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Submitting sports notices The deadline for submitting sports copy is 9 a.m. Monday. We prefer email (howardcountysports@patuxent.com). Questions? Call 410-332-6605. Golf Fall registration is open for all of the First Tee of Howard County classes. The PLAYer and PAR classes are filling up quickly, however, the BIRDIE and EAGLE classes still have openings. Register online at http://www.thefirstteehowardcounty.org . The schedule is on the program and instruction page.

The beach and bikinis go hand in hand. Knowing that, the North Ocean City Business Alliance and Spark Productions were inspired to plan Ocean City's first bikini parade - and they hoped to make it world-record sized. But since those initial plans, which called for more than 450 participants, China has set a new world record with 1,085 women on parade in bikinis. With just days to go, Brad Hoffman of Spark Productions said about 200 women have pre-registered for the event, which originally required a $10 donation but now is free.

Anne M. Rogers, a retired registered nurse who had been a combat nurse during World War II and then had a long career with the Veterans Administration medical system, died Saturday of vascular disease at Oak Crest Village. She was 93. "She was a lovely, lovely lady who was very kind and giving. She never had an ill word to say about anyone. She was a sweet Christian woman," said Nancy Deviney, whose late husband, Dr. John Deviney, a physician, was a cousin of Miss Rogers. "She enjoyed her nursing career and never spoke very much about her war years," said Mrs. Deviney, who lives in Pottstown, Pa. "She always had a smile on her face, and my husband thought the world of her. " The daughter of Irish immigrants from County Cork, Anne Marie Rogers was born and raised in Philadelphia.

Anne B. Leavitt, a retired registered nurse and an alto singer who was a longtime member of the Emmanuel Episcopal Church Choir and Baltimore Choral Arts Society, died June 21 of a stroke at Greater Baltimore Medical Center. She was 79. The daughter of a dentist and a registered nurse, Anne Lovelace Gorsuch Benson was born in Baltimore and raised in St. Margarets and in a home next door to the old Marconi's restaurant on West Saratoga Street. Mrs. Leavitt was a 1950 graduate of Eastern High School and earned her nursing degree at the old Hospital for the Women of Maryland in Bolton Hill.

Jean E. Breiner, a registered nurse who had been the school nurse at Padonia Elementary School for more than two decades, died Friday of myleoid leukemia at her Timonium home. She was 77. The daughter of a truck driver and a homemaker, the former Jean Elizabeth Fedder — a fraternal twin — was born in Lebanon, Pa., and raised in Avon, Pa. "Joan Fedder, Jean's fraternal twin sister, was the youngest by 15 minutes," said a daughter, Nancy A. Sangiorgi of Ellicott City. "You could always tell the twins were coming by their identical outfits, worn from birth through high school.

Submitting sports notices The deadline for submitting sports copy is 9 a.m. Monday. We prefer email (howardcountysports@patuxent.com). Questions? Call 410-332-6578. Special Olympics Orioles fans who plan to attend games at Camden Yards this year have the opportunity to help Special Olympics athletes at the same time. Special Olympics has obtained vouchers for $15 tickets to all Oriole games except the prime games. Five dollars from each ticket purchased will go to Special Olympics.

In its fifth year, the Park Quest program run by the Maryland Department of Natural Resources closed its registration for 1,000 families in less than two hours Monday. Told that the spots went as fast as Springsteen tickets, program director Barb Knisely said, "That's what everyone is saying. " Those signed up for the free program have between May 26 and Sept. 3 to complete 10 quests at the 23 participating state parks to qualify for the program's Rendezvous extravaganza at Patapsco State Park on Sept.

Submitting sports notices The deadline for submitting sports copy is 9 a.m. Monday. We prefer email (howardcountysports@patuxent.com). Questions? Call 410-332-6578. Softball Mt. Hebron High School is hosting a fastpitch hitting camp June 11-15. The camp, run by coach Chuck Struhar, is open to students in grades 3-8 (incoming ninth graders) and will focus on hitting, bunting and baserunning. Email cstruhar@hcpss.org . The Maryland Stars fastpitch camp will be held June 25-29 at Mayeski Park in Carroll County.

The gun used in the killings at St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Ellicott City last week was registered to the homeless man who allegedly shot two women and then himself, Howard County police said Monday. The gun was found near the body of Douglas Franklin Jones, 56, in woods next to the church. Police said he shot the Rev. Mary-Marguerite Kohn, 62, a co-rector of the church, and Brenda Brewington, 59, a church administrator, before turning the gun on himself. A church custodian found the two women shot in a church office and called police about 5:20 p.m. Thursday, police said.