East of the River Magazine January 2015

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ON THE COVER: Skating exibition at last year’s open house. Photo: Courtesy of Fort Dupont Ice Arena.

See story on page 12.

CALENDAR 08 ........ What’s on Washington

10 ........ East of the River Calendar

NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS 14 ........ Bulletin Board

20 ........ The Future of DC General • by Jonathan Neeley

22 ........ The Future of RFK: Parks, Parking and Politics by Shaun Courtney

24 ........ The Numbers • by Ed Lazere

26 ........ Our River: The Anacostia • by Bill Matuszeski

29 ........ Barry Farm Aquatic Center Opens • by Charnice A. Milton

30 ........ Should Exelon Be Allowed To Buy PEPCO? • by Jonathan

Neeley

32 ........ Say Hello to the New Ballou • by Charnice A. Milton

EAST WASHINGTON LIFE 34 ........ The Pink Palace in Congress Heights

by Christina Sturdivant

36 ........ Storytelling with a Twist of Reality by Candace Y.A. Montague

38 ........ Jazz Avenues • by Steve Monroe

REAL ESTATE 39 ........ Changing Hands • compiled by Don Denton

KIDS & FAMILY 40 ........ Kids & Family Notebook • by Kathleen Donner

THE CLASSIFIEDS 44 ........ The Classifieds

CROSSWORD 46 ........ The Crossword

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Polar Bear Plunge at Sandy Point State ParkPlungeFest 2015 on Jan. 24 at Sandy Point State Park is a fun and quirky way to support Maryland Special Olympics. You’ll “plunge” into the icy water of the Chesapeake Bay with just a swim suit on in the middle of January and pay for the privilege. It’s not just an event--it’s an experience that has become a winter-time tradition for thousands of warm-hearted Plungers. It all benefits Maryland’s children and adults with intellectual disabilities, as they enjoy the life-changing benefits of participating in the Special Olym-pics. Sandy Point State Park is about 40 miles east on route 50 (exit 32), at the base of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge. plungemd.com

Photo: Steve Ruark

Hot to Cold at tHe national Building MuSeuMOn the heels of its summer indoor maze, which attracted more than 50,000 visitors, the international design firm BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) returns to the National Building Museum, Jan. 24-Aug. 30, with a behind-the-scenes look at its creative process. The exhibition, HOT TO COLD: an odyssey of architectural adaptation, takes visitors from the hottest to the coldest parts of our planet and explores how BIG´s design solutions are shaped by their cul-tural and climatic contexts. More than 60 three-dimensional models will be suspended at the second-floor balconies of the Museum’s Great Hall in an unprecedented use of this public space. National Building Museum, 401 F St. NW. 202-272-2448. nbm.org

BIG Partners. Photo: Dean Kaufman


Piero di CoSiMo: tHe Poetry of Painting in renaiSSanCe florenCeItalian Renaissance master Piero di Cosimo’s paintings will be at the National Gal-lery of Art, Feb. 1-May 3. Forty of the artist’s most compelling paintings will be on view, including beguiling mythologies and religious works (some on loan from churches in Italy), as well as one of his greatest works, the Madonna and Child with Saints Elizabeth of Hungary, Catherine of Alexandria, Peter, and John the Evangelist with Angels from the Museo degli Innocenti, Florence. Several impor-tant paintings will undergo conservation treatment before the exhibition, includ-ing the Gallery’s Visitation altarpiece (c. 1489–1490)—one of the artist’s largest extant paintings. The exhibition will be in the West Building, Mail Floor Galleries. nga.gov

Piero di Cosimo, The Visitation with Saint Nicholas and Saint Anthony Abbot, c. 1489/1490, oil on panel, 184.2 x 188.6 cm (72 1/2 x 74 1/4 in.), National Gallery of Art, Washington, Samuel H. Kress Collection

newSeuM diSPlayS newS Coverage artifaCtS froM ferguSon ProteStSFollowing the shooting death of Michael Brown and the grand jury decision not to indict Officer Darren Wilson, Newseum collected more than a dozen items from protesters and journalists in Ferguson, Mo. “Make Some Noise: Students and the Civil Rights Movement” now includes a press pass and two rubber pellet, a homemade “Police the Police” poster used by protesters and several reporters’ notebooks containing notes about the events. Newseum online managing editor Sharon Shahid traveled to St. Louis to collect the items; read her compelling account of conversations with people on the front lines of the conflict in Ferguson. Newseum, 555 Pennsylvania Ave. NW. 202-292-6100. newseum.org

Beverly Adams, 63, of University City, Mo., during the “Ferguson October” protest march in St. Louis. Photo: Courtesy of Beverly Adams

wreatH-laying at tHe Mlk MeMorialA wreath-laying ceremony at the MLK Memorial will take place on Monday, Jan. 19, 8-9 a.m. This year’s ceremony is “A Day of Reconciliation and Service…In Remembrance of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Birthday.” President and CEO of The MLK Memorial Foundation Harry E. Johnson, Sr. will lay the wreath. He will be joined by political leaders, civil rights and human rights leaders, and members of the public. The ceremony was scheduled early in the morning to allow for all to do a day of community service in honor of Dr. King. The organizers urge all attendees to arrive early and consider using public transportation. thememorialfoundation.org

Photo: Courtesy of the MLK Memorial Foundation


CALENDAR


MLK DAY RELATED EVENTSThe State of US Race Relations: Improved or Worsened? Jan 14, 6:30 PM. On Aug. 28, 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his famous “I Have a Dream” speech as a part of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. The speech sought an end to racial injustice in America and called for an integrated society. In celebration of Dr. Mar-tin Luther King Jr. Day, come out to to hear an enlighten-ing presentation by the Attorney General of the District of Columbia, Karl Racine, on the state of race relations in the United States. Capitol View Library, 5001 Central Ave. SE. 202-645-0755. dclibrary.org/capitolview

Smithsonian Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration Program. Jan 16, 7:00-9:00 PM. The Smithsonian celebrates King’s life and legacy at the National Museum of the American Indian, Rasmuson Theater, 4th St. and Independence Ave. SW. Call 202-633-4844 to register.

Wreath-Laying at the Lincoln Memorial. Jan 19, 1:00 PM. The National Park Service will place a wreath at the Lincoln Memorial, on the steps where Dr. King gave his 1963 speech. The recitation of the “I Have a Dream” speech will be pre-sented by school students. 202-426-6895. nps.gov/linc

Wreath-laying at the MLK Memorial. Jan 19, 8:00-9:00 AM. The organizers urge all attendees to arrive early and

consider using public transportation. 1964 Independence Ave. SW. nps.gov/mlkm thememorialfoundation.org

Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service. Jan 19. Serve DC connects residents with volunteer opportunities and com-munity-based organizations with resources and volunteers. serve.dc.gov

Martin Luther King Jr. 10K Run & 5K Run/Walk. Jan 19, 9:00 AM. oceeds benefi t United Community Ministries which provides clothing, food, and support to families. Wakefi eld Park, 8100 Braddock Rd., Annandale VA. run-washington.com

“Remembrance of Martin Luther King, Jr.” Jan 20, 7:00 PM. The Capitol Hill Arts Workshop and the Anacostia Play-house present Remembrance of Martin Luther King, Jr., a one-hour concert. Free and suitable for all ages. Anacostia Playhouse, 2020 Shannon Pl. NE. Visit the MLK Memorial. Open to visitors all hours, every day. 1964 Independence Ave. SW. nps.gov/mlkm

Alexandria’s Watson Reading Room. Open Tuesday-Satur-day, 10:00 AM-4:00 PM. Visitors should call in advance for holiday hours. Located next door to the Alexandria Black History Museum, the Watson Reading Room is a non-cir-culating research repository focusing on issues of African-

American history and culture. Alexandria Black History Museum, 902 Wythe St., Alexandria, VA. 703-746-4356. alexandriava.gov/historic

NAACP: A Century in the Fight for Freedom Online Exhi-bition. The NAACP: A Century in the Fight for Freedom ex-hibition presents a retrospective of the major personalities, events, and achievements that shaped the NAACP’s history during its fi rst 100 years. myloc.gov/Exhibitions/naacp

Civil Rights at 50 at Newseum. On display through 2015. “Civil Rights at 50,” a three-year changing exhibit, chron-icles milestones in the civil rights movement from 1963, 1964 and 1965 through historic front pages, magazines and news images. Newseum, 555 Pennsylvania Ave, NE. 888-639-7386. newseum.org

SPECIAL EVENTSNBC4 Health & Fitness Expo. Jan 10-11. This is a free expo which is a hands-on exposition that offers informa-tion on how to maintain a healthly lifelstyle with forums on healthy cooking, exercise, activities for children from games to face painting. Free. Walter E. Washington Con-cention Center. dcconvention.com

Winter Restaurant Week. Jan 19-25. #DineOutandEatUp at over 230 restaurants offering 3-course lunch menus for

MLK Open House at Fort Dupont Ice Arena. Jan 19, 11:00 AM-2:00 PM (skating exhibition at noon). Free skating, skate rental and skating lessons throughout the open house. Skates available on a fi rst come, fi rst served basis. Fort Du-

pont Ice Arena, 3779 Ely Pl. SE. 202-584-5007. fdia.org

Skating exibition at last year’s open house. Photo: Courtesy of Fort Dupont Ice Arena


$20.15 and dinner menus for $35.15. Book your table today at ramw.org/restaurantweek.

Washington Auto Show. Jan 23-Feb 1. WANADA represents its dealer membership in the state, local and national public policy process and speaks for its part of the auto indus-try in public and media forums. Wal-ter E. Washington Concention Center. dcconvention.com

AROUND THE NEIGHBORHOOD“The Conspirator” Screening at ACM. Jan 13, 1:00-3:00 PM. Set in post-Civil War Washington, director Robert Redford’s critically acclaimed drama examines events occurring in the wake of Abraham Lincoln’s assassination. Seven men and one woman are ar-rested and charged with conspiring to kill the president, the vice president, and the secretary of state. A young lawyer agrees to defend the accused before a military tribunal. Discussion with a museum educator follows the screening. Closed captioned. Anacos-tia Community Museum, 1901 Fort Pl. SE. 202-633-4820. anacostia.si.edu

Red High Heels at Anacostia Play-house. Jan 15-24. The Red High Heels Trilogy is a thought provoking series of new plays written by Harrison Mur-phy and directed by Jim Girardi. Their intent is to offer theater in a new form by combining multiple media and live acting into a new theatrical form. Anacostia Playhouse, 2020 Shannon Pl. SE. Tickets may be purchased at anacostiaplayhouse.com.

Rhythm Cafe: The Life and Music of Dinah Washington. Jan 17, 2:00-4:00 PM. Mikaela Carlton, a graduate of Howard University’s vocal music department gives an overview of jazz legend Dinah Washington, followed by a performance of Washington’s sig-nature songs. Anacostia Community Museum, 1901 Fort Pl. SE. 202-633-4820. anacostia.si.edu

Collage Dance Collective Presents RISE. Jan 31, 2:30 Pm and 7:30 PM. Contemporary ballet concert featuring CDC’s professional company, students from the Collage Ballet Conservatory, and students from Jones Haywood School of Dance! $25, advance and $30, day-of. THEARC Theater, 1901 Mississippi Ave. SE. 202-889-5901. thearcdc.org

How the Civil War Changed Wash-ington. Feb 2-Oct 18. This exhibition focuses on the social and spatial im-pacts of the war, such as changes in social mores, the built environment, the population and its ethnic break-


down, and new collective uses of wartime elements, including the many Civil War forts constructed around the city were later turned into parks. Anacostia Community Museum, 1901 Fort Pl. SE. 202-633-4820. anacostia.si.edu

C.R. Gibbs Lectures on African Ameri-can History and Culture. Feb 2 and 9, 7:00 PM. Feb 2: “Tan Yanks: The District’s Black Doughboys of World War I” and Feb 9: “Unbroken Bonds: The African Origins of Fraternities, Sororities and Other Or-ganizations.” Capitol View Library, 5001 Central Ave. SE. 202-645-0755. dclibrary.org/capitolview

Frozen at Anacostia Playhouse. Feb 5-Mar 1. Frozen tells the story of the disappear-ance of 10-year-old Rhona, and follows her mother and killer over the years that follow. Anacostia Playhouse, 2020 Shannon Pl. SE. Tickets may be purchased at anacostiaplay-house.com. Discounts available for east of the river residents.

Tour the Frederick Douglass House. Tours are at 9:00 AM, 12:15 PM, 1:15 PM, 3:00 PM and 3:30 PM. Ranger led tours are the only way to see the inside of the Freder-ick Douglass house. Tours are ticketed, and there are a limited number of tickets avail-able for each tour. Tour tickets are avail-able by reservation or on a fi rst come, fi rst served basis. Tours last about 30 minutes. 1411 W St. SE. 202-426-5960. nps.gov/frdo

SPORTS AND FITNESSWashington Capitals Ice Hockey. Jan 10, 12, 14, 20, 28 and Feb 1 and 3. Verizon Center. capitals.nhl.com

Washington Capitals Practice Schedule. Non-game day, 10:30 AM; game day, 10:00 AM; and day after game, 11:00 AM. All prac-tices are at Kettler Capitals Iceplex, 627 No. Glebe Rd., Suite 800, Arlington, VA. They are free and open to the public. kettlercapi-talsiceplex.com

Washington Wizards Basketball. Jan 11, 13, 16, 19, 24, 31 and Feb 2. Verizon Cen-ter. nba.com/wizards

Cupid’s Undie Run. Feb 15, noon. This Valentine’s Day weekend, put the hilar-ity in charity with hundreds of half-naked runners taking to the streets in celebration of their fundraising for the Children’s Tu-mor Foundation. cupidsundierun.com/city/washington

March for Life 5K. Jan 22, 8:00 AM. This 5K race is $40 per person or $20 per child under 13, ($100 for family of 4 or more) at marchforlife.org/march-for-life-2015/5k.

