Polo, anyone? Yes, polo and it's right here in Clarksville.

The Lewis family presents the fourth annual Ten Oaks Cup polo match to benefit Catholic Charities Our Daily Bread/Our Daily Bread Employment Center Saturday, June 6. Gates open at noon at 6005 Ten Oaks Road and the match begins at 2 p.m. General admission is only $30 per car in advance and $50 day of event.

For more than 28 years, Our Daily Bread has provided meals to Baltimore's homeless and working poor. The Lewis family has been actively involved with the program most, if not all, of those years.

They calculate that each meal costs about $4 per person and they serve an average of 700 guests per day. Its new facility with Our Daily Bread Employment Center opened in June 2007. The goal of the Center is to provide resources for people to achieve self-sufficiency. All donations will be cheerfully accepted.

To learn more or to register go to www.ourdailybreadbaltimore.org/polo, e-mail dmurphy@cc-md.org or call 443-986-9027.

The 50+ Walking Group is getting off to a slow start this season. Last year Steward Frazier kept the group moving apace with his "always to soon to quit" motto.

Sadly, Steward has had a rough winter and is not up to walking at present. It seems a former walker or prospective walker will show up each Thursday morning, but never any two the same week.

Walking is so beneficial and something almost all of us can do. Maybe we need to try something a bit different this month. Bring a friend to walk with you. Walkers need not actually be 50 to join the group.

Call Mary Harris at 410-531-1749 in advance to say that you are coming. If you want to be sure others are coming, call again on Thursday morning. The office opens at 9 a.m. Walkers meet at Claret Hall at 10 a.m. and begin walking at 10:15 a.m. For your health's sake, just do it.

Dayton Oaks/West Friendship Elementary music students have been practicing diligently to prepare for the spring concerts. WFES beginning band, WFES advanced band and DOES/WFES combined jazz band will perform at WFES June 19 at 7 p.m. DOES Beginning Band, WFES advanced band and DOES/WFES combined jazz band will perform at DOES June 11. Come hear for yourself.

Clarksville has been attracting some very high quality music performances to inspire our young musicians. Come hear Il Sesto Giorno in concert with Soraya L. Homayouni presenting poetry at Triadelphia Seventh-day Adventist Church on Brighton Dam Road June 13 at 6 p.m.

Geri Mueller, director of the Columbia Union College Baroque Consort, has formed the Il Sesto Giorno group of outstanding musicians who have played in different places all over the world and locally at Kennedy Center, Strathmore and Carnegie Hall.

They play classical pieces out of the Baroque and Classical period. You'll hear the music of Bach, de Boismortier, Janitsch, Quantz and others. Members of the group are Geri Mueller, Jamie Schneider, Keri Vandeman, Evonne Baasch, Natalia Klimenkova-Pashko and David Greene. Their instruments are flute/recorder, oboe, violins, cello and harpsichord/piano. Soraya will recite some of her original poems between the pieces. Don't miss it.

Six to eight years ago, Clarksville Middle School guidance counselor Arlene Katz began sponsoring seventh- and eighth-grade student ambassadors in a partnership with the Office on Aging.

It seemed a good idea to give students with no grandparents in the area an opportunity to interact with older people and those with local grandparents might also enjoy the activity.

The first Senior Prom was a bit stilted on both sides.

"The CMS Senior Prom gets better each year," said Judi Bard, of the Office on Aging.

Young and old share a monthly activity. By the time the Senior Prom rolls around, they are good friends. Students were all smiles as they hurried to greet special friends. Harry Unglesbee lit up as he recognized Tyler Lacey approaching. Arlene, Julie Prince and Monica Heinlein (guidance staff) work together and rotate yearly sponsorship of the ambassadors. They've appreciated getting lots of parent and school support.

This year's prom theme was "ocean caribbean."

Students decorated and brought desserts. I especially liked the palm trees, but everything looked festive. The PTA contributed and the school prepared plenty of tasty food for all.

The Jester Man, Brad Higbee, created balloon wrist corsages for the ladies, cute critters for the tables and wild hats for willing wearers.

Go to www.AardvarkEntertainers.com, e-mailAardvarkEntertainers.com or call 410-795-0909 for more about The Jester Man.

Great dance music was provided by The Goldenaires. While they took a break, a group of seventh-grade girls demonstrated "The Hoedown Throwdown" and the beautifully blended voices of Peyton Walker and Sara Winchel provided a vocal duet. If you're interested in joining the band or learning more about the group, they practice on Wednesdays at the Bain Center, in Columbia.

Eighth-graders Zach Plotkin and Ryan Harrison were having fun serving at the soda table -- no dancing required. Others got more into the swing of things. Weilin Huang and Zhang Shuqin were part of an appreciative audience as one of their group deftly instructed a circle of students in the finer points of dancing the Twist.

"We're having lots of fun. We love parties!," Weilin said.

Nobody was in any hurry to leave. As long as we're still breathing, we need to keep living life to the fullest.

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