Thanks to the Electrical Training Program, a new class from End Hunger In Calvert County, 24 people who were once unemployed or underemployed are now either working or closer to working full time through the Local 26 Electricians Union.
The Rev. Robert P. Hahn, chairman of End Hunger, said the idea for the training program came from a brainstorming session between the JATC International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 26 Electricians Union, the Southern Maryland Tri-County Community Council and End Hunger representatives.
“They constructed this idea out of what was there, out of what the Electricians Union wanted to do [and] out of what we wanted to bring to the table,” Hahn said. “It was a major success.”
The program launched in September to provide a job training program to get county residents back to work, Hahn said, and from it, 24 people graduated in December.
“Our mission at End Hunger is to help move people from dependency to self-sufficiency,” Hahn said in a written statement. “Because of the Electrical Training Program, 24 people who once were not able to provide for their families now can. That’s what it’s about for us.”
Hahn said “we got the word out” about the program through churches in the county, through food pantries in the county and through End Hunger’s social networking program, which he said was “pretty active.”
“We just got the word out and candidates came in,” Hahn said. “We filled up so fast we had to create a waiting list, and I know that not everyone got in.”
The 15-week course was a combination of classroom lectures as well as hands-on practicums, according to an End Hunger press release. Students received 90 hours of training experience and became certified in Occupational Safety and Health Administration requirements, CPR and basic first aid.
Hahn attributed the success of the program to “great partners,” including the Calvert County public school system, which made the Calvert Career and Technology Academy available to hold the class “for a nominal cost.”
Graduates are now part of the residential program through the electrician union and are qualified for above entry-level positions with electrical companies, according to the press release, and many will begin pursuing a career with the union’s apprenticeship program.
Several of the program’s graduates have already secured jobs with electrical companies, Hahn said, and some have “moved to the top of the list” for getting hired. Others have moved up within the company they work for because they became better qualified for other jobs, he said.
While Hahn said he hopes to have another training program, it depends on “coming up with the funds for the instructor.” He said the program cost about $30,000 to conduct, which was paid for through grant funds and money from End Hunger and Chesapeake Church, and provided free tuition, tools and tool belts for the students.
“It’s one of the best investments,” Hahn said of the program. “It’s a real investment because each one of those students becomes an employed taxpayer.”
For more information about End Hunger and how to get involved, go to www.endhungercalvert.org.
kfitzpatrick@somdnews.com