Canal Park Ice Skating. Monday and Tues-day, noon-7:00 PM; Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, noon-9:00 PM; Saturday, 11:00 AM-10:00 PM; and Sunday, 11 AM-7:00 PM. $9, adults; $8, children, seniors and military. $4, skate rental. Canal Park Ice Rink is at 202 M St. SE. 202-554-6051. canalparkdc.org

Ice Skating at the National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden. Through mid-March. Monday–Thursday, 10:00 AM–9:00 PM; Fri-day-Saturday, 10:00 AM–11:00 PM; Sunday, 11:00 AM-9:00 PM. Two hour sessions begin on the hour. $8, adult; $7 seniors over 50, students with ID and kids, 12 and under. 7th St. and Constitution Ave. NW. 202-216-9397. nga.gov

Public Ice Skating at Fort Dupont Ice Are-na. Fridays, noon-1:50 PM and Saturdays, noon-1:00 PM. $5, adults; kids 2-12 and se-niors, $4. Skate Rental, $3. Fort Dupont Ice Arena, 3779 Ely Pl. 202-584-5007. fdia.org

Adult Dance and Fitness Classes at THEARC. Mondays, 7:15 PM, Yoga; Tues-days, 7:30 PM, Zumba; Thursdays, 7:45 PM, Ballet; Saturdays, 9:00 AM, Zumba. Drop-in rates are $12. THEARC, 1901 Mississippi Ave. SE. 202-889-5901. thearcdc.org

Yoga @ the Library. Every Saturday, 10:00 AM. Wear some comfortable clothing and bring a mat, but if you don’t have one, yoga mats are available for use during the class. Free. Dorothy I. Height/Benning Neighbor-hood Library, 3935 Benning Rd. NE. 202-281-2583. dclibrary.org/benning

Deanwood (indoor) Pool. Mon-Fri 6:30 AM-8:00 PM; Sat-Sun, 9:00 AM5:00 PM.

Free for DC residents. 1350 49th St. NE. 202-671-3078. dpr.dc.gov

Ferebee Hope (indoor) Pool. Open week-days, 10:00 AM-6:00 PM. Closed weekends. Free for DC residents. 3999 8th St. SE. 202-645-3916. dpr.dc.gov

Barry Farm (indoor) pool. Open Mon-days, Wednesdays and Fridays from 6:30 AM-8:00 PM; and Saturdays and Sundays from 9:00 AM-5:00 PM. Free for DC resi-dents. 1230 Sumner Rd. SE. 202-730-0572. dpr.dc.gov

MARKETSDC Big Flea Market. Jan 10, 9:00 AM-6:00 PM; Jan 11, 11:00 AM-5:00 PM. Over 600 booths featuring a diverse mix of antiques, collectibles, art, jewelry, mid-century, etc. $8 admission, parking free. Dulles Expo Ctr, Chantilly, VA. 757-961-3988. thebigfl ea-market.com

Branch Avenue Pawn Parking Lot Flea Market. Saturdays, year-round (weather permitting). Set up after 10:00 AM. 3128 Branch Ave., Temple Hills, MD

H Street FRESHFARM Market. Saturdays, 9 AM-noon, through Dec 20. SNAP (EBT/

Food Stamps) accepted. 13th and H Sts. NE. freshfarmmarket.org

U Street Flea. Saturdays and Sundays, 10:00 AM-5:00 PM. The market is in the parking lot, next to Nellie’s Sports Bar (three blocks east of U Street Metro), at 912 U St. NW. ustreetfl ea.com

Branch Avenue Pawn Parking Lot Flea Market. Saturdays, year-round (weather permitting). Set up after 10:00 AM. 3128 Branch Ave., Temple Hills, MD

Fresh Tuesdays at Eastern Market. Every Tuesday, 3:00-7:00 PM. Tuesday afternoon farmers’ line of fresh produce. Eastern Mar-ket, 200 block of 7th St. SE. 202-698-5253. easternmarketdc.com

Union Market. Tuesday-Friday, 11:00 AM-8:00 PM; Saturday-Sunday, 8:00 AM-8:00 PM. Union Market is an artisanal, curated, year round food market featuring over 40 local vendors. 1309 5th St. NE. 301-652-7400. unionmarketdc.com

Dupont Circle Farmers Market. Sundays (rain or shine), year round, 9:00 AM-1:00 PM. 20th St. and Mass. Ave. NW, 1500 block of 20th St. NW (between Mass. Ave. and Q St. in the adjacent parking lot of PNC Bank). 202-362-8889. freshfarmmarket.org

CALENDAR

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Prayer Breakfast. Jan 19, 9:00 AM (doors open at 8:00 AM). Guest speaker is Reverend Adriane Blair Wise. $35. Purchase tickets through Tayloria Jordan, 301-702-0012 or Donna Saff ron, 202-251-6610. Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Church, 1600 Morris Rd. SE. josephites.org/parish/dc/olph

Ministry of Sacred Motion dancers (middle school and high school students) perform at last year’s prayer breakfast. Photo: Lorraine Parker-Miller


Georgetown Flea Market. Sundays year around (except in the case of very inclem-ent weather), 8:00 AM-4:00 PM. 1819 35th St. NW. georgetownfl eamarket.com

Maine Avenue Fish Market. Open 365 days a year. 7:00 AM-9:00 PM. 1100 Maine Ave. SW. 202-484-2722.

CIVIC LIFE“Talking Transition” Town Meeting. Jan 17, 9:30 AM-3:30 PM. Free lunch and re-freshments. Washington Convention Cen-ter, 801 Mount Vernon Pl. NW. Register at TalkingTransitionDC.com.

Councilmember Alexander’s Constituent Services Offi ce. Open weekdays, 10:00 AM-6:00 PM. 2524 Penn. Ave. SE. 202-581-1560.

Congresswoman Norton’s SE District Of-fi ce. Open weekdays, 9:00 AM-6:00 PM. 2041 MLK Ave. SE, #238. 202-678-8900. norton.house.gov

Eastland Gardens Civic Association Meeting. Third Tuesday, 6:30-8:00 PM at Kenilworth Elementary School Auditorium, 1300 44th St. NE. Contact Javier Barker, [email protected] or 202-450-3155.

Anacostia Coordinating Council Meet-ing. Last Tuesday, noon-2:00 PM. Anacos-tia Museum, 1901 Fort St. SE. For further details, contact Philip Pannell, 202-889-4900.

Capitol View Civic Association Meeting. Third Monday, 6:30 PM. Hughes Memorial United Methodist, 25 53rd St. NE. capi-tolviewcivicassoc.org

Historical Anacostia Block Association. Second Thursday, 7:00-9:00 PM. UPO Ana-costia Service Center, 1649 Good Hope Rd. SE. For further details, contact Charles Wilson, 202-834-0600.

Anacostia High School School Improve-ment Team Meeting. Fourth Tuesday. 6:00 PM. Anacostia High School, 16th and R sts. SE.

Fairlawn Citizens Association. Third Tuesday, 7:00 PM. Ora L. Glover Commu-nity Room at the Anacostia Public Library, 1800 Good Hope Rd. SE.

ANC MONTHLY MEETINGSANC 7B. Third Thursday, 7:00 PM. Ryland Epworth United Methodist Church, 3200 S St. SE (Branch Ave and S St. SE). 202-584-3400. [email protected]. anc7b.us

ANC 7C. Second Thursday, 7:00 PM. Sar-gent Memorial Presbyterian Church, 5109 Nannie Helen Burroughs Ave. NE. 202-398-5100. [email protected]

ANC 7D. Second Tuesday, 6:30 PM. Sixth District Police Station, 100 42nd St. NE. 202-398-5258. [email protected]

ANC 7E. Second Tuesday, 7:008:30 PM. Jones Memorial Church, 4625 G St. SE. 202-582-6360. [email protected]

ANC 7F. Third Tuesday, 6:30 PM. Washing-ton Tennis and Education Foundation, 200 Stoddert Place, SE

ANC 8A. First Tuesday, 7:00 PM. Anacostia UPO Service Center, 1649 Good Hope Rd. SE. 202-889-6600. anc8adc.org

ANC 8B. Third Tuesday, 7:00 PM. Seventh District Police Station Community Center, Alabama and McGee Sts. SE. 202-610-1818. anc8b.org

ANC 8C. First Wednesday, 7:00 PM. 2907 MLK Jr Ave. SE. 202-388-2244.

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BULLETIN BOARD

Tunnel boring machines are typically named for important women, much as boats are in

the nautical world. Th is TBM was named “Nannie” for Nannie Helen

Burroughs, a prominent 20th cen-tury African-American educator

and civil rights activist. A resi-dent of Washington, DC, she

founded the National Training School for Women and Girls to provide academic, religious and vocational classes for African American girls and young women.

DC Water named its massive tunnel boring machine while Cardinal Donald Wuerl, the Catholic archbishop of Washington, provided a blessing to those who will work on it. Soon it will be lowered underground on a mission to tunnel two and a half miles along the Potomac and un-der the Anacostia River. Th e machine, with a 26’-diameter cutterhead and measuring more than 350 feet long when assembled, is part of DC Water’s Clean Rivers Project to signifi cantly reduce combined sewer overfl ows in the Dis-trict for improved water quality.

Skyland Town Center Walmart Lease Signed Th e Walmart lease at the Skyland Town Center at the intersection of Good Hope Rd., Naylor Rd., and Alabama Ave. SE in Ward 7 has been signed. Th e lease signing secures the nation’s largest retailer to anchor the long-awaited proj-ect that also will feature neigh-borhood retailers, restaurants and residential units.

Barry Farm Indoor Aquatic Center OpensOn Dec. 13, Mayor Gray and other government offi cials joined the Barry Farm community for a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the new, state-of-the-art indoor aquat-

ic center in Ward 8. Formerly an outdoor aquatic center, the new 8,800-square-foot LEED Silver indoor center boasts a 6-lane, 25 meters fully ADA accessible lap pool; a leisure pool with beach en-try; and a water-slide.

Th e new center is open Mon-days, Wednesdays and Fridays from 6:30 a.m.-8 p.m.; and Saturdays and Sundays from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. District residents may participate in open swim for free with valid photo ID. Th e center will also off er a variety of classes including: Learn to Swim for Seniors, Adults, Youth, Children and Parent/Child; Water Aerobics for Seniors; Lifeguard Training Academy; Swim Skills and more. Class registration is cur-rently open. Some classes may have associated fees. dpr.dc.gov

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Anacostia Playhouse Launches 2015 Season with FrozenThe Anacostia Playhouse will bring the psychological drama Frozen to audiences this February. Frozen, written by Bryony Lavery, is a bril-liant play about our darkest fears in the face of forgiveness, awareness and understanding. Directed by Delia Taylor, the play tells the story of the disappearance of 10-year-old Rhona, and follows her mother and killer over the years that follow. A psychologist studying the brains of serial killers provides the link that intertwines the lives of the three characters through the two power-ful themes of emotional paralysis and forgiveness.

Frozen will run at the Anacos-tia Playhouse, 2020 Shannon Pl. SE, from Feb. 5-Mar. 1; Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 p.m. and Saturdays (starting Feb. 14) and Sundays at 2:30 p.m. Anacos-tia Playhouse offers a discount for east of the river residents. Tickets may be purchased at anacostiaplay-house.com.

Author Talk: Carla Kaplan at Anacostia Community MuseumNoted scholar Dr. Carla Kaplan talks about her book “Miss Anne in Harlem: The White Women of the Black Renaissance.” Her book focuses on the lives of several white women, collectively called “Miss Anne,” who became Harlem Re-naissance insiders--moving seam-lessly between the periphery of white patronage and the bound-ary-testing world of interracial liai-sons. Kaplan is the Stanton W. and Elisabeth K. Davis Distinguished Professor in American Literature at Northeastern University, Boston. The book will be available for pur-chase. This program is on Saturday, Feb. 7, 2-4 p.m. at the Anacostia Community Museum, 1901 Fort Pl. SE. 202-633-4820. anacostia.si.edu

Southeast Boulevard Re-OpensAs part of the 11th Street Bridge project, DDOT has re-opened the Southeast Boulevard between 11th St. SE and Pennsylvania Ave. SE

to traffic. This opening provides an alternate direct connection be-tween I-695 (Southeast/Southwest Freeway) and Pennsylvania Ave. SE (Barney Circle) via the newly constructed at-grade intersection at 11th St. SE.

Martin Luther King, Jr Service Event at Kenilworth Park On Jan. 17, 9 a.m.-noon (rain or shine), join them as they celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr with a day of service. This project will begin at 9 a.m. with on-site registration opening 30 minutes prior to the start of the event. Arrive no later than 8:45 a.m. All volunteers are encouraged to wear long-sleeve shirts and jackets and long pants. Gloves and all equipment will be provided. Granola bars and light snacks provided. Please bring a water bottle. Volunteers under the age of 18 must be accompanied by an adult chaperone, parent or guardian. RSVP recommended to [email protected]. Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens, 1550 Anacostia Ave. NE. friend-sofkenilworthgardens.org

Master Developer Chosen for First Phase of St. Elizabeths East Campus Redbrick LMD-Gragg Cardona are to redevelop the first phase of the historic St. Elizabeths East Campus. The Redbrick LMD-Gragg Cardona team was se-lected based on their experience with large-scale projects and the strength of their plan to fulfill the District’s policy goals at St. Eliza-beths East. In addition to Redbrick and Gragg Cardona, members of the team are NVR, Inc., one of the District’s leading home build-ers; JBGR, an affiliate of The JBG Companies; and Perkins Eastman.

The St. Elizabeths East Cam-pus spans 183 acres and is located at 2700 Martin Luther King, Jr. Ave. SE. The first phase of devel-opment covers 1.6 million square feet and is in close proximity to the Congress Heights Metro Station. It offers an opportunity to create a technology-focused, transit-ori-

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THEARC Partners with Skyland Workforce CenterTh e Skyland Workforce Center is a joint project of the develop-ment and construction team for the Skyland Town Center and Workplace DC, a group of local non-profi t organizations that provide employment-related services. Th e goal of the Cen-ter is to co-locate services and programs on-site that connect job seekers with positions and services that can help them to successfully obtain and retain employment with training and referral services. Five nonprofi ts will be providing services at the Center: LIFT-DC is provid-ing case management; Jubilee Jobs is doing job placement; Southeast Ministry is provid-ing GED tutoring and adult basic education; STRIVE-DC is off ering job readiness train-ing; and Byte Back is providing computer literacy training.

