MD Good News: Top Chef, $100K Lottery Win, Shelter Pets Pampered

MARYLAND — Good news stories in the past week include a Hanover chef appearing on Chopped to benefit the Y of Central Maryland, a business hopes to improve the country's water quality, a son buys his mom a $100,000 Lottery ticket, and a taxi voucher program aims to help residents. Plus, free snowball Fridays in Howard County, volunteers filled an Anne Arundel shelter on the Fourth of July to comfort pets, and more in our roundup of good news stories from Maryland's Patch sites this week.

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Here are this week's good news headlines:

• Hanover Chef Didn't Advance On TV Show But Employer Surprised Him
• Pasadena Business Hopes To Improve Water Quality Across The USA
• Glen Burnie Mom Wins $100K With Scratch-off Ticket
• Volunteers Comfort Shelter Pets During Noisy July 4 Celebration
• Hogan To Push Through New Emergency Radio Communications System
• Free Snowball Fridays Offered At Howard County Center During July
• Taxi Voucher Program Helps Pay Cab Fare For Qualifying People
• Eight Environmental Grants Awarded In Anne Arundel County
• Anne Arundel County Officials Want To Expand Quiet Waters Park
• Adoptable Pets Of The Week: Tucker, Comet, Little Bit, Skittles
• Community Input Directs Montgomery County In Search For Chief
• Annapolis Creative Business Part Of 'Keep It Local Contest'