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The two are respectively the president and young gardeners chair of the Long Point Garden Club.

Paula Winkler, district II director of the garden club, presented the awards which honored projects created for the 2007 Central Atlantic Region's "Kids and Plants Naturally" project.

The garden club meets at 10:30 a.m. on the third Wednesday of the month at Long Point Hall at 1536 Long Point Road.

For details, call Sue Fortner at 410-544-4792.

Holy Week events

A number of community churches will hold Holy Week events:

Chesapeake Christian Center, 206 Weston Woods Road, will hold a 7 p.m. Good Friday service with a drama, quartet performance and Holy Communion.

For more information, call the church at 410-255-3168.

Christ The King Church, 502 Victory Way, will offer a worship service with Holy Communion at 7:30 p.m. today and tomorrow, and a 10 a.m. Good Friday service with Holy Communion.

For more information, call the church at 410-437-7787.

Community United Methodist Church, 8680 Fort Smallwood Road, and Faith United Methodist Church, 905 Duvall Highway, will offer a worship service with Holy Communion at 7 p.m. tomorrow at CUMC. There will be a youth cross walk at noon Friday from Faith United to Community United and an adult cross walk from Lauer's Supermarket, 8479 Fort Smallwood Road. There will be a 7 p.m. Good Friday service.

For details, call CUMC at 410-255-1506 or FUMC at 410-437-8515.

El Bethel Community Church, 755 204th St., will present the movie "The Passion of the Christ" at 6:30 a.m. on Good Friday.

Emmanuel Lutheran Church, 8615 Fort Smallwood Road, will have a service with Holy Communion at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow. There will be a Tenebrae worship service at noon on Good Friday and a community worship service at Community United Methodist Church, 8680 Fort Smallwood Road.

Members of Emmanuel Lutheran will participate in the community cross walk that begins at Lauer's Supermarket, 8470 Fort Smallwood Road. Emmanuel Lutheran will hold an Easter egg hunt with lunch at 11 a.m. Saturday.

For more information, call the church at 410-255-4141.

Galilee Lutheran Church, 4652 Mountain Road, will hold a service with Holy Communion at 11:30 a.m. and 7 p.m. tomorrow and at 11:30 a.m. on Good Friday. There will be a Tenebrae worship service at 7 p.m. on Friday. On Saturday, the church will host an informal living water worship service at 4:30 p.m.

For more information, call the church at 410-255-8236.

Grace Baptist Church of Sunset Beach, 17 Somerset Road, will have a worship service at 7 p.m. on Good Friday and an Easter egg hunt at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday.

For more information, call the church at 410-255-5616.

Jenkins Memorial, 133 Riviera Drive, will have a worship service at 7 p.m. tomorrow. At 7 p.m. on Good Friday the church will present the dramatization "The Book on the Verandah," followed by refreshments.

For more information, call the church at 410-437-3830.

Magothy Chelsea Community Church, 265 Beach Ave., will hold a worship service with Holy Communion at 7 p.m. tomorrow. There will be an Easter egg hunt at 9:15 a.m. Sunday.

For more information, call the church at 410-255-1742.

Magothy United Methodist Church, 3703 Mountain Road, will hold a worship service with Holy Communion at 7 p.m. tomorrow and services at noon and 6 p.m. on Good Friday. The church sanctuary will be available for silent, personal prayer during the day.

For more information, call the church at 410-255-2420.

Mount Carmel United Methodist Church, 4760 Mountain Road, will hold a worship service with Holy Communion at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow. There will be worship service at 7:30 p.m. on Good Friday with the musical drama "For Such a One As This." For more information, call the church at 410-255-8887.

Pasadena United Methodist Church, 61 Ritchie Highway, will feature the drama "The Last Supper" and a service with Holy Communion at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow. For more information, call the church at 410-647-3090.

Our Lady of the Chesapeake, 8325 Ventnor Road, will offer Holy Thursday Mass at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow. There will be 2 p.m. Good Friday sermon on the Stations of the Cross and a "Passion of Our Lord" sermon at 3 and 7:30 p.m. on Good Friday.

