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Residents respond to opposition, show support for CA's women-only swim times
Inspired by the nature of online comments opposing the program, more than 50 people who support Columbia Association's women-only swim times came to the CA board meeting Tuesday, Nov. 22, in a show of solidarity.
The program started in October and will conclude its trial run at the end of January. It is being held at the Columbia Swim Center in Wilde Lake between 12:30 and 2 p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays — a time when the facility has few people and when the pool being used is normally closed.
Group works with county on health care initiative
A group of volunteers plan to spend their Saturdays this summer in Howard County neighborhoods, knocking on doors and making a pitch.
The volunteers, members of People Acting Together in Howard, are not selling anything but, rather, hope to find some of the 20,000 people in the county without health insurance and tell them they might qualify for Healthy Howard, a county-subsidized health program.
PATH, a coalition of more than a dozen local congregations, chooses causes like health care to bring to the attention of citizens and politicians.
READY program provides jobs for youth, rain gardens for community
Some joined to help the environment. Others were hoping to learn something new. And most were looking for a way to earn money over the summer.
But all 30 teens and young adults participating in the Restoring the Environment and Developing Youth program found something they necessarily didn't come seeking — friendship.
"When I leave here I don't know what I'm going to do without these guys. ... We're like a little family," said 19-year-old Ellicott City resident Raymoan Clay.
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