Press Release
Date 08/11/04

CORN MAZE AT ARORA HILLS TO BENEFIT
LOCAL HOSPICE
Beazer Homes Opens 3 Models, Ryan Homes Sells Luxury Townhomes,and K. Hovnanian Has Just 2 Homes Remaining in First Neighborhood!

CLARKSBURG, MD – ARORA HILLS developers, Beazer Homes and Artery Development, along with K. Hovnanian and Ryan Homes, will host a charity corn maze from Saturday, September 11 through Sunday, October 31, 2004 at the Clarksburg, Maryland new home community. Donations of $10.00 for families and $5.00 for individuals are being requested with 100 hundred percent of the proceeds going to Hospice Caring, Inc., the only non-profit volunteer hospice organization in Montgomery County, Maryland. The house-shaped maze will be open on weekends from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., weather permitting. After finding their way through the corn maze, visitors can vote on four different designs for next year’s event.

Hospice Caring has been providing free non-medical hospice services and bereavement programs to terminally ill patients and their families since 1989. The organization has more than 2,600 trained volunteers providing services in homes, hospitals, and nursing homes.

Maize Quest, a New Park, Pennsylvania company will construct the maze. According to Hugh McPherson, Creator and Developer of Maize Quest, "Corn mazes are the best way to create a living work of art people can explore and master from the inside out. You're shielded from reality in the corn maze. You have only two tasks: collect and escape." McPherson began Maize Quest on his farm in York County, Pennsylvania in 1997. The company now includes franchise operations in Canada and throughout the United States.

While visiting ARORA HILLS, all are invited to tour the award-winning Welcome Center that emphasizes the developers’ commitment to nature. It features an indoor waterfall and state-of-the-art interactive community site plan display. Developers Beazer Homes and Artery Development are preserving over half of the community’s 374 acres as open space. Ovid Hazen Wells Park with 290 acres adjoins the community affording many residents park views, in addition to convenient recreational opportunities. Three streams wind through the community. ARORA HILLS will also include two neighborhood pools, trails, and playing fields. ARORA HILLS features townhomes from the $400’s and single family homes from the $500’s. Condominiums are also planned.

To visit ARORA HILLS, take I-270 to Exit 16 - Father Hurley Blvd - Route 27. Route 27 becomes Ridge Road. Turn left into Welcome Center off Ridge Road or Skylark Road. ARORA HILLS is 3 miles off I-270. The Welcome Center is open daily from 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. For information on ARORA HILLS, please visit their website at www.arorahills.com, or telephone the Welcome Center at 240-686-0206. For information on Beazer Homes, please call 301-540-7529. For information on K. Hovnanian, please call 240-686-0111. For information on Ryan Homes, please call 301-515-4697.