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The second annual Don Nave Memorial Scholarship is available to South Carroll High School students.The scholarship was started last year by friends of Mr. Nave, who died in a car accident last year.He was a strong supporter of young people and of the sports program at South Carroll.To qualify for the scholarship, students must meet academic standards and be active in the sports program.Applications are available from the school's Varsity Club, Athletic Director Fred Baker or the guidance department.

Each week The Sun's John McIntyre presents a moderately obscure but evocative word with which you may not be familiar - another brick to add to the wall of your working vocabulary. This week's word: FLECHE In ecclesiastical architecture , the Gothic fashion was for the fleche (pronunciation anglicized as FLESH), a slender spire, often placed at the intersection of the nave and the transept. It is a direct lifting from the French fleche , or "arrow," resembling an arrow that has been shot through the structure, protruding through the roof.

Defense long has been the trademark of the rich South Carroll boys lacrosse tradition.zTC This year's team is no different.That's probably why senior goalie Chris Nave understands his role so well and has helped lead the Cavaliers to a 6-1 record midway through the season.Nave has been a goalie since he first began playing the sport in the fifth grade in the Freedom lacrosse program. The team needed a goalie and Nave said he would give it a try.He has been there ever since, last year coming up with 104 saves and leading the county with a .680 save percentage.

On December 2, 2009, DOROTHY J. NAVE (nee Jones); beloved mother of Donald L. Nave and his wife Rejane and the late Dottie L. Nave; devoted grandmother of Kimberly D. House and her husband Ray, Tammy M. Precht, Matthew D. Nave and Melinda R. Nave; great-grandmother of Zachary House, Victoria, Hadley and Rachel Precht; sister of Gordon Donald Jones and the late Annie E., Edward W., Albert and Charles W. Jones. Relatives and friends are invited to call at the Schimunek Funeral Home of Bel Air Inc., 610 W. MacPhail Road (at Route 24)

For Donald Nave, sports at South Carroll High School was a passion.During his 11 years as a teacher there, he coached football and baseball. Even when he left teaching, he remained an unofficial coach at the school and attended nearly all South Carroll football, baseball and lacrosse games.Mr. Nave's commitment to South Carroll sports endures -- a scholarship was established in his name after he was killed at age 51 in a car accident near his Taylorsville home in March.The $4,000 scholarship was awarded at South Carroll's graduation in June to Michael O'Connell, now a freshman at Fordham University in New York.

Carroll County officials, trying to prevent another explosion like the one that wrecked a Westminster neighborhood in January, say they want to do background checks on all contractors."

Mayor W. Benjamin Brown recently presented the Mayor's Cup to Judie Nave, store owner, and Mary Armacost, window dresser, of Forget-Me-Not.The East Main Street storefront was selected as the city's best-dressed holiday window.

County officials learned yesterday that they will have to spend an extra $50,000 on a new emergency communications tower because the site for the structure sits in the middle of a future state police parade ground.The problem could have been worse.Had construction of the 220-foot tower at Springfield Hospital Center already begun, the cost would have been far higher, said project director Jay Nave. Nave briefed the County Commissioners about the problem yesterday.Nave expects the Sykesville tower to be up and running no later than April 1 and perhaps as early as Jan. 1, despite having to move to a new site on the Springfield campus.

A Baltimore County jury has ordered Nissan to pay $4 million to the widow of a Carroll County man who died in a 1994 crash, after deciding that the steering column on the man's pickup truck -- which killed him on impact -- was designed defectively.The verdict, reached Thursday after a three-week trial, prompted a California-based Nissan lawyer to call the case "a rank example junk science" yesterday.Nicholas Wittner, assistant general counsel for Nissan North America, said the automaker will ask Baltimore County Circuit Judge Lawrence R. Daniels to throw out the jury verdict and find that the company was not at fault.

An article in Sunday's Carroll County section should have said that a contractor is to be selected in early 1994 to make improvements in the county's ambulance and fire deppartment radio system. No date has been set for completing the pproject.The Baltimore Sun regrets the errors.The county took its first step toward improving its ambulance and fire department radio systems when its Radio System Replacement Committee began reviewing a proposal it will send to engineering firms interested in overseeing the work.

For the North Carroll baseball team, this has been a season of firsts. Earlier this month, the Panthers clinched their first-ever county title. And yesterday, they appeared in their first state semifinal, meeting J.M. Bennett of Wicomico County for the right to advance to the Class 3A championship game. "For what these kids have accomplished, it's just been a magical run," coach Denny Snyder said. "The kids have just stepped it up." That's been particularly true on the mound. Led by ace Dan Ditman, the Panthers have pitched to an ERA just over 3.00, with solid contributions from Justin Hare, who was out injured most of last season, and Dominic Pasta.

