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A TRILOGY OF EVENTS: HALLOWEEN, ALL SAINTS DAY & ALL SOULS DAY (DIA DEL MUERTOS) 

Contributed by Cheryl Watts 

Many may think Halloween, celebrated on October 31st, is all about candy, carving pumpkins, costumes, ghosts, and ghouls. But there is, in fact, religious relevance. Halloween is part of a trilogy of celebrations.   

Halloween has its origins in an ancient 3-day pagan festival, Samhain (SAH win) – meaning “summer’s end”, celebrated by Celtic […]

 Celtic Legend of Stingy Jack 

By Claire Gunster-Kirby 

The carved pumpkin, or jack o’ lantern, is a staple of Halloween in the United States. How did this custom originate? To find the origins of the jack o’ lantern, one must go back centuries to around 500 BC when the Celts arrived in Iireland. Because the Celts did not believe in keeping any written records of their history, little is known about […]

On Sunday 11/5 all Marylanders – and for that matter, all Americans except those in Hawaii and Arizona – will be asked to ‘fall back” from Daylight Saving Time (DST) to Standard Time. 

The concept was suggested by others including a joking reference by Benjamin Franklin in 1784, and a 1907 pamphlet, “The Waste of Daylight”, by William Willet proposing DST to the British Parliament. Daylight Saving Time (DST) […]

Contributed by Suzanne Tobin

WUMCO Help is offering four low-cost health and dental clinics to Poolesville and upper Montgomery residents, 18 and older, in the coming weeks. 

Health clinics will be provided through Care for Your Health, (/care4yourhealth.org/), a nonprofit whose mission is to “deliver inclusive, multicultural healthcare where it is needed.” The nonprofit believes health care is a human right. It was created to serve adults and elders in our […]

Stay Active – Community Activities

Historic Medley District (HMD) Ag Reserve Photo Contest to be displayed in the new exhibit hall at the Old Town Hall Bank Museum. Deliver any size matted, framed photos of the Ag beauty & diversity to Maureen O’Connell by November 14th. For more information, please email Maureen at mafoconnell@msn.com.

 November 3rd – Riverworks Art Center – First Fridays “Made -in-Studio“- Painting What You See with […]

October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month and brings awareness to precautions needed as we head into the busiest online shopping season of the year.  Since 2004, the President of the United States and Congress have declared the month of October to be Cybersecurity Awareness Month, a dedicated month for the public and private sectors to work together to raise awareness about the importance of cybersecurity.  

This year marks the […]

On Monday November 13th, Ayanna Hawkins, from the Montgomery County Aging and Disability Resource Unit ADRU will be at the Maggie Nightingale Library from 12:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. to answer questions from older adults, people with disabilities and caregivers related to housing, transportation, staying healthy and more. 

Please find the time to come out and let the county know which resources are needed yet unavailable […]

November 1st will be the 159th anniversary of the day in 1864 when enslaved people were emancipated in Maryland by a state constitutional referendum. Many people don’t realize that emancipation and freedom came at different times for different people. Though President Abraham Lincoln issued his Emancipation Proclamation on Jan. 1, 1863. The proclamation applied only to states in rebellion and left slavery legal in border states of Maryland, Kentucky, Missouri […]

When people have symptoms for weeks, months, or even years after a COVID infection, it is called Long COVID. Researchers are working to learn more about the long-term effects of COVID to help prevent and treat them. If you think you have Long Covid, discuss it with your physician and mention the NIH Clinical Trials. 

The research effort at NIH is known as the Researching COVID to Enhance Recovery (RECOVER) Initiative. […]

Poolesville Seniors depends on our great volunteers so much. The group that put together this years’ WUMCO Scarecrow Contest Entry knocked it right out of the Pickleball Court!!! Many thanks to Susan Proper, Ann Connor, Mary Bernardo, Kay Douglass and Allen Proper. They outdid themselves with Poolesville Seniors’ Pickled Ballers #BC109 entry in the Community Organization category. 

Bring the whole family to get a picture while posing with Mr. Pickle and […]