Community Glade Valley 

Glade Valley Food Bank Needs Your Support

The Glade Valley Food Bank seeks the community’s support as donations are down in the summer months. Items most urgently needed are peanut butter and tuna; these shelves are bare.    Other places where the shelves are starting to look empty include macaroni and cheese, Hamburger Helper, canned fruit, boxed potatoes (mashed, scalloped, etc.), soup, canned peas, cereal, spaghetti/pasta, spaghetti sauce, baked beans.  Your donations can be left in the outdoor blue and gold donation box near the rear of Walkersville Town Hall.  Or you can donate items through your church.…

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Community Glade Valley 

Glade Valley Thanks Mike Garst

Mike Garst, a Glade Valley Community Services Board of Directors member for 6 years, recently moved from the Walkersville community to be closer to his children and grandchildren. Mike served as chair of the SOWAC program each summer for over 6 years and also as secretary for the Board of Directors. The SOWAC (Summer Outreach Walkersville Area Churches) is the summer lunch program sponsored by GVCS and the Walkersville area churches. Mike said that he “got connected to GVCS because of being involved in SOWAC and because GVCS was part…

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Community Glade Valley 

Emergency Relief Fund Continues to See Increasing Number of Callers

The Emergency Relief Fund program of GVCS provides information, referrals and financial assistance to local residents who are experiencing emergency hardships in covering expenses for their basic human needs. The Fund provides assistance for utilities (electric, water, sewer), medical needs, rent, homelessness prevention (motel) and other necessary expenses. Through an intake interview with one of the two volunteers, callers’ needs and eligibility are determined. They are first directed to the appropriate, larger agencies in Frederick and then asked to call back once they have “pledges” from the other agencies. The…

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Community 

Scholarship Awarded

The Peg and Orley Bourland Educational Assistance Fund scholarship was awarded through Glade Valley Community Services and The Community Foundation of Frederick to Will Johnston who is enrolled in FCC’s HVAC program. The scholarship is available to students in Walkersville and the Walkersville feeder school area. The scholarship’s purpose is to provide need-based funds for post-secondary education in trade or technical fields to help underwrite the costs associated with tuition, fees, testing, trade tools and supplies. Applications for 2017 will be available from The Community Foundation in spring, 2017.

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Community Glade Valley 

Holiday Toy Shoppe Update

Glade Valley Community Services Holiday Toy Shoppe is gearing up again this year to help provide a wonderful Christmas to many less fortunate children in our community. Last year the Holiday Toy Shoppe provided new clothes, toys and books to 148 children and gift cards and books to 61 teens. This program is supported by the generosity of the churches, schools, businesses and individuals in our community. All the gifts the children and teens receive and the door prizes the parents receive are donated. The families do go through a…

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