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September 7, 2011

Our Gang

Dear Gang:

All right, I’ll admit that there are some things that make me feel that I am exactly the grumpy old curmudgeon that I sometimes pretend to be — that I’m not pretending at all. Here’s one: a warning on a Warner Brothers DVD of Hal Roach’s Our Gang or Little Rascals comedy shorts: “The Our Gang Collection is intended for the adult collector and is not suitable for children.”

I can’t imagine anything more suitable for children, or anything that children enjoy more than the comic adventures of a group of misbehaving youngsters. Today, in the guise of entertainment, children are given only the blandest, most uninteresting, pastel-colored cartoons with preachy environmental messages. That’s not suitable for children; it’s deadly dull. But Spanky and Alfalfa and Buckwheat and Darla — that’s entertainment.

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Here’s another thing that makes me a curmudgeon. The house to the west of ours was being gutted and renovated in December when a four-story rear addition collapsed. The house to the east of ours was being gutted and renovated today when the rear wall collapsed, making the rest of the house unstable and likely to fall.

Stop it; just stop it. I’m tired of reporting that everything is falling down all around us.

By the way, that’s why this issue of themail is being sent as just plain text, and won’t be posted to the web for another day or two. It’s making me grumpy for real.

Gary Imhoff
themail@dcwatch.com

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Littering Fines in Only One Ward?
Lawanda Williams, lwilliams@CFTC.gov

I am a new resident in ward 8, and love where I am living. My one dislike is the trash that is normally on the streets and yards! If there will be fines for littering in Ward 4, why not make it universal for each and every ward?

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Why Not Check Income Tax Records
R. Weiss, rweiss@weisslip.com

To get a better idea of Ms. Pringle’s “residency intentions” someone should check into whether she listed her home in Maryland as her “homestead” for real estate purposes, whether she paid DC or Maryland income taxes, and what she stated as her residency in her federal IRS filing. Someone should check into this to determine her “true intentions.”

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CLASSIFIEDS — EVENTS

Department of Parks and Recreation Events, September 9-10
John Stokes, john.stokes@dc.gov

September 9, 7:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m., Concert on the Commons, Chevy Chase Community Center, 5601 Connecticut Avenue, NW. All ages. Enjoy an old fashion movie night (TBA). Bring a blanket or your favorite lawn chair. Sit back and relax under the stars! Movie is free. For more information, call Ralph Wright at 282-2204.

September 10, 11:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m., Twenty-second Annual Glover Park Day, Guy Mason Recreation Center. All ages. Glover Park Day is an annual festival bringing out the best of Glover Park Day. There will be live local bands, food available from many of our local restaurants, a craft fair, community flea market, kid activities, and a lot more! For more information, call Caryl King at 727-7527.

September 10, 11:00 a.m.-7:00 p.m., Harry Thomas Community Day and Boxing Show, Harry Thomas Community Center, 1743 Lincoln Road, NE. All ages. Community day activities, health screening, guest speakers, live entertainment, and boxing matches from 3:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m.

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