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Seminar to help low-income women who are seeking jobs Success In Style, a nonprofit organization that provides free coaching, business clothing and accessories to Howard County women with low incomes who are seeking employment, will hold its third Buffet Breakfast and Fashion Seminar at Nordstrom in Columbia from 8 a.m. to 9:40 a.m. April 3. Personal Touch consultant Beverly Hill will present the latest looks for spring. A Success In Style client will be made over by a Nordstrom makeup artist.

VFW post offers essay contest for local students Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 2462 is seeking contestants for the "Voice of Democracy" scholarship competition. The contest is available to students in ninth to 12th grades. The theme is "My Commitment to America's Future." The deadline is Nov. 1. Participants should write and record a three- to five-minute essay on the selected theme. The winner will receive a $100 cash award and will advance to the district competition. A second contest, "Patriot's Pen" is for seventh- and eighth-graders.

Remembering the brave who died in KoreaThe dedication of Carroll County's memorial to its Korean War dead was a moving event. Forty-five years to the day following the war's end, the 11 servicemen who were killed in action were remembered on a sunny afternoon at Westminster City Hall's Veterans Memorial Garden.Many are due "thanks" for their participation. I must begin with the surviving family members who came from around the state and from Pennsylvania. Their involvement with placing flowers before the memorial provided moments of great poignancy.

For the first time in 21 years, the Carroll Players won't open its fall production at Frock's Sunnybrook Farm on Bond Street in Westminster. The community theater group, which faced an uncertain future when the popular catering hall closed in the spring, has found a new home across town at Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 467."They've been really wonderful to us and very good to work with," said Marcia Bogash, director of the fall production. "We've come in and put up lighting grids and blinds at the windows and have taken over the upstairs.

THE ARUNDEL Senior High School Class of 1967 is planning %% its 30-year reunion. Everything is just in the planning stage, so volunteers are needed. Updated address and phone numbers are being collected for anyone who graduated or should have graduated in 1967. For more information or to give updated information contact Ann Thompson Henderson at 410-760-7567. %%%%VFW Post 5172 meetingThe Odenton VFW Post 5172 will meet at 7: 30 tonight at the Kiwanis Building, 1363 Becknel Ave in Odenton.

Bonnie Jean Wallace did office work for nearly 40 years, as secretary, manager and executive assistant, and hated every minute of it.Five years ago, at age 55, she chucked it all in an extraordinary career change -- she became a Baltimore County Fire Department paramedic."

Burglars broke into the Pasadena Veterans of Foreign Wars Post Tuesday and tried to pry open a safe, county police said.Police went to the post shortly before 4 a.m. after a burglar alarm sounded and found the front door ajar, but no one inside.The culprits used a sledgehammer and two crowbars to pry open a front door, setting off the alarm, and then used the tools to try to break into a storage room, police said. The burglars climbed atop a cigarette machine, crawled through a drop ceiling and into the closet, where they made an unsuccessful attempt to open the safe, police said.

THE MEADE SENIOR High Key Club, sponsored by the Kiwanis Club of Odenton, is sponsoring a "Battle of the Bands" at 7 p.m. Friday in the school auditorium to raise money for club projects.Hear bands from Meade High School and surrounding areas. The bands scheduled to appear are "Sonya Joyfold Presents," "Negitive 0," "Children of Hatred," "Linolium What?," "Lupus," "Kismet," "One Black Rose" and "Tangerine."To be eligible for the battle, band members must be under 21 and at least one person must be attending high school.

Today is the deadline for reservations to the West Anne Arundel County Chamber of Commerce workshop on West County development.The workshop will run from 7:45 a.m. to 10 a.m. Thursday at the Holiday Inn Express, 7481 New Ridge Road in Hanover.The topics will include the region's economic outlook, commercial and residential development, the status of road projects and the county's one- to five-year projections.The speakers will include Michael Lofton, head of the Anne Arundel Economic Development Corp.

The menu is sour beef or pork, dumplings on the side. The televisions are turned to the evening news and, once in a while, someone drops a little money in one of the four video poker machines that line one wall.Just another night at the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 6506 -- for 50 years a Rosedale institution and, as one member puts it, "a place for old guys to get together and tell old war stories."But lately the Internal Revenue Service is trying to give the Rosedale post and many other veterans groups in Maryland a new identity: tax scofflaw.