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The NorThwesT CurreNTWednesday, July 20, 2011 Serving Communities in Northwest Washington Since 1967 Vol. XLIV, No. 29

■ Wilson High rower graduates to global stage. Page 9.■ Northwest Little Leaguers win D.C. crown. Page 9.

■ Superfresh reopens as ‘Fresh & Green’s’ in Spring Valley. Page 3.■ Neighbors work to spruce up Stead Park in Dupont. Page 2.

NEWS SPORTS■ Archaeological adventures in the Palisades: Resident manages ‘prehistory’ museum filled with native artifacts. 1.

PASSAGES INDEXCalendar/18Classifieds/26 District Digest/4Exhibits/21In Your Neighborhood/14Opinion/6

Passages/11Police Report/8Real Estate/13Service Directory/22Sports/9Theater/21

By JESSICA GOULDCurrent Staff Writer

The soldiers in blue braved the heat, and the ladies paraded in their petticoats. The band played “Yankee Doodle Dandy.” And Frank Smith reveled in the glory of it all. On Monday, city officials joined re-enactors dressed in period garb at 1925 Vermont Ave., the new home of the African American Civil War Museum. Mayor Vincent Gray said it was a great day for the District. “This commemorates the commitment of people who have been grossly under-recognized,” he said. But it was an especially big day for museum director and former D.C. Council member Smith, who spent two decades lobbying for a museum dedicated to the

Civil War’s African-American soldiers. Smith said the mission behind the museum was always twofold: to highlight the contributions of the Union’s African-American troops, and to revitalize U Street.

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War museum depicts long fight for freedom

Bill Petros/The CurrentExecutive director Frank Smith and city officials celebrate the opening of the expanded museum.

By BRADY HOLTCurrent Staff Writer

As Cathedral Pharmacy reels from the loss of its contract to fill CVS Caremark prescriptions, its longtime owner said he appreciates the outpouring of support he’s seen from the community and empha-sized that he has no plans to close. Michael Madden said CVS Caremark’s decision last month to terminate his contract was “terribly

damaging,” but he was quick to distance himself from a Washington Post article that said the move would likely put the pharmacy out of business. At least for now, Madden said, the 3000 Connecticut Ave. store will “have to tighten up.” But it will stay open to serve customers who don’t rely on insurance plans affili-ated with CVS Caremark, and Madden said he hopes his contract will be restored. About a thousand of the shop’s customers are insured through CVS Caremark, he said — “an awful lot

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Cathedral Pharmacy fights loss of CVS Caremark plan


Deteriorating conditions on Broad Branch Road along Rock Creek Park and the street’s lack of pedestrian and bicycle facilities have prompted a D.C. Department of Transportation plan to overhaul

the roadway by fall 2014. The concept remains in its pre-liminary stages. At a public meeting last week, planners asked residents to suggest how the roadway should be configured, according to Chevy Chase advisory neighborhood com-missioner Jim McCarthy, who attended the meeting. “The purpose of the proposed action is to rehabilitate Broad Branch Road to satisfy operational and safety needs and [to do] so in a

manner keeping with the setting of the project area,” reads the project website, broadbranchrdea.com. The plan would improve the road between Linnean Avenue in Chevy Chase and its terminus at Beach Drive. The Transportation Department is scheduled to present design options this summer, likely sometime from mid-August to mid-September, according to agency spokesperson John Lisle.

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City plans Broad Branch upgrades

Bill Petros/The CurrentA group of the Summer Safari Day campers released hundreds of goldfish into a lily pond on the grounds of the Tregaron estate last Thursday. The National Zoo-run camp explores a different theme each week with 7- and 8-year-olds.

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By DEIRDRE BANNONCurrent Correspondent

If you ask advisory neighborhood commissioner Brian Cohen which issue he hears about most from Glover Park residents, his answer is simple: parking. “I don’t think there’s any more universal concern in Glover Park than, ‘I can’t find a parking space,’” he said. “We hear about it at every ANC meeting; when I’m walking down the street, I hear it from people; I get emails from people. Nobody is happy with the parking situation, and everybody thinks we can do better.” Residents say they face the toughest competition for parking spaces between 5 and 10 p.m., when many are coming home from work. It’s also a time when non-residents park in the neighborhood to visit friends or to go to dinner at one of the many restaurants along Wisconsin Avenue. Cohen and his fellow Glover Park commissioners

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Glover Park ANC tackles parking issues

■ Transportation: Officials decry worsening conditions

Bill Petros/The CurrentNearly three-quarters of residents surveyed in Glover Park say finding parking spaces is a major problem and they want to see regulations changed.

■ Business: Owner vows to keep 87-year-old store afloat

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The D.C. Department of Transportation typically tries to coordinate its construction work with the D.C. Water and Sewer Authority and other agencies or utilities that may need to tear out a city street, officials said. And, said the officials, they believed they had done so in south-eastern Spring Valley near American University, where a project to repave several streets was timed to coincide with a planned water-main replacement under those roads. “[Transportation Department officials] were holding it up because of the work we were going to do — trying to make good use of the money,” said the water authority’s Deidre Saunders, at the July 6 meet-ing of the Spring Valley advisory neighborhood commission.

