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New Gateway Signs for Thurmont Getting Ahead Graduation

Courtesy Photo
The Town of Photo Courtesy of Thurmont Mayor John Kinnaird
Thurmont recently
installed two new
gateway signs,
welcoming visitors
and residents to town.
The new signs
replaced older Main
Street Maryland
signs located on
Tippin Drive and
West Main Street.
Thurmont staff is
currently working
on securing grant
funding to install
two more gateway
signs in the future. The Main Street Maryland signs will be repurposed and
installed at other locations in town. Pictured from left are Co-Facilitator Brian Neville, Jessi Miller, Shawna Ruby, Nancy Allene Saxton,
“These new signs are amazing and provide a beautiful welcome to folks Co-Facilitator Kelly Mays, Priscilla Bateman, Debbie Arnold, Michael Legenzov, Chastity Henning,
Makeba McCrary. Not pictured: Willy Ngiratraol and Co-Facilitator Missy Shank.
coming into Thurmont,” said Mayor John Kinnaird. The new signs were
designed and installed by Shannon Baum Signs from Eldersburg, Maryland.
Seton Center, Inc. offers the Getting Ahead program to those who are
Halloween Activities in our Area impacted by poverty. The program’s curriculum involves rigorous work
This year’s much-anticipated Halloween in the Park will be held on done in a safe, kitchen-table-style learning environment with the support
Saturday, October 27, 2018, from 6:00 to 8:30 p.m., at Thurmont Community of experienced facilitators. On August 6, 2018, the program’s nine stellar
Park. Admission is $3.00 and a canned food donation. This event features participants celebrated the culmination of eighteen weeks of hard work
haunted hayrides, a haunted house, a magic show, face painting, refreshments, with a graduation. They invested a great deal of time, thought, and energy
and much more. The rain date is November 3. into changing their lives and their communities. Getting Ahead is a unique,
On Halloween night, October 31, trick-or-treat will take place in educational program that aims to help participants build resources to end
Emmitsburg from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. A Halloween Parade begins at the poverty in their lives and become active agents of change in their community.
intersection of Federal Avenue and DePaul Street at 7:00 p.m. and is Graduates leave the program with skills in networking, goal setting, and time
immediately followed by a party and costume contest at the Vigilant Hose Fire management. They learn the root causes of poverty, complete intensive self-
Station on W. Main Street. assessments, and learn how change happens. The Getting Ahead program
Trick-or-treat in Thurmont also takes place Halloween eve from 6:00-7:30 p.m. is challenging work, and Seton Center honors the graduates who deserve
recognition for their efforts.
This graduation ceremony was the first to be held at Seton Center’s new
location at 226 East Lincoln Avenue in Emmitsburg. Graduates’ families and
friends were in attendance. Also present were: Juliana Albowicz, representative
from Senator Chris Van Hollen’s office; Alderman Roger Wilson; Emmitsburg
Mayor Don Briggs; President Timothy Trainor of Mount St. Mary’s University;
Malcolm Furgol, United Way of Frederick County’s Director of Community
Impact; and many other esteemed guests.
The Getting Ahead program is made possible through grant funding and
community support. The generous meal and incentive sponsors for this group
of graduates included: Mission & Ministry Inc.; Rocky’s Pizza of Thurmont;
Roy Rogers of Thurmont; St. Paul’s Lutheran Church of Utica Women’s
League; Sodality of the Blessed Virgin in Emmitsburg; Shawdae Bennet
Tsang and family; Karen Graff; Wendy Walsh; Kenneth Droneburg; Cynde
Overholtzer; Gwen Topper; Tina Lamont; and Sr. Martha Beaudoin.
To learn more about the Getting Ahead Program at Seton Center, contact
Kelly Mays at 301-447-6102 x 17 or kelly.mays@doc.org.