One-Day Workshop Loving Horses and Making Art

Artist Rebecca Grace Jones will offer a one-day workshop July 25, 9am–5pm, for adults who would like to be introduced to horses and experience their gift for inspiring people to find their creative voices. The workshop takes place on an 8-acre farm two miles from Shepherdstown. Jones taught art courses as a senior lecturer at Towson University and Maryland College of Art and Design for 12 years. For over 30 years she has been a professional artist; her work can be seen locally at Dickinson & Wait Craft Gallery in Shepherdstown. She has studied horsemanship and riding in Parelli workshops and with dressage master Erik Herbermann. A covered 60’x60’ pavilion makes the workshop possible rain or shine. For information and registration, contact Rebecca at rgjones22@frontiernet.net or 304-876-1993.

Kids Earn Prizes for Summer Reading

Kids: Pick up a reading log in the Shepherdstown Public Library’s children’s department, and borrow library books. Read 36 picture books or easy readers, or at least 350 pages of chapter books. If you can’t read yet, just listen to a total of 36 books that someone reads to you. Turn in your completed reading log to earn a free homemade ice cream cone, a $5 gift certificate to spend at Four Seasons Books, and a free ticket to a Hagerstown Suns baseball game Friday, August 14 (includes fireworks!). For more information, please call the Library at (304) 876-2783. The project is supported in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in West Virginia by state librarians. Many thanks to Friends of Shepherdstown Library for their additional generous support.
Race For The Ribbon

Charles Town Races & Slots is partnering up with the West Virginia affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure to present the “Race for the Ribbon” on August 15, to benefit breast cancer research. The Race for the Ribbon along with a showcase of ten other races will total over $750,000 in purses for the day. Proceeds from a special breast cancer walk on the race track and other events will be donated to the Susan G. Komen–WV Affiliate.
Each $25 donation made by participants of the breast cancer walk will come with a commemorative t-shirt. T-shirts will also be available for sale trackside for $10, or can be purchased with a racing program for $11. Additionally, a pink lemonade stand, silent auction, and pink hat contest will be held. The patron judged to be wearing the best pink hat will be awarded a cash prize of $500. The night of racing will include the $75,000 Pink Ribbon race for fillies and mares as well as the inaugural running of the $250,000 Charles Town Oaks for three-year-old fillies. There will also be four other stakes races that night, with a post time for the first race scheduled for 6pm.

Immigrant Song Cycle

“The Immigrant Experience: A Song Cycle in Six Parts,” based on the Ellis Island Oral History Project, is the first of three “Storied Evenings: Music, Art & Tales” at the Shepherdstown Presbyterian Meeting House, 100 W. Washington St., Wednesdays at 7:30pm.
On July 8, Quincy Northrup, a member of the Cantate Chamber Singers of Washington, DC will present the “The Immigrant Experience” accompanied by Adelaide Edleson. On July 15, George Rutherford, Jefferson County NAACP President and founding member of the Jefferson County Black History Preservation Society will present a story of his life: “Who and What Made Me Who and What I Am.” Sean Cookus, jazz saxophonist opens with a short concert. On July 22, nonagenarian Maggie Drennen, great grandmother of 15, retired school teacher and developer of the Cress Creek Residential Golf Course Community will present a story of her life: “Who and What Made Me Who and What I Am.” Dr. Scott Beard, Associate Professor of Music and Coordinator of Keyboard Studies at Shepherd University, opens with a short concert.
The artwork of Doug Kinnett will be exhibited in the church’s Fellowship Hall during the month of July. Free admission to the programs and art exhibit.

Hillbilly Daylilies Bloomin’ Bash

Hillbilly Daylilies of Bunker Hill hosts a family event to benefit Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Eastern Panhandle. The July 11 Bloomin’ Bash will showcase thousands of flowers in bloom, and give visitors a chance to participate in several educational workshops ranging from growing a kitchen herb garden to encouraging pollination in your own back yard. Admission is $5 per person; children under 5 years old are admitted free. The event runs 9am until 6pm. Food and ice cream will be available from Texas BBQ and Rock Hill Creamery with live bluegrass music by Sleepy Creek and Skystone. Antique Tractors and Steam Engines will be on display and daylilies will be for sale.
For information and to register for workshops, 304-229-6698 or www.HillbillyDaylilies.com. Hillbilly Daylilies is located at 1105 Giles Mill Road, Bunker Hill.

dish Serves Up Herendeen

dish restaurant’s Community Livability Lecture Series is an exploration of what makes a place a great place to live. It is an experiment in economic development, placemaking, design, quality of life, art, public space, and entertainment. Each month, dish features a speaker who addresses the audience and engages them in an interactive Q+A. Before each lecture, dinner is served from the dish menu and bar. On July 12, dish features Ed Herendeen, producing director of the Contemporary American Theater Festival. Dinner service begins at 5pm, with the lecture following at 6:30pm. For information: 304-728-8464.
Medicare Newsletter Available