End Hunger in Calvert County and the Solomons and Dunkirk volunteer fire departments are collecting donations to aid victims of the hurricane through Nov. 14. One truckload of donations will be taken to New Jersey hurricane shelters Sunday, Nov. 11, and another will be taken Friday, Nov. 16.
End Hunger is collecting donations at Chesapeake Church, at 6201 Solomons Island Road, Huntingtown; Solomons VFD is collecting donations at its firehouse, at 13150 H.G. Trueman Road, Solomons; and Dunkirk VFD is collecting donations at its firehouse, at 3170 West Ward Road, Dunkirk.
Jeff Carroll, a Washington, D.C., firefighter and new resident to Cobb Island, said one of his good friends who lives in Southern Maryland has family that lives in Seaside Heights, N.J., one of the areas hit hardest by Hurricane Sandy. Carroll’s friend traveled to New Jersey to check on his family and survey the damage and Carroll said “when he got up there and saw the devastation first-hand, it just totally blew him away.”
Carroll’s friend posted a message on Facebook asking Southern Maryland residents for help for his family and other victims of the hurricane. Carroll and a few of his friends saw the message, contacted a nonprofit organization in New Jersey aiding with relief efforts and “got the ball rolling,” he said.
“We started asking friends to help out, we got drop-off points set up, we got two different companies to donate the trucks,” Carroll said.
By coincidence, Carroll said, he works with Solomons VFD Chief Jim Taylor at the D.C. firehouse and mentioned he was helping to coordinate relief efforts in the area. Carroll said a Solomons VFD member, Aubre Hinson, was trying to coordinate something similar and “joined in” with Carroll’s efforts.
Taylor said since Calvert County was fortunate enough not to suffer severe damage from Hurricane Sandy and knowing how much cleanup and how many repairs were needed during Hurricane Irene last year, the department decided to help “our neighbors” out.
“We were so fortunate not to get hit with any damage … and we still like to help out outside of our area,” Taylor said.
Carroll said there are two 53-foot semi trucks, which were donated to the effort, they are trying to fill to take to New Jersey. He said because there has been such an overwhelming response of donations of clothes, he is asking for donations of non-perishable items.
Hinson said in an End Hunger press release that the most needed items are cleaning supplies, hygiene toiletries and baby food supplies, such as formula, jars of food and bottles.
Taylor said several Solomons VFD members also reached out to local thrift stores, which have willingly donated several items.
Carroll said he recently approached End Hunger and asked for any extra items they may be willing to donate for the relief efforts. End Hunger took it one step further and offered to collect donations at Chesapeake Church between 7 a.m. and 8 p.m. now through Nov. 14.
“It’s important for Calvert County to participate because … a few degrees’ difference and that storm would have hit us harder,” said the Rev. Robert Hahn, chairman of End Hunger. “One way we can show thanks for being spared is by utilizing our resources to help those just north of us.”
Hahn said many county residents have relatives in New Jersey and New York, and the relief efforts being made by the volunteer fire departments and End Hunger is just one way for the county to help other parts of the country.
“We don’t respond to every disaster … but this one we feel particularly close to,” Hahn said. “We are obviously primarily focused on providing relief in Calvert County. At the same time, I think when something of this magnitude happens, we have the resources and the contacts and the networks to reach a lot of people right away to let them know.”
Hahn added that he believes the ability to help others is a blessing of which most people should take advantage.
“We should consider it a privilege, not just an obligation, to be able to help people,” he said.
Other drop-off locations in the Southern Maryland area are at the Waldorf Volunteer Fire Department Station 3, at 3245 Old Washington Road, Waldorf; Waldorf Volunteer Fire Department Station 12, at 7000 Saint Florian Dr., Waldorf; Foote Title Group, at 3010 Crain Highway, Waldorf; La Plata Fitness Club, at 140 Drury Dr., La Plata; World Gym, at 6619 Crain Highway, La Plata; Cobb Island Volunteer Fire Department, at 17069 Cobb Island Road, Cobb Island; Southern Maryland Association of Realtors, at 8440 Old Leonardtown Road, Hughesville; Remax 100, at 28105 Three Notch Road, Mechanicsville; and Remax 100, at 23076 Three Notch Road, California, Md.
kfitzpatrick@somdnews.com

School lunches offer healthy choices

The Maryland campaign “My Plate My Choice” focuses on the healthy foods and variety of choices available to students participating in the National School Lunch Program. In 2010, the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act revised the meal requirements for the school lunch program based on recommendations made by the Institute of Medicine, according to the Maryland State Department of Education. Starting this year, all schools participating in the lunch program will implement the nutrition standards. The new meals include:ŸAn increased variety of fruits and vegetables, including dark green vegetables, orange/red vegetables and legumes at least once a week.ŸMore items rich in whole grains.ŸOne third of the average daily calories students require by age.ŸA variety of low-fat dairy products.ŸReduction of sodium levels over the next several years.Maryland schools served more than 70 million lunches last year that included low-fat milk, whole grain products and a variety of fresh fruits and vegetables. School meal menus are developed locally by the school system’s nutrition director, who must consider federal regulations, nutritional quality, affordability and student preferences when designing menus.For information about the school nutrition programs in Maryland or to learn what’s on local school menus, go to www.eatsmartmaryland.org.

