Rubber Stamp
Dear Stampers:
The Washington Post made a baffling endorsement of Muriel
Bowser in the Ward 4 race today (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/14/AR2007041401205.html):
“Some have unfairly suggested that because of Mr. Fenty’s support,
Ms. Bowser will be a rubber-stamp for the mayor. Anyone who has seen Ms.
Bowser stake out a position, even when it’s not popular with the
crowd, would not fear for her independence. She alone of the Ward 4
candidates had the courage to support transferring control of the
schools to the mayor.” What’s that again? The Post asserts
that Muriel Bowser has shown that she will not be a rubber stamp for the
mayor because she faithfully supports the mayor’s power grab for the
schools’ budget and land even though it is overwhelmingly unpopular
with the citizens.
The tortured illogic of that argument is stunning. It reveals that
another councilmember who will be a rubber stamp for the mayor is
precisely what the Post wants, and is likely to get.
Gary Imhoff
themail@dcwatch.com
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Fenty’s Dismissal of Freedom of Information
Request
Peter Craig, swedecraig@aol.com
This is my E-mail of today addressed to Mayor Adrian Fenty and his
legal staff, objecting to his Deputy General Counsel’s dismissal of my
FOIA appeal: I am shocked at the message I received on April 12 from
your Deputy General Counsel, Chip Richardson, “dismissing” my FOIA
appeal addressed to you because the records I seek allegedly “do not
exist.” My request was for the neighborhood adjustment factors that
constitute one element in determining the real property assessments for
all houses in the District of Columbia. Mr. Cooper (counsel for the
Office of Tax and Revenue) admits that such records exist, one number
for each of about 150 neighborhoods and that such record is on the
computer used for making real property assessments. He makes the
incredible claim, however, that no list has been made of such factors,
not even for the Chief Assessor, who admitted to me on March 1 that the
list of neighborhood adjustment factors had been omitted from OTR’s
Internet publication, Assessor’s Reference Materials, but could be
reviewed on “an individual basis.” Mr. Cooper now overrules him by
saying no one will get the list at all because (presumably) it has been
destroyed and now remains only on the computer, and that OTR may not be
compelled to extract data stored on a computer.
Most of the factors used by OTR to make its assessments are disclosed
in its annual Internet publication, Assessor’s Reference Materials.
Most of the factors (multipliers) are the same in each neighborhood. The
two exceptions are the formulas for land values and the neighborhood
adjustment factor. Both the land value formulas and the neighborhood
adjustment factors are developed by OTR staff from recent sales data and
the results are then entered into the CAMA program to develop
assessments for all residential houses. Whether they were on a
“list” or not is irrelevant. The numbers were developed as
instructions as to how each assessment should be made, as explained in
detail in OTR’s web site publication.
OTR has in fact put on the Internet its land value formulas. There is
no reason why OTR cannot and should not do the same for the neighborhood
adjustment factors. Indeed, the law requires it to do so. Section 2-536
of the D.C. Code includes as information which must be made public on
the Internet “administrative staff manuals and instructions to staff
that affect a member of the public.” The fact that an instruction is
entered into a computer program does not immunize such instruction from
public scrutiny. Every house owner in the city is affected by the
neighborhood adjustment factor. Every house owner in the city has the
right to know not only what neighborhood adjustment factor was applied
to his house, but also how that compares with the neighborhood
adjustment factors applied to other houses. If there is discrimination
among neighborhoods, this is a fair issue for the homeowner to pursue on
appeal. It is regrettable that Mr. Richardson relied upon an ex parte
submission by Mr. Cooper without affording me an opportunity to respond.
That ex parte submission did not deal with the merits of my appeal and
contained incredible and erroneous assertions of fact. It also did not
address the central issue of whether Section 2-536 requires the
publication of such factors on the Internet. I respectfully ask that
there be a meeting involving Mr. Branham, Mr. Cooper, myself and the
Mayor or his representative so that this issue can be fairly resolved
without going to court.
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Save Time Dollar Youth Court
Sarah Tomkins, scltomkins@gmail.com
The Time Dollar Youth Court, a youth diversion program which provides
social services and alternative punishments, like serving on a youth
jury and doing community service to youth in the District of Columbia,
will close on April 17 if the DC council and Mayor Fenty do not agree to
support the program financially.
