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Join Katie Longbrake, Executive Director of WUMCO Help on May 5th at 7 pm to hear more about this multi-services entity, that has been serving […]

Get outdoors, learn about local wildlife and contribute to science! 

Calling naturalists, nature lovers and citizen scientists of all ages! You are invited to join the four-day City Nature Challenge between April 29th and May 8th. People in the Washington DC metro area and around the world will be participating in this global citizen science event to document urban biodiversity. Participants will be looking for signs of life in […]

Do you know about the Plant an Extra Row initiative started by Sustainable Barnesville in cooperation with WUMCO in 2020? The advent of the COVID 19 pandemic was the impetus for this project which encourages and supports those with backyard farms and gardens to “plant an extra row” of commonly grown veggies to donate to a local food bank.  

As a very local community initiative, Plant an Extra Row supports […]

Thank you to Maureen Ivusic for the great information about the benefits of healthy chocolate and the difference between that and some store-bought versions. If you ever wanted to have chocolate for breakfast this was the event for you! Watch the recorded event on our Facebook and YouTube channels. Maureen has extended the discount on her easy-to-use pre-measured Chocolate […]

Have you heard about the new word-guessing game Wordle? The viral browser game’s task is to guess a five-letter word in no more than six tries. After each guess, the tiles change colors to show which letters are not in the word (gray), which letters are in the word but in the wrong position (yellow) and which ones are in the word and in the correct position (green). 

The game’s Welsh-born Brooklyn-based […]

We celebrate Earth Month in April, and Earth Day on April 22. This year’s theme is “Invest in Our Planet”. Each year one billion people in 193 countries take part in Earth Day and resolve to invest in and protect the environment and biodiversity of the Earth. With the help of the public and government, innovation in the private sector is bringing the change needed to support our planet. 

In the decades […]

Mahjong is back on Thursdays at Speer Hall (behind Poolesville Presbyterian) 10 am – 12:30 pm 

The new 2022 PS! Book Club reading list. Check the website for the list and sign up for the April 18th discussion of If I Die Tonight by Alison Gaylin. 

April 1st 10:00 am to 5:00 pm, April 2nd 10:00 am to 1:00 pm, St. Peter’s […]

On April 7th at 7 pm join […]

Calling all baseball lovers from 9 months to 99 years! Join us for our first in-person evening on Tuesday April 5th at 7 pm. Come and meet Bill “Bat Boy” Turner and Ed “Boy in the Scoreboard” Baruch from the 1956 Washington Senators Baseball Season for this family friendly romp through baseball history from their unique perspectives. They will share their up-close and personal experiences from the 1956 season and memories of […]

Let’s Celebrate Our April Birthdays!! 

• 4/6 William Hunter 
• 4/7 Norman Spencer 
• 4/8 Anne Beers 
• 4/16 Michelle Roche 
• 4/20 Leigh Platt 
• 4/21 Henrik Rossell 
• 4/24 Pam Hernandez 
• 4/27 Patrick McMahon 
• 4/30 Willy Malonado 
• 4/30 Jane Horvath

Congratulations!