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- Manchester resident duties also include studies at Carroll Community College
- Volunteering Untapped's combination of service and social is representative of a growing trend: altruistic organizations targeting the millennial generation. And it's taking hold in Baltimore.
- Reservoir High will hold its annual Homecoming Spaghetti Dinner on Sept. 26. Meals are served starting at 4 till 6:30 p.m.
- The annual general meeting of the Port Deposit Heritage Corporation is set for Thursday, April 24 starting with a short business meeting at 7 p.m. at the Carriage House, 80 S. Main St.
- The Glenwood Lions Club sponsors three school-based Leo Clubs, one at Bushy Park Elementary School, one at Folly Quarter Middle School and one at Glenwood Middle School.
- The 50+ Center has a lot happening in March.
- Chandra Parker Thacker was called to Eastern York Middle School in November to pick up her daughter Nina, 13, who complained of being short of breath and light-headed in gym class. Thacker took Nina to the family doctor for a chest X-ray in case the pneumonia she had five months earlier had returned.
- Congratulations to the young ladies of Troop 1861 for earning their Silver Award, the highest honor for Cadette Girl Scouts.
- The Senior Bingo Group from the Rising Sun McDonald's gathers in front of the Ronald McDonald House in Baltimore on July 8 after presenting the charity with a $300 check
- On Monday, July 8, a group of 15 seniors from Conowingo, Rising Sun and Port Deposit traveled to Baltimore to visit the Ronald McDonald House on Lexington Street. The group, formed in 2006, meets every Monday morning ¿ rain or shine ¿ at the Rising Sun McDonald's to play bingo.
- Towson resident Kim Meagher was recognized late last month for her volunteer service at the Ronald McDonald House in Baltimore. Meagher helps families put together memory books and last year, helped chair a gala for the house that hosts families of seriously ill children.
- A local Baltimore Ravens cheerleader was honored by the Bel Air Board of Town Commissioners Tuesday for her work with the community and with U.S. troops stationed overseas.
- Nonprofit foundation gives children with disabilities, terminal illnesses a chance to explore local waterways
- Osborne A. Payne, a former educator who became a successful trailblazing Baltimore businessman, entrepreneur and philanthropist, died Tuesday from Alzheimer's disease at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Columbia.
- The Ronald McDonald House Charities (RMHC) of Baltimore has created an opportunity called Coins That Count for families to give back to children in need. They have partnered with Coinstar in hopes of raising money with just spare change. Think about what good you and your children could do every time you break a dollar bill.
- Volunteers move mounds of mattresses to help Ronald McDonald House.
- Girl Scout Troop 1948 from Clarksville Elementary is a very service-oriented troop. The 12 fifth grade girls knew from the start that they wanted to do something to benefit animals and ill children. Gracie Barrett, Katelyn Chan-Tack, Kennedy Clark, Sophie Dubin, Caitlin Duffy, Tara Lui, Julia McCanna, Annabel McCullough, Tessa O'Connor, Hope Rovansek, Sara Sharp and Tara Tremper donated 50 boxes of Girl Scout cookies to families staying at Ronald McDonald House Charities of Baltimore. Inc.
- The team's coaches, Jeff Blum, Bob Deim and Hank Keeney, implemented "Cash for Stats," and with support from the parents, a small monetary value was assigned to each ground ball, assist and goal during the course of the season. The idea was to raise money through "Cash for Stats" and donate to a worthy charity. The coaches decided on the Ronald McDonald House and from the first ground ball to the last, they were playing for more than just themselves
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- To pay tribute for the wonderful help her family received at the Ronald McDonald House after a snow tubing accident, 10-year-old Gracie Virden and her friends organized a walk/run/bike ride & bake sale and raised more than $1,600 for a local location in Baltimore.
- Harford County's newest private school has not even opened, but members of its first senior class could recently be found laboring together in a kitchen on a hot summer evening.
- Twelve people at the Ronald McDonald House near the University of Maryland Medical Center have been taken to area hospitals with nausea, a fire spokesman said Wednesday night.