Burleith Bell, June 2019
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June 2019 Burleith Summer Picnic • June 15 3:30-7:30 p.m. Whitehaven Park (Green Lot, Whitehaven and 37th Street) ACTIVITIES · Raffle · Magician · Top Dog contest · Card reader · GERMS ambulance · Facepainter · MPD 2 · Small animal petting zoo · Fire Truck Engine 5 · Kids spin-wheel raffle · Wellness table MUSIC · Aurora Duo is back for their second year! FOOD & CIRCUS FARE · Rocklands BBQ · Popcorn · Snow cones · Yummy cake · Other tasty treats SPONSORS Georgetown University • MedStar Georgetown University Hospital Chryssa Wolfe of Hanlon Design Build • Petco Washington Fine Properties/Lenore G. Rubino THE BURLEITH BELL President’s Message EDITORIAL Start Summer so feel free to email us if you would like to D2 bus on T and provide safer bike lanes. But, with a BCA Bang help ([email protected]). this is only an idea to consider hypothetically at this point in time. Asking for this information Before the heat and Looking back for a moment, on May 8th, from DDOT does not lock us into adopting vacations of summer there was a community meeting about the this, nor does the request indicate community set in, the BCA has a planned renovation of the Jelleff Recreation support. Once we have more information, we couple of events coming Center. Since plans are still in the design will conduct a survey to gauge community up over the next few weeks. On Saturday phase, there will be other opportunities support, and especially the immediately June 8th we held our semi-annual community for the community to weigh in before affected neighbors on T and/or S. The BCA is clean-up from 9:00-11:00 AM. We met at the construction commences in summer also soon convening a committee to look over gates of Ellington Field on 38th Street at R, 2020 (which will necessitate a complete and identify possible revisions to our by-laws. enjoyed coffee, picked up supplies, and fanned closure for one year). I was assured out across the neighborhood. Although there that the allocated funds will cover ADA As many of you may recall, we did a survey is usually trash and litter to pick up on most compliance, the new HVAC system, and a while back in which a large majority of blocks and alleys, we encourage you to clean renovations to the interior spaces. There will neighbors expressed support for a Capital up around Hardy Middle School, the Tot Lot on be no additions to the existing structure. I Bikeshare station. The ANC recently 35th Street, and the Ellington Track, especially mentioned that neighbors would love a yoga/ endorsed DDOT’s suggested location on if you traverse or use those spaces. As always, dance space and a better kitchen. There Reservoir Road, right by the intersection with we are deeply grateful to Janice Sims for was also extensive discussion about the use 38th Street. Some neighbors have expressed organizing and to Georgetown University for of the adjacent field. Many supporters of the concerns about the planned parking location logistical support. Maret School, which has had preferential of the re-stocking truck (on 38th right at the access since it paid for renovation a decade intersection with Reservoir), but the DDOT Our biggest event of the year, the Burleith ago and which has an option to renew this representative thought it would not affect Summer Picnic will take place on Saturday agreement for another 10 years, voiced their traffic flow or parking. I am also a little June 15th from 3:30-7:30 PM at the Green opinions. So, too, did students, parents, and worried about directing bicycles to heavily Lot (Whitehaven and 37th Streets). As in the teachers from other schools such as Hardy trafficked Reservoir Road and right by the past, there will be activities for children, a Middle and the British School. There are future entrance to the hospital’s emergency band, BBQ, raffle, and lots of delicious food clearly not enough playing fields nearby for department. I think we need to keep an eye on and beverages. This year’s picnic will have the current level of demand. these things. a circus theme and will be greener with less waste and more compostable materials. I would like to thank Lenore Rubino and And finally, on March 18, I was pleased to Mayor Muriel Bowser and several other local Washington Fine Properties for hosting represent Burleith on the stage with Mayor officials have tentatively confirmed their a community shredding and electronics Bowser when she delivered her State of the attendance. The BCA is deeply thankful to recycling event on May 11th. Hopefully this District speech. It was an honor to attend Melanie Gisler and Lenore Rubino—and to a will become a more regular event! this event along with other civic leaders and variety of sub-committee chairs—for taking to learn about the Mayor's plans for the next on the organization of such a big event. More As for other on-going