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 the 2010 Trot.
“Please join us in supporting the hungry and homeless in Washington, DC by participating in the 10th Annual Thanksgiving Day Trot for Hunger on Thursday, November 24th. In order to accommodate the growing number of participants in the Trot, SOME has moved the event to Freedom Plaza for 2011. This year we anticipate 6,000 trotters!
•9:00am – 5K Run and Walk
•8:30am – Little Turkey One Mile Fun Run (to participate, each child and/or adult must be registered for the 5K)
Between 2010 and 2011, the number of homeless families in Washington grew by over 7% and the number of single men and women living on the streets climbed 5%. More homeless men, women and children are depending on SOME for food, services and affordable housing. Thank you for helping SOME to continue to provide hot meals and support to those in need.”
Bates Area Civic Association 
Im sorry Scott, but why would anyone in Bloomingdale or Truxton Circle want to help SOME with all SOME has done to destroy the neighborhood? If anyone lives in the area, then they know what goes on at 1st and O St NW where its basically just a open air drug market. There was just shots fired on this street this past week. Please dont support SOME and instead support a different organization!!!!!! They dont belong in a residential area and need to find a new home. SOME when approached by the community several times denies any responsibility to the drug activities that go on outside of thier facility and have offered to do nothing to help solve the problem.
Thanks for your comment.
Posting information from the S.O.M.E. website here on the BACA blog does not mean that I endorse the organization.
I am just posting information about an organization which has a facility within the Bates area.
The text that I posted is straight from the S.O.M.E. website.
Scott, you don’t need to apologize for posting the article. As many of you know, I have been living in the Bates community, Shaw-East, Dunbar-Shaw, Truxton Circle or whatever else we might choose to call it for more than 20 years. I am intimately aware of the problems of crime and neglect in our neighborhood as well as the strides that we collectively have made over the past two decades to improve those conditions. We are “a great community on the rise” but we still have a considerable way to go. Now to the point of this reply. Despite how we might feel about SOME as a neighbor, the mission of the organization is a noble one. At this time of year, when we overindulge in the blessings that we enjoy, each of us needs to pause to remember, when we see a homeless or hungry fellow human being, that “but for the Grace of God (or if you don’t believe in God, by sheer happenstance) go I.” Over this past year, I have been in the forefront of the struggle to get SOME to reform its conduct or to leave O Street and find other environs from which to operate. But at least on this holiday of “Thanksgiving”, and the coming Christmas holiday, let’s put aside malice and applaud what SOME is trying to do to alleviate the suffering of others. It’s both the neighborly and the Christian thing to do.