The Women's Civic League sponsors various events throughout the year. Please contact us if you would like to consider joining the League and particpate with us or come by to enjoy these fun events!

Annual Fall Apple Festival . . . Friday, October 2, 2009, 11 a.m. until 4 p.m. This is the League's most important fundraiser held in coopertion with the City's Department of Recreation and Parks at the War Memorial Plaza on 101 N. Gay Street. Fresh local apples, apple products, fall flowers, tulip and daffodil bulbs, seeds, a Silent Auction, food vendors, and vendors of all kinds are featured. Proceeds go toward the maintenance and upkeep of the Federal period Thorowgood Smith house on 9 N. Front Street and to the daily operations of the Women's Civic League. If interested in renting a booth, please click here for the PDF vendor contract. Please note, however, that any apple product remains exclusively under the purview of the League. Help us raise funds for this yearly event - simply print the Fall Apple Festival Sustainers form and help sign up others for donations.

If you would like to place an advertisment in this year's Apple Festival Program, please click here for our PDF ad form. Please return the form before September 1, 2009.

For our Silent Auction form, please click here. The silent auction will take place from 11am to 4pm on the same day as our Fall Apple Festival! All companies and individuals who have items which may be of interest for bidding, please complete the form and return by fax or mail.

Fall Luncheon...Friday, October 23, 2009. Members and their invited guests will dine together over cocktails and a luncheon with table service at the Towson Golf & Country Club, Phoenix, MD. Events include live entertainment. Reservation required.

Friday, April 24, 2009
is the date for this year's Spring Luncheon. Our annual businees meeting will be held immediately afterward and should conclude by 3:00 p.m. The luncheon begins with cocktails at 11:00 a.m. at the Engineer's Club (Garrett Mansion) on 4 W. Mount Vernon Place. Meal tickets are $28, and for an additional $3, members and their guests may park in the lot just west of the MD Historical Society on W. Monument Avenue. Pictured here at one of our luncheons are Lisa Hurka-Covington, keynote speaker from S.P.E.A.K (Suicide Prevention & Education Awareness for Kids), Governor William Donald Schaeffer and Bertha Pinder (WCL President). Our speaker for 2009 is Katie Callahan-Durcan, Mayor's office Trails and By-ways manager for the Baltimore Heritage Area.

Friday, May 22, 2009 is the date for our annual Day at the Races...At about this time each Spring, members and their invited guests spend an afternoon together in the Jockey Club at Pimlico Race Track enjoying a catered meal with table service and cocktails - and fine horse racing! This year, the League will sponsor the fifth race and will present a memorial silver plate to the winning jockey. The price of tickets is $36 each. Notify the office to reserve seats and provide us with your choice of entree, either the crab cake or the flat iron steak.

League members should contact the office to make reservations as soon as possible. Plan to arrive at Pimlico Jockey Club house at 11:00 a.m. and stay as long as you like.

This photo of past years' "Day at the Races" is still available for purchase. E-mail or phone the office to order as many color prints as you would like for $10 each. [Photo by Double J Photos]

Friday, October 2, 2009 is the new day for the annual Fall Apple Festival at War Memorial Plaza. Advertisers, vendors, and benefactors are referred to information at left. Pictured here is the festival's treasurer, Hortense Hackett, who is also active with her WCL group, Northwest.