Clifton Williams, Sharon Snead and Veronica Beard (L to R) joined several other volunteers from various city agencies to prepare for the annual Back to School backpack giveaway. The backpacks are stuff with school supplies and toiletries for students kindergarten thru 12th grade.
Picturing Maryland: A photo every day in 2023 part 3
Picturing Maryland: A Baltimore Sun photography project showcasing the faces, places and events happening around us.
Clifton Williams, Sharon Snead and Veronica Beard (L to R) joined several other volunteers from various city agencies to prepare for the annual Back to School backpack giveaway. The backpacks are stuff with school supplies and toiletries for students kindergarten thru 12th grade.
From left, Luke Linnemann, 11, CJ. Gatch, 10, Bentley Crouse, 11, and Luke’s brother, Shane Linnemann, 10, friends from nearby Joppa, spend frequent summer days cooling off in the Little Gunpowder, under the shade of the bridge on Jerusalem Road near the historic Jerusalem Mill.
Dior Brim, 4, of Reisterstown, gets used to the moon bounce on her first try, and reported it was fun. She was at a Back To School Rally sponsored by the Baltimore Police Department, ADT, and the Signal 13 Foundation. ADT purchased 300 backpacks for students, and donated $20,000 to the Signal 13 Foundation, which supports Baltimore City Police with financial hardship grants and college scholarships. The event was held at 2900 Liberty Heights Avenue.
Stacy Gilbert of Otterbein, with her son Cole, 13, behind her, are assisted by The Peale museum volunteer, Elva Dong, a graphic designer, right, in making paper embedded with flower seeds from moistened shredded newsprint. Handmade seed papers are drying in the foreground. Visitors attending the 209th Birthday Bash at The Peale, the first museum built in the United States, could also tour the exhibitions and its neighbor, Zion Lutheran Church and The German-American Cultural Center.
Troy Roux, who will attend Lyons Mill Elementary School in the fall, looks pleased with his free backpack, one of the giveaways at a Back To School Rally sponsored by the Baltimore Police Department, ADT, and the Signal 13 Foundation. At right is Myrna Milburn, one of the volunteers giving out backpacks at the event. ADT purchased 300 backpacks for students, and donated $20,000 to the Signal 13 Foundation, which supports Baltimore City Police with financial hardship grants and college scholarships. ADT is marking its 149th anniversary with events in Baltimore where the company was founded. The event was held at 2900 Liberty Heights Avenue.
From left, Nick Wells, of Laurel, watches Ryan Oliver, of Rockville, putt in the Baltimore Open at Druid Hill Disc Golf Course. The event is hosted by the Druid Hill Disc Golf Club. Approximately 130 people play two rounds of 18 baskets. They are on the first disc golf course built at the park in 1986, the Legacy Course.
Lanise Thompson, community outreach manager, and Dr. Darrell Gray II, president and CEO of Wellpoint, help to pack 500 backpacks on Thursday. Wellpoint is partnering with Weekend Backpacks, a nonprofit organization, to provide 2000 backpacks filled with school supplies and snack bags to 42 Baltimore City community schools and one county school. The backpacks will be given to food insecure elementary and middle school students with an emphasis on helping children who are homeless.
Ness Ejiomye, left, and Qiana Howard, of Northeast Baltimore, explore the meandering Herring Run from its stream bed in Herring Run Park. An urban oasis, Herring Run Park is a narrow, four-mile long park that follows Herring Run, which is part of the Back Run watershed that empties into the Chesapeake Bay.
Shawn James touches up a mural he is painting on Kennedy Avenue near The Alameda in the Coldstream-Homestead-Montebello neighborhood of northeast Baltimore. James has been painting murals since 1998, and started his own mural business, Mural Masters, Inc. thirteen years ago.
resized – Baltimore City students Precious Burrell, 11, (left) and Zai’meara Carter, 12, sit in the cab of a snow plow at Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport Monday morning. The students are participating in the seventh-annual BWI Summer Youth Initiative, spending the week learning about aviation careers.
Bob and Mary Ann Bart of Parkville enjoy the dance music by polka variety band, Joy of Maryland, at the Bean Picker’s Dinner Dance at the Polish Home Club in Fells Point. The annual fundraiser, attended by about 120 guests, celebrates the old tradition of East Baltimore Polish-American families who traveled together in the summertime to farms in Maryland, Pennsylvania and Delaware to pick green beans and other vegetables. The dancing followed a dinner of string bean soup, fried chicken, green beans, mashed potatoes and eclairs, with a late snack of fried bologna sandwiches offered at the end.
