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What's Happening at the Canal VOLUME XLI | ISSUE 4 | APRIL 2016 WWW.CAGTOWN.ORG WHAT’S HAPPENING AT THE CANAL NEW GROUP DEDICATED TO RESTORING THE C&O PAMLA MOORE, CAG BOARD Tuesday, April 19 District; and Terrie Rouse, Executive Director Pinstripes, overlooking the canal at 1064 Reception at 7pm: Program at 7:30pm of Georgetown Heritage. Wisconsin Avenue, has graciously provided Pinstripes, 1064 Wisconsin Ave. their upstairs Ballrooms space for the meeting. Though Georgetown Heritage is in many They will serve hors d’oeuvres and wine at the he Citizens Association of George- ways a startup, it has a clear mission: to work pre-meeting reception. town is proud to serve as one of the in cooperation with the National Park Service first organizations to introduce the and other organizations and agencies to fund CAG suggests that when we are hosted by TGeorgetown community to Georgetown projects and programs that will revitalize, a local restaurant, you consider continuing Heritage, a nonprofit organization dedicated preserve, interpret, and enhance the natural the evening’s discussion over dinner at the to promoting and presenting the history of and cultural resources of the C&O National location. Pinstripes offers locally sourced Georgetown. Canal Historic Park in Georgetown. Italian-American cuisine along with fourteen bowling lanes, six bocce courts, a bistro and For too many years, the canal that is an integral wine cellar, and outdoor patios. Pinstripes part of our landscape has been neglected. knows we are coming and is happy to Now, Georgetown Heritage is committed to accommodate you. revitalizing and repairing the canal. The evening will begin at 7pm with a 30 We invite you to attend a panel discussion on minute reception. The panel will start promptly Tuesday April 19, at 7pm, to hear about this new at 7:30pm. initiative. The panel will include Kevin Brandt, Superintendent of the C&O National Historic Please plan to attend and be part of the Park; Maggie Downing, Destination Manager informed and committed friends of of the Georgetown Business Improvement Georgetown Heritage. 2016 SUMMer Concerts Kick OFF at GYpsY SallY’S VinYL Lounge April 14 | Tickets on Sale Now! s spring kicks into gear, so does cans of PBR, and an old school rock and roll planning for the CAG summer band. (Not to worry – for those less nostalgic, Concerts in the Parks. We’re lining there will be offerings beyond canned beer!) upA bands and applying for permits, but first We hope you will join the party and help things first: the kickoff party, which helps support Concerts in the Parks. Tickets are $85 fund the concert series. per person; $75 for CAG members. Concerts in the Parks sponsor Gypsy Sally’s Vinyl Lounge – 3401 Water St is generously opening their Vinyl Lounge for Thursday April 14, 7-9:30pm some old school dive bar nostalgia. The Kickoff Support the Concerts in the Parks! Party committee, chaired by Erin Mullan, Get your tickets today: Amy Looney, and Dabney Jewell, has a super www.cagtown.org/concerts evening planned complete with bar snacks, Continued on pg. 7 President’s letter “GOODNESS IS THE ONLY INVESTMENT THAT NEVER FAILS.” - Henry David Thoreau As a leader in Georgetown’s real estate community, our firm proudly supports the Georgetown community. We are proud to sponsor the following events and organizations: Citizens Association of Georgetown Friends of Volta Park Concerts in the Park Georgetown House Tour (St. John’s) Dumbarton Oaks Park Conservancy Georgetown Jingle Friends of Book Hill Park Reception (Georgetown University Hospital) Friends of Montrose Park Hyde-Addison Elementary School Gala Friends of Rose Park Tudor Place Georgetown Brokerage 1206 30th Street, NW Washington, DC 20007 I +202 333 1212 I ttrsir.com Sotheby's GTC AD 2015.indd 1 2/2/15 11:58 AM 2 GEORGETOWN CITIZENS | APRIL 2016 President’s letter From Showers to pril is a month of uncertainty. It can canal boat. The panel discussion will include be warm and sunny, and according Kevin Brandt, superintendent of the C&O to Accuweather, the projection for National Historical Park; Maggie Downing, AprilA 2016 is temperatures ranging between Destination Manager of the Georgetown 40 degrees at night and the low 70s during Business Improvement District; and Terrie the day. I am skeptical about long-range S. Rouse, Executive Director of Georgetown appropriate remedies to reduce aircraft noise. projections. Gardeners normally wait until Heritage. There will be a 30-minute reception I serve as the Ward 2 representative for the mid-April before planting their annual followed promptly by the 7:30pm panel roundtable discussions. flowers, even though current temperatures on discussion, followed by questions and March 9 may break a DC record high of 80 answers. The program