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Brooke Gunning: These Devils are angels
- The Red Devils cleaned Jo Anne Morgan’s home during her recent eight rounds of chemotherapy and 33 radiation treatments for breast cancer. Morgan, a 60-year-old mother, grandmother and the chairwoman of the English Department at Mount St. Joseph High School in Baltimore, called the help “a true godsend.”
Brooke Gunning: Support our Md. Guard
- More than 1,200 citizen-soldiers and airmen assigned to the Maryland National Guard are currently serving on active duty. Since Sept. 11, 2001, nearly 7,400 soldiers and airmen have answered the call to support Operations Iraqi Freedom, Enduring Freedom and Noble Eagle in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Brooke Gunning: A magical 40th anniversary for the Pumpkin Theatre
- As with any audience, there was much anticipation before the curtain went up. Excited whispers and giggles filled the air. But since this was Pumpkin Theatre, many members of the audience were in costume, most dressed as the star of the show, Pocahontas. As fall swept in, the curtain was raised on the much-beloved Pumpkin Theatre’s 40th season. And in time-honored tradition, those with birthdays were called on-stage, given a crown, and serenaded enthusiastically by young and old alike with “Happy Birthday.”
Cowboy crosses country
- It’s not every day that you see a cowboy and his two horses sleeping under the stars in Stevenson Village. But Ezra Cooley is not your average cowboy.
Brooke Gunning: World War II’s ‘Escape Factory’
- While Americans celebrated the victorious end to World War II in mid-August 1945, a handful of operatives of a tiny, ultra-secret military organization, “The Escape Factory,” destroyed evidence of their group’s existence. They even bulldozed their building. Based at Fort Hunt, Va., on land once belonging to George Washington, MIS-X (Military Intelligence Service — Department X), shipped escape and evasion materials to American POWs held in German prison camps.
Brooke Gunning: Christians gather in D.C. to pledge ‘Never again!’
- "Never again! Not on our watch!” were the repeated heartfelt cries of more than 4,500 Evangelical Christians who gathered at the Washington, DC, Convention Center on July last week for an “Evening to Honor Israel,” as they pledged their support of Israel as a nation and the Jewish people.
Brooke Gunning: Remember the forgotten this Independence Day
- “In this day and time, we’re adamant about it. No comrade left behind.” Brig. General Bruce Tuxill, who leads the Maryland National Guard, is emphatic when speaking about fellow personnel currently deployed in hot spots around the globe, including Afghanistan and Iraq. “We’re comrades in arms. It’s a morale issue. No one left behind.”
Brooke Gunning: What are you doing with your summer vacation?
- Around this time of year, many people ask: “What are you doing for your summer vacation?” Maybe a trip to the beach? Lazy days by the pool? Hiking in the mountains? If you’re still in school, you may have a summer job to help defray education costs, or to pay for that longed-for car or computer game.
- Around this time of year, many people ask: “What are you doing for your summer vacation?” Maybe a trip to the beach? Lazy days by the pool? Hiking in the mountains? If you’re still in school, you may have a summer job to help defray education costs, or to pay for that longed-for car or computer game.
Brooke Gunning: Memorial Day is for the living, too
- This Memorial Day weekend, as you kick off the summer with a cookout or trip to the beach, or simply enjoy a long weekend off from work or school, take the time to thank a veteran or active-duty serviceman or woman.
- This Memorial Day weekend, as you kick off the summer with a cookout or trip to the beach, or simply enjoy a long weekend off from work or school, take the time to thank a veteran or active-duty serviceman or woman.
Brooke Gunning: The lost art of reading aloud
- If you are reading this column, then you are not one of the estimated 1.5 million (yes, you read that correctly, million) Marylanders between the ages of 16 to 59 who, according to the Maryland State Department of Education, have “significant literacy needs.” Some people are working hard to reduce that number. Doro Bush Koch, sister of President George W. Bush and daughter of George H.W. Bush, is one of them. She runs The Maryland Initiative of The Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy.
- If you are reading this column, then you are not one of the estimated 1.5 million (yes, you read that correctly, million) Marylanders between the ages of 16 to 59 who, according to the Maryland State Department of Education, have “significant literacy needs.” Some people are working hard to reduce that number. Doro Bush Koch, sister of President George W. Bush and daughter of George H.W. Bush, is one of them. She runs The Maryland Initiative of The Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy.
Brooke Gunning: Mondays at the kill pen
- W hat are your plans for this morning? If you’re a Killer/Buyer, and it’s a Monday, then you’re off to the infamous sales at New Holland, Pa., to purchase horses. After buying them, you will ship them cross country to a foreign-owned plant and butcher them to sell for human consumption outside U.S. borders.
- W hat are your plans for this morning? If you’re a Killer/Buyer, and it’s a Monday, then you’re off to the infamous sales at New Holland, Pa., to purchase horses. After buying them, you will ship them cross country to a foreign-owned plant and butcher them to sell for human consumption outside U.S. borders.
Volunteers send troops ‘A Taste of Home’
- Correspondent Brooke Gunning recently had lunch with Dr. Bob Strahl, the founder of “A Taste of Home.” He talked about how he made his vision a reality of directly aiding our fellow Marylanders serving our country abroad with the military, and how you can become involved.
- Correspondent Brooke Gunning recently had lunch with Dr. Bob Strahl, the founder of “A Taste of Home.” He talked about how he made his vision a reality of directly aiding our fellow Marylanders serving our country abroad with the military, and how you can become involved.
Brooke Gunning: Barbaro: Lessons from a horse’s life
- “We just reached a point where it was going to be difficult for him to go on without pain.” With those poignant words, Dr. Dean Richardson, of the New Bolton Center, announced the euthanization of Barbaro, an extraordinary horse who ran away with the hearts and hopes of people from all walks of life. Children and hardened rail birds alike mourned the end of 4-year-old colt Barbaro’s gallant eight-month struggle for life after a tragic accident at last year’s Preakness.
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