CITIZENS GV OLUeME oXXrIII g/ I SSeUE t11o/ NwOVEMn BER 2009 WWW . CAGTOWN . ORG CAG Presents Georgetown ARTS 2009 Three-day Show Features Resident Artists

he talent of Georgetown resi - [email protected]. CAG dent artists will be on view members Heidi Hess, Hayley Gordon Tfor the first time under one Pivato, and Barbara Downs are busy roof at the former Smith and lining up artists for this first-time pres - Hawken space at 1209 31st Street entation, making sure the creative for three days in November. The works of Georgetown artists are show - opening reception, Thursday cased. evening, November 19 from 6 to 9, will feature Govinda Gallery owner Join CAG November 19 to hear Chris Murray talking about the his - long time gallery owner Chris Mur - tory and evolution of the George - ray’s fascinating recollection of artists town art scene — drawn from his Art show coordinating group (l-r): Michele and galleries in Georgetown and his 34 years as a central presence in the Banks, Heidi Hess, Hayley Gordon Pivato, Betsy personal insights and stories about the ever-changing Georgetown art world. Cooley and Barbara Downs artists who have been influential here. 11 am to 6 pm. CAG’s Georgetown CAG’s new and unique show of In addition to the wine and cheese, ARTS 2009 will be highlighted in the more than 20 Georgetown artists will the reception will also feature one of new Gallery Gaze that takes place on include painting, photography, sculp - Georgetown’s popular “designer” Friday evenings. ture, 2D and 3D mixed media. While treats — from Georgetown Cupcake. So mark your calendar for November some works will be just for display, According to Michele Banks, coor - 19 and the subsequent show on the many will be for sale. Show hours are: dinator of the CAG art show, the call 20th and 21st — to see your favorite Thursday, November 19, from 6 to 9 for artists is still open. To apply — or local artists — and to discover new pm; Friday, November 20, from noon volunteer to help — please send an ones in the neighborhood! to 8 pm; and Saturday, November 21, email to Michele Banks at

Memorable Midnight in Moscow

ecurity Guards! Photographers! Soloists from the ties have much in Moscow Symphony! Caviar and vodka! Beautiful common — both Sdresses, tuxedos and tails! Hockey stars! It all neighborhoods are added up to a glamorous Midnight in Moscow as the historic cradles of CAG Gala drew over 400 guests to the stunning Embassy their two national of the Russian Confederation on October 2. Mayor Adri - capitals, they are an Fenty welcomed American and Russian guests to a home to many VIP reception including hockey players Alex Ovechkin writers and artists, and Alexander Semin. they both feature Jennifer Altemus (left) and Jack Evans vibrant restau - with honoree Mimsy Lindner During the sumptuous buffet (by Occasions Caterers) rants, galleries and in the gorgeous ballroom, Ambassador Sergey Kislyak boutiques and are popular tourist destinations. The Arbat welcomed the crowd and officially announced the forma - is celebrating its 516th anniversary and, according to the tion of a neighborhood relationship between Georgetown Ambassador, is “ready to establish partnerships with CAG and the Arbat historic district in Moscow. The communi - for cultural, business and youth cooperation.” Continued on page 4 1

