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It's not easy posing for a statue when you're seven years old and 15 minutes seems like forever."It's hard when you have to stand still," said Brandi Vest, a model for Park Elementary School's sculpture, "Friendship," depicting a boy and girl holding hands. She and another girl, Sarah Schultz, share duty as models of the girl.But lest one should think it's all hard work, Brandi said, it isn't. "It's fun because you can do stuff. You can get to stand on the table," the second-grader said.Susan Luery, a Baltimore-born sculptor in the state's artist-in-residence program, is re-creating Brandi's likeness, along with fellow student Marty Jameson, in terra cotta clay at the Brooklyn Park school.

This is one time Park Elementary principal Diane Lenzi didn't have to beg, ask or demand to get something for her Brooklyn Park school. This time, Mrs. Lenzi said, parents led the way.The 51-year-old school is scheduled for replacement, but in the meantime students and faculty have been living with some inhospitable conditions: radiators without covers; threadbare carpet in one kindergarten class; a boys' bathroom in need of new urinals and floor tile.Donna...

HAVANA -- Mark Lenzi defied the boos and whistles of a raucous crowd as he stood on the board, then nailed the most nervous dive of his life to win a rare U.S. gold in the Pan American Games."

SAN ANTONIO -- The U.S. Olympic Festival '93 held its closing ceremonies last night, a fitting end for a city that was holding a coming-out party and for new American athletes looking to burst upon the national scene.It was a festival that had it all: some great newcomers, a few accomplished stars and athletes who were about to retire, but couldn't.One of the biggest winners, though, was San Antonio itself. Daily attendance averaged 40,000, and revenue was close to $2.5 million, Festival president Robert Marbut Jr. said yesterday.

Doctor says Alzado has brain cancerLyle Alzado, a former All-Pro defensive lineman, is undergointreatment for inoperable brain cancer, his physician said yesterday, also describing Alzado as "quite unstable when he walks."Dr. Robert Huizenga said the primary brain lymphoma was diagnosed three weeks ago and is inoperable. Treatment includes radiation therapy and chemotherapy. Unsteadiness caused by the therapy and oral cortisone have impaired Alzado, 42, who launched an acting career after retiring from the Los Angeles Raiders in 1986.

Broadneck's Rachel Lenzi, one of the 10 girls named to The Baltimore Sun's 12th annual Anne Arundel All-County Academic-Athletic Team, has accepted a half-academic scholarship to Chatham College in Pittsburgh, Pa. "I'm excited that it's a 50 percent scholarship and that I will play softball there," said Lenzi, a 3.60 student who also played field hockey and ran indoor track at Broadneck. Mary Jo Mahoney of Severna Park and Todd Singleton of Old Mill, who were chosen as the top overall student-athletes on the 20-member team, have been selected as models for On Track magazine.

On April 17, 2007, MARTIN LENZI BOSSE, beloved husband of Virginia B. Bosse, loving father of Ann and John, devoted grandfather of Margaret, Nicholas, Charles, John, Thomas and Kathleen, beloved brother of John and Mary Jane, also survived by daughter-in-law, Nora and son in-law, David. A memorial gathering will be held on Saturday, April 21st from 1-3 p.m. at STERLING ASHTON SCHWAB WITZKE FUNERAL HOME, INC., 1630 Edmondson Avenue, Catonsville. Interment will be private. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to The Exchange Club of Catonsville.

From the door of Park Elementary School in Brooklyn Park, Principal Diane Lenzi often sees children she considers neglected -- coatless in winter, with no umbrellas in rain, hungry and sick without medical treatment. Yet when her teachers call Anne Arundel County child protection workers, they often hear that their concerns don't meet the legal threshold for an investigation into abuse or neglect. "I have met many, many social services workers who have given their heart and soul," Lenzi says.

Diane Lenzi remembers the moment the federal government labeled her school a failure. The Park Elementary School principal was sitting at her desk, her Principal of the Year award neatly framed nearby, when her boss called and said parents would be given the option to take their children out of Park - and the school system would bus them someplace better. "I was devastated," says Lenzi, in her 12th year as principal of the Brooklyn Park school, where two years of falling test scores and a high level of pupil poverty qualified it for the federally mandated transfer program.