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The town of North Brentwood is holding a naming and dedication event for its newly erected town hall.
The Town Council will reveal the name for the new building at 2 p.m. on Oct. 19, at the site of the building, located at 4009 Wallace Road. The building will either be named the North Brentwood Town Hall or the Jeremiah Hawkins Town Hall, after the town's first mayor.
The event will include a program and light refreshments.
Hyattsville needs volunteers for plant campaign
The city of Hyattsville is looking for volunteers to pitch in during the 15th Annual National Public Lands Day.
From 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, city staff and volunteers will help with a number of projects, including plant removal of non-native and invasive plants which are overriding public parkland. Volunteers will also help with trash and debris pick-up.
The event is a Prince George's County Livable Communities Initiative and Hyattsville is one of many area partners in the county event.
Students can earn service hours and the city will provide tools. Volunteers are encouraged to wear sturdy shoes, long-sleeved shirts and pants or jeans.
To register, call Colleen Aistis at 301-985-5057 or e-mail
caistis@hyasttville.org.
Bicycle Co-op moves
to Tool Shed
The Mount Rainier Bicycle Co-op is moving three blocks from its current location to the Tool Shed, located at 3601 Bunker Hill Road.
The group was operating out of a garage in the alley behind the Mount Rainier Public Library, located at 3409 Rhode Island Ave. The group asked the city council to approve their moving in with the Tool Shed because of conflicts with road traffic, safety issues and the restroom facilities.
Clothing swap to be held at Joe's Movement Emporium
Mount Rainier's Joe's Movement Emporium is hosting the FreeStyle Clothing Swap to partially benefit local nonprofit shelters and charities.
The event will take place from 7 to 10 p.m. on Oct 4 at Joe's Movement Emporium, located at 3309 Bunker Hill Road.
Participants are encouraged to bring clean, lightly worn and new clothing, as well as shoes and accessories no longer in use, to swap with other participants. All unclaimed items will be given to charities and shelters.
There is a suggested donation of $5. Call 301-699-1819.
Clean up North Brentwood
A community-wide clean-up day in North Brentwood will be held from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Oct. 25.
The town will provide Dumpsters at the barricade on Windom Road and at the rear of the North Brentwood Recreation Center on Webster Street.
Residents can throw away all of their unwanted household items in the Dumpsters, and the town will also provide recycling and shredding throughout the day. Area residents can shred paper, plastic bottles and cans at the North Brentwood Municipal Center, located at 4009 Wallace Road.
The town will also haul away old paint cans, computers and tires, which can be left in the back of the municipal center.
Staging to fundraise
at St. Ann's
Saint Ann's Infant and Maternity Home is hosting a staging event to fundraise for the center's activities.
The all-day staging event, in which volunteers from the Central Maryland Regional Chapter of Accredited Staging Professionals transform a multipurpose room into a kid and teen-friendly room, will start at 9 a.m. and run throughout the day Saturday.
The home, located at 4901 Eastern Avenue in Hyattsville, provides a teen mother-baby program for 21 pregnant adolescents, young mothers and their babies.
Call Anita Carrington at 240-786-9136 or e-mail
anita.carrington@gmail.com.
Brothers enjoy success
on the soccer pitch
University Park resident Jasim Mobaidin's soccer team, the Baltimore Casa Mia Bays, of the Baltimore Bays Soccer Club, won the 2008 U-15 National Championship in late July at the tournament final in Little Rock, Ark.
The Bays won the championship game of the tournament 2-1 over Solar FC of North Texas. The goal given up to Solar FC was the only goal given up by the Casa Mia Bays throughout the whole tournament.
The Bays opened up the round-robin with a 5-0 victory over the Boston Blast, and followed that win up with a 2-0 shutout of the Dallas Texans. They closed out the round-robin by beating the Chicago Fire 1-0 before moving onto the Final.
Mobaidin has been playing soccer since he was 5, and got his start in the sport with the Lewisdale/University Park Boys and Girls Club. For several years after that his coach was University Park resident Roberto Vilarrubi.
Mobaidin is now a junior at Hyattsville's DeMatha High School where he plays defense for the varsity.
Mobaidin's younger brother, Amos Mobaidin, has also had success on the soccer field. Amos is a sophomore at DeMatha, where he led last year's freshman team in scoring.