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Free Lunch for Kennedy Group Students
County officials launched a free summer lunch program Monday in Silver Spring for all students in the county's John F. Kennedy High School cluster. Students from the high school, Argyle Middle School and Georgian Forest, Strathmore and Bel Pre elementary schools are eligible for a free meal from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. weekdays through Aug. 15 at the Georgian Forest cafeteria, 3100 Regina Dr. in Silver Spring.
The program marks the county's first "open site" free lunch program, which entitles any of the cluster's 3,500 students to a free lunch regardless of enrollment in a summer program.
A "lunch circulator" bus will pick up students at eight locations. The buses will run every 30 minutes from 10:30 a.m. until 1 p.m. Ride On and Metro buses will provide free tokens, available at any of the participating schools, to students traveling to the program. For information, call the office of county council member Valerie Ervin (D-Silver Spring) at 240-777-7970.
History Lives at Montgomery College
Montgomery College and the Maryland Humanities Council will host their annual Chautauqua celebration next week. The four-day event, which focuses on public humanities education, will highlight civil rights history, with live music and actors portraying a different civil rights figure each night: Rosa Parks, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr. and George Wallace.
The free event will run at 7 p.m. daily, Tuesday through Friday, under a tent on the college's Germantown campus at 20200 Observation Dr. In the event of rain, the performances will be moved to Globe Hall, in the campus's High Technology and Science Center. For information and a schedule, call 240-567-7746 or visit http:/
Universities at Shady Grove Open House
The Universities at Shady Grove will hold an open house for prospective undergraduate and graduate students from 9 a.m. to noon July 12.
Students can meet with representatives from the nine Maryland public universities that offer programs at the campus: Bowie State, Salisbury and Towson universities, the University of Baltimore and the University of Maryland in Baltimore, Baltimore County, College Park, Eastern Shore and University College.
The fair will feature on-site academic, admissions and financial aid advising, workshops on career exploration and student success, and campus tours.
The campus offers more than 60 degrees, with undergraduate programs in early childhood education, history and respiratory therapy, and graduate programs in geographic information systems, business with an accounting concentration, human development, education and library science.
The fair will be at the campus's Camille Kendall Academic Center, 9630 Gudelsky Dr. in Rockville. For undergraduate program information, call 301-738-6023. For graduate program information, call 301-738-6000. For directions, visit http:/
Forum on Preventing Identity Theft
Montgomery County's Office of Consumer Protection and the Advisory Committee on Consumer Protection will host a public forum, "Protecting Your Financial Privacy and Preventing Identity Theft," from 1:15 to 3:15 p.m. July 14 in Gaithersburg.
Shirley Rooker, director of the Call for Action consumer talk show on WTOP (103.5 FM), will moderate a panel of financial experts that will include a consumer lawyer and members of the county's Office of Consumer Protection, AARP, the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, the office of the Maryland attorney general, the county police and Experian, a credit reporting bureau.
The forum will be at the Holiday Park Senior Center, 3950 Ferrara Dr. in Wheaton. Registration is recommended. To register, call 240-777-3764. At least 72 hours' notice is needed to provide sign language interpreter services. For special service requests, call 240-777-3636 or e-mail consumerprotection@montgomerycountymd.gov.
-- Compiled by SARAH MARSTON
