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Volunteers Needed

Teach 'em to Fish Volunteer Open House

  • By Mimi
  • Feb 18, 2013

The Teach 'em to Fish Community Development Corporation will host an Open House for Volunteers on Saturday, March 2, 2013. The Open House will take place at The Gateway to Wholeness Church Ministries, 1450 Mercantile Lane, Suite 103, Largo, Maryland 20774.  For your convenience, we will offer three…

Awareness

Design Exhibition Explores New Urban Landscape

Discover A New Utopia: Selections from Pruitt Igoe Now International Design Competition, now through February 28 in Marlboro Gallery at Prince George’s Community College.  Built from works submitted for a competition to redesign a city space, the exhibition explores design intervention, urban …

Awareness

Free Tickets for A Legacy of Change: Excellence Unleashed! Available Online

WHAT:            Free tickets for A Legacy of Change: Excellence Unleashed! are available online at  http://www.missiontix.com/events/product/16381/legacy-of-change-excellence-unleashed WHO:              Produced by the National Visionary Leadership Project (NVLP) and hosted by Prince George’s …

Social Notes

Students Fall Flat in Vocabulary Test

  The Wall Street Journal recently published an article highlighting the results of the 2011 National Assessment of Educational Progress.  U.S. students knew only about 50% of what was expected on a new vocabulary section of this National Exam.  This article reiterated a sentiment made public by …

Local Connections

Cari DeSantis Named Melwood President and CEO

Melwood is pleased to announce that Carol Ann “Cari” DeSantis has been named President and Chief Executive Officer. Upper Marlboro-based Melwood, one of the leading nonprofit organizations in Maryland creating opportunities for people with disabilities, enables individuals with disabilities to …

Patch Reads

Bowie Elite Travel Baseball Teams Holding Winter Work/Try-outs

The Bowie Elite Travel Baseball Club is a highly competitive baseball organization that competes in the surrounding areas in the Cheaspeake Baseball Association, the Anne Arundel County League and as well as in tournaments during the spring and fall season.  We are looking for committed, talented …

Promotions

Free Cat Spays with a Rabies Vaccine

Warmer weather may still be months away, but Last Chance Animal Rescue wants you to “beat the heat” by spaying your cat in advance of her heat cycle and preventing unwanted litters from being born this spring. To help reduce the number of homeless cats born this spring, Last Chance Animal Rescue is…

Awareness

Girls Wear P.I.N.K. 2013!

“Girls Wear P.I.N.K. Domestic Violence Prevention, Self Empowerment, and Modeling Workshop 2013” is underway!  (P.I.N.K. =Purpose, Integrity, Nobility, Knowledge)  This will be a very informative, fun, interactive, educational, and empowering workshop!  We will cover a variety of empowering topics …

Accomplishments

Mar 2: Cathedral Choral Society’s Angel of the Arts Award Gala Honors WPAS President Emeritus Douglas H. Wheeler

The oldest symphonic choral ensemble in Washington, D.C., the Cathedral Choral Society (CCS), is holding its Angel of the Arts Award Gala on Saturday, March 2, 2013 at the Embassy of Italy at 6 p.m.  Named for arts philanthropist, Laura E. Phillips, the Angel of the Arts Award honors a deserving …

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Spay Spa & Neuter Nook Grand Opening Celebration

The Spay Spa & Neuter Nook, your local High Quality, Low Cost Spay / Neuter clinic, is welcoming visitors to our Grand Opening - Open House on Sunday, February 10, from 2 - 5 pm. The Spay Spa & Neuter Nook, which is owned by Rude Ranch Animal Rescue, a no kill animal sanctuary based in Harwood, was…

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