Thursday, February 28, 2013
Carroll County officials, Maryland's governor say sequestration would take a toll on jobs and morale.
Gov. Martin O’Malley said Wednesday that Congress’s inability to compromise on budget cuts has led to a situation where across-the-board cuts could slow Maryland’s economic growth. O’Malley said in a news conference that 12,000 jobs could be lost statewide due to sequestration. Without action from Congress, the sequester would go into effect automatically on March 1, reducing spending in education, the environment, health, military and law enforcement. Local leaders say that it's difficult to gauge how the sequester will impact Carroll County, although many agree that it will. Del. Justin Ready said that Carroll County residents employed by the federal government could be impacted. "It is hard to know just how far-reaching the sequester …
Thursday, November 29, 2012
Last year more than 1,400 Carroll County families qualified for and received holiday donations through Neighbors in Need.
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- Kym Byrnes
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Thursday, November 29, 2012
The elves at Human Service Programs (HSP) are working overtime to pair local families in need with families who want to help their neighbors during the holiday season. HSP's annual Neighbors in Need (NIN) holiday giving program is underway. So far 1,090 families have applied for holiday assistance according to Program Manager Lori Graham. Last year, approximately 1,400 families received holiday assistance through NIN Graham said. NIN allows families and individuals in need to request assistance over the holidays. According to Graham, the goal is to get as many of those families and individuals in need adopted by people interested in giving back over the holiday season. Those who are not adopted by individuals, churches, businesses, and …
Saturday, November 24, 2012
Members of the Gerstell Academy Upper School delivered an annual donation of home goods, non-perishable foods and sack lunches to HSP.
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- Kym Byrnes
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Saturday, November 24, 2012
After several years of donating home goods, non-perishable foods, and sack lunches to Human Services Programs of Carroll County, Inc. (HSP) for Thanksgiving, Gerstell Academy has expanded its partnership with the county’s Community Action non-profit according to a news release. HSP and Gerstell will partner the non-profit’s Women & Children’s and Family Shelters with the academy’s Upper School. Students in the Upper School will collaborate with the two shelters at HSP to identify needs for residents. The first new project is already planned as a collection for Baskets of Hope containing household and personal care items to help residents set up housekeeping when they transition from the shelter into permanent housing. HSP is the Community …
Thursday, May 24, 2012
Carroll County has seen an increase in need for social services as has the rest of the state.
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Thursday, May 24, 2012
By CAITLIN JOHNSTON, CARL STRAUMSHEIM and KATE MCGONIGLE Special to Capital News Service The number of Maryland families who need government help to make ends meet has reached record levels. More than 700,000 people receive food assistance, the most in state history. A record 70,000 people depend on emergency cash assistance. And the demand for the state's child care subsidy program has caused officials to impose an indefinite freeze on new applicants. Carroll Food Sunday, a nonprofit food pantry located in Carroll County, reports that it served 174 new families between Jan 1 and April 30 of this year. Human Service Programs of Carroll County reports that its FY11 operating budget was approximately $420,000 less than its FY08 operating …
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
A garden in Westminster, run by nonprofits, is designed to grow food as well a sense of community and pride.
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- Kym Byrnes
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Wednesday, May 9, 2012
There's plenty about my life I can't change...But a patch of ground in this trashy lot--I can change that. Can change it big. --Wendell in the book Seedfolks by Paul Fleishman. The city of Westminster has a 5,000-square-foot garden, well, plot of dirt at the moment, that has served as a community garden for local groups and organizations over the past few years. This year the city is turning the land over to Human Service Programs (HSP) and HSP intends to cultivate more than just food in that dirt. In addition to tomatoes, squash, cucumbers, lettuce, peppers, melons, turnips, green beans, kale and flowers, the organization hopes to develop relationships and instill a sense of pride in the people who make the garden grow. According to HSP …
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
Folk singer and songwriter Cheryl Wheeler will perform on May 18 to benefit Human Service Programs.
Nationally renowned folk singer and songwriter Cheryl Wheeler will perform a concert at the Carroll Arts Center to benefit Human Service Programs of Carroll County (HSP). According to an event flyer, Wheeler’s musical range is broad, from gut-busting humor and vitriolic satire, to heart-breaking emotion. Her low key, self-deprecating manner, quirky humor, natural story telling ability and beautiful voice have made her one of the shining lights of today’s folk scene. HSP is committed to improving the quality of life and self-sufficiency of at-risk and low-income Carroll County residents by providing assistance with basic needs, advocacy, linkages to resources and opportunities to enhance life skills. The concert is Friday, May 18 at 7:30 p.…
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
"They had to go. It was a health hazard," said a sheriff's official of the encampment off Rt. 27 in Westminster.
Carroll County agencies collaborated Tuesday to break up a homeless encampment along Rt. 27 at the Rt. 140 overpass, declaring it a health hazard and forcing eight people to leave, officials said. Westminster Mayor Kevin Utz said the encampment, which police say has been there for two years, was overlooked for too long. "I think that we as a government enabled them by allowing them to live there for that period of time," Utz said. "Any other citizen would have had to get permits to do such a thing." Maj. Nicholas Plazio of the sheriff's department said that Commissioner Richard Rothschild received a complaint that the area was being contaminated, which is what initiated the cleanup. Plazio said that there appeared to be eight people living…
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Tuesday, January 17, 2012
There was lots of food, fellowship and fundraising at Bud's at Silver Run Monday.
More than 30 people took advantage of the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday to attend a cooking class at Bud's at Silver Run. They came with a goal of learning how to make yummy food, and in the process they got to eat yummy food, and support a local cause. Proceeds from the event, sponsored by Bud's at Silver Run, Gunner's Grill in Taneytown and Brewer's Market in Silver Run, will support the women and children's shelter run by Human Service Programs of Carroll County (HSP). HSP operates six shelters in the Westminster area, in addition to offering a comprehensive list of other services to help people become self-sufficient. Ken Lurie, owner and chef of Bud's at Silver Run, spent close to two hours presenting cooking techniques and sharing …
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Jim Rowe
3:31 pm on Saturday, March 2, 2013
we need to clean house in 2014 its time to get the wingnuts out and people who we can reason with in. I think we should not pay for the law suits that these nuts want us to pay because of their sick sick minds . they are wasting our tax dollars that we will need down the road. I really wish the UN was coming to take a few commisioners away. Jim Rowe more ›