FEBRUARY 2018 VILLAGE NEWS Ask Not What Your Village Can Do For You … Ask What … If you are a forward thinker about your life on Capitol Hill, come join a Welcome Meeting of the CHV Advocacy Corps on Friday February 9, from 1:30 to 4:00 at the Northeast Neighborhood Library, 330 7th St. NE. 2017 was a great year of awareness raising and advocacy around community and transportation issues for seniors. Come with your questions and thoughts about the next 10 or 20 Kids of all ages had fun at Capitol Hill Village’s GenFest I, an intergenerational festival to celebrate community years for you. Even if you were not with young and old. Village members monitored games, puzzles, ukulele lessons, and the photo booth; active last year, you are encouraged to celebrated an art project with Maury Elementary School; and shared their life experiences with the younger come and learn about the successes participants. See more photos from the day on Page 9. and the Corps and to participate in planning for the years ahead. At the meeting, we will do four great things: Batter Up! CHV’s Gala is 1. Document and celebrate successes of our work over the past year! an All-Star Spring Fling 2. Eat cake.  continued on page 4 Baseball’s spring training will be HAPPENS EVERY SPRIN in full swing by March 10, the date IT G CONTENTS 2018 of the Capitol Hill Village’s annual 2 Monthly CHV Calendar of Events gala party/fundraiser. The theme, CAPITOL HILL VILLAGE 3 From the Executive Director: Crossing Our appropriately enough, is “It Happens T’s and Dotting Our I’s Every Spring: Batter Up!” and it ALL STAR 4 CHV Advocacy Corps Shapes “Aging in Community” promises to be a home run. 5 From the President: Planning to Plan— The baseball theme will be prominent Strategically throughout, highlighting the fact that GALA 6 Batter Up! CHVs 2018 All-Star Gala 8 CHV Emergency Preparedness Team this summer, our own Nationals Park St. Mark’s nave—dubbed “The Identifies Risks, Begins Work on Plan; will host the Major League Baseball Attend a Community Emergency All-Star Game. Stadium”—will be the centerpiece Response Team (CERT) Training of the fest, sporting a baseball 9 Photos: CHV GenFest I The Gala will be somewhat “Back to diamond dance floor. There will be 10 What’s a Brass Rubbing?—Ask Blanche the Future” with St. Mark’s Church, a “Ticket Booth” in the lobby, and 11 Village Voices: David Ottaway, Vietnam 301 A St. SE, serving as the venue, the church’s Baxter Hall will serve as Veterans panel, Charles Calhoun as it did 10 years ago when the first “The Dugout.” 12 Chiarina Concerts; Feb. 20 Deadline for “Starlight Gala” was launched on a The Raid Play snowy night. The event runs from A familiar emcee will be on hand 13 Getting your Papers in Order; Help for Tech Questions; Option for Getting Fit 7:00 to 10:30 p.m. and will again be a to enliven the crowd, and a DJ will occupy the altar offering a great array 14 Event on Women Journalists; Passages formal affair, though baseball gear and 15 February Events Listing caps are also encouraged.  continued on page 6 February Events. For more information about any event, or to RSVP for an event, call the CHV office at 202-543-1778 during regular office hours (weekdays, 9 am to 5 pm) or email info@ capitolhillvillage.org. NOTE: Check the CHV website for programs that may be added or changed: www.capitolhillvillage.org. SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY 28 29 30 31 FEBRUARY 1 2 3 Petanque, 2 pm, p. 21 Qigong, 10 am, p. 21 Meditation, 12 Noon, Qigong, 10 am, p. 21 Getting Your Papers in HazMat and Second Wind, 12-1:30 p. 21 Mellow Flow Yoga, Order, 2:30–4 pm, p. 15 Shredding pm, p. 21 Mahjong, 2 pm, p. 21 12:30–1:30 pm, p. 21 RSVP by 3 pm for Feb. Pickup, Starting at RSVP by 3 pm for Feb. 2 RSVP by 12 Noon for Social Bridge, 2 pm, p. 21 5 Village Voices, pp. 9 am, p. 15 Getting Papers in Order Feb. 3 HazMat Pickup Games & Puzzles Group, 2–4 11 & 15 pm, p. 15 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Village Voices: David Qigong, 10 am, p. 21 Meditation, 12 Noon, Qigong, 10 am, p. 21 Book Pickup, 9 am, p. 15 NEW! Poetry Ottaway, 7 pm, pp. 11 & 15 Second Wind, 12-1:30 p. 21 Mellow Flow Yoga, CHV Advocacy Corps Readers pm, p. 21 Mahjong, 2 pm, p. 21 12:30–1:30 pm, p. 21 Meeting, 1:30 pm, p. 16 Group, 9–11 RSVP by 3 pm for Feb. 8 Social Bridge, 2 pm, p. 21 RSVP by 3 pm for am, p. 16 Cinephiles Cinephiles, 6 pm, p. 15 Feb. 10 Poetry Reading RSVP by 3 pm for Feb. 9 Book Group; Pickup and Advocacy Corps Feb. 13 Wyze Guyz Meeting Lunch 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Petanque, 2 pm, p. 21 Qigong, 10 am, p. 21 Meditation, 12 Noon, Qigong, 10 am, p. 21 Certified Emergency Paint Pickup, Purls of Wisdom, 4 pm, Second Wind, 12-1:30 p. 21 Mellow Flow Yoga, Response Training, 9 am, p. 17 p. 16 pm, p. 21 Mahjong, 2 pm, p. 21 12:30–1:30 pm, p. 21 10 am –2 pm, p. 17 Urban RSVP by 2 pm for Purls Wyze Guyz RSVP by 3 pm for Feb. Social Bridge, 2 pm, p. 21 Physio-Balance Class, Walkers, of Wisdom Camaraderie Lunch, 2 17 Paint Pickup Games & Puzzles Group, 2–4 12:30 pm, p. 17 9 am, p. 17 pm, p. 16 pm, p. 17 RSVP by 3 pm for: Volunteer Interest New Member Orientation, Feb. 17 Urban Walkers; Happy Hour, 4–5 pm, 3:30 pm, p. 17 Feb. 20 Evening Lit p. 16 Tech Training: Cable TV, Club; & RSVP by 3 pm for Feb. 1 pm, p. 16 Feb. 22 Parkinson’s Support Group 16 Certified Emergency RSVP for Mar. 2–3 Response Training Baltimore Trip 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 Play: President’s Day Qigong, 10 am, p. 21 Meditation, 12 Noon, Qigong, 10 am, p. 21 RSVP by 3 pm for Feb. Handbagged, CHV Office Closed Second Wind, 12-1:30 p. 21 Mellow Flow Yoga, 28 Afternoon Lit Club 2 pm, p. 17 Petanque, 2 pm, p. 21 pm, p. 21 Mahjong, 2 pm, p. 21 12:30–1:30 pm, p. 21 Evening Literary Club, Tech Training: Social Social Bridge, 2 pm, p. 21 6–7:30 pm, p. 18 Media, 2:45 pm, p. 16 Parkinson’s Support Group, Signup Deadline for RSVP by 3 pm for 3 pm, p. 18 Mar. 18 Play The Raid, Feb. 22 Village Opera Office Volunteer Training, p. 18 Society & Feb. 26 4–7 pm, p. 18 RSVP by 3 pm for Feb. Brown Bag Lunch with Village Opera Society, 22 Office Volunteer CHV Staff 5 pm, p. 18 Training & Feb. 22 Audio Audio Book Club, Book Club 7 pm, p. 18 25 26 27 28 MARCH 1 2 3 Petanque, 2 pm, p. 21 Qigong, 10 am, p. 21 Meditation, 12 Noon, Qigong, 10 am, p. 21 CHV Trip to Baltimore, p. 19 Brown Bag Lunch with Second Wind, 12-1:30 p. 21 Mellow Flow Yoga, CHV Staff, 12–1 pm, p. 18 pm, p. 21 Mahjong, 2 pm, p. 21 12:30–1:30 pm, p. 21 HazMat and Purls of Wisdom, 4 pm, Afternoon Literary Social Bridge, 2 pm, p. 21 Shredding p. 19 Club, Games & Puzzles Group, 2–4 Pickup, Caregiver Support 1–2:30 pm, p. 19 pm, p. 19 Starting at Group, 6:30 pm, p. 19 RSVP by 3 pm for Mar. 3 9 am, p. 19 RSVP by 2 pm for Purls of HazMat Pickup Wisdom FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR CAPITOL HILL VILLAGE Crossing Our T’s and To reach us: 202-543-1778 (M–F, 9 am–5 pm) Dotting Our I’s 2018 is the year of infrastructure at Computer [email protected] Capitol Hill Village. Like any car, resources. We are www.capitolhillvillage.org house, or person—we all need some working with an maintenance and upgrades to keep IT firm to create Capitol Hill Village us healthy and working our best. In a new computer system to meet our 725 8th Street SE, 2nd Flr. North 2017, at CHV, we launched a couple of changing needs. Ten years ago, Neal Washington, DC 20003 new programs, hired new staff, and Mann, self-taught genius that he is, welcomed new members. In 2018, we built a system that has been terrific Connect with CHV at: are focusing on internal projects to in documenting our work, creating a sharpen our own tools so that we can calendar, managing membership, etc. do our work better. When I think of what he designed—it Program policies and procedures. The blows my mind! Nevertheless, we To unsubscribe, please send an e-mail to need a newer system, and fortunately, [email protected] volunteer team and the Care Services team are both creating stronger IT systems have evolved a great deal To become a member, go to www. protocols, trainings, and materials to and there are some very good options. capitolhillvillage.org and click on “Join.” support programs and services. This We are using Salesforce and having it Dues can be paid online through PayPal, way, if we all win the great lottery and customized. We are building this out in or call the office at 202-543-1778. move to Hawaii—someone else can three phases because it is very expensive and we want to be sure to learn as we To support the Village, go to www. take over! Seriously, this is a part of go along about aspects that we can capitolhillvillage.org and click on our being clearer in defining what we improve. The first phase (membership, “Support/Donate.” Capitol Hill Village is do and how we do it so that we can be calendar and volunteers) is being a 501(c)3 charitable institution, and your sure to be as efficient and effective as designed now. We have a good group gift is tax deductible. All donations are possible. Also, we want to make sure of brave volunteers who are assisting in welcome! that volunteers feel valued, well trained, and well thanked for their work on our the discovery and feedback on the new behalf. Thanks to the many individuals system so we can make sure it meets who are playing a role in giving us the needs of volunteers. In 2017, all staff feedback and helping us understand and office computers were replaced, so how we can continually improve. we are in a strong position on that point for a few more years. Membership. Likewise, we are looking at how we can make joining and Counting Success and Failures. The of the National Capital Area belonging to Capitol Hill Village a elements discussed above are parts CHV #55474 better experience. Part of this will be of our ability to measure our impact among community members and Capitol Hill Village Leaders a membership directory for interested members to have a list of members make sure that what we are doing is Tamara Coln, Programs & Services really making a difference in helping Coordinator and their interests. Another part of this is a revamped new member seniors live healthy, safe, independent Heather Foote, Transportation Manager lives in the community. As discussed Katie Garber, Director of Care Services orientation, which is occurring more in an earlier column (CHV News; and Community Outreach frequently and will have more peers Phil Guire, President of the Board and members there. New members are December, 2017) we are also developing Tomeka Lee, Membership Champion going to receive a notebook to serve evaluation and performance measures Christopher Rios, Office Manager as their repository for CHV resources. for our programs. Samantha Schiffman, Care Services It will have documents on how CHV As you can see from our busy calendar Coordinator works, how to be a volunteer, how to we are still supporting lots of activities Molly Singer, Executive Director participate or lead an affinity group, and learning opportunities. At the Meghan Wrinkle, Interim Membership Associate etc. We realized that we talk about this same time, we are making sure that La’Trista Harris, Intern a great deal, but we thought that giving our internal systems are strong and people resources and a book to collect prepared so the organization can Capitol Hill Village News Team information from meetings, events, thrive over time in the same way that Editor: Karen Stuck educational sessions, etc., would help Capitol Hill Village members are Web Site: Neal Mann with centralizing and organizing. working to do so!

