Anger Management
Dear Managed People:
When you run the government in a petty and personal way, it’s
useless to try to convince people that that’s not what you’re doing.
Case in point: Kristopher Baumann, the head of the police union, who was
fired last week by Metropolitan Police Department Chief Cathy Lanier,
only to be reinstated two or three days later. Baumann has been an
outstanding spokesman, not just for police officers, but for the police
force and the citizens. His problem is that he represents his officers
energetically and enthusiastically, even when their interests conflict
with the police brass. He spoke out about Chief Lanier’s and Attorney
General Nickles’ unconstitutional blockade of the Trinidad
neighborhood; he opposed the Chief and the Attorney General — and the
city council — when they took clearly unconstitutional measures to
resist the Supreme Court’s decision in Heller; and he most
recently took issue when the administration suppressed the evidence that
it had intervened and interfered with the MPD’s professional handling
of a barricade situation. The MPD and the Fenty administration have had
Baumann in their sights for months, but Nickles denied that Baumann was
targeted. He told Examiner reporter Freeman Klopott that that was
“baloney,” http://tinyurl.com/nzmpwy,
but Baumann is the one who has earned credibility and believability and
Nickles is the one who has a history of personal retaliation and
pettiness. It’s obvious who’s full of baloney. On June 26,
Councilmember Mary Cheh held a hearing on her “Whistleblower
Protection Amendment Act of 2009,” and she issued a press release
saying that she was “shocked and disappointed to hear that the
District apparently tolerates retaliation against whistleblowers.”
Retaliation against whistleblowers starts at the top. Here’s a case,
Councilmember, that deserves a follow-up hearing of its own.
On Thursday, Michael Birnbaum reported in the Post on Nickles’
latest move to make it difficult for attorneys who represent special
education students to represent their clients. He has sued attorneys
whom he thinks are too aggressive in getting their clients the special
education services they’re entitled to, and now he’s
withholding the city payments that lawyers are entitled to when they win
cases against the government, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/15/AR2009071503711.html.
“There is no intentional delay,” Nickles unbelievably said to
Birnbaum, even though several special ed lawyers have had to file
lawsuits to attempt to get Nickles to pay their bills. “We now have to
look at these invoices much more carefully to see if the costs are
commensurate with the case.” It’s called pattern and practice, and
when Nickles refuses to pay attorneys in case after case, and attorneys
have to sue repeatedly to get what they’re owed, then Nickles should
eventually lose his qualified immunity against being sued personally,
and the courts should require him to bear personal responsibility for
the campaign he’s waging against the neediest students in our school
system and the lawyers who are trying to get them the help they need.
Here’s some gratuitous and unrequested advice for any marathon
runners you may know, the “Top Ten Reasons Not to Run Marathons,” http://www.arthurdevany.com/?p=1262.
Like a Letterman top-ten list, it counts down from ten to one: 10)
damage to the liver and gall bladder and alteration of biochemical
markers; 9) acute and severe muscle damage; 8) kidney dysfunction; 7)
acute microthrombosis in the vascular system; 6) elevated markers of
cancer; 5) brain damage resembling acute brain trauma; 4) heart damage;
3) spine degeneration; 2) elevated incidence of brain cancer; and 1) “[t]he
first marathon runner, Phidippides, collapsed and died at the finish of
his race.” Just saying.
Gary Imhoff
themail@dcwatch.com
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Amended FY2009 and 2010 budgets: late Friday evening, Mayor Fenty
forwarded amended fiscal year 2009 and 2010 budgets to the council (http://budget.dc.gov).
On Monday, July 20, at 1:00 p.m., the council will be briefed on the
Fenty administration’s deficit-closing budget. A hearing to secure
public testimony will be held on Friday, July 24, at 10:00 a.m., and the
council is scheduled to vote on the amended budgets on Friday, July 31.
Will Singer, Mayor Fenty’s budget director since 2007, is leaving his
position to go to law school. His replacement is Morav Bushlin, who, as
recently as two years ago, began her government career as a Capital City
Fellow intern in the Office of the City Administrator.