The Youth Court costs around $500,000 a year to run, and saves an
estimated $9,200 per child who goes through the program rather than
through the Juvenile Justice system -- a total of around $685,000 a
year. In addition to providing alternative punishments for juveniles
convicted of misdemeanors, the Youth Court gives children the
opportunity to avoid having a criminal charge on their record through
completion of the program, and connects them with a wide network of
social service resources like tutoring, mentoring and counseling. As one
participant in the program put it, “Being in the youth program is like
being with family that want to see you do good in life and do even
better, and want you to be someone in life.”
Please help us preserve this facility for DC’s children. Call Mayor
Fenty, at 262-8413, and your Ward council member and at-large members
and tell them you want money found to keep Youth Court functioning. We
would also love your company at the march for the DC Vote on April 16.
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Gandhi Gonedi?
Ed T Barron, edtb1@macdotcom
Amtrak is trying to lure our fabulous Chief Financial Officer to save
the finances of their troubled railroad by offering twice what he’s
making as DC’s CFO. This might just be attempting offer to Natwar
Gandhi who may perceive our new mayor as one whose takeover plans
include DC’s finances. Gandhi’s loss would be a potentially
devastating blow to the District. It might result in our bonds reverting
to junk status and cost the taxpayers tens of millions in added
interest. Mayor Fenty should get down on his knees to encourage Gandhi
to stay and assure him that he will remain autonomous and independent
when it comes to controlling DC’s finances.
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Tenleytown Whole Foods Liquor License
Lyla Winter, mrscalabash@att.net
For all those who think it’s a good idea for Whole Foods to sell
beer and wine, please note that there are ten exits from this building,
one of which opens onto nearby Wilson High School. Wilson’s students
have already managed to eliminate other customers from sitting outside
at Starbucks, and after 3:00 p.m. forget shopping at CVS. Do we really
want to take a chance that these teenagers might be able to buy beer and
wine (illegally), at a nearby Whole Foods store?
Sign the petition (at Tenley Liquors) to stop Whole Foods from
getting a license to sell alcoholic beverages. Protect Tenleytown and
our neighborhood.
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On DC Emancipation Day, Demand Real Democracy
Scott McLarty, scottmclarty@hotmail.com
Imagine that it’s 1776, the Mayor of Boston has just endorsed the
Declaration of Independence, and then a week later he invites the
British Redcoats to occupy Boston. That’s essentially what Mayor Fenty
did in January 2007, when he called for DC statehood and democracy
during his inaugural speech, and then announced his DC school board
takeover scheme, declaring that he’d ask Congress to impose it on the
District rather than seek a voters’ referendum in accord with the DC
Charter. On Monday afternoon, April 16, Mayor Fenty will host a “DC
Emancipation Day” rally and march for passage of the DC Voting Rights
Bill, which will give the District as single voting seat in the US
House. The bill is clearly unconstitutional, and even if passed will do
nothing to alter DC’s last colony status or extend real emancipation
(self-determination and self-governance, i.e., statehood) to DC. (Anyone
who believes that voting representation in a national legislature equals
democracy should read a history of the Soviet Union.) Will Mr. Fenty
have the nerve, during the rally, to mention his plan to have Congress
override local law and force the Council’s takeover of school board
powers down our throats? Will the crowd suddenly understand the
disconnect between the rhetoric about democracy and the actual agenda of
the mayor, council, Federal City Council, et al.?
Some organizations with clearer notions of democracy will show up
downtown on Monday. The Stand Up! for DC Democracy Coalition (http://www.freedc.org)
will hold its own rally and March for Statehood at Franklin Square
(corner of 13th and I Streets, NW, at 1 p.m. (http://standupfordemocracy.org/documents/dced2007.pdf).
Save Our Schools DC (http://www.saveourschoolsdc.org),
the DC Coalition for Democracy in Education (http://democracyineducation.net),
the DC Statehood Green Party (http://www.dcstatehoodgreen.org/press)
and other advocates of DC democracy and quality public schools plan to
attend Mayor Fenty’s rally and protest the School Board takeover plan.
Statehood Greens will bring the giant hemp “DC Statehood Now” flag.
For a list of important talking points on the DC Voting Rights bill,
visit http://www.gp.org/press/states/dc/dc_2007_03_22.shtml.
