Horsey

Anthony Madison, a fourth-grader at Rognel Heights Elementary School, says he doesn't intend to miss another day of school -- and he means it.Anthony and other students at Rognel Heights, located at 4300 Sidehill Road in West Baltimore, are all aiming for perfect attendance. If they achieve it, they will be rewarded with a trip to the General Motors Corp. plant on Broening Highway in June.Under a partnership agreement between GM and the school, third-, fourth- and fifth-graders are eligible for trips to the plant if they have perfect attendance and display good discipline and study habits.

Annapolis is a lovely city at any time of year, but it is never more beautiful than at Christmas. Gov. William Donald Schaefer and Hilda Mae Snoops very nicely included me in one of their holiday parties held at the governor's mansion this past week.Youngsters sang carols as guests arrived, and few guests went inside until they had admired a marvelous wooden train that adorns the lawn. CXS, B&O and Conrail are among the decals on the different cars and I am told that an Amish man from the Dutch Market on the Eastern Shore made the train.

Two people were killed in separate highway accidents Friday night, including a 41-year-old motorcyclist who crashed into a dump truck in Washington County, police said.David Lynn Peters of Martinsburg, W.Va., was killed when he drove his motorcycle through a red light and ran into the dump truck at the intersection of Routes 66 and 64 in Smithsburg.The driver of the truck was not injured in the crash, which occurred at about 6:40 p.m., police said.Five hours later in Somerset County, the 44-year-old driver of a seafood truck loaded with canned clams was killed after he lost control of the vehicle and it overturned.

THE WEDDING invitation asked guests to "celebrate" the marriage of prominent Baltimore builder Bill Struever, president of Struever Bros. Eccles and Rouse, and Anne Riggle, vice president and general manager of SAFT America. The invitation was designed by Struever's 7-year-old daughter, Lucy Struever, who was thrilled that her dad and new stepmother had chosen her painting, "Rainbow Mountain," for the wedding invitation.Last Saturday, family and close friends gathered in Struever's gorgeous Tindeco penthouse that overlooks the harbor and Fort McHenry, for a 4 p.m. ceremony.