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Scouts Food Drive

November 14, 2015November 15, 2015 GladeValley.net StaffBoy Scouts, Cub Scouts, featured, food bank, Glade Valley Community Services

The Glade Valley Food Bank received an influx of food donations, and a lot of volunteer help today. The Boy Scout and Cub Scout Troops 1070, 1011, and 1636 worked hard to collect donations of non-perishable food items for the food bank run by Glade Valley Community Services. The Scouts send a great thanks to all who contributed! If you missed setting out your donations, the Glade Valley Food Bank will gladly accept donations brought to Walkersville Town Hall. They need all the donations they can get.

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Summer Outreach Success

November 13, 2015November 11, 2015 Michael Kusterchurches, featured, Glade Valley Community Services, Lunch Program, Outreach, summer, Walkersville

Glade Valley Community Services, Inc. reports another fullfilling summer for the Summer Outreach of Walkersville Area Churches (SOWAC). The porgram offered fun activities at Discovery Community Center (June 22-Aug. 14) and Creamery Park (June 22-July 24). The program provides a healthy lunch and good adult interaction and supervision for youths aged eighteen years and younger who otherwise may not have the opportunity to enjoy games and crafts, or just to have an adult to talk to during the daytime in the summer. On average, about thirty-five people participated each day at…

Roger Johnson Retires from GVCS Board

November 12, 2015November 12, 2015 GladeValley.net StaffBoard of Directors, featured, Glade Valley Community Services, retires, Roger Johnson

Mr. Roger Johnson recently announced his retirement from the Glade Valley Community Services Board of Directors. He has served on the Board and been active in GVCS since 2005. Among his many jobs, Roger arranged choir concerts with area choir directors as a fundraiser for GVCS. He wrote the thank you notes to donors. Roger was a former editor of this newsletter; Catherine, his wife of fifty-seven years, helped him with the newsletter and mailing. Before retiring, Roger was a microbiologist and worked at the Cancer Research Center at Ft. Detrick…

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Glade Valley Thrift Shop

November 12, 2015November 11, 2015 Michael Kusterdonations, featured, Glade Valley Community Services, Thrift Shop, Walkersville

The Glade Valley Community Thrift Shop has its fall and winter clothes ready and waiting for the change of weather. As you clean out summer clothes and bring out the fall and winter items, remember the Thrift Shop. Pack up summer clothes you don’t want and save to donate in the spring. Donate your unwanted fall and winter items now. Children’s clothing is always needed at the Thrift Shop. Please donate your unwanted clothes and books to the Thrift Shop to benefit local families. In Walkersville, the green clothing drop…

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School Supplies Distributed

November 11, 2015November 11, 2015 Michael Kusterfeatured, Glade Valley Community Services, school supplies

Recognizing that the cost of school supplies can be prohibitive for some families, Glade Valley Community Services, Inc. conducts a school supply distribution each year to help students get a jump start on the school year. A lack of supplies can be a contributing factor to a poor attitude and poor grades in school. School supplies were distributed on Sunday, August 9, 2015 at the Glade Valley Food Bank. School supplies from the list provided by each school plus a backpack were distributed to 166 students, from 67 families, who…