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Help Haitians devastated by the earthquake through Episcopal Relief & Development. ERD is reaching out to the Diocese of Haiti to both address immediate needs and prepare for long-term rehabilitation work. Call 800-334-7626 ext 5129 or visit www.er-d.org for additional information. Sending a check - make it payable to Episcopal Relief & Development and mail to P.O. Box 7058 Merrifield, VA 22116-7058.

The Second Tuesday event for February 9 will be a rescheduled video showing of Bang the Drum Slowly (1973) PG, a film adaptation of the 1956 baseball novel of the same name by Mark Harris. The title is a reflection of the line, "Oh, beat the drum slowly and play the fife lowly,” from the cowboy ballad, The Streets of Laredo, which is about a cowboy dying young. In the video, one of the characters, Bruce Pearson (Robert DeNiro) is dying of Hodgkin’s disease and no one else knows about it except his one friend, Henry Wiggen (Michael Moriarty). The story, about life behind-the-scenes in professional baseball, includes a fictional card game known as TEGWAR (The Exciting Game Without Any Rules). It is a game basically designed to separate a sucker from his cash. Henry Wiggen plays this game along with other ballplayers and coaches, to sucker passers-by in the lobby of the team hotel. It is generally believed that Bruce Pearson is too dumb to be able to sucker people, so he is excluded. However, Henry begins to include Bruce in the TEGWAR games as the story progresses. 96 minutes.

Second Tuesday is a 10:00 a.m. weekday event of entertainment and fellowship scheduled at St. Paul’s Center on the second Tuesday of each month except August. The event is usually a video presentation, discussion of the contents, and dialogue that encourages reconciliation of related personal and interpersonal difficulties that occur in our daily lives.

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St. Paul’s Church and Rock Creek Cemetery follow the federal government’s snow policy. When federal government offices are closed (or have a delayed opening) due to snow or other emergency, St. Paul’s Church and Rock Creek Cemetery will be closed to the public. For scheduled burials, the funeral home and/or family will be notified as to whether the burial will take place. Rock Creek Parish reserves the right to close Rock Creek Cemetery (even if the federal government is open) if road conditions within the cemetery are hazardous and unsafe.