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Summer At Sandy Spring

Summer At Sandy Spring is a great Summer Day camp offering equal parts fun and uniqueness. For over thirty years, we have provided families with a safe, engaging, and active summer camp experience for children three years old to fourteen. With the sprawling Sandy Spring Friends School campus, we offer summer experiences for your children that will provide lifelong memories and friendships. Your children will have opportunities to explore Adventure Park, swim in our man-made pond, partake in our weekly theme weeks, enjoy daily hot lunches, and so much more! Some of our exciting activities: Adventure Challenge • Archery • Archery Tag • Art Bonanza • Bubble Soccer • Computer Programming • Dance/Poms • Fishing • Flight Science • Karate • Lego Robotics • Outdoor Living Skills • Painting • Paper Maché • Photography • Rock Climbing • STEAMers • Theater • Video Production and much more! Phone number: 301-774-7455 ext.167

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Summer At Sandy Spring is a great Summer Day camp offering equal parts fun and uniqueness. For over thirty years, we have provided families with a...

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Kiddie Academy of Gaithersburg will host Hero Play Day on Saturday, July 11 at 10 a.m. for infants to 12-year-olds. Families are invited to attend this free community event designed to help children recognize and celebrate their personal heroes.

The new hands-on event will be an opportunity for children to dress up as their favorite superhero and participate in “training” stations set up around the Academy, including obstacle courses, strength tests and kindness missions.
Refreshments will be provided. To register, visit <a href="https://kiddieacademy.com/academies/event/hero-play-day/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">http://kiddieacademy.com/academies/event/hero-play-day/</a>.&nbsp;&nbsp; WHAT: Kiddie Academy Hero Play Day WHEN: Saturday, July 11 from 10 a.m. - noon. WHERE: 15895 Gaither Drive, Gaithersburg, MD 20877

Local Event: Hero Play Day at Kiddie Academy of Gaithersburg

Hero Play Day at Kiddie Academy of Gaithersburg

Kiddie Academy of Gaithersburg will host Hero Play Day on Saturday, July 11 at 10 a.m. for infants to 12-year-olds. Families...

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In an age that's gone mad, Anything Goes!Performances:
Friday July 24@8pm
Saturday July 25 @ 8pm
Sunday July 26 @ 2pm
Friday July 31 @ 8pm
Saturday August 1 @ 8pm
Sunday August 2 @ 2pmNEW DINING INFO:Your Summer Dinner Theatre experience now features a curated pre-show reception in place of the traditional buffet.
Guests will enjoy a thoughtfully designed selection of hot and cold hors d’oeuvres, and dessert and coffee/tea service at intermission
This updated dining model offers a more contemporary, flexible, and engaging experience while allowing us to invest more directly in student programs and productions.
Music and Lyrics by Cole Porter,&nbsp;Original Book by P.G. Wodehouse &amp; Guy Bolton&nbsp;and Howard Lindsay &amp; Russel Crouse


New Book by Timothy Crouse &amp; John Weidman
Anything Goes (2022 Revision) is a vibrant, dance-heavy version of Cole Porter's classic musical about romance and mistaken identities aboard the S.S. American, following stowaway Billy Crocker's quest to win heiress Hope Harcourt from her stuffy fiancé, with help from singer Reno Sweeney and gangster "Moonface" Martin, all set to iconic songs like "You're the Top" and the title track, with the 2022 revision updating the book for modern audiences and boosting its dance numbers. 
This version of Anything Goes was adapted from the 1987 Broadway revival, originally produced by Lincoln Center Theater.
ANYTHING GOES is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Tams-Witmark LLC.<a href="https://www.concordtheatricals.com" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">www.concordtheatricals.com</a>
The 2022/2021 revival of Anything Goes is generally considered appropriate for ages 10+ and often rated PG, offering a fun, tap-heavy, and witty romantic comedy. While it contains mild adult humor, innuendo, and references to alcohol/smoking typical of the 1930s setting, it lacks heavy violence or explicit scenes

Local Event: Anything Goes! - MC Summer Musical

Anything Goes! - MC Summer Musical

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The Name That Echoes: A Novel of Becoming&nbsp;by Kenneth Chivir Shenge Now Available on Amazon and Barnes &amp; Noble
ROCKVILLE, MD&nbsp;&mdash; Kenneth Chivir Shenge, a Nigerian-born author of Tiv heritage, announced the release of his debut novel,&nbsp;The Name That Echoes: A Novel of Becoming, now available in hardcover, paperback, and Kindle editions on Amazon and in eBook format on Barnes &amp; Noble. The audiobook edition is forthcoming.
The novel follows Alexander Terver Zever, a boy who is seven years old when the world he was born into vanishes. Raised in Comfortville, a community engineered for order, comfort, and quiet sufficiency, Alexander grows up within carefully maintained boundaries and unquestioned rules. Something in him resists. A name he cannot place. Fragments of memory that do not belong. A persistent sense that the life assigned to him is smaller than the one he was meant to live. What follows is not a story of sudden rebellion or dramatic escape. It is something slower and more costly: the gradual recovery of a self that was displaced before it was fully formed.
At the moral center of the novel stands a Tiv proverb: a person can be led so gradually away from his own path that, in time, he begins to call the wilderness home.
"I am Tiv, from Benue State, Nigeria," said Shenge. "That heritage is the foundation on which this story stands. But I wrote this book for anyone who has ever been led, gradually and almost imperceptibly, away from who they are, and who has had to find their way back. That journey belongs to no single person or people."
The Name That Echoes&nbsp;is literary fiction with a dystopian backbone, written with philosophical depth and emotional restraint. It draws on the oral traditions, moral frameworks, and cultural memory of the Tiv people of central Nigeria, while speaking to universal questions of identity, belonging, memory, and the slow cost of becoming.
The novel is published through Spines and is available through major online retailers. It carries BISAC classifications in Literary Fiction, African American and Black Fiction, and Coming of Age Fiction.
About the Author
Kenneth Chivir Shenge is a Nigerian-born author of Tiv heritage, writing from Rockville, Maryland. He holds a Ph.D. in Plant Pathology and a Master of Public Health, as well as a postgraduate diploma in Theology, and has served in Christian ministry for more than three decades. His scholarly discipline and his pastoral vocation share a common conviction: that how we understand ourselves determines how we live.&nbsp;The Name That Echoes&nbsp;is his debut novel. He is at work on his second. He is married to Mercy, and they have four children.
Book Details
Title:The Name That Echoes: A Novel of Becoming
Author:&nbsp;Kenneth Chivir Shenge&nbsp;
Publisher:&nbsp;Spines&nbsp;
Publication Date:&nbsp;June 24, 2026&nbsp;
Format:&nbsp;Hardcover ($23.99) | Paperback ($15.99) | Kindle ($7.99) | eBook ($7.99) | Audiobook (forthcoming)&nbsp;
ISBN/ASIN:&nbsp;B0H6H532GL&nbsp;
Available:&nbsp;Amazon | Barnes &amp; Noble | Major online booksellers
Amazon:<a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H6H532GL" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H6H532GL</a>
Barnes &amp; Noble:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-name-that-echoes-kenneth-chivir-shenge/1150469319" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-name-that-echoes-kenneth-chivir-shenge/1150469319</a>
Media Contact:
Kenneth Chivir Shenge
Email:&nbsp;<a href="mailto:ken@kennethshenge.com" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">ken@kennethshenge.com</a>
<a href="https://www.kennethshenge.com/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">www.kennethshenge.com</a>
Review copies available upon request.

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