February 2018 Capitol Hill Village News • 3 Ask Not What Your Village Can Do For You continued from page 1 3. Discuss 2018 goals of the CHV The CHV Advocacy Corps in 2017: ANC commissioners, DC Council Advocacy Corps and how we can We showed up, sharpened members, city officials, and remain effective advocates for seniors. our elevator speeches, V.O. developers now know and respect 4. Organize working groups and VOLUNTEER Capitol Hill Village members. and sent emails to let OPPORTUNITY committees. the powers-that-be know Opportunities abound for us to make our voices heard to get the The CHV Advocacy Corps, with that Capitol Hill Village 49 advocates participating, wrote members are serious players services many of us will need as we letters, emailed, testified, and when we ask for what we need as we age on Capitol Hill. turned out to help the community “age into the future.” Best part: We To RSVP for the February 9 meeting, understand and embrace opportunities had fun getting together to make all contact CHV at 202-543-1778 or info@ to support seniors. this happen. capitolhillvillage.org. CHV Advocacy Shapes “Aging in Community” By Mary Proctor and Girls Club building at 17th The Village is celebrating its 10th St. and Massachusetts Ave. SE. Anniversary in 2017 and 2018. In the co-housing proposal What will the next 10 years by Joel Kelty and partner bring us? organizations, there will be Ten years ago, I was 65 and now 29 senior independent living I’m 75. The good news is that I apartments with a bedroom, am still as active physically and kitchen, living area, and bath, mentally as I was 10 years ago. plus two apartments for home The bad news is that in 10 years, care assistants. There will be we mid-70s people will be in our common kitchen and dining mid-80s. I hope I will still be space, a mail room, and maybe mentally and physically active. guest quarters, rooms for But I also may be struggling to hobbies, communal gardens, or even hot tubs. get up and down the two flights making developers and city leaders of stairs in our townhouse. Or, my aware of our numbers and of the Support by individual CHV members husband Bill Matuszeski or I—or both potential for innovative ways to ensure at several Advisory Neighborhood of us—may be struggling with memory, that our lives can be good lives well Commission meetings and a city cognitive, or vision loss that makes it into old age. Currently, DC residents disposition hearing helped persuade hard to drive or get a meal together. over the age of 65 outnumber children the DC government to select this What would we love the Village to look in traditional public or charter public co-housing project over a proposal for like when we move from the mid-70s to schools by 25 percent. a typical multi-family condo building. Co-housing is not everybody’s cup the mid-80s? Or, from mid-80s to mid- Most of us would like to have a rich life 90s? I am now thinking that we want of tea, but it is designed to create a in the future even as we begin to be less mutually supportive community our long-time goal of “aging in place” to mobile and probably less mentally sharp. morph into “aging in community.” that helps prevent the isolation and We want developers to create apartment vulnerability that can accompany old In the winter of 2017, Molly Singer buildings designed to stimulate a age. Now, CHV members will have an helped us launch the Advocacy Corps, community within the building. option, but continued support by CHV headed by Board Member Susan Apartments work for people who can members will be needed at least over the Sedgewick, to formulate a vision of no longer climb stairs. Moreover, if a next two years as the project works its what “aging in community” might building creates a community, there is way through the final approval process. look like and to lay out a strategy for less chance that older residents will be influencing City Council members, the isolated and vulnerable. The second item is support for bringing D.C. government, building developers, the innovative federal program PACE Village members have also expressed (Person-centered All-inclusive Care and Capitol Hill residents to help bring support for two innovations that could about our vision. for the Elderly) to DC. PACE programs enable some of us to lead richer lives 10 are funded by Medicare, Medicaid, The first challenge is to create a strong and 20 years from now. The first is to and occasionally by long-term care build co-housing in the renovated Boys voice for those of us who are aging,  continued on page 5