The park at 14th and Girard Streets, NW: as Gary has already reported
in themail, the park had a grand opening on Friday, July 10, with a
press conference and ribbon cutting attended by Mayor Fenty and
Councilmember Jim Graham. By Monday, however, the park was closed so
that “concrete and utility work” could be done. Now posted notices
indicate the park with reopen July 27. The closure of the park comes
after weeks in which the contractors worked overtime to meet the July 10
date for the press conference. The DC Housing Authority, which was
supposed to oversee and supervise the construction for the Department of
Parks and Recreation, met that artificial deadline but failed to ensure
that the work was done properly the first time. It hasn’t been
announced how much the major reconstruction work will add to the $1.6
million price tag, or which Department will bear the cost.
West End development: On Thursday, Mayor Fenty and Councilmember Jack
Evans held a press conference to announce the issuance of a Request for
Proposals for the redevelopment of two government-owned parcels in the
West End — the library and the firehouse, http://dcbiz.dc.gov.
Despite inaccurate press reports, representatives of a variety of
community groups attended the press conference not because they
supported the issuance of the RFP, but because they wanted their
presence to put the Fenty administration on notice that they wanted an
open, developer transparent selection process. Two years ago, the
administration tried to give development rights to developer Anthony
Lanier’s EastBanc company through emergency council legislation.
New Beginnings: since the New Beginnings Youth Center opened in
Laurel in May, seven young offenders have escaped from the new facility.
In recent weeks, attention has focused on flaws in the design and
construction of the facility. For example, the Department of Youth
Rehabilitation Services has now acknowledged that “windows may not
have been secure enough.” It turns out that DYRS apparently planned to
provide security through landscaping — the insecure house-grade
windows that faced the outside of the Center’s grounds were to be
guarded against escapes by the thorns of rose bushes that were to be
planted around the building. Like much of DYRS’s work, that’s an
idea that works only in fairy tales.
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“All Hands On Deck” Is Bogus Policing
Jack McKay, jack.mckay@verizon.net
Thanks to Theola Labbé-DeBose at the Post for noting that the
MPD’s favorite anti-crime show, “All Hands On Deck,” takes
detectives off their investigations, compelling them instead to roam
District streets [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/16/AR2009071604164.html].
Chief Lanier thinks that saturating the streets with uniformed officers
will reduce crime and make us safer. No, it won’t.
First, uniformed officers on random patrols do not reduce crime. The
odds are still heavily against an officer stumbling across a crime in
progress. Back in 2004, for example, Mount Pleasant saw a virtual army
of patrol officers, after two homicides in the fall of 2003. In the
month of January 2004, with cops everywhere, the number of robberies
jumped to seventeen, the highest count I’ve seen in the seven-plus
years that I’ve been tracking these statistics. One of those robberies
was of a shop within sight of the MPD “Weed and Seed” van parked on
Mount Pleasant Street. Yes, the robber escaped. When the intensive
patrols ceased, the robbery count dropped to a seven in February, zero
in March.
Second, the best deterrent to crime is, or would be, a substantial
likelihood of being caught. But more than four out of five robberies and
burglaries in the District go forever unsolved. Robbers and burglars
know that, once they’ve fled the scene, there’s little chance that
anyone will track them down. So why are we taking detectives off that
duty, reducing further any chance that these perps will be caught, and
their robbing and burglarizing stopped?
Third, those higher-grade officers are, to put it mildly, unhappy at
being forced into street-patrol duty. There are reports of their
expressing their displeasure by issuing all the parking tickets they
can, ticketing violations that the MPD would ordinarily not bother with.
Add to that their unfamiliarity with some subtleties of the law, such as
the provision that one can park a car up to fifteen feet beyond a “no
parking to intersection” sign, if one has a Residential Permit Parking
sticker, and it’s an RPP-zoned block (see themail, August 8, 2007).
For the first time in a year, I’ve gotten a ticket for that, from an
MPD officer who isn’t up to speed on the law. For all I know, the MPD
officer concerned may be a superb detective, but he’s a lousy parking
enforcement officer.
“All Hands On Deck” is merely a stunt for pleasing the public and
certain councilmembers. As a crime-fighting technique, it’s less than
worthless.
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I ride a motorcycle to work just about year-round. I park in the
Golden Triangle area of downtown. Typically, I park at a twelve-hour
meter, but they fill up during the summer months. During this time of
the year, I have to park at the four-hour meters a few blocks away.
