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THE NEWS JOURNAL WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7, 1990 'ort Deposit gearing up for 'Tour de Trump' bike race By STEVEN CHRZANOWSKI Cecil Bureau reporter I PORT DEPOSIT, Md. This town is gearing up for its day at the races May 4 the day 1,000 competitors in the Tour de Trump bicycling race whiz down Main Street. As for the big question Who will accompany billionaire Donald Trump if he makes an appearance? event planners don't care. They're more involved with ideas of how to make the 700-resident town one of the highlights of the 10-day, race. Event committee member Nicholas Cusmano said Tuesday night he doubts the real estate tycoon's impending divorce will affect the town's festivities.

"Unless he brings his girlfriend down," he said. "Then it might get interesting." For now, more interest centers on talk of having national media coverage of the waterfront town and changing the name of the main drag Main Street to "Trump Street" for the day. The town's Tour de Trump committee met once since the mayor and commissioners voted four weeks ago to throw a party for the occasion. The next brainstorming session is set for next Thursday. Members say anyone interested in offering input is welcome.

Cusmano said interest in the town's world-class bash is growing. Eight residents are involved, but more have expressed interest, he said. Spurring interest in the international cycling field's sprint through town is the possibility that Donald Trump might visit. An invitation has been extended to the billionaire, but there's been no definite response. "We've heard some second-hand infor mation," Cusmano said.

"You know what that's worth." Port Deposit Councilman Glen D. Longacre announced at the town meeting Tuesday night that April 21 will be designated "Port Deposit Cleanup Day," with the following Saturday serving as a rain-out day. Port Deposit almost missed its moment in the limelight, however, Cusmano said. The town had been dropped from the race route because no one had contacted organizers with plans. "Now we're back on," he said.

The committee wants to oax the Navy or Coast Guard to send a ship up the Susquehanna River as an attraction and recruitment tool. The committee also has discussed several possible activities to mark the day, including: A local artists' show. An acrobatic demonstration. A yacht regatta. Sack races for children.

A fun run. Another bike race for local, not-so-world-class cyclists. B2B Man sentenced for arson murders Perryville adds more parking restrictions But fines are lowered from $10 to $5 Disabled demand equal rights Perryville taxpayers are given a reprieve 1989. The children were home alone while their mother worked. "It was a terrible thing to happen.

It wasn't like I meant for it to happen," said Pittman. "It really hurts. I really loved those kids and I really loved her. I still do." Pittman was sentenced to three concurrent terms of life in prison, with no possibility of parole. Wise noted that Pittman had been convicted of arson for setting a sweatshirt afire in Pinder's stove in 1988.

"You have the same problems now between your ears as you did" then, Wise said. Pittman was on probation for that conviction when he set the house fire. Defense attorney Gary Christopher said he wondered what would have happened if Pittman had not been released from jail by a court commissioner the night of the fire. A few hours before setting the fatal blaze, Pittman was arrested on charges of trespassing and malicious destruction of property after arguing with Pinder. He set the fire 20 minutes after being released.

Associated Press CHESTERTOWN, Md. The Cambridge man who killed his former girlfriend's three children by setting their house ablaze has been sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole. Donald R. Pittman, who remained in Kent County Detention Center on Tuesday, will spend the rest of his life in prison, with even a whisper or hope" of parole, said Caroline Circuit Court Judge J. Owen Wise.

"You are going to be a danger forever," Wise said. In a plea agreement, Pittman, 25, pleaded guilty and was sentenced Monday in Kent County Circuit Court to three charges of first-degree murder. He had also been charged with one count of arson. He had faced the death penalty. Wise agreed with Dorchester County Deputy State's Attorney Michael Maloney's request to sentence Pittman to life without parole.

Kim Pinder, 11, Latoya Brummell, 4, and Troy Brummell 2, died of smoke inhalation from the fire Pittman set at the home of his former live-in girlfriend, Carol Pinder, on March 10, PERRYVILLE, Md. Perryville taxpayers on Tuesday night won a reprieve the town commission agreed to wait until next year to institute a new deadline for tax delinquency. The March 15 deadline for town taxes was going to be moved back to Feb. 15, piggybacking a change in county and stale tax deadlines. But Oakley Sumpter former chairman of the town's charter revision committee, prompted the delay when he complained recently that residents had not been notified of the new deadline when town tax bills were sent out.

Barbara Garrison By BARBARA GARRISON Special to The News Journal PERRYVILLE, Md. It'll be tougher, starting today, to park in downtown Perryville. But it'll be cheaper if you get caught in violation. Perryville's town commissioners Tuesday night passed an ordinance that adds new parking restrictions, but lowers parking violation fines from $10 to $5. Under the new restrictions: On-street parking on Front and Elm streets is limited to residents only.

A 34-ton limit is imposed on vehicles using OtsegoFront, Ray-mere Streets, Cecil and Maywood Avenues and Cedar Corner Road. No parking is allowed on the east side of Susquehanna Avenue. Parking on Ingleside Avenue will be restricted in designated areas to residents and their visitors. The board also made it a fine-able offense to: Park without authorization in a handicapped zone. Park commercial vehicles in residentially designated areas.

Block public or private driveways. In another street-related development, the commissioners who just applied for a Community Development Block Grant for re-paving are considering a massive curbing project that would involve the entire town. The idea is to have the town Associated Press ANNAPOLIS A coalition of groups representing disabled and mentally retarded citizens on Tuesday proposed a state constitutional amendment guaranteeing equal rights for people with physical and mental handicaps. "Our children with disabilities are not children of a lesser god," said Jim Rosner, the father of a 10-year-old boy with multiple disabilities. Rosner, a lawyer, is chairman of the Constitutional Amend-.

ment Committee of the Association for Retarded Citi- zens-Maryland. It is the first time an amendment specifically protecting the rights of the disabled has been introduced in the General Assembly, said Delegate Anne Perkins, i D-Baltimore, who heads the House committee considering the proposal. Maryland has 830,000 citizens with physical or mental handicaps who advocates say suffer social stigmatization and unfair treatment in employment, housing, education and other arenas. "This building isn't even accessible," Carole Downing, a member of the state Multiple Sclerosis Sobriety, said of the House of Dele-gates' office building. Downing uses a walker.

The proposed amendment would require the state to give the disabled equal rights, but it is not directed at individual employ-! ere or landlords. Senate gives the brushoff to opponents of tree bill estation centered on amendments offered by Sen. William H. Amoss, D-Harford, that would have weakened the measure. Under the bill, replanting requirements would be triggered when trees on a construction site averaged an inch or more in diameter at 4Va feet high.

Amoss proposed raising that limit to two inches. Amoss also suggested giving state and local government more time to complete reforestation projects. Friday. But in a parting shot, Sen. Frederick C.

Malkus, D-Dorches-ter, said that for rural areas of Maryland, "this bill here we need like a hole in the head." After the Senate gives its final approval, the measure, the centerpiece of the environmental lobby's rather modest legislative agenda for the 1990 session, will go to the House Environmental Matters Committee, which killed a simi-liar bill last year. Tuesday's short debate on refor Associated Press ANNAPOLIS Another attempt to weaken a measure requiring builders to replant trees they mow down to make way for new construction was easily brushed aside Tuesday by the state Senate. After three more proposed amendments were overwhelmingly rejected, opponents of the "tree-huggers" bill have apparently given up the fight and the measure now appears likely to get final Senate approval Thursday or pay for the work, then bill residents by the square foot of curbing on their property. Although there is no estimate available on how much the residents would be charged, town officials said property owners could take up to 30 years to pay for the work. Board President J.

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