Th e Skyland Town Cen-ter is a mixed-use project now under development. Th e site is bordered by Alabama Ave., Naylor Rd. and Good Hope Rd. SE.

Author Talk: James Davis at Anacostia Community Museum In his book “Music Along the Rapidan: Civil War Soldiers, Music, and Community dur-ing Winter Quarters, Virginia,” Dr. James Davis examines the role music played in defi ning the social communities that emerged during the 1863 win-ter encampment. Music was an essential part of each soldier’s personal identity, and Davis considers how music became a means of controlling the acous-tic and social cacophony of war that surrounded every soldier.

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South Capitol Street Cor-ridor Project Public Hearing

Th e District Department of Transportation and the Federal Highway Adminis-tration invite you to a public hearing on the South Capitol Street Corridor Project on Th ursday, Jan. 22, 6:30-8:30 p.m. at the Matthews Memo-rial Baptist Church Fellow-ship Hall, 2616 Martin Luther King Jr. Ave. SE. Th e purpose of the hearing is to present the South Capitol Street Corridor Project Supplemental Draft Environmental Impact State-ment, gather public comments and to share the updated proj-ect schedule. Th e South Capi-

tol Street Corridor document is available for public review and comment online at south-capitoleis.com until Feb. 2.

January Watershed Wednesday: Green and White Winter WonderlandOn Wednesday, Jan. 14, 6:30-9 p.m., join the Anacostia Wa-tershed Society for a winter tour of the Green Infrastruc-ture at Canal Park, near the revitalized Capitol Riverfront. Attendees will be led in a dis-cussion about the importance of green roofs and other en-vironmental amenities and how they keep the water that fl ows to the Anacostia River clean. Canal Park is at 202 M St. SE (Navy Yard Metro). Afterwards, join them for some ice-skating at the Canal Park Ice Rink, then drinks at a nearby restaurant (details on restaurant tba). RSVP at anacostiaws.org/watershed-wednesday-green-and-white-winter-wonderland.

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Newly-formed Sharp Stick Productions will present its first offering

of three original one-act plays, Red High Heels, at the Anacos-tia Playhouse, Jan. 15-24. The Red High Heels Trilogy is a thought-provoking series of new plays written by Harrison Mur-phy and directed by Jim Girardi. Their intent is to offer theater in a new form by combining mul-tiple media and live acting into a new theatrical form. Anacostia Playhouse is at 2020 Shannon Pl. SE. Tickets are available at ana-costiaplayhouse.com.

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Black History Invitational Swim Meet Final Day for ApplicationsTh e 29th Annual Black History Invi-tational Swim Meet will be held Feb. 13-15 at the Takoma Aquatic Center, 300 Van Buren St. NW. Completed entry packages must be received on Tuesday, Jan. 27. For more informa-tion, or to request an entry package, contact Robert Green, BHISM coor-dinator, at [email protected].

District’s Population Continues to GrowThe District of Columbia contin-ues to be an attractive place to live, as the latest estimates from the US Census Bureau were released show-ing that 9,782 new residents were added between July 2013 and July 2014, keeping Washington, DC on the list of the top positive growth areas in the country.

Th e District’s total population now stands at 658,893—a fi gure not seen since the 1970s. Th e District grew by 1.5 percent over the year. Th e previous 2013 population estimate of 646,449 has been revised upward to 649,111. Th is number means that the city has added 57,000 people or grown an average of 1,120 new resi-dents per month between April 1, 2010 and July 1, 2014. Based on the revised 2013 population estimate, the District grew by an average of 815 new residents per month between July 2013 and July 2014. For the fourth year in a row, the District remained among the nation’s top fi ve fastest-growing states. Th is continued growth trend moves the District closer to its Sustainable DC goal of increasing the city’s population by 250,000 residents between 2010 and 2030.

DDOT Releases Final Circulator Transit Development PlanTh e District Department of Trans-portation has released the 2014 Fi-nal DC Circulator Transit Develop-ment Plan (TDP). Th e Final 2014 TDP identifi es six new routes and four route extensions for the 10-year growth plan, which will be imple-mented in three phases:

Phase I (FY 2015 – 2017) New Routes: National Mall; National Cathedral-McPherson Square Met-ro. Extensions: Georgetown-Union



Station Extension to National Cathedral; Union Station-Navy Yard Extension to Southwest Waterfront; Dupont-George-town-Rosslyn Extension to U St/Howard University; Potomac Ave Metro-Skyland Extension to Congress Heights.

Phase II (FY 2018 – 2020) New Routes: Convention Center-Southwest Waterfront Service; Serving NoMa (corridor pending further study).

Phase III (FY 2021 – 2024) New Routes: Dupont-Southwest Waterfront; Columbia Heights-Washington Hospital Center-Brookland-NoMa.

For more information, contact Circe Torruellas at [email protected] or call 202-671-2847.

DC United Announces 2015 Home OpenerDC United will begin its 20th regular sea-son on Saturday, Mar. 7, 3 p.m., against the Montreal Impact at RFK Stadium. Th e re-maining MLS schedule will be announced at a later date. Single game tickets go on sale Tuesday, Jan. 27. Visit dcunited.com or call 202-587-5000 for more information.

Report Shows Decline in New HIV Cases in the DistrictA new interim report shows a decrease in new HIV cases in the District of Colum-bia during 2013. Th e report shows there were 497 new HIV cases, a decrease from the 680 cases reported in 2012. Overall, this is a 58% decrease from 1,180 cases in 2008. Th is latest snapshot of the epidem-ic indicates the District saw reductions across gender, race/ethnicity, age and mode of transmission. Highlights from the report are that 16,594 persons are living with HIV. Th ere was a decrease in new AIDS cases from 370 in 2012 to 257 in 2013 and the age group with the high-est proportion of new cases continued to be 20-29 year olds. Th e interim report is available at doh.dc.gov/hahsta.

DC Taxicab Commission to Provide District Taxicabs with Electronic Hailing CapabilityTh e DC Taxicab Commission has taken ac-tion to allow all District taxicabs to utilize electronic hailing through an app. Th e app is being developed by the DCTC techni-cal staff and will be given to an industry co-op to manage and market. Th e app will give public the opportunity to hail rides electronically. Th e app will off er riders the fl exibility to pay by pre-loading their credit card information; to pay by credit card in

the vehicle; or to pay with cash. Th e autho-rization to accept street hails would remain exclusively with taxis and still be subject to the metered fare. Th e Universal DC TaxiApp, which is the fi rst of its kind, will begin testing in March 2015.

Age-Friendly DC Strategic Plan ReleasedMayor Gray has released the Age-Friendly DC Strategic Plan. Th e plan’s release marks a signifi cant step on the District’s journey to become an age-friendly city under the terms of the World Health Organization’s Age-Friendly Environments initiative. In October 2012, Mayor Gray announced that the District would seek the WHO designa-tion as an Age-Friendly City, which indi-cates that the District is livable and accessi-ble for aging residents and that the services the District delivers take the needs of aging residents into account and that service-de-livery agencies and staff demonstrate an un-derstanding of, and sensitivity to, the needs of older residents. Th e Age-Friendly DC Strategic Plan is at agefriendly.dc.gov.

Hill East RedevelopmentPlan Takes Step ForwardRecent passage of legislation regard-ing the development of Hill East District Waterfront (formerly known as Reserva-tion 13) will allow the District to dispose of the property to the development team of Donatelli Development and Blue Skye Development in order to create a vibrant, mixed-income, mixed-use urban waterfront community.

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Francis Campbell can see DC General from his porch on Burke Street SE. The former

hospital, now home to the city’s big-gest family homeless shelter, looks out at Campbell from the bottom of a hill on Reservation 13, hidden from the Stadium-Armory metro traffic that passes it everyday. Its neigh-bors are monuments to problems the District wishes it didn’t have: DC’s psychiatric ward, its STD and meth-adone clinics, a separate women’s shelter, the DC jail, and a building that used to house the morgue.

The location itself was no differ-

ent when DC General was a hospi-tal. But add in the trash, the boarded up windows, and the eerie, empty rooms with dust-covered furniture you’ll see if you peer into a first-floor window, and DC General is more haunted house than government building.

“I look at it every day,” says Campbell, “And I think to myself, ‘how pathetic.’”

Campbell, who just stepped down after twelve years as an ANC 6B commissioner and who has lived in Southeast nearly all his life, was a respiratory therapist at DC Gen-

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The Future of DC GeneralDistrict Residents Will Look to New Government to Solve the Problems at DC General by Jonathan Neeley

Former ANC Commissioner and Hill East Resident Francis Campbell. Photo Andrew Lightman.

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eral in its first incarnation. He still wonders why the city closed the hospital in 2003, the first year it was going to turn a profit and right after building a $22 million intensive care unit.

What he does know is that while the DC General Emergency Shelter was only supposed to be temporary, it’s been open for a decade, and none of its existence has been pretty. Campbell’s neighbors frequently call him to report shelter residents on the street in the middle of the night, and while there have been few arrests, he doesn’t doubt their claims that people sell drugs just outside the building. He was horrified, but not surprised, at the Post’s expose on the building last summer-- children assaulting one another; hot water not working for weeks on end; scabies and rashes brought on by dirty showers; raccoons in the hallway. And he was as disturbed as anyone when, in March, a shelter employee named Kahlil Tatum ab-ducted Relisha Rudd, an eight-year-old resident.

“DC General should not be our city’s answer to ad-dressing homelessness,” ANC 6B chair Brian Flahaven told the DC Council in July. “The city’s goal should be closing DC General and transitioning homeless families and individuals to better housing options.”

Smoke and MirrorsWhat really makes the situation difficult is what we don’t know. In April, twenty policy and advocacy groups pub-lished the Helping Families Home Roadmap, guidelines for improving the system that serves homeless families in DC. In early December, the DC Fiscal Policy Institute (DCFPI), a think tank that helped write the roadmap and monitors how DC finances affect low-income resi-dents, put out a report card on how well the Department of Human Services, which oversees a $13 million con-tract with The Community Partnership (TCP) to run the shelter, had done in meeting those goals. Among the goals were more transparency and better case manage-ment. Both received a D, which was the lowest grade.

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DHS doesn’t require TCP to publish data on the average length of stay at DC General, the num-ber of families entering and exiting the shelter, or the exact number of beds it has available for fami-lies. There’s also no public information about how the TCP spends the money it gets from the city.

“I want to understand how we’re spending those dollars that we give to The Community Partnership,” says Elissa Silverman, a new at-large council member who worked on employment issues and was the communications director at DCFPI until she entered last year’s election and, before that, was a reporter with both the City Paper and the Washington Post. “We just don’t know right now. You can’t understand how to do something better if you don’t understand how you’re doing it now.”

Beyond keeping the public in the dark on what’s happening at DC General, DHS has been lacking when it comes to improving conditions at the shelter. Though she never said it explicitly, BB Otero, the former deputy mayor for Health and Human Services, was considered by many to believe that a better shelter environment would encourage residents to stay rather than seek per-manent housing.

And according to DCFPI’s Kate Coventry, an analyst who focuses on homelessness, DHS has skirted her organization’s suggestion that it accept the Homeless Children’s Playtime Project’s offer to fund renovations of empty rooms in the shelter to create space for non-profit programming like

GED training and parenting classes.Nobody wants to live in a homeless

shelter, but most need help if they’re going to get out. It’s a problem when the govern-ment agency in charge of DC General is unresponsive to that need.

“There are definitely things that have been mismanaged,” says Coventry. “Up until this point there have been some very vulnerable families that haven’t gotten the supportive services they need.”

How Could Policy Change for the Better?DC General is actually in better shape now than it was this time last year. A playground for children finally went up despite months of delays, and bed checks are now a nightly occurrence. DHS re-ports that it has helped nearly 600 fami-lies exit shelter in 2014, and that it has kept 900 from entering in the first place. Late this fall, the city leased two New York Avenue hotels at the beginning of hypothermia season rather than renting individual rooms on the fly. And in Oc-tober, Vincent Gray rolled out the most comprehensive plan for closing DC Gen-

eral that the city has ever had. But these stopgaps are not permanent solu-

tions. Most notably, the city’s solicitation for the smaller shelter sites that will replace DC General is open-ended; there is no set date for moving for-ward with either the offers in hand or city prop-erty. When asked how many offers it has received, DGS will only say “more than two.”

The city also has a long way to go to shore up its own housing programs. When these work, they are the surest way to keep families from entering shelter or make sure that once they leave, they don’t need to come back.

The city’s rapid rehousing program, for ex-ample, has been reported as problematic because it places families in apartments they can’t afford once the city stops providing rental assistance. Coventry’s take is that rapid rehousing needs to be more flexible with families who can’t afford to pay rent after the allotted time period, and that the city should track what happens two and three years after participants enter the program.

Silverman adds that the city needs a better handle on how to make its programming work for the broad spectrum of causes of homelessness. She notes there’s a difference between an equi-table solution for a person who has job skills but is fleeing domestic violence and one for a single parent who doesn’t have the necessary reading and math skills to get a job.

“We need to address the issues of why [people are in shelter],” says Silverman. “We really need to figure out how to leverage and optimize each of

our housing programs. Because it’s confusing. It’s an alphabet soup of acronyms.”

The New Council and Mayor Can Move the DialPart of why DC General hasn’t closed is that it’s been mired in a continuous loop of finger point-ing and can kicking. The new District government may stengthen the effort to move forward.

In Silverman, the Council is getting a number-crunching analyst combined with a nitpicking journalist-- in other words, someone who will push the envelope. Also, new Ward 6 member Charles Allen is a proven public housing advocate: during his tenure as Tommy Wells’ chief of staff, Ward 6 didn’t lose a single apartment of public housing.

At a structural level, Council Chair Phil Mendelson pulled housing out from under eco-nomic development, meaning housing will be a priority rather than an afterthought to deals with developers. Mendelson also put the city’s social services and health agencies under one commit-tee, which should eliminate a layer of red tape between bureaucracies.