concludes at 8:30pm. A sewer project unrelated to Green degrees. Infrastructure will get underway in west Walter Groszyk’s article on DC Water’s Georgetown in several months. This project Prudence precludes CAG from holding proposed plan for installing Green involves the reconstruction of a very old concerts in a park during April. However, the Infrastructure in west Georgetown explains combined sewer that runs on a general north Concerts in the Parks fundraiser party will be that the modifications required to reduce south alignment to the west of Wisconsin indoors on April 14 at the Vinyl Lounge at combined sewer outflows conflict with the Ave. Most of the repair of this trunk sewer 3401 Water Street. The party begins at 7pm, preservation of the hundreds of historic can be done without digging up the streets. and we ask CAG members to donate at least properties that could be affected by Green $75 per person, and non-members, $85 per Infrastructure installations. I look forward to seeing you April 14 at the person. The Concerts will be Sundays May Vinyl Lounge to kick off the Concerts and 22, June 19, and July 10. DC Water heard our objections to the plan, on Tuesday, April 19 at 7pm at Pinstripes to but the agency is proceeding to refine its learn about what is happening with the canal! CAG’s April public meeting will be held proposals over the next three to four months. on Tuesday, April 19 at 7pm at Pinstripes, The Commission of Fine Arts wrote a letter Bob vom Eigen, president located just to the north of the C&O to DC Water indicating that DC Water needs Canal National Historic Park at Wisconsin to comply with Section 106 of the National Avenue — an appropriate location for a Historic Preservation Act, which could lead program about restoring and revitalizing to archaeological surveys and investigations the canal. The National Park Service does prior to any excavation. UPCOMING not have the funds to repair the locks in CAG MEETINGS Georgetown or to replace the mule-drawn The DC Fair Skies Coalition continues pressing forward to make progress on creating WHAT’S HAPPENING AT alternative routes for departures north of THE CANAL? Outstanding representation Reagan National and for arrival routes to Date: Tuesday, April 19 for exceptional properties the airport from the north. The Coalition Time: 7–8:30pm has filed with the U.S. Court of Appeals Location: Pinstripes, 1064 Wisconsin Ave. for the District of Columbia a reply to the DC Federal Aviation Administration’s motion to CAG ANNUAL MEETING dismiss our claim that the FAA had failed to Date: Tuesday, May 24 VA adequately notify the affected communities Time: 7– 8:30pm of the impending changes to the routes that New member reception at 6pm MD are seriously disturbing our peace and quiet. Place: Georgetown Visitation, 1523 35th St. The Metropolitan Washington Airports Eastern CAG CONCERTS IN THE PARKS Authority will host a roundtable meeting of Shore Sunday, May 22 – Volta Park representatives from Washington, Virginia, Lenore Rubino • 202-262-1261 and Maryland, plus the FAA and MWAA, Sunday, June 19 – Volta Park Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage, Washington Harbour, 3000 K St. NW Sunday, July 10 – Rose Park Washington, D.C. 202-333-6100 during the latter part of March to explore GEORGETOWN CITIZENS | APRIL 2016 3 CAG PUBLIC SAFETY spects of eorgetown: PROGRAM: A G HOW ARE WE DOING? Thirteen WAYS OF Looking at Our NeighBorhood EVERY Donation EDITH SCHAFER IS IMportant! hirteen ways of looking at a National Wildlife Federation as an official blackbird” is a poem by Wallace wildlife habitat. This meant that the garden Stevens. It is a fine poem and had to provide the four basic elements “Tthis column is not going to try to emulate necessary for wildlife to thrive: food, water, it, just sort of adapt its methodology. And it cover, and places for raising young. And he will take a long time to get to thirteen. In the did this all pro bono and with a lot of donated meantime, here’s a nice local story. plants from neighbors.” “Valentine Garcia hails from Texas and can The above information came in from Helen cook up some mean chow using really hot O’Brien and it’s interesting for several peppers. Each Christmas he also bakes a reasons. One is that it’s rewarding to get fabulous pound cake which he gives to some input from fellow Georgetowners, so we of his friends and clients. He once made one get a wider perspective on what’s going on for one of our Garden Club meetings. around us. Another good thing is that slices of life, like this one, tend to make interesting nother surveillance camera has been “He is very generous with his time and always flavorful copy. Remember Readers Digest installed by CAG in Georgetown. has a smile and a happy disposition.
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