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Q. I had a large oak taken down and noticed light-colored worms crawling under the bark. Did they kill the tree? Can we use the wood for firewood?A. The worms -- most likely beetle larvae -- did not kill your tree. Many types of beetle larvae will bore into severely stressed trees and feed on the cambium -- the area under the bark.You can burn the infested firewood but bring it into your home only as you need it. Keep it stored outside and away from your house.Q. I love vinca and plant it in garden beds and different types of containers.

Some of life's simplest pleasures are the most sensual. A good book on a rainy Sunday afternoon. The scent of autumn clematis. A steaming bowl of savory potato-leek soup made from your own leeks.Although they average 100 days from seed to table, leeks are fairly easy to grow. And nothing compares to the pleasure of walking through a fall drizzle to pull a few out of the garden for supper.Leeks (Allium ampeloprasum) look like a scallion on steroids - thick, white, bulbous stems topped with blue-green, reedy fronds.

An effort to rescue an Ellicott City man whose tractor fell into an 8-foot-deep trench yesterday turned into a four-hour ordeal with 82 Howard and Montgomery county police, fire and rescue officers responding.Peter Horowitz, 61, suffered neck and back injuries and was listed in fair condition at the Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore.Horowitz was dropping off materials at a housing construction site on Pindell School Road in Clarksville when his tractor fell into a hole designed for the home's septic tank.

KAMENICA, Bosnia-Herzegovina -- Deep in a remote rural stretch of Bosnia, war crimes investigators yesterday found a tangle of buried bodies that they say are some of the 7,500 Muslim men hidden in an effort to thwart the prosecution of Bosnian Serb leaders for genocide.Investigators for the war-crimes tribunal contend that thousands of Muslims originally were buried near the Srebrenica execution sites, then dug up by earthmovers and moved to more than 10 places to hide the evidence.Exhumations in 1996 recovered 480 bodies.

A Gwynnbrook man who fell into a 20-foot deep trench while playing catch was in serious but stable condition last night at Maryland Shock Trauma Center, Baltimore County police said.Police said Burt Wayne Gayleard, 19, and friends were playing with a football about 6: 45 p.m. behind Gayleard's home in the 11100 block of Reisterstown Road when he fell into the trench at a housing construction site and struck a concrete sewer pipe.The county's Advanced Tactical Rescue Team and firefighters removed Gayleard from the trench about 7: 35 p.m.Pub Date: 3/28/97

A Harford County public works employee was trapped for more than an hour yesterday when a trench at a Joppa work site caved in, the county sheriff's office said.Philip J. Hartline, 41, of Forest Hill was working on a bridge excavation project at Magnolia and Fort Hoyle roads about 3: 45 p.m. when one side of the trench caved in and partlyburied him, said Sgt. Edward Hopkins, a sheriff's office spokesman.Firefighters took about an hour and 10 minutes to free Hartline, who was being evaluated last night at Maryland Shock-Trauma Center in Baltimore.

Gayland Buckingham had a great fall.It took 40 Howard and Montgomery County firefighters 4 1/2 hours -- and a crane -- to pick the 375-pound construction worker up again, after he fell 8 feet into a trench yesterday on a building site in West Friendship."

After rejection from the United States military for an eye defect, Ernest Hemingway became an ambulance driver for the American Red Cross in May 1918. Two months later, stationed in Italy, he was hit by fragments of an Austrian trench mortar shell. The soldier nearest him was killed. Hemingway was dragging another soldier to safety when he was injured again, this time by machine gun bullets in the knee. He spent three months in a hospital in Milan, where he turned 19, fell in love with a nurse and underwent a dozen operations to remove shell fragments from his legs and body.

A Severn man installing a methane gas retrieval system at the Millersville landfill was trapped in a trench for nearly two hours yesterday before county firefighters were able to free him.Jerome Legrand, 38, of the 1700 block of Carriage Court in Severn was in serious but stable condition yesterday afternoon at Maryland Shock Trauma Center, where he was taken after rescue workers freed him from the 8-foot deep trench, where he was up to his knees in mud...

The cable television subcontractors who pierced a Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. natural gas pipeline two hours before a nearby house exploded last month did not violate any state occupational health and safety guidelines, according to state officials.In a report released yesterday, Maryland Occupational Safety and Health (MOSH) said that neither Apollo Trenching Co. -- the Howard County company whose digging equipment struck the gas main Jan. 19 -- nor Prestige Cable Television of Maryland put employees at undue risk that afternoon.

