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Social Activities
During the year, the club holds a few social activities for members, families and friends. Our Christmas Party and summer Crab Feast are regular events. Others are scheduled according to members’ interests.
Annual Crab Feast
Bollinger Party Palace, Hereford
Saturday, Aug. 9, 2008 at noon
Cost: $25 per person + a side dish or dessert
The crab feast will be held at the Bollinger Party Palace (aka Antique Fire Station #2 at Chuck Bollinger’s home in Hereford) starting at noon. The spread will include steamed crabs and shrimp, corn on the cob, beer, sodas, covered dishes and desserts. Everyone is asked to bring a folding chair and a crab mallet as well as either a covered dish or a dessert—your call captain will ask what you plan to bring. Cost per person depends on the market price for crabs and will be posted shortly before the event.
DRIVING DIRECTIONS TO THE CRAB FEAST (236 Everett Road): From I 83, take Exit 27 Hereford and go east on Mt. Carmel Rd. to the traffic light at York Rd. Turn right on York Rd. and go about ¼ mile to Everett Rd. (just south of Monkton Rd.). Proceed about ½ mile, and you will see a group of mailboxes and three driveways on the right. Turn into the third driveway and go all the way up the hill to the blue barn. Park in the grass on the right side.
Celebrate the holidays with your Timonium Optimist friends!
- Annual Christmas party at Dick & Mickey Price’s home
- Saturday, Dec. 15, 2007 at 6:00 p.m.
- R.S.V.P. by Dec. 10, 2007 to Missy Yates or Muriel Russum
Ride the Ducks with Timonium!
- Harborplace, Light Street behind the Visitors’ Center
- Sunday, Oct. 14, 2007 at 3:00 p.m. (2:30 check-in)
- Deadline to sign up: Saturday, Sept. 22, 2007
Get a carload of friends and family together and come on down for a quack-tastic afternoon! This family-oriented event is pure fun and will appeal to people of all ages. More »
50th Anniversary Party
On June 17, 2007, the Optimist Club of Timonium officially turned 50, and the club celebrated the milestone at a dinner party held at the Timonium Holiday Inn Select on June 23. A total of 82 members, spouses and Optimist friends attended. County Executive Jim Smith issued a proclamation declaring that Saturday “Optimist Club of Timonium Day in Baltimore County.”
Before dinner, guests socialized and enjoyed a number of displays commemorating the club’s 50 years of Optimism. The highlight of the program following dinner was a retrospective of the club’s five decades narrated by Missy Yates and punctuated with tunes sung by an enthusiastic, if not gifted, chorus of 11 club members. An appropriate culmination to the celebration was the awarding of OI 50-year pins to Jim Yates and Dick Price—the club’s two charter members with 50 years of continuous service.
The anniversary dinner party was a fitting tribute to the club’s long service to youth and the community, and it set the stage for continuing service from a vibrant club in the years ahead.
