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On Wednesday, March 23, 2005, MARJORIE C., beloved wife of the late Francis G. Hoskins Jr., mother of Barbara Keegan, Deborah Dayhoff and Jennifer Bailey. Visitation will be held on Monday 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 P. M at Donaldson Funeral Home, P.A., 313 Talbott Avenue, Laurel, MD, where services will be held on Tuesday 1 P.M. Interment will follow at Druid Ridge Cemetery. Memorial donations may be made to Huntington Disease Foundation, 140 W. 22nd St., 6th flr, New York, NY, 11201-2420.

The volunteer fire department that protects Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr.'s boyhood home in Arbutus has received $250,000 in grant money since 2004 from a state program whose rules explicitly prohibit payments to fire stations. The state money went toward a planned $3.5 million expansion of the Arbutus Volunteer Fire Department, the first phase of which was celebrated a few weeks ago at a ceremony attended by first lady Kendel Ehrlich and the governor's parents, who still live a few blocks away in a brick rowhouse.

On March 13, 2004, JENNIE T. of Sparks, beloved wife of Walter H. Hoskins; devoted mother of Bob W. Hoskins and Sharon L. Ugiansky; loving grandmother of R. Bryan Hoskins, Terry Grant, Kim, R. Jay and Greg Ugiansky; dear sister of Frank, Walter and Theodore Groncki, Jessie Gladkowski and Marie Gaegler, and the late John Groncki; cherished great-grandmother of Patric, Robby, Lindsey and Diane; also survived by several nieces and nephews. The family will receive friends in the Lemmon Funeral Home of Dulaney Valley Inc., 10 W. Padonia Rd (at York Rd)

On Wednesday, March 23, 2005, MARJORIE C., beloved wife of the late Francis G. Hoskins Jr., mother of Barbara Keegan, Deborah Dayhoff and Jennifer Bailey. Visitation will be held on Monday 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 P. M at Donaldson Funeral Home, P.A., 313 Talbott Avenue, Laurel, MD, where services will be held on Tuesday 1 P.M. Interment will follow at Druid Ridge Cemetery. Memorial donations may be made to Huntington Disease Foundation, 140 W. 22nd St., 6th flr, New York, NY, 11201-2420.

Gov.-elect Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. has chosen a real estate executive and former Baltimore housing administrator to be his new secretary of housing and community development. Ehrlich nominated Victor L. Hoskins, 45, to run the agency, which provides affordable housing to low-income people. Ehrlich also announced the nominations yesterday of former state Sen. Jean W. Roesser, 72, to be secretary of the Department of Aging, and Jacqueline L. Phillips, 67, as deputy secretary. Hoskins is a senior vice president of UrbanAmerica, a $400 million Wall Street-based real estate investment company that buys and develops commercial buildings in inner cities.

Louise Ward Hoskins, a volunteer at the Union Memorial Hospital gift shop for more than three decades, died from complications of a stroke Thursday at Church Home. She was 96.Born Louise Dietz in Youngstown, Ohio, to German immigrants, she was educated in public schools there and spent her young adulthood helping her father in the building of the Youngstown Hotel.She moved to Baltimore in 1925 with her husband, the late Thomas J. Ward, who served as a regional terminals superintendent for the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad.

Scoring two goals against Glen Burnie last Tuesday must have ignited a fire underneath North County's Mike Hoskins.The junior speedster continued his scoring binge Friday, recording a hat trick against Old Mill, as the Knights blanked the visitors, 4-0, in a 4A boys soccer matchup at Leroy G. Carter Field.North County's latest triumph upped its overall record to 6-0 (2-0 league), leaving it as the only undefeated squad in the entire county -- a fact that head coach Steve Malone knows too well.

As this year's Cannes Film Festival, the 52nd, passed its halfway point, it remained a year of controversies, disappointments and many critical arguments.Some films outraged audiences. Some films alienated critics. Some films pleased many; others reaped widespread scorn.It is hard to remember more badly received films than LeosCarax's Herman Melville adaptation "Pola X" and Bruno ("The Life of Jesus") Dumont's "L'Humanite," two offbeat French films loaded with angst and sex, including what seemed, in both cases, to be actual onscreen intercourse between the leading actors, which shocked and severely alienated part of its audience.

With his team losing by a goal and playing tentatively, North County boys soccer coach Steve Malone pulled his forward line off the field early in the second half for a brief lecture."

The assignment for the students: List in sequence five important events they've read from a chapter of "Pippi Longstocking."The fifth-grade class at Jarrettsville Elementary School has no problem mastering the "sequence." But their teacher, Gemma Hoskins, is surprised bythe trivia that made it onto their "important" lists.Grabbing a student's notebook, she asks, "Is it important that his notebook is red? Will it affect his life?""No," the students call out, realizing that the notebook would soon be forgotten.