Yesterday, I arrived at my motorcycle to find a ticket, while I still
had time on my meter. The ticket we for “overtime.” As I stood
fuming, wanted to kick over my own bike, staring at that $25.00
citation, I needed answers. I located a parking attendant, calmed myself
so as not to be disrespectful, and asked him about this. He indicated
that I have to move my vehicle every four hours to another meter. The
purpose is to make sure that other people wanting to patronize the local
businesses, have a place to park. Really? So moving my bike from one
space to the next will accomplish this? There were four other spaces
available. How exactly am I preventing other people from parking? I’m
going to attempt to appeal this on the grounds that I was not preventing
other people who ride motorcycles from parking. I paid my money to park
in a spot. I have met my obligation. In exchange for my money I should
be allowed to park.
While I understand the purpose, I do not feel that the signage
accurately conveys the this policy of moving. If I have to park at these
meters again, I will shift my motorcycle six inches to either side or to
another meter when I go to deposit additional funds. Can any of you fine
folks expound on this practice in other parts of the city or on this
policy?
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Bill 18-345 Could Provide a Tool for Voter
Fraud, Round 2
William O’Field, wofield@gmail.com
In the last edition of themail, I wrote that Bill 18-345, the “Omnibus
Election Reform Act of 2009,” could provide a tool for voter fraud
through same-day registration (http://www.dcwatch.com/themail/2009/09-07-15.htm).
Since then I have been asked about the 1997 investigation spearheaded by
the DC Board of Elections and Ethics (DCBOEE) in cooperation with the
surrounding jurisdictions of Maryland and Virginia. Today, I write to
provide the facts. On March 4, 1998, DCBOEE announced that the names of
3,639 people appeared on voter registration rolls in both DC and Prince
George’s County, Maryland. Of those, 261 people cast ballots in both
jurisdictions in the 1994 and 1996 general elections. DC and Prince
George’s election officials forwarded the names of voters who cast
ballots in both jurisdictions to the US Attorney’s office for
prosecution. It was also determined that Montgomery County, Maryland,
and DC had about 2,300 dual registrants, with voting irregularities in
all of DC’s eight wards.
On the day after the Board’s announcement, The Washington Post
editorialized “And they laughed when some wags labeled Prince George’s
County DC’s Ward 9. The term first applied because so many former
residents of the District’s eight wards continued to maintain close
social, business and professional ties to the city after moving into the
county. Well, little did we know just how close and binding were those
ties.” As I testified at the hearing of the Committee on Government
Operations and the Environment, chaired by Councilmember Cheh, I support
same-day registration, however, I recommended that DCBOEE take the
leadership role again and work with Maryland and Virginia election
officials to conduct another voter roll comparison. After all, it has
been twelve years since the last comparison. I also recommended that the
DCBOEE hire an independent outside consultant to review the voter roll
for duplications, typographical errors, and other anomalies.
Before major changes are made to DC’s election laws, which includes
the addition of same-day registration recommended by Councilmember Cheh,
why not eliminate the bloat and ensure that the voter roll is clean?
There is time to clean up DC’s voter roll between now, the enactment
of Bill 18-345, and the September 14, 2010, primary election. After all,
the voter roll is at the core of the integrity of the electoral process.
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Paying to Read Washingtonpost.com
Phil Shapiro, pshapiro@his.com
If Washingtonpost.com moves to a “pay to view” model for its web
site, what would make it worth your while to pay for this web site?
Besides delivering news, what related civic functions can a newspaper
perform? Are newspapers, by definition, in the education business? What
role, if any, can there be for non-literate community members to
participate within civic exchanges in a newspaper community? In what
ways do the interests of newspapers, public libraries, schools, and
workforce development overlap? What intersections exist between
newspapers and the performing arts? Where do civic discussions originate
and in what ways are these discussions expanded? Should there be
different subscriber levels for the different ways that people choose to
involve themselves in a newspaper? Are there creative, non-intuitive
ways of measuring the public good? Should newspapers be involved in that
endeavor? Can there be more than one way of measuring public good? What
are the best ways of using abundance?
Are there funding sources, previously unimagined, that could play a
role in organizing the information within a city — and making that
information universally accessible on mobile and non-mobile devices?
What role should there be for the nonprofit sector within a newspaper
community?
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LA Follows DC onto Google
Gabe Goldberg, gabe at gabegold dot com
A comment (about LA, not DC) from another list: “Not sure what
worries me more. An antiquated govt. system, or outsourcing such
critical information to the Google cloud.” How widely known is DC’s
use of Google?