And don’t forget to call councilmembers and urge them either to vote
nay on the school board takeover when they vote later this week, or at
least wait until Ward 4 and 7 are represented on council again before
voting.
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Fenty Transition Team Recommendations on
Democracy and Voting Rights
Sam Jordan, samunomas@msn.com
Below are excerpts from a little-known public document, the
recommendations of the Fenty administration’s pre-transition
subcommittee of the Committee on Democracy and Voting Rights. The
subcommittee advised the Mayor-Elect to be bold and to lead a
District-wide grassroots campaign for statehood. As co-Moderator of that
subcommittee, I want to disclose the measures projected for the Mayor’s
first one hundred days as a backdrop to the Emancipation Day activities.
You determine how far we have been diverted by the HR 1433 “one vote
for DC, one vote for Utah” scheme.
“Statehood for D.C. is essential if its residents are ever to
attain parity — and its accompanying irrevocable sovereignty — with
all fully enfranchised citizens of the United States of America. . . .
Assert decisive leadership of the campaign for statehood, the greatest
measure of equality of civil and human rights for the residents of the
District of Columbia, in your inaugural address. . . . Select and pursue
one of the two major paths to statehood: a) An ‘all-or-nothing’ vote
in Congress as occurred in 1993 or; b) The Organic Act/Enabling
Act/Admission Act route applied historically to 31 of the territories
admitted as states. . . . Establish an office and working group to draft
legislation and manage an intensive lobbying and
informational/educational campaign directed toward members of Congress,
relevant nongovernmental organizations, and institutions. . . . Enhance
the District’s prospects for statehood by improving its fiscal
solvency through exploration and implementation of programs and measures
with the assistance of the Council of the District of Columbia that
would include realignment of the District’s regressive schedule of
taxation rates, payments in lieu of taxes, and a fair federal
compensation formula relieving the impact of the uncompensated federal
presence on locally generated revenues.”
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Janney School Public/Private Partnership
Nick Kauffman, Palisades, kauffman@prodigy.net
Ann Hargrove [themail, April 11] is clairvoyant!
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I’d like to provide a few additional details about Janney School
and the partnership proposal that was presented to Janney parents on
March 20, because it is important that the community has the facts when
considering the possibility of a partnership between the school, the
Tenleytown Library and a private developer. First and foremost, Janney
need not give up a soccer field in this exchange. In fact, the proposed
partnership provides the opportunity to gain a regulation-sized youth
field. The current fenced area between the library and the school is
neither large enough nor the correct proportions to accommodate a youth
soccer field.
The plan that I have seen would move staff parking underground, and
replace the current three portable classrooms and the two portable
classrooms planned for SY07 with a two-story addition built into the
steeply sloped land on the west end of the school. Parking and portable
classrooms are significant non-play uses of the Janney land that chop up
the outdoor play space, limiting its configuration. Consolidating these
non-play uses would yield more contiguous space that could be
reprogrammed as desired to accommodate the range of outdoor play
opportunities that are used daily by both Janney and St. Ann’s
students. The residential component of the partnership would be L-shaped
and sited over the Tenley Library along Wisconsin Avenue, and extend
some distance West along St. Ann’s fire alley/driveway. There would be
approximately one hundred feet between the residential building and the
east end of the school, allowing for the remaining soccer-field space to
be reprogrammed perhaps into a tot-lot for Janney’s youngest students.
Our school community places a high value on our outdoor play space
and any plan that significantly reduced the amount of usable play space
would simply not be acceptable. Roadside Development will be presenting
their ideas at ANC3E’s meeting on May 10 (7:30 p.m., St. Mary’s
Church, 42nd Street and Fessenden Street, NW). As noted in the Northwest
Current editorial on April 11, there is a small window of
opportunity for the community to consider this possibility, and I urge
everyone to become an informed advocate for these community assets,
whatever their position.
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To respond to Ann Hargrove’s post on the public/private partnership
for Janney Elementary School [themail, April 11]: in fact, in the
proposal put forth by Roadside Development the soccer field would not be
lost; it is actually moved to the rear of the school and enlarged. The
overall green space is actually increased, not decreased, in the
proposal. In addition, the two “demountable classrooms,” really
trailers, that currently exist would be eliminated and the school would
gain an additional six new classrooms (for an increase of four
classrooms total) plus a gym. DCPS has proposed redoing Janney
Elementary School in 2013, and under its plan there still would not be
enough space in the overcrowded school.
