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December 7 45th Annual Who? DC Chief of Police, House Tour & Tea Cathy Lanier One Month Away! Join DCCA and contribute to our unique

community! Purchase Tickets Online DCCA at work? A “comfort station” eyesore Saving the Lives of DC’s Migrating Birds City Wildlife, an “emerging” DC wildlife rescue transformed into the quaint Dupont Circle organization, is introducing Lights Out DC, an Tour Preview: The Scottish Rite Temple Community Center. initiative to turn off lights at night in tall buildings to save birds migrating through the city. Collisions with "Human progress is our cause, liberty of thought our buildings claim the largest number of migrating birds’ supreme wish, freedom of conscience our mission, and the guarantee of equal rights to all people everywhere our lives. The U.S. Forest Service of the USDA estimates As a DCCA member, You can be an integral that 550 million birds die annually due to collisions ultimate goal." - Scottish Rite Creed part of Neighborhood history. with buildings. citywildlife.org/lights%20out.html Countless recent best-selling books and films have given us a glimpse into the ancient philosophical history and symbology When you join the Dupont Circle Citizens Association Each spring and fall, millions of birds migrate through (DCCA) or renew your membership, you contribute to the the DC area. The bulk of the birds fly at night, when of the Freemasons. So who among us has not craved a look community and support the longest-serving citizens at the inside of the Freemasons’ DC home, The Scottish Rite group in the Circle. www.dupont-circle.org they can navigate by the stars and the air is less th turbulent. Lights from cities, especially those on tall Temple at 1733 16 Street NW. DCCA is, therefore, honored to include on this year’s Dupont Circle Show your Membership Card buildings or those aimed into the skies, disorient the st birds and draw them in. Attracted to the lights, many House Tour and Tea on October 21 . and Receive Discounts of 10%+ at DCCA Preferred Merchants hit windows. Others circle buildings until they fall of exhaustion. Either way, the result can be fatal for the migrants. You can purchase tickets OR learn more about Join or renew online at this year’s Tour, other fabulous homes or www.dupont-circle.org Migratory bird populations continue to decline each advertisement and sponsorship opportunities $15 Seniors, $25 Individual,$40 Two-Person year due to a number of factors that are putting at www.dupont-circle.org. DCCA is a 501(c)3. Renew before 12/31 enormous pressures on their survival as species. Migration is a particularly perilous time for them; the and receive a tax deduction for 2009! If like to be a Tour Volunteer, please contact majority of these birds make twice-yearly trips Robin Diener, [email protected] between their breeding grounds in North America and Dupont Status # Avg List Avg their winter homes in Central and South America. Real $1000s Dom Neighborhood Notes: City Wildlife is asking the owners and managers of Dupont-Logan Bicycle Safety Community Listening & Estate taller buildings in the D.C. metro area, including Education Session* Single Active 16 $1,760 134 owners of high floor condos, to turn off or dim all Thursday, September 27, 7:00pm—9pm Family The Chastleton Ballroom, 1701 16th St NW unnecessary lights between 11:00 p.m. and dawn $1mm+ Contract 5 $1,850 62 during periods of bird migration. Peak migration The Dupont Circle and Logan Circle Advisory Neighborhood At almost 100 years old, the remains Sold 1 $1,650 104 times are March 15 to May 30 during spring and Commissions (ANC) jointly announce a public meeting for one of Washington’s distinctive architectural treasures. It is residents, business owners and organizations to discuss (30days) August 15 to October 31 in the fall. designated as a contributing property to the Sixteenth Street bicycle safety issues in the community. With biking for Single Active 1 $899 196

Historic District and was listed on the National Register of transit expanding rapidly in our community, many issues, Family A study by the Field Museum of Natural History in Historic Places in 1978. concerns, and questions have arisen. Some topics for $1mm- Contract 1 $822 8 Chicago, the first US city to implement a lights out discussion are: Sold 0 program, determined that turning off the lights at one -The District’s plans to make DC more bike/pedestrian- The temple was designed by architect John Russell Pope, downtown building (McCormick Place) reduced friendly; any plans or ideas for the Dupont-Logan area and (30days) who modeled it after the tomb of Mausolusat Halicarnassus, migratory bird mortality by 80 percent. its residents. Condos- Active 27 $636 100 one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Completed -The laws/rules about street/sidewalk biking; consequences Coops in 1915, it won the Gold Medal of the Architectural League for those who break them. Whether any of these laws/rules In addition to ensuring the survival of migratory birds, 2br+ Contract 16 $626 108 of New York in 1917. In the 1920s, a panel of architects should be revised orupdated by the City Council. the program saves energy, reduces factors leading to Sold 12 $636 32 named it "one of the three best public buildings" in the - New bike lanes: Where/when are they coming and where climate change, saves money, and reduces light (30days) , along with the and else are they needed. Tips for dealing with the new 2-way pollution. Lights Out DC joins other highly successful bike lanes for bikers, drivers, and pedestrians. Also, bike the Pan-American Union headquarters building in Condos- Active 13 $357 29 lights-out programs in Chicago, Toronto, Boston, New parking. Washington, D.C. In 1932, a poll of Federal government Coops York City, and , to name a few. architects ranked it as one of the ten top buildings in the 1br Contract 12 $337 21

country. Sold 11 $371 15 The Dupont Circle Citizens (30days) The Temple library was the first public library in DC. Along Association proudly announces with the remains of several past Sovereign Grand that Room and Board will be a Are you involved in community efforts you’d like Commanders, the Temple holds one of the largest Bronze sponsor of the 45th Annual DCCA to know about? Or do you have questions? collections of materials related to Scottish poet and Ask DCCA President Robin Diener. Dupont Circle House Tour & Tea! Freemason Robert Burns. [email protected]

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