Shepherd Park News A newsletter for the residents of Shepherd Park, Next Community Colonial Village, and North Portal Estates Meeting Tuesday Mar 12, 7 pm 2019 Vol., Issue 2 www.shepherdpark.org March/April 2019 What’s Going On in March by Naima Jefferson ome to our next community meeting on Tuesday, March of how their parties function in DC and how you can get 12 at 6:30 pm in the multipurpose room at Shepherd involved. Councilmember Todd will be joining us to discuss CElementary to hear all about the latest happenings in our the Shepherd Community Center, Upper Georgia Avenue community. In addition, AU graduate students will share revitalization, and the Livability Study. If you have questions their project about our community, and you’ll get updates relating to those topics, please send them to naimaj@ from PZED including the upcoming restaurant alcohol shepherdpark.org by 3/5/19. Last but not least of, we will license renewal season (Betty’s GoJo, Champion, etc.) have SPCA T-shirts and folks on hand to sign you up to DC’s We also have invited representatives from three of the best citizens association....the SPCA!!!! main political parties in DC to briefly give an overview Attention Garden Enthusiasts! by Alexandra Kincannon ark your and purchase Garden Tour tickets all at once! Tickets are calendars now still only $15 per person for general admission and $7 for Mfor the 15th Annual SPCA members. Admission is free for children under 12 SPCA Garden Tour on years old. Sunday, June 2, from The Garden Tour is a wonderful chance to meet other 2-5 pm. (Note new gardening enthusiasts, celebrate the beauty of spring, and date this year). This show your community support! The proceeds from the self-guided walking Photo 2016 SPCA Garden Tour tour go directly to support SPCA beautification projects tour showcases the throughout the neighborhood. Stay tuned to the Shepherd beautiful landscapes within Shepherd Park, Colonial Village, Park listserv and the SPCA website for further updates as and North Portal Estates. Unique gardens of all sizes and the date gets closer. To see photos from past tours, click on styles will be on display for everyone’s enjoyment and the photo gallery link on the website. inspiration. In addition we will have some special attractions and activities for kids. In This Issue: Now is when we start the search for hosts and volunteers • Meet the New Library Manager ....................................................pg 3 for the tour. Do you have a garden you would like to share? • Calvin Coolidge Senior High School Modernization ........pg 3 Have you seen a neighbor’s yard that you think should be • New SPCA Membership Form ....................................pg 4 on the tour? Would you like to volunteer for the tour and • Potluck ..................................................................................pg 7 enjoy insider perks? If so, please send a message to tour • Welcome Triangle Landscape Design Contest ...........pg 8 coordinators Alexandra Kincannon ([email protected]. • Target to Open Soon! .......................................................pg 9 edu) or Deirdre Evans-Pritchard ([email protected]). • State Farm Insurance (Keith Edwards) Relocation ...pg 9 You can get tickets now by visiting the SPCA home page • Business Beat ......................................................................pp 10 at www.shepherdpark.org and clicking: “Join, Donate & Pay • Community Calendar .......................................................pg 11 for Events Online.” There, you can renew your membership • SPCA Upcoming Events ..................................................pg 12 PAGE 2 SHEPHERD PARK NEWS March/April 2019 SPCA Board of Directors Naima Jefferson, President The Shepherd Park 202-285-7523 [email protected] News, a newsletter Carl Bergman, Co-Vice President of the Shepherd Park 202-726-6415 [email protected] Anyone (or anything) can list a Citizens Association, is Sam Washington, Co-Vice President (202) 494-1599 [email protected] property, but someone skilled is published four June Confer, Recording Secretary needed to market a home. times per year: (202) 722-1461 [email protected] October/November; Yvette Pearson December/January; Membership Secretary March/April; and May/ (202) 841-7793 June. [email protected] As a matter of policy, Paula Edwards, Treasurer all errors of substance (202) 882-6005 [email protected] are corrected in the next issue. At-Large Delegates Report errors to Stacey Lincoln shepherdparknews@ (202) 489-4065 [email protected] gmail.com John Folger Lee Goldstein The Shepherd Park (202) 722-4508 [email protected] Managing Partner & Associate Broker Citizens Association Bonnie Randolph (202) 215-7710 202.744.8060 | 301.652.0643 is an IRS 501(c)(3) tax [email protected] [email protected] exempt organization. LeeGoldsteinGroup.com Dues and donations Delegates to the Federation of Citizens Associations are deductible Deirdre Evans-Pritchard as charitable (323) 333-3125 [email protected] contributions. John