A story in the Los Angeles Times (http://www.latimes.com/news/local/crime/la-me-public-records17-2009jul17,0,4147298.story)
reveals that “Los Angeles is weighing a plan to replace its E-mail and
records retention software with a service provided by Google, a move
that could allow the Internet giant to retain sensitive records
transmitted by the police and other municipal agencies. If approved by
the City Council, responsibility for protecting the internal data and
public records would be shifted from the city to Google, according to a
report submitted this week to a council committee that will weigh the
proposed $7.25-million contract. . . .
“Washington, DC, is the only major city using Google E-mail and
office applications, but others are contemplating a switch, according to
a Google official. The applications and data would be housed on Google
servers, not on city property, and accessible via presumably secure
Internet connections.”
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A Conflict of Interest: Councilmember/Lobbyist
Jack Evans and the Marriott Giveaway
Peter Tucker, pete10506@yahoo.com
Apart from earning more than $125,000 a year as Ward 2 councilmember,
Jack Evans earns an additional $240,000 a year as a paid lobbyist for
Patton Boggs, where he “advises clients on real estate matters” (http://www.PattonBoggs.com/JEvans).
On Tuesday, July 14, a “real estate matter” came before the city
council and the council voted on $272 million in public financing to
build a privately owned Marriott-run hotel next to the convention
center. Evans, in his capacity as both the Ward 2 council member and the
Chair of the Finance Committee, played an aggressive role in crafting
the Marriott giveaway.
The vote was unanimous, with one recusal: after many years of openly
lobbying for the Marriott giveaway, Evans recused himself (for the first
time on June 26, then again on June 30 and July 14). Why did Evans begin
recusing himself on June 26? Interestingly, on Wednesday, June 24, at a
hearing regarding the Marriott giveaway, I publicly questioned Evans
about Patton Boggs’ relationship with Marriott. While Evans refused to
answer my question, his recusals began two days later.
The Committee of 100 and the Federation of Citizens Associations
wrote a compelling joint letter asking Mr. Evans and Chair Gray about
the extent and nature of Mr. Evans’ involvement with the Marriott
giveaway in his capacity as a lobbyist (http://www.dcwatch.com/comm100/100-090710.htm).
The citizens of the District of Columbia deserve answers to these
questions before we break ground on another Jack Evans-inspired
publicly funded project for private profit. We continue to remember
(and pay for) the baseball stadium ($750 plus million), as well as the
convention center itself ($850 million), both of which saw major cost
overruns.
Every taxpayer should stand with the Committee of 100 and the
Federation of Citizens Associations in demanding immediate answers to
their important questions. At a time when basic services are being cut,
we deserve to know the details regarding Mr. Evans’ role in this “real
estate matter” before we break ground on what may turn out to be the
next baseball stadium.
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Another great principal has been fired in Michelle ‘Terminator”
Rhee’s saga of slash and burn school reform. Chancellor Rhee decided
not to renew the contract of Dr. Reginald B. Elliott, principal at Luke
C. Moore Academy, which is an alternative high school that formally was
known as the DC Street Academy. Rhee’s decision was made subsequent to
Dr. Elliott receiving the Middle States National Accreditation for
Colleges and High Schools in May 2009. Dr. Elliott’s last day was June
30. Gone also is the school’s vice principal, Gloria Tisdale. Many
argue that the elimination of Ms. Tisdale from her position was just
another indiscriminate termination by Chancellor Rhee. In the words of a
fellow education blogger known as NYC Educator: “So I got to wonder
this — if Ms. Rhee has no qualms about misleading the taxpayers, what
reason do we have to suppose she’d look after our children? Because
make no mistake, Ms. Rhee wants the right to fire working people with no
due process whatsoever. Don’t enough people get fired in this country?
Shouldn’t we be aiming for fewer, rather than more Americans losing
jobs for no reason? And shouldn’t our children have rights based on
something more secure than the changing whims of Michelle Rhee?”
Saved for now is Luke C. Moore Academy, which is a historic building.
The school boasts a newly modernized and renovated addition and global
classrooms on a desirable campus near the Brookland Metro thanks due to
the personal fundraising efforts by Dr. Elliott of over half a million
dollars. Moore Academy parents complain that Rhee has revealed that she
has plans to make this alternative high school into a “model school.”
What worries most of them is that if Rhee has her way the school may
give many of the schools current students the boot in exchange for a
more affluent student body. Luke C. Moore Academy students, for the most
part, have been kicked out of regular DC public high schools for a host
of reasons prior to entering the school; many have been described as
students on the fringe of society.
