> Baltimore County Public Schools and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra presented a "Side By Side" concert Jan. 11 featuring 40 high school musicians and symphony members at the Meyerhoff Symphony Hall in Baltimore.

The concert included a solo concerto performance by Alicia Murai, a flute student from Loch Raven High School.�

The students, all members of the County's high school honors band or orchestra, were selected through a highly competitive audition process.�

The selected students have participated in master classes with members of the BSO, and have held three separate rehearsals.�

Honor music students from Loch Raven and Parkville high schools were among the 1,400 students from Baltimore County middle and high schools who attended the performance.�

The students prepared for the performance by studying the concert repertoire which includes music by Verdi, Britten and Berlioz.

- Jennifer Gibson�

> The Business Revitalization Action Group held a contest for students last spring to develop a slogan to be printed on posters and refrigerator magnets for an anti-litter publicity campaign it developed working with the county.

The winner was Jamie Grove, an eighth-grader at Loch Raven Academy.

The free posters and magnets, funded with a $5,000 grant from the county Department of Economic Development, are available to schools, clubs and neighborhood associations and at more than a dozen participating chambers of commerce and business groups.

- Virginia Terhune