Lily Harvey, 9, Middle Branch Health and Wellness Center, and Jacob Patterson, 11, Morrell Park Rec Center, play in the opening round of the 11th Baltimore Street Hockey Tournament at Madison Square Recreation Center. The Washington Capitals and Baltimore City Recreation and Parks host the event at The Dome. Twelve teams from community centers around Baltimore are competing in the tournament.
Gov. Wes Moore and First Lady Dawn take selfie with Noelle Scott, 8, during Baltimore Symphony Orchestra concert hosted by Urban Oasis.
Violette Wood, of Baltimore Polytechnic High School, front, attaches a model wind turbine to a stand for testing that she built with teammates, from left, Alana Taylor of The Harbour School, Laurel, Ria Maheshwary, of Richard Montgomery High School, Rockville, and Makaila Neal-Simmons, of Arundel High School, Odenton, for a renewable energy challenge. The teams were tasked to design the best blades for model wind turbines to produce maximum electricity. They are among 60 Maryland female high school students participating in a free six-day Exelon STEM Academy at the University of Maryland College Park. The Academy, in its sixth year, encourages young women to pursue careers in STEM – science, technology, engineering and math.
An Indigo bunting sings while perched on a sunflower at North Point State Park. The park has several areas planted with sunflowers along North Point Road in Edgemere.
Gabrielle Canady 15, a 10th grade student at Green Street Academy, learns to suture as Dr. Kathryn Pawlak, a pediatric dentist in Buffalo, NY, gives her instruction. CURE high school students are learning about oral health and dentistry through the University of Maryland School of Dentistry’s (UMSOD) weeklong Planet Smilez Camp. Canady has been in the University of Maryland Baltimore (UMB) CURE Scholars Program since 6th grade. Pawlak is a 2019 graduate of UMSOD and founded Planet Smilez in 2015. She returns to run the camp and “serve the community that made me a dentist.”
Officer R. Booker of the Dundalk Precinct, left, works with Camden Decker, 8, of Essex, on batting skills during the first day of a weeklong Cops and Kids Baseball Camp at Merritt Point Park. Baltimore County police volunteers are able to bond with the 90 youngsters enrolled in the free coed camp through a skills and drills practice in the morning, followed by a game after lunch.
Jason Pafko and Emily Engelbrecht-Wiggans of Locust Point enjoy the view of the Patapsco River from the pavilion next to the Baltimore Museum of Industry.
Sorell Thompson, with red cap, dances with Sydney Ayelino while learning Latin Dancing for the first time during free lessons offered by SalsaNow at the newly-opened Rye Street Park on Thursday evenings.
Bright Stars Learning Center teacher Nikki Smith douses her cousin, camp counselor Bobby Smith, as the adults cool off from the heat with the children at the Eager Park Splash Pad in East Baltimore. The Baltimore City Health Department has issued a Code Red Extreme Heat Alert through Saturday.
Local jazz saxophonist Isaac Parham photobomb Stephanie Powe’s selfie with Jimmie Smith, right, during Music in the park at Eager Park.
Caleb Dickens, 8, of Baltimore, laughs after he pied Dr. Rahul Koka, center, with shaving cream pie during Johns Hopkins Children Center’s summer carnival.
Barbara Rawleigh helps her mother Maggie Sexton choose patterns from from the book “Rock Art!” illustrating painting ideas as seniors paint Kindness Stones at Victory Villa Senior Center, through a partnership with Baltimore County Public Library.
Josie Duncan, 6, left, and Mac Duncan, 4, right, look at Howie the Hedgehog at the Harford County Farm Fair.
Katelyn Meyer gives a bath to Koda, a white Husky at Wagging Lounge Dog Resort in Columbia, Maryland.
Royal Carribean’s 915-foot long Vision of the Seas passes beach goers at Sandy Point State Park on its way from Baltimore to Bermuda.
Freddie Martinez, center, and girl friend Svetlana Istinova dance to live music at Broadway Square during Sundays in the City, the once a month family-friendly music concert from June to September.
Maya Helmacy, 13, helps plant a tree. The Children of Sherwood Forest & The Downs on the Severn in collaboration with the Severn River Association, Severn Riverkeeper, Center for Ecosystem Recovery, and Underwood & Associates took part in an International Bog Day Celebration at Hidden Pond.
