Grandparents Day

Here are some of the things happening next week in Washington County Public Schools: Monday, April 7 Clear Spring High - Athletic Boosters meeting, 7 p.m. Clear Spring Middle - School Improvement Team (SIT) meeting, 3:30 p.m.; PTSA meeting, 6 p.m. E. Russell Hicks Middle - Department meetings, 2:30 p.m.; PTA meeting, 7 p.m. Greenbrier Elementary - PTA meeting, 7 p.m. Funkstown Elementary - Grade two Math Night, 6 p.m. Northern Middle - Barbara Ingram School for the Arts information session, 7 p.m. Pleasant Valley Elementary - Good Citizens Luncheon; PTA Judo class, 6:30 p.m. Sharpsburg Elementary - Executive PTO meeting, 5:30 p.m.; general PTO meeting, 6:30 p.m. Washington County Technical High - Team Leader meeting, 3:15 p.m. Tuesday, April 8 · MSA language arts testing · MSA reading testing · Board of Education joint meeting with Washington County Commissioners in BOE auditorium, 4 p.m., broadcast live on Antietam Cable Channel 99. Clear Spring High - Citizens Advisory Council (CAC)

“Summit area speed problem: Tear off the top layer, like you've done at Prospect Street between Pennsylvania Avenue and North Potomac, and then treat the situation like the downtown library debacle. Forced and furious.” - Hagerstown “It's clear, after watching the last several Republican debates, that these people are only for the millionaires and billionaires in this country. They offer nothing for the working man.” - Hagerstown “To the person who called in from Hagerstown about receiving a Grandparents Day card: I'll tell you like my parents told me a few years back.

HAGERSTOWN - In 1994, May Crabb had an encounter with a 6-year-old girl at a Washington County school that had a profound effect on her. "This child bounced in wearing new glasses," the Hagerstown Lioness Club member said. "She told me she could see now, thanks to the vision screening she'd had a year earlier. " When Crabb checked the records, she discovered that she screened the little girl the year before. "That made it all worthwhile," Crabb said of the club's vision-screening program that has been testing all public school students in Washington County since 1993.

marlob@herald-mail.com FUNKSTOWN - An experiment designed to bring dads and their children a little closer recently, exceeded even the organizers wildest dreams at the Funkstown School for Early Childhood Education. "The turnout was unbelievable," said Sharon Mattingly, president of the PTA at that school. "We sent out a form letter and it just grew and grew. " When the Date With Dad night arrived on Jan. 19, Mattingly said, 218 people turned out. The planned table space in the school cafeteria was soon exceeded and additional tables and chairs were set up in the hallways to accommodate the children and their parents.

Here are some of the things happening in Washington County Public Schools this week: Today Fountaindale Elementary - Assembly for all students at 9 a.m. Hickory Elementary - 21st Century after-school program begins Pleasant Valley Elementary - Parent involvement training from 6 to 9 p.m. Smithsburg Elementary - First-graders to visit the planetarium. Springfield Middle - Riversong practice at 3:30 p.m. Western Heights Middle - Book fair begins.

o Read more Darylene Mowen columns at washingtoncountyliving.com Broadfording Christian Academy Fun Night Broadfording Christian Academy is having a Family, Friends and Supporters Fun Night on Monday from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. at Denny's on Dual Highway in Hagerstown. Activities will include free face painting and, for 50 cents, take a spin on the prize wheel. The BCA mascot Judah the Lion will also make an appearance. A percentage of the meals sold will benefit Broadfording's PTF. 'The Gift of the Magi' A drama titled "The Gift of the Magi" will be presented Sunday, Dec. 20, at 10:45 a.m. at Robinwood Church of God, 12030 Warrenfeltz Lane, just off Jefferson Boulevard in Hagerstown.