Finally, Muriel Bowser listed closing DC General as a top priority during her campaign, and she’s under considerable pressure to live up to her words. She has long been a proponent of finding housing solutions rather than build-ing more homeless shelters, and her new deputy mayor for Health and Human Services, Brenda Donald, seems more sympathetic to those cur-rently in shelter than her predecessor. Bowser will likely appoint new department heads at DHS and DGS, which should bring fresh takes on how to solve the problem.

With performance oversight hearings for the new Council starting this month and Bowser set to release the city’s FY16 budget in March, legislators need to move quickly. DC General, the rooms on New York Avenue, and the city’s other shelters are band aids for the gaping wound that is the Dis-trict’s homeless problem.

At his final ANC 6B meeting late last year, Campbell’s said he is still angry about the debacle on Reservation 13. “My Christmas wish for the site is ‘just get it done,’” he said afterward. “Everybody’s answer is ‘We need to study this. We need to look at it and decide.’ And dammit, it’s been 14 years. How much more studying do you have to do?”

His pessimistic take is one that the ongoing situation has, unfortunately, provoked in a lot of Hill residents.

“I firmly believe that if I left here and didn’t come back for three years, this would still be the same. That’s how much faith I have in the city officials.”

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The Capitol Riverside Youth Sports Park (CRYSP), a Capitol Hill community group made up of interested neighbors,

civic organizations, and local sports leagues, wants to bring four new multi-use playing fields to the banks of the Anacostia River and create a new Eastern Market-like pavilion for the weekend farmers market on the northern section of the parking lots that surround the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium (RFK).

The admittedly modest proposal faces the chal-lenge of capturing the attention of key decision-makers and investors: the vision for community athletic playing fields pales in comparison to the promise of a new 100,000-seat NFL stadium or the 2024 Summer Olympic stadium.

The Land and the LeaseThere are approximately 80 acres of underdevel-oped parking lots on the RFK campus along the western banks of Anacostia River. The land is un-der the jurisdiction of the National Park Service, but is currently under a 50 year lease to the Dis-trict government.

In October 1986, the federal government signed into law a lease for RFK Stadium and the surrounding land (in all 190 acres--including the stadium, the non-military portions of the D.C. Armory, open land and the parking lots).

The lease restricts the uses for the site to sta-dium purposes, recreational facilities, open space, public outdoor recreation opportunities and other uses as approved by the National Park Service.

Since the lease was first signed several differ-ent entities have managed the property under the District government’s authority. D.C. created the Sports and Entertainment Commission in 1994 to operate and manage RFK. Then in 2009 Events D.C. was formed (trade name of Washington Convention and Sports Authority) through the merger of the D.C. Sports and Entertainment Commission into the former Washington Con-vention Center Authority to manage the site.

The stadium has served in recent years as the home of the Wash-ington Nationals, DC United, concerts of varying sizes and other sports and entertain-ment events. The sur-rounding lots have been used for sporting event parking and tailgating, concerts, race courses for both running and vehicle races and at one point housed 15-20 foot mountains of snow left-over from 2010’s “snow-mageddon.”

The nature of the lease with NPS prevents the sort of redevelopment seen along the Navy Yard area of southeast where Yards Park and new residen-tial and commercial buildings sit along the banks of the Anacostia in the shadow of the new Nationals Stadium. Condos with ground floor retail do not exactly fit the recreational requirements of the lease.

To evaluate just what could happen on what is increasingly looking like prime riverfront real estate, Events D.C. issued a Request for Expres-sions of Interest (RFEI) to study the future use potential of the RFK campus grounds in Novem-ber 2013. In October 2014, Events DC officially awarded the RFEI to Brailsford & Dunlavey (B&D) which is now tasked with identifying short-term (8-10 years) and long-term uses for the stadium and its surrounding property.

The study area does not include Reservation 13--District-owned property to the south of the stadium site and its parking lots--for which there already exists a development master plan and where at least one mixed-use development will soon begin construction.

Big Talk for RFKThe sprawling expanse of parking lots and aging stadium have been the focus of groups angling for two major potential uses: the return of the Wash-ington NFL franchise to the District and the 2024 Olympic Games.

Several city leaders have been vocal in their calls for the return of the area’s NFL franchise to the city for which it is named. Former Mayor Vincent Gray has repeatedly called for the football team to come back to D.C. once the lease is up for FedEx field in Prince George’s County in Maryland. Sev-eral members of the District Council have echoed that enthusiasm, notably Ward 2’s Jack Evans and At-large member Vincent Orange.

More recently, Washington 2024, the private group orchestrating Washington’s bid for the 2024 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games, has included RFK, its parking lots and Reserva-tion 13 among its potential sites for an Olympic stadium, athlete housing and practice facilities.

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The proposed CRYSP site in the context of the RFK campus. Image courtesy of CRYSP.

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A Community-based Vision for RFKCRYSP evolved from a need for more sports fields for youth (and adult) recreational leagues. Just as political and business leaders saw opportunity in the open space along the river, local sports organizations in need of more green space looked to RFK for its potential.

“We got together and we just started looking around the neigh-borhood, the Hill. Where are there spaces? Vacant lots?” explained Mike Godec, president of CRYSP and a leader at Sports on the Hill.

With input from leaders from other sports organizations like Capitol Futbol Club and Capitol Hill Little League and civic groups, the idea for a new sports field com-plex--modeled after Arlington’s Long Bridge Park built on a former brownfield along the Potomac Riv-er--came into being.

The proposal calls for four multi-use fields to include a baseball dia-mond and corresponding bathroom and other necessary facilities built on top of the existing parking lots to ideally avoid environmental hazards that may or may not exist below the asphalt of RFK. The project also calls for green features to help reduce sur-face runoff into the Anacostia River and a permanent open-air structure for the weekend farmers market that would feature solar panels, which would help power the site.

Newly-elected Advisory Neigh-borhood Commissioner for ANC 7D01 and CRYSP officer Bob Coomber said when CRYSP first started one of its goals was to cre-ate a positive vision for the future of a small section of the RFK parking lots that abut Kingman Park, the neighborhood he now represents.

Kingman Park residents have a long and vocal history of pushing back against many of the plans for the site--like American Le Mans Series sports car racing--but Coomber said he wanted to take that energy and put it towards advocating for something beneficial. Coomber said the idea was to “introduce a positive vision so that whatever came was not imposed upon us, but instead we got out there and

said ‘This is what we want’.”CRYSP also sees a role for the

playing fields to benefit the entire city. Coomber said families in the city want safe places for their kids to run around and play--especially given the negligible backyards that accompany the city’s dense family housing stock.

CRYSP estimates construc-tion would run between $25 and $30 million, some of which would need to come from the District gov-ernment and some of which could come from private entities.

“Providing space for kids to play isn’t the responsibility solely of Sports on the Hill or Capitol Hill Little League or the Capitol Futbol Club. It’s the responsibility of government leaders. If you don’t do that these families are going to leave,” said Godec.

Where CRYSP and Everything Else Intersect“It’s a good idea regardless of what happens,” said Godec about CRYSP in relation to proposals like a new football stadium or the 2024 Olympics.

CRYSP has had conversations with the team behind the Olympic bid about how the community park could work with future plans. It is even possible were D.C. to win the Olympic bid that the CRYSP fields could be built for community use well in advance of the games and then utilized during the games as practice fields for Olympic athletes.

“Usually when you do the Olympics, the legacy to the com-munity of the Olympics comes af-ter the Olympics are over. Why not have a legacy that comes 10 years before?” suggested Godec.

The B&D study currently un-derway takes into account the Olympic bid, according to Ashley

Forrester, manager for communica-tions and marketing at Events DC.

Another option for CRYSP comes on the heels of the recently approved new D.C. United stadi-um at Buzzard Point in southwest D.C. The soccer team will still need practice fields and, without access to RFK once its lease is up, locker rooms and other facilities. CRYSP sees an opportunity to secure at least some funding for the new park and playing fields through the upcom-ing Community Benefits Agree-ment D.C. United will create with the District government as part of the new stadium deal.

What about the return of pro-fessional football to a new stadium in D.C.?

CRYSP would take away some of the surface parking, but the orga-nization argues there would still be

significant parking remaining and that an urban stadium would draw many attendees via Metro. CRYSP estimates there would be parking sufficient for a stadium or event of 50,000 people--more if the new sta-dium added structure parking.

“There’s nothing that Events D.C. does that they couldn’t still do if CRYSP were there,” said Coomber.

CRYSP is ready to co-exist or stand on its own, come what may.

Political WillCRYSP is aware of the challenge of convincing city leaders they should support anything other than the status quo at RFK. Coomber said one “major barrier” is to change the mindset of those who think, “What’s the point of spending a lot of money on anything when we’re just trying to get the football team back in 10 years?”

Newly-sworn-in Ward 6 Coun-cilman Charles Allen said he hopes to “champion” CRYSP as he begins

his time on the District Council.“There’s no question that it is a

poor use of space--and that’s being generous,” said Allen about the sea of parking lots at RFK. “Everybody sees that.”

The challenge is convincing some of his colleagues and other leaders in the city that the CRYSP proposal can truly co-exist as the group believes it can.

“I want to make this a prior-ity of the council, but it’s going to take pushing and pulling from a lot of different directions to make this happen,” said Allen, acknowledging the complicated nature of the Dis-trict’s lease for the land and other interests in the site.

What’s Next?The winning U.S. Olympic bid could be announced anytime through the end of January. The winning bid for the games would be announced in September 2017.

D.C. United will begin playing at its new stadium in 2017, accord-ing to current estimates. By then the team will have determined what to do about its current practice fields and where it will be practicing mov-ing forward.

Dan Snyder has a lease for his football franchise in Maryland through 2026. Though he has indi-cated he is already looking for a new home, there’s no telling when that decision will come down.

For CRYSP the course is clear: convince city leaders that new play-ing fields will not hinder whatever may come at RFK--the Olympics or a new football stadium or some-thing else--but would enhance fu-ture development and benefit the city as a whole.

Shaun Courtney is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of District Source, a D.C. real estate and neighborhood news blog, co-founded and supported by Lindsay Reishman Real Estate. Shaun has been a local reporter in D.C. since 2009 and has called the city home since 2002. She currently lives in Kingman Park. Read more from Dis-trict Source. u


While powerful interests eye the 80 acres of parking lots and the crumbling Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium for everything from NFL games to the summer Olympics,

the nearby community waits (and waits and waits).


Here are two important numbers for Mayor Bows-er and the DC Council to

focus on: 22,000 and 20 percent. 22,000 is the number of affordable housing units needed for very low-income DC residents. And 20 per-cent is the unemployment rate for residents without a college degree. As the excitement of the inaugura-tion fades away and Mayor Bowser and the Council get down to busi-ness, addressing these numbers would be a great place to start.

The District is in good shape in many ways, but it also faces greater challenges than ever. Prosperity has pushed housing prices beyond affordable in every corner of the city. The rising cost of living makes good-paying jobs even more impor-tant, yet jobs and wages are growing solidly only at the top.

The District has always been a city of haves and have-nots, but the gaps are stretching close to a break-ing point. Many wonder whether the city where Chuck Brown came to fame will survive with a diverse range of incomes and cultures.

Candidate Bowser said her number one task is to address in-come inequality. Well said. Here are some ways to do that.

Housing that Works for EveryoneThe statistics on DC’s affordable housing problems are stark. The city lost half of its low-cost housing in a decade. The typical low-income family now spends two-thirds of its

income on housing. One of four DC households is on the waiting list to get into subsidized housing.

The District spends $2 billion annually on education, $1 billion on public safety, and $150 mil-lion on housing. It is time to put housing on equal footing with the city’s other major responsibilities.

The task is clear if not easy. For one thing, the District needs to preserve the affordable hous-ing that still exists. There are still some neighborhoods where housing costs are reasonable. And there are buildings where subsidized housing restrictions will expire in the near future. There is no plan to preserve this affordable housing, but there should be.

The District also needs 22,000 new homes that are affordable for low-income families, according to a 2014 study. The mayor and Council should commit to filling that gap entirely over the next 5 years.

And Mayor Bowser should take steps soon to replace the DC Gen-eral Shelter with a series of smaller shelters throughout the city. The tragedy of hundreds of homeless families crammed into a decrepit fa-cility should not be repeated.

Better Jobs for DC ResidentsUnemployment for DC residents without a college degree is 20 per-cent, compared with 12 percent in 2008. Hourly wages for the bottom fifth of working DC residents fell from $13 an hour to $12 an hour in

the last four years, while top earn-ers have seen wages grow. In short, DC’s economy is not letting all resi-dents succeed. The job challenges are especially great for the 60,000 adults who don’t have a high school degree.

There have been some positive developments. The District’s mini-mum wage will rise to $11.50 in 2016, and all employers in the city must give their workers paid sick leave. The next thing is making sure these become a reality – through public education and enforcement – and taking steps to improving job prospects:

Raise the Minimum Wage for Tipped Workers: Tipped workers earn just $2.77 an hour before tips and were left out of the recent mini-mum wage increase.

Coordinate Adult Literacy and Job Training: Too often, residents get a GED, but find that it doesn’t help them get a job. Many commu-nities across the country link GED classes directly to job training, and it seems to work. A “career pathways” task force in DC will soon recom-mend how to do that in DC, and the mayor and Council will need to implement them.

Create Paid Family Leave: Many workers lose pay or their job when they take time off to be with a new child or care for an ail-ing family member. The District can help by creating a program to replace a portion of lost wages for workers who need to take fam-

ily or medical leave, as Califor-nia, New Jersey, and Rhode Island have done.

Next Steps to Better Schools2014 was a big year for changes in DC education. School boundar-ies and admission policies were changed for the first time in 40 years. The school funding formula was adjusted to better reflect what students need, including new funds targeted on low-income DC stu-dents. The city expanded pre-K and also made investments in early childhood education.

Here is what is needed next:• Support Income Diversity at

the School Level. Some of the lesser-noticed changes of the school boundary committee would help lower-income stu-dents get into high-performing schools – and should be imple-mented. One would require each DCPS school and charter school to create an admissions preference for low-income stu-dents if fewer than 25 percent of current students are low-income. For charter schools, this will require new legislation. Another change would let families in low-income income communities get into their neighborhood Pre-Kindergar-ten classes, rather than having to go into a citywide lottery. And a third would provide free

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In with the New:Recommendations to Mayor Bowser and the DC Council

by Ed Lazere


bus transportation to par-ents to take their elementary school-aged child to school.