Kelly Jo Chartier, owner of In the Dark Circus Arts Performance Company and School, teaches Calvin Conway, 5, how to keep a plate spinning during a week-long Circus Summer Camp for 4-7-year-olds in the Mobtown Ballroom. Watching are, from left, Eli Haramoto, 5, Eve Beam, 4, and Andrew Haramoto, 7. The campers are rehearsing for Enchanted Circus, a show for their parents on Friday. The July 24-28 camp for ages 8-12 has a few spots left.
Kayla Jones of Randallstown holds the family’s new laptop above son Benjamin Ritter, 3 during the Chromebook Giveaway to eligible families at Baltimore County Public Library’s Randallstown branch Tuesday. There are 19 distribution events between July and November at libraries and community sites.
Elmer A. Henderson: A Johns Hopkins Partnership School holds a ribbon cutting for their ground mural project at the entrance to the school. During two and a half weeks multidisciplinary artist Jordan Lawson worked with over 250 kids in the school’s summer camps and people at the school community day to complete the mural. The young people painted a green colored section of the mural. Lawson used ideas and designs from the students for inspiration. The theme of the work is hope, integration and inspiration. Arts Every Day, a nonprofit, sponsored the project.
David Freesland, manager, left, and Gavin Romberger, bike tech, right, listen as Donald Rucker, owner of Patapsco Bicycles discuss whether a bike that had just been dropped off at their Elkridge location, can be repaired following a crash. The bike which suffered denting to the frame (which compromises the integrity) was deemed totaled.
From left, Kim and Al Davis of Pikesville, with daughter Janae Davis and niece Amber Davis, also from Pikesville, enjoy the annual crab feast fundraiser for Roberta’s House, held at Patapsco Arena. Al Davis, a mortician with March Funeral Homes, has brought his family to this benefit for the past five years to support Roberta’s House, a family grief support center based in Baltimore. The family-centered organization run by licensed professionals and trained volunteers runs Camp Erin, a weekend bereavement camp for kids, MOLD, a men’s support group and HOPE, a group for women whose babies have died.
Noah Ralls, 8 of Baltimore, fires a water cannon aboard the Urban Pirate ship Relentless as Sarah Gonzales, 11 of Rosedale, on right, waits for a turn. Casey Cares Foundation partnered with Urban Pirates in Baltimore for a pirate party for critically ill children and their families today. Sixteen families joined the cruise around the Inner Harbor, during which they learned pirate dances, fired water cannons at a wayward pirate boat and grabbed treasures from a treasure chest.
Ravens mascot Poe acts out the story as Perry Hall Library branch manager Cindy Kleback reads two of Poe’s favorite books, The Way I Feel by Janan Cain and From Head to Toe by Eric Carle, for story hour.
Karley Maxwell, a horticultural assistant with Ecologically Sound Landscapes, works to identfy and maintain the native growth in the North Park pond in Havre de Grace.
Kayakers on the Susquehanna River enjoy the warm weather as they approach the Thomas J. Hatem Memorial Bridge (US 40) in Havre de Grace.
Derek Furman of Towson, carrying his five-year old daughter Madison on his shoulders, examines bier steins for sale at the 123rd Maryland German Festival, held at the Maryland State Fairgrounds. The weekend festival included traditional German music, folk dancing, food and beverages, crafts, collectibles, and activities for children.
Shanell Thompson, center, a Youth Works site coordinator and assistant athletic director at Frederick Douglass High School, helps Harmony Chase, a rising freshman at Douglass, left, and Nicolette McKee, a rising senior at Edmondson High School, collect trash at the baseball field on the first day of a Youth Works summer program at Frederick Douglass High School. The Youth Works summer programs run through August 10th.
Foam falls on the DC Jab Jab Posse as the Baltimore Washington One Carnival parade moves from Park Circle to Druid Hill Park. The festivities are hosted by the Caribbean American Carnival Association of Baltimore (CACAB) and the DC Caribbean Carnival Committee (DCCC). This is the 42nd year of the carnival.
Workers help Mr. Trash Wheel ingest a buffet of flotsam near Harbor East that washed down the Jones Falls following yesterday’s heavy rains.
Connor Walsh,12, braces for contact after coming out of the waterslide and splashing into the pool at Swansfield Mini Waterpark in Columbia.
Mayor Brandon Scott, right, is joined by Contemporary Artist and Muralist Ernest Shaw and Former Union Baptist Church Pastor and President/CEO of Beloved Community Services Corporation, Dr. Alvin Hathaway, left, as they unveil a portrait honoring the legacy of Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. His portrait will remain at Baltimore City Hall through June 2024.
