708 days ago - The Fathers’ Club at Loyola Blakefield in Towson welcomed more than 700 supporters to its Oyster and Bull Roast Oct. 21, and the gym in Knott Hall was transformed into a giant gaming hall, with virtual horse races, raffle wheels and too many door prizes to mention.
715 days ago - Almost five years ago, Jenny Bradley — while vacuuming her house — came up with a great idea to help her community’s volunteer fire department.
722 days ago - You don’t have to drive far around Baltimore City to find boarded-up homes and even entire neighborhoods, where once-proud, blue-collar houses rest in decay. Luckily, both for this city and for many of its citizens, there exists the Chesapeake Habitat for Humanity organization.
729 days ago - If you were one of the attendees at Eddie Applefeld’s 60th birthday party and roast last week, chances are your face is still sore from the many hours of laughter.
736 days ago - Not even a rainy morning could stop steeplechase lovers from galloping over to the sixth annual Legacy Chase at Shawan Downs in Hunt Valley on Saturday.
738 days ago - The 12th annual Hospitality, Tourism and Industry Awards — which benefits the National Academy Foundation High School — were held last Wednesday, and everyone, guests and honorees alike, came away winners.
743 days ago - Bull roasts and politics, of course, go hand-in-hand in an election year, but one of Gov. Robert Ehrlich’s right-hand men, Aris Melissaratos (secretary of the Maryland Department of Business and Economic Development) chose a warmer approach to help fill the war chests.
745 days ago - More than 40,000 rock ‘n’ rollers made their way to Pimlico Race Course on Saturday for this country’s first-ever Virgin Festival, an all-day music event, which was highlighted by appearances by the Red Hot Chili Peppers and 1960s British Invasion pioneers The Who.
750 days ago - It was an evening of excellence Tuesday at The Tremont Grand meeting facility on North Charles Street, as the Independent College Fund of Maryland held its annual awards celebration.
756 days ago - Gorgeous sculptures surrounded the guests who gathered for a reception to honor and celebrate master sculptor Hans Schuler, who served as director of the Maryland Institute College of Art from 1925 to 1951.
759 days ago - This sporty phrase would best describe Thursday’s 2006 Celebrity Golf Classic. This four day event kicked off at Phillips Seafood headquarters in Baltimore with a meet-and-greet cocktail party that was “par” none. Guests were greeted by Belanger-Federico-Pitterich Foundation’s vice president and tournament director, Adam S. Gladstone, who was all sorts of pumped up as the celebs came filing in.