4 • February 2018 Capitol Hill Village News FROM THE PRESIDENT Planning to Plan—Strategically As 2018 gets underway, the Capitol Hill or enhanced through the next strategic Village Board is continuing to look planning process wherein we develop back and look forward. Completion of a new set of organizational goals and the 2013–2017 Comprehensive Plan is organize board work accordingly. This winding down, and work is beginning is our dilemma—how to strengthen on the next strategic planning where we are today without re-creating process. As part of that, we are closely the wheel just before strategic planning. examining committee needs, ensuring To date, we have created a Finance that the Board is working smart. Committee comprised of two Board The CHV by-laws were written with members (Angela Beckham and John Phil Guire, CHV Board President only one required committee, the Gordon) and two at-large members Executive Committee, which, during my (Elliot Eisenberg and Nancy Hartnagel). tenure, also provided financial overview The Finance Committee will meet six Board Treasurer Angela Beckham, and managed board governance. times a year to review financials and Secretary Jeff Gibardi, and founder However, as the organization is growing proposed spending, will work with the Geoff Lewis. and evolving, we are working to ensure annual auditors, and will work with the CHV has also been researching the a stronger Board and, thereby, stronger executive director on the budget. The possibility of creating a Governance organizational management. To that finance committee may also take on Committee, which would assess the end, the Board held a retreat (see other assignments as the need emerges. goals and functions of the Board, November 2017, CHV News) and has We have also formalized the Advocacy define committee structure, monitor worked individually, in pairs, and in Committee which is chaired by Susan board member performance and small groups to research best practices, Sedgewick and includes Mary Procter, decorum, and establish board operating hold conversations with members, and Vira Sisolak, Bill Sisolak, and Molly norms. The committee would also be conduct an assessment of what is needed Singer. The role of this committee is to responsible for recruiting, training, and makes the most sense for us. promote policies, programs, facilities, and onboarding new board members. The current CHV Board members, housing, services, and amenities that The Board as a whole vets and votes much like our founders, are torn recognize the needs, interests, and on new members. The governance between establishing lots of committees contributions of older adults in the committee would also be responsible with charges in a formal manner or community. The Advocacy Committee for developing board membership. creating working groups and task forces is supported by our 49-person Next steps are for the Executive for specific projects. From the Board’s Advocacy Corps, whose members Committee to review the findings of history, it seems that targeted task forces conduct hands-on work to advocate for the Board work to date and to make and committees have a stronger focus issues (see pages 1 and 4 for more). a recommendation for committees at and sense of purpose than permanent Of course, we also have the Executive the next Board meeting on March 13. committees. Currently, committees Committee which includes myself, Tell me your thoughts—email me at: that we are forming may be changed Board Vice President John Gordon, [email protected].

CHV Advocacy Shapes “Aging in Community” continued from page 4 insurance, to provide a place where There apparently is support in the care, and skilled nursing, which would frail older people can spend the day in Bowser administration and the City likely be practical options for some engaging activities and still get all their Council to fund the second phase in the CHV members suffering from mental medical and rehab needs taken care of. 2019 budget, which would then allow an or physical disabilities as they age. This gives respite time for a person’s initial center for 200 participants to be Currently, virtually all such facilities caregiver, and it simplifies the challenge launched in 2020. Continued support are located far away from Capitol Hill. of coordination and transportation for by individual CHV members will be If they were near or on Capitol Hill, medical care. needed in this upcoming budget season. the Village could help keep residents The CHV Advocacy Corps testified Looking ahead, the Advocacy Corps connected to the community. three times last spring to support a would like to bring to Northeast or PACE program in DC, and the first step Southeast DC innovative models of was included in the 2018 city budget. residential assisted living, memory

February 2018 Capitol Hill Village News • 5 Batter Up! CHV’s 2018 Gala continued from page 1 of tunes. Food will consist of light fare and libations served buffet style, CHV SALON DINNERS and the program will feature the Salon Dinner guests that have been emcee leading a live auction of several confirmed include names such as James prestigious prizes. “Jim” Jones, the distinguished Democratic A number of impressive silent auction congressman from Oklahoma who served items will be offered, as in the past. as Chair of the House Budget Committee These items will include the usual and was later U.S. Ambassador to Mexico intriguing set of vacation homes during the Clinton Administration. Also and numerous “Salon Dinners,” a available for bids will be Chris Matthews, signature Gala item where attendees nationally known political raconteur, anchor bid to break bread with fascinating of MSNBC’s “Hardball,” and author of the speakers in distinctive Capitol Hill recent book Bobby Kennedy: A Raging Spirit. homes. Reservations for these dinners For literary types, Salon guests are offered will cost $75–$100 per person. the chance to chat with Judith Viorst, Gala reservations will be $125 per prolific writer, newspaper journalist, and person with the option for individuals psychoanalysis researcher who is perhaps and organizations to reserve eight- best known for her writing for children. For person tables for $1,000. Reservations journalistic types, the auction has Mark can be made online at www. Sherman, the Associated Press’s Supreme CHVgala18.Eventbrite.com (there is Court reporter since 2006 and a proven draw a link to this site on the CHV home as a Salon Dinner speaker. For local politics page in the Gala countdown box). junkies, Phil Mendelson, longtime political Questions? Contact Linda Goodman activist and City Council at-large member Chris Matthews (top) and author Judith Virost are among the Salon Dinner guests at [email protected] or (202) 543- who became the Council’s Chairman in this year. 1778 or Ann Grace at (301) 520-3584. 2012, will appear at another home. Check www.capitolhillvillage.org/gala A complete list of salon diners will appear in the March CHV News. for the latest Gala information.

VACATION HOMES More details on these and other offerings and will appear in the March CHV News. 1. St. Michael’s Boathouse. Any two nights between April and December 2018 by mutual agreement. Value $300, minimum bid $200. 7. One-room Schoolhouse in the Small size, great fun at the St Michael’s Boathouse. Shenandoah Valley Foothills. Sleeps 2. A Vermont Walden “with The Baja house is close to great recreation. amenities.” Available for any week by six—two queen beds and two twins. mutual agreement except during the 4. SUV and Casita in Baja. Available 8. Fire Island, Beach House New York New Year’s holiday, a couple of weeks in for any week by mutual agreement. Weekend. July, and the month of August. Value Value $1,000, minimum bid $750. 9. A Week at Cape May. Sleeps eight in $900, minimum bid $600. 5. Rehobeth Condo. Available any week two queen beds, one full bed, and two 3. A Week on the Coast of Maine. Any by mutual agreement. Value $920. twin sets. mutually agreeable week within one minimum bid $700. 10. Step Back in Time with a Week in year. Value $1500, minimum 6. Philadelphia Condo. Any two nights Thousand Island Park, NY. Available bid $1,000. by mutual agreement. Value $500, any mutually agreed upon week, early June to mid-October 2018. minimum bid $300.  continued on page 7

6 • February 2018 Capitol Hill Village News Batter Up! CHV’s 2018 Gala continued from page 6

GALA SPONSORSHIPS S EVE IT HAPPEN RY SPRING You don’t have to be as rich or cantankerous as George Steinbrenner to have 2018 your part in sponsoring the event. Buy a Stadium, Buy a Team, Win the CAPITOL HILL VILLAGE League Championship … don’t strike out on your opportunity to be a part of the owner’s box by becoming a sponsor of the CHV 2018 Gala. ALL STAR For more information contact: Molly Singer: [email protected] or (202) 543-1778. GALA PERFECT GAME: $10,000

Co-sponsored naming right Host committee RESERVATIONS OPEN! Red carpet star/logo at event Full-page, inside cover ad in $125 per person program Name/logo on: invitation, Reserve 8-person tables for $1,000! all signage, event multi- 20 tickets with reserved media display, website and seating You can make reservations with a credit card by: newsletter Recognition from the podium Going to the Eventbrite web site: www.CHVgala18.Eventbrite.com; NO HITTER: $7,500 Going to the CHV website www. capitolhillvillage.org/gala and Name/logo on: invitation, Full-page ad in program clicking the on that page; all signage, event multi- 10 tickets with reserved media display, website and seating Calling the CHV office at (202) newsletter 543-1778. Recognition from the podium Host committee Another payment option is to mail a check with a completed registration GRAND SLAM: $5,000 form to Capitol Hill Village, 725 8th St SE, Washington DC 20003. Members will be receiving a printed copy of the Name/logo on: invitation, Full-page ad in program all signage, event multi- registration form in the mail. If you 8 tickets with reserved need extras, please print the form on media display, website and seating newsletter page 23 or download and the form at Recognition from the podium www.capitolhillvillage.org/gala. Host committee The value of each reservation is $60, and the remainder is tax deductible to HOME RUN: STAND UP TRIPLE: the extent allowed by law. $3,000 $1,250

Name/logo on: signage, Host committee UNIFORMS website and newsletter Quarter-page ad in Whether you are home or away — the Host committee program gala is black-tie optional; this year Half-page ad in program 4 tickets attendees are invited to wear their loyalties on their sleeves. Expect to see 6 tickets with reserved a room full of Curly Ws, a smattering seating of O’s, and almost certainly a few Damn Yankees. Please no chewing Many thanks to our major sponsors! No Hitter: National Capital Bank. tobacco or sunflower seeds. Grand Slam: Gary + Michael Real Estate, Phil and Jeanne Real Estate, Tom Faison Real Estate. Home Run: Collington, Insight Property Group.

