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The Frederick firm that designed a flawed water-heating system for Linton Springs Elementary School is redrawing the plans to include critical safety features, school officials said yesterday.The absence of back-flow devices, which prevent hot water from entering the cold-water system used for kitchen operations and bathroom plumbing, was a key factor in the state-ordered shutdown of the Eldersburg school's water heating system last week. School officials have said the water-heating system was installed according to the plans prepared by RHL Engineering.

New county schools Superintendent William H. Hyde announced a round of personnel changes, including his replacement, at yesterday's Board of Education meeting.Hyde named Vernon F. Smith, director of school support services since 1987, as assistant superintendent of administration -- Hyde's former position.Smith, who joined the Carroll system as a teacher at Eldersburg Elementary in 1971, will oversee the building, finance, transportation and human resources departments."I think we are at an exciting time in Carroll County public schools," Smith said yesterday.

POLICE LOG* Fulton: Dead-end of Sanner Road: Someone cut the locks off construction trailers and stole a generator and tools between 3:30 p.m. Tuesday and 6:30 a.m. Wednesday.

Hampstead has asked two Board of Education officials to work on its adequate facilities committee, which will focus on crowded schools.Vernon Smith, director of school support services, and Kathleen Sanner, facilities planner, will meet with town officials Oct. 11."We will try to explain the mechanics more clearly so they have a grasp on the process," said Ms. Sanner at the county Planning and Zoning Commission hearing this week.Ms. Sanner gave the town Planning and Zoning Commission enrollment figures and projections in July.

A new elementary school to ease crowding in North Carroll is on the county wish list, but it may not come true until the turn of the century.Kathleen Sanner, facilities planner for the Carroll County Public Schools, painted a picture of continued crowding in the area's three elementary schools for the Hampstead Planning and Zoning Commission last night.The picture won't change until another school opens, she said."To have a new school in Manchester in 1998, we have to begin planning next summer," she said.

A 64-year-old Reisterstown man, who shot his hunting companion near Hampstead in December, was placed on probation for 12 months after a trial in Westminster District Court yesterday, a Department of Natural Resources (DNR) spokeswoman said.Raymond Struble of the first block of Shropshire Court was charged with negligent hunting after Michael Lee Sanner, 53, of the first block of Penndragon Court in Reisterstown was shot in the right elbow and flown to a Baltimore trauma center.Mr. Sanner at first told police he was hunting about 8 a.m. Dec. 4 on Wine Road near Hampstead when his rifle accidentally discharged and he was shot.

Maryland Natural Resources Police filed charges Friday against two Baltimore County men and a Virginia man in connection with a shooting that was reported as accidental while the three were deer hunting near Manchester on Dec. 4.The shooting victim, Michael Lee Sanner, 53, of the first block of Penndragon Court in Reisterstown, spent 10 days in the Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore after telling police he had shot himself in the right elbow in...

The county is buying 126 acres of farmland in South Carroll and setting it aside as a site for up to three schools.The county expects to settle on the property for $788,900 with current owner Daniel Dulany this month, said Isaac Menasche, assistant county attorney.The land is on Old Liberty Road, near Linton Road.No specific schools are planned for the site now, said Kathleen Sanner, assistant for school facilities. But the land will be there when needed, and the rate of growth in South Carroll indicates it probably will be needed, she said.

Robert J. Sanner stood near his table in the Odenton Fire Hall and couldn't believe his eyes.It was his job to verify names and hand out ballots to members of the Odenton Improvement Association for itsbiennial election.That usually means checking off 30 or 35 people. But 150 showed up Wednesday night, many waving $3 at him and demanding to be registered."Where have you been the last year?" he half-hollered out. "This is unbelievable. This bugs the blooming daylights out of me. It's not that we wouldn't like to have them as members, but why wait untiltonight?"

The Greater Odenton Improvement Association has chosen Robert Sanner Sr.its Citizen of the Year.Approximately 80 people were at St. Joseph's Church Hall last Saturday to see Delegate Marsha Perry, D-District 33, present the award. "Volunteers are the true lifeblood of the community," said Perry.Volunteering is exactly what Sanner has been doing since he arrived in Odenton in February 1937. He has been a member of the GOIA for more than 25 years. He was a member of the Odenton Kiwanis, past master of the Odenton Masonic Lodge and past patron of the Odenton Eastern Star, Chapter 29.He has been there for the community in many different ways.