Dinner

Salem Reformed Church Youth will sponsor a western-themed dinner with entertainment Saturday, Jan. 19. Doors open at 5 p.m. and dinner will be served at 5:30 p.m. Entertainment will be provided by Gad-Abouts Square Dance Club. Tickets can be purchased at the door for $8. The church is at 13182 Salem Church Road, off Cearfoss Pike. The snow date is Sunday, Jan. 20. at noon. Proceeds will benefit the youth mission trip. VA officer to visit Hagerstown Jan. 17 Veterans of the U.S. armed forces are eligible for programs and services provided by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.

The traditional New Year's Day dinner of pork and sauerkraut came to Franklin County, Pa., by immigrants from Lancaster, Pa., and before that by immigrants from Germany, Robert Windemuth said Tuesday. Windemuth, a history teacher from Chambersburg, Pa., and his wife, Roberta, joined about 600 people at the Fayetteville Volunteer Fire and Rescue Co., where the pork and sauerkraut tradition lived on Tuesday. Fire department members and friends put on annual dinners, including the New Year's feast, which bring in more than $20,000 for the fire department coffers.

Cub Scout Pack 102 will hold a spaghetti dinner Friday, Jan. 18, from 5 to 8:30 p.m. at the Wacohu Grange. The community is invited. Proceeds will go to help the Cub Scouts. Library news The Leonard P. Snyder Memorial Library will hold its Lego Building Club Tuesday, Jan.  8, at 3:45 p.m. The children will be given access to Duplos and Legos. There will be a building challenge, but free building will be allowed.   For more information, call 301-842-2730. Also, the library will hold a book discussion Wednesday, Jan. 9, at 11:15 a.m. This month's selection is “Calico Joe” by John Grisham.

The Hagerstown Business and Professional Women's Club will hold its monthly dinner meeting Monday, Jan. 7, at Hager Hall Conference Center, 901 Dual Highway.  Networking will be from 5:30 to 6 p.m., followed by dinner and the program titled “Look Great at Any Age.” Getting older does not mean you have to give up your fashion sense. Go from drab to fab with hair, make-up and fashion tips from Brenda Dalton, owner of RoseBrooke Studio, Frederick, Md.  The dinner program is open to members and interested guests.  The event costs $16.  To make reservations, call Sandy Mills at 301-302-8237 by Jan. 3. Volleyball for girls There will be an open volleyball session for girls ages 11 to 14 on Friday evenings from 8 to 9:30 p.m. The session will run from Jan. 4 until the end of May. There will be instruction, match play and possible tournament participation for all levels of play.

Shirley Mae Hutson used to roast venison from a deer that she or her husband, Donald,  shot for Christmas dinner. Then Donald, a carpenter, stopped hunting after he fell 9 feet onto concrete during a job, said Donald Hutson, 75, who lives in the Huyetts Crossroads area. So turkey became the new Christmas Day entree. But for the past three or four Christmases, the Hutsons have gotten their Christmas dinner from the Shepherd's Table at Rehoboth United Methodist Church on East Salisbury Street in Williamsport.

Ed and Peggy Townsend of Manchester, Mich., spent Christmas Tuesday serving holiday dinners to a lot of folks they didn't know. Another couple, Chris Elmer, a math professor at Shepherd University, and Cathy Malast, who live in Shepherdstown, came to Asbury United Methodist Church at 110 W. Church St. because they “wanted to be with some people on Christmas.” Bill Ball, a lay minister, was there to volunteer at what was the church's third...

A foam meal tray is pulled from a tower of trays and moved down a row of tables, where someone places a slice of ham in the tray, and then another volunteer tops it with a slice of turkey. Then a scoop of stuffing, a spoonful of buttered green beans, a plop of roasted potatoes and a ladle full of gravy are added. The tray is closed and slid around the corner of tables, where someone packs it into a red reusable Meritus Health bag. Another container, holding a slice of pumpkin pie, a roll, cranberry sauce and whipped spread is added to the bag. At least 200 volunteers were busy cooking, packing and delivering hot meals Monday morning and afternoon for approximately 2,300 Washington County residents on Christmas Eve. This was the 11th year for the Lend-A-Hand Dinner sponsored by Meritus Medical Center's medical staff and Medical Emergency Professionals, which is the contracted group that staffs the medical center's Emergency Department, said Dr. Stephen Kotch from the medical center's Emergency Department.

Donations of toys and food are still needed for the annual Christmas Day dinner in Franklin County, Pa. Tuesday's dinner is sponsored by the Salvation Army and run by volunteers, including Lynne Newman, who is organizing the event for the 21st year. Doors open at noon at the Salvation Army building at 159 Lincoln Way West in Chambersburg, and dinner will be served until 2 p.m. Deliveries to shut-ins and others who need a Christmas meal begin normally between 10:30 and 11 a.m. Volunteers decorate the lunch room for the holiday and wrap presents as well as help cook, cut up turkeys and deliver the meals to shut-ins and serve those who come to the Salvation Army.

The Boonsboro High School Class of 1977 is planning a holiday dinner Saturday, Jan. 5, at 6 p.m. at Dan's Restaurant & Tap House on Main Street in Boonsboro. There will be a gift exchange. Gifts should be valued at approximately $10. To  RSVP, call Terri Hollingshead at 301-491-2024 or send an email to ptholling@myactv.net ; or call Kim (Labrush) Wachtel at 301-992-6837 or send an email to wackim@hotmail.com .

Thursday evening at LJ's & The Kat Lounge was both a reward for a year of participation and a lesson in etiquette for a group of young women and a young man from the Boys & Girls Club at Noland Village. The group arrived at LJ's in style, pulling up in a limousine provided by E.G. Specialized Limo Service. Once inside, they sat down for their seven-course meal with each setting having a dozen knives, forks and spoons on a wine-colored linen tablecloth. As each course is served, LJ's owner Alex Tiches told them before dinner, the diner goes from the outside utensil inward as the meal progresses.