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By Laura Smitherman and Laura Smitherman,laura.smitherman@baltsun.com | June 15, 2009
Northeast Baltimore teenager Sanchel Brown developed a passion for all forms of dance, from African to tap, at a local recreation center that set her upon her current path to college. But she worries that kids in her neighborhood may be denied the same opportunity because of budget cuts at City Hall. "They complain about the children always making trouble, but we don't have anything to do that's affordable," said Brown, a rising senior at Baltimore City College who is looking to apply to colleges around the state and major in dance.
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By Peter Hermann and Peter Hermann,peter.hermann@baltsun.com | May 28, 2009
The leaders of the city's Catholic, Jewish and Muslim faiths have a plan to turn Baltimore's summer into the "summer of peace." But they complained Wednesday that the mayor is making their efforts difficult because of plans to close recreation centers and pools and curtail library hours. Archbishop Edwin F. O'Brien mentioned the issue in passing in his remarks after meeting with city officials on preventing youth crime, but when questioned he openly leaped into the political fray and called for the city's chief executive to reverse course.
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By Michael Hill and Michael Hill,Staff Writer | July 21, 1992
As summer began, Cynthia Carson was trying to coordinate summer youth programs at area churches on a shoestring, depending on donations and volunteer efforts.Then the Los Angeles rioting led to an outpouring of federal money. Ms. Carson found herself helping organize a quarter-million-dollar program -- blending state and church resources -- serving 1,700 children at 34 sites around the city.As assistant for programs at the Central Maryland Ecumenical Council, a 75-year-old organization of Catholic and Protestant churches, Ms. Carson was one of the people turning the deluge into a productive stream that would make its way to parched fields.
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By Lowell E. Sunderland and Lowell E. Sunderland,SUN STAFF | December 21, 2003
In a school gym somewhere near you, Howard County's amateur basketball season is well under way with, it would seem, more youth players than ever but something of a decline in adult play. The largest single program is being conducted by the Western Howard County Youth Basketball Association, which has about 2,000 players - two-thirds or more of them boys - competing in 16 public school gyms ranging from Fulton to the south to Mount View Middle in the north. That figure of 2,000 is about even with enrollment last winter, said association President Pete Geoghan, of Highland, in his second season leading the program.
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By JoAnna Daemmrich and JoAnna Daemmrich,SUN STAFF Sun staff writer Peter Hermann contributed to this article | February 14, 1997
Mayor Kurt L. Schmoke abruptly canceled his highly publicized gun buyback yesterday, saying he feared it was being sabotaged by an enterprising group looking for an easy profit.Halfway through the trade-in program that proved both popular and controversial, the mayor called it off after police warned him about a scheme to pawn off cheap guns.He refused to provide details of what he described as "an attempt by a small group of people to flood the program with either recently purchased or nonfunctioning weapons," saying the matter was under police investigation.
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BY A SUN STAFF WRITER | June 6, 2005
An influential Baltimore citizens group is asking city officials to use more of the city's budget surplus to promote after-school programs for children. The group, Baltimoreans United in Leadership Development (BUILD), is lobbying for $5.9 million of the surplus to be earmarked for in-school programs and community-based youth programs. So far, city leaders have said they will set aside $3.4 million for in-school programs. Mayor Martin O'Malley has said a large portion of the $59 million surplus needs to be used to cover overspending by some city agencies.