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Carroll County's 21-year-old Mike Wah still finds it hard to believe he will be called to the tee this month in Columbus, Ohio, as a contestant in the United States Amateur Golf Championship."

If the world of Chinese restaurants can be divided between those with chopsticks on the tables and those with silverware, Wing Wah Restaurant in Pikesville is a knife-and-fork kind of place. Tucked among storefronts on the 500 block of Reisterstown Road, Wing Wah serves generous portions of moderately priced, mildly flavored Chinese fare. It has a neighborhood feel to it, starting with the signs on the entry doors that warn you not to park in the nearby Jiffy Lube lot, lest you be towed.

Now that Wakefield Valley's Michael Wah has had a fling on the national golf scene, it's understandable that he is eager to take a crack at area honors this season.It was last year that Wah, playing over his home Wakefield Valley course, turned back many of the section's top players while qualifying for the National Amateur championship in Muirfield Village, Ohio.Until his victory in this 36-hole qualifying test, Wah had only minor success at tournament golf, but, eager to expand his winning ways, the sophomore student at Indiana (Pa.)

Philip Ben Wah, Sr A funeral service will be held at Ruck Towson Funeral Home, 1050 York Road on Saturday at 1 P.M. Friends may call on Saturday 11 A.M till 1 P.M. Family suggest contributions may be made to The Johns Hopkins Prostate Cancer Research Fund/ M. Eisenberger, M.D. Bunting Blaustein Cancer Research Building, 1650 Orleans Street, Room 1M52, Baltimore, Md. 21231.

COLLEGE PARK -- Westminster freshman John Wah thought he could have played better golf on the first day of his first trip to the state tournament. He probably shouldn't be so hard on himself.Wah overcame five bogeys to play solid golf the rest of the way and shoot a 3-over par 74, the lowest score among area players in the first day of the Maryland Public Secondary Schools Athletic Association state tournament yesterday at the University of Maryland.The 74 on the par-71, 6,271-yard course put Wah in fourth place overall in the individual competition, five shots behind leader Jimmy Cunningham of Walkersville (69)

It was something a young tournament golfer may never forget.Carroll County's Michael Wah, 22, had a horrendous start on his attempt to qualify for the Maryland State Amateur Championship at Norbeck Country Club.He possibly could have lived with a bogey, or even a double bogey, but with a triple, all his nerve and composure were called upon to move on to the second hole.The humbling start caused Wah to miss the qualifying cut by a stroke. Last year, the Union Bridge resident had made it through qualifying for the National Amateur in Ohio.

COLLEGE PARK -- Westminster freshman John Wah thought he could have played better golf on the first day of his first trip to the state tournament. He probably shouldn't be so hard on himself.Wah overcame five bogeys to play solid golf the rest of the way and shoot a 3-over par 74, the lowest score among area players on the first day of the Maryland Public Secondary Schools Athletic Association state tournament yesterday at the University of Maryland.The 74 on the par-71, 6,271-yard course put Wah in fourth place overall in the individual competition, five shots behind leader Jimmy Cunningham of Walkersville (69)

The Howard County Board of Appeals has approved an addition to a house so that the owner can open a group-care facility in West Friendship.The two-story facility for five to 15 senior citizens on Buttercup Court near Route 144 will open by the end of June or in early July, said owner Mark Wah.The board on Tuesday night voted 5-0 for the addition of bedrooms, exercise and sitting areas."

Filmfest DC Film fans can enjoy 12 days of cinematic entertainment at Filmfest DC, taking place at various theaters, museums and venues in Washington. The 20th annual festival, which begins Wednesday and runs through April 30, offers more than 70 films of various genres from countries around the globe, panel discussions, talks by directors (including Sydney Pollack at 6:30 p.m. Thursday at the National Gallery of Art), appearances by film stars (including singer Martha Reeves, who will perform and speak at the screening of Dance Party: The Teenarama Story at 9 p.m. April 28 at Regal Cinemas)

There had to be pressure on Carroll County's 21-year-old Michael Wah when he stepped on the tee for his bid in the U.S. Amateur Golf Championship last week in Columbus, Ohio.It was a case of an almost totally inexperienced golfer matching shots with the nation's most proficient amateurs. It is conceded that many in the field would be golf's dominators of tomorrow. He knew he was bucking overwhelming odds. Only the top 64 players from an original field of thousands would make it into match play competition.