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President’s letter

As I write this, Georgetown is GU is ready to resume discussions with the preparing for Halloween on a Satur - community. In May, it was decided that there day night! I love it when people go would be small group meetings scheduled on all out for the holidays. So many weeknights targeting specific elements of the houses look terrifically spooky. I plan. The meeting on November 3 will dis - can’t wait to see all the little kids cuss off-campus issues; November 12 will parading up and down the streets— address the transportation portion of the as well as the big “kids” on M Street. plan; and the November 16 meeting will We had a meeting with the MPD to focus on the 1789 block. All meetings will be review their plans for keeping the held at Georgetown Visitation, Heritage Hall streets secure. I hope the night is fun on the second floor from 6:30 until 9pm. and safe for everyone. 38th Street issues will be part of the trans - portation meeting. GU has also scrapped A few weeks ago I attended the plans to build a new convocation center and, MPD’s 2nd District awards ceremony instead, hopes to increase seating capacity at honoring officers and Georgetown’s My moment with Caps star McDonough Arena from 2300 to 4500. The own Sgt. Antoine received the out - Alex Ovechkin at the Gala traffic and parking implications for this standing sergeant award. It’s a well change will also be considered at the Novem - deserved recognition for what is often a thankless job. ber 12 transportation meeting. CAG works closely with the police department to help keep the streets calm and safe. Our Public Safety program Following the small group meetings there will be two pays for overtime of two police officers specifically to identical meetings regarding all of the issues on Novem - patrol the residential streets. We have our own security ber 18 & 19. cars patrolling at night. Our Gala at the Russian Embassy was a night to CAG has pushed for stronger enforcement of the laws remember. Lesley Lee & I would like to extend a huge and logical ways to implement this. I am happy to report thank you to the gala committee and all of our sponsors. that 61Ds are now being issued for noise violations. A The event was a tremendous success thanks to their hard 61D is a citation for a non-violent crime that is an actual work and generosity. arrest and carries a fine. The person receiving the cita - tion is not taken into custody but does have an arrest on CAG, the Georgetown BID, and the GBA are planning their record. It is serious business. We are working with the 2nd annual Merriment in Georgetown which will be Chief Lanier to have 61Ds issued for other crimes such December 6, with holiday music, horse-drawn carriage as possession of an open container of alcohol, public uri - rides, costumed characters, children’s activities, and, of nation, and disorderly conduct. As it stands now, the course, a chance to meet Santa. The American Girl retail - only recourse an officer has when confronted with some - er will conduct activities relating to their popular dolls. one breaking these laws is to arrest them and take them The evening will culminate with candlelight caroling at in for processing. This can take up to three hours which Wisconsin and M Streets. Last year was blustery but it is a long time off of the streets. We hope that the threat was still a magical day. This year will be even better! of a 61D will be enough of a deterrent. As we work on getting new traditions off the ground, The quarterly Board of Zoning Adjustment-mandated we are also collecting memories of the past. A very meeting, held at on October 15, active group of Oral History volunteers are interviewing revealed that GU is making progress on their draft of the long time residents to hear and record their personal sto - next 10-year Campus Plan. Things had been moving ries. About a dozen interviews have taken place and slowly because of the uncertainty of the MedStar ele - many more are scheduled. Transcripts of these interviews ment of the plan. It has now been determined that Med - will be posted on our website by the end of the year and Star will not request a new hospital or alternate location they will also be available at the new Peabody Room at this time. when the Georgetown Library reopens. If you are inter - ested in telling your story or in being an interviewer please call the office.

—Jennifer Altemus

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Ginny Poole, Sharron Lockword, Guests applaud Ambassador Sergey Kislyak Denise Cunningham and His Excellency Shaun Murphy and Mrs. Kislyak

Tim Downs, Ray Danieli, Linda Greenan, Charles DeSantos, Eric Crupi holds the Nathans panels as auctioneer Brenda and Charles Willoughby Mark Plotkin takes bids

John Spears and Kathleen Kevin Knarr and friends Marc Schappell, Carol Nicholson Tom Anderson McNamara CAG President and Gala Co-Chair tified judge for the Garden Club of and other church groups. She was Jennifer Altemus and Councilmember America and excelled as president of and is a constant presence at various Jack Evans presented awards to Sis the Georgetown Garden Club. She schools around town like the Intown and Jack Hedden and Mimsy Lindner has also served on the Board of the Playgroup, Little Folks, Washington “who have contributed generously of Corcoran Gallery of Art and has International School, Potomac their time and resources to different been Chairman of the Board of the School, Landon and Visitation. And aspects of life in our community.” Corcoran College of Art and Design. as the dedicated president of the Friends of Volta Park she turned the Jack Hedden was a CAG Board Mimsy Lindner is Georgetown’s park into one of Georgetown’s true Treasurer, and served on the vestry of über mom. For over ten years she has treasures. Christ Church, on the Board of the coached Georgetown kids soccer, Foundation, and on cooked lunch for the seniors at St. WTOP Political Analyst Mark National Cathedral School Endow - Johns Church, worked with and for Plotkin was the auctioneer for a very ment Committee. Sis Hedden is a the homeless through the George - competitive live auction featuring master of flower arranging and a cer - town Ministry, the Salvation Army huge hand-painted panels from the