School officials and others point out that for many children, the lunch and breakfast offered at school are the most nutritious — and maybe the only — meals they get most days.
In addition to programs that give food to families and children, organizations try to teach parents the importance of giving their children nutritious meals daily.
“Our children will follow what we eat. We are the role models for them,” said Jackie Gray, a faculty assistant with University of Maryland Extension.
More than 37 percent of St. Mary’s public school elementary students participated in the free and reduced-price meals program last year. That has grown steadily from 25 percent a decade ago. Charles County elementary students reflect about the same increases.
In Calvert County, almost 27 percent of elementary students participate in the meals program, up from about 14 percent 10 years ago.
There were 28,860 students in Charles schools in 2011-12, 17,449 in Charles schools and 16,202 in Calvert.
The program uses household size and family income to determine eligibility for reduced-price or free meals. The guidelines have been revised for next school year, allowing more families to qualify.
The guidelines were obtained by multiplying the 2012 federal income poverty guidelines by 130 percent and 185 percent, respectively.
For example, a child from a family of four is eligible for free school meals if the household’s income is below $29,965. If the family’s income is between $29,965 and $42,643, the child is eligible for reduced-price meals.
Those income limits do not accurately reflect the number of families in need of support, according to various organizations and studies that say the number of hungry children is on the rise.
The Center for Women’s Welfare at the University of Washington School of Social Work has determined what it calls a self-sufficiency standard, essentially a listing of the annual income needed for different size families in areas across the country to make ends meet at a minimally adequate level in today’s economy, according to the report.
Across Southern Maryland, the incomes needed to be considered self-sufficient range from about 300 to 400 percent of the federal poverty index, according to the report, which was done in part to highlight the differences in how poverty is defined. For instance, a family with two adults, one preschooler and one school-aged child would need to make about $63,000 in St. Mary’s, $71,000 in Calvert and $74,000 in Charles. Those amounts drop to between $47,000 and $56,000 for a family of one adult and one preschooler to be self-sufficient in the three Southern Maryland counties, according to the report.
Snack Saks help
Each weekend, 64 students at select St. Mary’s public elementary schools take home a bag of food to supplement their meals.
The Snack Sak project is an extension of the Southern Maryland Food Bank made possible with the help of United Way of St. Mary’s County and other agencies and volunteers.
Jennifer Hollingsworth, the executive director of the local United Way, said the group is trying to get the word out about the Snack Saks in hopes of bringing in donations from businesses or organizations.
Each weekend, a bag of up to seven pounds of food is sent home with children, 16 from each of four elementary schools: Lexington Park, George Washington Carver, Green Holly and Park Hall. She said a pack costs about $260 per child to fill each weekend from mid-October until the last day of school. “It’s really not that expensive, when you think about it,” she said.
The costs do add up. To pay for 16 packs at one school, the cost is about $4,500. The United Way and the food bank are able to fund 16 packs at each of four schools. Hollingsworth hopes to expand both the number of packs and the schools served.
The sacks are stuffed with peanut butter and jelly, cereal, oatmeal, chips, granola bars, fruit cups, crackers, juice boxes and tuna. They are discreetly handed to children at the end of the school day on Fridays. All of the sacks come back the next Monday morning.
The program is for children who are identified by school staff as chronically hungry. This could manifest itself through physical appearances, such as extreme thinness or chronically dry or cracked lips, or through behavior, such as rushing to the food line, being extremely hungry on Monday mornings, hoarding or stealing food or often asking for more food, according to a program referral form.
School employees have contacted the families to let them know what the backpacks are for and to make sure the food goes to the children. The food is meant to supplement other food, but if needed, it could function as meals for the child over the weekend.
Brenda DiCarlo, director of the Southern Maryland Food Bank, said there are at least 20 or 25 more children per school that could use the Snack Sak service.
The food bank saw a 36 percent increase in the amount of food it distributed between July 2011 and this summer to pantries in Calvert, Charles and St. Mary’s counties. DiCarlo said most of that increase could be attributed to increases in the number of hungry children in the region.
And, she said, much of that increase was from middle-class families.
“The very people that usually donate to us are the ones we now serve. … It’s an unbalanced scale,” she said.
Data released in August by the Gallup organization show the food hardship rate for Maryland was 14.8 percent during the first six months of 2012, indicating nearly one in seven residents reported there were times when they did not have enough money to buy the food they or their families needed.
High school grab-and-go
Breakfast is often called the most important meal of the day, and Henry E. Lackey High School in Indian Head offers students a second chance to make sure they get a great start to their day.
“We run a second-chance breakfast in the morning,” Lackey Principal James Short said.
Every school day, between the second and third periods, the school has an extended 17-minute break where students can grab a bite to eat from one of three food kiosks or the cafeteria, he said.
“It seems to work. Our kids really like it,” Short said.
The breakfast program at the school grew from serving about 80 meals before the start of school to more than 400 in the morning once the second-chance breakfast was started last February, he said. That’s about one in every three students, and it includes most of the students who are on the free- and reduced-meals program.
“When we first started it, students walked up to my vice principals and said ‘thank you,’ ” Short said.
“We just think it’s very important for the kids to get off to a great start in the morning,” he said. ”It meets the needs of some of the students whose parents are commuters, and it meets the needs of the parents who don’t have money right now” to afford healthy breakfasts.
School systems also are becoming instrumental in serving meals to children over summer breaks.
This year, for the second summer, St. Mary’s public schools offered free meals to any child through a program called Lunch and Learn at two school sites.
Tanisha Sanders, coordinator of integrated student services programs for Charles public schools, said there were approximately 4,700 meals served between June 25 and Aug. 3 through the Summer Meals for Children program. The program partnered with various agencies, including LifeStyles of Southern Maryland in La Plata, and was able to offer free meals to students at 13 sites, including many school buildings.
The program steadily has expanded since it started three years ago, Sanders said. Before that, she said she is unaware of any countywide lunch programs during the summers.
Cooking classes in Calvert
Gray is helping with a nine-week program funded through grants and help from the United Way that offers nutrition training to clients at the Chesapeake Cares Food Pantry in Huntingtown.
Visitors to the food pantry can stop by the office and take a quick class on healthy eating. They also receive a health risk assessment from Calvert Healthcare Solutions.
It is important to devote some time to plan meals, Gray said, adding that “healthy parents have healthy children.” Planning meals allows for “smart shopping,” so families can pick the right types and amounts of food they need, she said.
The health educator hopes parents will pick up ideas from the classes and in turn, change some of their less-healthy eating habits. Gray, a former high school family consumer science teacher, said doing away with typical home-economics classes takes away another piece of the puzzle.
“Our fruits and vegetables should make up half of the plate,” Gray said, referring to the federal government’s replacement of the food pyramid.
Schools and other agencies now promote “My Plate,” a symbol of how meals should be divided among various types of food.
She said that while fresh fruits and vegetables are great, even eating frozen or canned varieties helps provide families with the nutrition they need.
The extension programs in each county sponsor a variety of programs to help educate children about healthy eating habits and the importance of farms.
Robin Brungard, program director, said 35 percent or more of the food that comes from Chesapeake Cares Food Pantry goes to children.
Caring for children’s hunger here is different than in cities, Brungard said. In an urban area, children can walk or take public transportation to food kitchens or schools to get meals, she said. In rural areas, children must rely on others to either take them to food suppliers or bring food to them.
The Calvert organization serves some 10,000 people and is trying to educate parents and other caregivers on how to provide healthy meals to their children, and aims to teach self-sufficiency.
“You have to really be smart to get the most nutrition for the least amount of money,” Brungard said, adding that cheaper food tends to have the least nutritional value.
jyeatman@somdnews.com

