Nina

On Sunday, January 11, 2008, Nina Scardina Family and friends are invited to gather at Fleck Funeral Home, Inc., 7601 Sandy Spring Road in Laurel on Thursday, January 15th from 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 P.M. A funeral service will be held on Friday, January 16th at St. Mary of the Mills Catholic Church in Laurel at 11:00 A.M., followed by interment at Ivy Hill Cemetery in Laurel. Flowers are welcome.

In offering the regional premier of the 2008 Tony award-winning musical "In the Heights," Toby's Dinner Theatre of Columbia has reached a new height of its own. Toby's production of "The Color Purple" last season garnered a record number of Helen Hayes nominations, and now the dinner theater elevates the bar to a loftier perch with this musical celebrating a vibrant Latino community in New York City's Washington Heights. "In the Heights" was the first important Broadway musical with book and music by Latinos - playwright Quiara Alegria Hudes and composer Lin-Manuel Miranda.

On April 30, 2006, NINA TUMBARELLO formerly of Ellicott City; beloved wife of the late Sebastian (Ben) Tumbarello; devoted mother of Michael, Kathy and Elvira; loving grandmother of Mickey, Kevin, Lisa and Michael, II and mother in-law to Michael Mc Hale and Richard Barth of Pennsylvania. Friends may call at Maloney Funeral Home, 825 Main Street, Holbrook, NY on Wednesday, May 3, from 9:30 A.M. to 10: 30 A.M. Call to confirm 631-981-7500. Mass of Christian to be held at Good Shephard Roman Catholic Church at 10:45 A.M. Wednesday, with Interment to follow at Calverton Cemetery.

It has been a year since the climate pattern known as La Nina ended, the longest period of so-called "neutral" conditions since 2004. And there is no sign of the phenomenon, or its counterpart El Nino, through summer, climate forecasters say. La Nina, known for bringing mild winters to the mid-Atlantic, was last active from August 2011 through April 2012. The phenomenon is marked by warmer-than-average Pacific Ocean surface temperatures around the equator. But since May of last year, those water temperatures have been in "neutral" territory, too cool for a La Nina but not cold enough for El Nino.

On November 22, 2008, NINA FRANCES GALES; daughter of the late Charles T. Gales,Jr., and Frances R. Gales and sister of Annette P. Harrell. On Sunday, friends may call at VAUGHN C. GREENE FUNERAL SERVICES (RANDALLSTOWN), 8728 Liberty Road from 4 to 8 P.M. On Monday, Ms. Gales will lie in state at Immaculate Conception Catholic Church, 1512 Druid Hill Avenue at Mosher, where the family will receive friends from 9:30 to 10 A.M with services to follow. Inquiries to (410) 655-0015.

On March 14, 2008, NINA SCHOFF (nee Yaroshevich); devoted mother of Skyler Schoff; loving daughter of Eva Bryant and the late Charles Yaroshevich; dear sister of David and Michael Yaroshevich and Andrea Brown-Hale. Also survived by many nieces. A Funeral Service will be held at the family owned Duda-Ruck Funeral Home of Dundalk, Inc.,7922 Wise Avenue on Monday, at 9 a.m. Interment St. Andrews Orthodox Cemetery. Friends may call on Sunday, from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 p.m.

On July 14, 2004, NINA PLITT ( nee Murray) beloved wife of Michael B. Plitt Sr., Principal of Carver High School, Baltimore City, devoted mother of Heather Plitt, Michael B. Plitt Jr., loving mother-in-law of Erik Bailey, dear sister of Marlene and Joan Murray. Also survived by many loving and caring relatives and friends. Family and friends may call at the family owned AMBROSE FUNERAL HOME INC., 1328 Sulphur Spring Road, Arbutus on Monday from 4 to 9 P. M where a memorial service will take place at the funeral hour of 7 P.M. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the St. Agnes Cancer Center, 900 Caton Avenue, Baltimore, MD, 21229.

For a quick meal with Asian flair, Nina's is just the ticket. Billing itself as an espresso bar with a taste of the Orient, the small restaurant on the northwest corner of Centre and Calvert streets does a brisk business during the day selling coffee and takeout lunch fare. (In the interest of full disclosure, I should point out that many of Nina's daytime customers wander over from the southeast corner of Centre and Calvert, home of The Baltimore Sun.) Nina's has extended its hours to 8 in the evening, and begun emphasizing Asian, mainly Korean, dishes on its menu.

On April 29, 2003, NINA ESTELLE FORSDICK (nee Wilkinson), formerly of Cape Cod, MA and Bengies, MD; beloved wife of the late Charles Forsdick; aunt of Nina J. Knill and N. Eugene Austen. Also survived by Lisa Heffner, Edward Austen, Benjamin Austen, Alyssa Austen, Clay Austen and Rachael Heffner. Services are private. Arrangements handled by BRADLEY-ASHTON-MATTHEWS FUNERAL HOME in Dundalk.

