REMEMBER TO VOTE TOMORROW! The 2024 United States federal elections will be held on Tuesday, November 5, 2024. Polls will be open from 7:00 am to 8:00 pm. During this presidential election year, all 435 seats in the House of Representatives and 34 of the 100 seats in the Senate will be contested. Eleven state gubernatorial and numerous other state and local […]
Stay Active – Community Activities
VOLUNTEER DRIVERS NEEDED: Gaithersburg Meals on Wheels has an urgent need for 2 drivers: a Monday, Route 3 driver, and a Tuesday, Route 7. Training is provided. Please leave a message at 301-216-4200 if interested in serving. Read our previous article for more information.
November 9th-UMCVFD Pork & Beef Sale, 11:00 until 3pm Go early before they […]
Join Jeff Fritsch on November 14th at 7:00 pm to hear about The Orphan Drug Act of 1983, a US law passed to incentivizes pharmaceutical companies to invest in the development of drugs and biologics to treat individuals with rare diseases.
Learn more or register here.
On Sunday November 3rd all Marylanders – and for that matter, all Americans except those in Hawaii and Arizona – will be asked to ‘fall back” and adjust their clocks to end Daylight Saving Time (DST) and resume Standard Time.
The concept has been suggested through history including a joking reference by Benjamin Franklin in 1784, and a 1907 pamphlet, “The Waste of Daylight”, by William Willet proposing DST […]
REMEMBER TO VOTE! The 2024 United States federal elections will be held on Tuesday, November 5, 2024. Polls will be open from 7:00 am to 8:00 pm. During this presidential election year, all 435 seats in the House of Representatives and 34 of the 100 seats in the Senate will be contested. Eleven state gubernatorial and numerous other state and local […]
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 […]
Beginning on Wednesday, October 30th, more than a billion people will celebrate one of the largest and most significant religious observances in the world, Diwali.
Diwali is a five-day festival that originated on the Indian subcontinent and celebrates the “victory of light over darkness, good over evil, and knowledge over ignorance.” It is said that the term “Diwali” is an abridgement of the Sanskrit term “dīpāvalī” which means “lamps” (dīpa) “in […]
Backpack Bites is back in operation and greatly in need of shelf stable food items that are provided to local school children.
Backpack Bites, a collaboration between Poolesville Presbyterian, local churches, and WUMCO Help, with significant contributions by KPC Buddhist Relief provides supplemental food for the weekend to families on the Free and Reduced Meals (FaRM) program. The FaRM program at Montgomery County schools provides free or reduced cost breakfast and […]
A creative tableau of scarecrows is on view at Whalen Commons for the 2024 Poolesville Community Scarecrow Contest. Despite a slow start, this may be the most entries you have ever had to choose from. Poolesville Seniors’ volunteers put together a Scarecrow display inspired by the PS entry in the MoCo Senior Cardboard Boat Regatta in March.
The “Poolesville Seniors Yacht Club” exhibit BC106 shows two scarecrows […]
If you are a bit too squeamish for the full Markoff’s Haunted Forest Experience, you may want to try the Lights On Night on the Markoff Trails on 30th from 5:00 pm to 9:00 pm.
You can book Fright Free Night Passes for this special night at $20 per person for a self-paced 1 mile walk on the Markoff’s Haunted Forest Trails. It won’t be so dark, […]