Legion Post

On Friday August 1, 2003 JOSHUA SENEY COSDEN, beloved husband of Virginia Mae Cosden, devoted father of Joshua "Chuck" Cosden and his wife Patricia, Toni Annette Fenker and her husband Jeffrey, John Proctor Cosden and his wife Deborah, loving grandfather of Joshua A. Cowden and John P. Fenker, uncle of William D. CosdenMemorial service Sunday August 10, 2003 2 P.M. at American Legion Post #122, 4424 Painters Mill Rd., Owings Mills, MD 21117. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to American Cancer Society, 8219 Town Center Drive.

Edith Nellie Reese, former owner of a Carroll County grocery store and World War II veteran, died of liver and kidney failure Monday at Hanover Hall Nursing Center in Hanover, Pa. She was 79. The former Edith N. Peay was born in Baltimore and raised in Westport. She attended city public schools. She enlisted in the Women's Army Corps during World War II, and served as a technician with the 15th Hospital Co. at Fort Benning, Ga. She was married in 1949 to Carroll W. Reese, a steelworker who died in 1997.

In Baltimore City O'Malley to sign bill creating Department of Transportation Mayor Martin O'Malley is scheduled to sign legislation today to create a city Department of Transportation. The agency will oversee towing, street lighting, highway maintenance and engineering. Many of its functions formerly were handled by the Department of Public Works, then the city's office of transportation. 2 meetings set this week to discuss solid-waste plan The Public Works Department has scheduled two community meetings this week to discuss updating the city's 10-year solid-waste management plan.

A number of Carroll County churches and organizations will offer memorial services in remembrance of the Sept. 11 attacks. Services are open to the public. Memorials include: American Legion Post 191 of Mount Airy will hold a Patriot Day service to remember the victims of 9/11 at 3 p.m. Sept. 8 at Pine Grove Chapel. The event is co-sponsored by the Veterans of Foreign Wars Four Counties Post 10076. The program will open with the raising of the American flag, which then will be lowered to half-staff.

A fatal shooting over the weekend at the American Legion Cook-Pinkney Post on Forest Drive has Annapolis police revisiting a place they had considered dormant as a trouble spot. "Years ago, there were some problems there," said Annapolis police spokesman Hal Dalton. "But it has been really good in recent memory." Turbulence at the hall rarely, if ever, involved Legion members, Dalton said. "It was always the people they leased the building out to for private parties," he said. The Legion has been screening more carefully in the past few years, Dalton said.

The Veterans Outreach Program from Martinsburg, W.Va., will be at American Legion Post 120 in Taneytown from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Wednesday. Veterans who have not signed up for Department of Veterans Affairs medical care or have questions about VA medical care are welcome to visit the outreach program. Free blood pressure checks will be given. The post is at 9 Broad St. Information: 410-751-1685. New Windsor church holding crab cake sale St. Paul's United Methodist Church of New Windsor will hold its annual crab cake sale July 19. Crab cakes with rolls and tartar sauce cost $4 and may be purchased cooked or uncooked.

After serving in the military for more than 23 years and being involved with American Legion activities for another 18, Linda Bishop was the unanimous, unopposed choice to lead Towson's American Legion Post 22. She is the first woman to do so in the post's 71-year history. The members present at last month's election - all men - gave Bishop a standing ovation when she was chosen. "I just felt like it was my time," said Bishop, 53. "I felt like I had been there long enough, I could do a good job."

The tattered one Reid Brown brought had hung proudly from his front porch for 10 years. The shriveled one Isabella Mecinski pulled from her purse wasn't even hers. She found it on a walk, took it home to wash, decided the two holes in it couldn't be mended and, rather than dropping it in the garbage, drove the tiny flag -- about the size of a cocktail napkin -- from Towson to Parkville so it could be disposed of properly. "You don't throw a flag away," she said. "Not the American flag."

In Baltimore County Police warn of man preying on women after offering jobs TOWSON -- Baltimore County police are warning residents about a man who has lured three women to restaurants or motels with offers of lucrative jobs and bonuses, then sexually assaulted them. Bill Toohey, Police Department spokesman, said the women told police a man who knew personal information about them called them at work, offered high-paying jobs in Florida or California and a $5,000 bonus if they made an immediate decision.

Mount Airy community churches are holding Lenten lunches and devotional services from noon to 1 p.m. Wednesdays through March 20 at Calvary United Methodist Church. The lunches are free and all are welcome. Child care will be available during services. An offering will be taken each week to support the work of Mount Airy NET, which provides food and financial help to residents in need. The churches that will provide lunch and lead the service are: Locust Grove Church of the Brethren on Wednesday; and Prospect/Marvin Chapel UMC on March 20. Information: 301-829-0358.