| Church insures nothing goes to waste  BALTIMORE After a large meal, theres always the question of what to do with the leftovers. At Leadership Days in Baltimore Jan. 11, a few volunteers met at the back of the Kingswood High School cafeteria following lunch in the crowded classroom. They gathered up the leftovers, the uneaten boxed meals that had been ordered for the more than 800 participants. Joetta Miller, food coordinator for the Baltimore County Coalition for the Homeless, who attends Reisterstown UMC, met the volunteers. She loaded the 90 meals in her car to deliver to the Baltimore County cold weather shelter where more than 100 people are fed each night. Similar efforts to distribute uneaten boxed lunches took place at each of the Leadership Days. Fate of Ten Commandments settled  FREDERICK A dispute has raged over a three-feet-tall granite marker bearing the Ten Commandments in Frederick during the past eight months. The controversial marker is on a 6,000 square-foot plot of land across the street from Calvary UMC. A 16-year-old student at Urbana High School wrote city officials, who owned the land in Memorial Park, questioning the markers constitutionality based on a First Amendment prohibition of state-sponsored religion. When the issue first surfaced, Calvary UMCs board of trustees, in order to preserve the marker, offered to have the monument moved onto the churchs property. That was one of several offers the city received. On Dec. 26, the city accepted a purchase of the monument by the International Order of Eagles Aerie No. 1067, for $6,700, according to the Washington Post. The Eagles originally donated the Ten Commandments marker to the city in 1958. Now that the marker is in private hands, the monument can remain in place. Funds raised for Ghana preschool  HIGHLAND The Queen Mother of Asiakwa, Ghana, also known in the conference as Dorothy Moore, a member of Hopkins UMC, leaves in early February for a two-week visit to the village that bestowed the honorific title on her two years ago. Shell take a $5,000 gift to the village to complete construction of a pre-school for children in the village. More than $2,000 was raised in an African Joy Night celebration in December, a community event sponsored by the ecumenical Concerned Community Leaders for the People of Ghana, which Moore chaired.  The new school will be named for the late Rev. Richard Ross Hicks, who served Hall UMC in Glen Burnie and Grace UMC in Takoma Park before he retired in 1996. He was installed as a chief of the village because of his years of benevolent service to the villagers and the area. He died in November 2001. | 
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