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One Mountain Foundation will host its fifth annual spring dinner theater with a production of “Boeing, Boeing,” a 1960's French farce adapted for the English-speaking stage. The play will be presented by the Blue Ridge Theatre Guild in a dinner theater format to be held at Blue Ridge Summit Pennsylvania Fire Hall on Friday and Saturday evenings, April 13 and April 14, and a show only matinee on April 14. Doors for the evening shows will open at 6 p.m., with dinner served at 7 p.m., and the show starting at 8 p.m. The doors will open for the Saturday matinee at 1:15 p.m. with the show starting at 2 p.m. The evening performance tickets cost $40 per person and include a buffet dinner provided by the Mountain Gate Family Restaurant.

Schools in the Cascade area of Washington County will operate on a two-hour delay today due to weather, Washington County Public Schools spokesman Richard Wright announced. All other Washington County Public Schools are operating on a normal schedule, he said.

One Mountain Foundation will host an all-you-can-eat spaghetti dinner, auction and dance Saturday, March 10, at American Legion Post 239 on McAfee Hill Road in Cascade. The menu includes spaghetti, tomato or meat sauce, meatballs, Italian bread and a variety of rolls, salad with choice of dressings, dessert, and drink (coffee, tea, or water). Dinner starts at 5 p.m., the auction begins at 7 p.m. and the dance will be from 8 to 11 p.m. Tickets cost $10 for adults and $5 for those ages 5 to 12. Those younger than 5 will be admitted free.

One Mountain Foundation will hold a community tree lighting Saturday, Dec. 3, from 3 to 5 p.m. at the Fort Ritchie Community Center. The event is free and open to the public. A large evergreen on the east end of the parade field will be decorated with hundreds of lights. Santa Claus will arrive by horse-drawn wagon. A short tree-lighting program will be conducted, and then all will go inside the community center to participate in various children's games, with prizes awarded to the winners.

Vendors are sought for the fall craft bazaar from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 20, at Fort Ritchie Community Center, 14421 Lake Royer Drive, Cascade. Spaces begin at $30. Call Bev Cole at 301-241-5085 for information.

A Cascade man was being held on $50,000 bond on allegations that he inappropriately touched three girls at his home last year. Russell Brent Evans, 48, is charged in three separate cases involving three girls, who stayed overnight at his Cushman Avenue home, according to the application for statement of charges filed by the Washington County Sheriff's Office. The girls told investigators the incident took place in March or April, the document said. One of the victims told investigators that Evans touched her breasts when she and Evans were sleeping in the same bed, the charging document said.

The Mountaintop Heritage Day celebration began as a small, Saturday afternoon festival with only 30 vendors. Six years later, it is the One Mountain Foundation’s biggest event of the year, attracting thousands of people to Cascade each summer. According to OMF Chairman Bill Carter, more than 60 vendors will be at the event this year. Activities include live music, children’s games and activities, helicopter rides, pony rides, boating, steam engine displays and fireworks. “The purpose is to try to get people together and celebrate our heritage, but the main thing is for people to have fun,” Carter said.

daniels@herald-mail.com HAGERSTOWN - An 8-acre tract of land outside the former Fort Ritchie U.S. Army base could be developed after several decades as vacant land. The Washington County Planning Commission voted 4-1 Monday night to support rezoning the land from Business Local to Residential Rural as part of a request by Interfaith Housing Alliance Inc. to put an unspecified number of affordable housing units along Military Road and Cherry Lane in Cascade. "This field has been empty as long as I can remember," Planning Commission member R. Ben Clopper said.

CASCADE - A community information meeting to discuss the possibility of a mutual self-housing program for the Cascade area will be held at 7 p.m. Monday at the Germantown Church of God. The program recruits income-eligible participants to build their own homes with assistance from the sponsor. The participating households build together and trade their labor for a down payment on their homes. The meeting is sponsored by Interfaith Housing of Western Maryland. For information, call 301-662-4225 or 1-410-775-7114.