It is important to note that Dr. Reginald Elliott has worked
tirelessly for thirty years in DC schools. In 2001, the National
Association of Secondary School Principals awarded Dr. Elliott its
Middle States accreditation and was not phased that Moore is one of four
DC public high schools to receive this distinction. Further, a recent
press release confirms that Moore students met or exceeded mandated
academic targets for years 2001-2008 despite inaccurate information
listed on the OSSE - NCLB web site.
Parents, students, as well as community residents have demanded that
Rhee explain why their highly regarded principal was fired, to no avail.
Despite their well-intended writing campaigns, they have yet to be
provided with an acceptable answer or face-to-face meeting with
Chancellor Rhee. Efforts to lobby the DC city council resulted in some
discussion about placing the school under the administration of UDC,
where it once was, in an effort to save Dr. Elliott’s position. Luke
C. Moore students set up a special meeting with Chancellor Rhee and went
to appeal to her face to face in order to save the job of Dr. Reginald
Elliott. As sophomore Timothy Hill said in a recent July gathering of
concerned residents, “I got the feeling that while we talked, she [Rhee]
wasn’t even listening to us.” I am sure a Rhee spokesperson will
soon report that personnel laws prevent the city from discussing
specifics in regards to Elliott’s recent dismissal, blah blah, blah.
Certainly, Rhee’s actions are not in the best interest of Luke C.
Moore academy students and their citywide parents. If you are interested
in joining forces with parents, students, and community residents who
support quality education for all DC students and want to protest
arbitrary teacher and principal terminations, send your name, E-mail,
and contact telephone number in care of saveourcounselors@gmail.com
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The Washington Post/Kaplan Benefits
from NCLB Policies It Endorses
Mai Abdul Rahaman, spotlightoneduction@yahoo.com
The Washington Post has editorialized and used its pages for
countless articles and editorials supporting, initiating, and advancing
positions it deems best for our children and our public schools. What
the Washington Post has so far failed to openly disclose is how
critical No Child Left Behind and Student Supplemental Education (SES)
funding is to the survival of its enterprise.
NCLB/SES funds as of 2005 totaled a $3.5 billion initiative that
benefits privately held companies, among them Kaplan, a subsidiary of
the Washington Post. SES funds are provided to poorly performing
school districts that are mandated to outsource and funnel these
earmarked funds to largely (70 percent) for-profit large publicly held
or privately owned SES vendors. These are companies that provide
tutoring services to the growing Title I student population in large
urban school districts. The large and growing SES multi-billion dollar
fund has attracted the notice of large for-profit companies such as
Kaplan, Princeton Review, and privately owned Sylvan Learning Centers,
Huntington Learning Centers, EduVentures, Inc, and Knowledge Quest
Ventures (“Knowledge Universe” — the “cradle-to-grave
education-business empire” created by the former junk-bond specialist
Michael Milliken). The Washington Post lost more then two thirds
of its publishing revenue; these funds have offered it the means to stay
afloat. In the fall of 2008, the Washington Post Company reported
dramatic earnings losses totaling 77 percent, while the company’s
Kaplan education division saw a 52 percent growth. In 2003, just one
year after NCLB/SES was passed, Kaplan’s revenue for its elementary
and secondary school division doubled.
Federal SES funds are generously awarded and continue to increase,
while student enrollment, according to the Department of Education’s
2009 Report, has remained stagnant at 20 percent nationally. SES
providers are exempt from meeting the highly qualified teacher federal
requirements; they are free to determine the curriculum they offer, the
instructional practices they use, and how services are delivered. NCLB
has allowed SES companies to run their programs with little oversight or
monitoring while guaranteeing payment regardless of the number of
students enrolled or hours utilized. Princeton Review’s Annual Report
elaborates: “Providers are paid per student for each hour attended,
whether the student attends for one hour or the maximum possible number
of hours. Payments are subject to a maximum total amount an SES provider
may earn per student, known as the Per Pupil Allotment (‘PPA’),
which is determined by the state or the school district.” With the
promise of increased revenue and assured payment regardless of student
attendance, private for-profit SES providers have shown great interest
in NCLB/SES funds. As a result, in 2005 the for-profit K-12 education
companies saw revenue growth of 2.7 percent, totaling $50.1 billion.
Since 2002 the Washington Post Company has reaped millions, while its
subsidiary company Kaplan has taken advantage of these guaranteed funds
that have shown little if any substantive results in student
improvements. Most troubling is the ability of the Washington Post
to use its journalists, writers, and editors to dictate and advance
local and federal policies that the company directly benefits from.
