Chairs for charity

May 6, 2013
Filed under Feature, Feature photos, Featured

Many colorful decorated chairs sit in the entrance of the Middletown High School media center. Every year, National Art Honor Society members participate in an auction by bringing home a chair, decorating it, and then selling it in the auction. All proceeds from the event go directly to benefit a charity... Read more »

Kony 2012 surfaces with self-defeating simplicity

March 29, 2012
Filed under Archives, Opinion Archives

By Emma Trapp Round table marketing director With its simplistic message and controversial interviews, the Kony 2012 YouTube video, created by The Invisible Children Organization, has been viewed by over 100 million people, and that number continues to rise. Joseph Kony, a Ugandan warlord of his... Read more »

Empty bowls fill hearts

March 24, 2011
Filed under News Archives

By Blair Donald Round Table editor The Empty Bowls Banquet was held March 23 at Middletown High School, an event held to raise awareness about hunger and benefit the impoverished in Frederick County. The Empty Bowls Project is an international grassroots effort to fight hunger that was created by... Read more »

“Valley of Hope” to benefit the Patty Pollatos Fund

March 2, 2011
Filed under Feature Archives, Feature Stories Archives

By Cortney St. John Round Table editor According to www.ppfinc.org the Patty Pollatos Fund “was established in memory of Patty Pollatos who died of cancer on September 18, 1992. All she wanted was to die with dignity in her home with her family… I [a friend of Patty] organized a fundraiser with... Read more »