But last fall, when a water authority team presented its plans to the neighborhood commission, the officials were not aware of the extra care the work would require in the neighborhood. During World War I, American University was home to a major chemical-testing operation, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has been working for years to identify and neutralize remaining munitions and contami-nation in the area. The water-main work, which was slated to begin in November and wrap up this month, now has no definite timeline, transportation officials said. The authority is hir-ing a specialized contractor that can work in the sensitive area and must coordinate with the Army Corps and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Saunders said. And in the meantime, the water

Officials proceed cautiously on Spring Valley sewer fixes

By JESSICA GOULDCurrent Staff Writer

Five years after the city reopened a redone Stead Park, the P Street space is thriving. Nourished by the spring’s heavy rains, the

park’s new native plants are blooming wildly. And children — from the neighborhood and local summer camps — often crowd the play-ground’s state-of-the-art swings and slides. In fact, so many people are patronizing the park that its new solar compactors are spilling

over with trash. And at peak hours, spots in the limited shade are few, leaving some par-ents sweltering in the sun. Thus the very success of the park has spurred a new wave of activism from Dupont Circle volunteers.

“This spring it rained a lot,” said Dupont Circle Citizens Association president Robin Diener, who has been working with fellow neighbors to spruce up the park over the past couple of months. “So the beautiful native

Neighbors pursue improvements to Dupont’s spruced-up Stead Park

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Echoing a report issued last month, city planners told the Zoning Commission last week that American University’s East Campus development plans are out of character for the neighborhood and should be scaled down. The university has stood by its goal of building 590 beds of student housing, 17,000 square feet of retail and two “academic/administrative” buildings on six acres of its Nebraska Avenue parking lot, as part of its 10-year campus plan. But the Office of Planning testi-fied at a hearing last Thursday that the project’s scale should be reduced, recommending instead only 400 beds of housing and 3,000 square feet of retail, and called for the buildings to be placed farther from the adjacent Westover Place town homes. The reduced East Campus hous-ing count would clash less with the density of Westover and other parts of the American campus, planners said, and the school should develop only limited commercial space pri-marily to serve its own needs. Planners said they would not object to more housing on the core of the American University campus, where they said dorms could be farther from residences. In a brief cross-examination of the planners, university attorney

Paul Tummonds referred three times to the agency “creating a new review standard” by comparing density calculations in the area. Tummonds also pointed out that only the planned low-rise academ-ic/administrative buildings would be close to Westover homes, while the taller dormitories the school envisions would be closer to Nebraska Avenue. “We were trying to create an appropriate balance, and we chose to evaluate it in terms of residential density,” planner Arlova Jackson testified. The school’s plan “created a concentration of student housing that we thought might be in conflict with a different type of density just across the property line.” Jennifer Steingasser, deputy director of the Office of Planning, added that the dormitories would be relatively close to Westover. The bulk of the four-hour hear-ing went to a series of cross-exami-nations of the Planning Office by advisory neighborhood commis-sions and community groups that oppose the campus plan. Several opponents suggested ways the uni-versity might be able to renege on various implied promises in the campus plan. Two organizations’ representa-tives suggested that the university might be able to skirt the intent of its enrollment cap — to prevent unpredicted student population

Planners suggest reductions in scope of AU development


The former Superfresh grocery store in Spring Valley is getting back up to speed as a Fresh & Green’s, which operators say will soon offer a mix of new and familiar products to a loyal customer base. The supermarket changed ownership last month, with the bankrupt Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. selling its 4330 48th St. operation to the Canadian firm Mrs. Green’s Natural Market. The site had operated as an A&P or Superfresh since 1964, and some residents worried they would lose their com-

munity supermarket under a new company. But Superfresh devotees won’t spot many differences at Fresh & Green’s just yet, said store manager Mary Hoffman. The layout of the store hasn’t changed, and the employees have stayed in place and are still unionized. The outline of the “Superfresh Food Market” sign remains on the storefront, next to a smaller temporary “Fresh & Green’s” banner. House brand items have already transi-tioned to the new parent company’s labels, Hoffman said, and all missing inventory should be in by the end of the week as the store finalizes new contracts with vendors. Some residents have complained on the

Tenleytown neighborhood listserv that Fresh & Green’s made a poor first impression by opening last week without full product avail-ability or new signage, but Hoffman said the company wanted to avoid a lengthy down-time. “We wanted to get the store reopened for the community,” she said. “Once we have all the vendors on board — this week — we’ll really be rolling.” As of Monday morning, the store appeared mostly stocked, but Hoffman pointed to an empty stretch of the bread aisle that was wait-ing for Martin’s products, and companies such as Coca-Cola and Nabisco were also still absent.