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Republican Party on Election Reform
Paul Craney, pcraney@dcgop.com
Every mayor in DC’s history as appointed one Republican to the
Board of Elections and Ethics. The Board is made up of three members,
and the District Home Rule Act requires at least one member to be from
the minority party. A bipartisan Board would ensure that the necessary
checks and balances are in place to hold fair elections in the District.
Protecting minority rights, in this case minority party rights, should
be an interest to all. The DC Republican Committee has offered the Mayor’s
office Timothy Jenkins as our nominee. Mr. Jenkins has a Howard
undergraduate and Yale law school degree. Mr. Jenkins has a long history
in DC, has been appointed to important positions by other mayors, and
was formerly an advisory to DC’s native Senator Edward Brooke
(R-Mass).
The legal counsel for the DC Republican Committee testified on Monday
in support of fixing the Board and ensuring that one of the Board
members is a Republican when Chairwoman Mary Cheh held a hearing for her
Election Reform Act of 2009, B18-345. At the hearing, the DCGOP argued
against the following provisions; allowing same-day voter registration
on Election Day, allowing District employees to take a paid leave of
absence to work as poll watchers, allowing non-DC residents to serve as
poll watchers, creating an appointed “Advisory” task force from the
mayor and council, allowing political propaganda to be permitted on
clothing at polling locations, and allowing satellite offices for early
voting in the District. Most of these ideas are borrowed ideas from
other jurisdictions.
The DC Republican Committee argued that unless we can find solutions
to the Board’s problems, we shouldn’t expand its role. You may
remember, the DC Republican Committee discovered absentee ballots mailed
last November printed in error. Cheh’s legislation does very little to
address DC’s election problems.
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Edgar Cahn on Social Entrepreneurship
Phil Shapiro, pshapiro@his.com
One of the most interesting social thinkers and social change agents
in DC is Edgar Cahn, cofounder of the now-closed Antioch School of Law
and founder of TimeBanks, a nonprofit organization that promotes
community members working for each other. (http://www.timebanks.org)
Edgar speaks with a soft voice, but what he has to say is well worth
hearing. Edgar is a social engineer with a keen understanding of what we
need to do next to create the kind of society we want to live in. You
can hear some of what he has to say in this fifteen-minute video:
http://www.vimeo.com/5494797. (See also http://ashoka.org/.)
ABC News recently covered TimeBanks in this story: http://tinyurl.com/lul82n.
One of the central tenets of the TimeBanks philosophy is that every
human being has worth and value to our communities, and it’s up to our
communities to recognize that worth and tap into that value. If we spend
a little time looking for the best ways for people to help each other,
then the dividends we reap can be very large. When you create systems
that sew social fabric, what you end up with is social fabric. Instead
of asking ourselves “so what?” we should be asking ourselves “sew
what?”
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CLASSIFIEDS — EVENTS
Department of Parks and Recreation Events,
July 21, 23
John Stokes, john.astokes@dc.gov
July 21, 4:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m., Petworth Recreation Center, 801 Taylor
Street, NW. Video Boxing Tournament for ages twelve to fifteen. Youth
will enjoy participating in this friendly three-day competition for
bragging rights. For more information, call Howard Marshall at 576-6850.
July 23, 12:00 p.m.-2:30 p.m., Chevy Chase Playground, 5500 41st
Street, NW. Chinese Buffet for ages six to thirteen. Campers will go to
the library and learn about China’s culture and bring in special food
dishes for a buffet. For more information, call Ann Martin at 282-2200.
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Ward Eight Council Against Domestic Violence
Walkathon, July 25
Sandra Seegars, comsseegarsanc8e@aol.com
The Ward Eight Council Against Domestic Violence will hold it second
annual walkathon on July 25 at TheARC, 1901 Mississippi Avenue, SE.
Registration at 9:00 a.m.; walk at 10:00 a.m.; program and raffle
immediately following walk. Children under 12, free; students aged
13-20, $5.00; adults aged 21 and up, $10.00; businesses, organizations,
and churches, $50.00 and up. Sponsorships are accepted so others may
walk. All donations accepted; donations are tax deductible, make them
payable to the Anacostia Coordinating Council. Mail to the WECADV, 1107
Savannah Street, SE, Washington, DC 20032. For more information, call
561-6616 or E-mail beasurvivortoday@aol.com.
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