Laundry

Greg Cantori plans to downsize when he retires. Really, really downsize. His retirement home is 238 square feet — one-tenth the size of the average new American house — and sits in his Anne Arundel County yard. He and wife Renee can hitch it to a truck and take it with them wherever they go. "It's so cheap — that's what's so cool about this," said Cantori, 52, who envisions a surf-and-turf future, alternating between the house and a sailboat. "We bought the house for $19,000.

The cards did not look stacked in Salisbury's favor as the reigning national champion took on the unenviable task of trying to upend undefeated Dickinson. But that is exactly what the No. 12 Sea Gulls did as they evicted the No. 2 Red Devils, 11-9, from a NCAA tournament quarterfinal Wednesday. Salisbury improved to 17-5 and will meet No. 4 Stevenson (20-2) this Sunday night for the right to advance to the title game in Philadelphia on May 26. It is a development that coach Jim Berkman is thankful for. “It was a great win on the road against a team that had an unblemished season,” he said Thursday morning.

A FEW days ago provided one of the few opportunities living in Baltimore allows us to indulge in one of life's little pleasures: hanging out laundry to dry. The rains had let up, Baltimore's famous humidity had dropped, and the clear, dry air provided ideal drying conditions.I've done the family laundry for many years; it's one of the few domestic skills I possess. Laundry is one job I've always been interested in, and many of my early memories are of watching my grandmother do the wash.She had an old wringer washing machine and double laundry tubs, and I used to love to watch her fill the water and throw it into gear, and then I would stand and follow the swirling, pulsing action in the soapy water.

Household-product maker Sun Products said it will lay off 53 people next month at its manufacturing plant on Holabird Avenue in Southeast Baltimore. Spokeswoman Kathryn Corbally said the cuts, planned for May 13, are a result of the Connecticut-based company "realigning the manufacture of products with the customer base. " She wouldn't specify which products. The company's brands include laundry detergents such as all and Wisk, fabric softeners and dish detergent. Gerry Setley, vice president of the International Chemical Workers Union Council, which represents many of the plant's 350 workers, said the company is shifting its laundry detergent production across North America.

Yes, I sent my child to day care in the outfit above -- a tie-dye onesie, car-print socks and soccer-ball legwarmers. We're behind on laundry, OK? It happens! You should have seen the other guy. Big brother was in an outfit that matched, actually, but he was also wearing a superhero cape and mask, so we got all kinds of looks at drop-off this morning. Whatever, right? We got through the day. Plus, if the kid spits up on himself, who will be able to tell? Tie-dye is the real camo!

The following is compiled from police reports from the Towson and Cockeysville precincts. Our policy is to include descriptions when there is enough information to make identification possible. Cockeysville Sunnylake Place, between 9 p.m. Dec. 23 and 10 a.m. Dec. 24. Coins stolen from laundry room machines. Bridgelake Circle, unit block, between 2:30 p.m. Dec. 22 and 1 p.m. Dec. 23; and also between 7:30 a.m. and 4:50 p.m. Dec. 23. Coins stolen from two laundry room machines.

I CAN IDENTIFY with the thousands of Lockheed Martin Corp. workers who are awaiting word this week about the company's restructuring plans. By Friday, they're expecting to learn whether they'll get laid off.In the late 1940s, my father feared he would be laid off from the then-Glenn L. Martin Co. in Middle River, because of post-World War II cuts in defense spending. Fortunately, my father was not laid off then, but I'll never forget the plans he made -- including opening a business -- in the event that he did lose his job.I was a preschooler and my sister and brother were teen-agers when mother and daddy decided to open a self-service laundry in either 1948 or 1949 (the exact date is lost to history)

I have here a letter from Alison Schuler of Albuquerque, N.M. (motto: "The City That Is Probably Spelled Wrong"). Ms. Schuler is concerned about the issue of how guys do laundry. She relates the following anecdote:"My husband announced one morning that he had discovered the previous night, on the eve of a two-day business trip, that he was out of underwear. Why he told me, I do not know. I never tell him when I'm out of underwear. Anyway, he decided to remedy the situation in true guy fashion, by washing exactly three sets of underwear, thus disregarding the bulging hamper full of the rest of his underwear, which, presumably, would wash itself during his absence."

An argument over clothes that had been dropped on the floor of an East Baltimore laundry yesterday led to the fatal shooting of a 25-year-old man, city police reported.The victim was identified as William Jones of the 500 block of N. Dallas St. Hit by three bullets, he was found dead on the street outside the laundry, police said.Agent Arlene K. Jenkins, a police spokeswoman, said the incident began just after 9 a.m. at a laundry in the 1500 block of N. Broadway.A woman complained that a laundry employee dropped some of her clothes on the floor while transferring them from a defective machine.

TODAY WE PRESENT: Laundry Tips for Guys. Many guys have trouble with laundry, because of the technical complexity involved. Even a very "high-tech" guy, a guy who can build a working nuclear submarine using only staples, is reluctant to attempt to do laundry, because there are so many variables: You have your lights and your darks, of course, but you also have your stripes, some of which could be delicates, or even hand-washables, not to mention your...

