Attention all BACA residents.  Please see this notice from Commissioner Sylvia Pinkney about an opportunity to 1) learn some new skills, 2) get some good exercise, 3) make some new friends, and 4) have some fun: Adult Exercise Class Beginning Tuesday, October 2, 2012 at 9:30 am – 11:00 am, and continue every Tuesday and Thursday 9:30 am … More Exercises Classes at Harry Thomas Sr. Rec Center

My name is Bradley A. Thomas.  I am the Vice Chair of Advisory Neighborhood Commission 5C and I chair the ANC5C Economic Development Committee. Let me first commend you, Chairman Brown and the Council’s Committee of the Whole for organizing this event.  As a record number of our fellow Ward 5 citizens vie for the … More Text of My Testimony at Chairman Kwame Brown’s Public Oversight Roundtable on Economic Development in Ward 5

This is a reminder of the meeting scheduled for 7 pm on Tuesday, January 31, 2011, at the Community Academy Public Charter School (CAPCS) on the school’s request to widen the curb cut on P Street and the community’s ongoing issues with traffic, noise, the presence of Metropolitan Baptist Church and other related matters.  Come and be part … More Reminder: Curb Cut Meeting at CAPCS Tuesday Jan 31st

     On December 13, 2011, a representative of the District’s Department of General Services (DGS) appeared before ANC5C seeking support for the request of the Community Academy Public Charter School (CAPCS) to widen the curb cut in the 100 block of P Street, N.W., to provide easier access to the parking lot (formerly a green field) adjacent … More CAPCS Curb Cut Request To Be Debated At January 31, 2012 ANC5C01 Single Member District (SMD) Meeting

When you’ve had all you can take of the hustle and bustle, take a break and unwind with some of your holiday favorites performed by some of Washington’s finest musicians and vocalists.  It’s the Fourteenth Annual Christmas Eve Jazz Vespers on this Saturday, December 24th, at 7 pm at Peoples Congregational Church, 4704 13th Street, N.W.  Admission … More Christmas Eve Music Program

Due to the closing of the schools for Winter Break and the limited availability of Dunbar and CAPCS administrators this week, the meeting scheduled for Thursday, December 22, 2011, at 7:00 p.m., related to the P Street Curb Cut issue, has been cancelled.  It will be rescheduled for an available date in January when schools are back … More December 22nd CAPCS/Dunbar Meeting Postponed

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

The following is a recap of recent activities in Advisory Neighborhood Commission (ANC) 5C generally, and in our Single Member District (SMD) ANC5C01: ANC 5C OCTOBER 2011 MEETINGS The last two public meetings of ANC5C were held on October 4, 2011, at the Community Academy Public Charter School, and October 18, 2011, at the Bennett … More ANC5C01 REPORT TO THE BATES AREA CIVIC ASSOCIATION-November 7, 2011

ANC 5C 01 REPORT TO THE BATES AREA CIVIC ASSOCIATION SEPTEMBER 12, 2011 The following is a recap of activities in Advisory Neighborhood Commission (ANC) 5C generally,  and our Single Member District (SMD) ANC5C01 in particular, since June 6, 2011: ANC 5C SUMMER 2011 MEETINGS ANC5C held four public meetings over the summer, with regular … More ANC 5C01 REPORT for SEPTEMBER 2011