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Greg Cantori plans to downsize when he retires. Really, really downsize. His retirement home is 238 square feet — one-tenth the size of the average new American house — and sits in his Anne Arundel County yard. He and wife Renee can hitch it to a truck and take it with them wherever they go. "It's so cheap — that's what's so cool about this," said Cantori, 52, who envisions a surf-and-turf future, alternating between the house and a sailboat. "We bought the house for $19,000.

A Roland Park resident has created a "passport" to Druid Hill Park. Janet Felsten, founder and director of the nonprofit group Baltimore Green Map, introduced the green-colored passport April 19 at a Baltimore Green Week kickoff party in the conservatory. Felsten said she created the 20-page, passport-shaped booklet on cover stock paper as a companion to a detailed map of Druid Hill Park that she made in 2010. The purpose of the map and the new passport is partly to point out places of interest in the 745-acre park, which is home to the Maryland Zoo in Baltimore, Druid Lake and the Howard Peters Rawlings Conservatory and Botanic Gardens, among other attractions.

On October 21, 2006 ROLAND GROSS. On Friday friends may call at the VAUGHN C. GREENE FUNERAL SERVICES, 5151 Balto. Nat'l Pike, from 5:00-8:00 p.m. On Saturday, the family will receive friends from 10:00-10:30 a.m. with services to follow. Inquiries to 410-233-2400.

The sophomore won her second straight Interscholastic Athletic Association of Maryland golf championship and led the Reds to their seventh straight team title last week. She shot a 7-over-par 79 at Fox Hollow Golf Course in Timonium to beat two of her teammates, Lindsey Miller and Alexis Emmett, by five strokes. Owen, who has said her goal is to win all four individual titles during her high school career, is undefeated in individual matches over the past two years. She won last year's IAAM title by 12 strokes.

On Wednesday, June 2, 2004, WALTER "Rocky" ROLAND of Millersville; beloved husband of Betty Roland; loving father of Dianne Tores and her husband David Tores; brother-in-law of Lisa Barry; dear grandfather of Jason and Kyle Tores and uncle of many nieces and nephews. The family will receive visitors at the Singleton Funeral Home, P.A., 1 Second Ave., S. W. at Crain Highway, Glen Burnie from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 PM on Sunday. A Funeral Ceremony will be held on Monday, at 11 AM in the Funeral Home Chapel.

On October 29, 2003, ROLAND; beloved father of Roland, Jr., Harry, Charles, William, Dorothy and Dorina. He lives to cherish his memory three daughters-in-law, 16 grandchildren, 25 great grandchildren, a special friend Dorothy White and a host of other relatives and friends. On view Sunday, 1 to 7 P.M. Joseph G. Locks Jr., Funeral Home, 1302 N. Central Ave. Wake Monday, 10:30 A.M. St. Francis Xavier Roman Catholic Church, 1501 E. Oliver Street. Mass 11 A.M. Interment Mt. Calvary Cemetery.

On April 10, 2003, ROLAND RALPH MAIONE, beloved husband of the late Mary S. Maione; devoted father of Michael R. Maione, Virginia A. Kehl, and Barbara J. Tucker. He is also survived by several grandchildren. Relatives, friends and neighbors are invited to services and interment at the Crownsville Veterans Cemetery and Chapel, Crownsville, MD, on Friday, April 18, 2003, at 1:45 P.M. In lieu of flowers, contributions are requested to be sent to Defenders of Animal Rights, 14412 Old York Road, Phoenix, MD 21131.

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On July 21, 2003, JAMES HUGH ROLAND; beloved husband of Rita Sadler Roland (nee Sadler); loving father of James Hugh Roland, Jr. "Jimmy" and his wife Alice Roland and the late Barbara Roland; devoted grandfather to Christina Lynn Roland, Nicholas Tyson Roland and Lindsay Anne Roland. Friends may call the Tarring-Cargo Funeral Home, 333 S. Parke Street, Aberdeen, MD, on Thursday, 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 P.M. Funeral service will be held on Friday, 10 A.M. at the funeral home. Interment at Mt. Zion Cemetery.

