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  • Fort Meade: Students vie for Military Child of the Year Award

    Since McKenna Thomas-Franz was 5 years old, she has lived in six different states and Germany. She also has attended eight different schools. Her father, Brig. Gen. George Franz, has deployed three times since McKenna was born in 1998. Thomas-Franz is now a freshman at Meade High School.

    Malcolm Terry, a 10-year-old who attends Manor View Elementary School, was born with a congenital birth defect and had to have major surgery when he was just five days old. In June, his father, Navy Lt. Cmdr. John Terry, was wounded while on foot patrol in Afghanistan.

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  • Pasadena: For third straight year, St. Jane student wins Math Olympiad

    Sarah Perumattam‘s math acumen has saved her parents a lot of money.

    As the winner of Catholic High School’s annual Math Olympiad contest, the St. Jane Frances School eighth-grader has earned a full, four-year scholarship to attend the high school in Baltimore, which has a yearly tuition of just over $10,000.

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  • Linthicum: Seventh-grader earns prize for poetry

    After reviewing more than 1,000 short stories and poems, the Anne Arundel County Reading Council announced the top finishers in its 2011-2012 Young Authors Contest.

    Eleanor Lee Young, a student at Lindale Middle School, won second place in the seventh-grade poetry category.

    At each grade level, judges used a rubric to score entries and also noted originality and creativity, along with accuracy, to meet guidelines set for the state writing contest. With input from all the judges, winners with the highest scores were selected.

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  • West County: Spalding announces its Teacher of the Year

    Archbishop Spalding High School teacher Angela Bentzley recently was named the school’s Teacher of the Year.

    Bentzley, who is in her sixth year of teaching ninth and 10th grade honors English at Spalding, was selected in part because of her innovative classroom techniques, according to Principal Lew Van Wambeke.

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  • Olde Mill/Millersville: Mush! Scouts turn park into Klondike

    Buoyed by the first snow of the year lightly covering the trails, Scouts from northern Anne Arundel County converged Jan. 21 at Kinder Farm Park for their annual Klondike Derby. More than 60 teams of Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts ages 10 to 17 participated in a challenge of building their own Klondike sleds and pulling them down park trails and fields in the first and limited snow of the year.

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  • Glen Burnie West: Quarter auction will benefit sick toddler

    A quarter auction will be held Monday at the Ferndale Volunteer Fire Company hall, 4 S. Broadview Blvd., to raise funds to help defray the medical bills of 17-month-old Mikey Parks.

    The doors will open at 6 p.m. The auction will begin at 7 p.m. and end by 9:30 p.m.

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  • Glen Burnie East: Life University at Faith Baptist Church

    Faith Baptist Church, 7378 Furnace Branch Road, will start its spring session of Life University on Wednesday.

    The following classes will be offered:

    “James: Mercy Triumphs,” a ladies study by Beth Moore, will be led by Betty Jo Bennett. Workbooks cost $12.

    “Financial Peace University” will be led by Tina Anders. The class costs $93 per couple.

    “Uniquely You, Personalizing My Faith” will be led by Clarence Byerly. Workbooks cost $15.

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  • Pasadena: Parenting expert to speak at Galilee

    Award-winning author, national speaker and media personality Dr. Mary Manz Simon will present a parenting seminar at 1 p.m. Feb. 26 in the sanctuary of Galilee Lutheran Church, 4652 Mountain Road.

    Her presentation, “Catch a Child Being Good,” will be targeted specifically to parents with young children.

    “As I crisscross the U.S. and Canada, discipline issues rank among the top concerns for parents,” Simon wrote in an email.

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  • Community Digest

    Making tea and seeing Philly flowers

    Learn how to make herbal tea blends when the Meade Area Garden Club holds its next meeting at 10 a.m. Friday at the Jessup Community Hall at Route 175 and Wigley Avenue. And while you’re there, sign up for the Philadelphia Flower Show trip.

    At the meeting, Maria Price of Willow Oak Flower and Herb Farm will demonstrate how one can use herbs to make tea blends.

    No reservations are required and refreshments will be served.

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  • Glen Burnie East: Marley Boys co-founder named award semifinalist

    As part of her teaching philosophy, Sandi Lemoncello believes that students with problems don’t need sympathy, they need someone who believes in them, understands them and will give them a chance.

    This philosophy no doubt played a part last week when the reading interventionist at Marley Elementary School was named as a semifinalist for the 2012 Anne Arundel County Public Schools Teacher of the Year award.

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