn't resist putting on the firefighter's gear, even though the helmet nearly touched his chin, the jacket's hem touched the floor and the boots came up to his knees."

LUTHERVILLE -- After long negotiations that produced an agreement with the Dulaney Valley Improvement Association, Baltimore County Zoning Commissioner Lawrence E. Schmidt has approved plans for a nine-story office tower and four-story garage to be added onto the back of the Heaver Plaza building on York Road.The project, to be built behind the existing nine-story building on the northeast corner of York and Greenridge roads, is the culmination of the original plan for the 7-acre site when Heaver Plaza was built 20 years ago."

Steve Heaver and Ed Rosen manhandled an unwieldy, 400-pound iron contraption into position -- the hose bed of a 1920 Seagrave fire engine being restored at the Fire Museum of Maryland.Elsewhere in the hangarlike building, John D. LaCosta was installing a jumper circuit on the old telephone fire alarm system, a type in use from the late 19th century until the 911 system was implemented in 1968 to cover all emergency services.Such work has been taking place on Tuesday evenings in the Lutherville museum since its founding in 1971.

Note to Mr. Young: Please excuse Marcus Webb and Brandon Heaver from yesterday's Algebra II class. An emergency came up.Well, a pair of Opening Day tickets anyway.If Patrick Luskey's bosses at Churchill Distributing were looking for him yesterday, he had an important appointment outside the office. In a terrace box seat at Camden Yards.And if your Michael Allen Contracting Co. kitchen remodeling is running a day behind schedule, please be understanding. Co-owner Greg Lilley was at another recent construction site, of the Camden green variety.

William Kluzewitz was throwing hawser lines around bollards on Baltimore wharves yesterday, just like he did back in the Roaring '20s, and it made him happy in a way little else ever has."This is my life," said Mr. Kluzewitz, 81, from the bow of the tug S.S. Baltimore as the vessel steamed from Key Highway to pick up a load of coal in Curtis Bay. "I worked as a deckhand for $2 a day and whatever you could find to eat. When I couldn't get on deck, I worked down below stoking the boilers. I quit the sea to get married, but I always loved this work."

PHH Corporate Headquarters in Hunt Valley, the First Maryland Building in Baltimore and Heaver Plaza in Lutherville have been named the 1991 Buildings of the Year by the Building Owners and Managers Association of Baltimore.The awards, which have been held since 1976, honor the buildings' managers and owners for overall management and operations in three categories.The PHH building pulled top honors in the "corporate/single tenant" category. Robert Diana, chairman of the building of the year committee, said PHH was chosen because those running it "kept up the quality of its management even during tough times."

The First Maryland Building at 25 S. Charles St., Heaver Plaza in Lutherville and the PHH Corp. headquarters in Hunt Valley have been named the 1991 Buildings of the Year by the Building Owners and Managers Association of Baltimore.BOMA judges also selected The Brokerage at the Inner Harbor complex to receive a special award for its management by W. C. Pinkard & Co.These and other local buildings will receive Awards of Excellence during the 14th annual BOMA award ceremonies today starting at 6:30 p.m. at the Baltimore Museum of Art. More than 100 local office buildings were considered for awards, which recognize excellence in management and operations.

Allan Bancroft Heaver, a property manager who was active numerous civic and professional organizations, died July 2 of complications from renal failure at Indigo Farms, his Clarksville farm. He was 57. Born in Baltimore and raised in Roland Park, Mr. Heaver was a 1969 graduate of McDonogh School. He attended Lehigh University. For the past 40 years, he had been a managing member of Heaver Properties in Lutherville. His professional memberships included the Building Owners and Managers Association, the Baltimore Integrated Environmental Management Project Task Force for the Environmental Protection Agency, and the American Lung Association's Task Force For Indoor Air Quality Control.

Shortly after the Great Fire of Baltimore started the morning of Feb. 7, 1904, J.E. Henry spent about a half-hour photographing the collapse of the Hurst building, where the blaze started. Meanwhile, A.C. Abadie was sent to film the fire using a motion picture camera that Thomas Edison had just patented. And after the fire had been extinguished, Julian Jenkel stood on the rooftop of the Elliott Cigar Manufacturer building and took pictures of the debris that covered more than 140 acres of downtown Baltimore.

