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Around 100 people attended an event Tuesday morning held by the American Cancer Society, kicking-off enrollment for a cancer prevention study. - Barbara A. Hall, a longtime hospital volunteer at Greater Baltimore Medical Center died Sunday of pneumonia at the hospital where she had volunteered for more than 50 years. She was 92.
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- Gospel music lovers missed their chances to purchase tickets for this year's "Afternoon of Musical Praise" featuring Grammy-winning artist Yolanda Adams, slated for August 18 at Aberdeen Proving Ground's Post Theater.
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- Carol Carr showed all the signs of colorectal cancer seven years ago, but doctors thought the 44-year-old Glen Burnie woman was too young to have the disease and never tested for it.
- Neighborhood news from West Friendship columnist Lisa Peklo
- Arline K. Howdon, who had been chief cytologist and educational coordinator of the Johns Hopkins Medical School of Clinical Cellular Sciences, died July 20 of lung cancer at her condominium at Harper House in Cross Keys. She was 91.
- Chef Jerry Edwards of Chef's Expressions will use ingredients from his Monkton farm when he cooks at Taste for Life benefit for American Cancer Society at the Lyric Theater on July 29. His reason for participating is personal, too. His mother is a three-year cancer survivor.
- At the Ocean City bikini parade, organizers hope to break Guinness record for number of women in two-piece swimsuits. Are you in?
- More than 400 people turned out to join a team and walk, run or jog overnight at the Laurel Relay for Life at McCullough Field June 9 and 10.
