Home Show Draws Huge Crowd At Frederck County Fairgrounds
The 22nd annual Home Show at Frederck County Fairgrounds drew almost 29,000 attendees over two days with 240 vendors offering cabinets, pools, and home features. Minam Stark demonstrated brick carvings and herons in prefired clay while vendor Beverly Shelton noted rising household investment interest amid a recovering economy. Stark created a 4 by 5 foot heron carving costing about 3000 dollars.
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Frederck County Fairgrounds
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County Builders Association
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Sanford
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Students form Amnesty group at Songanore High
Songanore High students formed a local Amnesty International unit to lobby Congress for human rights legislation. They engage in letter writing to ambassadors and wardens, study Holocaust context in class, and attended Georgetown training to meet Rep Bartlett and Maryland senators.
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Amnesty International
Congress
Lawrence Proudfoot
Langanore
Darren Hombeck
Holmbeck
Dustin Anderson
Hornbeck
Maryland
Kenneth Walker
Langanore Club
Orion
Chrstina Cremeans
Joanne Freimuth
Georgetown University
Roscoe Bartlett
Roth
Paul Sarbanes
Barbara Mikalski
State Department
Turkey
United States
Lawrence
Visitation students plan Rome trip to Easter Holy Sites
A group of 26 Visitation Academy girls aged 11 to 15 from Mesxaco and Venezuela will fly from Philadelphia March 26 for a nine hour flight to Fiumicino arriving the next morning. They will visit Vatican and Colosseum with Holy Thursday to Easter Sunday services at St Peter's Basilica and aim for a meeting with Pope John Paul I on April 2.
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Visitation Academy
Rome
Vatican
Colisseum
Circus Maximus
Sistine Chapel
Lourdes Orta
Mesxaco
Venezuela
Philadelphia
Fumicino
Pope John Paul I
Manana Ancona
St Peter's
Basilhea
Frnathy Jacobsen
Frederick Academy of the Visitation
Katia Trimmer
Mariana Ancona
Maria Cristaina Bonce
Mariajose Gonzales
Shakespeare Love Guides Winchester Hall Custodian to Literacy Work
Jon Maupin, 44, longtime Winchester Hall custodian, recites Macbeth to illustrate his Shakespeare passion. After 27 years on the job, he plans to retire early to teach reading through the Literacy Council of Frederick County, inspired by his mother Audrey Maupin. He urges others to read and help adults learn. Call 684 2066 to volunteer.
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Winchester Hall
William Shakespeare
Maupin
Shakespeare
Charlotte Hall
Maryland
Pont
Audrey Maupin
Rght
Fredenck County
Mayan
McMaupin
Literacy Council
Holm Maupin
Keeler blesses new Holy Family Church in Middletown
Cardinal Keeler presided Mass of Celebration at the $2.6 million Holy Family Catholic Community church near Middletown. He praised the ambitious Domus Ecclesiae project, received keys from builders, and noted the active lay involvement behind the 400-plus family names on tiles. Artwork and student pieces decorate the space ahead of March 22 23 display.
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Williatrt
Keeler
Church of Holy Family
Cardinal Keeler
Noelker and
Hull
Bill Britchey
Brichey Builders Inc
Mr Brachey
Gregory Rausch
MD 17
St Jon the Evangelist Catholic Church
Fredenck
John Moore
Naddletown High School
Mount Airy Middle marks 30 years anniversary celebration
Mount Airy Middle School marked its 30th anniversary with former students and staff gathering. John Devault, the first principal, recalled 1967 enrollment of 440 students, 22 teachers, and 31 buses and noted current totals of 690 students, 51 teachers, 68 buses, with lunch at 40 cents. The event drew about 300 attendees and included a gym assembly with reminiscences and a chorus answering what DARE stands for Drug Awareness Resistance Education.
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Mount Airy
Mddle
John Devault
Virginia Norwood
Devault
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