• Monitor resources provided for students in poverty: There are 35,000 “at-risk” low-in-come students in DC. This year, both DCPS and charter schools got $2,000 more for each of these students, par-tially implementing a recom-mendation of a city-funded study. Mayor Bowser and the DC Council should continue to phase this in, while moni-toring the use of this money to ensure it is being used well to help low-income students. Right now, neither DCPS nor charter schools has to report on how they use these funds.

• Improve Student Supports to Help Close the Achieve-ment Gap. School is an ideal location to deliver services that can alleviate poverty’s im-pact on student success. Mayor Bowser and the DC Council should make sure every public school offers adequate mental health services, has a full-time nurse, and offers quality after-school and summer programs. This can be aided by turning more schools into Community Schools, making them neigh-borhood hubs for a wide ar-ray of services to children and adults.

A Healthier DCThe District has been a national leader in providing affordable health care for residents. The rate of uninsured residents in DC is among the lowest in the country. But even with high coverage rates, many residents are in poor health and the city ranks poorly on key health status measures like obesity.

To improve these outcomes, we recommend:• Increase Oversight of Med-

icaid Managed Care. The District uses three managed care companies to provide health care to 175,000 resi-dents – almost one-fourth of DC residents – through Medicaid. But there is lim-ited oversight and few per-formance standards for these companies, who have failed to improve health outcomes or limit emergency room visits or use of unnecessary and costly services. The District could get better health outcomes –with-out spending more money – through better oversight.

• Improve Immigrant Access to Health Care: The DC Healthcare Alliance insures 14,500 low-income residents who are not eligible for Med-icaid or Medicare, many of them immigrants. However, the city set up stringent appli-cation rules that make it dif-ficult for eligible residents to get in the Alliance and have contributed to a sharp drop in participation. The mayor and Council can remove these bar-riers, which will help more eli-gible residents get benefits and reduce uncompensated health care.

Lazere is executive director of the DC Fiscal Policy Institute, which pro-motes budget and policy solutions to reduce inequality and increase the op-portunity for DC residents to build a better future. Their recommendations to the mayor and DC Council can be found at www.dcfpi.org. u

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Our River: Th e AnacostiaWinter Walks In The Watershed

article and photos by Bill Matuszeski

Pedestrian Overlook – 11th Street Local Bridge.


With the holidays behind us, it’s recovery time. What better than to rejuvenate with a winter walk?

And what better place than right here in our Anacostia watershed, which abounds with trails and special areas to roam. While you probably have your own favorite hikes, here are six places that work especially well for walking in the winter. Some are near, some far; some are surrounded by the city, and oth-ers are quite remote. Try them all, and add your own to the list!

1. The Newest Section of the Anacostia Riverwalk Trail

Th e latest addition to the river trail system

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The Bridge Over the CSX Tracks Anacostia Riverwalk.

here in the City is quite attractive; it is on the east side of the Anacostia between the Skating Pavilion north of the Pennsylvania Avenue bridge and Benning Road. Th e trail makes a dramatic sweeping curve up a bridge over the CSX rail yard (great for kids to see all the train cars), passes under the East Capitol Street bridge, through nice wooded areas and out into fi elds along the River.

It stops at Benning Road, where you can see the old power plant being dismantled. You can also see con-struction for the next stage of the Trail, which will be done in spring of 2016 and will close the fi nal gap from there to the Bladensburg Park and Marina, tying together nearly 70 miles of trails along the River and its major tributaries in Mary-land. You can return on the west side


of the River to Pennsylvania Avenue if you wish, but a lot of that trail is through the RFK Stadium parking lots and not as interesting. Better to park at the skating pavilion and do a round trip.

2. The New Local 11th Street Bridge

If you haven’t walked this one yet, you are missing out! When the free-way bridges were rebuilt, they added a local traffi c bridge alongside that connects Anacostia and Capitol Hill. Specifi cally, it runs from 11th and O SE, near the Navy Yard gate, to Martin Luther King Avenue. It has wide sidewalks and slow traffi c, but best of all there are two pedes-trian overlooks that stretch out over the River on the south side. Walk along and imagine what it will be like in a few years when the 11th Street Bridge Project extends the walkways downstream for hundreds of feet and fi lls the space with parks, cafes, community and youth gardens and even performance spaces. But meanwhile enjoy the solitude and capture some of the fi rst stirrings of revival at both ends of the bridge. Latest is the news that “Busboys and Poets” will be opening a branch on MLK Avenue.

3. The Trail Along Watts Branch in Anacostia

Th is one is a real urban adventure. Watts Branch is the fi rst of the DC tributaries of the Anacostia to be restored by the City, and they did a beautiful job of it. Park off East Capitol Street at 61st and Banks, NE, and enter Marvin Gaye Park, where the stream comes in from Prince Georges County. Th ere are walkways running along the stream and connecting a series of parks and

playgrounds for twenty blocks, all the way to Minnesota Avenue and the Freeway. You can continue un-der the train tracks and the Free-way and pick up the stream again in Kenilworth Park, but that is not the most interesting part. Th e twenty-block segment above Min-nesota Avenue weaves through a series of traditional neighborhoods of bungalows and “shotgun hous-es”, a southern term for a house so long and narrow you can fi re a shot clear through it front to back. Elvis was raised in one in Tupelo. You will also pass the spectacular new Woodson High School and its play-ing fi elds. If you start to get lost, just look for the stream and stay near it. You won’t forget this walk, guaran-teed!

4. Mount Hamilton, the Asia Gardens and Fern Valley in the National Arboretum

Th ere is so much to see and do walk-ing in the National Arboretum that it is diffi cult to choose. But there are some things that are actually bet-ter in the winter. Mount Hamilton clearly falls into this category; it is the second highest point in DC af-ter the roof of the Russian Embassy (which is basically not available these days). Th e views of the City are spectacular, but at their best when the leaves have fallen. Th e Capitol and the monuments are clearly vis-ible. A nice uphill walk (turn right at the R St gate and park in the fi rst lot on the left about a quarter mile up the road). Another special place is the Asian Gardens, where there are things in bloom all winter and lots of paths to roam. Look for win-tersweet, a fragrant tree fi lled with yellow blossoms this month, as well as camellias nearby (park near the top, where there are parallel spots).

Finally, children love Fern Val-ley, and the paths and bridges are especially attractive in the winter, when they can seem to be everywhere. Remember, the Arboretum is currently closed Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays.

5. Northwest Branch Between the Adelphi Mill and the Beltway

If you are looking for a clas-sic stream valley surrounded by woods and hills, this is for you.

The val-ley here is broader

and steeper than just about any part of the watershed, and the woods are thick and mature. The stream is moving quickly and so you have the sound of the water and little else. The best starting point is the Adelphi Mill, an old stone structure that has been re-stored and serves as a communi-ty center; if it is open it is worth a visit. The trail from there north to the Beltway is two miles, with only one road crossing it (New Hampshire Avenue), so it is easy to feel deep in a valley and far

away from it all. The trail con-tinues past the Beltway, but is impassible to bicycles and the

footing is iffy. Park at the Mill on Riggs Road north of Univer-sity Blvd.

6. The Sandy Spring, Source of the Anacostia

This is an expedition to a favor-ite spot of the purists, like Jim Foster, head of the Anacostia Watershed Society, and it is sur-rounded by history. The town of Sandy Spring was settled in 1728 by Quakers; it served as an important station on the Un-derground Railroad for escap-

ing slaves and became an agri-cultural locale for freed slaves. There is a large and interesting Sandy Spring Museum in the village, well worth a visit, as well as a Slave Museum open by ap-pointment only. To find the ac-tual spring, turn left at the first light after the Museum as you are heading west on MD 108 on to Meetinghouse Road. Park at the old Quaker Meeting House and cemetery and check out the huge trees, including an ash un-der which, it is said, the escaping slaves would gather. Then walk down the road a quarter mile, around a yellow turnstile and ahead another quarter mile until the gravel path ends at a grove surrounded by a split rail fence. Inside is the Sandy Spring. The historic marker tells much about the early settlement of the area, but interestingly fails to men-tion that this is where the Ana-costia begins. The surrounding fields and woods are filled with trails and it is all a conservation area that is open daylight hours. Make a day of it! Then come home and tell your neighbors you have been to Our River’s birthplace.

Let me know your own favorite winter walks in the Anacostia watershed. E-mail me at [email protected], and we will add to the list. u

Asia Garden,National Arboretum

Northwest Branch of the Anacostia

The Sandy Spring


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“It was a long time needed,” Ward 8 resi-dent Sandi Toatley said of the Barry Farm Aquatic Center. “The pool definitely needed

an upgrade. This will be a very good asset to the community.” Toatley was one of many community members who joined Mayor Vincent Gray and oth-er city and neighborhood leaders during the grand opening celebration on December 13. The $28 mil-lion project is the first of two phases that some be-lieve is a first step towards the revitalization of the Barry Farm area.

Barry Farm Aquatic CenterConverted from an outdoor pool, the 8,800 square-foot LEED Silver-certified facility features a six-lane ADA-accessible lap pools, a leisure pool with beach entry, and the city’s second indoor water slide.

Classes began on December 15; registration is still available. “At DPR, we like to look at the lifes-pan of programming,” said DPR Chief of Staff John Stokes. “So, from little kids’ ‘Learn How to Swim’ classes, all the way up to Senior Water Aerobics. We’re going to be offering classes that span the life of our residents.” However, DC residents can par-ticipate in open swim for free with a valid ID; non-residents must pay a fee ($3 for children under six, $4 for youth ages six to 17 and seniors 55 and over, and $7 for adults).

“We wanted to provide amenities to the pub-lic as soon as possible,” said Tyrell Lashley, direc-tor of the DC Department of Parks and Recre-ation’s (DPR) Aquatics Department. “We could’ve waited until the project was completed to open to

the public, but it didn’t make much sense for us to do so when we have one section of the building completed and available.”

Barry Farm Recreation CenterThe aquatic center is the first phase of the Barry Farm Recreation Cen-ter renovation project that began in 2013. When completed, the approximately 32,000 square-foot facility will feature an indoor gymnasium with seat-ing for 250 people, a fitness room, computer lab, kitchen, teen room, senior lounge, and multipurpose rooms. Outside, there will be a multipurpose field for football, baseball, and soccer, a press box, com-munity gardens, and basketball courts, a playground and below grade parking structure. The completed facility is slated to open in March.

More Activities The day after she helped cut the ribbon, Rhonda Edwards-Hines, a 27-year Barry Farm resident who was recently elected as the Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner (ANC) for single-member dis-trict (SMD) 8C06, visited the aquatic center with her grandchildren. “I liked what I saw,” she said. “It’s bigger, so that allows for more activities.” For instance, with the new swim classes, Hines hopes

that it would lead to DPR bringing a swim team to the area (there is a DPR-sponsored swim team, DC Wave, which practices at the Rumsey and Takoma Aquatic Centers). “Once the whole rec center opens, I don’t anticipate kids hanging around outside,” Hines said. “They’ll be inside, being active.”

Toatley and her daughter, Starr Blak-eney, are looking forward to the recreation center’s reopening as well. Blakeney, who attends nearby Excel Academy, attended an after-school program at the old facility, but her mother was concerned about its small size. “She liked going to Barry Farm when it was the old Barry Farm,” Toatley said. “The staff is really good with her and they keep

us updated with what’s going on.” With the new aquatic center and the upcoming recreation center, Toatley hopes that the programming will keep chil-dren safe and active. “We have some talented kids out here, but they don’t even know it themselves,” she said. “The staff can help them pull their talent out and keep our young children off the streets.”

A Step Toward RevitalizationThe new aquatic center and the upcoming recre-ation center are two parts of a larger revitalization project through the New Communities Initiative (NCI). The initiative is a city government pro-gram that aims to revitalize neighborhoods with distressed subsidized housing into mixed-income income communities. “New Communities is about, not only the physical housing redevelopment, but also nice amenities for the community,” said NCI Director Kimberly Black King.

“[Barry Farm is] a vibrant community” said Charles Wilson, president of the Anacostia Block Association. “It’s a very engaged community and something like this could definitely add to the im-provement and quality of life, not just for the resi-dents here, but in Ward 8.” Stokes agreed, saying “This just represents the fact that Ward 8 is on the rise; Ward 8 is becoming revitalized and this project is just a part of that.” Hine’s opinion is simple: “I just feel that Ward 8 is worthy of receiving a rec center and I hope that the rest of Ward 8 will see that.”

The Barry Farm Aquatic Center is located at 1230 Sumner Road, SE Washington, DC 20020. Current hours are Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays from 6:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. and Saturdays and Sundays from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. To learn more about classes, visit dpr.dc.gov. u


Barry Farm Aquatic Center OpensA Beautiful Facility that will be a Big Community Asset by Charnice A. Milton

An aerial shot of the water slide and leisure pool section in the Barry Farm Aquatic Center Photo Credit: DPR

Swimmers race in the lap pool side of the Barry Farm Aquatic

Center. Photo Credit: DPR


John Capozzi, a former DC Shadow Repre-sentative to the US House of Representatives, lives in a house in Hillcrest that many point

to as the way of the future. Using solar power and geothermal heating and cooling, it’s less reli-ant on the central grid, which Capozzi says both benefits the environment and brings his energy bills down to 50% of what they would be with conventional power.

“My wife and I are concerned about what we’re doing to the planet,” he says. “Plus why not save money?”

Right now, according to Anya Schoolman, the executive director of the Community Power Network, less than 1% of the District’s electric-ity comes from solar power. The goal is to get to 2.5% by 2020. “It’s a teeny tiny percent,” she says, but it’s a start.

But a proposed acquisition of Pepco, the Dis-trict’s current power supplier, by Exelon, a Chi-cago-based energy giant, has both Capozzi and Schoolman anxious over whether the District will continue in what they say is the right direction.

Exelon is offering $6.8 billion for Pepco’s holdings in DC, as well as parts of Maryland, Delaware, and New Jersey. Right now, the merger is waiting for a final yes or no from the DC Public Service Commission.