February 2018 Capitol Hill Village News • 7 CHV Emergency Preparedness Team Identifies Risks, Begins Work on Plan By Mike Grace The top ten planning Creation of the Emergency priorities are: Preparedness Plan for Capitol Hill Extreme hot Village is moving forward with weather (a long establishment of an Executive spell with high Committee to oversee the project temperatures) and Committees for Risk/Response, Civil disturbance Communication/Notification, Partnerships, Training/Education, Transportation and Volunteers. The committees are disaster (Metro/ working toward the goal of having an train derailment/ Emergency Preparedness Plan in place explosion) by the end of 2018. Structural fire (involving multiple The Education Committee developed buildings) a Go Kit that we all should put Meetings held last year by CHV together to be able to grab and take generated a good response with Epidemic/pandemic with us if we have to evacuate or that about 24 people indicating interest in Extreme air pollution/bad air we could use while sheltering in place. working on a project to create a CHV quality In the coming months, we plan to have Emergency Preparedness Plan. CHV Winter storm/blizzard a program to provide information on has benefitted from the help of Peggy what is needed in a Go Kit and to help Keller, who worked in the District of Severe weather/thunderstorm people assemble one. Columbia Department of Health on Electrical power failure (3–4 days emergency planning, The Task Force will share or longer) additional information V.O. We have completed the first phase, Communications failure with CHV members as VOLUNTEER which was an analysis of the types of OPPORTUNITY With the risks identified, the Task the plan evolves. If you emergencies likely to affect Capitol would like to be a part of Hill. The Task Force identified 18 Force can start planning how best to respond to them. the planning effort, please contact the emergencies most likely to occur and CHV Office at 202-543-1778 or info@ to have a serious impact on the Village. capitolhillvillage.org.

Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) Capitol Hill Village has organized a The February 16 agenda: Community Emergency Response 10:00 – 11:00 a.m. Team (CERT) training class on Disaster Preparedness; Fire Safety February 16 from 10 a.m.–2:00 p.m. and Utility Controls at the Northeast Neighborhood Library, 330 Seventh St. NE. This 11:00 – 12:00 Noon class teaches CPR and other skills Hazardous Materials Safety; Basic that can help us better prepare for Disaster preparedness and safety Medical Operations an emergency. At the end of the class training program equips citizens 12:00 – 12:30 p.m. you will get a fully-stocked Go Kit with the basic skills necessary to Light lunch provided back-pack. prepare and protect themselves, 12:30 – 2:00 p.m. The training will be provided by their families, community and on Terrorism; Active Shooter Awareness SERVE DC, the Mayor’s Office the job during emergency situations and Response on volunteerism. and disasters.

8 • February 2018 Capitol Hill Village News GenFest I at the Hill Center

Thank you to all the wonderful volunteers and all who attended that made our first GenFest a success! And, don’t forget to check out the Maury Elementary art project, which is on exhibition at the Hill Center for a few more weeks.

February 2018 Capitol Hill Village News • 9 What’s a Brass Rubbing?—Ask Blanche By Deborah Hanlon While attending a painting class in London in the 1970’s, Blanche Hirsch, Capitol Hill Village member and volunteer, learned about the art of making “brass rubbings.” She became an enthusiast, and between 1972 and 1976 created over 100 brass rubbings, many of which now hang on the walls of her Capitol Hill home. Blanche and her Australian friend, Judy, learned how to make the beautiful brass rubbings from a book and then bought the rubbing supplies from the only “Rubbing Store” in London, which was on Church Street. Over a period of four years, the two ventured around England making rubbings of 12th–16th Century brass Blanche Hirsch holding an “unmounted” brass plaques on coffins and sarcophagi in rubbing she made from All Hallows Church in village churches, cemeteries, and even London. On her left is the oak chest full of her rubbings. London’s Westminster Abbey. There are over 8,000 monumental her stories are as interesting as the brasses around the United Kingdom. monumental brasses. She recalls The flat metal plates were designed climbing on the three-foot high to be lasting memorials to prominent sarcophagus belonging to Queen people and represent a significant part Ann’s father, Thomas Boleyn, the Earl of UK history because they are dated of Wiltshire, and rubbing for three records of civilian, military, and noble hours. She said she even annoyed dress styles as well as the popular some of the tourists when she made culture. The earliest monumental rubbings in Westminster Abbey. brasses were made around 1250 and Other monumental brass rubbings the latest installed around 1600. in her collection are from Ann Brass rubbing was originally a largely Boleyn’s Tudor-era estate in Kent and British art form used to reproduce Sir J. de Cobhan of Cobhan, Kent. She the ancient commemorative plaques did rubbings at the Eton Chapel and found in churches and cemeteries. St. Helen’s Church in Bishopsgate, The rubbings record textures of the London. brass plaque, and are created by laying Brass rubbing artists were required a sheet of paper on top of the plaque, to make an appointment to rub taping it down, and rubbing the a specific bronze and were never paper with a “heelball,” a waxy glob allowed to rub during church of black crayon. The design appears services. Brass plaques are slowly on the paper with the engraved lines worn away by the rubbing process remaining white. They are usually four and today, rubbing of original brass to five feet long and are the same scale memorials is banned in England. as the original plaque. Blanche had numerous adventures Rubbing of the wife of Sir R. St. Leger, Kent, while making the rubbings and England. 1470

10 • February 2018 Capitol Hill Village News Village Voices Waiting to be Heard… Meet and learn from your illustrious Capitol Hill neighbors in informal, free, public discussions about social, January Voices: CHAW and Sappho economic, and political topics. February 5: Revolution and Counter- revolution in the Arab World 7:00–8:00 p.m. at the Southeast Public Library, 403 Seventh St. SE (Note alternate location) David B. Ottaway, a Middle East Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center, worked 35 years for The Washington Post as a foreign correspondent in the Middle East, Africa and Southern Europe and later as a national security and investigative reporter in Washington before retiring in 2006. He witnessed Anwar Sadat’s assassination in Egypt; the fall of Haile Selassie in Ethiopia; Nelson Mandela’s walk to freedom; one January’s Village Voices featured a fascinating conversation with Marcus Kyd, artistic director and million French people fleeing Algeria at co-founder of Taffety Punk, the theater company at Capitol Hill Arts Workshop, who is work-shopping independence, and the last Portuguese fragments of Sappho’s poetry as opportunities for micro theatrical events. Kyd and cast members spoke government ship departing Luanda at about how they pieced lyrics from stone fragments that carried her words. Angola’s bloody independence. Ottaway has won numerous awards for his reporting at home and abroad March 5: Vietnam Veterans Share April 2: Did Ulysses S. Grant Invent and was twice nominated a finalist for Their Experiences the Internet? the Pulitzer Prize. His current book, Revolution and Counterrevolution in 7:00–8:00 p.m. at the Northeast Public 7:00-8:00 p.m. at the Northeast Public the Arab World, is about the fallout Library, 220 Seventh St. NE Library, 220 Seventh St. NE from the Arab Spring and the new 1968 was a crucial year in the Vietnam Charles Calhoun will talk about his Arab order. War: the Tet offensive, the bloody battle recent book, The Presidency of Ulysses of Khe Sanh, the My Lai massacre, S. Grant. As a political historian with a and Lyndon Johnson’s announcement vast knowledge of 19th Century America that he would not seek another term as and an extensive array of original President, all happened in the first three sources at his command, Calhoun months. The Voices panel includes approaches Grant’s presidency not as four men who served in the uniformed an incongruous or inconsequential military during the war: Richard sequel to his military career but instead Neal (Marines), Michael Grace (Coast as the polestar of American public life Guard), and Joseph Kerr and Gary during a crucial decade in the nation’s Peterson (Army). They will discuss political development. He explores their experiences during the war, their Grant’s leadership style and traces his reflections on it since, and what they contributions to the office of President, think of the current wave of television including creating a White House programs and films and books on the staff, employing modern technology Vietnam war years. to promote the mobility of the presidency, and developing strong ties with congressional leaders to enhance David Ottaway, Middle East Scholar, Wilson Center executive influence over legislation.

