Student wins legislative award

Thursday, May 15, 2008

Student wins legislative award

by Gazette Staff | North County Notes

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At the 19th annual Maryland Student Legislature session, held in April at the Lowe House Office Building in Annapolis, students from nine institutions of higher learning in the state debated and wrote laws.

Pat Johnson of Walkersville won the Thomas V. Mike Miller Jr. Award. Johnson attends McDaniel College in Westminster, which won an award for ‘‘Most Outstanding Delegation,” according to a press release from the Maryland Student Legislature.

Walkersville girl wins art kit in contest

Isai Rivera, a student at Glade Elementary School, won third place in an ‘‘Earth Week” poster contest sponsored by Fitzgerald Auto Malls on April 24, according to a press release.

Her prize was an artist’s kit.

The contest was open to area children 12 and younger, according to the press release. Participants were asked to submit posters about reducing, reusing and recycling in the home and at school.

Grandson performs for Mother’s Day

The TJ Jazz Ensemble played an afternoon concert at Glade Valley Nursing and Rehabilitation Center May 3 for Mother’s Day.

It was the first time that Louise Schultz, 76 and a resident since 2002, was able to watch her 17-year-old grandson, Jacob Hahn, perform with the band, according to an e-mail from Tracy Hamm, a band parent and friend of the Hahns. Jacob is a senior at Gov. Thomas Johnson High School in Frederick.

Festival seeks volunteers

Jillian DeShazer sums up the need for volunteers at the annual Frederick Festival of the Arts very simply: ‘‘Without volunteers, there is no festival.”

With that in mind, the nonprofit organization is looking for community members to help with the 15th annual event, which makes its return to the Carroll Creek Linear Park on Saturday, June 7 and Sunday, June 8.

Each year, artisans from across the country come to Frederick, along with musicians and other entertainers, for the two-day festival. Ninety-five artists from 20 states are signed up for this year’s event.

All volunteers get free admission to the event, are entered in a raffle and earn a free T-shirt.

Volunteer orientation sessions are scheduled from 1-2:15 p.m., May 31 and from 6-7:30 p.m., June 2 at the C. Burr Artz Library Community Room, 110 E. Patrick St., Frederick.

To volunteer, sign up online at www.frederickarts.org or contact the festival office at 301-694-9632.

Group raises thousands to ‘Lick MS’

A group of Frederick residents, friends and family have raised $20,000 to help the fight against multiple sclerosis.

‘‘Lick MS” is a core group of local residents gathered in support of Frederick resident Melissa Ward, 32, who was diagnosed in 2000 with the disease that impacts the central nervous system, causing fatigue, dizziness, numbness and pain.

For the March 29 auction, 62 businesses donated items and on April 6, more than 50 team members collected 212 donations in Frederick.

Contact reporter Jeremy Hauck at 301-846-2127 or jhauck@gazette.net.