A sign posted near the store’s entrance promises a renovation “in the near future.” Hoffman said a timeline hasn’t been final-ized, but she expects a “full-store remodel” to begin within two to three months. Changes will include a new deli counter with freshly made soups and sandwiches, she said. Hoffman encouraged patrons to visit the store’s customer service desk to request par-ticular products. Fresh & Green’s is already loading up on previously requested items it had been unable to buy as a Superfresh, such as some yogurts, she added. Mrs. Green’s spokesperson Jon Packer didn’t respond to requests for comment.

Spring Valley market reopens as Fresh & Green’s, with renovations ahead

Wednesday, July 20 The Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission, the water and sewage authority for Montgomery County, will hold a public meeting to discuss plans for sewer reconstruction along Rock Creek. The work, which will require extensive dig-ging and construction in the Montgomery County portion of Rock Creek Park, is aimed at reducing sewage overflows due to leakages or blockages. The meeting will begin at 7:30 p.m. at the Meadowbrook Park Activity Building, 7901 Meadowbrook Lane, Chevy Chase, Md.

Monday, July 25 The Ward 6 Redistricting Task Force will hold a “community listening meeting” to hear from constituents of Advisory Neighborhood Commission 2C in the Shaw neighborhood, which will become part of Ward 6. The meeting will begin at 6:30 p.m. at Watha T. Daniel-Shaw Neighborhood Library, 1630 7th St. NW.

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DMV adjusts hours for car inspections The D.C. Department of Motor Vehicles will open and close its Vehicle Inspection Station early on the hot days forecast this week, the agency announced yesterday. On Thursday through Saturday, the station at 1001 Half St. SW will be open from 5 a.m. to 1 p.m., according to a news release, and anyone with an appointment for

after 12:45 p.m. on those days must reschedule online. The sta-tion’s normal hours are 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. Temperatures are forecast to hit the triple digits on Friday and the high 90s on Thursday and Saturday.

Bag revenue given to watershed efforts The D.C. Department of the

Environment is spending the $2.5 million collected from the city’s “bag law” on projects that help the District’s waterways and encour-age reusable-bag distribution, according to an agency news release. The money was collected from Jan. 1, 2010, through April 2011 under the Anacostia River Clean Up and Protection Act of 2009, a measure designed to improve the river by reducing the number of

discarded plastic bags in the city and generating revenue for clean-up. The law requires businesses selling food or alcohol to charge customers 5 cents for each dispos-able bag, depositing 4 cents into the cleanup fund. The environment agency has awarded nearly $1 million in grants to community-based organi-zations and about $300,000 to pri-vate firms for projects that will begin this summer and continue over the next two years, according to the release. Grant recipients include the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay and Casey Trees. The agency is also preparing to award thousands more for stream restoration and trash pickup, the release says. Another $825,000 is budgeted for “management, administration and enforcement” of the law, outreach about the law and distribution of free reusable bags, according to the release.

Contract finalized in Evermay Estate sale The historic Evermay Estate in Georgetown found a buyer Friday after nearly three years on the mar-ket, Long & Foster Real Estate announced in a news release yes-terday. The release does not identify the buyer or final sale price, but the 3.6-acre property was most recently listed for $25.9 million. The District assesses the property at $18.1 million; it was first listed for sale in September 2008 for $49 million. The 1623 28th St. property includes a circa-1792, eight-bed-room, 13,000-square-foot manor, a three-bedroom gatekeeper’s house and extensive gardens. The estate was used regularly to host paid events, despite some neighbors’ objections.

Libraries collecting supplies for animals The Washington Humane Society is seeking linens and other supplies to help care for animals at its 1201 New York Ave. NE shel-ter, according to a message Ward 3 D.C. Council member Mary Cheh has posted on neighborhood list-servs. Drop boxes will be in place through Saturday at the Tenley-Friendship and Palisades neighbor-hood libraries — 4450 Wisconsin Ave. and 4901 V St., respectively. The society is seeking old towels, sheets and blankets for bedding as well as other items for the animals, according to Cheh’s email. For more information, including a list of other items the society could use, email [email protected].

Free watering tubs offered for tree care Residents who pledge to “adopt” a D.C. street tree can receive a free 10-gallon watering tub to help sustain that tree through a harsh summer, according to a news release from the D.C. Department of Transportation. Young trees need 10 gallons of water a week to survive and grow, the release states, and filling the tub takes less than 10 minutes. “Together, we can ensure that these taxpayer-funded assets pro-vide their full environmental, eco-nomic and social return on invest-ment for years to come,” D.C. chief forester John Thomas says in the release. To register as a “canopy keep-er” and receive a free tub, visit ddot.dc.gov/trees or call 202-671-5133.

Volunteers sought for visually impaired A Washington-area nonprofit organization is looking for adults who can meet weekly with blind or visually impaired residents in the residents’ homes to read to them and help them with daily activities, according to a news release. To volunteer for the Readers & Friendly Visitors program with Columbia Lighthouse for the Blind, contact Jocelyn Hunter at 202-464-6422 or [email protected].