February 2018 Capitol Hill Village News • 11 Chiarina—A Musical Gem on Capitol Hill Capitol Hill neighbors and CHV the music of Brahms professional musicians, the Chiarina DISCOUNT and Schubert. St. Mark’s Players have announced their 2018 OFFERED! Church, 301 A St. SE. season, which will bring wonderful Tickets: half-price music and excellent discounts to ($7.50) online at chiarina.org with Capitol Hill Village members. discount code CHV50, $20 at the 2018 Chiarina Chamber door, $10 students. Players program: Saturday, April 28, 4:00 p.m. Mythos and Identity, featuring Saturday, February 10, 4:00 p.m. the music of Françaix, Ginastera, Here and Now: Conversations for Piazzolla, and Fauré. St. Mark’s String Quartet, featuring the music Church, 301 A St. SE. Tickets: half- of innovative American composers price ($7.50) online at chiarina.org living and working today. Hill Center, with discount code CHV50, $20 at 921 Pennsylvania Ave. SE. Tickets: $15 the door, $10 students online at chiarina.org, $20 at the door, Sunday, March 4, 7:30 p.m. $10 students. Note: no CHV discount Romance and Tragedy, featuring NSO for this concert. concertmaster Nurit Bar-Josef and

February Deadline for Next Theater Group Play Sign up by February 20 for the next play selected by the Village Theatre Group, The Raid by Idris Goodwin, produced by the Theater Alliance at the Anacostia Playhouse. The performance will be a 2:00 p.m. matinee on Sunday, March 18. Tickets are $30 each, and may be reserved by contacting the Village office at 202-543-1778 or info@ capitolhillvillage.org. There will be a gathering with light refreshments at a member’s home following the play. See the CHV online website for more details about purchasing tickets. The Raid dramatizes an imagined debate between two American icons: Scene from The Raid by Idris Goodwin being an ally and an accomplice, the Photo: Chicago Tribune white abolitionist John Brown and implications of race in social protest, black abolitionist and social reformer and the limits of radicalism in the age not been set for these shows, but Frederick Douglass. On the eve of of #Resistance.” performances we attend are almost Brown’s raid on the federal armory The CHV Theatre Group has planned always weekend matinees in the in Harpers Ferry, these men argue middle of the month. Watch for details the merits of violence and pacifism, two more plays for this season: Translations by Irish playwright Brian about these shows as they become order and chaos, and the possibility of available in the CHV News and the a nation free of the scourge of slavery. Friel at Studio Theater in April and Botticelli in the Fire by Canadian online events calendar on the CHV Set in the pre-Civil War period, webpage (www.capitolhillvillage.org). the play is nevertheless timely, as it playwright Jordan Tannahill at Woolly “examines the difference between Mammoth in June. The dates have

12 • February 2018 Capitol Hill Village News Getting Your Papers in Order Got a Tech Question? Call Mo! Hi, my name is Mo, and I am an 11th grade student from Blyth Templeton Academy. I’ll be spending Monday and Thursday afternoons, from 2:30–4:30 p.m., volunteering at the Capitol Hill Village office to complete my required service hours for school. I specialize in technological help and can help CHV members with many of their gadgets: Google and all of its applications, smart phone apps, iPhones, laptops, Microsoft windows, printer problems, and much more! I will be open for questions or for teaching sessions. I am also able to come to your home if you need me to. If you come to the CHV office for tech help, remember to bring your device along with its charger. Organizing personal documents to help out your On a personal level, I want to go family and friends who are left to settle your estate into the tech field to learn how to is a challenge. Sheridan Harvey related her personal create websites and programs. In experiences at a CHV program, which set in motion organization of small groups of CHV members and my free time, I like playing the friends to assist and support one another in getting piano and listening to music. I their documents in order. am also into learning how things work, from computers to robots. I like technology because of how complex it is on the inside but how Another Option for Getting Fit….. simple it becomes on the outside. Don’t want to join a gym but need classes a week, $80 for two classes a During my time volunteering to get your New Year’s resolution week or $15 per class. with CHV, I hope to learn a lot going? Come join a group of mature The first class is free but please bring about this community and show adults working out together in your your own mat. Classes are taught by the members how technology can neighborhood. Dega Schembri, Co-Owner of City simplify their lives. Classes are held Monday, Wednesday, Fitness Gym in Cleveland Park and and Friday from 8:00–8:50 a.m. former instructor at the Supreme Monday classes are held at Capitol Court Exercise program started by Buy from Amazon Hill Presbyterian Church, 201 Justice Sandra Day O’Connor. She has … give to CHV Fourth St., SE, where the focus is on been in the fitness industry since 1983. When you shop at Amazon strengthening exercises using weights For more information, contact Dega using this link or https://smile. and resistance bands. at [email protected] or by amazon.com/ch/20-5150809, Wednesday and Friday classes are phone at (202) 641-4993. This is not held at the Eastern Market North Hall a Capitol Hill Village event, so please Amazon will donate 0.5% of the with 30 minutes of aerobic exercises do not contact the Village office with purchase price back to Capitol followed by toning and stretching. questions. Hill Village. Classes are $95 a month for three

February 2018 Capitol Hill Village News • 13 Writers Hail Women Journalists Capitol Hill A long-time Capitol Hill resident, Sims Danger in the Stanford White Family Village member has published three nonfiction books, and The Absent Hand: A Meditation Patsy Sims will including The Klan and Can Somebody on our Landscape Now, a just- participate in Shout Amen!, named a noteworthy completed reportorial essay. She was a discussion: book of 1988 by the New York Times on the founding writing staff of The Women in Book Review. She co-authored with Washington Monthly and a staff writer Journalism, Charles Guggenheim the narration for The New Yorker for 20 years. Yesterday and for the Academy Award-nominated Moderating the discussion will be Patsy Sims Today, at East documentary The Klan: A Legacy Pamela Haag, author of The Gunning City Bookshop, of Hate in America. Prior to writing of America: Business and the Making 645 Pennsylvania Ave. SE, on Thursday, books, she was a newspaper staff writer of the American Gun Culture, and March 1 at 6:30 p.m. and editor, and she directed Goucher Marriage Confidential: Love in the Post- The event celebrates the new anthology, College’s MFA program in creative Romantic Age. She was the recipient The Stories We Tell: Classic True nonfiction from 2001-2014. of the 2012 Sidney Award for her essay Tales by America’s Greatest Women Joining Patsy in the discussion will on the perils of sentimentalism in the Journalists, edited by Sims and be Suzannah Lessard, author of social medial age. published by The Sager Group. The Architect of Desire: Beauty and PASSAGES… Joe Shaffer, a longtime member When healthy, Joe could often be seen “Passages” notes the passing of Village and volunteer with the Village and a using his wooden cane to negotiate the members as well as other significant faithful parishioner at Christ Church, streets between various locations on events such as anniversaries, out-of-area Washington Parish, died December the Hill and his apartment near the moves, major awards, etc. If you know of 28. corner of Fourth and M Streets, SE. He a Member who has experienced a passage, please send a brief paragraph to the spent much of 2017 moving in and out In his more than two decades on Newsletter editor at karenstuck@comcast. Capitol Hill, Joe was a distinctive of the hospital, battling pneumonia net. Please confirm that the member or figure, always eager to contribute his and other maladies. He said this past their family/representative agrees with energy, whether as a CHV volunteer summer that, when he died, he wanted publishing the information. or as a liturgist in church. Despite an to be remembered simply as “that nice extensive list of physical ailments, he guy, Joe Shaffer.” By Bill Woodward. strived to be of good cheer and loved the company of friends. Those who Sonya Conly Honored engaged him in conversation found him often feisty but quick to laugh and knowledgeable on a broad range of topics ranging from the ancient classics (especially Plato), to literature (George Bernard Shaw), to current events (U.S. politics and the Middle East), to the work of his favorite film directors (John Huston and Elia Kazan). Joe’s ambition was to be a professor of comparative religion, a dream that— partly for reasons of health—was never realized. However, he did have a Sonya Conly (left) was honored at a Capitol Hill Village coffee party for her chance to go on a Jesuit retreat, learn lengthy service on the DC Pedestrian Advisory Council. Vira Sisolak, right, about Islam in Saudi Arabia, and study Sonya’s predecessor on the Council, hosted the get-together. Hinduism in Sri Lanka.