The West Virginia Medical Institute invites people with Medicare and their caregivers to sign up for its free e-newsletter, Healthy Insights. The newsletter covers senior health issues and Medicare. Subscribers will receive four issues a year. To sign up, visit www.qiwv.org, and click on the link on the front page. You will also find a “Health e-Calendar” with links to national health observances.
String Classes for Jefferson Students

Jefferson County public school students in grades 4 through 12 interested in learning how to play violin, viola, cello, or bass are invited to participate in classes and orchestras through the Berkeley County String Program. There is a fee for out-of-county students. Information is available at www.bc-strings.org or 304-263-2916. An informational and rental meeting will be held August 26 at Eagle School Intermediate in Martinsburg.
It’s Lego Robotics!

A FIRST Lego League Robotics Team is forming for 5th and 6th graders who love robotics, programming, or Lego building. The team needs more members to register with FIRST and compete in the fall. Call 304-876-6099 or email barrat@live.com . Also check out
Good Shepherd Training

Good Shepherd Caregivers will hold a volunteer training workshop, July 23, 2–4pm., at the Good Shepherd office at 101 S. Princess Street, Shepherdstown. Light refreshments will be served. Volunteers with Good Shepherd Caregivers provide non-medical, neighborly assistance to elderly and/or disabled residents of Jefferson County. Services include transportation to medical appointments, helping with errands, light yard or house work, simple chores, visiting, and reassurance calls. Volunteers also help at our office. Contact Good Shepherd, 304-876-3325, or kduncan@gsivc.org.
Audubon’s Canaan Valley Trip

Potomac Valley Audubon Society is organizing a field trip to the Canaan Valley area of West Virginia Saturday, July 11. Anyone with an interest is welcome to come along. Participants will join an 8-mile hike between the Blackwater Falls and Canaan Valley Resort state parks, sponsored by the two parks and led by Canaan Valley Resort park naturalist Destiny Phillips. The 4-hour hike will begin at 10:00am, rain or shine, at the Blackwater Falls Park riding stable. The hike route will cross Canaan Mountain and include spectacular mountain vistas, cool groves of Red Spruce and Eastern Hemlock trees, and dense rhododendron thickets. Elevations will range from about 3000 to 3600 feet. All hikers must pre-register with Canaan Valley Resort park and pay a registration fee of $12 per person for adults and $7 for children 12 and under. To register call the park at 1-800-622-4121 or go to its website at www.canaanresort.com (click on “Events” and scroll down to “Mid-Summer Walk Between the Parks.”) Want to stay overnight? The park offers a full range of accommodations, from Lodge rooms with all amenities to cabins and cottages to campsites. The drive time to the park from the Eastern Panhandle is about 2 hours and 45 minutes.
To carpool or get more information, contact PVAS Board member Clark Dixon at dixonconsultants@aol.com or 304-725-9634.

Free Yoga and More at Harmony

Harmony Healing Arts Center offers free yoga classes and other wellness events in July. On the 17th, yoga instructor Rebekah Goldstein-Hawes will lead an introduction session on the anatomy of prana, or vibrational body, from 6:30–7:30 p.m. The Center’s free Healing Energywork Clinic meets July 29 from 2-5 p.m. Licensed acupuncturist Michelle DeStefano leads the open clinic, which includes hands-on energy work in a group meditation setting. On the 31st, JiJi Beckett, yoga instructor and co-founder of Harmony, will lead a special free yoga class for moms from 6–7:30pm. Silent Meditation sitting continues every Sunday, 9–9:30 a.m. Each of these events is free of charge and open to the public on a first-come, first-served basis. No registration is necessary. See www.ssyoga.org, or call JiJi at 304-283-6188 or Judy at 304-876-6918. 207 East New St., Shepherdstown, just around the corner from the Full Circle Theater Company on Princess St.
NCTC Volunteer of the Year

Shepherdstown resident Sherman Ross was recognized at the National Conservation Training Center on May 20 as “Volunteer of the Year” for 2008, in recognition of his four years of service to the campus Conservation Library. The presentation was made by NCTC Director Jay Slack and librarian Anne Post Roy.
Ross also was cited for providing translation and narration assistance that aided in the production of a new U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service visitor center DVD for Missisquoi National Wildlife Refuge in Vermont. His fluency and expertise in French enabled NCTC’s video production division to record the product in a second language, enabling the northern refuge the opportunity to expand its outreach to visiting French Canadians.
A former employee the U.S. Information Agency, Ross, 84, was stationed in Algiers, Cameroon, Dahomey/Benin, Ivory Coast, and Pakistan as a Foreign Service worker and English teacher.
In his weekly service to NCTC’s Conservation Library, Ross maintains interlibrary loan statistics for its document retrieval services to other Fish and Wildlife Service offices and programs around the Nation. Ross and his wife, Elinor, are residents of Shepherd Grade Road, neighbors to NCTC.