By Kathleen Shatt for The Maryland Gazette
The Baltimore Washington Medical Center Auxiliary will sponsor an active wear and cookware sale from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday and Tuesday in the Dr. Constantine Padussis Conference Center, on the third floor of the hospital, 301 Hospital Drive.
Cookware sale items will include merchandise from Nordicware, T- Fal, Oxo, Wilton and Progressive. Boxed sets and open stock items will be available in addition to toasters, deep fryers, irons, bakeware and small appliances.
Active wear from Baby Phat, Rocawear, Sean Jean, Apple Bottom and others will also be sold.
Purchases may be paid for with cash or a major credit card. In addition, hospital employees with employee identification can arrange for payroll deductions.
Auxiliary member Pat Backhaus is the chairman of the sale.
Proceeds will benefit the medical center’s building fund.
For more information, call the auxiliary at 410-787-4504.
Summer bash
The Glen Burnie Park Swim Club will host a summer bash from 8 p.m. to midnight Aug. 16 at the community pool, 500 Everett Road.
Admission is $25. Only adults ages 21 and older will be allowed to attend. Tickets are available through Sunday to both members and nonmembers of the pool.
Beef, turkey, shrimp, salads and desserts will be provided along with music. Participants should take their own beverages. The event also will include raffles.
For more information, call 410-768-2494, send e-mail to [email protected] or visit www.gbpswim.com.
VFW Post 160
The Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 160 and its Ladies Auxiliary will meet at 8 p.m. Monday at the post hall, 2597 Dorsey Road.
New members are welcome. Membership in the post is open to veterans who served overseas in certain zones as active-duty members of any branch of military service during wars and specified conflicts.
For more information, call the post at 410-766-9802.
Bingo at Slade
The Monsignor Slade Catholic School sponsors bingo games at 8 p.m. Fridays in the school cafeteria, 120 Dorsey Road.
Early bird games will begin at 7:30 p.m.
Cash prizes worth more than $3,000 are available.
Refreshments will be sold through intermission.
For more information, call the school at 410-766-7130.
Pascal Senior Center
The Mass Transit Administration will issue reduced fare photo identification cards to senior citizens from 10 to 11:30 a.m. Friday at the Pascal Senior Center, 125 Dorsey Road. Seniors can use the cards to pay reduced fares on the light rail, metro and buses.
The discount cards are issued only to seniors ages 65 and older. Participants must provide proof of age.
Also at the senior center:
The movie “August Rush” will be shown at 12:30 p.m. Friday. Admission is free.
The center will host a pizza and movie night on Tuesday. Participants are requested to sign up in advance for the pizza, which will be served at 4:30 p.m. The cost is $3 in advance or $4 at the door. The movie “27 Dresses” starring Katherine Heigl and James Marsden will be shown at 5:30 p.m.
The center will host a bus trip to for its members Toby’s Dinner Theatre in Baltimore on Aug. 21 to view “West Side Story.” The bus will leave Sawmill Creek Park at 9:45 a.m. and return at 4 p.m. The cost is $60, which includes transportation, the show and buffet.
The center will host another member’s only bus trip to Dorchester County on Sept. 10 to the Suicide Bridge restaurant for a Choptank River boat ride and crab feast. The cost is $63, which includes bus transportation, taxes and gratuities. The seniors will depart at 9 a.m. from Sawmill Creek Park and return at 5 p.m.
Center members will travel to the Allegheny Mountains for a railroad adventure Oct. 1 through 3. The trip includes a scenic train ride from Pittsburgh to Altoona through the Allegheny mountains aboard Amtrak’s Pennsylvanian. Other stops include Phipps Conservatory and Gardens, Station Square, Three River Railroaders Museum, Johnstown Flood Museum, Inclined Plane, Basilica of St. Michael the Archangel and the Mount Assisi Sunken Gardens. The cost is $429 per person for double occupancy, $418 per person for triple occupancy and $529 per person for single occupancy.
For more information, call the center at 410-222-6680.