14 • February 2018 Capitol Hill Village News Upcoming CHV Events for February 2018 Check the CHV website for programs that may be added: www.capitolhillvillage.org

Thursday, February 1, 2:00–4:00 p.m. Please RSVP to all events, and let the CHV office know Labyrinth Games & Puzzles, 645 Pennsylvania Ave. SE if you need a ride, by calling 202-543-1778 during Games and Puzzles Group regular office hours (9 am to 5 pm) or by e-mailing [email protected] Join other CHV members and their friends for two hours of brain-stretching, bantering fun. Owner Kathleen and her colleagues will introduce you to new games that they like, Monday, February 5, 7:00–8:00 p.m. and teach you to play them. Southeast Public Library—Note Alternate Location Open to All Village Voices: Revolution and Counter- Friday, February 2, 2:30–4:00 p.m. Revolution in the Arab World Northeast Neighborhood Library, 330 Seventh St. NE Note: Signup deadline is 3 p.m., Friday, February 2 Getting Your Papers in Order Retired Washington Post foreign correspondent David B. Ottaway will discuss the changing environment in the Note: Signup deadline is 3 p.m., Tuesday, January 30 Middle East. See story on page 11. This is a follow-up to the January 18 program at which Reservations required. Open to all. people could indicate interest in creating small groups of 4 or 5 persons, who will work together to support and assist one another in identifying the end-of-life documents Thursday, February 8, 6:00–7:30 p.m. needed, what they should contain, and where they should Private Home be located. If you could not attend the January 18, but are Cinephiles interested, you are welcome to attend this meeting to learn more about how the small groups will work. Note: Signup deadline is 3 p.m., Tuesday, February 6 Open to All Participants should see at least three of the following films for discussion: All the Money in the World; Downsizing; Film Stars Don`t Die in Liverpool; I, Tonya; Phantom Saturday, February 3, 9:00 a.m. Thread; and The Post. Your home Reservations required. Hazardous Waste and Shredding Pickup See February 17 Entry for Paint Pick-up Friday, February 9, 9:00 a.m. NOTE: Signup deadline is Noon, Wednesday, January 31 Your Home Hazardous materials and personal papers will be picked up Book Pickup from CHV members’ homes for delivery to the District’s safe disposal site. Personal papers (medical records or financial Note: Signup deadline is 3 p.m., Thursday, February 8 files) will be shredded at the drop-off site and viewed by the Books, CD’s, videos or DVD’s are picked up for donation to CHV delivery team to ensure they are destroyed. the Friends of the Southeast Neighborhood Library. If you Hazardous wastes for pickup include house cleaners, have extra books, CD’s, videos or DVD’s that you would batteries, televisions, computers/accessories, and other items like to donate, please call the office to let CHV know the not accepted in weekly home trash pickup. quantity of items you have and to receive instructions for the pickup. (Place items in a visible area outside your home, Capitol Hill Village recommends that you remove your hard labeled so volunteers can identify.) drive from computers you are disposing in the pickup. If you need assistance doing so, call the Village office at 202-543- Please DO NOT include travel books older than 5 years old, 1778 or e-mail [email protected] to arrange for a any books in poor condition (old, mold, discolored, worn or volunteer to assist with the drive. torn), or out-dated business, economics and technical books. Members Only Reservations required. Members only.  continued on page 16

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Friday, February 9, 1:30–4:00 p.m. Tuesday, February 13, 1:00 p.m. Northeast Neighborhood Library, 330 Seventh St. NE Tunnicliff’s Tavern, 222 Seventh St. SE CHV Advocacy Corps Annual Meeting Wyze Guyz Camaraderie Lunch Note: Signup deadline is 3 p.m., Thursday, February 8 Note: Signup deadline is 3:00 p.m., Friday, February 9 If you are a forward thinker Join other men in an informal, Dutch-treat gathering at a about your life on Capitol Hill, Capitol Hill restaurant to get to know each other better and ADVOCACY CORPS come to a meeting of the CHV relax over tavern fare and good conversation. Advocacy Corps. Participate in Members AC MMXVI CHV Advocacy by reviewing 2017 successes and creating strategies for 2018. See stories on pages 1 and 4. Thursday, February 13, 4:00–5:00 p.m. Capitol Hill Village Office, 725 Eighth St. (second floor) Saturday, February 10, 9:00–11:00 a.m. Volunteer Interest Happy Hour Private Home Are you a new CHV volunteer or would like to learn more Poetry Readers — New Affinity Group ways to get involved? Then join us at this Happy Hour! There are so many ways you can volunteer with the Village: Note: Signup deadline is 3:00 p.m., Friday, February 9 volunteer in the office, help with various household pick- The initial meeting of a new group for those who enjoy ups, or help CHV members with gardening. With so many reading and talking about poetry. Enjoy continental ways to be involved and flexible hours for volunteering, this breakfast and poetry. Each member brings a poem to read is a great way to support the Village movement. Find out all and discuss. As this group is just forming, members will the different ways you can volunteer and get your questions have the opportunity to help shape the structure of the answered. RSVP to CHV at 202-543-1778 or info@ group going forward. capitolhillvillage.org. Reservations required. Members and Social Members. Volunteers, Members, Social Members, Guests

Monday, February 12, 4:00–6:00 p.m. Thursday, February 15, 1:00 p.m. East City Bookshop, 645 Pennsylvania Ave. SE Northeast Neighborhood Library, 330 Seventh St. NE Purls of Wisdom—CHV Needlecraft Group Tech Training: Demystifying Cable TV Note: Signup deadline is 2 p.m., Monday, February 12 Join us for this training to Join friends and neighbors for learn more about your options conversation and to work on your with cable television. Marcella favorite needlework project. Bring Hicks, who works for the DC your needles and sense of fun Office of Cable Television, Film, to join other friends and Village Music & Entertainment will members to make progress on lead this session. Learn the ins your latest needlework projects. There will not be lessons and outs of cable TV without or technical assistance; this is for folks with some level of a sales pitch. She will discuss knitting experience. billing, promotions, and service issues that have not been resolved by your cable television Open to All providers directly. She will also speak about the Customer Bill of Rights for cable television subscribers. Please RSVP to all events, and let the CHV office know if you need a ride, by calling 202-543-1778 during Open to All regular office hours (9 am to 5 pm) or by e-mailing [email protected]  continued on page 17

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Thursday, February 15, 2:00–4:00 p.m. Saturday, February 17, Starting at 9:00 a.m. Labyrinth Games & Puzzles, 645 Pennsylvania Ave. SE Your Home Games and Puzzles Group Paint Pick-up Join other CHV members and their friends for two hours of Note: Signup deadline is 3 p.m., Wednesday, February 14 brain-stretching, bantering fun. From each household, put out a Open to All maximum of one large can and four small cans. Please dry out Thursday, February 15, 3:30–5:30 p.m. the paint in advance, and have Capitol Hill Village Office, 725 Eighth St. (second floor) cans tightly closed for pickup. Reserve by calling or emailing New Member Orientation the CHV Office at 202-543-1778 or [email protected]. Please join CHV staff, fellow members, and volunteers Let the staff know how many to learn more about the organization, services, activities, paint cans you have. Place them in a visible place on your groups, and engagement opportunities. Light refreshments porch the night before the pickup. The monthly CHV will be served. RSVP to CHV at 202-543-1778 or info@ Hazardous Waste Pick-up will no longer include paint. capitolhillvillage.org. Members only. Volunteers, Members, Social Members, Guests