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HSBC's Aimee Daniels and Val Volkau

Honorees Sis and Jack Hedden with their daughter Daphne Greenwood and hus - band Michael and grandchildren Hannah and Jon

Mayor Fenty enjoys a laugh with Alexander Semin and Alex Ovechkin

Gay Pirozzi, Tom Bryan, Mary Bergstrom, Marin Hagen, Tricia Messer - schmitt, Lenore Rubino & Cathy Spencer

David and Arlene Wechsler with Kathy and David Melrod

late Nathan’s restaurant, a trip to Securitas Security Services USA, Inc, from Davis Kennedy and his partner, Moscow, and an intriguing scavenger Western Development Corporation, as well as Shaun Murphy with a hunt/dinner for thirty people. This Clyde’s Restaurant Group, and The mysterious professional dancer was all in addition to the amazing Georgetown Current. silent auction put together by Annie Photos are available on two web - Lou Berman and Erika Donohue. A special thank you to Safeway sites: professional photographer Greg for donating table flowers which Tinius’s photos at http://tinius- Our lead sponsors — Aeroflot were arranged beautifully by Con - photo.com/CAG-Gala-2009. Ama - Russian Airlines, Coldwell Banker stance Chatfield-Taylor and Gala teur photographer Ryan Sullivan Residential Brokerage, Kathy Melrod Co-Chair Lesley Lee. Kudos for the took individual pictures of many of Georgetown Long & Foster, and magnificent buffet flowers go to guests. To view and order, go to HSBC Bank — were all in atten - Betsy Rackley and Lee Child. Shutterfly.com and sign in using dance, along with representatives [email protected] as email and from other supporting groups: Doc Scantlin and his Imperial caggala as password. Georgetown University, Georgetown Palms orchestra conducted the waltz University Hospital, M.C. Dean, Inc., contest won by Sharron and David — Betsy Cooley Lockwood, with exciting competition 5 G EORGETOWN C ITIZENS / N OVEMBER 2009

Aspects of Georgetown THE LIVES OF OTHERS hat do we know about our as agoraphobia — fear of open or During the remainder of the war neighbors? Perhaps not public spaces. As I saw her affected she was cared for by nuns and subse - Wmuch at all. Shakespeare, by this affliction, in my naïveté, I quently reunited with her grandmoth - who knew everything, pointed out thought I could help her. A nice walk er. Traveling with her grandmother that we are merely players – by which in Georgetown would do her a world on a transatlantic crossing when she he meant actors — in the drama of of good, I thought. Wrong. She did was eighteen she met diplomat Tim our lives, that we have our exits and not want to go out, did not want to Stanley. She married him, had four our entrances and that each one in his have visitors. So some years ago children and became a player on the time plays many parts. Our lives can Nadia Stanley just sort of vanished Washington social scene —girls with radically change, so much that the from all of our lives. an Italian connection were always younger self might meet in disbelief particularly sought after. Friendly and the self of later years. How did this She had an interesting back - attractive, she tutored disadvantaged come about, one self might ask the ground and was an interesting per - children, volunteered at the National other in astonishment? son. Her parents were Russian Jews Gallery of Art and the National living in Italy. Nadegsda Leon was Cathedral, and got a master’s degree Here in Georgetown we often, but born in Naples and grew up in in Art History from George Washing - not always, know the people who Venice. Her mother died of appen - ton University. She had a full life. live near us, the people who walk dicitis early in the Second World War. dogs, shop at our local stores etc. So When Nadia told me of her agora - Tim died of pancreatic cancer in when someone described as a reclu - phobia she told me that her father 1997. The fire that Nadia appeared sive elderly lady died in early Octo - had had it too. I felt she said this to have died in was not what killed ber in a fire, it caught our attention. somewhat proudly, with no interest her. She had a heart attack — smok - The strange thing was that no one on in changing or dealing with the prob - ing at the time — the fallen cigarette her block knew her. At least initially. lem. When I read in her obituary that ignited the blaze. her father had died in Auschwitz I When her name finally surfaced it felt a frisson of horror. Wouldn’t that Everyone has a story, and many turned out to be a person I had at explain so much? A sensitive person, lives, but probably not quite like this one time known fairly well. We had thrown into that world of ultimate one. simply lost contact because of the barbarism. What dreadful knowledge —Edith Schafer nature of the condition she described people have to live with.

