Duncan Hines, Transit Lines and Express Dinner Time

Well, we’ve made it! The weekend is here.

If you’re a county schools student, summer is finally here.

If you’re a baseball fan, the O’s-Nats series is here.

If you’re a fan of conspiracy theories, Area 51 is here. The U.S. military is not. (If you’re a fan of “The Simpsons” you know that I stole that line.)

But that’s neither here nor there, so without any further ado, let’s get into it with this “late edition” edition of “The Rundown”:

• Last month , a 16-year-old Rockville resident who organized “The Great Rockville Bake Sale” at the city’s Hometown Holidays in an effort to raise money for Share Our Strength, a nonprofit whose goal is to end childhood hunger in America by 2015.
  This month, Duncan Hines recognized the Magruder High student for raising $3,257 through the bake sale (and for using Duncan Hines Triple Decadent Chocolate cake mix, according to a news release from the cake makers. Ring, ring. Plug, plug.)
  In recognition of Price’s efforts (and choice of cake, I assume), the company doubled her donation to Share Our Strength.
  If you’d like to fight hunger and “bake a difference” (I still love that headline—kudos to writer Chris Thelin), click here to learn more about Duncan Hines’s “1 Million Cupcake Challenge” going on now through the week of July 18.
• Heading to the U.S. Open this weekend?
  Due to popular demand, Montgomery County transit officials announced late Friday that Ride On will operate its Route 36 bus between the Bethesda Metro station and Congressional Country Club every half hour from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday.
  Shuttle buses from the Grosvenor-Strathmore Metro station are .
• OK, so this one’s received a “Rundown” mention about as often as , but what can I say? I’m a baseball fan. Moreover, I’m a local baseball fan. And I’m a Nationals fan. And you can’t get much more Nationals and local baseball than Nats skipper and Richard Montgomery grad at Glenview Mansion.
  So here’s your last chance for a last minute Father’s Day gift: Riggleman will be at the Rockville Civic Center on Sunday as part of .
  For dads who are political junkies, C-SPAN Anchor Robb Harleston also will be there.
  (Nothing against Mr. Harleston or C-SPAN—years ago they were nice enough to bring yours truly on to talk about sex ed in Montgomery County—really—but if Dad watches that much public affairs programming you really should get him out of the house to meet Mr. Harleston.)
  Tickets are available for a $50 donation.
  Contact Express Vice President Brad Botwin at bb67chev@aol.com or 240-447-1884 for more information.
• Via our friends at Rockville Central: On Monday morning, there was . Later, senators on Capitol Hill used the incident to frame a discussion about security against terrorism on our nation’s transit systems, as Mary Kay Mallonee reported for Capitol News Connection.
• Hey Duncan Hines, we have a Facebook page too! Be our “friend” at Rockville Patch on Facebook. Follow us @RockvillePatch on Twitter. And, oh yeah— we like brownies.