Bus trips
Glen Burnie Chapter 606 of the AARP will host several bus trips this summer and fall.
A trip to the Suicide Bridge restaurant in Dorchester County on Aug. 15 will cost $72. The trip includes bus transportation, a boat ride, buffet luncheon and crab feast.
The bus will leave the Glen Burnie parking garage at 10:30 a.m. and return at 6:30 p.m.
A tour of the Hudson Valley in upstate New York Sept. 3 through 5 will cost $419 per person for double occupancy. The trip includes a tour of the Military Academy at West Point and the Culinary Institute of America.
The chapter will travel Nov. 14 to the American Music Theater to see the holiday Christmas show and eat lunch at Shady Maple restaurant. The trip costs $72. The bus will leave the Glen Burnie parking garage at 9:30 a.m.
A trip to the holiday craft fair in Harrisburg, Pa., on Dec. 5 will cost $36. The bus will leave the Glen Burnie parking garage at 8 a.m. and will stop for dinner at a Cracker Barrel restaurant on the way home.
For more information, call trip coordinator Neoma Dearing at 410- 766-4667.
CASOS club
The Happy Community Advocates for Senior Opportunities and Services will meet at 10 a.m. Saturday and Aug. 23 in the former county utilities building, 7409 Baltimore Annapolis Blvd. Participants should park behind the building and use the rear entrance.
The group will begin with a social hour at 10 a.m. The business meeting will begin at 11 a.m.
All seniors ages 55 and older are welcome.
For more information, call Betty Betz at 410-969-3655.
North Glen bingo
The North Glen Improvement Association hosts bingo games Mondays in the community hall, 303 Wellham Ave.
The doors open for seating at 6 p.m. Bingo games begin at 7 p.m.
For details, contact Nancy Mason, president of the association, at 410-761-4894 or [email protected].
Hall rental
The Ferndale Volunteer Fire Company hall, 4 S. Broadview Blvd., is available for rent for all occasions.
Catering is also available.
For details, call 443-710-5441.
Another bus trip
The Glen Burnie Lions Club will host a bus trip to the Suicide Bridge restaurant and the Midway slots casino on Aug. 16.
The bus will depart at 11 a.m. from the Lutheran Church of Our Redeemer, 7606 Quarterfield Road. The group will arrive at 12:30 p.m. for a boat cruise on the Choptank River and crab feast of steamed crabs, corn on the cob, clam strips, crab soup, coleslaw, desserts, nonalcoholic drinks and beer aboard a sternwheeler boat.
Then, the group will depart at 3:30 p.m. for a trip to the Herrington Casino for gambling until 8:30 p.m. The group will return to Glen Burnie at 10:30 p.m.
The cost of the trip is $70.
For more information, call Paula Bohle at 410-969-7951 or John Hain at 410-242-3310 or 410-242-4267, or Catherine Lewis at 410-768- 0408.
Pizza Hut fundraiser
Glen Burnie United Methodist Church will host a fundraiser from 5 to 9 p.m. at the East Park Pizza Hut in the I-97 shopping center, 7938 Crain Highway S.
Patrons must present a fundraising flier to the cashier when they pay their bill for either dining room or carry-out orders. A portion of the meal will be donated to the church to support an upcoming mission trip to Louisiana.
For more information, call the church at 410-761-4381.
BAY days
Fellowship Baptist Church, 1015 Sundown Road, will sponsor its fifth annual Baltimore Area Youth program from 5 to 9 p.m. Aug. 14 and 15 and all day Aug. 16, beginning at 9 a.m.
Teenagers ages 13 to 18 in grades 7 to 12 are welcome to attend.
Evangelist Ben Schettler from Tampa, Fla., will be the guest speaker. He will talk about issues confronting teenagers today, including how to turn negative influences into positive ones.
The cost is $55 and includes dinner each evening and a trip to the Six Flags amusement park in Largo on Aug. 16. Planned activities include skits and games.
The deadline for registration is Friday.
For more information, call the Rev. Michael Hubers at 410-760- 7755 or visit www.fellowshipofferndale.org.
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