NEWSBYTES

Plans are afoot to develop the Hurt Home at 3050 R Street into condos …. the Apple Store has received final approval for the building design from the Old Georgetown Board and it appears that construction has begun …. the Embassy of Ice - land has moved to new quarters within the Embassy of Sweden's building and the embassy is awaiting permission from the District to erect a fourth flagpole on the south side of the complex …. J. Chocolatier , the new specialty chocolate shop at 1039 33rd Street is hosting a wine and chocolate pairing on November 12 from 6 until 9 .… lots of events going on in George - town as part of FotoWeek – including the façade of FotoWeek Central at 3338 M Street being illuminated with video pro - jections of finalists’ images from 6 pm until midnight November 6, 7, and 8 .… check out the handsome new website for Volta Park : VoltaPark.org …. Bobbie Medlin , creator of unique necklaces inspired by other cultures, has re-opened at the corner of 29th & M …. a new coffee, sandwich and pastry shop, Puro Café , is opening at 1529 Wisconsin (previously Pink Novem - ber) and will have a courtyard out back.

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Chancellor Rhee Speaks to Packed Crowd at Hyde-Addison

C Schools Chancellor based on accomplishments, not aspi - Michelle Rhee spoke to a rations.” But she is proud that now Dstanding-room-only crowd at substantially more money is going the CAG meeting on Thursday, Octo - directly to schools – $603 million as ber 22, candidly addressing the chal - opposed to $403 million two years lenges and achievements of her first ago. And she is thrilled that for the two years. Prior to the meeting, first time, as measured by the which was attended by 140 people, National Assessment of Educational residents toured the newly renovated Progress (NAEP) — “the gold stan - Hyde-Addison Elementary School dard of educational measurement” — complex, escorted by “student DC 4th graders have out paced most ambassadors” — very informative other school districts in their growth Dana Nerenberg, Chancellor Rhee and and enthusiastic third and fourth Jennifer Altemus and the District 7th graders show graders. Principal Dana Nerenberg triple the growth of the national Asked about the physical state of also welcomed residents to the stun - average. DC schools, she praised Allen Lew at ning new complex located in the first the Office of Facilities Modernization block west of , Asked if she was concerned about (who was central to the Hyde reno - between O & P streets. the angst felt by teachers in the sys - vation) for “moving more rapidly to tem, she said many teachers are Chancellor Rhee praised Principal improve the physical plants in the excellent and “doing heroic jobs” Nerenberg for her many accomplish - last two years than the previous 20 and that when cuts must be made, as ments at Hyde-Addison and required by the recent unpre - commended her for also dicted budget shortfalls, the stepping forward to lead a decision should be – and was ten-school collaborative in – made at the local school which high-performing level. Rhee said that when she schools work with other was appointed by Mayor schools to “broaden their Fenty the achievement gap sphere of influence.” between white and African American students was 70% Rhee said she is “thrilled and is now 50%. So there is with what is happening at some improvement — and Hyde-Addison” and added that “with a second Fenty that in the midst of the term, six years from now, political turbulence of continuing at this trajectory, changing the system, “we we could have the smallest must maintain the focus on gap.” And of interest to kids and student achieve - Three of the student ambassadors (front) and residents who Georgetowners especially, ment.” She said “I’ll deal toured the school Rhee said she will unveil a with the politics, so teachers major announcement regarding can teach.” years combined.” Still, she said the Hardy Middle School in December. vast majority of schools are not in She opened the floor to “no holds good condition. Rhee said even her CAG President Jennifer Altemus barred questions.” When asked what daughter in fifth grade comes home thanked Chancellor Rhee for her the best source is for new teachers and says “Mommy, you’re the Chan - straight-spoken comments, prompt - she said DC should cast a broad net cellor — can’t you fix our bath - ing a loud and appreciative round of and lower artificial bureaucratic bar - rooms?” applause for the Chancellor. Many riers. She said teachers are not “inter - residents lingered to chat with the changeable widgets” and each school When asked to give herself a per - Chancellor and Principal Nerenberg should have the ability to interview formance grade, she said she still individually. and choose teachers for their individ - gives herself a grade of “F” after two ual school. years on the job “because grades are —Betsy Cooley

