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FROSTBURG ? United Campus Ministry at Frostburg State University and Frostburg UMC cooperated in November to raise more than $2,000 for Heifer Project International. It's not the first time the campus chaplain, the Rev. Larry Neumark, spearheaded the campaign on campus. 'Last year $845 was raised,' he said.

Heifer International contributes livestock and tree stock to villages in developing countries and some sections of the United States. Recipients of the animals care for them until they reproduce, give an offspring to someone else in need, and then increase their own herds or flocks. If the animal is milk or egg producing, the family also has that benefit for their own use or to sell.

Frostburg UMC contributed $555 toward the total the campus ministry raised. Two heifers, one water buffalo, one llama, one goat, two sheep, six flocks of chicks, one pig and tree seedlings were purchased, Neumark said. 'These gifts will make a difference in people's lives.'

Doug Schmenner CATONSVILLE ? The new elevator tower at Catonsville UMC received an award for the exterior stonework. 'We've all known that the masonry stonework on our new elevator and stair addition is special, but now the Baltimore area building industry believes it to be special, too,' said an item in the church's December newsletter, the Providence Press. Part of what made it special was matching the color and pattern to the 80-year-old church building. It wasn't easy. Mortar making and curing was complicated by a summer with many days of 95-degree weather, a winter with sustained freezing and 30 inches of snow, and a rainy spring, the newsletter said. The stone mason, Charles P. Bowman III, was recognized at the Craftsmanship Awards Meeting held by The Building Congress and Exchange of Metropolitan Baltimore, Inc.