Lunch

If you are a senior looking for a healthy lunch and some companionship, the Keedysville senior site invites you to lunch. Meals are offered Monday, Wednesday and Friday for a suggested price of $5.25.  Financial assistance is available. A two-day notice is required. In addition to lunch, the site offers lectures, exercise classes and other activities. For more information, call Marsha at 301-432-5624. Music students Several gifted musicians from Boonsboro Middle School participated in the All County Band event Feb. 5 under the direction of Jeff Brodie.

The Boonsboro Middle School advisory program has added a community service component for students and will be using a grant approved by the Washington County Public Schools’ We Believe Foundation to provide “Helping Hands”  for the Micah’s Backpack organization. Teachers Jaime Schwab and Amanda Kline submitted a grant request focusing on putting together lunches for the hungry. The Boonsboro Middle students and staff are working with the Micah’s Backpack organization to coordinate food donations through county elementary schools.

Organizers of a project to provide less fortunate children with food during Berkeley County Schools' winter break anticipate distributing as many as 300 holiday lunch bags this year. "We desperately need food donations at this point," said Boys & Girls Club volunteer Tracie Lane. Now in its third year, the Holiday Lunch Bag Project at the Boys & Girls Club in Martinsburg aims to help families with children who rely on the school system's free and reduced lunch program, according to Lane.

Make your lunchtime "special" by brown bagging your midday meal. A packed lunch can be a great way to trim your waist and your budget. Restaurant meals are usually large portions and lots of calories that can really pack on the extra pounds. Plus, they can easily cost $10 or more. Over the course of a month, the extra calories and dollars really add up. How do you make the lunch you pack at home just as exciting as a restaurant meal? First, stay away from the same dull sandwich.

TIf you're tired of making the same old PB&J, guess what? Your kids are probably tired of eating it, too. "It's easy to get in a rut, eating the same thing everyday for a month," said Joe Fleischman, a dad who's been on lunch-making duty for his children Lauren, 6, and Hadley, 4. The lunch box sandwich swap stops here. We asked Fleischman, executive chef and food production manager with Washington County Hospital, and another dad, John Walla, owner and chef at Black Eyed Susan near Williamsport, for tips on how to send your kids to school with gourmet foods in their lunch boxes.

A group of retired and former Chemical Leaman Tank Lines Inc. drivers, owner operators, terminal managers, dispatchers and mechanics met for lunch at Western Sizzlin' Steak House at Halfway Boulevard and York Road in Hagerstown on July 31. In attendance were Norman Vickery, Joe Sours, Leroy "Buck" Renner and friends, Sharon and Shane Needy, Rodger Lohman and wife, Shelva, Bob Davis and wife, Doris, Al Lane and friend, Barbara Moats, Fred Detrow,...

SCORE's Small Business Roundtable will be held Thursday at noon at The Landing Restaurant and Pub, 710 Dual Highway in Hagerstown. It is an opportunity for small-business owners and/or operators to gather for networking and sharing ideas. The event is free and lunch may be purchased. For more information and to register, call 301-766-2043 (leave name, plus e-mail address or telephone number).

Children in Need, with Staples and Cradles to Crayons, will distribute school supplies and backpacks to children in Washington County public schools. The supplies and backpacks will be given out from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 12, and Friday, Aug. 13, at Children in Need, 131 W. North Ave., Hagerstown. Any child that is on free or reduced lunch in the Washington County School System is eligible for a backpack. School board officials will be on hand to process lunch applications.

Chatting over lunch Friday afternoon at Nick's Airport Inn, Sylvia Bonebrake and Pamela Davis laughed about some of the cultural gaffes that followed their moves to the United States from England many decades ago. "We call things by different names, so that was a bit of a problem to start with," said Davis, 75, who moved to the U.S. in 1962 after marrying a U.S. Air Force airman. "I said I wanted a kettle, and my mother-in-law got me a saucepan. " To ease her homesickness and to meet other women who could relate, Davis joined a local chapter of Cosmopolitan Associates, an organization of foreign-born "war brides" who came to the United States with their military husbands.

In today's tough economy, packing and taking your lunch with you to work daily can significantly impact your wallet. But did you know it can also impact your health? Lunch should be roughly one-third of your daily nutritional intake each day, so it's important not to skip lunch and to make it a healthful meal. In fact, the right nutrition can give you the energy you need to get through the work day. A combination of proteins and fiber will make you feel fuller longer, which could reduce your overall calorie intake, and will fuel your body with energy.