On Saturday October 13, 2012 the 2nd Annual Car, Truck, and Bike Show host by Bayside Chevrolet donated over $5000 to End Hunger In Calvert County. That morning just over 150 cars, trucks, and motorcycles rolled into Bayside Chevrolet to help support one mission, end hunger in Calvert County.
“When we learned about the reality of hunger in Calvert County and what was happening right in our backyard, we were compelled to do our part,” says Bayside Chevrolet’s President Geoff Wannamaker. “Being a community driven dealership, we are always looking for ways to give back. Partnering with End Hunger In Calvert County was a natural fit for us. There is something everyone can do, and sponsoring the car show is another way that we can help make a difference.”
“When I researched End Hunger In Calvert County’s website and visited one of their food pantries, I could not believe what I learned,” says Tim Deale a volunteer for the car show. “It is hard to believe that thousands of people are going hungry, right here in our own backyard. End Hunger In Calvert County is making a difference and I wanted to contribute.”
The 2nd Annual Car, Truck, and Bike Show was held at Bayside Chevrolet car dealership in Prince Frederick. The event had registered 156 vehicles coming from as far away as New Jersey, Virginia, Frederick, MD., Dundalk, MD., and the Eastern Shore.
The event showcased everything from original cars to restored to original cars, modified cars, customized cars, street rods, pro touring cars, race cars, classics, you name it, it was there.
To learn how you can be part of the solution and to get involved, visit End Hunger In Calvert County online atwww.endhungercalvert.org
About End Hunger In Calvert County:
EHCC is a grassroots partnership of over 50 businesses, 11 county food pantries, 26 churches and community groups united behind the goal of ending hunger in our county. For more information visit us online atwww.endhungercalvert.org

It is easy to focus on hunger as a distant problem in poorer states and poorer countries. But the fact is that Calvert County has its own hunger crisis right here. Local food pantries countywide are overwhelmed with the ever-increasing number of people needing their services.