Exelon touts increased service reliability and an addition $14 million for the District in what it’s calling a Customer Investment Fund, which the PSC can allocate however it chooses. But advocates around the District, from environmental groups like the Sierra Club and Food and Water Watch, to economic watchdogs like the DC Fiscal Policy In-stitute, to neighborhood commissions, say the deal comes with far more costs than benefits.

Opposition to the Merger“We oppose the merger because we think Ex-elon’s business model is intrinsically opposed to

distributed solar and any kind of distributed re-newables,” says Schoolman, adding that in No-vember, the DC Office of the People’s Counsel told the PSC that the merger fails to meet any of the seven criteria that the PSC will consider in its final decision.

According to Schoolman, Exelon would have a conflict of interest as the District’s electricity distributor because it’s also a power wholesaler, meaning it benefits when prices for its product are high. She and other advocates stress that the nuclear power that makes up most of Exelon’s portfolio (Exelon owns 23 nuclear plants in the US), is expensive to produce and maintain, and they say it’s only logical for the company to look for ways to pass the costs onto consumers while working against the growth of cheaper, more sus-

tainable sources like wind and solar.To prove that their fears are grounded, merger

opponents point to Illinois, where in September, Exelon senior vice president Kathleen Barron en-couraged Illinois regulators to charge users $6 per megawatt hour (a rate that a Chicago paper says would total $580 million in subsidies) to keep some of the company’s nuclear plants running, as well as New York, where earlier this month Ex-elon pushed regulators in New York to agree to an $80 million contract—a price that’s well above market energy rates— that will do the same.

Locally, Schoolman is concerned that Exelon will fight against the District’s Community Re-newable Energy Act, which allows residents who don’t own solar panels to use a process called vir-tual net metering to buy solar power, because it

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Solar panels line a DC rooftop.


fought a similar bill in Maryland.

Exelon’s SideExelon says its policy positions make sense, especially given that nuclear power doesn’t emit carbon. “We support market-based solu-tions that value all energy sources on equal footing, taking into ac-count the clean energy and around-the-clock reliability they provide” says Judy Rader, Exelon’s director of external communications.

An Exelon fact sheet on the merger adds that it won’t result in rate increases in DC; instead, it says, prices will likely go down be-cause efficiency will go up. Rader also points out that Exelon couldn’t raise rates in the District even if it wanted to because the PSC sets en-ergy prices. And looking long term, Exelon notes that a safeguard in the merger, known as ring fencing, pre-

vents it from shifting costs that are unrelated to the District onto Dis-trict ratepayers.

Paul Adams, an Exelon media relations manager, points to Con-stellation, a company that’s one of the largest commercial solar devel-opers in United States and which Exelon bought in 2012, as evidence enough of the company’s interest in solar power; he also adds that the company recently installed solar panels at Dunbar High School.

A Matter of PerspectiveSchoolman, however, calls Constel-lation a “pea in the ocean” compared to Exelon’s nuclear holdings, and she points out that the merger’s ring fenc-ing provision only lasts for five years.

Ivan Frishberg, a climate change senior advisor at Organizing for Ac-tion and a former ANC 6B com-missioner, says Exelon’s political

largesse—the company has funded the American Legislative Exchange Council, for example, a firm that works to discredit solar and wind power and is also backed by the ultra-conservative Koch Brothers—makes him doubt its intentions.

“Massive energy companies have a track record of gaming the system and being highly effective at protect-ing their own interests at the expense of others,” he says. “Exelon’s argument that the bad behavior or financial lia-bilities that they exhibit in other states is not an issue … has to be taken with more than a grain of salt.”

For its part, Exelon says it’s had good reason to oppose the poli-cies that it has, like net metering in Maryland. “Customers who de-ploy distributed generation rely on a grid,” she says, “and should cover their fair share of the costs for main-taining it. Unfortunately, net meter-ing designs overcompensate distrib-uted generation adopters.”

“[Exelon] makes that claim be-cause they don’t recognize the ben-efits of solar,” counters Schoolman. She says that while utilities could work toward grids that use multiple energy sources, an option that would be more eco-friendly and cheaper in the long run, Exelon is uninterested because nuclear wouldn’t fit into that model. “They only measure costs, not benefits. The difference is whether you look at it from the perspective of ratepayers or the utility. Solar is a net benefit to the grid but it might de-crease profitability of the utility.”

“If everyone’s generating power, you all the sudden don’t need a big grid,” adds Capozzi. “But Exelon wants a large grid. They want tax-payers to pay for that grid, so that’s an additional long-term expense from companies with this old busi-ness model.”

What’s Next?Even some skeptics of the merger believe that Exelon’s lucrative offer to Pepco, along with the fact that each company’s board as well as the Federal Energy Regulatory Com-mission have already approved it, make it a done deal. Rather than fight, they say, DC should work to get more provisions for ratepayers

beyond the $14 million that Exelon is offering.

But Schoolman points to an open Department of Justice investi-gation of whether the merger would make DC’s energy market less com-petitive as reason to view the deci-sion window as wide open.

“The issue shouldn’t be how many dollars we can get or what kind of bribe money can we take,” she says. “It should be ‘what struc-tural commitments are the utility company going to lay so DC can get the model it wants?’ Community solar? Underground lines to lower rates? It’s about what’s the good of the future.”

Councilmember Mary Cheh, who chairs the Committee on Trans-portation and the Environment, plans to hold a roundtable to dis-cuss how the DC Council can best weigh in. “I do [have a negative im-pression],” she says. “But it’s not suf-ficiently grounded yet. I want a fo-rum, and after that I’ll have my own opinion. But I am concerned. I think it’s a major shift, and it can have real consequences. Don’t talk to me about amenities, talk to me about what the consequences are long term for the people of the District.”

Tommy Wells, the city’s new Department of the Environment head, added that he needs more in-formation before he voices support or opposition.

Capozzi agrees with Schoolman that the District should look to fos-ter a very different conversation as it considers the merger. “Everything’s on the table,” he says. “If [Exelon] wants to make a special rate for se-niors, if they wanted to fund solar for every poor person in the city, they could. But they haven’t. There’s a big fund that people apply to for energy assistance, and we could shore that up. There’s plenty they could do to make this palatable, but they haven’t. If some company comes along that wants to do that for us, they can come and buy our utility.”

The DC PSC will have two more public hearings, on January 12th and 20th, followed by a week of evidentiary hearings in mid-February. After that, it will take a side. u

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The crowd cheered as the Majestic March-ing Knights of Frank W. Ballou High School paraded toward the front of the

auditorium. As the band played Lauryn Hill’s “Doo-Wop (That Thing),” the cheerleaders roused the audience, made up of residents, alumni, and current students. However, this was not a sports event; the Knights were sharing the stage with Mayor Vincent Gray, Ballou Principal Dr. Ye-tunde Reeves, Ballou STAY Principal Cara Fuller, DC Department of General Services (DGS) Di-rector Brian Hanlon, DC Public School Chan-cellor Kaya Henderson, and other distinguished guests for the December 17 ribbon cutting cer-emony for the new Ballou High School building.

“We Need a New Ballou”Ballou’s Director of Resource Development, Ruth Jones, noting that Ballou was the first school built in DC after the Brown v. the Board of Education decision, said, “We knew that it was built with inferior materials and it was built after the deci-sion to desegregate Anacostia,” she addressed the audience, “and I would have to believe that some people knew that the demographics in this com-munity would change.” When Jones first came to the school in 2009, she toured the building with then-principal Rahman Branch. Throughout that tour, he talked about the aging building, a lack of books in the library, and the need for more tech-nology. “I remember after so many of his state-ments, he kept on saying, ‘We need a new Ballou,’” she stated.

“We met with community leaders, students, families, parents, and alumni, to really find out what they wanted to see for the ‘new Ballou,’” Jones explained after the ceremony. “They talked about having high-quality instructional programs that would prepare students for college and ca-reers, but they also wanted a better facility.”

Believing in the Vision“I think the biggest challenge initially was helping people understand that the vision for a ‘new Bal-lou’ was possible,” said Jones. “There were a lot of people who I think in some ways were just afraid

to dream. Once they saw movement in terms of city council commitment and different things happening at the ‘old Ballou,’ then they started to buy into the vision for the ‘new Ballou.’”

Ballou Parent-Teacher-Student Association (PTSA) President Sharona Robinson also reflect-ed on the opposition the modernization project initially received. “When we started this process two years ago, there were many people who said this building cost too much money, or that we didn’t deserve it,” she said. “Well, I’m here to say today, that not only did we deserve it, but it is long overdue.”

The New BallouThe “new Ballou” is a 365,000 square-foot campus built to accommodate 1,400 students, as well as 900 STAY students, in 87 classrooms (the STAY programs is for students 16+ who require an al-ternative setting from that of a traditional high school). Emulating a collegiate atmosphere, Bal-lou has a two-story cafeteria/commons area that will function as a community meeting place. The school features 13 science and bio-technology laboratories, a greenhouse, a culinary arts kitchen, an auto-mechanic training shop, a three-tiered theater, as well as specialized spaces for student programs, including a television studio and bar-bershop and cosmetology areas. Finally, Ballou has “green” design features, including bio-reten-tion gardens, sustainable materials, and solar pan-els, giving it a LEED Gold certification.

Starting January 5, students will attend the “new Ballou” while the old building is demolished to begin Phase II of the project: a football stadium and auxiliary field; this phase should be complet-ed by August.

How it Affects Students“Doesn’t this look like a college?” Mayor Gray asked the crowd. “It does to me,” he continued. “And we’re going to act like this is a college, be-cause more and more, we’re going to produce Bal-lou students who will see high school as the be-ginning of the next stage of their lives.” Dr. Reeves agreed, saying that the project shows students that there is value in their education. “It’s really about what excites the students,” she said. “I want to make sure they’re connected and they believe that the programs meet their interests.” Dr. Reeves re-fers to the upcoming hospitality academy as an example; under this program, students would par-ticipate in paid internships, site visits, and men-torships with hospitality leaders.

Fuller hopes that the ‘new Ballou’ would help encourage her STAY students. “Our students are students who may be coming back to school dis-couraged, because they did not succeed the first time around,” she explained. “So, a building like this reminds them that they are important and

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Say Hello to the New Ballou

article and photos by Charnice A. Milton

The Ballou High School Knight overlooks the internal courtyard at the new school building.


they can do it.” She also believes that the school will help students connect with their community. “At Ballou STAY, we are look-ing forward to partnering with the Ballou community and the larger Ward 8 com-munity, which was really the vision of the late Marion Barry,” she told the audience. “We are excited to be able to have all of our programs under one roof and really take on the charge that this building embodies: a charge of excellence.”

A Call of Support“Recent events remind us why we need a new Ballou Senior High School,” stated Ballou alum Curtis Etherly, Jr., who cur-rently serves as Coca-Cola’s Director of Public Aff airs and Communications. As Chair of the Friends of Ballou, Etherly en-couraged the audience to be “Ballou and Ward 8 strong” as “...despite [having] a new

building, we still have some old problems...We will continue to need you.”

Henderson agreed, comparing the day’s events to a wedding. “...Everybody in your community surrounds you as the couple and commits, not only to watching you ‘jump the broom,’ but commits to supporting you in your new life together,” she explained. “Th is is our wedding. Th is is our opportu-nity to come together and say, ‘We are go-ing to support Ballou together.’ It’s going to take all of us to ensure that these young people have the kind of world-class educa-tion they deserve.”

Ballou High School is located at 3401 4th Street, SE Washington, DC 20032. For more information, call 202-645-3400 (Ballou HS) or 202-645-3390 (Ballou STAY) or visit bal-loudc.org or balloustay.com. u

(From left to right) DGS Director Brian Hanlon, DCPS Chancellor Kaya Henderson, Mayor Vincent Gray, DPR Interim Director Dr. Sharia Shanklin and a Ballou STAY student during the Ballou High School Ribbon Cutting Ceremony

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The pink and white house on Brothers Place, SE is hard to miss. It’s guarded by two

life-sized toy soldiers and has a fes-tive appearance during every season.

“I’m always decorating,” says El-vera Patrick, owner of the home in DC’s Congress Heights neighbor-hood in Ward 8. “I decorate for ev-ery holiday--Christmas, Valentines Day, Easter, Halloween… I have passerby say they just love watching what I do and it encourages them

to want to do something and bring some life into the neighborhood.”

Patrick grew up in this very home in the 1950’s with her parents and younger sister. She attended Stanton Elementary, Hart Middle School and Ballou High School. She went on to attend Reynold Community College in Richmond, Va. where she earned a degree in early childhood education.

Years after college, Patrick re-turned to her childhood home to

care for her parents. Eventually, she decided to do something mirac-ulous--something that would not only allow her home to be festive during holiday seasons, but all year long.

“I had a vision about turning the house into a palace,” she says. Six years ago, she painted the exterior of her home, adding a coat of pink paint. During the summer of 2014, she added arches to the roof to com-plete the palace.

The first renovations to the home, however, happened in its interior nearly a decade ago. She painted the ceiling in her dining room gold-- a process that took about four months to complete. She then added fine china, gold chairs and a life-sized toy knight to cre-ate a royal ambiance. Today, she uses the room to entertain guests over tea and sweet treats.

“I didn’t know that I was go-ing to end up turning it into a tea room, but as I started working on my design and adding more pieces and seeing how unique it was, I said I’ll call this my tea room--the pink palace tea room,” she says.

Next, she turned her tradition-al living room into a “floor room” that’s populated from wall-to-wall

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The Pink Palace in Congress HeightsElvera Patrick Dedicates Her Home to Antiques and Community Building

article and photos by Christina Sturdivant

The pink palace. Home of Elvera Patrick in Congress Heights, DC.

A portion of Elvera Patrick’s doll collection in the pink palace floor room.


with antique dolls, some of which date back 100 years.

Her hallway walls are adorned with memorabilia--portraits of family members, news clippings from significant moments in her life and photos of herself with individu-als who visited her home such as the late Mayor Marion Barry.

The home’s antique feel has a lot to do with Patrick’s ability to choose rare, collect-able items--a skill that was cultivated dur-ing her childhood.

