Spring is upon us, and the Old Line Garrison is looking forward to coming out of hyper-sleep and invading your quadrant of the Galaxy for another great season of trooping for fun, charity, and good causes!

We had another great winter! We were honored once again this past December to participate in the Mayor’s Christmas Parade in Hampden, and we look forward to the 2012 parade.

The charitable donations really rolled-in this winter too! We helped out MIX 106.5FM and the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center with their 23^rd Annual Radiothon, which brought in over $865,000 in donations. Also, the annual Maryland State Police Polar Bear Plunge team ‘Some Like It Hoth’, comprised of Old Line Garrison members, their friends and family, broke their previous year’s record by personally raising $4,612.06 for Special Olympics of Maryland, and having a ton of fun at the beach while doing it!

As a preview of events to come this Spring and Summer, here are some upcoming events where you can catch Old Line Garrison invading your planet:

We look forward to another awesome Star Wars at the Library event at the Arbutus Branch of the Baltimore County Public Library on Saturday, April 21^st at 2:00pm. This event will feature crafts and activities as well as showcase books and stories from the Star Wars Universe.

May 4^th every year is Star Wars Day (May the Fourth be with you!), and the next day is just as great… FREE COMIC BOOK DAY! We will be at a number of Maryland comic book shops and booksellers on Saturday, May 5th to promote literacy and good, old-fashioned Comic Book & Science Fiction fandom.

On Saturday, May 12^th, the Archbishop Neale School in La Plata, MD will be hosting a fundraiser Sci-Fi/Comic Con. The event will open at 10:00am, and Imperial Recon elements have gathered intelligence suggesting a Viking presence in the area…

Sunday, May 20^th will be the date of this year’s Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Walk in Frederick, MD, and OLG plans on being there to do our part. Get more details on this event at the CFF Maryland Chapter website.

And finally for this preview, we are excited to announce that we are once again planning to take Prince George’s Stadium by force on Saturday, June 23^rd for the Bowie Baysox’s Annual Star Wars Night! If you’ve been in attendance for this event in years past, you’ll know that it keeps getting better every year! Get more information at the Bowie Baysox website.

We look forward to seeing you soon, and check back often for more news and announcements!

Did you know… That you can add our Events Calendar to your personal Google Calendar for updates on events as soon as we post them?

Last week, Old Line Garrison teamed up with Johns Hopkins Children’s Center for the MIX 106.5 Radiothon 2012. The three-day marathon broadcast began at 6 a.m. Wednesday, Feb. 29, and concluded at 8 p.m. on Friday, March 2. The results are in, and this year the Radiothon raised over $865,000.00!

In its 22 years, the MIX 106.5 Radiothon has raised nearly $14 million for Hopkins Children’s Center.

We are very proud and are very honored to have participated in this wonderful annual event, and we look forward to lending our hands to many more events in the coming year.

A very special thanks to MIX 106.5 and Johns Hopkins for allowing us to share this experience and meet so many wonderful people.

Here is a link to a full article about the event:

http://www.hopkinschildrens.org/tpl_news.aspx?id=10822

And here are some YouTube videos of our appearances on local TV newscasts:

http://youtu.be/9BfIzWhyW08

http://youtu.be/yuWAoL0mGJs

The 501st Legion’s Old Line Garrison is excited to return the the The 39th Annual Mayor’s Christmas Parade in Hampden!

The 39th Annual Mayor’s Christmas Parade will be held on December 4th, 2011 at 2:00pm.

This event is one that we look forward to every Holiday season. Last year, our troopers braved the windy, freezing cold for hours before being given our marching orders. All of the chattering teeth and running in-place was quite worth it to see the looks on the faces of little kids and big kids alike when Lord Vader and the Empire came marching down the streets of historic Hampden!

Come out and see us and all of the other great groups, local personalities, dancing troupes and marching bands that make this Holiday parade such a blast!