Goodloe (202) 829-1629 [email protected] Derek Musgove [email protected] Correction In the Dec 2018/Jan Delegates to the Federation 2019 article, “Early of Civic Associations Ryan Waddy Readers Begins New (202) 412-2210 [email protected] Decade at Shepherd,” Tony Dixon the quotation in [email protected] paragraph 4 was by Stacie Dennis Judi Berland, not (202) 753-6171 [email protected] Judy Berlin. Contact the Editors! Whether it’s a letter to the editor, info on a community event, or an ad, we’d love to hear Join the SPCA’s from you! Editor: Cynthia Prather Facebook page, (202) 882-7419 [email protected] “Shepherd Park Advertising: Beth Allaben Citizens Association (202) 882-2609 [email protected] (SPCA)” or follow Calendar: Claudia Anyaso us on Twitter (@ [email protected] SPCADC). Last but Editing & Layout: André R. Carley not least, don’t forget (202) 813-3152 to join the SPCA!!! [email protected] March/April 2019 SHEPHERD PARK NEWS PAGE 3 Meet New Library The Calvin Coolidge Manager, Mirna Turcios Senior High School by Claudia E. Anyaso Modernization Project ate last year, the Shepherd by Frank Jones Park Library welcomed LMirna Turcios as its new library manager, in charge of of overseeing daily operations and ensuring that materials meet community needs. A hands-on manager, she’s often working at the service desk or Mirna Turcios presenting programs. Artist Concept courtey of DCPS Photo by A local resident, Mirna is a Mirna Turcios is the Shepherd Park A renovated Calvin Coolidge SHS will open for the 2019-20 school year. first-generation Salvadoran born Library’s new manager. at DC General Hospital. She alvin Coolidge Senior High School (SHS), located at 5th grew up in Adams Morgan and Silver Spring and graduated and Tuckerman Streets, NW, first opened in 1940 and from the National Cathedral School for Girls. She received Cfor the past 77 years has had only bandaid upgrades until over her undergraduate degree from the New School of Social a year and a half ago. Approved by the DC City Council and Research in New York and has worked in several capacities: Mayor in 2017, Coolidge will reopen its doors for the 2019- with the Latin American Youth Center in Columbia Heights; 20 school year after approximately 2 years of modernization/ as AmeriCorps program coordinator at Powell and McFarland construction. Coolidge’s community has asked for a middle Elementary Schools; and in the college track programs at school, and their request has been answered. Coolidge will Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School and Wheaton High reopen divided into two separate and independent schools: School. Convinced that access to information is key to life a high school, currently known as Calvin Coolidge SHS; and enrichment and improved decision-making, Mirna enrolled a middle school, temporarily named the New North MS. and graduated from library school at Simmons College in The New North MS is currently awaiting the chancellor’s 2013. selection of one of the three finalist name selections drawn Before coming to Shepherd Park, Mirna worked a year from an original list of 50 nominations: Mr. Paul A. Quander, in Doraville, GA and three years as head children’s librarian Jr; Mrs. America Libertad Calderon; and Ida B. Wells. in Hyattsville. She’s excited to be at the Shepherd Park For more information e-mail [email protected]. Library, and we wish her every success. Save the Date! “Shepherd Park History Day: An American University Public History Project. Share Your Neighborhood Story” Sunday, April 14 Stay tuned for more information. 5034 Wisconsin Ave NW Bonnie N. Randolph Washington, DC 20016 Your Neighbor and Neighborhood Real Estate Professional 202-326-1300 [email protected] • www.RandolphSellsHomes.com • 202-215-7710 / 202-288-1386 PAGE 4 SHEPHERD PARK NEWS March/April 2019 Changing Times - New Membership Form by Naima Jefferson “The times, they are a-changin.” (Bob Dylan) relating to electronic communications and spam (see pp 5-6). istorically, the SPCA would disseminate information The second page of the new membership form now contains by knocking on doors throughout the community and the SPCA’s policy on how we use your personal information Hpassing out pamphlets, flyers, and other materials in addition as well as a section for our members to determine whether to sending out mailings such as the SPCA newsletter. Over they would like electronic communications directly from the time, a neighbor developed the Shepherd Park listserve, SPCA. If you have any questions about our new form, please which is not owned, monitored, or managed by the SPCA don’t hesitate to contact me at naimaj@shepherdpark. but provides a just-in-time platform to get information out org or the phone number listed under the SPCA board and dialogue with thousands of people not only in DC but members on page 2. Thank you for your understanding and in surrounding communities. patience. As the cost of postage continues to increase and new laws and regulations emerge, the SPCA must evolve.