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Georgetown Fall Community Clean-up Saturday, November 14, 2009 • Everyone Welcome

The Georgetown Community Fall Clean-up, sponsored by the Citizens Association of Georgetown and Georgetown University will be held on Saturday, November 14, 2009 from 9 AM to Noon. Volunteers will gather at Volta Park (34th Street and Volta Place) for bagels, juice and coffee before spreading out to various areas of west Georgetown. All equipment will be supplied including gloves. This is a family event for everyone from the young - sters to grandparents. As always, we will have some Nifty Nippers to help with pick up and Save the World wagons for kids to gather cans for recycling. Also, it will be a great opportunity to get to know all the young Georgetown students who come to help out. Georgetown Valet After cleaning the streets, we will return to Volta Park for a fabulous Shoe Repair barbeque by the Georgetown Grilling Society. There are no better 2446 Wisconsin Avenue, N.W. hamburgers to be had in all of Washington. Hot dogs, fixings and Washington, D.C. drinks will round out the fare. The rain date (which, of course, we hope not to need) for the clean-up will be the next day, Sunday, Nov. 15th from 2-5 PM.

Important Numbers to Know—and Use

Any illegal activity (violent crimes, [email protected] is the West theft, vandalism, noise violations, Village People’s site on which to record public urination, trespassing, etc)— that a complaint was made. Your name You MUST Call 911 so a report is filed will not be associated with the com - plaint. IT IS VITAL FOR US TO KNOW A City services (street & sidewalk main - COMPLAINT WAS LODGED IN ORDER tenance, trash, rats, trees)—Call 311 & TO TRACK TRENDS. follow up if necessary. It could take several calls to resolve your issue. Trash Violations — [email protected] GU Student Conduct Issues (trash, noise, vandalism)—GU 24 hour Hot - Rats — line: 687-8413; SNAP will respond to [email protected] or 535-2636 calls Thurs, Fri & Sat nights. Both SNAP & 911 should be called for serious Historic Preservation —start with our violations website: www.cagtown.org

GU Off-Campus Student Life : Direc - Tree Issues —311 or contact tor Anne Koester 202-687-3199 or [email protected] [email protected] and Ray Danieli 687-3428 or rfd8@george - Citizens Association of Georgetown town.edu website: www.cagtown.org

