TANEYTOWN Senior Center will play host to an exhibit next week in honor of longtime art instructor Dolly Gilmore-Wolle.
"We were going to have it last spring, but then she got sick," said Jackie Boisvert, outreach coordinator for the center. "Then she came back, and we really wanted to do it for her."
It may sound unremarkable on the face of it. But Gilmore-Wolle, who has taught art at the senior center through Carroll Community College for the past 13 years, was more than a little ill.
"In April, I got cancer," Gilmore-Wolle said. "After I was diagnosed, I was given three months to live. They did every test they could and couldn't find where the source was."
Gilmore-Wolle, 59, said she started getting intensive doses of chemotherapy. The treatment lasted longer than the time she supposedly had to live - six months.
"During that time I was too weak to teach," she said. "I had to cancel a 12-week course at Taneytown Senior Center."
But as she got better, she wanted to get back to her teaching.
"My doctor didn't want me to, but for me, teaching is therapy. It's relaxing," she said.
Gilmore-Wolle is teaching 13 students in an eight-week senior center course. She said she particularly enjoys teaching at the center because her students work in a variety of media.
"At the college, you're teaching something specific," she continued. "You're teaching watercolors or sketching."
She praises her students at the center, boasting that they have been named grand champions at the local 4-H fair many times over.
"It's a win for me when they win," she said. "I enjoy my students' success. It's such an honor to teach these students. These people have been there and done that. It's the people that give me the most pleasure."
In the exhibit, Gilmore-Wolle said, her works will be shown with those by the seniors. In addition, works by students from Francis Scott Key High School will be exhibited. Many of the works will be for sale.
The exhibit will be from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. and from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Tuesday. The senior center is at 220 Roberts Mill Road.
Information: 410-756-4557.
Culinary congrats
A big pat on the back to Sherrie Hahn, Runnymede Elementary School's cafeteria manager.
Hahn recently received the Silver Success Award from the Maryland State Food Service Association at its annual conference in Ocean City. As part of the honor, she also received a silver bracelet.
Community theater
See How They Run, a play put on by the Little Community Theater, will be staged at 8 p.m. tomorrow and Saturday at Elmer A. Wolfe Elementary School.
The cost is $6 and $4 for ages 18 and younger.
Information: 410-876-5505.
Lions Club breakfast
Taneytown Lions Club will hold its fall all-you-can-eat pancake breakfast from 6 a.m. to 11 a.m. Saturday at the carnival grounds building.
The breakfast will include pancakes, sausage, and eggs fried to order, hominy and pudding and sausage gravy.
The cost is $4.50; $2.50 for children ages 6 to 12; and children younger than age 6 eat for free.
Proceeds benefit Lions Club youth projects, vision programs and other community outreach activities.
Information; 410-751-1227.
Taneytown leaf pickup
Taneytown will provide curbside leaf pickup each Monday through Dec. 2.
Residents should have their leaves bagged and at the curb by 8 a.m. No branches, twigs, trash or grass clippings will be picked up.
Information: 410-751-1100.
Christmas downtown
Taneytown's Main Street committee will present the third annual "A Downtown Christmas" celebration at 5:30 p.m. Dec. 7.
Residents are invited to meet at the new police station for a tree-lighting ceremony and music provided by the Francis Scott Key High School jazz quartet and the Northwest Middle School chorus.
The celebration will include caroling, hot cider, hot chocolate and cookies.
Information: 410-751-1100.
Jean Marie Beall's Northwest neighborhood column appears each Thursday in the Carroll County edition of The Sun.