The cupboards are bare at Columbia Community Care. Food prices have gone up, up, up and donations have been waning. Everyone is feeling the pinch. Image from Columbia Community Care social media We are also painfully aware that ever-increasing food costs and inflation in general are affecting everyone's household budgets. If you are able to, please consider picking up some extra pasta, cereal, peanut butter and jelly, tuna, canned veggies, etc. Every jar, package, can, container will help. Thank you so much, as always, for your caring and compassionate hearts.* Did you know that you can bring donations of non perishable food items with you to early voting? Food Donations Collected At Early Voting Centers Through Oct. 29, Kristin Danley-Griner, Columbia Patch The Howard County Board of Elections has partnered with the Community Action Council of Howard County to host the Harvest of Hope Food Drive benefiting the Howard County Food Bank. Most Needed Items: Big announcement f...
“Maker.” You may think you know the word. In recent years it has added another definition. Here’s an example from Merriam Webster: e. a person who experiments with creating, constructing, modifying, or repairing objects especially as a hobby With 3D printers and sewing machines, laser cutters and hand tools, makers are innovating and revolutionizing the creative process of turning ideas into tangible objects. —Record Observer (Centreville, Maryland) Maker culture is about … learning by doing, taking an idea from paper to reality. —Peg Mawby The concept of “maker” has its origins in a magazine created in 2005 by Dale Dougherty. Make: magazine, a quarterly publication, was intended to be: … a guide for a new generation of hands-on enthusiasts he would come to call “makers”. As the editorial team profiled fascinating individuals, from rocket hobbyists to kinetic sculptors and DIY mavericks they realized that their vibrant, eclectic energy they were capturing in print c...