VIN Etching - An Vehicle Anti-theft Program

By Chuck Gait
Posted: September 25, 2008

No one can guarantee that your car will never be stolen. But, if it is, why not have some way to easily identify it? VIN etching is one way. And, it’s free.

The Howard County Police Department will be conducting a session Oct. 7 at 5:30 p.m. at 8214 Reservoir Road, in Fulton.

Here’s how the process works. A stencil of the VIN is made and cut into several strips of tape, the strips are placed onto a clean portion of glass, and then the strips are dabbed with hydrofluoric acid (glass etching acid). The police officers will even clean your windows before the etching process starts.

Here is the information you’ll need to bring along: the owner’s full name, address, telephone numbers, vehicle tag number, make, model, year, style and color of the vehicle. Send this in an email to Janet Stabile at jstabile@howardcountymd.gov. Of course, forms can be completed on site. Folks interested need to bring their vehicle(s) (duh!) and the registration card(s). You can download the form as a PDF document by clicking on VIN Etching Form

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Reservoir Band Competition This Weekend

By Chuck Gait
Posted: September 25, 2008

The Reservoir High School Marching Band has been practicing hard for the upcoming United States Scholastic Band Assoc. competition that is going to be held Saturday, Sept. 27 at Centennial High School from 6 to 8 p.m.

Doors open at 5 p.m. and tickets are $10 for adults, $5 for children older than 13 and free for those younger than 13. This kind of band competition is fun to watch. Come see what the kids have been working on.

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Highland Day Student Competition

By Chuck Gait
Posted: September 17, 2008

In a couple weeks, the community of Highland will be celebrating its annual fall festival called Highland Day. One of the planned events is the second annual “Student Arts and Letters Competition” sponsored by Sandy Spring Bank.

All students from kindergarten through 12th grade are invited to participate and express their opinions, thoughts, or viewpoints via a couple forms of creative endeavor based on this year’s theme, “What Maryland Means to Me.”

Executives from the bank will award a fifty-dollar U.S. Savings Bond to the winning entries. Winning entries will be selected based on creativity, originality, presentation and appropriateness. The three divisions are: Division 1: Kindergarten through fifth grade, Division 2: sixth through eighth grade and Division 3: ninth through twelfth grade.

All private, public and home school students within their age group are entitled to enter. Organizers will accept original entries in two categories: creative writing and art. Creative writing entries can be an essay, a narrative, a short story, a poem or a song.

Art entries can be a drawing, photograph, photo collage, computer-generated creation, sculpture or painting. Any Maryland-centric topic can be used such as history, people, landmark, business, the environment, animals, personal experience, the ABCs of Maryland or any other similar idea. Your entry may be displayed in the shops at Highland during the festival.

If your son or daughter plans to take a crack at this, they need to get started right away. For more information about the competition to include competition rules or specific submission details, you can go to the Highland website and look for the link to the Arts & Letters Competition, or contact the competition coordinator at Kelly@eventsorg.com.

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Car Wash at Reservoir High School Canceled

By Chuck Gait
Posted: September 12, 2008

I was just informed that the free car wash, scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 13, has been canceled due to the pending inclement weather. So sorry. There will be others. Cheers.

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Free Car Wash Sept. 13

By Chuck Gait
Posted: September 9, 2008

Come over to the upper parking lot at Reservoir High School between the hours of 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 13 and the music students will wash your car, truck or minivan– for free.

Yep, that’s right, for free. Of course, donations are gratefully accepted. All donated monies help the music department at the school with their programs and purchases. Let’s help the kids drain the tanker truck.

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