The food pantries of the End Hunger In Calvert County network are serving more than 500 families per week. That’s right — more than 500 families per week. About 10,000 people per year are utilizing Calvert County food pantries.
These folks are not the homeless, people with addictions or disabilities. They are our neighbors, friends and our family members. They are folks whose work hours have been cut back, they’ve been laid off, their businesses have closed or their jobs have disappeared.
They are us. And you can help.
This is why every October has been officially declared End Hunger In Calvert County Month. During the month of October, you can support and participate in the following End Hunger events:

• Oct. 1-31: Calvert’s countywide food drive (see our website for drop-off locations);
• Oct. 6, 13: Community Harvest Days at the Farms4Hunger;
• Oct. 13: The End Hunger Car Show at Bayside Chevrolet;
• Oct. 19: Feed the Green — wear green to show your support to End Hunger In Calvert County;
• Oct. 20: third annual 5K Run to End Hunger at Trinity United Methodist Church.

Information on all of these events can be found at our website, endhungercalvert.org.
The best part about these events is that all proceeds stay right here in Calvert County. One-hundred percent of the proceeds go to stock the shelves of the End Hunger food pantries.
Friends, we live in a blessed and prosperous county. The true test of our compassion is how we care for those in our own backyard. Consider this: $20 feeds a family of four for a month. Please support End Hunger In Calvert County Month. There’s something everyone can do.
May God bless you and those you love.
The Rev. Robert P. Hahn, Huntingtown

Reverend Robert Hahn, Pastor of Chesapeake Church in Huntingtown and founder of End Hunger Calvert, has come in second in the latest Compassionate Marylander Awards.
To be eligible for the awards, participants had to submit an essay last year.
Marylanders then selected the ten finalist by voting for their favorite story online with voting ending January 9. A review committee compiled of members from the Governor’s Office and CareFirst will donate $5,000 in each winner’s name to the charity of their choice (a total of $25,000 is available).
Early on, Rev. Hahn led the pack, after a social media blitz, but by the end of the voting period had dropped to second with 22%, 6,138 votes.
Rev. Hahn recognized supporters on his Facebook page with this message: “THANK YOU to everyone who voted and Tweeted and Facebooked and got everyone they knew to vote for End Hunger Calvert. We got second place which keeps us in the running for one of the $5,000 grants. We did this together – harnessed social media to feed the hungry and created community. I cannot list all of you – you know who you are and went above and beyond. Life in Calvert is better because of you.”
Of the more than 27,800 votes cast, the top vote-getter was Rich Blake, a marine combat vet from Baltimore wrote an impassioned letter about “Operation Oliver”, an effort to repopulate the city with families. He received 25%, or 6,966 votes.
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Compassion is defined as “a feeling of deep sympathy and sorrow for another who is stricken by misfortune, accompanied by a strong desire to alleviate the suffering.” I would like to nominate Rev. Robert P. Hahn, Chairman of End Hunger In Calvert County as my Compassionate Marylander.
Rev. Hahn has been the Senior Pastor of Chesapeake Church for over 20 years and in 2006 he began a countywide movement that lead to the establishment of End Hunger In Calvert County. Rev.Hahn was inspired to launch End Hunger In Calvert County when he learned that while Calvert is one of the wealthiest counties in the United States, it suffers from rising poverty and hunger rates. Upon hearing that the majority of Calvert food pantry clients are children and the remainder already hold full‐time jobs, he was gripped by the vision of what could be accomplished if churches, schools, nonprofits,businesses and other organizations joined together. His mission is to not only feed people but to get to the root causes of local hunger and equip people to become self‐sufficient.
In its existence, End Hunger In Calvert County has grown into a grassroots partnership of over 25 churches, 11 food pantries, and more than 60 businesses united behind the idea that hunger in Calvert County can be defeated. Every October is now officially End Hunger In Calvert County Month, declared by a joint resolution of the Maryland State Senate and the House of Delegates as well as Calvert County Board of Commissioners. Rev. Hahn serves as an active partner on the board of Governor O’Malley’s Partnership to End Childhood Hunger.
Rev. Hahn’s vision for change has always involved people and inspiring others to envision what can be accomplished when they banned together to serve the greater good; one of his and End Hunger In Calvert County’s core values is that life change happens through relationships. And if you ever hear him speak on the issue of hunger, one thing is always unmistakably clear, hunger is not a food problem, it’s an awareness problem and together we can make a difference for thousands of people.
Determined to rally a people, Rev. Hahn has relentlessly spent the last six ‐ years unifying the community of Calvert County to care for the least fortunate. Because of his leadership and vision End Hunger In Calvert County’s 11 partnering food pantries serve over 10,000 residents each year. Every October, End Hunger In Calvert County hosts a countywide food drive in partnership with the Calvert County Public School System, Calvert Memorial Hospital, Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant, College of Southern Maryland, as as countless individuals, community groups, and local businesses. Just this October, over 200,000 lbs of food were collected to fill the shelves of the local food pantries.
2011 also launched The Farms of End Hunger, eleven acres of farmland completely dedicated to providing fresh produce to local food pantries to provide healthy food options for low‐income families. Over 160,000 pounds of produce were
harvested just this year.
Rev. Hahn also united the County clergy by spearheading a movement founded on the value that although they may disagree on some things; they can all agree that no person should go hungry. For the first time in Calvert County history, clergy members across all faith backgrounds, in a display of unity, stood together as the Clergy of End Hunger In Calvert County, demonstrating that religious and racial divisions can be defeated when we unite behind a common need. Because of this movement, two new church‐based food pantries have opened and the level of awareness about hunger in Calvert County has grown.
Rev. Hahn has also had a great impact on the business community. As stated,over 60 local businesses make up the End Hunger In Calvert County network.Because of End Hunger’s relationship with the College of Southern Maryland and
Calvert Memorial Hospital the life of Elena Hutchinson will never be the same. Elena is a mother of four, who came to End Hunger In Calvert County through the Red Cross after her husband had committed suicide and two weeks later lost her home in Hurricane Katrina. She now has her degree as an Occupational Therapist, holds a full-time job to care for her family and for the first time in her life she has a saving account.
Here is another story of a changed life. Because of End Hunger In Calvert County’s relationship with a local car dealership, Shawn Englert was provided with a specialty van after a diving accident left him paralyzed from the shoulders down. This vehicle now allows him to build a more independent lifestyle and continue to
pursue his college degree.
It’s not about numbers, but behind those numbers are the faces of real people whose lives have been touched and transformed by the work of End Hunger In Calvert County. That success only comes from a compassionate vision combined
with the courage and passion to make it happen.
Because of Rev. Hahn’s compassion for people thousands of less fortunate families lives have been impacted. But even more, Rev. Hahn has united Calvert County. His work has influenced others to be compassionate people compelled to
make a difference in the lives of their neighbors. His legacy will live on long past his years. And that is why Rev. Robert P. Hahn is my Compassionate Marylander.

