Community 

New Midway / Woodsboro PTA Mum Sale

Annual PTA Mum Sale  Order your fall decorations and help our PTA! Mums will be available for pick up at the Fall Festival on Friday, October 10th at Woodsboro ES Orders & payment due no later than Thursday, October 2nd Assorted colors available in 9” pots!! This year also offering 5″ Ornamental Kale Please contact Kim Bowers at bowerskim@hotmail.com for any questions you may have!!!

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Celebrations 

Walkersville High Senior Semi-Finalist for National Merit Scholarship

Walkersville High School Senior Henry Reichard has been named a semi-finalist for the 2015 National Merit Scholarship Competition.  Mr. Reichard earned the recognition by taking the 2013 Preliminary SAT / National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test.  That test screens initial program entrants.  The nationwide pool of semifinalists represent less than one percent of U.S. high school seniors. Congratulations to Walkersville High senior Henry Reichard for being named a Semifinalist in the 2015 National Merit Scholarship Competition!

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Education 

Support Walkersville Elementary School’s PTA

The Walkersville Elementary School PTA will be holding a PTA Dine Around fundraiser tonight, September 23, 2014 from 5 p.m. until 9 p.m.  Enjoy dine-in or carry-out meals at Noodles and Company’s North Frederick Location just off of Maryland Route 26, 200-A Shorebird Street, Frederick, MD 21701. You must mention WES PTA while ordering.  Noodles and Company will give 25% of sales to the Walkersville Elementary School PTA.

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Walkersville Siblings Showing Swine

Chase and Mickinzi Ferguson know their stuff when it comes to hogs! They proved their chops at The Great Frederick Fair with a long list of awards including Champion Middle Weight Barrow, Reserve Champion Middle Weight Barrow, Champion Heavy Weight Barrow, Champion Light Weight Gilt, Reserve Grand Champion Market Hog, Champion Bred and Owned Market Hog, Grand Champion Purebred Barrow, and Champion Yorkshire Gilt. On Sunday, Chase won Master Showman in the Swine Fitting & Showing event.  Unlike events that grade the animals based upon their breed or market characteristics,…

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Walkersville Farmer and Leader, William Crum: 1927 – 2014

William Bruce “Bill” Crum, 87, of Walkersville, passed away on Monday, September 15, 2014. Born June 5, 1927 in Sunshine, MD, he was the son of late Bruce Elias and Frances Catherine Howes Crum. Bill married Barbara Diane Eaves on June 22, 1952 at the Walkersville United Methodist Church. Bill graduated from Walkersville High School in the Class of 1944. He was President of the Alumni Association in 1980-1981. He was a hardworking and dedicated husband and father. A dairy farmer for 37 years, Bill was a member of the…

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