Filmfest DC Film fans can enjoy 12 days of cinematic entertainment at Filmfest DC, taking place at various theaters, museums and venues in Washington. The 20th annual festival, which begins Wednesday and runs through April 30, offers more than 70 films of various genres from countries around the globe, panel discussions, talks by directors (including Sydney Pollack at 6:30 p.m. Thursday at the National Gallery of Art), appearances by film stars (including singer Martha Reeves, who will perform and speak at the screening of Dance Party: The Teenarama Story at 9 p.m. April 28 at Regal Cinemas)

After the kazoo wah wah wahs the national anthem, all the vehicles' brakes are tested, and contestants get their feet blessed by a monk, a man in a top hat wearing overalls and a cape will make a speech and sound a bullhorn signaling the start of the American Visionary Art Museum's seventh annual Kinetic Sculpture Race on Saturday. This is not your typical 15-mile dash. At least 20 human-propelled creations will creep at about 4 mph through water, sand and mud to vie for the top prize - which, as it turns out, is for the finisher not at the top, but smack-dab in the middle - in this event billed as a collision of art and engineering.

On August 28, 2003, ANNE MAN WAH LUI, loving daughter of Sue Lui and husband Yun, sister of Miriam Liu and husband Ted, Ray Lui and wife Lai Bing, and Cindy Lui, cousin of Angela and Edwin Lui, Grace and Dan Lui. Friends may call at Mitchell-Wiedefeld Funeral Home, Inc., 6500 York Road (at Overbrook) on Monday and Tuesday, 3 to 5:30 and 7 to 9 P.M. A Funeral Service will be held Wednesday 11 A.M. at Grace and St. Peters Church, 707 Park Avenue. Interment Lorraine Park Cemetery.

Steadily, stealthily, The Eye works its way into your psyche, playing with your mind and always keeping a surprise or two up its sleeve. It's a supernatural shocker that owes its chills to the tried-and-true notion that what goes around, comes around. Twenty-year-old Mun (Lee Sin-Je) has been blind since age 2 but is about to undergo a corneal transplant that promises to restore her vision. It works and her eyes begin to function. But she can't really see yet; her brain can't process the pictures it suddenly is receiving.

Picture this: Billy Crystal as the leprechaunish Cyclops, Mike, in Monsters, Inc. pitches the woo to a taller, serpentine Cyclops named Celia (Jennifer Tilly), who boasts a Medusa's head of snake-hair. Suddenly he notices a pile of stone statues. As the snakes on Celia's head snap, he asks her what the statues are. Without missing a beat or thinking it will make him nervous, Celia answers, "My old boyfriends." It's a hilarious throwaway. But you'll have to picture it in your imagination, because you'll never see it on the screen.

Baltimore police were investigating two shootings yesterday, including one fatal. According to police, a couple had an argument about 11 p.m. Friday. Police said the husband then left the house and got a shotgun out of his car. He knocked on the door of the house, and when his wife answered, shot her in the upper torso, police said. Nadine Wilson, 42, was pronounced dead at Maryland Shock Trauma Center just before 1 a.m. yesterday. Her husband, Carlos James, 59, of the 800 block of W. Lexington St. was charged Friday with first-degree murder and use of a deadly weapon in the shooting.

On August 28, 2003, ANNE MAN WAH LUI, loving daughter of Sue Lui and husband Yun, sister of Miriam Liu and husband Ted, Ray Lui and wife Lai Bing, and Cindy Lui, cousin of Angela and Edwin Lui, Grace and Dan Lui. Friends may call at Mitchell-Wiedefeld Funeral Home, Inc., 6500 York Road (at Overbrook) on Monday and Tuesday, 3 to 5:30 and 7 to 9 P.M. A Funeral Service will be held Wednesday 11 A.M. at Grace and St. Peters Church, 707 Park Avenue. Interment Lorraine Park Cemetery.

NEW YORK -- It was 1955, there was a revolution on the radio, and five kids from Washington Heights, in upper Manhattan, signed up as foot soldiers. Just after the birth of rock 'n' roll, they had their moment.That moment was a simple, tender song called "Why Do Fools Fall in Love"; the group was Frankie Lymon and the Teen-Agers. For nearly 40 years -- as the song was recorded and rerecorded into the pop music pantheon -- the boy with the sweet soprano and that first blockbuster hit were joined in rock immortality.

THIS UNHAPPY but nonetheless amusing business of Jeffrey Levitt's 87-year-old mother suing her son, the paroled savings and loan swindler, made me wonder: Could it happen to me? To any of us? Imagine, a mother turning on her son like that. But you never know these days. You've heard that expression, "Everyone and his brother is suing someone." It could just as likely be, "Everyone and his mother." And, as newspaper editors used to tell their cubs: "If your mother says she loves you, check it out."

COLLEGE PARK -- Westminster freshman John Wah thought he could have played better golf on the first day of his first trip to the state tournament. He probably shouldn't be so hard on himself.Wah overcame five bogeys to play solid golf the rest of the way and shoot a 3-over par 74, the lowest score among area players on the first day of the Maryland Public Secondary Schools Athletic Association state tournament yesterday at the University of Maryland.The 74 on the par-71, 6,271-yard course put Wah in fourth place overall in the individual competition, five shots behind leader Jimmy Cunningham of Walkersville (69)