“My parents taught me how to collect antiques,” she says “I went with my mom shopping for antiques and as I got older that was still instilled in me.”

About three times a month, she search-es for new items for her palace. Most often, she frequents shops in the DC metro area, but she’s gone as far as Norfolk, Va. to bring home additions to add to one of her many collections. While there isn’t much room to add to her collections, she always seems to find space.

While Patrick loves to entertain her own children and grandchildren, her home is most notably known as a place for neigh-borhood children--who are among her most special guests.

As a licensed child care provider, she uses her home to take in children on a daily basis--many of whom are being raised by

their grandparents in the neighborhood. She hosts birthday parties, which are always special for little girls who are able to select a tea set to use to personalize their guests’ experience. Her signature tea parties are for young ladies ages four and up. They play dress up in the floor room before entering the tea room. Personally, Patrick loves to dress up as Princess Tiana.

“She’s Disney’s first black princess,” she says. “It’s took a long time, but we finally got our first black princess.”

Tea parties are also accompanied by les-sons in etiquette that Patrick learned from her mother and personal studies.

“I think it helps them when they go out to restaurants,” she says. “They know how to sit properly using their hands; how to hold their cup in the proper way and how to use correct grammar--saying please, thank you, and may I have another cup.”

The presence of Patrick’s home and the impact she has made in her community is a gift to all and has become something she is truly proud.

“I get so many compliments which is very rewarding to me and I respect every-thing each individual has to say,” she says.

Every morning, she sits in her favorite chair which she designed herself, at her tea room table. “I sit back a lot and look at what I have done,” she says. “I’m just so amazed.” u

Elvera Patrick in her pink palace tea room.


Melinda Robertson sits at a table adorned with flow-ers at her first book sign-

ing on the lower level of the Doro-thy I. Height Library on Benning Road. She is ready to sell and sign her latest novel. “Melinda, what is this book about?” asks a fan. “Girl, this book is about a 33-year-old woman who comes on the scene and changes the game, honey.” [Big laughs] Indeed, her third book Mis-taken Identity, has people ready to read and discuss.

Robertson’s first book about and for teen mothers sold more than 1,500 copies. Her second one about teen fathers was also a hit. The suc-cess of her novels has landed her on nationally syndicated radio shows such as The Russ Parr Morning Show and the Wendy Williams Ex-perience. Local community groups purchased her first two books in bulk, to teach young people about teen pregnancy. So what draws readers into her novels? Robert-son, 52, explains the attraction in an interview with East of the River magazine.

EOR: Let’s begin with your first book Motherhood…What You Don’t Know! What inspired you to write this one?

MR: This book was really writ-ten to educate young girls about the responsibilities associated with motherhood because there’s so much that they really don’t know. When I was giving workshops at the DC Public libraries during the summer of 2007 I discovered that many teen mothers actually planned their pregnancies. Having a baby

was like a rite of passage for them. They had no clue what mother-hood really entailed and most of them thought that getting pregnant would keep their boyfriends. I told them the quickest way to get rid of a boy was to tell them you’re pregnant. You will see a side of him that you’ve never seen before.

Although this book was writ-ten to prevent teen pregnancy, I also wanted to encourage teen mothers to keep pursuing their dreams be-cause I was a teen mother. I wanted to be an encouragement to them and make sure they knew the im-portance of breaking the cycle to ensure that their daughters wouldn’t become teen mothers as well.

EOR: And then you followed up with Fatherhood…What You Ought to Know! for teen boys.

What made you feel like you were qualified to give advice to young men?

MR: Well, for starters, I have a son. Additionally, society tends to minimize the father’s responsibil-ity. This book was written to inform the boys about the responsibility that they share in preventing teen pregnancy and the obligations they have to the babies they make. It’s not ok for them to walk away from their responsibilities and it wasn’t ok for their fathers to walk away from them. In order to be effective, I believe educating boys is just as important as educating girls. I also addressed other issues that boys these days may be dealing with like the death of a close friend, drugs, sex, etc. The book deals with real life situations that boys can relate to ev-ery day.

EOR: What made you want to go the fiction route as opposed to how-to or advice book?

MR: It’s hard to hold a young person’s interest and how-to books don’t do that. The characters in my books are believable and teens re-late to them. In the motherhood book, the main character is Nicole Washington, a 15-year-old honor roll student who has dreams and believes the world is her oyster. And then BAM!! She gets preg-nant. And many things happen as a result of her pregnancy that she didn’t expect. Her pregnancy didn’t just affect her it also affected her parents and threatened their mar-riage. I received many emails from girls thanking me for writing the book. One girl from New York said she had been trying to get pregnant for three months until she read my book. They would tell me that they would trick their boyfriends, put holes in the condoms, etc. Father-hood is about two fifteen year old boys growing up in the streets of D.C. without their fathers. One is killed during an altercation on the basketball court.

EOR: Tell us about your back-ground.

MR: I grew up on Hartford Street SE off of Alabama Avenue. I graduated from Eastern High School in 1980, but had no desire to attend college. Growing up in the hood, our only aspiration after high school was to get a good govern-ment job.

When I was nineteen, I got pregnant and my world was rocked. I was in love but I had no idea what


Local author Melinda Robertson writes her third novel about adult relationships.

Storytelling with a Twist of RealityA local author pens her third novel about a young, black female professional with an unconventional private life

by Candace Y.A. Montague


I had gotten myself into until I was in labor. Like most teen mothers, I didn’t have a plan. Becoming a teen mother made me grow up quick because my mother made me be a mother to my child, which is what I needed.

EOR: So now you have a new book for adults called Mis-taken Identity. The main charac-ter is Morgan McIntire. What is she like?

MR: Morgan McIntire is a thirty-three year old single wom-an who almost has it all. She has a successful career in corporate America but she has been unsuc-cessful when it comes to matters of the heart. Morgan doesn’t need a man in terms of fi nances but she needs the comfort of a man and corporate men don’t turn her on like the boyz from the hood do. Morgan does things her way and is forced to take responsibility for the choices she’s made and ultimately she changes the game.

EOR: Th is seems to be a fa-miliar narrative: Black women avoiding relationships with “good guys.” Why do think that is so?

MR: Th ere are a lot of reasons but I think it’s mainly because some “good guys” aren’t that good in bed. Th ey don’t do the things to please a woman that the thugs will do, however, when you grow up and mature you realize that those things aren’t as important.

Melinda draws upon her own personal experiences and encoun-ters from her community to com-pose her novels. Each book has a lesson to teach. “I wanted to make a diff erence with my books. I know there are a lot of ‘Morgans’ out there. We all have a story. I just thank God for using me and choosing me to tell the story. And it’s a helluva story.” [Big laugh]

Candace Y.A. Montague is the health reporter for Capital Community News. u

Local author Melinda Robertson poses for a picture with a fan at her book signing after writing her third novel Mistaken Identity.

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New Year’s WishesHappy New Year’s wishes to all, including our masters like Buck Hill, Fred Foss, Larry Willis and D.C. native Jimmy Cobb, and to our venues that they continue to provide great music in 2015 and beyond, venues that include Bo-hemian Caverns, Twins Jazz, Blues Alley, Westminster Presbyterian Church, the Kennedy Center, An Die Musik, Caton Castle and the others that include jazz per-formers on many occasions like the Bethesda Blues & Jazz Sup-per Club, Strathmore Mansion, THEARC in Southeast and the Clarice Smith Center at the Uni-versity of Maryland.

Special good wishes to Paul Carr and his Mid-Atlantic Jazz Festival, preparing for anoth-er great festival next month in Rockville, and Charlie Fishman and his D.C. Jazz Festival crew, preparing for another fine event later this year.

Speaking of Fishman’s crew, special good wishes and congratu-lations go to our own Willard Jen-kins, the WPFW-FM radio pro-grammer, educator and producer and artistic director for festivals here and elsewhere, and now the new artistic director for the DC Jazz Festival.

“Willard Jenkins stood apart from a quality field of candidates with his breadth of knowledge and experience as an arts administra-tor, focused on jazz,” said Michael Sonnenreich, outgoing Chairman of the DCJF, in a statement. “He is the first Artistic Director we have

hired for the DC Jazz Festival, and we are confident his incomparable background, his knowledge and his passion for jazz provide the artis-tic leadership necessary to continue our mission.”

Jenkins said, “First and fore-most, I greatly admire Charlie Fishman, particularly for his for-titude and perseverance in devel-oping the DC Jazz Festival. It was very much needed in this commu-nity, but Charlie is the one who took the initiative and made it hap-pen. I join the ranks of those who will always be grateful to Charlie for having taken that step.”

For more information see www.dcjazzfest.org.

InPerson … Ron Sutton BenefitVeteran master Fred Foss headlined the Ron Sutton Jr. benefit concert Dec. 14 at Bohemian Caverns with some of his vintage riffs on tenor saxophone, with Allyn Johnson on piano, Herman Burney, bass, Anto-nio Parker, alto saxophone, Michael Thomas, trumpet, Lenny Robinson, drums, Sweet Lou from Atlanta, and Candace on vocals helping out to make the evening a success with more than $1400 reportedly raised to help Sutton with medical expenses.

InPerson … SJC JazzCongratulations to director Ken-neth Hammann and assistant director Colin Crawford on fur-thering the heritage with the St. John’s College High School Music Department and the jazz bands in particular at that Northwest D.C.

school. The Competition Jazz En-semble entertained a good crowd Dec. 16 for the Winter Jazz Con-cert on “Cuaba” and “Southern Exposure,” with tenor sax man Mark Belmonte and guitarist Car-olos DeLeon highlighting their sets. The Jazz Combo, on “Billie’s Bounce” and “Song for My Father and the Jazz Lab Band on “Penta-tonic Blues” and The Swing Band on “Undecided” also played well. Go Cadets!

InReview … Branford Marsalis CDA personal statement on improvi-sation, horn guru Branford Mar-

salis’ formidable personal talents make “In My Solitude: Live at Grace Cathedral” a noteworthy ad-dition to his immense portfolio of artistry. Since first hearing him live with Art Blakey and the Jazz Mes-sengers in the early 1980s at Blues Alley in D.C., his forthright ap-proach, intensity and range on his instruments have long made him a favorite.

And agreeing with wide-spread opinion that Marsalis, a frequent performer in the D.C. area, is a master of the quartet mode, while many think he is also a master of the duo mode, it is a treat to hear him tackle for the first time the solo sax mode,


jazzAvenues by Steve Monroe


Changing hands is a list of most residential sales in the District of Columbia from the previous month. A feature of every issue, this list, based on the MRIs, is provided courtesy of Don Denton, manager of the Coldwell Banker office on Capitol Hill. The list includes address, sales price and number of bedrooms.

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this from a 2012 record-ing at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco on the Sony/Okeh label.

This much horn work – Marsalis plays soprano, alto and tenor saxophone on the re-cording -- by itself de-mands a certain level of pace, interpretation and mood to keep one en-tertained this long, but Marsalis carries it off well, with highlights in-cluding “Who Needs It,” “Improvisation,” “Blues for One” and Stardust.”

See www.crossoverme-

dia.net or www.marsalis-music.com for more infor-mation.

January Highlights: … 16th Jazz Night Anniver-sary , Jan. 16, Westminster Presbyterian Church … Cyrus Chestnut, Jan. 15-18, Blues Alley … Benito Gonzalez, Jan. 16-17, Twins Jazz … Buster Wil-liams, Larry Willis, Jan. 16-17, Bohemian Cav-erns … Dizzy Gillespie Afro-Cuban Experience, Jan. 23, Kennedy Center … Vince Evans Jazz En-semble, Jan. 23, Westmin-ster … Vadim Neselovkyi, Jan. 29, Strathmore Man-sion … JN Jazz Legends Series/Pepe Gonzalez, Jan. 30, Westminster … Jazz Night at the Mov-ies/Clifford Brown, Jan. 30, Westminster … Yard Byard: The Jaki Byard Project, Jan. 31, Kennedy Center …

January Birthdays: Frank Wess 4; Kenny Clarke 9; Max Roach 10; Jay Mc-Shann 12; Melba Lis-ton, Joe Pass 13; Gene Krupa 15; Cedar Walton 17; Jimmy Cobb 20; J.J. Johnson 22; Gary Burton 23; Antonio Carlos Jo-bim 25; Bobby Hutcher-son 27; Roy Eldridge 30.

Steve Monroe is a freelance writer based in Washington, D.C. He can be reached at [email protected] or @jazzavenues. u

One of our master pianists, Larry Willis, who

credits legendary sax man Jackie McLean as a

mentor, is to perform with master bassist Buster

Williams January 16-17 at Bohemian Caverns.


Kids & Family Notebookby Kathleen Donner

Levine Music “Beginning Orchestra” at THEARCStarting Wednesday, Feb. 4, kids ages 8-12 can participate in the Beginning Orchestra offered by Levine Music at THEARC. Beginning Orchestra, a new program, will meet Wednesdays in the late afternoon for 90 minutes each week, and is a perfect fit for students who want to learn violin, viola, or cello in a group setting. Tuition is $180. For more information and to inquire about enrollment, contact Paula Fishman at [email protected]; Aron Rid-er, Strings Department Chair, at 202- 686-8000 x1110 or [email protected]; or Regan Ford, Campus Director, at 202-610-2036 or [email protected].

