Dr. Jeff Muneses of Muneses Chiropractic Center in Ellicott City hosted the clinic's 20th annual food drive recently. About 815 pounds of food was collected and donated to FISH of Howard County Inc., a food pantry that offers emergency food support to county residents.
Scouting for Food in Howard County partnered with Jeff Muneses to deliver the food to FISH.
Working with long-time FISH food pantry volunteers Carroll and Frank Kitzmiller, the following Scouts delivered, sorted and stored the donated food: Thomas Arbaugh (Boy Scout Troop 361), Ryan Grandolfo (Boy Scout Troop 944), Andrew Kroft (Cub Scout Pack 333), Silas Mercer (Boy Scout Troop 944), Collin Meredith (Boy Scout Troop 944) and Ethan Wentworth (Cub Scout Pack 333).
The food drive brought the total to 66,720 pounds of food collected in Howard County during the 2014 Scouting for Food campaign.
Mark your calendars. Scouting for Food is March 14. This annual event benefits 25 county food pantries. For more information about Scouting for Food, contact Sori Meredith, Volunteer Scouting for Food chairperson in Howard County, at scoutingforfoodnpd@verizon.net.
Congratulations to Mt. Hebron High School senior Justin Cho who achieved the rank of Eagle Scout with Troop 615 last month. For his Eagle Project, Cho assembled a team of Scouts and high school students to clean up the Fuller-Cane-Smith Cemetery, a small familycemetery on Old Frederick Road across from the Bethany Fire Station. He also worked with the Howard County Cemetery Preservation Board to document the names of those interred in the cemeteryand worked out the start of an agreement with the Bethany Fire Station to help maintain the cemetery in the future.
Raymond Chow, Mt. Hebron Marching Unit Boosterspublicity chairman, informed me that the Mt. Hebron High School Marching Unit is having a sub sale fundraiser. The annual event is a major source of revenue for the marching unit, which needs to raise over $17,000 a year to defray expenses for trips, uniforms, field paint and band music.
The sub sale offers five varieties of foot-long sandwiches, hand made with love by the student member themselves. An additional purchase option is the donation sub, the sub will be donated Howard County's Grassroots Crisis Intervention Center to support individuals and families in need.
All subs are $6 and sale ends Jan. 22. Contact any Marching Unit student to order or email Karen Freerksen at Freerksen@verizon.net. For more information, go to mthmu.wordpress.com.
Registration for Howard County Arts Council's winter programs at the Howard County Center for the Arts in Ellicott City is now open. Open to the public, HCAC offers educational classes and workshops for ages 5 to adult.
Classes begin Jan. 20 and include Saturday Art Studio for ages 5–12; Exploring Music Through Bucket Band for ages 5–8; Acting Out! for ages 10–13; and Art School Portfolio for ages 13–16. For Teens (ages 14+) and adults, offerings include Drawing and Composition, Beginning and Intermediate Acrylic Painting, and Playwriting (ages 16+). Weekly drop-in sessions for drawing and painting from portrait and life models are also available.
For registration and class listings, go to http://www.hocoarts.org. Class brochures are also available at the Howard County Center for the Arts or by requests via mail by calling 410-313-ARTS (2787).