Why should kids have all the fun? Frankie, a 14-year old Nigerian Dwarf goat, seems to love the attention from Nancy Compton of Ellicott City, left, and Laura Webb of Eldersburg, participants in The Maryland Zoo’s Adult Summer Camp. The three-day program provides hands-on opportunities to assist zookeepers, learn about animal behavior and welfare, and conservation and sustainability. The two sessions for adults offered this summer sold out quickly.
Baba African, of Hamilton, dances to the live music at the Cherry Hill Arts and Music Waterfront Festival.
Brayden Caperna, 5, puts on his medal for completing the Towson 4 on the 4th fun run with his mother in Towson, MD.
Ruby Jason, 4, of Alexandria, VA, gets an eye-level view of the 30 x 42-foot garrison flag during a visit to Fort McHenry with her parents, Marc and Patricia Jason, left, and brother Owen, 7, right. After visitors watched the raising of a smaller, 17 x 25-foot modern storm flag, they unfolded this 1814 replica flag under the direction of Ranger Lynn McFarland.
Remy Shifflett, 4 of Dundalk, is transformed into Sonic the Hedgehog by face painter Rhonda Hardesty of Face Paint By Micki at the Dundalk 2023 community heritage fair, which runs through tomorrow evening.
William Howard, left, of Indiana, and teammate Joseph DeAngelis, right, of Massachusetts, work on their robot “Michael Jordan” for the CIA Robotics Academy’s battlebots competition at Morgan State University. Middle school students from around the country spent the week building and testing their robots. The Central Intelligence Agency sponsors the Robotics Academy to promote learning in science, technology, engineering math and arts fields. The Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education manages the program.
Two of three Canada Geese goslings peep to their parents as they find no outlet among huge chains on display at Baltimore Museum of Industry.
Participants in Baltimore County Police Department’s 15th Youth Leadership Academy watch as the aviation unit performs a simulated rescue at Martin State Airport. Twenty-seven participants from communities throughout Baltimore County are participating in the week-long program, allowing them to learn leadership, decision-making, teamwork, and communication skills.
Aaron Sloboda, maintenance specialist at Downtown Sailing Center on Key Highway smooths out his repair of a hull breach of a J22 foot long sailing sloop with the Domino Sugar building and Port of Baltimore shipping cranes in the background.
Crews work to repair a large water main break at the intersection of Cromwell Bridge Road and Cowpens Avenue in Parkville.
Liz Hinish gives a thumbs up to her daughter Maisie Hinish, 5, while roller skating at Columbia Association Skate Arena.
Karely Paola, 14 dances with Latina Danza Folklorica, during Latin Fest in Patterson Park, whose proceeds benefit the community organization HOLA (Hispanic Organization for Leadership Advancement).
Pedro Pacheco, of Towson, a process assistant, marches with glamazon Baltimore in the Baltimore Pride Parade on N. Charles Street on Saturday. Glamazon is the LGBTQIA+ affinity group for Amazon employees and allies. The theme of the event organized by The Pride Center of Baltimore is “One Love, One Heart, One Pride.”
Doctors, nurses and other clinicians at Baltimore’s R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center at the University of Maryland Medical Center wear orange t-shirts as part of a nationwide call for an end to gun violence.
A Mallard forages with her ducklings in the duck weed on the boat pond at Patterson Park.
A sailor is given a little help getting a small sailboat upright after tipping over in the Severn River in Annapolis.
Dan Bramos, a volunteer with Historic St. Mary’s City, looks over S. Broadway from the deck of the Maryland Dove, a 40 ton 2-masted pinnacle ship which is the floating ambassador of Historic St. Mary’s City. It’s a representation of the original Dove, one of 2 ships (along with the Ark) that began the Maryland colony. Mr. Bramos is dressed as a deckhand from 1634. The ship is visiting Fells Point until Thursday, and free tours are available from 10-5 on Wednesday and 10-1 on Thursday of this week.
Robert Ford of Baltimore, a re-enactor dressed as a Sgt. Major in the 54th Massachusetts Voluntary Infantry Regiment, one of the first Black regiments to serve in the US Civil War, speaks at the unveiling of two murals at the Avenue Bakery in Druid Heights, called “Freedom Found Its Voice!” The murals, designed by multimedia artist Stuart Hudgins, pay tribute to the contributions of Black troops in the Civil War. After the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation, Baltimore quickly raised two Black fighting regiments. The US Colored Troops (USCT) were trained at Camp Belger, located at Madison and North Avenue.