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In response to Dennis Moore’s suggestion for the RFK site
("Build It And They Will Shop, themail, April 11), the last thing
we need on that site is the huge retail shopping megaplex that draws
thousands of suburbanites and visitors. What we do need is recreation
space and open green space, as envisioned by the National Capitol
Planning Commission study (see http://www.ncpc.gov/planning_init/RFK/RFK.html).
Recreation and parks for DC residents is what we need, not another Dan
Synder give away (a.k.a. a new football stadium) or National Harbor on
the Anacostia.
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Spam from DC Independents
Mark Eckenwiler, themale at ingot dot org
Although I’d never heard of these folks, let alone asked to be on
their E-mail list, the DCICC has been spamming me, too. Over a month ago
I dropped them a short, polite note asking to be removed; they replied
that my work E-mail address isn’t on their list. (It’s possible they’ve
latched onto one of the various forwarding addresses I use, but I’m
skeptical; in any event they created this situation by adding me
involuntarily.) Rather than argue with these inconsiderate clods, I
added them to my spam filter. The spamming continues (most recently
twice on April 6), but I don’t have to see it.
Ruel Lanier, writing in the April 11 issue, calls prior complaints
about this spamming “shameful and ignorant” and accuses the spam
recipients of “falsely and arrogantly bash[ing]” DCICC. I couldn’t
disagree more. For my part, I don’t know what DCICC’s politics are,
nor do I care to know; I’m judging them by their behavior, which is
inexcusable. Note especially their comical threat to Connie Ridgway to
“REPORT THIS ISSUE TO THE APPROPRIATE INTERNET, E-MAIL AND PROVIDER
AUTHORITIES FOR ADJUDICATION” [sic] for her request to be removed from
their list. If DCICC is trying to alienate people active in DC civic
affairs, from where I stand they are doing a bang-up job.
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Sizzling Express “Victory”
Mary Bloodworth, marybindc@yahoo.com
Sam Jordan’s entry [themail, April 11] about the picketing of
Sizzling Express was little more than a press release for his campaign
for Ward 7 councilmember and should be treated as such. If he wants to
continue to use these kinds of inflammatory and misguided tactics, I
wish that he would confine it to his own ward.
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The State of the District Depends on Where You
Perch
Len Sullivan, lsnarpac@bellatlantic.net
NARPAC’s update combines three very separate March happenings
(besides the weather) that offer very different perspectives on the
current “state of the District.” First, DC’s dynamic new mayor
gave the official position in his annual address, in the novel setting
of a Ward 8 wellness center. While the City Bull Pen prepared an
impressive list of fast-moving daily actions in its first seventy-eight
days, a single themail regular challenged NARPAC to clarify what it
wanted for DC’s future, and we responded. Third, we churned out our
usual monthly summary of local headlines about the daily state of DC, as
we have for almost ten years. The headlines (listed under seven distinct
functional areas at http://www.narpac.org/INTHODH.HTM)
describe a city still fumbling with the same old embarrassing issues
(and personalities). We contrast them in our monthly editorial (at http://www.narpac.org/EDIT.HTM).
The mayor sees a city in better shape than ever, now "moving
forward faster" (our edited version is at http://www.narpac.org/CMR.HTM#fentysod7).
But none of our five highest priority goals (see http://www.narpac.org/INTHOP.HTM#narpri07)
appears in either the media or the oratory. Once the city picks its new
contractor-developed motto to help attract Americans to our capital city
(no kidding!), perhaps it will slow down enough to address its
fundamental shortcomings.
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CLASSIFIEDS — EVENTS
Thousands Will Demand the Vote for DC on
Monday, April 16
Kevin Kiger, kkiger@dcvote.org
Marching down Pennsylvania Avenue, citizens and civil rights leaders
who want to end taxation without representation in the nation’s
capital will turn out Monday to raise awareness about DC’s injustice.