Correction In the July 6 issue, a report on Advisory Neighborhood Commission 3C’s June 20 meeting misreported commissioner Bill Kummings’ account of an armed robbery. He did not say that the alleged robbers had been arrested but released. The Current regrets the error. As a matter of policy, The Current corrects all errors of sub-stance. To report an error, please call the managing editor at 202-244-7223.

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authority recommended that the Transportation Department go ahead and pave the streets, which were badly potholed. “We try to avoid the idea of going in and tearing up something that was recently put in place,” Transportation Department spokesperson Monica Hernandez said. “But it was a necessity … to ensure that [the roads are] safe and smooth.” Although water officials would have preferred coor-dinated paving, they said residents will not lose their new road improvements. “Per our policy, DC Water will restore, in-kind, all portions of the roadway dis-turbed during construction of the project,” authority spokesperson Emanuel Briggs wrote in an email. The water-main replacements will affect Rockwood Parkway from Nebraska Avenue to Glenbrook Road, Glenbrook Road to 49th Street, 49th Street to Woodway Lane, and the length of Woodway Lane. This area includes 4825 Glenbrook Road — which the Army

Corps identified as one of the most hazardous sites in Spring Valley. The water-main replacement, in conjunction with similar work that is now wrapping up under Chain Bridge Road, will “improve water quality and system reliability, increase water pressure in some areas, and … ensure more than optimum fire flows,” according to the water authority’s flier on the project. It’s not clear when the work can begin. “We are still in the process of preparing the special-ized scope of work, therefore a firm start date for work in the remaining areas is not available at this time,” Briggs wrote, adding that “it would be impractical to project what the duration of the project will be.” Nan Wells, a Spring Valley advisory neighborhood commissioner who represents part of the project area, said “it’s a toss-up” as to whether the Transportation Department should have waited for the water-main replacement before repaving the streets. “The roads have been very bad, and people have waited a long time,” Wells said, but she also would have liked to see the roads stay in good shape rather than be torn up again.

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plants were overgrown,” she said. “They’re great but they just got a little out of control.” Volunteers trimmed down the native plants, and added some annuals and perennials. They picked up trash and raked the leaves. And they plan to do a tree planting with Casey Trees this fall. “We really need more shade,” Diener said. In addition, to relieve the crowd-ing on the playground, resident Debby Hanrahan is campaigning to get the fenced-off field open to the children. “I look through the chain-link fence and it’s empty. But then I see 60 kids squished” on the play-ground, she said. “We need to make the park not only beautiful, but use-ful for children.” Hanrahan said she’d also like to see the D.C. Department of Parks and Recreation open the bathrooms at the site. “It’s foolish to spend all this money on a playground and not do these key pieces,” she said.

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The Broad Branch Road project is the second the Transportation Department is developing plans for adjacent to Rock Creek Park this summer. Farther north, the agency has proposed a controversial recon-struction of Oregon Avenue; resi-dents there have been divided over potential safety improvements and a fear that the road could lose its rural character. More than a decade ago, a previ-ous Transportation Department plan to improve Broad Branch Road was shot down by residents who liked the narrow, wooded street in its current form. A more recent plan was nixed in 2006 after the National Park Service raised concerns, according to Lisle. Although Broad Branch Road and Oregon Avenue are both nar-row streets that border Rock Creek

Park, Lisle said they will not neces-sarily share the same objections. Broad Branch has fewer residences, he said, and there are no hiker/biker trails running alongside it. Even so, Lisle wrote, “We make no predic-tion with respect to public accep-tance or controversy.” McCarthy said public involve-ment in the design of the Broad Branch Road project could help avoid objections from neighbors, but he noted that he saw only a few other residents at last week’s meet-ing; 13 signed an attendance sheet. “I think one of the things I’m hearing in the Oregon Ave discus-sion is that people are unhappy with the alternatives,” McCarthy said. “It’s really important for people to get involved early on while DDOT is trying to identify the alternatives. ... So hopefully at the next public meeting they’ll have better public turnout.” Project planners are also taking comment by email at BroadBranch@

parsons.com. The Transportation Department hopes to complete an environmen-tal assessment on Broad Branch this year. It will then spend a year final-izing its design if the assessment finds no “significant impact,” Lisle said. Construction would begin in spring 2013 and take about 18 months, he said. April’s collapse of the culvert carrying Soapstone Creek under Broad Branch Road prompted an emergency repair of that southern section of the road. The Transportation Department would have evaluated and possibly replaced the bridge during this long-term project, but the collapse necessitated earlier work, Lisle said. He said the road, which is now open using a temporary one-lane bridge, is scheduled to close at the end of July between Brandywine Street and Ridge Road and reopen in September with a permanent two-lane repair.

