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Pt Sjk hs bght hm n Svrn Prk.Do you want to buy a vowel, guess the puzzle or spin? Can't guess? Here's a few hints: Local girl. Former "Miss Georgetown." May be moving back home. Vanna White.Oops. May have given it away. Well, anyway, the rumors floating around are true: Pat Sajak has bought a home in Severna Park.Rightthere on Bluff Point. You know, that exclusive community on the Severn River. Big brick homes. Only access through a gate. Security cameras all over the place.Rumors abound.

Game-show host Pat Sajak, who sent the Internet all aflutter this week when he acknowledged taping an occasional "Wheel of Fortune" episode while drunk back in his younger days, isn't fazed by his newfound online notoriety. "It's the nature of the Internet," Sajak said Friday, predicting that the furor over his remarks wouldn't outlast the weekend. "I think something else will be out there Monday. " Sajak, who splits his time between homes in the Los Angeles area and Severna Park, became a top trending topic on Google earlier this week after saying in an interview on ESPN2 that he and letter turner Vanna White would sometimes down a few margaritas between tapings.

Pat Sajak strides into the Annapolis radio station that he owns, slips on a pair of radio headphones and begins taping a two-minute commentary on the subject "Life is a risky business." His script, on everyday risks, was inspired by a friend scolding him for eating a hamburger and french fries. "You weigh the risks against the rewards, the drawbacks against the pleasures, and the yogurt against the ice cream," he says in a clear, ebullient voice as the tape rolls. In the best of modern worlds, he adds, knowing that eating a candy bar would take precisely 12 seconds off your life would come in handy: "Then you could make an intelligent decision."

The scene is familiar to millions of television viewers - Pat Sajak calling names and cracking jokes by a spinning wheel. But yesterday, Sajak, who has hosted Wheel of Fortune for a quarter of a century, found himself not in a Hollywood studio but a county government building in Glen Burnie. And his assistant was not the beaming Vanna White, but someone a bit more businesslike: Anne Arundel County Sheriff Ron Bateman. Sajak, who has a home in Severna Park, and the sheriff taped an episode of Anne Arundel County's Most Wanted, which airs on local public access cable.

For nearly a quarter-century, he's been there for people facing the highest-stakes puzzles of their lives. Why shouldn't Pat Sajak help us crack workaday riddles, too? You know, those nagging questions that come up all the time but somehow elude answers. Like, why do some people give their kids such goofy names? Why are moviegoers so noisy and rude? Or why - and I'm just throwing this one out there - would anyone want a ceramic Dalmatian? Sajak plumbs mini-mysteries of daily life in two-minute commentaries, called "I've Been Thinking ... " on WNAV in Annapolis and WTTR in Westminster.

Now, from the nation's top-rated, toughest-talking, highest-decibel cable news station, comes a new hour-long show from one of the country's least threatening people: game--show host Pat Sajak. Pat Sajak Weekend premiered Sunday night at 9 on the Fox News Channel, with talk show host Regis Philbin and comedian Robert Klein as guests. At 56, Sajak's cherubic cheeks may seem a bit thinner and his graying hair a little pouffier, but he still has his youthful charm and energy. Sajak, a former local television weather forecaster known best as the long-time host of Wheel of Fortune, says he hopes to create a place of respite each week for people exhausted by the news.

Under a huge heated tent packed with an estimated 1,000 guests, Anne Arundel Medical Center celebrated yesterday the opening of its new breast center, billed as a comprehensive diagnostic, treatment and education facility to meet the needs of breast cancer patients. The center is housed on the hospital's new campus in the six-story Sajak Pavilion, named after longtime "Wheel of Fortune" game-show host Pat Sajak and his wife, Lesly. The couple, who live in Severna Park, donated $1 million to the breast center.

Horse racing might be called the sport of kings, but it attracted a different sort of crowd yesterday: a rapper, a chicken magnate, a game-show host and three women whose claim to fame is saying, "Uh huh!" in a television commercial.Hammer, Frank Perdue, Pat Sajak and Diet Pepsi's "Uh huh girls" were among the celebrities off to the races yesterday for the 117th Preakness at Pimlico Race Course."This is a nice change of pace," Perdue said. "It's something different from chasing chickens around all day."