The marchers will arrive at the Capitol at 4:00 p.m. to rally for voting
rights. The nearly 600,000 citizens of Washington, DC, pay full federal
taxes but are denied a vote in the United States Congress. Members of
Congress, including Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), Tom Davis (R-VA),
Chris Shays (R-CT), and civil rights icon John Lewis (D-GA) will join
Mayor Adrian Fenty and Council Chairman Vincent Gray for the rally at
the Capitol. Secretary Jack Kemp will also speak.
Thousands have pledged to march at VotingRightsMarch.org and many
more are expected to turn out. The Leadership Conference on Civil
Rights, unions, teachers, students, People For the American Way, Common
Cause, and MoveOn.org are just some of the dozens of groups who have
been working to recruit marchers. A bill that would address the denial
of voting representation, the DC Voting Rights Act, was pulled from the
House Floor last month after three legislators tried to attach a
provision that would strip DC of its strict gun laws. The DC Voting
Rights Act is expected to return to the House Floor the week of the
Voting Rights March. The march will start at 2:30 p.m. on Freedom Plaza,
13th and Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, and continue down Pennsylvania Avenue,
NW, to the Capitol Reflecting Pool, 3rd and Independence Avenue, NW, at
4:00 p.m.
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Martin Levine Candidate Meet and Greets, April
18, 20
Jeffrey Norman, jeffrey.norman@att.net
You are invited to meet and greet Martin Levine, a candidate for the
DC Board of Education who was endorsed by the Northwest Current
and Alice Rivlin, at the home of Allison Scuriatti, 4702 Yuma Street,
NW, Wednesday, April 18, 7-9 p.m.; or the home of Diz Hormel, 3629
Albemarle Street, NW, Friday, April 20, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Refreshments will
be served at both events. Please RSVP to Joann at 257-3604 or by E-mail
at joann@levine2007.com. All are welcome!
Martin Levine asks for your support in a special election that will
be held May 1 to fill a vacancy on the DC Board of Education for Wards 3
and 4. He’s running to bring meaningful change to DC’’s
long-suffering public school system. As a native Washingtonian and
graduate of DC’s public schools, he wants every child in Washington to
have the same opportunity he did. The ongoing failure of Washington’s
public school system to serve thousands of students is a stain on our
city. He has a clear vision of how the Board of Education can improve
the performance of our schools. He will: 1) create a first-fate
policy-making process that combines the input of policy experts with
citizens’ views, focusing on areas that can affect student achievement
most significantly, such as early childhood education; 2) serve as an
advocate for parents and provide oversight, while working with the mayor
to help him achieve his pledge to improve school performance; and 3)
work full time to create partnerships with universities, local
businesses, foundations, and others to bring mentors, tutors, and
curriculum enrichment to every Ward 3 and 4 school by the 2008 school
year.
He has the experience to make this vision a reality. He’s been a
teacher, an education policy analyst, and a senior manager in the
private sector, building community partnerships. Throughout his career,
he has served as a consensus builder, bringing people together to
achieve shared goals. The Northwest Current recently endorsed
him, citing his “remarkable familiarity with the issues affecting
public school performance” and his “clear understanding of the need
for board members to adapt to the new structure.” Alice M. Rivlin, one
of our nation’s and city’s most highly regarded public servants, is
also supporting him. She said: “Martin Levine combines intelligence
and sound judgment with integrity and a lifelong commitment to
Washington and its schools. Martin’s combination of teaching, public
policy expertise, and management experience will make him a strong force
on the Board of Education. He will work with others to make change
happen.” He looks forward to meeting you at one of the meet and
greets, and asks for your vote on May 1 to be your partner in the
education of Washington’s children.
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DC Public Library Events, April 19-20
Randi Blank, randi.blank@dc.gov
Thursday, April 19, 7:00 p.m., Lamond-Riggs Neighborhood Library,
5401 South Dakota Avenue, NE. Book discussion. For more information,
call 541-6255.
Thursday, April 19, 11:30 a.m., Martin Luther King, Jr., Memorial
Library, 901 G Street, NW, Great Hall. Celebrate the start of DC’s Big
Read. The event will feature local and national celebrities. Special
guests include Sheila Johnson, president and co-owner of the Washington
Mystics; Andrea Roane, weekday morning anchor of WUSA9; Dana Gioia,
National Endowment for the Arts Chairman; and David Kipen, National
Endowment for the Arts Director of Literature.