On August 15, 2005 ROLAND HENRY HOFFMAN, SR., beloved husband of Virgie P. Hoffman; loving father of Roland Jr., Dawn Price and Nolan Hoffman; loving grandfather of Kenny and Kathy Price. Also survived by four brothers and two sisters. Services pending.

Sitting at the kitchen counter, playing a game on his mother's cellphone, Nick Brooks looked like any other 13-year-old, except for an occasional hand clap and the burbles that his brothers affectionately call "Nicky noises. " Soon, he got bored with the cellphone and motioned for the laptop on his mother's lap. Jean Brooks was willing to give it to him, but with one caveat. "I'd like a sentence from you," she said. "Mom's computer, please," Nick said. That's a long sentence for the Roland Park youth.

Roland Park Country School graduate Jocelyn Young-Hyman, who is now a Peace Corps volunteer, has big plans for the money raised Thursday by her alma mater in its annual All-School Walk. Young-Hyman, a 2007graduate of the all-girls school on Roland Avenue, is assigned to work at Kichakamkwaju School For The Deaf, in Kenya. On April 1, she emailed Roland Park Country School Upper School Head Ereni Malfa, asking for help in raising money for art supplies and academic games. "My school is an extremely poor school with absolutely no resources or parents who can support their children," she wrote.

Editor: What's in a name? I often ask people if they know why their parents chose the name they were given. Sometimes the answer is no, and I suggest the person ask their parents for an answer. I don't know why my parents chose my name, however, I found out that there are 16 others with the same first and last name that I have. I jokingly tell others I can do anything I want to and God won't know if I or one of the other 16 people did it. I was told God doesn't use names; God uses finger prints!

A Harford County man charged with first-degree murder in connection with a double-shooting in Port Deposit earlier this year remains jailed in Cecil County while he awaits trial this summer. William Gary Roland, 57, of the 1500 block of Galaxy Drive in Street, allegedly shot and wounded his estranged wife, Eileen L. Roland, 56, of Edgewood, and shot and killed her boyfriend, Timothy S. Hammons, 48, during an altercation with the couple on the evening of Jan. 7 that took place in Mr. Hammons' home in the 200 block of Craigtown Road in Port Deposit.

The word was tristeza. It's a disease of citrus trees, but more importantly, for Tobey Roland, it once scored 228 points for him in a game of Scrabble, he said. Roland, 52, of Mount Washington, loves Scrabble and estimates he has played in 120 tournaments, winning eight to 10, since he started playing competitively in 2005. "It's fun and challenging," said Roland, an independent financial investor. "It's really more about probabilities, using premium spots and letters and getting bonuses by using seven-letter words.

Roland Walker, a colorful and highly regarded defense attorney who was a fixture in Baltimore courtrooms for six decades, died Saturday of complications from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease, at his Lutherville home. He was 82. "Roland was always a person's lawyer. He represented people, not organizations or institutions, and he did it brilliantly," said Joseph F. Murphy Jr., former chief judge of the Maryland Court of Appeals. "He did mainly criminal defense work and always had a wonderful way with people, judges and jurors.

Roland Walters Sr. died October 13, 2006, at Mercy Hospital after a brief illness. Born January 26, 1919 in Summerton, South Carolina, Roland was the youngest of James and Luella's five children, Daniel, Louise, Isaac, Eva and Roland. Shortly after his birth, his family migrated to Philadelphia, PA. Unfortunately both of his parents died before he became of school-age. As a result he was reared by his older siblings. It was in first grade that he first met a very special classmate named Edna Green.

Living in Baltimore City can feel like an uphill effort. The noise, trash, potholes, property taxes and looming deficit are depressing. We live near Roland Avenue and Cold Spring Lane, a major east-west thoroughfare that has turned into a pulsating, trash-filled highway. People open car windows to throw out trash. Students at the bus stop drop wrappers and drink cans. They walk up the street and throw more into the bushes. The wind sweeps wrappers uphill from Falls Road. A few weeks ago, in a regular ritual, my husband spent three hours picking up trash on the median and sides of Cold Spring Lane.