A Baltimore police officer was injured yesterday when his patrol car and another car collided at the intersection of Harford Road and East 32nd Street near Clifton Park. The force of the collision sent the patrol car crashing into a streetlight. Officer William H. Nave Jr., 28, who is assigned to the Northeastern District, was taken to Maryland Shock Trauma Center, where he was treated for a broken arm and possible concussion, said Detective Donny Moses, a police spokesman. The driver of the other car, Ruth Roach, 67, of Armistead Gardens, and her two passengers - her husband, Frank Roach, 71, and daughter Ruthie Jones, 45 - were taken to Union Memorial Hospital.

WITH THE U.S. MARINES, Central Iraq - The war stopped briefly yesterday for members of the 3rd Battalion, 5th Marines. In a simple ceremony held along the muddy route of an unfinished road about 100 miles south of Baghdad, the Marines crawled from their fighting holes, removed their helmets and hung their heads in prayer to say goodbye to two Marines who were killed during the past week. Corpsman Michael Johnson Jr., 25, of Little Rock, Ark., was killed Tuesday when a rocket-propelled grenade hit his Humvee during an ambush on his convoy by the Iraqi Army.

Earl L. Hartman, 75, civil engineer, bowler Earl L. Hartman, a retired civil engineer and avid bowler who was a member of the Duckpin Bowling Hall of Fame, died Jan. 16 of Wegener's granulomatosis, a rare disease of the immune system, at Greater Baltimore Medical Center. He was 75. Mr. Hartman, a Forest Hill resident, retired in 1988 after 42 years as a civil engineer with the city's Bureau of Water and Waste Water. He was a Baltimore native and a 1944 graduate of Polytechnic Institute.

On Christmas Eve, 50 years ago, the first opera expressly written for television was broadcast by NBC, which commissioned it. Today, you couldn't get a commercial TV network to air an opera, let alone pay to have it composed, if your life depended on it. Well, times may have changed, but Gian Carlo Menotti's Amahl and the Night Visitors hasn't. It remains as endearing as it was to that first viewing public, and it's one of the most frequently performed operas in the world. Something about its simplicity and directness, its message of hope and faith, still strikes a comforting chord.

Carroll County's computerized emergency 911 system malfunctioned yesterday, but a backup radio system enabled dispatchers at Westminster Emergency Operations Center to maintain public safety without a glitch, officials said.All 14 of the county's volunteer fire companies were immediately alerted to monitor station house radios when the system malfunctioned at 10: 45 a.m. until the problem was found and corrected, said Jay Nave, the county's roads administration supervisor."The problem had no effect on 911 lines and the radio system continued to work," Nave said.

Carroll County's Radio Replacement Committee has approved a proposal to send to engineering firms interested in overseeing the upgrade of Carroll's emergency services radio system to an 800 megahertz frequency.The system links county firefighters and ambulance crews with each other, their stations and the Emergency Operations Center.The committee met Thursday night to discuss changes to the document submitted for their consideration at last month's meeting by Jay Nave, chairman of the committee appointed by the county commissioners in August.

A Baltimore police officer was injured yesterday when his patrol car and another car collided at the intersection of Harford Road and East 32nd Street near Clifton Park. The force of the collision sent the patrol car crashing into a streetlight. Officer William H. Nave Jr., 28, who is assigned to the Northeastern District, was taken to Maryland Shock Trauma Center, where he was treated for a broken arm and possible concussion, said Detective Donny Moses, a police spokesman. The driver of the other car, Ruth Roach, 67, of Armistead Gardens, and her two passengers - her husband, Frank Roach, 71, and daughter Ruthie Jones, 45 - were taken to Union Memorial Hospital.

A Baltimore County jury has ordered Nissan to pay $4 million to the widow of a Carroll County man who died in a 1994 crash, after deciding that the steering column on the man's pickup truck -- which killed him on impact -- was designed defectively.The verdict, reached Thursday after a three-week trial, prompted a California-based Nissan lawyer to call the case "a rank example junk science" yesterday.Nicholas Wittner, assistant general counsel for Nissan North America, said the automaker will ask Baltimore County Circuit Judge Lawrence R. Daniels to throw out the jury verdict and find that the company was not at fault.

Five companies, including two from Maryland, submitted bids ranging from $118,555 to $168,900 yesterday to build a 220-foot emergency communications tower in Sykesville.UNR Rohn of Peoria, Ill., was the low bidder in the competition to "design, ship, and erect" the tower, which officials said will improve emergency communications.The tower, which will eliminate transmission blackouts in South Carroll, will be built on a site at Springfield Hospital Center. It is the final piece of the county's $8.2 million, seven-tower emergency communications system.