Pendergrass

On March 12, 2004, ERNESTPENDERGRASS, beloved husband of Margaret Pendergrass On Friday, friends may call at the VAUGHN C. GREENE FUNERAL SERVICE, 4101 Edmondson Ave., from 4 to 8 P.M. On Saturday, Mr. Pendergrass will lie instate at Park Lane Baptist Church, 3606 Mohawk Ave., where the family will receive friends from 10 to 10:30 A.M. with Services to follow. Inquiries to(410) 945-2700.

Animal abuse task force to meet 3 Baltimore's new Anti-Animal Abuse Task Force will hold its first public meeting tonight. Residents are invited to share their concerns about animal abuse. The meeting will be from 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at Polytechnic Institute's auditorium, 1400 Cold Spring Lane. Mayor Sheila Dixon announced the creation of the task force in July after a spate of highly publicized cases of animal cruelty, including that of Phoenix, a puppy doused with gasoline and set afire.

On April 16, 2008, NATHANIEL C. PENDERGRASS. Viewing at THE JOSEPH L. RUSS FUNERAL HOME, P.A., 2222-26 W. North Avenue, from 4 to 6 P.M. on Monday, Wake on Tuesday, at Mt. Nebo Holiness Church, 240 N. Franklintown Road, from 6:30 to 7 P.M., when funeral service will begin. Interment in Kingstree, SC.

Government is often said to move slowly, but it does move, as many of those involved in planning a new 51-acre park and a 63,000-square-foot community center in North Laurel can attest. Bulldozers should be appearing within the next few weeks in what are now woods and grass between the rear of Laurel Woods Elementary School and Whiskey Bottom Road, and the $25.2 million combined facility is to open in October 2010 - after a mere two decades of effort for what most acknowledge is an old, settled area without enough public amenities.

Shane. Shane. Shane.Depending on whom you're speaking with, it's a name that spells trouble. The governor has screaming matches with her. Her colleagues on the Howard County Council talk miserably about her behind her back. Even her constituents gave her a so-so nod of affirmation during the last local election.Shane Pendergrass, in her second term as a Howard council member, is sometimes difficult, often unyielding and steadfastly ideological.She proved all of that recently when she virtually hijacked Coca-Cola Enterprises Inc. and the county administration in the 11th hour of negotiations over Coke's proposed construction of a regional headquarters and bottling plant in the county.

The Howard County Council tentatively approved only 10 percent of County Executive Charles I. Ecker's proposed $76 million capital budget at a work session yesterday, but even that was a little too rich for Chairwoman Shane Pendergrass.Ms. Pendergrass, a 1st District Democrat, wanted to pre-empt Mr. Ecker by cutting 10 percent from all construction projects that have not yet been put out to bid. She was only partially successful.Mr. Ecker had said Wednesday that he planned to send the council an amended capital budget proposal early next week that would reduce construction projects that have not yet been bid by up to 10 percent.

Shane Pendergrass, a two-term County Council member, comes into a crowded House of Delegates race carrying perhaps more name recognition than the rest of the field combined. But she's also carrying a more visible target -- her record.Ms. Pendergrass, a Democrat, says her record of the past eight years -- during which the council handled everything from growth control to comprehensive rezoning to school construction to severely restricted budgets -- could be a "plus and a minus" in her bid for one of two District 13A seats.

After meeting with local bankers for several hours Monday afternoon,County Council member Shane Pendergrass, D-1st, unveiled a bill thatwould continue the residential building cap until Sept. 15.The bill would take effect upon passage. It would allow 1,251 building permits to be issued from then until the September cutoff date or until the council enacts an adequate facilities ordinance, whichever comes first.Pendergrass' proposal would end the current two-tier system underwhich developers apply for and receive permit allocation certificates before obtaining building permits.

Two Howard County state delegates -- Democrats Elizabeth Bobo and Shane Pendergrass -- will hold a community meeting to inform constituents about pending legislation on women's health issues at 8 p.m. today in Kahler Hall in Columbia's Harper's Choice Village Center.The bills deal with diagnosis of osteoporosis and education about the disease, and minimum length of stay in the hospital after breast cancer surgery.Bobo represents most of western Columbia and parts of Ellicott City and Elkridge.

County Councilwoman Shane Pendergrass, D-1st, told the other councilmembers last week that the best solution to their deadlock over whomto appoint to the Board of Appeals would be to choose her nominee."

