Glover Park September 2011 The Monthly Newsletter of the Glover Park Citizens Association Glover Park Day 2011 Sue Folliard Is Here! Cheri Meyer he 22nd Annual Glover Park Day will be held on September 10, from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on the grounds of the Guy Mason TRecreation Center. For those of you not familiar with Glover Park Day, it is our annual outdoor festival that celebrates the best of Glover Park. The Glover Park Citizens Association and the DC Depart- ment of Parks and Recreation cosponsor the event. Glover Park Day, usually held on the first Saturday in June, was rescheduled this year due to spring renovations at Guy Mason. Glover Park Day will include many of the fun booths and activi- ties we all look forward to each year: great food from local restaurants, contest will benefit the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society and the Cystic including Kavanagh’s, Kitchen 2404, Rocklands, and Old Europe; a Fibrosis Foundation. variety of creative crafters; local vendors; a flea market; community The entrance fee for the tug-o’-war contest is a minimum dona- groups such as DC Greens, the Glover Park Village, the Boys and Girls tion of $10 per four-member team. Winning teams get bragging Club of DC, and St. Luke’s Shelter; prize drawings throughout the day; rights, a mention in the Glover Park Gazette, and pride in helping their and, of course, the annual signature GP Day T-shirt to add to your neighbors. The top-rated team will also receive a trophy. So if you collection. There will also be lots of activities for kids, including face think you’ve got what it takes, recruit friends, family members, and/or painting, tattoos, a bean-bag toss, a chance to climb all over a real fire coworkers and enter your team today. Send your team information to truck, games, and other fun activities. Sue Lohsen at [email protected]. Be forewarned—the Glover And it wouldn’t be Glover Park Day without great live music! The Park Day Volunteers have already entered two teams. We’ll see you on 2011 musical line-up includes Esther Haynes’ Hokum Jazz, The Unfor- the field! given (from Glover Park), Boxcartel with Jeff Blakeman and Pat Kehs, As always, Glover Park Day is a big undertaking and we need The Unknowns (from Glover Park), and Upper Ninth Ward with Chris all the community help and support we can get. If you would like to Earnshaw (also from Glover Park). There is plenty of room for dancing participate as a volunteer, vendor, crafter, sponsor, or in any other so bring your dancing shoes. capacity, please contact Cheri Meyer at [email protected] or Glover Park Day will also include a few new attractions this year, Amanda Gant at [email protected]. notably Huidekoper Homemade and a team tug-o’-war contest, both Glover Park Day is a great opportunity for neighbors to get to- of which will benefit charities. Huidekoper Homemade, the creation of gether and celebrate our community. We look forward to seeing you on several young Glover Parkers, will sell homemade baked goods to raise Saturday, September 10, 11:00 a.m.—5:00 p.m. at Guy Mason! funds for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. The team tug-o’-war Visit us at www.gloverparkday.org. Pulling for a Cure Pull together a team of four and prove you are the strongest team in Glover Park! Win a trophy and help a neighbor with Leukemia, Lymphoma, or Cystic Fibrosis. Eight teams will compete in each category for their trophy, bragging rights and mention in the GP Gazette. Tug-o’-War Timetable: Entrance Fee: $10 per team. 11:30 — Family teams (2 adults with 2 kids, ages 10 and under) All money to be donated to the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society 12:30 — Middle and high schoolers (ages 11–17) and the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. 2:00 — Young adults (ages 18–30) SIGN UP NOW! 3:00 — Adults/businesses Send your team info to [email protected] 2 Join In • Make a Difference Participate • Get Involved • Engage Contents Glover Park Day 1 Elected Officers of the Glover Park Citizens Association (GPCA) President's Report 3 President Patricia Clark 1st Vice President Sheila Meehan ANC 3B News 3 2nd Vice President Allen Tomlinson Treasurer Gene Sieminski Food Trucks 4 Secretary Melissa Lane Sergeant at Arms Jarrett Ferrier Prompting Your Writing 4 Federation Reps Karen Sprecher-Keating Glover Park History 5 Christian Hunt Samantha Stevens Commercial Confidential 6 Membership Director Allen Tomlinson Glover Park Day Amanda Gant Glover Park Village Event 7 ([email protected] or www.gloverparkday.org) Gazette Staff A Place to Park It 8 Editors Ken Charney Sheila Meehan Softball Champions 8 Photographer Sarah Bernardi Where Am I? 9 Design and Production Nora Korc (www.norakodesign.com) Advertising