issues, the BCA has year and her second term. details—including information on a possible asked for DDOT to weigh in on the possibility of rain site—will follow soon via email and making T and perhaps S into one-ways. I think Eric Langenbacher advertisements around the neighborhood. Of it is an intriguing idea that could potentially BCA President course, we are always looking for volunteers, deal with the issues many have had with the BURLEITH CITIZENS ASSOCIATION Board of Directors BCA Contacts President Eric Langenbacher 337-8211 Burleith Bell Alicia Amling (editor) 338-2831 Vice President Nan Bell 744-1221 Marjorie Kask (design) 744-6066 Treasurer Linda Dager Hall 207-4727 Brian Garback (advertising) Co-Recording Secretary Brian Garback Kay Langenbacher (circulation) 337-8211 Co-Recording Secretary Robert Russell 249-0162 Membership Database Linda Brooks 333-2826 Corresponding Secretary Linda Brooks 333-2826 Member at Large Alicia Amling 338-2831 Website Ann Carper 333-5559 Member at Large Ann Carper 333-5559 Burleith Yahoo Listserv ED OHL 733-4169 Member at Large Edie Cecil 359-7700 Fall & Spring Clean-ups/Public Works Janice Sims 333-6435 Member at Large Andrew Dunnaville Member at Large Michael J. McDuffie (434) 989-1788 Member at Large Francine Steininger 425-3698 Write to board members and the BCA at: PO Box 32262, Calvert Street Station, 2336 Wisconsin Ave. NW, Washington DC 20007 | Email [email protected] The Burleith Citizens Association makes no endorsement, recommendation, warranties, or representations whatsoever regarding the quality, content, completeness, suitability, adequacy, accuracy, or timeliness of its advertisers or their products and services. The views and opinions expressed herein do not necessarily state or reflect those of the BCA. 2 THE BURLEITH BELL www.burleith.org COMMUNITY Growing Up in Burleith: A Focus on Addie and Gabe Alexander By Forrest Bachner Addie Alexander came into the world on a freezing March night in 2001 at the George Washington University Hospital. Besides being cared for by her parents, Burleith residents Jane and Chuck Alexander, and the able hospital staff, Addie was well guarded by the Secret Service agent posted outside her room. In the room next to her was Dick Cheney. Welcome to life in Washington. Brother Gabe Alexander waited for a steaming hot night five years later to be born at Sibley. Addie is now 18 and headed to Occidental College in Los Angeles this fall while Gabe, 13, will enter Wilson High School. As life-long residents of our neighborhood, I thought it would it would be interesting to get Addie and Gabe’s thoughts on growing up in Burleith . Addie and Gabe, 2019 Addie and Gabe, 2010 But first a little background about their parents, who also sat in on this interview. Jane, a college counselor and Chuck, in social change communications, met while working for George Washington University. Jane, a New Orleans native, came to Washington to attend GW and stayed. Chuck, hailing from Johnson City, Tenn., came to Washington seeking a bigger setting than his hometown or his college, Emory and Henry in Virginia. After looking in Mt. Pleasant and AU Park, and with no knowledge of Burleith as a neighborhood, Chuck and Jane bought a house on T Street a few months before Addie’s birth. Now back to Addie and Gabe. What are your favorite memories of being Have you ever wished you lived in a What are your particular interests in small in Burleith? different neighborhood? school? Addie: The Tot Lot, riding my bike on Flat Addie: I used to wish I lived in Glover Park, Addie: English literature and history. Street (otherwise known as the block of 38th because there are so many kids there, but Gabe: Math and the bell at the end of the Street between T and the Green Lot), having now I don’t. day. a lemonade stand on 39th Street and playing Gabe: I wish there were more kids my age in in the front yard. the neighborhood but I like the location. What are your extracurricular activities? Gabe: Riding bikes on Flat Street and our Addie: Theatre, this year we did Twelve annual Glover Park/Burleith football game at What were your most unbelievable Angry Jurors, choir, and I lead a club dealing the track. moments in the neighborhood? with social justice issues. Issues like gun Both: Summer picnics, the woods, sledding Addie and Gabe: The fire on T Street [circa violence, mass incarceration, and gender across from the French Embassy. 2010]. equality. We plan walk outs, protests, and Jane and Chuck: The fire on T ST, 9/11 and have many conversations about social Now, at your current ages, what are your trying to get back to Addie at home with issues; for example, how to talk to a teacher favorite aspects of living in Burleith? her nanny, also, owing in large part to the who is biased or the lack of diversity in AP Addie: Driving up T Sreet and seeing all the efforts of Burleith community members, the classes.