Enjoy an evening of pampering, shopping, and socializing just for the ladies at the First Annual Ladies’ Night Out, for Jane’s Place, Inc., which will take place Friday, April 1st from 6:00 to 9:00 p.m. at the Cumberland Country Club. The evening will feature vendors, services, hors d’oeuvres, desserts, and a silent auction. Featured vendors and service providers include Arbonne, Absolutely Charming (Living Lockets/Charms), Barbie’s Body Wraps-It Works, Elements Wellness Spa, Flash with a Flair Photography, Healing Hands Massage, Healing Traditions Therapeutic Massage, Hush Skin Care & Mountain Massage, Juice Plus, LulaRoe, MIXX, Magnolia & Vine, Mary Kay, Pure Romance, Rodan + Fields, Scentsy, Tami’s Picz, Dipz, & Popz, Statik Salon, Thirty One, Young Living Essential Oils, Younique, and more. Vendors will donate 10% of their sales at the event to Jane’s Place, Inc. The silent auction will feature over 50 items and packages, including Walt Disney World Hopper Passes, gym memberships, massages, gift baskets, jewelry, various tickets including the Sight and Sound Theatre, and the Cumberland Theatre, and so much more. The proceeds from the auction directly benefit the mission of Jane’s Place, Allegany County Child Advocacy Center. Tickets are currently on sale for $25, they will be $30 at the door. Ticket outlets include: Buttercup Boutique, Jane’s Place, CAC, MIXX, ProCare, and The Book Center in Cumberland; Crestmont, LTD and Main Street Books in Frostburg, and Life Fitness in LaVale. For more information, contact Jane’s Place at 301-722-0016. Special thanks to our Champion Sponsor, the Western Maryland Health System. All proceeds from the event will directly benefit Jane’s Place, Inc. Jane’s Place, Inc. is a nonprofit child advocacy center in Allegany County which exists to help children who have suffered from physical and sexual abuse and neglect. The goal is to reduce further trauma in their young lives by creating a safe and child friendly space where they can begin to heal. Jane’s Place, Inc.-A place to tell their story…A place where healing begins. Jane’s Place is both a place and a team of people that helps children ages 0-18 and their families recover from the devastation of child abuse by providing forensically sound interviews, on-site therapy, scheduling for medical examinations, and follow-up services. All of these services are provided free of charge. Jane’s Place, Inc. is named in honor of the late Mrs. Jane Dawson. She was a woman of great integrity, always striving to ensure the best for the children of Allegany County, through both her job as a Family Life educator and her elected position on the Board of Education. She believed every child should have the opportunity to grow and receive the support necessary for them to be successful in life. Visit our website at www.jpicac.org.
Mountainside Baroque will be bringing multiple Grammy-winning artist Paul O’Dette to Cumberland. O’Dette is perhaps the most celebrated lute player of his generation, described by the Toronto Globe and Mail as “the clearest case of genius ever to touch his instrument.” He will be the featured soloist on April’s series concert, “A Merry Moode for Two Lutes,” scheduled for St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, Smallwood at Washington, on Sunday, April 3 at 4 p.m. There will be a pre-concert talk at 3:30 p.m. The lute itself was the most popular instrument in the 16th and 17th centuries, with nearly 50,000 pieces that have been left to us in the manifold manuscripts and prints from the era. It has had a great resurgence since the middle of the 20th century and several schools offer degrees in the instrument on equal status with modern instruments. Tickets will be available at the door or can be ordered only at the Mountainside Baroque website: www.mountainsidebaroque.org. For more information call 301-338-2940.
Rawlings Volunteer Fire Department will be holding a breakfast and outdoor flea market Saturday beginning at 7am. The flea market will be held from 7am until 1pm . The cost is $10 to set up a spot and table rental is $5. The flea market is free and open to the public. Breakfast will be served from 7am until 11am and is $8 for adults and $5 for children 5-15, 4 and under are free. The event will be held at the Rawlings VFD at 18900 Volunteer Drive, Rawlings MD 21557. For questions find the Rawlings VFD on facebook or call the fire station at 301-729-8229.
The Friends of the Fort Ashby Public Library will sponsor their annual Spring book sale from Friday, April 1 through Saturday, April 9, 2016 at noon