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.

The nomination form is available 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 at Johns Hopkins University's APL Kossiakoff Center.

Turf Valley site of benefit golf event for Easter Seals

The Safeway Foundation presents the 22nd annual Pro-Am Golf Tournament Benefiting Easter Seals at Turf Valley Resort in Ellicott City Monday, June 8 at 9 a.m. Corporate leaders join professional golfers, Easter Seals donors and Easter Seals ambassadors to raise nearly $400,000 toward services for children, adults and seniors with disabilities.

The tournament will conclude with a dinner buffet, awards ceremony and live and silent auctions. For further information, go to www.gwbr.easterseals.com.

Olympic athlete to speak about organ donation

Motivational speaker and Olympic athlete, Chris Klug will be at the Dancel Family Center YMCA, in Ellicott City, Saturday, June 6 to speak with kids and their parents about organ donation and how his own liver transplant has taught him the importance of persistence in order to reach goals.

Klug, a professional snowboarder, promotes lifesaving donation and improving the quality of life for donors, donor families, organ transplant candidates and recipients.

At the event, Klug will sign copies of his book and will be available to answer any questions about organ donation, snowboarding and how to reach goals. The event, which takes place from 3 to 5 p.m., is free and open to the public.

The Chris Klug Foundation seeks to make a difference to those waiting for a second chance. By encouraging athletes of all ages to become "donor dudes," he hopes to get young people across the country to help him in promoting the message of organ donation.

The Dancel Family Center Y is at 4331 Montgomery Road.

Sponsorships mean free theater for children

The award-winning Chesapeake Shakespeare Company continues its tradition of free children's tickets all summer due to the generous support of new sponsors, after losing its previous corporate funder of the popular program at the Patapsco Female Institute Historic Park, in Ellicott City.

Because of the rough economy, CSC lost its summer sponsor for free children's admission and was initially planning to make up the lost revenue by charging for children's tickets. Instead, Booz Allen Hamilton stepped in to partly fill the void, allowing for free children's admission on Sundays. Then, over the past month, CSC's commitment to family-accessible theatre motivated the Columbia Foundation, Howard County General Hospital, Brown Advisory, and the Allegis Group Foundation to further sponsor free children's admission. As a result of the sponsorships, all children 18 and under will receive free admission to CSC productions when accompanied by a paying adult.

CSC offers Fun Family Summer Sundays with activities specifically geared for children. There will be a fight demonstration, may-pole dancing, face-painting and a storytelling of that evening's performance. Children will be able to enjoy "Cyrano de Bergerac," the swashbuckling romance of unrequited love, and "Twelfth Night," Shakespeare's delightful comedy, performed outdoors among the picturesque ruins of the park.

Tickets can be purchased online at www.chesapeakeshakespeare.com, by calling 866-811-4111 or prior to the performance at the box office.

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