Volume VII Number 18
May 6-12, 1999

• On Our Cover: Peggy Minner's New Year's resolution to open her heart as a foster mother has filled the West River home she shares with husband Henry III and son Henry IV. Here, Minner hugs foster daughters Aubrey and Amanda, who, along with brother Austin, are about the make the Minners a clan. Photo by Mary Catherine Ball.
• Dock of the Bay Mother Love: Foster Parent Peggy Minner Opens Heart, Home * Earth Journal: Coming up Roses * Tour of Champions: On the Road with Calvert's Big Trees * Around Town: A Day with the Circus * In Calvert, NAACP Keeps Young * plus, Way Downstream, In Virginia, Seniors form Environmental Corps In Mexico City, the air's gone to the dogs In Britain, Rocker Andrew Ridgeley, formerly of Wham!, now heads Surfers Against Sewage In India, endangered Tibetan antelope keeps its skin and last but not least, this week's Creature Feature: In South Africa's Johannesburg Zoo, Max the gorilla helps nab robber Mofokeng.
• The Motherly Muse Three First-Time Authors Share the Inspiration Behind Their Stories. Carolyn Stearns' Where Has All the Water Gone? - by Donna Ayres. Marianne Taylor's My River Speaks: The History and Lore of the Magothy River - by Kim Cammarata. Leo Bretholz and Michael Olesker's Leap into Darkness - by Sandra Martin
• Bay Bites The food front in Chesapeake Country: Middleton Tavern: Old Friend to All Comers
• Editorial To Spell Bay Country ReLeaf, Say T-R-E-E-S
• Letters to the Editor Small Area Planners: Minds Closed?; Where to Apply for Passports to History
• Bay Reflection Remembering Mama
• Burton on the Bay Meeting the Enemy -- When children turn to murder, we're all to blame
• Chesapeake Outdoors Sometimes the Fish Wins
• Earth Journal Coming up Roses
• Not Just for Kids Pet Flash, a priceless gift for Mother's Day, one boy's dream role, and more!

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