Paca House

David B. Baker Jr., 74, owner of Reese Press David B. Baker Jr., owner and chairman of the board of Reese Press and restorer of a historic Eastern Shore home, died Monday of heart failure at Memorial Hospital in Easton. The Talbot County resident was 74. At the time of his death, Mr. Baker was chairman of the Baltimore-based printer of high-quality marketing materials, which he had owned since 1970. Born and raised in Roland Park, Mr. Baker was a 1945 graduate of Gilman School and received his bachelor's degree from Princeton University in 1949.

An exhibit of art by residents of the Paca House, a Baltimore residence for men who were once homeless, will be held from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. today at 116 N. Paca St. The show will include more than two dozen works of art in a variety of media, including oils, charcoal and watercolors. Paca House, a Volunteers of America facility, offers affordable housing for homeless people who need help with physical disabilities, mental illness and problems with drugs and alcohol.

William Paca House, 186 Prince George St., will be open until 8 p.m. each Saturday this month.The extended hours will offer visitors the opportunity to take a guided tour of the new exhibit, "I Saw Three Ships Come Sailing In," and browse in the museum shop. Visitors will be taken through the restored 18th century mansion by volunteers to experience the variety of goods imported by the bustling port of Annapolis during the 1760s and 1770s.Imported items included spices such as nutmeg, cinnamon, cloves, mace, sugar candy, teas, mustard, salad oils and lemons.

Post office to open today in EdgewaterA big new post office is ready to open its doors to the public today in Edgewater."Our customers are going to like this new facility because of the many customer conveniences, such as the ample parking area, larger lobby and the ease in which customers can enter and exit," said Postmaster Joyce B. Edwards.At 39 Stepney's Lane, the 14,000-square-foot post office is more than four times the size of the old building.Annapolis orchestra, ballet receive grants from TargetTwo Annapolis arts groups have won awards from Target stores.

Lugging an armful of clothes, a few tattered boxes and a birthday balloon, Laurence Chapman walked through the red door of his new efficiency at Paca House, looked around and proclaimed it the best Christmas present he could ever hope for.Homeless for the past two years, Chapman was one of the first persons yesterday to move into Baltimore's long-awaited, multimillion-dollar residential project designed to permanently house the homeless, veterans and the...

Lugging an armful of clothes, a few tattered boxes and a birthday balloon, Laurence Chapman walked through the red door of his new efficiency at Paca House, looked around and proclaimed it the best Christmas present he could ever hope for.Homeless for the past two years, Chapman was one of the first persons yesterday to move into Baltimore's long-awaited, multimillion-dollar residential project designed to permanently house the homeless, veterans and the...

THE FIRST residents of Paca House, Baltimore's newest single-room-occupancy building, are moving in just in time for Christmas. This is a cause of joy to nearly 100 other homeless men and women who eventually will live in the facility as well as to the homeless advocates who fought for more than five years to have the $8.6 million complex built in the 100 block of North Paca Street.Paca House consists of 76 SRO units and 30 efficiency apartments. Because it is almost directly across from the ailing Lexington Market, some area merchants are concerned.

You can dump your old car -- or truck or boat -- with Volunteers of America-Chesapeake (VOA) and help fuel a 100-year-old Baltimore crusade.It funnels the cash from sales of donated junkers -- $141,800 from 1,376 vehicles and 45 boats donated last year -- into work with mentally ill residents, substance abusers, prisoners, the homeless and VOA's highly structured Woodlawn center for pre-school children.Besides selling unwanted heaps to help serve its diverse clientele, there are other oddities about VOA, such as the 19th-century origin of its perhaps unfamiliar name.

Catering to Historic AnnapolisI live on Prince George Street downtown and think my neighbors at Historic Annapolis have a lot of nerve. They pontificate that the restaurants are declasse and outdoor dining so objectionable, but they think nothing of tying up traffic on my street, parking cars on every available curb site in this residential district and throwing soirees at their Paca House -- for a handsome fee, of course. I believe the polite term for this is "catering." Being included in that category must pain those elitists who never miss the opportunity to take shots at the industry.