Yacht Club

The owners of an Edgewater yacht club are scheduled to go before the county liquor board in two weeks to face charges that they broke the law when employees allegedly sold beer from a pier in May.Tom Riggin, the chairman of the Anne Arundel County Liquor Board, said the Liberty Yacht Club has a restricted liquor license that allows it to sell alcohol in its clubhouse, only to club members and their guests, and prohibits advertising.According to a report, a county inspector visited the club, in the first block of Old South River Road, on May 29 and found a Budweiser banner hanging from a small building next to the bulkhead, advertising drinks at a convenience store.

Services for Elizabeth Rose Hodous, a nurse who worked in her husband's medical office in Van Bibber for many years, will be held at 11 a.m. tomorrow at Cokesbury Memorial United Methodist Church in Abingdon.Mrs. Hodous, who had lived in Van Bibber, died of pneumonia Tuesday at the Bel Air Convalescent Center. She was 81.Her husband, Dr. Frederick O. Hodous, maintained a general practice for more than 40 years until his death in 1975.The former Elizabeth Rose Johnston was born in Marlinton, W.Va.

The starting time and site for the opening ceremonies of the Columbus Cup sailing matches were listed incorrectly in Sunday's editions of The Sun. The ceremonies will begin at 11:30 a.m. today at the Inner Harbor Finger Piers.The Sun regrets the errors.What: Cadillac Columbus Cup, a round-robin series of match races among eight yachts representing teams from seven countries.Where: The racing will be held on a windward-leeward course off the mouth of the Patapsco River on Chesapeake Bay. Pre-race and post-race activities will be centered at the HarborView Marina and Yacht Club and at the finger piers (Baltimore II docks)

AUTHUR L. CHRISTENSON, born July 17, 1927 in Astoria Queens, NY, passed away Thursday, June 15, 2006. A resident of Mountain Lakes, NJ from 1962-1993. He was a Marine Engineer, V.P. of Foster Wheeler Boiler Corp, with whom he worked from 1956-1993, following 10 years with Merchant Marines. He relocated to Sea Pines, Hilton Head Island, SC. He was an active member of The Yacht Club of Hilton Head Island. Arthur was a member of the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers; Society of Marine Port Engineers; The Navy League; and an instructor for the United States Power Squadron.

Lillian D. Blakeslee, a homemaker and longtime Towson resident, died of respiratory failure Jan. 15 at the Oak Crest Village retirement community in Parkville. She was 94. Born Lillian Davis in Baltimore, she graduated in 1927 from Eastern High School. She briefly worked as a legal secretary before her 1933 marriage to George Walton Blakeslee Sr., a co-founder of Blakeslee-Lane, the Baltimore commercial photography firm. He died in 1999. Mrs. Blakeslee was a member of the Women's Civic League and Three Arts Club of Homeland.

Arthur Eugene "Gene" Kohlhepp Jr., a retired salesman who earlier had owned and operated a vending machine company, died Sept. 3 of complications from Alzheimer's disease at The Pines Genesis Elder Care in Easton. The former longtime Monkton resident was 81. Born in Baltimore and raised in Homeland, Mr. Kohlhepp was a graduate of Boys' Latin School. He served in the Army near the end of World War II and was discharged in 1947. He worked with his father in sales at William Deitches & Co., a Baltimore tobacco distributorship, before establishing Colt Cigarette Vending in the 1960s.

Annapolis--The cannon roars, sailors curse and two boats nearly collide before the wind fills their spinnakers and propels them down the Severn River to Chesapeake Bay.It's another Wednesday night at the yacht races in Annapolis, a town that bills itself as the Sailing Capital of the United States.Each week, sailors hurry from their jobs, casting off ties or tossing aside hard hats before slipping into shorts and sunglasses. Spectators crowd onto the decks of the Annapolis Yacht Club or lean over the Eastport Bridge to see the finish.

Most racing sailors in this area by now have received mailing from the Leukemia Society for this year's third annual Leukemia Cup Regatta, set for June 24.Organizers and sponsors of this event, which includes a CBYRA-sanctioned race as well as the fund-raising aspects, have been at work for nearly a year.They are hoping that as the word of previous years' success has spread more sailors will want to take part by getting pledge sheets filled up to benefit the Leukemia Society.The first-place winner raising the most money will win an eight-day, seven-night bareboat BVI charter with The Moorings, complete with airfare and one night's shoreside lodgings.

They sailed in little breeze, howling gusts and shifty winds during this week's Rolex International Women's Keelboat Championships. So it seemed somewhat appropriate that - with first place already decided - 60 crews competed in the final race yesterday with the wind knocked out of their sails. Cory Sertl and her J/22 team remained at the Annapolis Yacht Club dock, the championship wrapped up Thursday as neatly as their mainsail. The former Rolex Yachtswoman of the Year from Rochester, N.Y., won two races and took second in two others to build an insurmountable 11-point lead through nine races.

Annapolis Federal Savings Bank took possession of the financially troubled Spa Creek Yacht Club Monday, after a public foreclosure auction in which the bank offered the sole bid.The bank, which holds the mortgage on the Eastport marina, bid $700,000 for the property, which includes 56 boat slips, a clubhouse, a pool house and a pool.Developer Dennis C. Blaeuer had listed more than $7 million in debts on Spa Creek and another marina, White Rocks Yacht Club in Pasadena, when he declared bankruptcy in two separate filings in September.