Lamb

A Millers woman says she lost time and money trying to save farm animals purchased at the county's only livestock auction.Two weeks after buying four calves and a lamb at the Westminster Livestock Auction on Aug. 1, Jane Kelley lost all the animals. One of the calves, a newborn that still had its umbilical cord attached, died within a few days of the purchase. The experience has left her critical of the practice of selling young, even newborn, calves.But the owners of the auction say they stand by a longtime "buyer beware" policy and do not compensate bidders for lost animals.

Howard County Friends of Latin America and the Columbia-Laurel chapter of Amnesty International will sponsor a gathering with refreshments to honor activist Betsy Lamb from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Friday at Wilde Lake Interfaith Center. Lamb was released recently from a federal prison after serving a six-month sentence for her participation in a demonstration against the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation -- formerly known as School of the Americas -- a training center at Fort Benning, Ga., for Latin American military personnel and others.

County Councilwoman Maureen Lamb wants the council to go on record against a proposed new bridge over the Severn River.Lamb, D-Annapolis, has submitted a resolution similar to one backed by the Annapolis City Council three weeks ago. The previous resolution asked the State Highway Administration to redesign an 80-foot-high bridge that opponents claim would harm the environment and ruin the picturesque skyline.The County Council will take up the issue tonight. No public hearing is scheduled, but Lamb said she has invited people on both sides of the issue to speak.

Virginia Lamb Wilson, a retired floral designer who years ago painted daisies to transform them into the fake black-eyed Susans that blanket the winner of the Preakness Stakes, died of cancer Sunday at Gilchrist Center for Hospice Care. The Roland Park resident was 85. Born Virginia Lamb in Wilson, N.C., she moved to Baltimore as a 5-year-old when her parents were building a home at 8 Merrymount Road. She attended Girls Latin School and in 1937 married J. Hofmann Wilson, a Koppers Co. foreman, and moved a few doors away to 18 Merrymount Road, where she lived until she moved to a seniors apartment building in Towson two years ago. Her husband died in 1960.

Claude H. Lamb Sr., a retired Baltimore police officer, died of cancer April 17 at his Irvington home. He was 75. Born and raised in Burgaw, N.C., he moved to Baltimore in early 1950s. He attended what is now Morgan State University. He joined the city police force in 1967 and had assignments in communications and in the Southwestern, Western and Central districts before retiring in 1994, family members said. He was a past first vice president of the Fraternal Order of Police and a charter member of the Vanguard Justice Society, an association of black city police officers.

Harold L. Lamb, a retired executive who established a record time in the Maryland Senior Olympics 100-meter dash at age 77, died Friday of heart failure at his winter home in Lake Worth, Fla. He was 87 and lived in Baltimore.Nearly a half-century after he retired as a New York University track star, Mr. Lamb laced up his track shoes in 1988 and captured the 100-meter and 200-meter races conducted by Maryland Senior Olympics at then-Towson State University.A year earlier, he had won the gold medal in the 100-meter event but did not set a record.

Like turkey, leg of lamb is a culinary project that's all too often saved for company.But look at the payoff of roasting a leg of lamb when you don't have many mouths to feed -- leftovers. And that means lamb pizza, lamb sandwiches, lamb casseroles and more. What a deal.Robin Ganse, director of product publicity for the American Lamb Council in Englewood, Colo., says to figure about 1/2 pound of leg of lamb per person to allow for the bone. Thus, a 6-pound leg of lamb yields 12 servings if you're serving it sliced, as the entree.

Maryland must complete an environmental assessment before the Federal Communications Commission will consider allowing a 180-foot communications tower near two Civil War battlefields and the Appalachian Trail, the FCC says. Federal regulators have determined the state failed to study the tower's potential effect on areas that could be certified as "rural historic landscapes," Jeffrey S. Steinberg, an FCC official, said in a letter to Paul Rosa of the Harpers Ferry Conservancy, a foe of the tower.

The inspiration for this main course comes from a fabulous dish I sampled in Paris last month in a neighborhood restaurant. When I couldn't decide what to choose, our waiter recommended the 7-hour roasted lamb. Slowly roasted in the oven until fork tender, the lamb was delectable, but it was the simple, elegant presentation of the entree that caught my eye. Set in the center of the plate on a bed of pureed eggplant, the meat was surrounded by a garland of roasted cherry tomatoes and roasted garlic cloves.

Anne Arundel County Councilwoman Maureen Lamb should be prepared. In the next few weeks, she's going to be painted as a radical, far-fetched health nut for trying to put some far-reaching restrictions on smoking.Already some of her colleagues are saying her anti-smoking bill is excessive. Almost every business organization in the county has registered opposition, saying economics matter more than breath. As usual, tobacco lobbyist Bruce Bereano -- one person for whom smoking truly is an economic issue because he makes a mint defending it -- has put in his two cents.