The Marriotts Ridge High School Music Foundation is selling fresh oranges, grapefruit and tangerines from Florida and California through Feb. 2, with anticipated delivery on Feb. 21. Orders can be placed online at http://www.MRHSFRUIT.com using PayPal, via a mail-in order form or through any MRHS music student.
Your citrus purchase will help pay for instruments, uniforms, sheet music and student participation in music competitions. You can donate the proceeds from your order either to a specific MRHS student in chorus, band or orchestra, or toward the general Music Foundation funds. Thanks for your support of music at the Ridge!
Remember when you received your instrument and took it out of its case for the first time? Many Howard County students don't have the luxury of purchasing a brand new instrument.
Howard County Parents for School Music presents the ECHO (Every Child Has Opportunities in Music) Project, which will host the fifth annual instrument collection on Saturday, Jan. 31, from 9 to 4 p.m. at Mt. Hebron High School.
The collection will take place during the Middle and High School Solo and Ensemble Festival. The ECHO project collects donated instruments that are no longer being used. If you have a musical instrument just sitting around the house and not being used, consider donating it to the ECHO project.
Musical instruments should be in good, playable condition and some instruments will be accepted even if minor repairs are needed.
If you would like more information, contact hcpsm3@gmail.com. All instruments will be used to help students who otherwise wouldn't be able to afford an instrument on their own.
The West Friendship Volunteer Fire Department Auxiliary would like to thank the community, as well as Marriotts Ridge High School students, for the generous contribution to the annual toy drive. The donations were so generous that two separate pickups were required.
Many Howard County children had a very special holiday due to the generosity. Thank you for your continued support of the community outreach programs.
Have you ever thought about forgiveness? What it is and what it is not?
BonSecours Retreat and Conference Center is hosting a workshop on forgiveness beginning Friday, Jan. 30, at 5 p.m. and ending on Sunday, Feb. 1, at 11 a.m. The cost of the workshop is $240 and will be presented by Father Scott Hurd, a priest of the Archdiocese of Washington.
For more information or to register for this event, go to http://www.RCCBonSecours.com.