Friendship Heights VILLAGE NEWS Square Dance JANUARY 2017 VOLUME 32, NO. 1 www.friendshipheightsmd.gov 301-656-2797 page 2 Tiptoe through the tulips at the Philadelphia Flower Show Discover the beauty of Dutch gardens lectures. in bloom without the trip abroad Lunch is on your own. You may as we travel to the Philadelphia choose to visit the the Reading Flower Show on Wednesday, March Terminal Market, just steps away 15. This year’s theme is “Holland: from the flower show. Featuring Flowering the World.” Enjoy all more than 80 stalls and shops, the the spectacular displays which Reading Terminal Market dates back range from elaborate landscapes to 1892 when the Reading Railroad to individual and club entries of commissioned a food bazaar. A prize horticultural specimens. Don’t century later, the market continues to miss the fabulous marketplace with exhibit old and new culinary delights. more than 150 vendors. There are Wednesday through Saturday, also culinary demonstrations from Lancaster’s Amish bring in their celebrity chefs and numerous free continued on page 13, see Flower Show History and heritage: Finding your family’s story in America’s story In a September Washington Post series worked in cotton fields in Louisiana photograph, about people connected to figures or and Mississippi. After her first a diploma events featured in the Smithsonian’s husband died, she moved to St. Louis, or a piece African American Museum of History where she worked as a washerwoman, of clothing. and Culture (NMAAHC), the reporter making as little as $1.50 a day. She Using included author and journalist suffered from hair loss, and it was in skills she A’Lelia Bundles. She is a descendant her brothers’ St. Louis barbershop that learned as of Madam C.J. Walker, the first black she got the idea to create a shampoo a long time female millionaire in the United States. and a scalp ointment. She called it journalist Ms. Bundles will speak at the “Wonderful Hair Grower,” changed and as her Village Center on Thursday, Feb. her name to Madam C.J. Walker, and family’s 9, at 7:30 p.m., about her famous in 1906 founded her company and biographer, she will share tips about great-great-grandmother, whose turned it into an empire. ways to research ancestors. accomplishments are on display at Ms. Bundles will bring a few items Ms. Bundles was a network the new museum, as well as share tips from her own collection and will be television news executive and about ways to research ancestors and joined by a docent of the NMAAHC. producer for 30 years at NBC News bring your family’s story to life. She invites attendees to bring a piece and then at ABC News, where she Madam Walker was born Sarah of family memorabilia to share: a continued on page 6, see Bundles Breedlove, orphaned at age seven, and Friday night concert with PEAR, calendar page G70961_JAN 2017 newsletter FINAL.indd 1 12/22/16 1:50 PM Allan Lichtman forecast a Put on your crinolines and Trump victory dancing shoes! Allan Lichtman, scholar and AU Enjoy a good old-fashioned square dance at the Village professor, has correctly predicted Center on Sunday, Jan. 29, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Pete the outcomes of all US presidential Kasper, a caller with more than 35 years experience, returns elections since 1984. His prediction to the Center to lead us at this fun event. No experience or system, called the Keys to the White partner needed! House, disregards complicated Pete is a retired physicist and a past president of this formulas in favor of 13 true-or-false area’s Square Dance Leaders Association. His favorite statements that measure what Dr. activity is teaching people how to square dance–expect Lichtman believes is most important: the strength and some round dancing and line dancing, too. performance of the incumbent party. He will speak at the Please sign up at the Center. The cost of admission is $5 Village Center, on Thursday, Jan. 12, at 7:30 p.m. per person; $10 at the door. Children 7 to 12 are free, but Learn how Dr. Lichtman was correct in November when must be accompanied by an adult. Light refreshments will almost every pollster, pundit and journalist was not. Sign be served. One Third Tall Ad - Village News - PRESS - 2.pdf 1 12/6/2012 2:46:42 PM up for this interesting lecture by calling 301-656-2797. 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Cooper 4000 Wisconsin Ave., NW #P2 4601 N Park Ave., #10C Mayor Treasurer Washington, DC 20016 Chevy Chase, MD 20815 John R. Mertens David O. Lewis (inside Tenley Sport & Health Club, (at the Elizabeth Arcade, Chairman Parliamentarian garage parking available) free garage parking!) Michael J. Dorsey Clara Lovett Vice Chairman Historian phone 301-654-9355 | [email protected] Paula J. Durbin Secretary VILLAGE MANAGER www.getwell-rehab.com find us on facebook Julian P. Mansfield 2 Village News January 2017 G70961_JAN 2017 newsletter FINAL.indd 2 12/22/16 1:50 PM on the WMATA website (www.wmata.com). Village Council Update The Council has written a letter to the WMATA Board of Directors and the General Manager opposing the cut in Council pursues action on 5320 Willard service. If you would like to send a letter, address it to Jack Evans, Chairman, WMATA Board of Directors, and Avenue property Michael Goldman, Principal Board Member (Maryland), As reported previously, the Village Council has pressed the WMATA Board of Directors. Include copies to Paul Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission Wiedefeld, General Manager/Chief Executive Officer, regarding the County-owned property at 5320 Willard WMATA; and Leif Dormsjo, Director, District of Columbia Avenue next to Willard Avenue Park. Department of Transportation (DDOT). The mailing address is 600 5th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Please state that you would like your letter included as part of the hearing record. The hearing date and the record to receive comments have not been established at this time. Yield to emergency vehicles. It’s the law! Nat Finkelstein of the Bethesda Fire Department Board of Directors spoke at a recent Village Council meeting about the requirement to yield to emergency vehicles. Failure to yield increasingly poses a threat to public safety in Montgomery County. The law is very clear: When an emergency vehicle approaches with lights flashing and sirens audible, drivers must yield the right-of-way unless otherwise directed by a police officer. Code of Maryland (2010) Transportation Law Art. §21-405. That means immediately positioning your car parallel to and as close as possible to the curb or edge of the roadway, clear of any intersection. Unless otherwise On December 13, three Council members attended a directed by a police officer, you must hold this position meeting with Casey Anderson, head of Park & Planning, until the emergency vehicle has passed. and his staff to discuss this issue further. Mr. Anderson Note that the law previously required drivers to pull to agreed to remove the stockade fence on Willard Avenue. the right. A new law has changed that and allows drivers The house on the property and the tenant will remain, and to move to the nearest curb or edge of the roadway on there will be a section of the property delineated for the either side. Always stop clear of the intersection. tenant to maintain. Before moving, make a point of looking and listening Mr. Anderson expressed support for a new entrance for additional emergency vehicles. Often several are to Willard Avenue Park with signage on the remaining proceeding to the site of the emergency. portion of the property. Any broader use of the property If you are behind an emergency or police vehicle that is would likely require community input and trigger a longer using its siren and lights, you must not pass that vehicle process. He also mentioned the possibility of having unless it has stopped or a police officer directs otherwise. “traveling equipment” placed in the park, temporary Remember, too, that the law prohibits motorists from pieces (either play equipment for kids and/or recreation • following any emergency vehicle more closely than equipment for adults) that would be removed after a 500 feet, period of time.