River Hill senior Scott Trench is what his wrestling coach Brandon Lauer calls "a throwback" - a high school athlete who excels not at one or even two sports, but three. "It's hard to excel at the highest level nowadays in three different varsity sports," Lauer said. "But Scott brings a tremendous work ethic. You know you can rely on him to work hard, and that's why he succeeds in athletics and academics." Trench, 18 with a 3.9 grade-point average, was the kicker and tight end for the Hawks' football team that won the state Class 2A championship; he wrestled in the 171-pound weight class and finished this season as the state runner-up; and now he heads into the lacrosse season where he is the Hawks faceoff man. "He's a guy I'm going to talk to my teams about for years," Lauer said.

3 touchdowns Wilde Lake running back Jarrel Epps scored in the Wildecats' 21-14 win over Howard in a Class 3A East regional semifinal on Friday. 14 state championships in volleyball won by Centennial - a record. 57 kickoffs River Hill kicker Scott Trench had in seven games this season.

Trench coats are hot, hot, hot for spring. They're coming in many colors and with lots of modern details, such as oddly shaped buttons, wide collars and mod A-lined shapes. We liked this trench because it was a little bit trendy and a little bit retro at the same time. WONDERING IF YOU WERE GLIMPSED? Check out baltimoresun.com / glimpsed for additional photos of fashion-forward locals and a critique by fashion writer Tanika White of the styles she saw around town.

A plumbing company employee was trapped for several hours yesterday after a trench collapsed outside a West Baltimore home, causing injuries to his legs, a city Fire Department spokesman reported. The man's identity was not available. About 11:30 a.m., a worker for Quality Plumbing was in a 7-foot-deep, 18-foot-long trench making repairs to a sewer line leading to a house in the 2800 block of Koko Lane when a portion of one wall of the trench collapsed, trapping the man up to his knees, said Chief Kevin Cartwright, the spokesman.

River Hill fans call the backfield duo of Zach Martin and Michael Campanaro "thunder and lightning." Last night, it was the storm clouds that carried the day. The Hawks used the blocking of offensive linemen Zach Robinson, Ryan Bounds, Matt Jaso, Jeff Wallin and Chris Rhodes to open holes and lead No. 1 River Hill (11-0) to a 48-10 victory over visiting and No. 15 Severna Park (9-3) in the Class 3A East championship. Martin rushed for 113 yards on 18 carries and three touchdowns, while Campanaro rushed for 98 yards on 15 carries and one touchdown.

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Attempting to curb the escalating bloodshed in the capital, the Iraqi government is planning to dig a series of trenches and set up dozens of traffic checkpoints to control movement into and out of the city of 7 million people, the Interior Ministry said yesterday. The defensive plan would be a huge and difficult undertaking. Baghdad's circumference runs to roughly 100 miles, most reconstruction projects are languishing unfinished or not begun because of security concerns, and the government is still struggling to assert its authority in the capital.

A construction worker was in critical condition at Maryland Shock Trauma Center after being rescued yesterday afternoon from a mud-filled trench, a Baltimore County Fire Department official said. The man, believed to be in his mid-50s and whose name was not released, was standing on a scaffold attached to a water pumping station under construction in the 700 block of Seneca Park Road in Bowleys Quarters about 3 p.m. when he fell at least 15 feet into a muddy trench, said Lt. Howard Thode, a communications division supervisor.

Frederick County rescue teams pulled a construction worker out of a 12-foot-deep trench yesterday morning after spending nearly two hours digging through mud and shoring up the hole. Fire officials said the 36-year-old worker -- who was not identified -- apparently fell into the trench while installing a new septic system on the grounds of a sprawling home near the Carroll County border. An employee of Fogle's Septic and Well Drilling who refused to give a name said the man was working for a private contractor hired by Fogle's.

The African chief swayed in a plywood-lined trench. Eyes clenched, his head fell back, his gray beard pointed skyward. His royal entreaty pricked the cool air: "Great Spirit, the Supreme state, we call on you." At his signal, a palmful of pure Ghanaian gold was reverently laid into a puddle of muddy water and liquor, only to be quickly covered by five inches of gray concrete. Surrounded by the principals of the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History and Culture, set to open next year near the Inner Harbor, the chief performed yesterday an ancient ceremony to link the museum's foundation with the spirit of Africa.

An avalanche of rust-colored earth partially buried a plumber at a work site in Linthicum yesterday afternoon, but rescue workers were able to stabilize the trench and pull him to safety by early evening. Antonio Loverde was conscious throughout his three-hour ordeal and helped guide 47 emergency workers as they delicately dug him out of the 8-foot-deep hole on the front lawn of a home. The 23-year-old and his partner, Chris Milan, 32, had been just a few hours from completing the all-day job of repairing a sewer line on Cheddington Road in Anne Arundel County.