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Needless restructuring? D.C. Council Chairman Kwame Brown described last week’s abrupt leadership shakeup as a restructuring of the legislature’s com-mittees. But his midsummer moves at perestroika were jarring, par-ticularly because they lacked any spirit of glasnost. The news release sent out by Chairman Brown’s office explains the reconfigured committee leadership: Ward 3’s Mary Cheh in charge of the expanded committee on the environment, public works and transportation; Ward 4’s Muriel Bowser atop the government operations committee; Ward 6’s Tommy Wells in charge of the com-mittee that oversees libraries, parks and recreation, with the addition of planning; and at-large member Vincent Orange overseeing a new panel on small and local business development. The bottom line: Mr. Wells lost responsibility for the transporta-tion issues on which he had focused tremendous energy over the last six months (he also lost his seat on the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, in favor of Ms. Bowser). And in terms of the council’s work, the midterm shuffling — accompanied either by changes in staff or in their responsibilities — will be greatly disrup-tive. The news release doesn’t offer much in the way of a rationale. It says the changes “effectively consolidate areas of similar interest” and “merge all matters related to the environment including transpor-tation.” And it praises Council member Wells “for his strong leader-ship on transportation issues.” If the need for consolidation is great and his leadership praisewor-thy, however, why not merge all matters related to transportation in a committee under Mr. Wells? Of course, that would be politically dif-ficult, given that Ms. Cheh has great interest in environmental issues. Adding to the doubts: Planning has as much connection to transpor-tation and the environment as it does to parks and libraries. It would have been so much easier to leave things alone. So why not do so? In the absence of a compelling explanation, Mr. Brown has left himself open to complaints that vindictiveness and political payback are at the heart of this maneuver. That’s because the loser in this political shuffling is Mr. Wells — who conducted a valuable inquiry into the Department of Public Works’ role in acquiring the infamous “fully loaded” sport-utility vehicles for the chairman.

An effective system Last week’s news that Schools Chancellor Kaya Henderson had dismissed 288 teachers for poor performance on the system’s IMPACT assessment gives us confidence that important reforms begun under former Chancellor Michelle Rhee will continue, though hopefully with less of the ire. The school system announced Friday that 113 teachers were los-ing their positions because they scored “ineffective” on the assess-ment and another 175 would have to leave because they had scored “minimally effective” two years in a row. Twenty-one more would lose positions because they had not been able to find placements after being dismissed last year, and 104 were terminated for licen-sure issues. Meanwhile, the system’s top-scoring teachers will be rewarded — some with tens of thousands of dollars in bonuses, and a number with those bonuses on top of base salary increases. While the IMPACT system is surely imperfect — particularly as demonstrated by the dismissals last year of a scattering of prominent teachers who seemed truly talented — it’s certainly better than the previous approach. The “PREP” teacher assessment used during the 2008-09 school year labeled 95 percent of teachers as “effective” or “highly effec-tive.” But less than half of the system’s students scored proficient on the city’s standardized test that year. The students’ fault? Seems unlikely.

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We’re taking the next two weeks off to celebrate — or maybe just observe — a significant birthday. But we didn’t want to leave without a roundup of summer headwinds. By week’s end, we might have a formal response from Ward 5 D.C. Council member Harry “Tommy” Thomas to the civil suit filed against him by D.C. Attorney General Irving Nathan. Nathan has detailed what he says are hundreds of thousands of city dol-lars Thomas allegedly spent for his personal benefit instead of on programs for young people. More than a few peo-ple are waiting to see what, if any, explanation Thomas can offer up. In addition to the civil suit, the U.S. Attorney’s Office is reviewing the case for possible criminal violations. D.C. Council Chairman Kwame Brown also now has his legal fate in U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr.’s hands. Brown’s 2008 re-election com-mittee is having trouble explaining hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions and expenditures. D.C. elections board chair Togo West — as we reported last week — said the board requested the inquiry into Brown’s committee because members felt there might have been “criminal” violations of the city’s election laws. West said he expects the FBI to use the full force of its powers to pursue the Brown campaign allega-tions. Many citizens are hoping the same will be true of the other cases. The travails of Brown and Thomas in recent weeks have overshadowed the still-brewing cam-paign scandal involving Mayor Vincent Gray and minor candidate Sulaimon Brown. But don’t take silence as an indication that the case is going nowhere. U.S. Attorney Machen has an extraordinary opportunity and responsibility to flush out all three of the cases. The city’s politics are at minimum smeared and at worst corrupt while all these charges and allegations hang out there. Machen got the Gray case back in early March. He has publicly commented on public corruption several times. In August of last year, two employees of the city’s technology office were sentenced to prison terms for corrupt contracting. Machen minced no words. “The residents of the District of Columbia deserve an ethical government with ethical employees, and have the right to know that their money is being spent honestly and for the public good,” he said. “The prison sentence[s] should send a strong message to any public official

who may be tempted to accept a bribe or kickback that we will not tolerate corruption.” Both D.C. Chamber of Commerce president Barbara Lang and Greater Washington Board of Trade president Jim Dinegar have told NBC4 that the taint of corruption and scandal is doing serious damage to the city’s image and its ability to attract new businesses and jobs. Dinegar told us the city has “squandered” some

opportunities. “Any missteps, any headlines other than how great we are … don’t help the situation at all.”■ Wells weighing future? Ward 6