Friday, February 16, 10:00 a.m.–2:00 p.m. Saturday, February 17, 9:00 a.m. Meet at Eastern Market Metro Plaza Northeast Neighborhood Library, 330 Seventh St. NE Certified Emergency Response Training Urban Walkers Note: Signup deadline is 3 p.m., Friday, February 16 Note: Signup deadline is 3 p.m., Tuesday, February 13 Walkers will be walking approximately 5 miles and may be SERVE DC, the Mayor’s Office taking Metro. We usually stop for lunch as well. on Volunteerism, will provide training in community disaster preparedness and safety. The Disaster Sunday, February 18, 2:00 p.m. Preparedness and Safety Training Roundhouse Theater, 4545 East West Highway, Bethesda program equips citizens with the basic skills necessary to prepare and protect themselves, Handbagged their families, community and on the job during emergency Note: Signup is closed situations and disasters. See story on page 8. This theatrical tour de force by playwright Moira Buffini Reservations required. Open to all. brings on stage two Queen Elizabeths, two Margaret Thatchers, and four handbags. A daring treat, since both Friday, February 16, 12:30–1:30 p.m. the old and a somewhat younger Queen and the old and Southeast Neighborhood Library, 403 Seventh St. SE an equally younger Prime Minister fuss with each other, (accessible entrance on D St.) act touchy, try to hammer out their political and personal differences, and in general entertain with their intelligence Physio Balance Class and wit, while holding on to their legendary handbags. Join other members in this monthly balance class, which After the play, those interested in dinner and discussing will help you recognize that strength and agility are the Handbagged will go to Louisiana Kitchen, a 10-minute walk best defenses against falls. Practice skills that will keep you away, known for delicious New Orleans cuisine, handbags on your feet. The class is taught by a volunteer physical optional. Call Tom Zaniello at 859-802-7052 or email therapist from NovaCare Rehabilitation. [email protected] if you have any questions. Reservations required, but not limited. Open to all.  continued on page 18

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Tuesday, February 20, 3:00 p.m. Thursday, February 22, 4:00–7:00 p.m. Sign Up Deadline for March 18 Play Northeast Neighborhood Library, 330 Seventh St. NE. V.O. Office Volunteer Training VOLUNTEER Sign up by 3:00 p.m. February 20 for the next play selected OPPORTUNITY by the Village Theatre Group, The Raid by Idris Goodwin, Note: Signup deadline is 3 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 20 produced by the Theater Alliance at the Anacostia Join the CHV office volunteers to get together to connect, Playhouse. The performance will be a 2:00 p.m. matinee on retreat, and refresh our skills. Training provided by the Care Sunday, March 18. Tickets are $30 each, and may be reserved Services team and local experts. Wear comfortable clothing. by contacting the Village office at 202-543-1778 or info@ capitolhillvillage.org. See page 12 for more information. Volunteers

Tuesday, February 20, 6:00–7:30 p.m. Thursday, February 22, 5:00 p.m. Private home Private Home Evening Literary Club Village Opera Society Note: Signup deadline is 3 p.m., Friday, February 16 Note: Signup deadline is 3 p.m., Wednesday, February 21 In preparation for the Washington National Opera’s In February, we will read the Pulitzer Prize-winning upcoming production of Verdi’s Don Carlo, Judy Canning memoir, When Breath Becomes Air (2016, 251 pp) by Paul will walk us through this tale of intrigue, forbidden love, Kalanithi. Kalanathi, who studied both philosophy and loyalty, patriotic fervor, the Inquisition, and even an auto- literature before he became a doctor, was possessed by da-fe. We’ll hear the wonderful tenor-baritone duet. the question: what makes for a meaningful life?” See the Afternoon Lit Club entry on February 28 for more. Reservations required. Members and Social Members. Members and social members Thursday, February 22, 7:00 p.m. Wednesday, February 21, 2:45–4:00 p.m. Private Home Hill Center, 921 Pennsylvania Ave SE Audio Book Club Tech Training: Learning About Social Media Note: Signup deadline is 3 p.m., Tuesday, February 20 Note: Signup deadline is 3:00 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 7 We will be discussing the uplifting book, “The End of your Life Book Club,” by Will Schwalbe. Learn about what social media is and how to use it. Set up an email account and one social media account such as Reservations required. Members and Social Members. Facebook or Twitter. You will learn social media language and how to use hashtags, upload pictures, reply, and Monday, February 26, 12:00–1:00 p.m. forward. Attendees will work one on one with students from CHV Office, 725 Eighth St. SE Blyth Templeton Academy. Open to All Brown Bag Lunch with CHV Staff Note: Signup deadline is 3 p.m. Wednesday, February 21 Thursday, February 22, 3:00 p.m. Capitol Hill Village is hosting monthly, informal, brown bag Private Home lunches. Both new and seasoned members and volunteers are invited. The purpose is to enjoy good company and Parkinson’s Support Group food, and to learn how staff, members, and volunteers are Note: Signup deadline is 3:00 p.m., Friday, February 16 involved with the Village. In February, Executive Director Molly Singer will be the host. Enjoy lunch and a good time The Parkinson`s Support Group is for individuals with with Molly and learn about her important work with CHV. Parkinson`s to share knowledge, challenges, tactics, and Pack your own lunch and come ready with questions. provide support to one another. Reservations required. Members and Volunteers. Open to All  continued on page 19

18 • February 2018 Capitol Hill Village News CHV Events for February–March 2018 continued from page 18 Check the CHV website for programs that may be added: www.capitolhillvillage.org of his illness and his attempt to answer that question. One Monday, February 26, 4:00–6:00 p.m. reader notes that “finishing this book and then forgetting it East City Bookshop, 645 Pennsylvania Ave. SE is not an option.” Purls of Wisdom—CHV Needlecraft Group Reservations required. Members and Social Members. Note: Signup deadline is 2 p.m., Monday, February 26 Join friends and neighbors for conversation and to work on Thursday, March 1, 2:00–4:00 p.m. your favorite needlework project. Bring your needles and Labyrinth Games & Puzzles, 645 Pennsylvania Ave. SE sense of fun to join other friends and Village members to make progress on your latest needlework projects. There will Games and Puzzles Group not be lessons or technical assistance; this is for folks with Join other CHV members and their friends for two hours of some level of knitting experience. brain-stretching, bantering fun. Owner Kathleen and her Open to All colleagues will introduce you to new games that they like, and teach you to play them. Open to All Monday, February 26, 6:30–8:00 p.m. Northeast Neighborhood Library, 330 Seventh St. NE Friday-Saturday, March 2-3 Caregiver Support Group CHV Trip to Baltimore Capitol Hill Village and Iona Senior Services are partnering to offer a support group for spouses, partners, adult Note: Signup deadline is Thursday, February 15 children, and others who are coping with the challenges of Join the CHV Travel Club on a weekend sojourn to Charm being a caregiver for an older family member or friend with City. Lodging will be at Brookshire Suites, 120 E. Lombard Dementia or memory loss. Join us to share your experience St., at a cost of $110 inclusive, with breakfast included. We and to get support and helpful information. The group is led plan to take advantage of half-price tickets to the Aquarium by a professional from Iona, on Friday night and then add on interesting exhibitions— a To sign up, pleasecontactthe Village office at202-543- docent-led tour of decorative objects from the Faberge 1778or [email protected]. For more information, workshop at the Walters Art Museum on Friday afternoon contact Katie Garber at CHV at 202-543-1778 or the group and The Great Mystery Show at the Visionary Art Museum facilitator, Bill Amt, at [email protected]. on Saturday morning. Transportation will be by carpools or the MARC commuter train. Cost for the Museums and Open to All Aquarium is $34.45. Open to All Wednesday, February 28, 1:00–2:30 p.m. Private Home Saturday, March 3, 9:00 a.m. Afternoon Literary Club Your home Note: Signup deadline is 3 p.m., Friday, February 23 Hazardous Waste and Shredding Pickup In February, both the Evening and Afternoon Literary Clubs See February 17 Entry for Paint Pick-up will read the Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir, When Breath NOTE: Signup deadline is 3 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 28 Becomes Air (2016, 251 pp) by Paul Kalanithi. Kalanithi was a neurosurgery resident finishing his many years of training Hazardous materials and personal papers will be picked up when he was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. In the 22 from CHV members’ homes for delivery to the District’s months that he had left to live he wrote this memoir, called safe disposal site. Personal papers will be shredded at the by one reviewer “a great, indelible book, both intimate and drop-off site and verified by the CHV delivery team to. illuminating.” Kalanathi, who studied both philosophy and Hazardous wastes for pickup include items not accepted in literature before he became a doctor, was possessed by the weekly home trash pickup. See the Feb. 3 entry for more. question: what makes for a meaningful life? This book, often compared to Atul Gawandi’s Being Mortal, is the story both Members Only  continued on page 20

