Park Avenue

On October 30, 2009, IVANA N. CREIGHTON. Viewing Sunday 12 noon to 6 p.m. Monday 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The family to receive friends Monday at 1st Emmanuel Church, 2209 Park Avenue. 6:30 Wake. 7:00 Funeral.

An elderly man with thick glasses lugs a bag of sweet rice from a grocery store onto a rundown street. In a nearby building, a faded dragon's head grimaces in a hallway hung with yellowed photos. Across the street, a painted wall advertises "family dinners served all hours" at the long-gone China Inn. These are among the few remaining vestiges of the city's Chinatown, a Park Avenue block that once had bustling restaurants, stores and meeting halls, as well as exuberant Lunar New Year's parades.

The last big development parcel in Baltimore's superblock project would be filled with 152 new apartments, shops, some offices and a parking garage, under a proposal by a west-side property owner and a former city housing official. Baltimore Development Corp. said yesterday that it received one proposal for the block of parking lots and vacant buildings bounded by Park Avenue and Clay, Liberty and Lexington streets. The BDC, the city's development arm, had offered the site for redevelopment in April in hopes of continuing momentum in revitalizing the deteriorated heart of the city's old retail district.

STORE OPENING REGALI ACCESSORIES 328-330 Park Avenue, 410-244-5601 Hours: 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., Monday-Saturday Shopaholics Felicia Jackson and Rolanda Hoard have such impeccable taste in gifts that their bosses and friends' husbands were always asking them for shopping help. Three years ago, they turned the hobby into an on-line accessories boutique: regaliaccessories.com. And in October, they turned the online store into a Park Avenue bricks-and-mortar shop, complete with electric blue walls and a zebra-print dressing room.

The voice of the Rev. Marion Curtis Bascom, the Baltimore civil rights leader, confidante of Martin Luther King Jr. and anti-war foe, who stepped down in 1995 after leading Douglas Memorial Community Church for 45 years, has lost none of its powerful resonance or purposefulness. Bascom, who will turn 82 in March, shows no signs of slowing down as he continues embracing new projects while caring for his ailing wife of 28 years. "I'm on the board of the Reginald F. Lewis Museum, where I like promoting the story of how black and white Americans are inextricably tied together," Bascom said in an interview the other day from his Park Avenue home.

Grass is growing up through cracks in the pavement of the basketball court at Westminster City Park. The white paint on the backboards, aged by weather and time, has peeled off in spots to reveal rusty stains. One rim is bent downward at an awkward angle. The court, along with surrounding fencing that was deemed unsafe, will be reconstructed as part of a nearly $1 million enhancement of 13 area parks recently approved by the Carroll County commissioners. The $36,000 basketball court project is one of 15 park improvements and repairs subsidized by the county's 2007 share of money from Program Open Space, a state program that uses funds derived from taxes on real estate transactions to give people areas for outdoor recreation.

On July 10, 2006, ANASTASIADUBINSKAS (nee Misevicius); beloved wife of the late Antanas Dubinskas; dear sister of Pranas Misevicius of Lithuania and Ona Eimutiene; cherished aunt of Birute Mikuzis and her family. Friends may call at the family owed David J. Weber Funeral Home P.A., 5311 Edmondson Avenue on Wednesday from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 P.M. Mass of Christian burial in St. Alphonus Church on Thursday at 10 A.M. Entombment Loudon Park Cemetery Mausoleum. In lieu of flowers contributions may be made to St. Alphonus Church, Park Avenue and Saratoga Street, Baltimore, MD 21202 or St. Agnes Hospice, 900 S. Caton Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21229.

Jerome William "Chipper" Ullrich, a retired real estate business owner, died of an infection Sunday at Gilchrist Center for Hospice Care. The Timonium resident was 90. Born in Baltimore and raised on Patterson Park Avenue, he attended St. Katherine of Siena Parochial School and was a 1934 graduate of Calvert Hall College High School. At age 15, after his father's death, Mr. Ullrich helped his mother operate a confectionery store at Patterson Park Avenue and Oliver Street. He later worked at Bethlehem Steel's Sparrows Point plant and for the S.J. Stackhouse real estate firm before opening J.W. Ullrich Realtor Inc. at Belair Road and Brendan Avenue.

How the Rich Get Thin: Park Avenue's Top Diet Doctor Reveals the Secrets to Losing Weight and Feeling Great By Jana Klauer, M.D. St. Martin's Press/$22.95 This book tells us how the super-rich get thin. The problem: Most of us would end up in the poorhouse if we tried to follow some of the advice. Dr. Jana Klauer takes us inside what she calls the "Park Avenue mindset" to show how wealthy people stay skinny. The diet is unremarkable -- maybe a bit heavier on calcium-consumption than most.

On January 6, 2006, CHARLES of Westminster; beloved husband of Martha F. Polanskas and the late Martha Rose Polanskas (nee Jarkiewicz); devoted father of Constance U. Dillon and Pauline P. Morrison. Also survived by four grandchildren and three great grandchildrne. Requiem Mass will be held at St. Bartholomews Catholic Church, Park Avenue, Manchester, MD, Tuesday 10 A.M. Interment Holy Cross Cemetery. Friends may call Monday 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 at the Eline Funeral Home, 934 S. Main Street, Hampstead, MD 21074.