Manager Volunteer needed! Friendship Place Event 9 Contacts Walk With Me 10 Advertising [email protected] Editorial [email protected] September Events 10 Delivery [email protected] The Gazette is distributed door to door throughout Glover Park by volunteers. Living Healthier 11 To receive the Gazette by mail, contact [email protected]. Subscription rate is $20 a year. Responsible letters to the editor will be published as space allows. Pawz in the Hood 12 What’s new in Glover Park? Check out Glover Park on both Facebook and Twitter! Healthy Snacks 13 Parenting in the Park 14 Visit www.gpcadc.org to keep up with community news! Stoddert Fall Schedule 15 To contact the GPCA or its officers, email [email protected] If you love living in Glover Park, get involved! Join the Glover Park Citizens Association today! Generously support the group that takes care of your neighborhood. Preserve the family-friendly quality of our community. Communicate your ideas to improve your neighborhood. Act locally to get things done. Membership fees Single $20 Double $35 Senior $15 Former/absent resident (no vote) $20 Name(s) Business/corporation (no vote) $75 Donation $____ Address Return form and fee to GPCA, P.O. Box 32268, Washington, DC 20007 Make check payable to GPCA. Email Glover Park Gazette 3 President’s Report After a Hot, and Busy, Summer… Patricia Clark hat a summer! I’m thankful for federal land, we can only change to the north. air conditioning, and now I’m The redistricting is a fascinating effort. Glover Park Citizens Association Whoping for a nice long cool fall— Task force members deal with lots of numbers September 6, 2011 Agenda cool enough for long walks, sitting outside of the census blocks, buildings, single member Stoddert Elementary School on the deck in the evening, some gardening, districts, and other variations of census data. and catching up with neighbors who have It feels a little like playing monopoly—“we can Police report been staying cool inside. As I drive and walk give you three blocks” or “will you take one Communications: Update on website redesign through the neighborhood, I see gardens in or two buildings?” The ANC 3B team is quite Finance and Treasurer’s Reports bloom and yards being tended, so despite the calm, with little need for significant change. heat, folks must be out enjoying their lawns Some other ANCs, however, are larger, have Census Redistricting: Ward 3, Precincts, ANCs and gardens. more moveable borders, and have more Parking: Update I look forward to renewing acquaintances complications in the process of equalizing. The Membership and meeting new neighbors. Please introduce task force work should be finished in late Sep- WeatherizeDC: Adam Gosney yourself if you see me, or attend the Glover tember, with a final report issued in October. Park Citizens Association (GPCA) meetings, Secretary: May minutes approval and get in touch with us with your ideas, ques- Farmers' Market (published in the June Gazette) tions, or needs. Let us know if your neighbors Despite the heat I’ve managed to patronize New Business have needs you can’t fulfill. Some older neigh- the Glover Park Farmers' Market on Saturday bors tell me that they don’t walk to the GPCA mornings, and love eating the fresh vegetables participate in the community. Contact us at meetings once it gets dark. Would you like to and fruits each day, with a splurge of cheese [email protected]. serve as an escort or can you offer a ride. or a croissant. An ear of fresh corn in the At another recent gathering, I learned microwave for a few minutes gives me an that the DC area has the fastest growing 2010 Census almost instant vegetable for dinner. And have number of aging-in-place villages in the With the Census data being released, the eight you tried the coffee? My goodness, I didn’t United States. At last count, there are nearly Wards in DC have been slightly reconfigured think coffee could be so tasty and aromatic— thirty villages in the DC area—either in the to equalize the populations. Our Ward 3 and I drink decaf. Even the White House planning process or already offering services. now will have about 78,000 people. Voting serves our market’s Hawaiian brand. The Glover Park Village is volunteer-operated precinct lines are also being redrawn, as are and serves neighbors who are aging in place in the single member districts that elect ANC Volunteer Participation our houses and apartments or who are in need Commissioners. This summer our GPCA has had the benefit of of assistance for other reason. Our village em- I am one of four or five neighbors repre- a good deal of volunteer activity, from creating phasizes fostering intergenerational relation- senting Glover Park and ANC 3B on a task force new reports from our data to starting a much ships.