Boots

Sunday, June 3, 12:30 p.m. Home of Ike and Cheryl Slonaker, 82 Massie Drive, Falling Waters, W.Va. Fried chicken and paper products provided. Bring covered dish(es), beverages, and an auction item. Call Boots at 304-725-9390 or Cheryl at 304-676-1600.

Alissa Miller, a junior at North Hagerstown High School, competed in November at the Virginia Horse Shows Association (VHSA) finals in Lexington, Va. Alissa placed sixth out of 60 in the Junior Hunter Pleasure division. Alissa has been riding horses for nine years and she's not stopping anytime soon. Boots, her horse, is a quarter horse-appaloosa and she competes in at least 20 shows a year. But why in Lexington? "Because I knew there would be colleges there so I could get exposure, and if I would want to sell my horse, the price would go up significantly," she said.

Lost - Black and white cat. Where - The cat was lost on Shalom Lane in Black Rock Estates. When - The cat has been missing since Monday. Description - The female cat is described as a white and black domestic shorthair. It has white on its face, chest, stomach and its four feet. The cat weighs 9 pounds. The 3-year-old cat was wearing a gray collar. It answers to Boots. Phone number - Call 443-255-0602 if you see this cat.

tammyb@herald-mail.com Plastic boots, an egg in a plastic spoon, a tunnel made of hay bales and two-by-fours - the international Olympics were never quite like this. Contestants in Saturday's Barnyard Olympics at the Washington County Ag Expo had to dress, balance, crawl and waddle their way to victory as they completed an obstacle course that also included melons and balloons. The event kicked off the expo's Family Night events, which were moved from the open track to the main show ring, protected by a tarp, because of a threat of rain.

MOUNT PLEASANT, Md. (AP) -- The Frederick County Sheriff's Office says it is investigating the skeletal remains of a man in his 40s found by a hunter east of Frederick. Cpl. Jennifer Bailey says the bones were found around noon Saturday by a hunter walking in the woods along Gas House Pike, about three miles east of Frederick and a mile south of the unincorporated community of Mount Pleasant. Bailey says the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Baltimore is working to identify the man and determine the cause of his death.

1. Free concert? 'Ain't Nothing Wrong With That' Robert Randolph & the Family Band will perform funk and soul. at 9 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 26, at Hollywood Casino at Charles Town Races, 750 Hollywood Drive, Charles Town, W.Va. Free. Must be 21 or older. Go to www.hollywoodcasinocharlestown.com . 2. 'Just a spoonful of sugar ...' Hagerstown Children's Theater will present the story of a magical English nanny. 7 p.m. Fridays, Jan. 25 and Feb. 1, and Saturdays, Jan. 26 and Feb. 2; 2 p.m. Sundays, Jan. 27 and Feb. 3. The Academy Theater, 58 E. Washington St., downtown Hagerstown.

HAGERSTOWN -- Remember galoshes? The sloppy-weather overshoes parents used to coax children to wear? Children rarely took a liking to the rubbery footwear, in part because they were violently unfashionable, but also because children, by nature, seem to be largely unfazed by weather. Today's children have sensible, yet stylish rubber boots with pull-on straps and decorations of butterflies, ladybugs, whales and firetrucks. And they at least are as undaunted as ever by rain, muck and mud. Case in point -- the Hagerstown Community College Student Government Association's Easter Egg Hunt.

Daniel Barnes didn't seem to mind helping his neighbor shovel out her car on Potomac Street. "We've had a mild winter. It's about time we got something like this," he said Wednesday afternoon as he stood knee-deep in a snow drift. Diana Bachnan was shoveling snow off her car on South Prospect Street. "I like snow. It's about time. If we're going to have winter, I want to have snow," she said. Chip Stewart was clearing some parking spots in front of the gourmet dessert shop Bones and Cones downtown Wednesday morning.

MARTINSBURG, W.VA. - Little tykes pulled little tractors and a lot of weight at the Kiddie Pedal Pull Saturday afternoon during the last day of events at the Berkeley County Youth Fair. Luke Jones, 3, struggled mightily to pedal a small green tractor carrying a sled and 10 pounds of weight across the stage. "I like John Deere and that was hard to push and that was fun," Luke said excitedly as he threw his arms in the air. Luke's friend, Dylan Painter, wearing a John Deere shirt and small work boots, had pedaled halfway across the stage to much applause.