April 19-May 19, DC Big Read of Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes
Were Watching God. The DC Public Library and several local partners
will celebrate DC’s Big Read, a city read event cosponsored by the DC
Commission on the Arts and Humanities. The event, which runs April
19-May 19, is a spin-off of The Big Read, a new national community
reading program sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts in
partnership with the Institute of Museum and Library Services and Arts
Midwest.
Friday, April 20, 10:00 a.m., Martin Luther King, Jr., Memorial
Library, 901 G Street, NW, Great Hall. Speak, So You Can Speak Again:
The Life of Zora Neale Hurston. Lucy Anne Hurston will discuss her
written reminiscence of her aunt Zora Neale Hurston. For more
information, call 727-1161.
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Virtualization: Not Just for the Big Guys
Anymore, April 21
Barbara Conn, bconn@cpcug.org
Virtualization has been important in portable workspaces, portable
applications, server consolidation, disaster recovery, and testing and
training. During this presentation, Capital PC User Group President
Dennis Courtney will cover 1) how virtualization works, 2) how you might
use virtualization in your business or at home, and 3) how to get
started with virtualization. In addition, he will talk about the
pitfalls and the positives of this exciting technology. VmWare,
Microsoft, and Open Source virtualization products will be the focus of
this presentation. If time permits, some third-party virtualization
tools will be discussed.
Gather your colleagues, friends, and neighbors, and bring them to
this Saturday, April 21, 1:00 p.m., gathering of the Capital PC User
Group (CPCUG) Entrepreneurs and Consultants Special Interest Group
(E&C SIG). These monthly events are free and open to all. This month’s
event is at the Cleveland Park Branch Library (first floor large meeting
room) at 3310 Connecticut Avenue, NW (between Macomb and Newark
Streets), Washington, DC — just over a block south of the Cleveland
Park Metrorail Station on the Red Line. For more information about the
presentation, the speaker, and CPCUG (a 501(c)(3) nonprofit educational
organization), visit http://entrepreneur.cpcug.org/407meet.html.
To register, send E-mail to bconn@cpcug.org.
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Dessert Talk at Cleveland Park, April 24
Beth Meyer, lmeyer8090@aol.com
Roland Mesnier, author of All the Presidents’ Pastries:
Twenty-Five Years in the White House: A Memoir and Dessert
University will give a book talk on “My Years at the White
House” on Tuesday, April 24, at 6:30 p.m. in the first floor
auditorium of the Cleveland Park Branch of the DC Public Library,
Connecticut and Macomb Streets, NW. A book sale and signing of both
books courtesy of the Trover Shop will follow the program. Chef. Mesnier
will talk about his twenty-five year tenure as the White House pastry
chef and share insights into the characters and tastes of the five
Presidents and First Ladies that he served — Carter, Reagan, Bush,
Sr., Clinton, and the current President Bush.
Chef Mesnier has received twenty gold medals in pastry competitions
around the world. He has been honorary president of the World Cup of
Pastry from 1989 to the present, received the Legion of Honor award in
2005, and is a member of the Chocolate and Pastry Hall of Fame in New
York. His first cookbook, Dessert University, was published in
2004. The Cleveland Park Branch of the DC Public Library is located near
the Cleveland Park Metrorail Station. All District of Columbia Public
Library activities are open to the public free of charge. For further
information, please call the Cleveland Park Library at 282-3080.
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Cultural Institute of Mexico Sponsors Multiple
Vision, April 25
Alfonso Nieto, icm@instituteofmexicodc.org
Wednesday, April 25, 6:30 p.m., Visiones Múltiples/Multiple Visions,
Cajas Viajeras de Argentina, México y Uruguay/traveling art boxes from
Argentina, Mexico and Uruguay. At the Embassy of Uruguay, Salón de las
Artes, 1913 I Street, NW. For more information call 331-1313 or uruwashi@uruwashi.org.
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CLASSIFIEDS — FREE
If anyone can still use an overhead projector, come pick one up at
13th and E Streets, NW, during business hours. It’s an Elmo HP-3K DX,
for all you overhead projector connoisseurs. Also giving away four
teakwood name tag racks (something you’d use at the registration table
for an event). They each hold forty cards; three are in mint condition
and one is missing a few screws.
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