Offices In Baltimore

New positionsRandisi and Maycock promoted at McCormickThe McCormick/Schilling Division of McCormick & Co. Inc. promoted Mary M. Randisi to director of marketing-spices and extracts and Virginia A. Maycock to director of marketing-dry seasoning mixes.With McCormick since 1976, Randisi has a bachelor's degree in food business management from Virginia Polytechnic Institute. She is a member of the Executive Women's Network, the American Marketing Association and the Baltimore County Leadership Council.

Dr. Leonard Saltysiak, 77, optometrist for 50 years Dr. Leonard T. Saltysiak, an optometrist who practiced for five decades and grew roses that he gave to strangers, died Friday of pancreatic cancer at Gilchrist Center for Hospice Care. He was 77. He maintained offices in Timonium and Parkton for 20 years and later worked out of several offices in Baltimore. He worked until seven weeks before his death. Born and raised in the Govans area of Baltimore, as a boy he worked as a caddy at the Country Club of Maryland in Towson to earn money to help support his five siblings.

In an office where the workday usually stretches well into the night, things went down a little differently yesterday. At 3 p.m., staff at the Towson law firm Hodes, Ulman, Pessin & Katz set up pizzas, filled bowls with chips and gathered employees in two lounges where plasma TVs were tuned to - of all things - the NCAA basketball tournament. Some workers couldn't tear themselves away from their desks, but for others, it was the end of the business week. "No [basketball fans] would be working at this time of day, anyway," said Randy Lutz, sports fan and attorney.

Census Bureau officials opened a second office in Baltimore on Tuesday and expect to hire about 1,200 temporary employees to canvass the city and collect demographic data. The office, at 205 S. President St., will serve as headquarters for operations on the eastern side of the city. Fernando E. Armstrong, regional director for the Census Bureau, said the federal government has started accepting applications for the jobs and will hire people at the end of March for stints ranging from five weeks to three months, depending on the nature of the work.

Financial services company Morgan Stanley began its move this week to a new building between Harbor East and Fells Point as part of a long-term plan to expand in Baltimore and create hundreds of new jobs in the city. The move also means that Baltimore's newest office building, called Thames Street Wharf, is getting its first tenants. The eight-level building on the former Allied Signal property is the first major office structure to open within the 27-acre Harbor Point parcel that's slated to become an $830 million commercial and residential community.

Baltimore Police on Tuesday identified the officer who shot and killed a Baltimore County man last weekend after witnessing an apparent domestic dispute in Northwest Baltimore. Northwest District patrol officer Paul Heffernan, 37, had witnessed Michael Wudtee of Randallstown repeatedly assaulting an his girlfriend, in a gas station lot on Liberty Heights Avenue, police said. Heffernan, a 13 year veteran, has not been involved in any prior police involved shootings. According to a police department statement, officers pulled up next to Wudtee's vehicle and attempted to confront him, when he fled on foot.

Police on Tuesday worked to find out more about the backgrounds of the two men wounded and one man killed in an overnight shootout with officers in West Baltimore. The incident took place about 10 p.m. Monday after two officers on foot patrol in the 2700 block of Edmondson Ave. saw gunfire coming out of a bronze sedan, police said. The officers fired on the car, police said. All three men shot were in the vehicle, police said. Police did not know the dead man's identity Tuesday and were running his fingerprints through databases.

A man was shot in the arm and upper body by a Baltimore police officer in the 3000 block of Spaulding Ave. in Northwest Baltimore on Tuesday night after firing at the officer while trying to flee the scene of earlier gunfire, according to police. The man, who was not immediately identified, was listed in serious but stable condition at an area hospital late Tuesday, police said. His injuries were not considered life-threatening. Officers with the Violent Crime Impact Section, which routinely patrols that area near Pimlico Race Course , responded to the scene about 9 p.m. after hearing gunfire, said Anthony Guglielmi, a police spokesman.