Laura Jacoby, an ESOL teacher at Fulton Elementary School sent me an email about the annual FES Wellness Committee's walk-/bike- to-school event on Oct. 5 at 9 a.m. The plan is to meet up at Harris Teeter on the side where Firestone Tires is located.
From there, the walk will be through the grassy area and into the east parking lot of Reservoir High School, around to the front of the high school, up to and across the crosswalk, then into FES. Students must be accompanied by an adult. Laura wrote that this is the 20th year for the event. (Back in the day, I walked to school, grades 1 through 8, everyday.) For more information about the event, visit: www.walkbiketoschool.org/. Contact FES at (410) 880-5957 directly for more specific FES-related information.
The Reservoir High School Varsity and JV volleyball teams started their seasons off with a bang against non-conference North County High School (Glen Burnie, MD). RHS came away with three wins: 25-16, 25-14 and 27-25. Noteworthy performances were by: Amaka Chukwujekwu, 10 kills and 2 blocks; Brooke Saunderson, 4 aces, 5 digs and 19 assists; and Bethany Spicher, 5 kills. In her email to principal Pat Saunderson, Coach Jamie Bullock stressed "that (it) was a great team victory as many team members contributed to the win." Congratulations.
If you have any interest in bees and beekeeping, this next item is for you. On Wednesday, Sept. 29, at 7 p.m. at the Savage Library, Master Gardener and beekeeper Carol Link will present ""Honeybees, Beekeeping and a Sustainable Society". This presentation talks about the critical role bees have in agriculture. You will come away with the first principles of beekeeping, helping you understand how important you are to the health of the honeybees. Register for the presentation with the library staff at (410) 313-0760.or on-line at www.hclibrary.org. The Savage Library is at 9525 Durness Lane in Laurel.
Over the summer, several RHS student artists competed in the "ManneqArt Wearable Art Fashion Show" and contest with their designs from this past school year. Contestants came from as far away as Alaska. Congratulations go out to Emma Bailey (and her model Ally Wagner) and Lyta Christian for winning emerging artists awards and $250 each in cash. Amanda O'Shaughnessy also won an emerging artist award and a sponsors' award for her wearable art, bringing home $500 in cash. Woohoo! On Oct. 30 at the Ten Oaks Ballroom, the students will be honored at the "ManneqArt Awards Gala" where they will receive their awards and their work will be modeled. Throughout the rest of the month, their work will be on display around the county including at the Mall in Columbia, the Board of Education and the Howard County Art Center. As an added bonus, photos of their works will be published in the annual ManneqArt calendar.
This past week, I received a phone call from a neighbor living on Greenwood Drive in Highland. She asked that she remain anonymous. She is somewhat handicapped and uses a large furniture dolly to take her trash and recycling bin down to the curb for pickup. Usually, she is around home on those days and is able to retrieve the dolly. On this particular day, she was occupied. Her neighbor told her that the dolly was there when she left on an errand but was gone when she returned about an hour later. The neighbor assumed she had picked it up. Unfortunately, that was not the case. It appears that someone driving by decided to avail themselves of her dolly. Shame on them.