Council member Tommy Wells is still smarting over Chairman Kwame Brown’s decision to strip him of the transportation committee chairmanship. Wells has tried to take the high road by not personalizing the battle with the chairman and promising to do his best no matter what committee he leads. But we pressed Wells on the Kojo Nnamdi’s “The Politics Hour” on WAMU last week. There have been rumblings that Wells is considering a run for chairman should Brown seek re-election or be forced by the criminal probe to step aside. After hemming and hawing and trying to cling to the high road, Wells told us this: “Vince Gray was an extraordinary chair. Our approval ratings were at 67 percent, which was bizarre almost for an elected body. That has plum-meted. And so we need a strong chair that can oper-ate our government in a way that it restores … the confidence of the people we govern. And we’re not there right now.”■ That SUV problem? Back at the start of the year, Council Chairman Kwame Brown vowed to repay the city for any expenses attributable to him for the “fully loaded” SUV scandal. As you recall, the city wound up ordering two SUVs because Brown objected to the color scheme of the first one. City officials say they’ve settled one of the leas-ing contracts and are still working on the other. But there’s no word yet on how much Brown will be assessed to make good on his promise.■ Good news ending. Let’s wipe away the bitter taste of scandal with this last item. Last week a huge crowd of customers, old friends and folks who were just curious showed up at a party that raised $30,000 for displaced employees of the Tune Inn on Capitol Hill. The 65-year-old dive bar (that’s what THEY call it) was seriously damaged by a recent fire. It won’t reopen until the fall. The $30,000 will help ease the burden for the workers. Congratulations to all. Tom Sherwood, a Southwest resident, is a politi-cal reporter for News 4.

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Article overstates Spring Valley cases The article about the proposed Johns Hopkins study of Spring Valley refers misleadingly to the results of the “2007 study that found an elevated incidence of arsenic-related cancers and other illnesses in Spring Valley” [“Hopkins experts prepare to examine Spring Valley,” July 13]. In fact, the key health findings by Johns Hopkins researchers as a result of their 2007 study were: Mortality rates and cancer rates are low. No association was found between D.C. cancer regis-try and boundaries of interest.

Johns Hopkins recommended additional collection and analysis of data, and that is why members of the Resident Advisory Board asked the city to allocate funds.

Malcolm PritzkerSpring Valley

New grocery store is off to good start The new owners and opera-tors of the former Superfresh on 48th Street in American University Park have taken a very good approach to their new store. They are keeping it much like it was when operated as an upscale A&P before the parent company went belly up and had to sell its local stores. A Toronto-based company stepped up and took over the

eight local stores involved, and some of these are already open. As I write this, the opening of the American University Park store is imminent, and the store will seem very familiar to those who shopped there for as many as 20 years. There will be some gradual changes as the new owners try some new offerings to see what does and does not sell. There will also be some modernization of the store over time. This was a very valuable property, as the old Superfresh took in more than $14 million in sales last year. It’s good to see what is taking place there right now, and the neighbors and shop-pers wish them great success.

Ed T. BarronAmerican University Park

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Parks should provide venue for unity, fun After having traveled exten-sively not just throughout the United States but also in many European capitals and Central American towns and cities, I’ve noticed the unity and joy that being able to meet, rest, sing, dance and watch a movie or ad hoc musical performance all bring to citizens. Washington has many potential venues for such activity — the cir-cles and squares that also memori-alize important figures and times in American history. The Civil War was a terrible chapter in our history, especially in D.C., as its legacy led to the assassination of one of our most beloved and greatest presidents. Is providing a home for the home-less, a watering hole for the desti-tute with various addiction prob-lems or a place for pets to relieve themselves a suitable way to honor the men and women who made huge sacrifices to preserve the union of our states and our country? The answer obviously is no. What is fitting is that Washington’s beautiful circles and squares become places where joy and fun — as well as peace and rest — unify us into one city. We need to work with the National Park Service to help them help us better enjoy these beautiful parks in creative and appropriate ways. In doing so, we would preserve L’Enfant’s idea of having special places of honor that encourage us to slow down from the hustle of daily life to meet, rest or enjoy ourselves in a beautiful space where great American sacrifices are honored. I volunteer to help. Who’s with me? You can contact me at [email protected].