For more information, call the church at 410-255-3677.

Pasadena Evangelical Presbyterian Church, 7975 Tick Neck Road, will hold a worship service at 7:30 p.m. on Good Friday.

For more information, call the church at 410-255-0003.

Solley United Methodist Church, 7600 Solley Road, will have a Holy Thursday worship service and a Good Friday service at 7 p.m.

For more information, call the church at 410-437-5641.

St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, 7859 Tick Neck Road, will offer a service with the Eucharist at noon tomorrow and a Seder Eucharist followed by a soup supper at 6 p.m. tomorrow. There will be a Good Friday service at noon and 3 p.m. and a children's service at 4 p.m.

For more information, call the church at 410-255-1070.

St. Jane Frances de Chantal Church, 8499 Virginia Ave., will have a Tenebrae service with morning prayer at 8:30 a.m. tomorrow. There will be a Mass of the Lord's Supper at 7 p.m. followed by night prayer at 10:30 p.m. On Sunday, there will be an Easter egg hunt for children up to 3 years old from 9 to 10 a.m., for children ages 4 to 6 from 10 to 11 a.m. and for children ages 7 and older from 11 to noon.

For more information, call the church at 410-255-4646.

Lion's fruit sale

The East Anne Arundel Lions Club will offer ruby red grapefruit and temple oranges from Florida from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on March 29 at Community United Methodist Church, 8680 Fort Smallwood Road. The deadline to order is Saturday.

All orders will be delivered directly from Florida the morning of the sale and is available in full and half cases. There also will be quarter bags available for grapefruit and oranges. A few varieties of packaged nuts are still available for purchase.

Contact Sue Ford or Diane Behn at 410-255-3399 or Al and Edith Ramsay at 410-255-7207 to place an order.

Basket bingo

The VFW Post 2462, 1720 Bayside Beach Road, still has tickets available for its Longaberger basket bingo on March 29. The doors will open at 5 p.m. with bingo starting at 6 p.m.

Tickets cost $15. Food and drinks will be sold.

Contact Phyllis Kisner at 410-439-3970 or the post at 410-437-5629.

SUMC yard sale

Solley United Methodist Church, 7600 Solley Road, will offer spaces for $10 for its community yard sale. The sale will run from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. on April 5.

Contact Tracey Despeaux to reserve a space or more information.

Bus trip

Everyone is invited to join the Cornfield Creek Garden Club on a bus trip to the Marjorie Merriweather Post's Hillwood Estate Museum and Garden in Washington, D.C., from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. on May 8.

Attendees can enjoy over 4000 azaleas bloom in profusion through April and May and hundreds of trees, shrubs and flowers.

Tickets cost $45 and includes docent tours of the mansion and gardens. Contact Lynn Wisniewski at 410-439-2143 for tickets or more information.

Bull roast

The Chesapeake High School band boosters is selling tickets for its annual bull and oyster roast from 7 p.m. to midnight on April 5 at the Stoney Creek Democratic Club, 8123 Fort Smallwood Road.

There also will be a silent auction of sports memorabilia.

Tickets cost $40. People must be at least age 21 to attend.

Contact Wendy Davey at 410-360-8785 for tickets or more information.

Friends meeting

The Friends of Downs Park will meet at 7:30 p.m. today in the Chesapeake Room of the park's visitor's center.

Everyone is invited to this informative meeting and take along their ideas on fundraising, programming and volunteer recruitment to help the park.

The park is located at 8311 John Downs Loop.

Contact the park office at 410-222-6230 for more information.

Roast for church

The Magothy Chelsea Community Church, 265 Beach Ave., will host a bull and oyster roast from 1 to 5 p.m. on March 29.

Tickets cost $30 and includes a menu of pit beef, ham and turkey, oysters on the half shell, green salad table, sauerkraut and hot dogs, baked beans, mashed potatoes, dessert, beer and soda.

Contact the church at 410-255-1742 for tickets or more information.

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