On March 13, 2004, JENNIE T. of Sparks, beloved wife of Walter H. Hoskins; devoted mother of Bob W. Hoskins and Sharon L. Ugiansky; loving grandmother of R. Bryan Hoskins, Terry Grant, Kim, R. Jay and Greg Ugiansky; dear sister of Frank, Walter and Theodore Groncki, Jessie Gladkowski and Marie Gaegler, and the late John Groncki; cherished great-grandmother of Patric, Robby, Lindsey and Diane; also survived by several nieces and nephews. The family will receive friends in the Lemmon Funeral Home of Dulaney Valley Inc., 10 W. Padonia Rd (at York Rd)

Five Maryland public housing agencies will issue $90 million in bonds to pay for repairs to nearly 18,000 dilapidated apartments, state and local officials announced yesterday. The money will be used by authorities in Baltimore City, Annapolis and Anne Arundel, Montgomery and Prince George's counties to make structural repairs, and to install fire sprinklers, air conditioning and other improvements. The five agencies pooled their financial resources with the state, allowing them to borrow against future federal funding.

Five Maryland public housing agencies will issue $90 million in bonds to pay for repairs to nearly 18,000 dilapidated apartments, state and local officials announced yesterday. The money will be used by authorities in Baltimore City, Annapolis and Anne Arundel, Montgomery and Prince George's counties to make structural repairs, install fire sprinklers, air conditioning and other improvements. The five agencies pooled their financial resources with the state, allowing them to borrow against future federal funding.

Eastern Tech first baseman Dan Hoskins had only one of the 30 hits that were amassed yesterday between his Mavericks and seventh-ranked Parkville, but the senior made it count. Eastern Tech strung together four singles in the bottom of the seventh inning. The last came from Hoskins, scoring Joe Davenport for the game-winning run and capping a rally that defeated the Knights, 8-7, in a Baltimore County 4A-3A league matchup of unbeaten teams. "That's only my second hit of the season, and it's about time," said Hoskins, who had gone 0-for-3 with a walk in his previous at-bats.

AND SO Clarence Mitchell IV trudges through the snow to the unemployment line. Annapolis insiders say he was shoved out of the $92,000-a-year job Gov. Robert Ehrlich handed him as a political payoff, though Housing Secretary Victor Hoskins diplomatically says no, Mitchell quit. In either case, the former state senator is now out of a job, out of favor, and out of participation in all existing political parties. The Democrats don't want him back. They suffered through his ethical conflicts of interest, his financial catastrophes and his political sabotage of last summer, when he turned his back on his party to support Ehrlich.

Clarence M. Mitchell IV, the embattled former Baltimore senator who landed a high-paying job in Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr.'s administration after supporting the governor during his campaign, was forced yesterday to resign - hours before his supervisor was to face a Senate confirmation hearing. Victor L. Hoskins, nominee for secretary of the Department of Housing and Community Development, went to Ehrlich and Lt. Gov. Michael S. Steele yesterday morning and said he was going to ask Mitchell to leave his $92,000-a-year post as director of the new Office of Urban Development.

William L. Brooks Jr., 73, X-ray technician, veteranWilliam Leroy Brooks Jr., a retired X-ray technician and Korean War veteran, died of a stroke Tuesday at Mariner Health Care Center in Laurel. He was 73.The 40-year Greenbelt resident retired in 1987 from a Prince George's County hospital.He was born in Lochearn and was educated in Baltimore County public schools. He was an Army X-ray technician in Korea during the Korean War.Services will be held at 11 a.m. Monday at the Haight Funeral Home and Chapel, 6416 Route 32, Sykesville.

Gemma S. Hoskins, who led her fifth-grade class in a successful campaign to have Jarrettsville Elementary declared a smoke-free school, was named last night as Maryland's Teacher of the Year.Mrs. Hoskins, an 18-year veteran of the Harford County public school system, received the $1,000 prize in an Academy Awards-style program at the Martin's West catering hall that was videotaped and broadcast two hours later by Maryland Public Television.The TV production was particularly fitting, since Mrs. Hoskins makes use of television as an instructional tool.

Gov.-elect Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. has chosen a real estate executive and former Baltimore housing administrator to be his new secretary of housing and community development. Ehrlich nominated Victor L. Hoskins, 45, to run the agency, which provides affordable housing to low-income people. Ehrlich also announced the nominations yesterday of former state Sen. Jean W. Roesser, 72, to be secretary of the Department of Aging, and Jacqueline L. Phillips, 67, as deputy secretary. Hoskins is a senior vice president of UrbanAmerica, a $400 million Wall Street-based real estate investment company that buys and develops commercial buildings in inner cities.

Compulsion, self-deception and the slippery nature of evil are explored with fidelity and supreme control in "Felicia's Journey," Atom Egoyan's adaptation of the William Trevor novel. Less interested in the graphics of murder than in its complex underpinnings, this movie rescues the Gothic genre from the clutches of sadism and misogyny and returns it to the mystery and compulsion that lie at its core.Like all great horror stories, "Felicia's Journey" begins on a quotidian note, with a middle-class Englishman named Mr. Hilditch (Bob Hoskins)