Chocolate Fountain

SMITHSBURG - A Chocolate Festival will be held at Trinity Lutheran Church, 16 N. Main St. in Smithsburg, on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The event will feature chocolate in a variety of forms, including cookies, brownies, candy, cake, milk and more. There also will be a chocolate fountain, cookie contest, pie throwing, chocolate cakes, Valentine's crafts for children and the Willy Wonka movie. The proceeds benefit the Trinity Lutheran Church Youth Work Camp.

It was a sinfully delicious day at the First United Methodist Church, with tables filled with numerous decadent chocolate treats. Chocolate lovers like Dave Martin of Greencastle were in heaven at the church’s All Things Chocolate fundraiser on Saturday. For $8, chocoholics could graze over an array of tempting homemade goodies from noon to 3 p.m. Church members donated the treats. But it wasn’t the mouthwatering frosted cupcakes, the luscious brown chocolate dripping from the chocolate fountain or even the rich chocolate mousse that had Martin salivating.

Chocolate festival Chocolate cookies, chocolate brownies, chocolate fountain, chocolate candy, chocolate cakes, chocolate milk and more chocolate. Also includes a silent auction, pie throwing, Valentine crafts for children, cookie contest and Willy Wonka movie. Today, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Trinity Lutheran Church, 16 N. Main St., Smithsburg. One-man show Michael Cooper's one-man show features handcrafted masks, original stories of courage and wonder, outlandish stilt dancing and a physical repertoire that ranges from the madcap to the sublime.

GETTYSBURG, Pa. -- More than 20 brass bands, a ballet company, a chocolate fountain and a motorcycle daredevil are all part of the first Gettysburg Festival, 11 days of celebration of the arts that kicks off today. The Gettysburg Festival encompasses two festivals, absorbing the annual Gettysburg Brass Band Festival and adding several other arts-related events during the accompanying Gettysburg Fringe Festival, said Karen Hendricks, the event's public relations and marketing director.

Editor's note: There are a lot of people you see around town that you recognize but don't know anything about. People like ... Helen Kreykenbohm Age - 87. Occupation - Retired Hagerstown Community College professor. Hometown - Hagerstown. Where would you see Kreykenbohm? Kreykenbohm grew up in a home that valued education. Her father, John Zentmyer, was principal at several Washington County high schools, most notably at Hagerstown High School from 1926 to 1946.

SMITHSBURG - Fidgeting children clutched dollar bills and smiled impishly, savoring the prospect of lobbing a chocolate pie in the face of their clergyman. Pastor Gerry Johnson slipped his head through a garbage bag and dutifully took his place before the crowd. This was the second of three rounds of Pie in the Eye he would endure throughout the day. Not a typical Sunday offering, indeed, but a worthwhile venture nonetheless, Johnson conceded. Of all the children who paid for a chance to wallop the pastor, Nolan Zahm won the honors.

SMITHSBURG -- Fidgeting children clutched dollar bills and smiled impishly, savoring the prospect of lobbing a chocolate pie in the face of their clergyman. Pastor Gerry Johnson slipped his head through a garbage bag and dutifully took his place before the crowd. This was the second of three rounds of Pie in the Eye he would endure throughout the day. Not a typical Sunday offering, indeed, but a worthwhile venture nonetheless, Johnson conceded. Of all the children who paid for a chance to wallop the pastor, Nolan Zahm won the honors.