On February 9, 2009 ERIC. Visitation 2140 N. Fulton Avenue Thursday 5-8 p.m. Family will receive friends in the chapel Friday 10 a.m. Funeral to follow at 10:30 a.m.

A man who was suffocated and found floating in the Patapsco River this week had been abducted and held for ransom and is believed to be connected to a violent drug gang whose feuding with rivals may have been responsible for at least five homicides last summer, according to law enforcement sources and court records. Authorities are monitoring the situation and exploring leads as it remains unclear whether the killing of Eric Pendergrass, 26, is an isolated incident or related to the spate of retaliatory violence associated with the April kidnapping of the teenage brothers Stephon and Sterling Blackwell.

When Barack Obama is inaugurated this month, his transition team will present him with suggestions on reforming health care from thousands of people across the country, including more than 200 who convened recently in Columbia. The campaign organization the president-elect built is still at work, using vast e-mail lists to mobilize people who want to take part in transforming vital programs like health care by braving a cold holiday weeknight to put their thoughts down on paper. "How refreshing is it that a campaign that is successful wants to listen to its supporters' ideas?"

The late Robert H. Kittleman, a Howard County Republican who served for more than two decades in the Maryland General Assembly, always said the surest way to elective success is to knock on 10,000 doors and impress voters within the first 30 seconds that you are intelligent enough to do the job and affable enough to be approachable. Democrat Shane Pendergrass has spent 22 years in elective office, the past 14 as a member of the House of Delegates, yet she doesn't like knocking on doors, and doesn't do much of it, though she doesn't dispute the Kittleman credo.

On April 16, 2008, NATHANIEL C. PENDERGRASS. Viewing at THE JOSEPH L. RUSS FUNERAL HOME, P.A., 2222-26 W. North Avenue, from 4 to 6 P.M. on Monday, Wake on Tuesday, at Mt. Nebo Holiness Church, 240 N. Franklintown Road, from 6:30 to 7 P.M., when funeral service will begin. Interment in Kingstree, SC.

When three-term Del. Frank S. Turner knocked on their door, retirees Irene and Jim MacDonald agreed to put a Guzzone-Pendergrass-Turner campaign sign on the lawn of their 33-year home in Columbia. They did the same thing when Del. Neil F. Quinter showed up with his sign. The MacDonalds, who live on the high-traffic corner of Tamar Drive and Old Montgomery Road, are one of a handful of families with lawn signs advertising four candidates for the three available Democratic nominations to the Maryland House of Delegates from Howard County's District 13. The popularity of the four elected officials is creating a problem for about 11,000 Democrats likely to vote in the Sept.

Elected officials who visit far-off businesses at taxpayers' expense will usually tell you they're making the trip to entice a company to set up shop in their district.Not Councilwoman Shane Pendergrass, D-1st. She flew to Cincinnati at taxpayers' expense Thursday to check out her perception that a Coca-Cola bottling plant and regional headquarters may not be right for her district.Meanwhile, other officials, including Gov. William Donald Schaefer and County Executive Charles I. Ecker, are seeking to convince Coke that Maryland and Howard County are the real thing.

Over the objections of its chairwoman, the County Council voted 3-1 last night to accept the planning and zoning department's housing projections for the decade beginning in 1996.Council Chairwoman Shane Pendergrass, D-1st, wanted to postpone a vote on the projections until next month, when she hoped to amend them downward.Ms. Pendergrass wanted to limit residential housing starts to 2,500 a year for the decade beginning in 1996. Had the council agreed with her, planning department projections for the decade would have been reduced by 8.4 percent.

THREE-TERM Howard County Del. Shane E. Pendergrass said she found a quick cure for her chronic stomach ache - deciding not to run for the Democratic nomination for a seat in the U.S. Congress. "I figured I would know in my gut what to do, and after having a stomach ache for two weeks, it went away instantly. I kept not listening," Pendergrass said about her decision-making process. Pendergrass, along with fellow District 13 Democrat Del. Neil F. Quinter, had been considering a run for the 3rd District congressional seat now held by U.S. Rep. Benjamin L. Cardin, who has announced a bid for U.S. Senate.

Changing the rules in Columbia is not impossible; it just seems that way. Every property owner in town has to agree in order to change the covenant, the document that governs the Columbia Association. Most local officials want to change the way things are done, but they cannot agree on how to go about it. State Del. Shane E. Pendergrass has written legislation to change that requirement, but the Columbia Association board voted, 5-3, Thursday to oppose it. "It's still my plan to introduce it," she said, noting that the state legislature had passed another bill without the support of Columbia Association.