Church of the Ascension, in Westminster, will host a Hawaiian Luau with food and dancing from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Saturday.
A Hawaiian dancer will teach hula and Tahitian dances and perform. The all-you-can-eat buffet will include Hawaiian fare, with pineapple boats, sweet and sour meatballs, seafood casserole, Island Chicken, peachy pork barbecue and coconut cake.
"We've been doing monthly breakfasts at the church and they've been very successful," said event chairman Irene Catlin. "Like most churches, we are struggling with membership and finances and we thought, since our breakfasts are doing so well why don't we host quarterly dinners? Each one will have a theme."
For this event, advance tickets are $12, with 4- to 8-year-olds having a ticket price of $6. Children 3 or younger may attend for free. The cost at the door is $15, or $7 for kids.
The church is at 23 N Court St.
For tickets and more information, call the church office at 410-848-3251.
"People will enjoy this," Catlin said. "Not everyone can go to Hawaii, so we are bringing a piece of the islands to Westminster."
Civil War speaker
The speaker for the next Pipe Creek Civil War Round Table is Doug Batson, a re-enactor who portrays Confederate General D.H. Hill.
He will speak at 7 p.m. Wednesday at Carroll Lutheran Village, 205 St. Mark's Way, Westminster.
Learn how Hill played an important part in the 1862 battles of South Mountain and Antietam. Find out why he lost his place in Lee's Army of Northern Virginia.
Anyone with an interest in the Civil War is welcome to attend.
For more information, call Ned Landis at 410-848- 8168 or visit http://www.pccwrt.org/index.html.
Meet the author
Union Mills Homestead will host Mark K. Shriver from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday for a meet-the-author and book-signing event.
He wrote the best-selling book "A Good Man: Rediscovering My Father, Sargent Shriver."
The author's father, R. Sargent Shriver Jr., was born in Westminster. He served in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations as the first director of the Peace Corps, and played an important part in Johnson's war on poverty. He was a U.S. ambassador to France and in 1972 he served as George McGovern's presidential running mate. He ran for president in 1976.
Visitors will meet Mark Shriver and hear him discuss how his father played a part in history, and his own life.
For more information, call Jane Sewell at 410-848-2288, email info@unionmills.org or visit http://www.unionmills.org.
The Homestead is at 3311 Littlestown Pike, Union Mills.