Chris LabasFoggy Bottom

Area ‘Villages’ enrich participants’ lives I was delighted to see the June 29 article in The Current about efforts to establish two new “vil-lages” in D.C. [“‘Aging in place’ initiatives gain ground in Northwest”]. Northwest Neighbors Village, which has been operating since early 2009, has been assisting indi-viduals in these areas with their efforts because we are living proof of what a difference a “village” can make in the lives of its mem-bers. National media reports often offer negative stereotypes about

the District of Columbia; rarely is there any coverage of the wonder-ful friendship and support that D.C. neighbors offer their fellow citizens. Our group has more than 120 members and 80 neighborhood volunteers. We provide the wide range of services to which Georgetown Village aspires. We offer residents of Chevy Chase, American University Park, Tenleytown, Forest Hills and Van Ness not only services, but also social activities and seminars designed to assist and enrich their lives as they remain in their homes. We have established part-nerships with other organizations in the area, such as Iona Senior Services and Habitat for Humanity, to expand the reach of our servic-es. Our very high rate of member renewal is further evidence that there is value in the village. More than 100 villages are either up and running or in the works across the country. As recent census reports have shown, there is a rise in the senior population. It often makes better economic sense for seniors — as well as for the communities in which they live — to remain in their homes with dig-nity if the resources are there to help them.

Janean MannPresident,

Northwest Neighbors Village

Vote out supporters of new tax on bonds D.C. Council members Phil Mendelson, Michael Brown and Vincent Orange all supported the taxation of municipal bonds. Additionally, all three voted against the proposal to not tax ret-roactively these bonds for tax year 2011. They comprise three of the four at-large members on the D.C. Council. The only at-large mem-ber who did not support municipal bond taxation was David Catania. Something is clearly out of sync when the overall vote of the council was 7-6 in favor of this outrageous tax, and Council mem-bers Mendelson, Brown and Orange supplied almost half of the deciding total. By targeting municipal bond owners, many of whom are aver-age-income retirees, these three council members are casting them-selves in the same boat as Republican members of Congress who would end Medicare and cut Social Security. How can this be happening in our progressive city? Are these council members really this mean and unfair to our seniors? Or are they influenced by the Wall Street interests that stand to make a killing when D.C. resi-dents flock to switch bond hold-ings and push up the pricing on

D.C. bonds because of the increased demand? I urge all voters who are impacted by the municipal bond tax — and all other voters who believe legislation should be fair, open and not influenced by out-side interests — to vote against these at-large members when they are up for re-election. They are distorting the overall will of the people of the District of Columbia. Otherwise, we might as well revert to the days before home rule.

Jerome RobertsForest Hills

tax law penalizes D.C.’s bond investors D.C. is not “the only state that does not tax the bonds of other states,” as proponents of the new tax on non-D.C. bonds have argued in The Current. On Jan. 1, 2012, however, D.C. will become the only local juris-diction that does not exempt the bonds of a state. It will be as if Baltimore residents were suddenly required to pay tax on bonds issued elsewhere in Maryland. In contrast with all the states and territories, D.C. has chosen to uniquely and unfairly penalize res-idents who invest in municipal bonds.

Neil WilliamsThe Palisades

event demonstrates lawyers’ goodwill Deirdre Bannon’s article and the accompanying photos on Banding Together: The Eighth Annual Battle of the Law Firm Bands [“Battle of the barristers: D.C. lawyers rock out to raise funds,” July 13] captured spot-on what this marvelous event is all about. Banding Together is a unique win-win-win-win event: Twelve law firm bands have a fantastic time raising the roof at the Black Cat, a top D.C. indie-rock venue; the fans delight in five hours of great music; businesses in the neighborhood benefit from the big crowd; and — most importantly — 100 percent of the proceeds from the event are used to purchase essential winter clothing items and blankets to keep our area’s home-less population warm in the winter. Gifts for the Homeless, which presents the event, is already mak-ing plans for the ninth annual Banding Together, where we hope to again smash fundraising records and show that lawyers would rath-er be competing on stage than in court.

Laurel GlassmanMember, Board of Directors

Vice President for DevelopmentGifts for the Homeless Inc.

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This is a listing of reports taken from July 10 through 16 in local police service areas.

PSA 201

Burglary■ 5100 block, Connecticut Ave.; residence; 10:15 a.m. July 12.■ 3800 block, Legation St.; resi-dence; 12:30 p.m. July 13.■ 3800 block, Livingston St.; residence; 5 p.m. July 13.■ 5400 block, 31st St.; resi-dence; 6 p.m. July 14.Theft ($250 plus)■ 3600 block, Patterson St.; sidewalk; 10 p.m. July 12.■ 5500 block, Connecticut Ave.; restaurant; 2:30 a.m. July 16.■ 3400 block, Morrison St.; street; 12:35 p.m. July 16.Theft (below $250)■ 2600 block, Military Road; unspecified premises; 4:30 p.m. July 13.■ 5600 block, Connecticut Ave.; government building; 1:30 p.m. July 15.Theft (shoplifting)■ 5500 block, Connecticut Ave.; liquor store; noon July 14.