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High and Mighty

ofia Owen was a young wife When she bought the trees, "they The growth rate of the dawn red - and mother in 1958 when she were so small," said Owen, long wid - wood is fast, some 50 feet in its first Sand her husband, George owed and now in her mid-80s. In 15 to 20 years, according to tree Hodges Owen, moved into their this, Owen sounds like every home - experts. Eleven years ago Owen had Georgetown house. They had met owner who has ever planted a an arborist assess her "mistake." The and married in Sofia's native sapling not anticipating what the largest of the four measured 26 inch - Uruguay when George, a lawyer with passage of time can do. But Owen es in diameter. "But they've stopped the State Department, was posted could not have known the full growing," Owen said. "Oh, I'm sure there and they had lived abroad up growth cycle of these trees: The they've stopped." to that point. dawn redwood was thought to be extinct--only fossils had been found-- Hmmm, last year Frido van The Owens would live in the as recently as 1941. Then a living Kesteren of Bartlett Tree Experts house about a decade before Sofia specimen was discovered in a remote measured the trees again. Over the Owen turned her attention to the last 11 years the largest had grown garden. But eventually she designed a to a diameter of 30-1/2 inches and shallow pool edged with concrete And that's how topped out at around 110 feet. Again urns, fir trees along one property line the experts: Dawn redwoods can top and four lush fig trees that today there came to be four out at 350 to 400 feet—in a millenni - brush up against the rear porch and um or two. produce a bit more foliage than fruit. towering redwood Sofia Owen still lives in her home Then Sofia Owen happened to trees in the middle of of more than 50 years. Two grand - visit Johnson's Garden Center on daughters share the house with her; a Wisconsin Avenue. That was, as best Georgetown. daughter, Georgina, and Georgina's she can remember, the late 1960s. husband, architect Outerbridge And that's how there came to be four Horsey, live nearby. In a couple of area of west-central China. The towering redwood trees in the middle weeks, Owen said, the redwoods' species may be 50 million years old of Georgetown. "They were my mis - needles should turn red; the trees (conifers were the first plants to pop - take," Owen told The Washington should be bare by Thanksgiving. ulate the Earth, according to the U.S. Post's At Home magazine last year. Passersby who want to catch of National Arboretum), but it was a glimpse of this seasonal transition mere 20 years after their rediscovery To be sure, these redwoods are not might peer down the driveway that the saplings made their way to the giant sequoias of the American between 3014 and 3018 P Street the sales floor at Johnson's. The red - West, the tallest trees in the world, NW. Look slightly to the west—and woods have since become a relatively the kind that cars can drive through. then look up! These are Metasequoia glyp - popular landscape tree. But not in tostroboides, Chinese dawn red - Georgetown! —Nancy McKeon woods, deciduous conifers whose feathery needles form a crisp pyra - mid as the tree pushes above its sur - roundings—way above.

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30th Street Closed for First of Three Bridges Project

onstruction has started on the has already been removed and the Three Bridges project in roadway slabs approaching the CGeorgetown. This trio of bridge excavated. The next major bridges span the C&O Canal at 29th step, at the end of October, will be Street, 30th Street, and Thomas Jef - the drilling of supports that will ferson Street, and are 109 years old. anchor the new deck. A new tempo - The crumbling concrete easily visible rary pedestrian walkway over the to pedestrians and vehicle weight canal was recently completed on the limits are but two manifestations of west side of 30th Street. bridges badly in need of major recon - struction. Because reconstruction of the 30th Street and Thomas Jefferson Street The reconstruction will last bridges would impede the operation Unlike the reconstruction of the approximately three years. The first of the National Park Service’s canal Wisconsin Avenue bridge, which bridge to be rebuilt is 30th Street, boat, a new winter storage dry dock remained partially open, each of followed by Thomas Jefferson Street, was constructed on the canal bed these three bridges will be closed to and ending with 29th Street. The east of 31st Street. This facility and a vehicles and pedestrians while it is sequence of reconstruction proceeds boarding dock west of Thomas Jef - reconstructed. See details at from the least to the most complex; ferson Street will ensure that canal http://www.3bridges.info/. the complexity is based on the extent boat tours continue during the recon - that utilities, such as water and gas Reconstruction on the 30th Street struction of these two bridges. lines and telecommunication con - bridge began in August and is sched - —Walter Groszyk duits, need to be relocated while the uled to be completed next August. existing bridge is first demolished The deck for the 30th Street bridge and then re-built. Help Homeless People in Georgetown Find a Way Off the Streets

id you know that at least 100 town area, on the National Mall as it Please gather your family and homeless people frequent the raises money in Fannie Mae’s Annual friends to support and walk on behalf DGeorgetown area daily? Help the Homeless Walkathon. In of GMC. The organization relies While we are familiar with them, one day you can impact the lives of heavily on this funding to continue its many of us tend to just walk by. many by simply registering and walk - service and programs for the home - However, instead of just walking by, ing on behalf of GMC. less. For more information visit we invite the residents of George - www.georgetownministrycenter.org, town to walk with a purpose. Gunther Stern, Executive Director and go to www.helpthehomelessdc.org of GMC, says, “This is a great city- to register and select GMC as the ben - On November 21, join the George - wide event….The more walkers walk - eficiary. town Ministry Center (GMC), a com - ing for GMC, the more money we can munity-based organization serving the receive from Fannie Mae.” — Shari Boyce, GMC needs of the homeless in the George -