As a sailboat tacked in the gentle haze of the Inner Harbor yesterday, running crisscross patterns under a straight-arrow seagull, Len Brown of Hagerstown raised the green flag of the Baltimore Museum of Industry at the prow of the 1906 steam tug Baltimore. It was a moment full of delicious anticipation. After a week spent propped in the confines of a blue, rusting dry dock at General Ship Repair off Key Highway while its hull was patched, one of the oldest steam-powered tugs in the country was once more about to go to sea- or at least to the Inner Harbor.

HEAVER, PHILIP A., SR., 90, died February 18, 2006 in Newtown Square, PA. He is survived by his children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren and loving fiance. A private graveside service will be held at West Laurel Hill Cemetery, 215 Belmont Avenue, Bala Cynwyd, PA 19004 Friday, March 3, 2006. A celebration of his life will be held at Newtown Square Presbyterian Church on Saturday, March 4, 2006, 11:30 AM.

Most people have collections of some kind, which might include grandma's quilt, grandpa's gold pocket watch, great-grandma's fine china, mom's wedding dress, old photographs or other antiques. But if not well-preserved, one man's treasure can become another man's junk, and Melissa Heaver knows it. As collections manager of the Historical Society of Baltimore County, Heaver offers workshops to teach people how to properly care for their family heirlooms. The workshops cover the care of wooden objects, decorative arts, textiles and paper products.

Anna Doris Heaver, a World War II registered nurse and homemaker, died Saturday at Brightwood Center in Lutherville of complications from emphysema. She was 84. The former Anna Doris Alt was born in Baltimore and raised on Reisterstown Road and Dolfield Avenue. She was a graduate of Western High School and earned her nursing degree from the University of Maryland School of Nursing in 1941. Mrs. Heaver, who attained the rank of lieutenant, served with the Army's 42nd General Hospital Unit - one of four such units activated in Baltimore - during the war. She was stationed in Brisbane, Australia; Manila, Philippines; Yokohama, Japan; and Tokyo.

On March 5, 2005, DORIS ALT HEAVER; beloved wife of the late Stephen Goodenow Heaver, Sr.; dear mother of Stephen Goodenow Heaver, Jr. and Allan Bancroft Heaver; dear mother-in-law of Melissa Marsh Heaver and Deborah Dove Heaver; dear grandmother of Thomas Benjamin, Isabel Caroline, Darcy Elizabeth and Brandon Tyler Heaver; dear sister of Lee Alt Sandmyer. Friends may call at the family owned Mitchell-Wiedefeld Funeral Home, Inc., 6500 York Road (at Overbrook), on Monday and Tuesday 5 to 7 P.M. A Funeral Service will be held Wednesday 10 A.M. at University Baptist Church.

Sherilyn Namie normally wouldn't visit the Fire Museum of Maryland in Lutherville on a sunny Saturday, but her 3-year-old son Timmy loves fire engines and wants to be a firefighter when he grows up. So Namie brought Timmy to the museum yesterday to take a look at its collection of antique fire trucks and displays. Timmy walked around the museum in a child-size firefighter jacket and boots. "He wants a real firetruck for his birthday," said Namie, 27, of Owings Mills. Timmy won't get a firetruck for his birthday, but he got to inspect several antique fire engines yesterday during the museum's 30th anniversary celebration.

Somewhere outside Stephen Heaver Jr.'s basement in Roland Park, the electronic book revolution continues. Somewhere booksellers expand into the e-book market, publishers offer more titles in software, writers put stories and novels directly online, electronics stores busily proffer the latest e-book reader gizmos for Christmas. Somewhere far, far away. Down the narrow wooden steps and under the low ceiling on Woodlawn Road, book publishing goes on much as it did more than a century ago. Down here a book is still a book, a tactile and visual experience, an object to be admired in the hand as one might admire a Limoges tureen.

Stephen G. Heaver, a builder and developer whose fascination with fire trucks and apparatus led him to create the Fire Museum of Maryland, died Monday of lung failure at Greater Baltimore Medical Center. The Lutherville resident was 80.Mr. Heaver loved fire trucks all his life. As a boy, he would sit on the curb near his Roland Park home -- around the corner from a fire station -- to watch them rumble past.He bought his first piece of fire equipment in 1962 and founded the Lutherville museum in 1971.