I went to the volunteer training today at the Fringe Festival, which starts on Thursday and goes for the next three weeks!. Woo hoo. It’s loads of fun and cool folks that will all be within a three blog radius of the 600 block of New York Ave NW. As well, there’s a big tent … More Fringe Festival update
Since this blog has been following the fairly contentious issue of the dog park at Bundy School parking lot. Please see this blog post below from http://www.ccca-online.org/node/34 Tonight, Robin-Eve Jasper [ robin.jasper@dc.gov ], the Director of the DC Office of Property Management, personally appeared at the East Central Civic Association meeting to rally support for … More OPM’s Dishonest Dealings With The Shaw Community
This is a reminder that Mayor Fenty, along with a host of other local government agency personnel, will be conducting a walk-through of our area on this coming Friday, July 10, 2009, commencing at 1:00 p.m. As you will note below, the starting point for this work session will be the Unit Block of O … More Reminder: Mayor’s walk-through this Friday
Location: 1519 Fourth Street, NW Completed in 1960 as the first purpose-built Black Muslim place of worship in Washington, Masjid Mohammad was the successor mosque to Nation of Islam Temple # 4 on Ninth Street, NW. Although no longer affiliated with the Nation of Islam, it continues to serve as the center of activity for DC’s … More Our History: Masjid Muhammad
I was out with Jennifer R. today looking at parks, and she pointed out the Westminster Park on Westminster St. between S and T Streets NW, near 9th Street (picture below). It’s a great space, with a great mural. So I emailed my college alum, Shepard Fairey (you know, the genius behind the Obama posters) to … More Shepard Fairey Mural?
All I urge everyone interested in the dog park issue to try to attend this meeting. It’s important to have a presence there. Begin forwarded message: —–Original Message—– From: Yuckenberg, Jason (OPM) <jason.yuckenberg@dc.gov> To: Yuckenberg, Jason (OPM) <jason.yuckenberg@dc.gov> Sent: Thu, Jul 2, 2009 3:09 pm Subject: Bundy School Community Presentation Thursday, July 9 at 7pm … More Bundy School Community Presentation, July 9
Hi all – I’ll have petitions to sign this Sunday at the clean up. It’s a double opportunity to improve the the community! The meeting point is at First and P Street, NW, starting at 10:00 AM and it is planned to go on until noon. ~ Denise
We as a neighborhood should know our past in order to define our future. I see from many leaders and neighborhood activists the need to design a future for this neighborhood on which a majority can unite and fight for. DCGOV will start paying attention when we stand together. I believe that we should know … More Paul Laurence Dunbar High School
Martin Moulton, head of the Convention Center Community Association in Shaw had this recap of the recent ANC2C meeting, in which the proposal to convert the Bundy parking lot to a dog park was voted on. Here’s his recap from the Shaw list: . . . The important and most contentious item on the agenda … More Bundy Parking lot discussed at ANC2c meeting
Bates Area Civic Association 