Howard Wilson Ruths Jr., 74, of Stephens City, Va., died Monday, May 13, 2013, in Winchester Medical Center. Mr. Ruths was born in 1939, in Waynesboro, Pa., the son of the late Howard W. and Kathryn M. Ruths Sr. He was a graduate of Smithsburg High School, Class of 1957 in Smithsburg, Md. Mr. Ruths was a foreman operating for Potomac Edison/Allegheny Power Company, serving for more than 32 years, and retiring in 1997. He was a member and vestry member of Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church in Stephens City.

Cascade Elementary School fourth-grader Kiarra Wilson will occasionally get strawberry milk for lunch but said chocolate milk is her favorite. “It's like drinking candy,” she said. “I love chocolate.” Wilson, 10, said that her favorite meal is macaroni and cheese with chocolate milk. She was one of 14 students at Cascade Elementary asked Wednesday about their favorite type of milk to drink. Of those 14 students, eight said chocolate milk was their favorite, three preferred strawberry milk, one each went for vanilla, fat-free and unflavored, and lactose-free and unflavored.

 Emma Jane Smith Pryor Hankey, 96, of 1245 Jacks Mountain Road, Fairfield, Pa., died Sunday, April 14, at Gettysburg (Pa.) Hospital. The family will receive friends Tuesday from 6 to 8 p.m. at Grove-Bowersox Funeral Home, Waynesboro, Pa. The service will be Wednesday at 10 a.m. at the funeral home. Burial will follow in Bethel Church Cemetery, Cascade. 

An electrical problem caused a fire that resulted in $45,000 in damages to a wood-frame house Saturday night in Cascade, the Maryland State Fire Marshal's Office said Monday. The fire was reported at 8:46 p.m. at a two-story house at 14627 Pennersville Road, according to a news release from the Fire Marshal's Office. The occupants of the house discovered the fire in an upstairs bedroom, the release says. The fire caused $30,000 in damage to the structure and $15,000 in damages to the contents, according to the release.

Wendy Renee Duckett, 37, of Manassas, Va., died Sunday, March 3, 2013, at Fairfax (Va.) Hospital. A Celebration of Life ceremony will be co-celebrated with her late father, William Anthony "Tony" Duckett on Saturday, April 13, 2013, at Fort Ritchie Community Center, Cascade, at 4 p.m. Eulogy at 4:15 p.m. Dress is Tony and Wendy casual. Arrangments are by Lochstampfor Funeral Home Inc., Waynesboro, Pa.

Thomas Lee Collins, 70, of Cascade, died Wednesday, March 13, 2013, at Meritus Medical Center of Hagerstown. Services and burial will be private and at the convenience of the family. Arrangements are by J.L. Davis Funeral Home, Smithsburg.

The One Mountain Foundation will host an all-you-can-eat spaghetti dinner, auction and dance Saturday, March 23, at American Legion Post 239 on McAfee Hill Road in Cascade.  The menu includes spaghetti, tomato or meat sauce, meat balls, Italian bread and a variety of rolls, salad with choice of dressings, dessert, and drink (coffee, tea, or water). Dinner will start at 5 p.m., the auction is at 7 p.m. and dancing will be from 8 to 11 p.m. Tickets cost $10 for adults and $5 for those ages 5 to 12. Those younger than 5 will be admitted free.

James D. “Jim” Coyle III, 65, of Pennersville Road, Cascade, Md., passed away Friday, Feb. 22, 2013, at Waynesboro (Pa.) Hospital. Born Aug. 29, 1947, in Waynesboro, he was the son of the late James D. “Bob” Coyle Jr. and Dora Jane (Cooper) Coyle. He was a graduate of Smithsburg High School, Class of 1965. He was a self-employed auto mechanic for Coyle's 66 Filling Station and Coyle's Garage. He was a member of ACACIA Lodge 155 AF & AM of Thurmont, Md., SAL American Legion Post 239 of Cascade and Blue Ridge Sportsmen's Association.

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One person died and another was taken to a hospital after a head-on collision Sunday morning in the 14400 block of MacAfee Hill Road near the Fort Ritchie Community Center, according to the Washington County Sheriff's Office. Sun Winstead, 62, of Waynesboro, Pa., was pronounced dead at the scene, Deputy 1st Class Carly Hose said in a news release. Jason Belcher, 42, also of Waynesboro, was transported to Meritus Medical Center east of Hagerstown and later taken to the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore, authorities said.