On January 20, 2005 NINA; beloved sister of Claudia Fielding and mother of Saundra Lee Maulsby-Thomas, Allen Contee Maulsby, Mason Stewart Maulsby, Mallory Fraser Knapp and Nina Maulsby Harkness. Also survived by nine grandchildren. There will be a private ceremony with the family at a later date. In lieu of flowers donations may be made to the Salvation Army of Greater Baltimore, 814 Light St., Baltimore, MD 21230 or The Muscular Dystrophy Association, 8501 La Salle Rd., #106, Towson, MD 21286.

Nina Gill Stewart, an equestrienne and athlete, died of cancer Monday at her Unionville, Pa., home. The former Glyndon resident was 71. Born in Baltimore and raised at Meadow Run, her parents' home in Glyndon, she was the daughter of Redmond C. Stewart, a lawyer who owned Grand National steeplechase champion Ben Nevis II, and Ann Cochran Stewart, a fox hunter. She attended the Calvert School and was a 1959 Garrison Forest School graduate. She also earned a diploma at the Foxcroft School in Middleburg, Va., and made her debut at the Bachelors Cotillion the same year.

Ever since Adam and Eve took a bite of the apple, we have been haunted by Desire, that shape-shifting seducer who promises us beauty, understanding and fulfillment if only we chase after More. On the one hand, that is a blessing. We would still be clumsy, clueless creatures huddling in caves - or naked in the Garden - without it. Desire and appetite drive our ambition, fire our curiosity and lead us to discover in ways that complacency and fullness never can. It is Desire that propels culture forward, urging us to explore, to dare, to persevere so we may uncover all the wisdom, comforts and delights that make life grand.

If you liked last winter in Central Maryland - pretty cold, but with below-average snow - you may get a chance to live it over again this winter. Forecasters at AccuWeather.com say the country is in for a second La Nina winter in a row, with brutal cold and snow across the northern tier of states. For Central Maryland, the annual pre-season forecast calls for no worse than near- to "slightly below-average" snowfall, but with some risk of a few "significant" snow or ice events.

Nina's Closet Exchange 6375 Ten Oaks Road Clarksville 410-300-0106 Jeanine “Nina” Baumgardner always enjoyed shopping at yard sales and flea markets. So she decided to hang an open sign on her own consignment shop, Nina's Closet Exchange, in Clarksville. Baumgardner, a Columbia resident of 30 years who opened shop in September 2010, calls her place “cozy and family friendly.” The Blue Goose 3715 Old Columbia Pike Ellicott City 410-461-6072 TheBlueGoose@verizon.net Original works by local artists, new and pre-owned home furnishings on consignment and other affordable treasures stock The Blue Goose, in Historic Ellicott City.

Nina R. Iwry, a reporter who had escaped from her native Poland with the outbreak of World War II, died Feb. 5 of heart failure at her Mount Washington home. She was 94. The daughter of a wealthy Jewish textile factory owner and a homemaker, Nina Rochman was born and raised in Lodz, Poland. Her parents and several siblings perished in the Holocaust. She was a graduate of the Gymnasia and earned a bachelor's degree and a master's degree in journalism in 1937 from Warsaw University.

The weeks of heavy rain that triggered historic flooding in northeast Australia this month have been blamed on what climatologists are now calling one of the strongest La Nina events in the Pacific Ocean since record-keeping began a half-century ago. La Nina's global influence is also being blamed for heavy rains in Indonesia and Brazil. But unusually persistent cold weather this winter in Maryland, and in much of the eastern United States, heavy December rains in Southern California, and snow across the Deep South are the work of separate weather patterns in the Arctic, scientists say. Called the Arctic, or North Atlantic, Oscillation, these air and ocean patterns have been unusually persistent for the second winter in a row, overwhelming weather "signals" from the tropical Pacific.

On July 31, 2007, FANNY "Nina"GIRARD HOFFMAN, of Baltimore, beloved wife of the late Denton Hoffman; loving mother of Paula Mister and husband George and Gerald Hoffman; dear sister of Colette Girard; cherished grandmother of David, Timothy and Robert Mister; many other family members in France, Italy and the United States. Family and friends will honor Nina's life at the family owned Evans Funeral Chapel and Cremation Services-Parkville, 8800 Harford Road on Thursday, August 2, 2007, from 3-5 and 7-9 P.M. A memorial service will be held 11 A.M., Friday at the funeral home.

On April 13, 2008, NINA MAE SCOTT; Friends may call at the family owned MARCH FUNERAL HOME WEST INC., 4300 Wabash Ave., on Thursday after 8:30 A.M. where family will receive friends from 5 -7:30 P.M. The family will also recieve friends on Friday at 1st Christian Community Baptist Church 4116 Groveland Ave, at 10:30 A.M. followed by funeral service at 11:00 A.M.

If you hated last winter's record snowstorms in Maryland, you should be a lot happier with the winter weather predictions rolled out Thursday by government and private forecasters. The best news is that federal forecasters see no compelling reasons to think we'll stray far from the long-term averages for precipitation and temperatures this winter. Snow totals should look more like Baltimore's 18-inch norm than last year's record 77 inches. On the other hand, forecasters at AccuWeather.