Today, Tuesday, November 29, 2011, I attended the hearing on B19-528, the Advisory Neighborhood Commissions Boundaries Act of 2011, conducted by the D.C. Council’s Subcommittee on Redistricting, and gave oral testimony.  I sat and listened intently to all 42 other witnesses and paid particular attention to the witnesses who testified on the Ward 5 Redistricting … More WHY I SUPPORT IN PART AND OPPOSE IN PART THE BLOOMINGDALE ANC COMMISSIONERS’ POSITION ON THE WARD 5 REDISTRICTING PLAN

Advisory Neighborhood Commissions Boundaries Act of 2011 Hearing Date: November 29, 10:00 AM B19-528: Advisory Neighborhood Commissions Boundaries Act of 2011 Date: November 29, 10:00 AM Address: Council Chamber, John A. Wilson Building 1350 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20004 Councilmember Michael Brown and Councilmember Jack Evans, Co-Chairpersons of the Subcommittee on Redistricting, announce a … More SUBCOMMITTEE ON REDISTRICTING HEARING

Bates Area Neighbors; I just wanted to Highly Recommend – Tom Noll- a true Landscape Artist (and sculptor) who moved to the Bloomingdale Area about a year ago and has been quietly and creatively being working his both Practical, Magical, Zen like Whimpsical Gardens with the right Feng Shui all around Bloomingdale. Take a look … More Landscape Artist Recommendation from Neighbor

Happy Holidays from The Bates Area Civic Association The Bates Area Civic Association, Inc. is a community non-profit organization representing the residents of the community within the boundaries of North Capitol Street on the east, New Jersey Avenue on the west, Florida Avenue on the north and P  and O Streets on the south ; … More Join Us for a Holiday Reception

N.CapMainStreetr-citypaper Have you seen the North Capitol Main Street advertisement in the Washington City Paper and on some Metrobuses promoting three NCMS retail businesses — Boundary Stone, Big Bear Cafe and Rustik Tavern? The PDF of the ad is attached to this post.  Click on the link above to see the ad.    

The wrecking machines have begun! Check out the time lapse: http://oxblue.com/pro/open/clarkconstruction/citymarket

See this message from North Capitol Main Street President Pat Mitchell: Want to see the nicely formatted message?  Click here: http://campaign.r20.constantcontact.com/render?llr=tp9zhzcab&v=0012kO3uRH1XjAt-L1Cfvw-P4DWgwPU-fiT232_cm8cRlvEB-567s60kQWwczAv7HtEidH93WsW2o1PQFDBlQo817W-M_g76hOW5LSsX8TVwie_ijv1exweOgWARiJ6YJ0KlJqF-5CpS8yUWusePPfluw%3D%3D FROM NORTH CAPITOL MAIN STREET   BE KIND TO YOUR TURKEY, TELL HIM HE’S DINNER … SMALL BUSINESS SATURDAY (11-26-11) DEPARTMENT OF SMALL; LOCAL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT DC MAIN STREETS KICK IT OFF IN A BIG … More Happy Thanksgiving from North Capitol Main Street

Tomorrow is the annual Turkey Trot for Hunger event by So Others Might Eat (S.O.M.E.), which has a feeding facility on the unit block of O Street NW. See this * brief * message from S.O.M.E. website’s on the Turkey Trot: 10th Annual Thanksgiving Day Trot for Hunger http://www.some.org/events_trot_main.html Over 300 teams took part in … More tomorrow: S.O.M.E.’s annual Turket Trot for Hunger

Over 46 million people in the United States are living below the poverty line. We have double digit unemployment and the fastest growing homeless population is families and children.   So if this holiday season, If you have a job,  Be Thankful If you have shelter, Be Thankful If you have food in your refrigerator, … More Be Thankful this Holiday Season

DPW To Observe Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 24; Trash, Recycling Not Collected Leaves will be collected as scheduled from Area B neighborhoods.  All services will resume Fri., Nov. 25. The Department of Public Works announced today how services will be affected in observance of Thanksgiving Day, Thursday, November 24.  Trash and Recycling Collections: There will be … More DPW (Trash and Recycling) Schedule Week of Thanksgiving