February 2018 Capitol Hill Village News • 19 CHV Events for February–March 2018 continued from page 19 Check the CHV website for programs that may be added: www.capitolhillvillage.org Batter Up! CHV’s 2018 Gala

S EVER The décor team of gala Saturday, March 10, 7:00—10:30 PM IT HAPPEN Y SPRING St. Mark’s Church, 301 A Street SE 2018 veterans will turn St. CAPITOL HILL VILLAGE Marks from a Church into It Happens Every Spring! ALL STAR a cathedral of baseball filled with Saints, Royals, $125/person. Reserve your place and pay online GALA Angels and a few Padres. at www.CHVgala18.Eventbrite.com. Our crackerjack caterer Washington will host the 2018 All-Star game this will provide creative yet summer for the first time in nearly 50 years, so CHV is high end spin on the variety of stadium favorites. Read opening our own season with a glitzy, baseball-themed more on pages 1, 6 and 7. Registration form on page 23. event. CHV’s gala event is lined up to be a home run. Note: Signup deadline is 3 p.m., Wednesday, March 7

Monday, March 5, 7:00-8:00 p.m. Wednesday, March 7, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Northeast Neighborhood Library, 220 Seventh St. NE Private Home Village Voices: Four Vietnam Veterans Discuss History and Biography Book Club their Experiences During the War Note: Signup deadline is 3 p.m., 1968 was a crucial year in the Vietnam War: the Tet Monday, March 5 offensive, the bloody battle of Khe Sanh, the My Lai The Club will discuss Sisters in Law, massacre, and Lyndon Johnson’s announcement that he the story of how Sandra Day O’Connor would not seek another term as President, all happened and Ruth Bader Ginsburg went to the in the first three months. The Voices panel includes four Supreme Court and changed the world, men who served in the uniformed military during the war: by Linda Hirshman. Richard Neal (Marines), Michael Grace (Coast Guard), and Reservations required. Members and Joseph Kerr and Gary Peterson (Army). They will discuss Social Members. their experiences during the war, their reflections on it since, and what they think of the current wave of television programs and films and books on the Vietnam war years. Open to All Continuing Weekly CHV Events Mondays, 9:00 a.m. (NOTE: On hiatus until March 5, 2018) Monday, March 6, 7:00-8:30 p.m. Main Entrance to Congressional Cemetery, 1801 E Street SE On Capitol Hill Easy Strollers Sandwich Generation: Supporting Aging Parents This activity is designed for those who would like to while Raising Children extend their ability to walk distances. Strollers will walk First of a free, four-part series for adult children who are 5–10 minutes with a rest on some of the many benches concerned about their aging parents, neighbors, friends — scattered throughout the cemetery. The pace for the group whether they live nearby or far away. See the event flyer on will be very slow, but those who prefer may walk ahead at page 22 for further information. a faster pace. Strollers should wear appropriate shoes and bring water. Reservations required. Open to All. Members, Social Members and Volunteers  continued on page 21

20 • February 2018 Capitol Hill Village News CHV Events for February–March 2018 continued from page 20 Check the CHV website for programs that may be added: www.capitolhillvillage.org

Mondays, 2:00–3:00 p.m. (January 8–June 25, 2018) Wednesdays, 12 Noon–1:00 p.m. Townhomes on Capitol Hill, 750 Sixth St. SE Townhomes on Capitol Hill, 750 Sixth St. SE Tai Chi Meditation Hour Practice the beautiful and healthy art of Tai Chi. There will Patrick Hamilton will guide simple exercises, that alone be no session on February 19. David Walls-Kaufman, a or in combination can help break the cycle of mental prize-winning practitioner of Tai Chi will teach the classes stress we experience and can be incorporated easily into on February 5 and March 5. An experienced long-time your daily schedule. Patrick is a member of the Washington student will lead the group on the other Mondays. Buddhist Vihara. Reservations required. Open to All Open to All

Mondays, 2:00 p.m. Wednesdays, 2:00–4:00 p.m. Garfield Park, South Carolina Ave. at Second St. SE Private Home Petanque Majong Join a group of Capitol Hill game enthusiasts for a friendly Mahjong originated in China and is similar to the Western game of Petanque, which is the French game of boules and card game Rummy. It is a game of skill, strategy, and similar to the Italian game of bocce. Paul Cromwell provides calculation and involves a certain degree of chance. Join a instruction for beginners. For further information call Paul group of members and volunteers who meet to play together. at 543-7530. To sign up for this group and learn the meeting location, call Open to All the Capitol Hill Village Office at 202-543-1778. Members and Social Members Tuesdays and Thursdays, 10:00 a.m. Capitol Hill Presbyterian Church, Fourth St. & Thursdays, 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Independence Ave. SE (side entrance accessible) Southeast Public Library, 403 Seventh St. SE Qigong Mellow Flow Yoga The gentle, powerful Chinese movement exercise known as CHV member Robin Blum will lead the sessions. This is qigong (pronounced chee gong) is offered by CHV member gentle, mellow flow yoga. You don’t need to twist yourself Joni Bell, who has practiced this discipline for 10 years. Her into a pretzel to participate! Chair yoga will not be included strength and balance have improved remarkably, and she in this session, but chairs are available for extra support if credits the activity with helping her as a 30-year patient with needed. Please bring your own mats. multiple sclerosis. Free for CHV members. Reservations required but not limited. Members and Social Members

Tuesdays, 12:00–1:30 p.m. Thursdays, 2:00 p.m. Capitol Hill Arts Workshop, 545 Seventh St. SE Private Home Second Wind Social Bridge Group Join a group of CHV members who meet and sing under Do you know how to play bridge, or would you like to learn/ the direction of a master musician/chorister to learn new relearn? We hope to have fun playing bridge while trying music. The bar for participation is not high, just a love of to reach consensus about how to bid. No master points singing together. While the ability to read music is a plus, involved. Come join us! Please RSVP by calling the CHV it is not required, and there are no auditions. For further office at 202-543-1778 or e-mail [email protected]. information, contact Marsha Holliday at 202-544-2629. Members and Social Members Members and Social Members

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22 • February 2018 Capitol Hill Village News CAPITOL HILL VILLAGE ALL-STAR GALA SATURDAY, MARCH 10, 2018 | ST MARK’S CHURCH, 301 A STREET SE Guest Registration Form

Use this space for the main contact person and enter the guest information in the table below.

Contact Name:

Address: City: State: Zip:

Email: Phone:

YES! I would like to attend the March 10 Gala! Commitment Amount: $ Please reserve places ($125/each) Check (See below) Credit Card Please reserve table(s) for 8 guests ($1,000/table) Name on Card: I would like to support CHV with an Card Number: additional gift of $ Expiration Date:

Please provide the following for each of your guests.

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Please make your check payable to “Capitol Hill Village” and note CHV is a 501(c)3 charitable organization. The value of the benefits “Gala 2018” on the payment. Please mail completed form with payment associated with each guest “ticket” has been determined to be $60. to: Capitol Hill Village, 725 8th Street SE, Washington DC 20003. You The remainder of your gala ticket price/ sponsorship contribution may may also pay online at https://chvgala18.eventbrite.com. be tax deductible.

Questions? Contact CHV at [email protected] or call 202.543.1778 x 103 Christopher Rios THANK YOU FOR YOUR GENEROUS SUPPORT OF CAPITOL HILL VILLAGE!