Spaghetti

WILLIAMSPORT -- Tony's Pizza in Williamsport will donate sauce and noodles for a spaghetti dinner to raise money to restore the town's historic River View Cemetery, co-owner Jim Horn said. A date and location for the dinner have not been finalized, said Williamsport Mayor James G. McCleaf II, who met with Horn Saturday, and plans to meet with area churches to ask for help organizing and hosting the event. The restoration effort is a response to recent vandalism in the cemetery that left several dozen large tombstones overturned, but McCleaf said he hopes to raise enough to go beyond repairing the damage and fund a full rehabilitation of the cemetery.

Behind the scenes Behind the scenes -- that is where I found myself a week ago today when I got home. I had called my husband, the Rev. Allan Weatherholt, from the road asking him about supper plans and found him at St. Thomas' Church, helping the women serve spaghetti. He filled me in on the crisis going on at a local motel, a crisis that had brought almost 100 law enforcement officers, fire and rescue personnel, traffic control officials, State Highway workers and others to our little town.

Spaghetti dinner set for Saturday Hagerstown Forest No 95, the Tall Cedars of Lebanon, is having a spaghetti feed and bake sale Saturday, from 11:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. at Chewsville Community Church, White Hall Road, Chewsville. Tickets cost $7. Children 7 and younger eat free. Carry-out sauce is available for $7 per quart. For more information, call 301-582-4959 or e-mail CKoenekeJr@msn . TOPS chapter says thank you TOPS (Taking off Pounds Sensibly) Chapter 462 of Smithsburg would like to thank everyone who participated in the fundraiser with the coupons for the BonTon Community Day Event.

GREENCASTLE, Pa. - The best singers in the world and the best dancers? Russ Clever says they're on television. The entertainers performing in Greencastle tonight through Saturday, though, are your brothers, fathers and neighbors, who just might tease you during the show. "It's different," Clever said. "I think the reason why this is the 73rd Minstrel Show and it goes on and on, it's certainly not because Greencastle has all the talent in 100 miles. ... I think our biggest asset is you can't turn on the TV and see an old-time minstrel show.

On Feb. 1, the Shook Home Auxiliary had a special surprise when Rich Alloway, candidate for the 33rd Senate District, came to The Shook Home Auxiliary spaghetti dinner to lend a helping hand. Alloway served spaghetti with a smile. Alloway lives in Chambersburg, Pa., with his wife, Shannon.

WAYNESBORO, Pa. - A Waynesboro Area Senior High School senior is hosting a fundraising spaghetti dinner Thursday night. The spaghetti dinner to benefit The American Cancer Society will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. at St. Mary's Episcopal Church at the corner of South Broad and East Second streets in Waynesboro. Tickets cost $7 for adults, $4 for those 10 and younger and free for children younger than 3. The dinner is the senior project of Allyson Fridinger.

It was the first "hospi" run since the official opening of the Hagerstown Olive Garden and the "customers" were thrilled. The recipients of a free lunch - spaghetti, salad and breadsticks - were the students and staff at Hagerstown Day Nursery. Whether the children called it "sghettis" or pasta, they all gave it a thumbs up as they happily munched away. General manager Jason Rakaczewski, along with Culinary Manager Justin Tennant, both from the Hagerstown restaurant, helped serve the children, along with Ian Nason.

The North Hagerstown High School Band Boosters will host a spaghetti dinner on Saturday, Nov. 17, from 3 to 7 p.m. in the school cafeteria. Desserts will be available. The Hub Band will provide music for the evening. Tickets, at $5 for adults and $4 for children ages 5 through 12, are available from any band member or parent. Tickets also will be available at the door. For further information, contact Diane Mitchell at 301-790-2303 or Jeremy Karacz, band director, at 301-766-8238.

Editor's note: Each Sunday, The Herald-Mail publishes "A Life Remembered. " This continuing series takes a look back - through the eyes of family, friends, co-workers and others - at a member of the community who died recently. Today's "A Life Remembered" is about Patrick Dennis Messina, who died Jan. 31 at the age of 63. His obituary appeared in the Feb. 1 editions of The Morning Herald and The Daily Mail. CLEAR SPRING - One day in the 1980s while Donna Shupp was working as Assistant Principal Herb Hardin's secretary at North Hagerstown High School, she looked up to see faculty member and coach Patrick Messina coming in the door.

HAGERSTOWN - With a sauce-splattered knife laid across her plate, Samantha Ebersole spun spaghetti with her fork and spoon. Spaghetti covered the corners of some diners' mouths as they dug into heaping plates at a fundraiser Sunday, but for the 14-year-old from Williamsport, eating was a ballet of twist, spin and chomp. Samantha, her parents and a friend were among those who turned out on a gray, chilly day to enjoy Antietam Exchange Club's 34th annual Italian Festa at South Hagerstown High School.