Ballou Senior High School Ribbon CutThe ribbon cutting on Dec. 17, for the new Ballou Senior High School in Ward 8 represented the near-comple-tion of Phase 1 of the modernization project. The new Ballou features high-tech equipment for student learning including multi-media data projec-tors, classroom sound-enhancement systems, and digital audio and video labs, along with a television studio, and 2D/3D-digital arts studios. The new high school will also have dedicated dance and drama rooms, a culinary arts demonstration and cooking kitchen, flexible student-focused learning en-vironments, advanced computer and science labs, and a breathtaking per-formance auditorium. The new Ballou also has community amenities such as a new indoor pool, fitness center, indoor

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J.C. Nalle Elementary School performs at the DC SCORES Poetry Slam! on Dec. 4. Photo: Tina dela Tosa Photography

The 17th annual DC SCORES Poetry Slam!, the largest youth spoken-word com-petition in the District, showcased original

poetry and songs written by students who partici-pate in the award-winning after-school program. December’s two-night event was held at Colum-bia Heights Education Campus Dec. 3 and H.D. Woodson Senior High School Dec. 4. On the second night of the Poetry Slam!, students repre-senting 21 elementary and middle schools used the spotlight to wow the audience of more than 500 guests with group and individual performances--one tremendous showing after another. The po-ems were uplifting (we’re going to college; we can

be the best) to the comical (“When I’m President, I’ll be taking lots of phone calls”) and illustrated the freedom of expression poetry offers. Elemen-tary school winners were Aiton (1st); Drew (2nd); and Thomas (3rd). Leron Boyd of Imagine Hope Tolson won the individual Shine Award. Middle school winners were KIPP DC: AIM Academy (1st); Cesar Chavez Public Charter School – Park-side (2nd); and Kelly Miller (3rd).

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Black History Month Family Story Times at Anacostia LibraryBeginning Feb. 5, the Anacostia Neighborhood Library will pres-ent special family story times every Th ursday, 6 p.m., in February as part of their celebration of Black History Month. Anacostia Neigh-borhood Library, 1800 Good Hope Rd. SE. 202-715-7707. dclibrary.org/anacostia“Investigating Where We Live: D.C. Now & Next” Teen ExhibitionTh is is a fi ve-week summer pro-gram at the National Building Museum for teens from the DC area. Participants use digital cam-eras, creative writing, interviews, and their own observations to ex-plore, document, and interpret the built environment in DC neigh-borhoods. Th e exhibition is on display through June 7 at the Na-tional Building Museum, 401 F St. NW. 202-272-2448. nbm.org

Gay Men’s Chorus Announces First LGBTQA Youth Chorus The Gay Men’s Chorus of Wash-ington, DC (GMCW) has an-nounced the formation of its new GenOUT Chorus, the first LG-BTQA Youth Chorus in the area.

The GenOUT Chorus seeks singers between the ages of 12-21 to join a newly forming youth chorus for LGBTQ youth and their allies. The Chorus will make its premiere onstage at the Lincoln Theatre, 1215 U St. NW, as part of GMCW’s concert titled Born This Way on Fri-day, May 15 and Saturday, May 16. Rehearsals will be held one Saturday a month at the Sitar Arts Center and Atlas Perform-ing Arts Center. No audition or experience necessary. For more information or to sign-up, inter-

ested youth can visit gmcw.org/outreach/genout.

Mockingbird at the Kennedy CenterAdapted from the 2010 National Book Award–winning novel, this vibrant and moving world pre-miere play, commissioned by the Kennedy Center and VSA, tells the story of Caitlin, a young girl on the autism spectrum who used to rely on her older brother to help make sense of the world. Now that he’s gone, she must fi nd new ways to navigate school, express herself, and get close to people again in this moving and surprisingly humorous play. For ages 10, up. Performances on Jan. 17, 18, 21, 24, 25, 31 and Feb 1. $20. kennedy-center.org

Teen Kick Back at MLK LibraryOn Wednesday, Jan 14, 4 p.m., come celebrate MLK week in Teen Space. Th ey will be having some fun MLK-themed activities. For ages 13-19. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, 901 G St. NW, 202-727-0321. dclibrary.org/mlk

My School DC Application Process for 2015-16 School Year OpensTh e District of Columbia has launched “My School DC,” the common application for DC Public Schools and public char-ter schools for the 2015-2016 school year. In its second year of operation, My School DC pro-vides a single online applica-tion where families can apply for out-of-boundary spots at K-12 schools, all Pre-K programs for 3-year-olds and Pre-K programs for 4-year-olds, selective citywide high schools, and nearly every public charter school program. Approximately 3,000 applications have already been submitted.

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Library of Congress Junior Fellows Summer Intern Program The Library of Congress Junior Fellows Summer Intern program offers undergraduate and gradu-ate students insights into the en-vironment, culture and collections of the world’s largest and most comprehensive repository of hu-man knowledge. Through the Ju-nior Fellows program, the Library of Congress furthers its mission to provide access to a universal record of knowledge, culture and creativ-ity as exemplified by its collections, while supporting current and fu-

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Ground Broken on Duke Elling-ton School of the Arts Modern-ization Duke Ellington School of the Arts is one of the District’s old-est school buildings. The existing 176,000 sq. ft. building will be transformed into a 260,952 sq. ft. facility. In addition to providing traditional core academic class-rooms, the modernization project incorporates non-traditional stu-dio theatre classrooms, multiple 2-D and 3-D digital art studios, fully functional dance studios, in-dividual and group practice rooms for instrumental and vocal music instruction, collaborative graphics/video computer laboratories, and

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Kids MLK Extravaganza at MLK LibraryOn Saturday, Jan 17, join them to celebrate and honor Martin Luther King Jr. with a day of activities for kids, birth to 12, and their families. There will be a puppet show, read-er’s theatre, crafting time, a video, and an opportunity for kids to re-cite a part of their favorite speech by Martin Luther King Jr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, 901 G St. NW, 202-727-0321. dclibrary.org/mlk

ImaginAsia: Archaeological Adventures at the SacklerIn this workshop, take a self-guided tour of Unearthing Arabia: The Archaeological Adventures of Wendell Phillips. Then, dig into a mini “excavation site” that includes shards found in Yemen and create clay models inspired by works in the exhibition. All ages welcome;

best for children ages 8-14 with adult companions. Saturday, Jan. 17 and Sunday, Jan 18, 2-4 p.m. Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, 1050 Independence Ave. SW. asia.si.edu

District’s Youth Leadership Institute Renamed in Honor of Marion BarryThe Mayor’s Youth Leadership In-stitute (MYLI) has been re-desig-nated as the “Marion Barry Youth Leadership Institute” in honor of the late Councilmember and for-mer Mayor Marion S. Barry, Jr., who passed away on Nov. 23. The Marion Barry Youth Leadership Institute (MBYLI) is a four-level, year-round leadership training and development program for young people in the District of Colum-bia, ages 14-19. The training model emphasizes practical hands-on ex-perience and a holistic approach to developing leaders of the 21st century. u

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Grant Supports Citizen Scientist Program Youth to Conduct Watershed TestingThe Smithsonian’s Anacostia Commu-nity Museum has received a $32,000 State Farm Youth Advisory Board grant to support its Citizens Scientist Program Urban Ecology Engagement Initiative. An outgrowth of the muse-um’s multiyear, multidisciplinary Urban Waterways Project, CSP engages local middle and high school students to col-lect environmental data and conduct scientific research to improve under-standing of the biology and water qual-ity of the Anacostia River Watershed. The program is implemented in part-nership with the Smithsonian Environ-mental Research Center.

Diamond Carter, a student at the National Collegiate Public Charter School, records the water sample data from the Anacostia Watershed at Lower Bea-verdam Dam Creek in Cheverly, Md., during a field trip to test the health of the local waterway. Photo: Susana Raab, Anacostia Community Museum

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Location AddressRiver Terrace Rec Center & Elemantary School 420 34th St , NECVS - East River Park 320 40th St , NESafeway – NE 322 40th St , NE6th District Police Dept - Main 100 42nd St , NEWard Memorial AME 240 42nd St NE Kennilworth Elementary School 1300 44th ST NEUnity East of the River Health Center 123 45th ST NE First Baptist Church of Deanwood 1008 45th St NEDeanwood Public Library 1350 49th ST NEHughes Memorial United Methodist 25 53rd St NECapitol Gateway Senior Apts 201 58th St , NEMarvin Gaye Rec Center 6201 Banks Pl NEWatts Branch Recreation Center 6201 Banks St , NELangston Community Library 2600 Benning Rd , NEAnacostia Neighborhood Library 1800 Good Hope Road SEBenning Branch Library 3935 Benning Rd NEMarshall Heights CDC 3939 Benning Rd , NEKelly Miller Recreation Center 4900 Brooks St , NETabernacle baptist Church 719 Division Ave NERandall Memorial Baptist Church 4417 Douglas St NEEast Capital Church of christ 5026 E Capitol St NESeat Pleasant CARE Pharmacy 350 Eastern Ave , NE7-Eleven 950 Eastern AVE NERiverside Center 5200 Foote St , NEMayfair Mansions 3744 ½ Hayes St NECitibank: East River Park 3917 Minnesota Ave , NEChartered Health Center NE 3924 Minnesota Ave , NEVending Machines – Deanwood Metro 4720 Minnesota Ave , NEThe Minnicks Market 4401 Nannie Helen Burroughs Ave NELederer Gardens 4800 Nannie Helen Burroughs Ave NESuburban Market 4600 Sherriff Rd NEPilgrim Rest Baptist Church 4601 Sheriff Road NEDave Brown Liquors 4721 Sheriff Road Northeast Dave Brown Liquor 4721 Sherriff Rd NEA & S Grocery 4748 Sheriff Rd NESt Rose Pentecostal Church 4816 Sherriff Rd NEMalcolm X Rec Center 3200 13th st SESt More Catholic Church 4275 4th St SE Fort Davis Recreation Center 1400 41st St , SEFerebee Hope Recreation Center 3999 8th St , SEEmanuel Baptist Church 2409 Ainger Place SEIHOP Restauarant 1523 Alabama Ave, SEGiant Food Store 1535 Alabama Ave , SESunTrust Bank 1571 Alabama Ave , SEParklands-Turner Community Library 1547 Alabama Ave , SEManor Village Apartments Leasing Office 1717 Alabama Ave , SEGarfield Elementary 2435 Alabama Ave

7th District Station 2455 Alabama Ave , SE6th District Police Dept - Satellite Station 2839 Alabama Ave , SEService Cleaners 2841 Alabama Ave , SESafeway – SE 2845 Alabama Ave SEPizza Hut 2859 Alabama Ave , SEAmerica’s Best Wings 2863 Alabama Ave , SEM&T Bank 2865 Alabama Ave , SEWashington Senior Wellness Center 3001 Alabama Ave , SESt Timothys Episcopal Church 3601 Alabama Ave SEFrancis A Gregory Neighborhood Library 3660 Alabama Ave , SENational Capital Parks--EAST 1900 Anacostia Dr , SEKid smiles 4837 Benning Road SEPimento Grill 4405 Bowen Rd SEEast Washington Heights Baptist Church 2220 Branch Ave ,SESt Johns Baptist Church 5228 Call Place SECapitol View Branch Library 5001 Central Ave , SEMarie Winston Elementary School 3100 Denver St , SESubway 4525 East Capitol StOur Lady Queen of Peace Church 3800 Ely Pl , SEAnacostia Museum for African Amer History 1901 Fort Pl SE - Back DoorSmithsonian Anacostia Marcia Burris 1901 Fort Place SE - Back DoorDC Center for Therapeutic Recreation 3030 G ST SEARCH 1227 Good Hope Rd , SEAnacostia Pizzeria 1243 Good Hope Rd , SESunTrust Bank 1340 Good Hope Rd , SEUnity Health Care Inc 1638 Good Hope Rd , SEBread for the City 1640 Good Hope Rd , SEMarbury Plaza Tenants Assoc 2300 Good Hope Rd , SEDollar Plus Supermarket 1453 Howard Rd , SEAscensions Psychological and Community Services 1526 Howard Rd SEDupont Park SDA Church 3985 Massachusettes Ave SEOrr Elementary School 2200 Minnesota Ave SEHart Recreation Center 601 Mississippi Ave , SESoutheast Tennis and Learning Center 701 Mississippi Ave , SEThe ARC 1901 Mississippi Ave , SENeighborhood Pharmacy 1932 Martin Luther King Jr , SEPNC Bank 2000 Martin Luther King Jr Ave , SEBank of America 2100 Martin Luther King Jr Ave , SEC Aidan Salon 2100 Martin Luther King Jr Ave , SEBig Chair Coffee 2122 Martin Luther King Jr Ave SEAnimal Clinic of Anacostia 2210 Martin Luther King Jr Ave , SEMax Robinson Center of Whitman-Walker Clinic 2301 Martin Luther King Jr Ave , SEThe United Black Fund 2500 Martin Luther King Ave SEThe Pizza Place 2910 Martin Luther King Ave SEMetropol Educational Services, 3rd Floor 3029 Marin Luther King Jr Ave , SENational Children’s Center - Southeast Campus 3400 Martin Luther King Jr , SEAssumption Catholic Church 3401 Martin Luther King Ave SECongress Heights Senior Wellness Center 3500 Martin Luther King Jr Ave , SECongress Heights Health Center 3720 Martin Luther King Jr Ave , SECVS - Skyland 2646 Naylor Rd , SEHarris Teeter 1350 Pennsylvania Ave SEThai Orchid Kitchen 2314 Pennsylvania Ave SESt Francis Xavier Church 2800 Pennsylvania Ave SE

Pennsylvania Ave Baptist Church 3000 Pennsylvania Ave SECVS – Penn Branch 3240 Pennsylvania Ave , SECongress Heights Recreation Center 100 Randle Pl , SEJohnson Memorial Baptist Church 800 Ridge Rd SERidge Recreation Center 800 Ridge Rd , SESavoy Recreation Center 2440 Shannon Pl SEPNC Bank 4100 South Capitol St , SERite Aid 4635 South Capitol St , SEUnited Medical Center 1310 Southern Ave , SEBenning Park Community Center 5100 Southern Ave SEBenning Stoddert Recreation Center 100 Stoddert Pl , SEUnion Temple Baptist Church 1225 W ST SESenior Living at Wayne Place 114 Wayne Place SEWashington Highlands Neighborhood Library 115 Atlantic St , SWBald Eagle At Fort Greble 100 Joliet St SWCovenant Baptist Church 3845 South Capitol StFaith Presbyterian Church 4161 South Capitol St SWHenson Ridge Town Homes Office 1804 Stanton Terrace, SEThe Wilson Building 1350 Pennsylvania Ave NWCCN office 224 7th ST SE Eastern Market 225 7th St SEYMCA Capitol View 2118 Ridgecrest Court SECW Harris Elementary School 301 53rd Street, SEDC Child & Family Services Agency 200 I Street SE

East of the River Magazine January 2015

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