The Talbot County Department of Social Services golf cart won the “Best Decorated Golf Cart” award for its theme, “Helping hand in children’s lives by the judges during the Easton St. Patrick’s Day Parade. The cart’s theme was developed by agency staff to correspond to the department’s outreach and services for children and families. Foster children and foster parents decorated the craft hands which covered the brim of the golf cart’s hat. Talbot County foster parents also walked in the parade.

For further information about becoming a foster or adoptive parent in Talbot County, contact Katie Russ, Coordinator of Option Respite, at 410-820-7371. Upcoming foster parent information sessions will be held on April 20, 2011 at the Caroline County Department of Social Services, 207 S. Third Street in Denton and June 9, 2011 at the Talbot County Department of Social Services, 301 Bay Street, Unit #5 in Easton. All sessions are from 6 to 7:30 p.m.