Wear your Hawaiian best for the South Anne Arundel County Relay for Life kickoff. Judge your favorite chili, win door prizes, hear cancer survivor testimonials and learn more about the June 7 Relay for Life. 1pm at South River High School’s cafeteria, Edgewater: wbaker@aacps.org; www.relayforlife.org/saac. 

  Learn basic navigation, pilot-chart orientation, plotting positions, rules of road and dead reckoning from Annapolis School of Seamanship. 10am-noon at 113 Hillsmere Dr., Annapolis: 410-268-0129; www.westmarine.com. 

Water is pretty cheap in the United States: 61 cents a day supplies each of us with our daily ration of 123 gallons of water. Cheap enough that we take it for granted, until the well runs dry. That’s the day dreaded by every well owner, and there are lots of us.     Public water is a blessing of urban and suburban communities. Rural communities still use wells. In Calvert County, where I live, approximately 15,400 out of roughly 34,150 households draw their water from wells.

January 9 thru 13, Maryland’s tides will rise higher than usual due to the alignment of sun, moon and earth. CoastSmart Communities wants you to illustrate the rise.     Snap photos showing high water and submit them to www.flickr.com/groups/ MarylandKingTide.