Yes, I sent my child to day care in the outfit above -- a tie-dye onesie, car-print socks and soccer-ball legwarmers. We're behind on laundry, OK? It happens! You should have seen the other guy. Big brother was in an outfit that matched, actually, but he was also wearing a superhero cape and mask, so we got all kinds of looks at drop-off this morning. Whatever, right? We got through the day. Plus, if the kid spits up on himself, who will be able to tell? Tie-dye is the real camo!

James Thomas Lee Stubbs, a retired hospital laundry manager and World War II veteran, died Sunday of complications from dementia at St. Joseph Medical Center. The Perry Hall resident was 95. The son of a factory worker and Montgomery Ward cafeteria worker, he was born in Baltimore and raised in Pigtown. After his father, who worked at the Cat's Paw factory in South Baltimore, lost his job during the Depression, Mr. Stubbs dropped out of Southern High School in 1936 to help support his family.

The following is compiled from police reports from the Towson and Cockeysville precincts. Our policy is to include descriptions when there is enough information to make identification possible. Cockeysville Sunnylake Place, between 9 p.m. Dec. 23 and 10 a.m. Dec. 24. Coins stolen from laundry room machines. Bridgelake Circle, unit block, between 2:30 p.m. Dec. 22 and 1 p.m. Dec. 23; and also between 7:30 a.m. and 4:50 p.m. Dec. 23. Coins stolen from two laundry room machines.

The following is compiled from police reports from the Towson and Cockeysville precincts. Our policy is to include descriptions when there is enough information to make identification possible. Cockeysville Valley Frost Court, unit block, between 12:40 and 10 p.m. Oct. 14. Television, Xbox, black machete, music video games and money stolen. Entry through unlocked bedroom window Beaver Dam Road, 10200 block, between 5 p.m. Oct. 12 and 6 a.m. Oct. 13. Recycled batteries stolen from Baltimore County Resource Recovery facility.

A student's request for a holiday charitable donation is what first sparked yoga instructor Tina Lanzoni's interest in the nonprofit group called Giving Back, Linda's Legacy. The nonprofit operates the Holiday Homeless Drive in Baltimore, Anne Arundel County and Washington by collecting basic necessities and delivering them to the homeless and to shelters on Christmas Eve. This past holiday season, the group collected 1,600 donated backpacks filled with hooded sweatshirts, thermal underwear, wool socks, a hat and gloves.

Luigi "Gino" Manelli, whose career as a professional artist and teacher spanned seven decades and who was known for his use of color and light, died Saturday of cancer at St. Elizabeth Rehabilitation Center in Southwest Baltimore. He was 94. Mr. Manelli, who was known as "Gino," was born in Philadelphia to parents who emigrated from Abruzzo. In 1923, he returned to Italy with his parents, who established a general store and later a laundry business. As a youngster, he began doodling on old dry-goods bags he found in his parents' store; when he was older, he began taking formal lessons from artists in Abruzzo.

Admit it. There is nothing as pleasing as the smell of freshly laundered sheets, or a comforter that has spent the day hanging in the breeze and the sunshine. There is not much more reassuring than the sight of all your dress shirts crisply ironed and lined up like soldiers in your closet. Fluffy towels, warm from the dryer; a favorite pair of jeans, ready to go again; a stack of folded kitchen towels, the stains magically gone. It is hard to focus on the sensuality of clean laundry when you are facing a mountain of it, but author Cheryl Mendelson does.

Marsha G. Maloff describes herself as a quiet, unassuming, nonassertive woman, who once aspired to a career in dance.The entry under her photo in the University of Maryland yearbook might have read "least likely to wind up running a correctional facility."For the past 10 years as administrator at the Central Laundry Facility, a minimum-security prison for men near Sykesville, she has done the least likely most competently."An opportunity comes along and you take it," she said. "It's not planned.

In the final quarter of the Chicago Bears game a week ago, Ravens cornerback Domonique Foxworth intercepted a pass. After he was tackled, he ran 40 yards in celebration, drawing a delay-of-game penalty. A few minutes later, Ravens cornerback Frank Walker intercepted a pass. After he was tackled, he threw the ball 40 yards, drawing a delay-of-game penalty. Those penalties seemed harmless coming against the Bears, but there is no such thing as a meaningless penalty. They were just another small window into a major problem with the Ravens.

Theresa V. "Granny" Fenwick, former supervisor of laundry services at the old Provident Hospital who stressed the value of education to her children and grandchildren, died in her sleep July 18 at Seasons Hospice at Northwest Hospital Center. The Elkridge resident had celebrated her 100th birthday in June. Theresa Veroma Hammond, whose parents were Cherokee Indians, was born and raised in Anderson, S.C., where she attended public schools through the third grade. "In the early 1930s, her father was threatened with lynching, which caused him to gather his family and flee in the middle of the night to the North.