Dinner

New Street United Methodist Chuch hosted its 6th annual spaghetti dinner Wednesday in Shepherdstown, W.Va.

The Franklin County (Pa.) Republican Committee has canceled its scheduled Eisenhower Day dinner Monday night in Greencastle, officials said. The featured speaker was to have been former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum. Others expected to speak at the event included U.S. Rep. Bill Shuster, R-Pa., and Pennsylvania Attorney General candidate David Freed.

laurae@herald-mail.com A week after Hagerstown philanthropist Nick Giannaris canceled his annual Christmas dinner for the needy and lonely, a group of local doctors has stepped forward to fill the void. Washington County emergency room doctor Scott Wegner already had organized volunteers to deliver about 500 meals to seniors living in public housing on Christmas Eve. But his plans expanded further after Giannaris announced last week that his health would prevent him from hosting the popular Christmas feast at the Four Points Sheraton.

So when did we become so spoiled? I wonder this sometimes. It kicked up again recently when my son told me about a conversation he heard while having dinner at a friend's house. His friend's sister had been complaining about the leftover homemade ham and bean soup their mom had served for dinner. Following the sister's grumbling, his friend's father chimed in. “When I was a kid, we were happy to have leftovers. Every week on payday, we'd go buy rice and some kind of meat.

CHAMBERSBURG, Pa. — Plans for the annual Franklin County Salvation Army Christmas dinner are still under way, organizers said last week. "We are working to make sure anyone who is alone on Christmas Day will have a warm meal and a present," organizer Lynne Newman said in a news release. Volunteers are busy gathering items for the meal, which will be served from noon to 2 p.m. Christmas Day in the Salvation Army lunch room on Lincoln Way West in Chambersburg. Anyone who wishes a meal, or who would like to donate food or presents, or who would like to volunteer should call Newman at 717-263-2151 or 717-360-2407.

SHEPHERDSTOWN, W.Va. - The Presidents of the Shepherdstown Battlefield Preservation Association Inc. (SBPA), the Shepherdstown Men's Club Inc. (SMC), and the Historic Shepherdstown Commission Inc. (HSC) will host a book signing dinner and Civil War Memorabilia and Art Auction at the War Memorial Building on June 11. The dinner will celebrate the publication of "The Maryland Campaign of September 1862, Volume 1," edited by Thomas Clemens. The Maryland Campaign entailed 3 battles: South Mountain, Antietam and Shepherdstown; and the siege and surrender of Harper's Ferry.

Boonsboro High School inducted new members into the Spanish Honor Society.   The ceremony was preceded by international cuisine prepared by the students and teachers. This year there also was a PowerPoint presentation on Ukraine by Boonsboro exchange student Kateryna Nykonenko.    New members of the Boonsboro High Spanish Honor Society for 2011 (in alphabetical order) include Scott Bennett, Chad Cowden, Taylor Cook, Caroline Cukier, Abby Duncan, Hannah Froehlich, Ashlyn Hawbaker, Sara Hobbs, Steven Kurapaty, Brittany Kookaby, Kelsey Mannix, Shannon McClellan, Jennifer Moore, Shannon O’Brien, Brandon Russell and Rami Yanes.

MIDDLEWAY, W.Va. - There's still time to sign up for the Saturday, July 17 "Fresh Feast on the Farm" dinner, which is being held at Bill White Grantham's Meadow Green/Aqua Green Farm near Middleway in southern Jefferson County. There are 16 seats still available. The event starts at 6 p.m. with appetizers and a walking tour of the farm. Dinner will follow at 7 p.m. Cost is $75 per person. A portion of the proceeds will be donated to a local non-profit organization that provides volunteer wait staff.

Take 60 pounds of sauerkraut and 80 pounds of pork, toss into the mix 60 pounds of chicken and some corn and mashed potatoes, and you have the recipe for Camp Joy El's New Year's Eve pork and sauerkraut dinner. Camp Joy El's traditional pork and sauerkraut dinner has been a popular mainstay for almost 40 years. But Saturday's crowd was so large that camp staffers donned reflective vests and helped direct cars into designated spaces in order to accommodate more than 220 people who attended the annual event sponsored by Joy El Ministries.

One man at the Bridge of Life community dinner on Christmas Eve described his holiday situation this way: “I'm right next to homeless and hungry,” said the man, who declined to give his name. He went on to say he has been out of prison for six months, and times on the outside have been tough. The hungry part was satisfied, at least for the time, for that man and about 200 other men, women and children who showed up at the church for turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing and other trimmings, and plentiful desserts.