The American Legion Sinepuzent Post 166 presented a Certificate of Appreciation to the Atlantic General Hospital Thrift Shop for its donations to the post’s ongoing clothing drive for regional veterans. Pictured, from left, are shop co-managers Irma Malloy and Sally Monaghan with volunteer Janet Morse and Bill Wolf, commander of Synepuxent Post 166.

The Baby Boomers Group at St. Peter’s Lutheran Church in Ocean City is sponsoring a Christmas Cookie Walk on Saturday, Dec. 12 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. All proceeds go to Diakonia in West Ocean City. Above are St. Peter’s Lutheran Church Baby Boomers Group representative Cyndi Gradwell and Diakonia Volunteer Coordinator Susan Blaney.

TJ Maloney, Board President of Village of Hope, Bill Middleton, Immediate Past President of United Way Eastern Shore, and Kathleen Mommé, Executive Director of the United Way of the Lower Eastern Shore, celebrate Village of Hope’s $46,000 in funding from United Way.

The Key Club at Stephen Decatur High School held its first of two blood drives for the 2009-2010 school year last week in the school gym. Members signed up 100 donors for the drive and have 53 on the waiting list. The blood is donated to the Blood Bank of Delmarva. Pictured at the canteen are, seated on… Read more »

Corky Widerman, past-president of the Kiwanis Club of Greater Ocean Pines-Ocean City, is pictured above being presented the Top Civic Group Bell Ringing Award from the local Salvation Army 2008 “Red Kettle Campaign” for collecting $7,523.81 by ringing the bell during the 2008 Christmas Holidays for the Salvation Army. The award was presented at the 2009 kickoff meeting… Read more »

The Junior Auxiliary Group recently donated $9,850 to Atlantic General Hospital, including a $5,000 payment on its pledge to the major fifts campaign, $4,350 to the James G. and Nancy W. Barrett Nursing Scholarship Fund and $500 for the Visions for Total Health program’s annual conference.

Five members of American Legion Synepuxent Post #166 were recognized by American Legion’s National Commander. Pictured are Post #166’s First Vice Commander Bo Spicer, Past Commander Sarge Garlitz, Second Vice Commander John Granite and Legion Director Jimmy Kirkland. 

Worcester Prep’s Junior Red Cross volunteers recently worked to get certified in CPR with instructor Bob Williams, Lower Shore Chapter American Red Cross. Pictured, clockwise from bottom left, front, are Ashley Foreman, Austin Coates, Madison Kyger, Gabby Castaneda, Paige Spangler and Katie Marshall; and, back, Williams, Matt Carey, Morgan Bissell, Thomas Edmunds, Ben Mumford, Katie… Read more »

Nov. 14 will be the day of the 3rd Annual Apple/Pumpkin Festival for the benefit of the Al Harmon Memorial Scholarship Fund at the American Legion Post on 23rd Street in Ocean City. The time for this year festival will be 11 a.m.-3 p.m. The past two annual festivals have raised over $9,000 for the… Read more »

Principal Louis Taylor announced last week that for the second year in a row Stephen Decatur High School has received the Bayside South Conference Sportsmanship Award. For more than a decade, the award has been presented to a conference school that has accumulated the highest ranking in climate, spectators, coaching and supervision.  For each varsity… Read more »