The evening of Nov. 3 was an exciting one for Calvert County 4-H. It started out very cold, as 4-Hers waited outside for the Southern Maryland Meats truck to show up at the Chesapeake Cares Food Pantry. When the truck arrived, the 4-Hers climbed into the trailer and unloaded approximately 450 pounds of pork. The 4-H members donated some of the pork from their 4-H livestock projects to the End Hunger in Calvert County campaign. Their donation was truly a labor of love, as the youngsters tend and raise the livestock in their 4-H work.
There was lots of help, as the 4-H members headed inside with the boxes of meat, to put it in the pantry freezers. It only took about 15 minutes to get the meat into the freezers, thanks to the help of the proud 4-Hers. Cathy Ring, director of operations at the Chesapeake Cares Food Pantry, thanked the group. Ring further indicated that the children helped to end the hunger of more than 130 families with their donation.
The goal of 4-H is to develop citizenship, leadership, responsibility and life skills of youth through experiential learning programs, using a positive youth development approach. Though typically thought of as an agriculturally focused organization, 4-H today focuses on much more. Projects surround citizenship, healthy living, science, engineering and the arts. There is definitely something for everyone in 4-H, and programs are open to all citizens. To learn more about opportunities in Calvert County 4-H, contact the University of Maryland Extension, Calvert office, at 410-535-3662 or 301-855-1150, or email Ari Strahl astrahl@umd.edu or Elaine Long Bailey elbailey@umd.edu. To see 4-H members in action, “Like” University of Maryland Extension, Calvert County 4-H on Facebook.
End Hunger in Calvert County is an ongoing community project. Every year food is donated to help needy families in Calvert. There is a need to feed more families each year. Even young people, such as 4-H members, decide to help, without being asked. To help End Hunger in Calvert County, call 410-257-5672, or “Like” End Hunger in Calvert County on Facebook.