Spirit of cooperation theme for Pumphrey Day | Maryland Gazette (HometownGlenBurnie.com)

The driving organization behind Pumphrey Day, the Taxpayers Improvement Association of Patapsco Park, has revived an old theme for this year's festivities: "Working Together Will Make a Change."

The daylong celebration will kick off with a parade at 10 a.m. The parade route will start on the Nowlin's Auto Sales parking lot, across from Malibu's Restaurant, and travel up Belle Grove Road to Hoffman Avenue. From there, it will turn onto Berlin Avenue to School Lane and end at the Lloyd Keaser Community Center.

This year's parade will include marching bands, the Pumphrey Saturday Walkers, the Corvette Club, the Van Club, a motorcycle club and local political leaders.

Opening ceremonies are scheduled to begin at the Lloyd Keaser Community Center at 11:30 a.m.

Some of the other activities happening throughout the day include food sales and other vendors, a moon bounce, games, face painting, a kid's corner, a Pumphrey trivia game and various informational displays located inside the community center.

The day will end with a celebration in song by the Extensions of Faith Interdenominational Praise Choir and the Community Baptist Male Choir. The groups will offer songs of praise and thanksgiving.

The 2008 Pumphrey Day Committee extends to all an invitation to go and join in a day of fun.

For additional information, call Nina Lattimore at 443-306-6101 or Annette Bates at 410-789-5662.

Golf tournament

Golfers can tee up at the Bay Hills Golf Club, 545 Bay Hills Drive in Arnold, on Sept. 25 for the St. Athanasius golf tournament. Tee times will begin at 9 a.m.

The $85 entry fee includes 18 holes of golf in scramble format, a putting contest, longest drive contest, prizes for the closest to the pin, door prizes, coffee, doughnuts, lunch and soft drinks and beer on the course.

Golfers can register their own foursome or sign up as a single and be placed in a group.

Golf course architect Ed Adult designed Bay Hills as an 18-hole course that includes six doglegs, 52 bunkers and water hazards on the 10 and 18th holes. For more information about the course, visit www.bayhillsgolf.com.

To register for the golf tournament or for additional information, call Mary Beth Barnes at 410-355-5740.

Clubs and organizations in the greater Brooklyn Park area can call Maryland Gazette correspondent George Baker at 410-789-4984 for publication of their news, or send e-mail to gpb2@earthlink.net.