Back from the Brink! CAG Transportation Chair Hazel Denton (fourth from right) celebrates the city’s decision to continue Circulator Bus service on upper Wisconsin Avenue. DDOT had earlier decided to eliminate the route — until residents vehemently protested. Pictured with Hazel are (l to r) Georgetown BID President Crystal Sul - livan, the BID’s Alfred Corbin, Georgetown University Hospital’s Regina Knox- Woods, the BID’s John Wiebenson, Burleith Citizens Association President Lenore Rubino, ANC Commissioner Ed Solomon, BID Executive Director Jim Bracco, ANC Commissioner Bill Starrels; the Circulator bus driver; Mayor Adrian Fenty, DDOT’s Gabe Klein; Councilman Jack Evans, and Allan Wendt.

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Legal Advisor Richard deC. Hinds

Executive Director Betsy Cooley Program Assistant , Elizabeth Maloy Office Assistant , Beth Nielsen

Standing Committees Airports and Utility Operations Gerry Brown Alcoholic Beverage Control Karen Cruse & John Hopkins Historic Preservation, Zoning & Planning Barbara Zartman Public Safety & Guard Luca Pivato & Richard Hinds Trees for Georgetown Betsy Emes

Newsletter Betsy Cooley, Editor Marjorie Kask , Graphic Designer [Please submit items and info by the 10th of the month prior to the month of publication.]

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November Community Events and Calendar

Sat., Sun. Nov. 7-8 Dracula: A Family Musical ; 1:30 pm; the Shoppes at ( 3222 M Street, NW ), Level One; adults $12, children $10; call 703-271-7770 to reserve. Tue. Nov. 10 Festive Holiday Floral Designs at Tudor Place ; 7pm; workshop with designer Rance Goff on innovative center - piece and home décor ideas; members $10, nonmembers $15; call 965-0400 or email [email protected]. Fri. Nov. 13 EcoFest Gala & Auction benefitting Hyde-Addison School ; 7-10pm; hosted by The House of Sweden, 2900 K Street NW; admission $50, cash cocktails; contact co-chair Lee Murphy 277-7477 or email [email protected]; visit www.hydeaddisonauction.com. Tue. Nov. 17 GU’s Alliance in Local Living (ALL) meeting ; to discuss community issues with Georgetown residents and students; 6:30 pm; GU Career Center Conference Room, Leavey Center; 687-3199. Wed. Nov. 18 Intown Playgroup Open House ; 10:30am – noon; for parents and children to learn about Intown, chil - dren must be one year old by September 2010 to apply for the 2010-11 school year; 1334 29th Street; RSVP [email protected] or 337-2720. Thurs. Nov 19 Dumbarton at Dusk: Curator’s Tour ; 5:30 pm or 7 pm; a special 60-minute after-hours view of the newest exhibition; $5 per person, students free with ID; [email protected] or 337-2288. Thurs. Nov 19 CAG Presents: Georgetown ARTS 2009 ; a show of Georgetown artist residents at the former Smith & Hawken space, 1209 31st Street (corner of 31 & M); opening reception Thursday 6-9 pm and speaker at 7:30; show continues Friday Nov. 20, noon – 8 and Saturday Nov. 21, 11-6. Mon. Nov. 30 Advisory Neighborhood Commission (ANC 2E) Public Meeting ; 6:30 pm; Heritage Room, Georgetown Visitation, 35th & Volta Streets; agenda available at www.anc2e.com. Sat. Dec. 5 St. John’s Episcopal Church Annual Greens Sale ; 10-3; holiday greens, wreaths, gifts, decorations, book signings and baked goods; 3240 O Street, Blake Hall; call 338-1796 or visit www.stjohnsgeorgetown.org. Sun. Dec. 6 Merriment in Georgetown ; 3-6 pm; Wisconsin & M Streets; free photos with Santa, strolling carolers, balloon sculptors, hot chocolate, special store and more; visit merrimentingeorgetown.com.