The Clarksville Picnic will be held on the grounds of St. Louis Church on Route 108, in Clarksville, June 27 from noon to 9 p.m.

The event includes live music, arts and crafts, silent auction, bingo, pony rides, face painting, children's games, hay rides, white elephant sale, book sale, plant sale and more. Cotton candy, snow cones, ice cream, funnel cakes, hamburgers, hot dogs and pizza are on the menu. Tickets are exchanged for rides, games and food and drink at a cost of 50 cents each.

Family style, chicken and ham dinners will be available from noon to 6:30 p.m. Price is $12, ages 11 and older; $6, ages 5-10; free, younger than 5. Eat-in under the tent, or takeout is available.

A $20,000 raffle winner will be announced by the end of the evening.

Admission and parking are free.

Library system accepting Choose Civility nominees

Howard County Library invites the public to nominate businesses, organizations, and individuals for Choose Civility awards.

Introduced this year, the Choose Civility Awards recognize businesses, organizations, and individuals that model civility in their daily lives; and whose actions and behavior set an example, raise the standards of civility, and make a sustainable impact in the Howard County community.

"Anyone in the community can nominate a business, organization or individual that they feel deserves special recognition for modeling the principles of civility," stated Kelli Shimabukuro, the Library's community education and partnerships coordinator. "In our first year, we will recognize outstanding acts of civility in the four categories of business, organizations, government agencies, and educational institutions and in the special category of Heroic Act of Civility."

The nomination form, which includes specific guidelines and criteria, is available from the Choose Civility Web site at www.ChooseCivility.org. Go to either What's New or Program Activities. Nominations are accepted through June 15.

The five awards will be presented at the Choose Civility symposium Oct. 8. The Symposium, scheduled for the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab's Kossiakoff Center, in North Laurel, is the culminating event of the 2009 Choose Civility Week in Howard County and is open to the public. The Choose Civility Awards are sponsored by Ascend One.

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