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Twenty-percent of this amount will benefit the Religious Coalition’s Food Bank and another five-percent will assist the Meals-on-Wheels program in Frederick County.

The remaining 75-percent of proceeds goes to the event’s sponsor, Church World Service, to be used for food, medical care and other services for people in need worldwide.

The Evangelical Reformed United Church of Christ on West Church Street in Frederick hosted the walk, organized by Frederick’s Marianne Dacey, Barb Foster, Melissa McKenney, and Jim Wagner.

‘‘The CROP Walk Organizing Committee offers heartfelt appreciation to everyone who helped to make this event the most successful in our 23 year history of walking in Frederick,” Dacey said. ‘‘While the 2007 CROP Hunger Walk is over, hunger never ends. We hope the Frederick community will join us, again, in 2008.”

The two top walkers were Ray Frank of New Market, who raised $2,377 on behalf of Calvary United Methodist Church on West 2nd Street in Frederick, and Milby Lee Shepley of Walkersville, who raised $863 representing Calvary United Methodist Church in Mount Airy.

Government honorslocal employees

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the federal technology agency that works with industry to develop and apply technology, measurements and standards, with laboratories in Gaithersburg, honored employees during a Dec. 5 ceremony. Three Frederick residents included:

Nelson P. Bryner and David W. Stroup were honored for their work at the Building and Fire Research Laboratory in Gaithersburg. Bryner, a supervisory chemical engineer, and Stroup, a fire protection engineer, were both involved with fire experiments to test technology used by firefighters.

Thelma Allen was honored for her work in the Institute’s Information Technology Laboratory. Allen, an information specialist, contributed to the first-ever assessment of the U.S. measurement system’s ability to sustain innovation at a world-leading pace.

The Institute also honored Jeffrey Smith with the Eugene Casson Crittenden Award. Established in 1967, the award recognizes superior achievement by employees that go beyond their own office.

Smith works as a supervisory pipe fitter with the Office of the Chief Facilities Management Officer. He was honored for superior leadership, professionalism, total dedication and ingenuity in ensuring the integrity of the Institute’s aging utility systems.

Man completesbasic training

Army Pfc. Terry L. Harosky II recently graduated from the Special Forces Candidate One-Station Unit Training at Fort Benning, Columbus, Ga.

During the first 14 weeks of basic infantry training, Harosky received training in drill and ceremony, weapons employment, map reading, tactics, military customs and courtesies, military justice, physical fitness, road marches, first aid skills, and Army history, core values and traditions. Additional training included development of basic combat skills, and battlefield operations and tactics, and experienced use of various weapons and weapons defenses available to the infantry crewman.

After completing basic infantry training, he will complete airborne school with a subsequent assignment to Fort Bragg, Fayetteville, N.C., to prepare for and attend the Special Forces Qualification Course as a weapons sergeant or engineer sergeant.

During the 20-25 month training period, the soldier will have graduated from airborne school, the Primary Leadership Development Course, the Basic Noncommissioned Officer Course, survival, evacuation, resistance and escape training; and language school. Upon graduation from all phases of training, Harosky will be assigned and promoted to a Special Forces weapons sergeant or engineer sergeant.

Harosky, a 2004 graduate of Middletown High School, is the son of Terry L. Harosky of Middletown.

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