Spiegel

As a child growing up in Pasadena, George Bentz could always count on one thing whenever he and his father went fishing in the Chesapeake Bay."The rockfish were abundant out there," Mr. Bentz recalled. "There was no control, and you could take as many as you wanted to."But that laissez faire attitude eventually led to a major depletion in the rockfish population. The fate of the rockfish and the future of Maryland blue crabs has inspired Mr. Bentz and JosephSpiegel to start a North Anne Arundel County chapter of the Coastal Conservation Association (CCA)

After talking to South Carroll High School 10th-graders yesterday about her teen-age years in concentration and hard labor camps, Holocaust survivor Regina Spiegel invited questions from the students.They weren't shy."Were you experimented on?" "Did you ever see the gas chamber?" "Do you still have your tattoo?"Some of the frank inquiries made the teachers wince, but they didn't rattle Mrs. Spiegel, who answered all the students' questions."I don't mind [the questions]," she said. "I want them to ask because I want them to be aware of what happened."

Ronald R. Frederick, who lives near a Union Mills farm where the Westminster AeroModelers Club flies model planes, continues to press Carroll County commissioners to find a new field for the club.Mr. Frederick has been fighting for a change since last year. He has offered to reimburse the county for the work it did to improve the field, on the former Spiegel farm near Kowomu Trail and Rinehart Road.He said noise from the planes bothers him and sounds "like a flying chain saw with a high-frequency mosquito sitting on it."

While the D.C. punk rock scene of the '80s couldn't quite match the explosiveness of the New York scene of the '70s, those Washingtonians making noise during that era still developed quite a cult following. Even if their opinions were formed by the music of the Big Apple's punk pioneers.Just ask Don Fleming, frontman for D.C.'s punk valedictorians, Gumball, true survivors of the anti-mainstream rock movement."When people look back [at music], they tend to be nostalgic," Fleming relates. "They have a tendency to label everything as retro.

OUT Of THE GARDEN: WOMEN WRITERS ON THE BIBLE. Edited by Christina Buchmann and Celina Spiegel. Fawcett/Columbine. 351 pp. $23.READING "Out of the Garden," a remarkable anthology of essays on the Bible by 28 women writers, I was reminded of how, years ago, I and the other little girls in my Hebrew-school class dressed up as Queen Esther for the annual Purim carnivals.Inevitably, a funereal mood stole over us as we regarded one another -- ungainly, anxious children at the most awkward of ages -- and realized that all our mothers' makeup and prettiest paisley scarves had sadly failed to transform us into the Jewish beauty who won the Persian king's heart.

Northeast and Anne Arundel Community College grad Rich Spiegel is off to a great start in professional baseball.Drafted on the 22nd round by Atlanta, Spiegel is playing at Danville, the Braves' Single-A affiliate in the Appalachian League."

Anne Arundel County will be well-represented at today's Crown High School All-Star Game at Oriole Park. Six players on the 15-member South squad that plays the North after the Orioles and Twins game are from the county.Arundel High boasts pitcher Brandon Agamennone, infielder Jeff Hedrick and first baseman/catcher J.P. Noon. Arundel coach Bernie Walter is one of the coaches.The other county players on the South are Old Mill pitcher Ken Pumphrey and outfielders Bob Christopher of North County and Wayne Small of Southern.

When the New York Mets made Old Mill's Ken Pumphrey their fourth-round draft pick in Thursday's amateur baseball draft, the 6-foot-5 right-hander became the third-highest player drafted in June in county history.Drafted later were catcher Rich Spiegel of Northeast High and Anne Arundel Community College, Glen Burnie High left-hander Keith Volkman and Broadneck right-hander Sean Ryan.Volkman, who did not have a great senior year but has good potential, was chosen on the 25th round by the Chicago Cubs.

Earlier this spring at Anne Arundel Community College, catcher Rich Spiegel was taking off his gear when a reporter approached him."I'm ready to go, right now" were the first words out of his mouth.Spiegel, a former All-Metro catcher at Northeast in 1992 with seven homers and 38 RBIs his senior year, was coming to the end of his second season at Anne Arundel Community College.Thoughts of being drafted by a major-league club have been foremost in his mind for two years and if anybody ever deserved to get picked, Spiegel does.

Carroll commissioners voted Thursday to approve a license agreement with the Westminster AeroModelers Club that allows members to fly model planes at the former Spiegel farm in Union Mills.The land, near Kowomu Trail and Rinehart Road, is owned by the county.Commissioners Donald I. Dell and Elmer C. Lippy voted; Commissioner Julia W. Gouge was not at the meeting.The agreement restricts flying hours, in response to complaints from neighbors about the noise from the radio-controlled planes.