The scene is familiar to millions of television viewers - Pat Sajak calling names and cracking jokes by a spinning wheel. But yesterday, Sajak, who has hosted Wheel of Fortune for a quarter of a century, found himself not in a Hollywood studio but a county government building in Glen Burnie. And his assistant was not the beaming Vanna White, but someone a bit more businesslike: Anne Arundel County Sheriff Ron Bateman. Sajak, who has a home in Severna Park, and the sheriff taped an episode of Anne Arundel County's Most Wanted, which airs on local public access cable.

Under a huge heated tent packed with an estimated 1,000 guests, Anne Arundel Medical Center celebrated yesterday the opening of its new breast center, billed as a comprehensive diagnostic, treatment and education facility to meet the needs of breast cancer patients. The center is housed on the hospital's new campus in the six-story Sajak Pavilion, named after longtime "Wheel of Fortune" game-show host Pat Sajak and his wife, Lesly. The couple, who live in Severna Park, donated $1 million to the breast center.

If you hit it off with Mark Kresel - and chances are you will - he'll eventually want to know one thing: "Can I give you a birdhouse?" He'll ask in a voice husky with sincerity: "Can I?" The 58-year-old textile salesman has bestowed his handmade creations on the woman who sold him his daily Dunkin' Donut, his barber, his doctor and dozens of clients in exotic locations throughout Russia, South America, Africa, Europe and the Middle East. Everyone in his Fork neighborhood - all up and down Catalpa Road, which is not a short street - boasts an original Kresel.

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Outreach Center lists activities Baltimore Washington Medical Center will offer activities at its Arundel Mills Outreach Center, between Dave and Buster's and Entrance 4: Friday, 8 a.m. to 10 a.m., computerized neck and back screenings. Monday, 9 a.m. to 10:30 a.m., free blood pressure screenings. Tuesday, 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., blood pressure screenings. Sept. 14, 9 a.m. to 11 a.m., foot screenings. Sept. 18, 8 a.m. to 10 a.m., county Department of Aging will offer information on its services.

Pat Sajak strides into the Annapolis radio station that he owns, slips on a pair of radio headphones and begins taping a two-minute commentary on the subject "Life is a risky business." His script, on everyday risks, was inspired by a friend scolding him for eating a hamburger and french fries. "You weigh the risks against the rewards, the drawbacks against the pleasures, and the yogurt against the ice cream," he says in a clear, ebullient voice as the tape rolls. In the best of modern worlds, he adds, knowing that eating a candy bar would take precisely 12 seconds off your life would come in handy: "Then you could make an intelligent decision."

THERE WERE GOWNS GALORE at the Gala for the Anne Arundel Medical Center Foundation. The get-together at Baltimore's Marriott Waterfront Hotel was formal fun at its best. Scarcely an ankle was in sight at the pre-party VIP soiree. Almost every woman there wore a floor-length dress. However, the gown most talked about was that of foundation vice president Lesly Sajak. Two days before, her gala attire had received national attention. When Wheel of Fortune host Pat Sajak filled in for Regis Philbin on the Live with Regis and Kelly TV show, he asked the audience to choose which frock his wife should wear, and had her model one in white and another in black.

Jake Einstein is getting out of the radio biz again.The longtime guru of Maryland's alternative radio scene and former owner of both WHFS-FM (99.1) and WRNR-FM (103.1) is set to get rid of his last station, Annapolis' WNAV-AM (1430).In fact, Einstein already has leased the station to a company headed by TV personality and part-time Severna Park resident Pat Sajak, whose Sajak Broadcasting took over operation of the station Jan. 2. Einstein expects to complete negotiations to sell WNAV to the "Wheel of Fortune" host soon.

So, do you believe that "Seinfeld" news?No, not the fact that the Four Horsemen of Neuroticness - Jerry, George, Elaine and Kramer - are finally riding off into the sunset after this season. That probably should have happened a couple of seasons ago, before the show stopped being really funny.No, I'm talking about the fact that the NBC brass - the same geniuses who sent Letterman packing a few years back - proudly announced that they were ready to pay Jerry Seinfeld $5 million per episode to crank out one more season of shows about nothing.