Head to the River Hill shopping center for the summer Courtyard Concert series Friday evenings from 6 to 8 p.m. Janice B. will provide R & B Aug. 5. Patsy's Honky Tonk Torch & Twang will have your toes tapping with classic country and honky tonk music on Aug. 12. The concerts are free. Bring or buy supper foods, meet and greet friends and neighbors or just relax and enjoy the music while you can.
The Frederick County Chapter of the Hearing Loss Association of America will meet Saturday, Aug. 6, at the Edenton Retirement Community, Manor House. There will be a roundtable discussion followed by a potluck indoor picnic. All are welcome, but it would be helpful if you would let them know what you are bringing for the picnic. Please call Janice at 301-988-3838.
Local gardens are producing more than can be eaten immediately. How do you preserve some of the bounty for later in the year?
Whether you are a novice or experienced canner, you will learn helpful tricks of the trade as the University of Maryland Extension-Howard County office presents Grow It, Eat It, Preserve It workshops on food preservation. August workshops include fruitful canning, jams and jellies, freezing and steam canning. More workshops are scheduled for September. To learn more, call 410-313-2707.
Parents of pre-school children are invited to consider Maryland-licensed Glenelg United Methodist Preschool. There are openings for 3-year-olds this fall. Go to www.gumcpreschool.org to learn more or call 410-489-7702 to schedule a tour.
Dr. Dale and Susan Mole are members of the Triadelphia Adventist church, but they left Maryland over a year ago for Nepal. When Dale retired after serving as a military physician in many places, he couldn't just sit around. Nepal is now benefiting from his willingness to serve. Dale is CEO of Scheer Memorial Hospital. Susan is director of special projects at the hospital. Triadelphia members were delighted when he returned for a visit and spoke at the 11 o'clock worship service recently.
Dale Foley reports that Linden-Linthicum United Methodist church Pastor Gayle Annis-Forder toured the Holy Land earlier this summer, but she seems more inclined to share news of local happenings. LLUMC recently had a whale of a good vacation Bible school featuring Jonah, of course. Thanks are sent to all who helped and especially to Kendra Knoke who "managed it all with patience and joy."
The 11-member LLUMC middle school mission group was preparing to serve at Friendship House in Wilmington, Delaware.
Wayne and Yvonne Lund are the delighted grandparents of Conner Ryan McCormick. His mother, Katy Lund McCormick, delivered the newest addition to the family on July 21. Mother and baby are doing well. Congratulations and best wishes to the Lund-McCormick family.
New Hope church on Hall Shop Road has been looking for a family ministries pastor since the beginning of the year and they've found her. Pastor Marilyn Caez-Scott will be joining the staff this month. She has a wealth of experience in many roles including as a children's pastor.
New Hope will be adding a fourth pastor in January when Pastor Danisha Thomas completes her Masters. Danisha will oversee teens, college and volunteer ministries. While waiting for the new pastors, Pastor Sion Sung Yet has been helping out with a volunteer process and the prayer ministries team.
There will be no meeting in August of those coupon clipping for overseas military personnel. Jennifer Lynott advises that we stay tuned to volunteer sometime in early fall. No date has yet been set.