PSA 202

Stolen auto■ 4800 block, 41st St.; street; 5 p.m. July 14.Theft ($250 plus)■ 3900 block, Alton Place; church; 1 p.m. July 14.Theft (below $250)■ 4200 block, Chesapeake St.; residence; 10:30 p.m. July 10.■ Jenifer Street and Wisconsin Avenue; sidewalk; 11:30 a.m. July 11.■ 5300 block, Wisconsin Ave.; store; 1 p.m. July 11.■ 5300 block, Wisconsin Ave.; store; 8:51 p.m. July 13.■ 4500 block, Wisconsin Ave.; sidewalk; 8:50 a.m. July 15.Theft from auto ($250 plus)■ 5200 block, 44th St.; street; 6:30 a.m. July 15.

PSA 203

No crimes reported.

PSA 204Burglary■ 3800 block, Beecher St.; resi-dence; 3:50 a.m. July 15.■ 2800 block, 28th St.; resi-dence; 2:25 p.m. July 12.■ 3200 block, Connecticut Ave.; residence; 6:30 a.m. July 13.Theft ($250 plus)■ 2800 block, Quebec St.; resi-dence; 8:30 a.m. July 15.Theft (below $250)■ 2200 block, Wisconsin Ave.; office building; 9:30 a.m. July 12.■ 3500 block, Garfield St.; unspecified premises; 3:50 p.m. July 13.■ 3500 block, Connecticut Ave.; unspecified premises; 4 p.m. July 14.Theft from auto ($250 plus)■ 2600 block, Woodley Road; unspecified premises; 11:30 a.m. July 13.

PSA 205

Burglary■ 5000 block, Rockwood Parkway; residence; 2:30 a.m. July 14.Stolen auto■ 4800 block, Rodman St.; street; 2 p.m. July 11.Theft from auto (below $250)■ 4400 block, MacArthur Blvd.; parking lot; 5:30 p.m. July 11.

PSA 206

Assault with a dangerous weapon■ 3600 block, Canal Road; unspecified premises; 11:30 p.m. July 15.Burglary■ 1200 block, Wisconsin Ave.; store; 3:10 a.m. July 12.Stolen auto■ 1000 block, Wisconsin Ave.; parking lot; 7 a.m. July 15.Theft ($250 plus)■ 1000 block, Paper Mill Court; parking lot; 3 p.m. July 11.Theft (below $250)■ 37th and O streets; university;

11 a.m. July 11.■ 1400 block, Wisconsin Ave.; drugstore; 4:23 p.m. July 11.■ 3200 block, M St.; store; 1 p.m. July 13.■ 3200 block, M St.; store; 4:26 p.m. July 13.■ 1200 block, Wisconsin Ave.; store; 5:30 p.m. July 14.■ 3200 block, R St.; unspecified premises; 9:55 a.m. July 15.■ 1000 block, 31st St.; store; 4 p.m. July 16.Theft (shoplifting)■ 3100 block, M St.; store; 1:30 p.m. July 13.Theft from auto (below $250)■ 1800 block, 39th St.; street; 11 a.m. July 13.

PSA 207

Assault with a dangerous weapon■ 2100 block, I St.; restaurant; 6:45 p.m. July 13.Theft ($250 plus)■ 2000 block, Pennsylvania Ave.; sidewalk; 10:30 a.m. July 16.Theft (below $250)■ 600 block, 17th St.; medical facility; 4:55 p.m. July 15.Theft from auto ($250 plus)■ 2600 block, Virginia Ave.; uni-versity; noon July 16.Theft from auto (below $250)■ 2400 block, H St.; street; 4 p.m. July 11.■ 2300 block, L St.; street; 10:30 p.m. July 14.

PSA 208

Robbery (force and violence)■ 1500 block, S St.; street; 8:10 p.m. July 12.Robbery (pocketbook snatch)■ 1800 block, 18th St.; restau-rant; 10:15 p.m. July 13.Robbery (attempt)■ 1200 block, 16th St.; street; 11:45 a.m. July 14.Assault with a dangerous weapon■ 1100 block, 16th St.; medical facility; 9:15 a.m. July 14.■ 1200 block, Connecticut Ave.; tavern; 1:30 a.m. July 16.Burglary■ 1600 block, R St.; residence; 8:30 a.m. July 12.

■ 1600 block, Connecticut Ave.; office building; 4:31 a.m. July 13.Burglary (attempt)■ 1400 block, S St.; residence; 11:18 a.m. July 13.Stolen auto■ 1800 block, P St.; street; 11:30 a.m. July 10.■ 2200 block, R St.; street; 9:30 p.m. July 13.Theft ($250 plus)■ 1800 block, M St.; medical facility; 3:06 p.m. July 12.■ 2000 block, M St.; hotel; 11:30 p.m. July 12.■ 1700 block, K St.; office build-ing; 2:30 p.m. July 13.■ 1600 block, K St.; office build-ing; 5:35 p.m. July 14.Theft (below $250)■ 1100 block, Connecticut Ave.; store; 1:10 p.m. July 11.■ 1800 block, 16th St.; resi-dence; 4:30 p.m. July 11.■ 2100 block, R St.; medical facility; 10:35 a.m. July 12.■ 1100 block, 18th St.; office building; 5:30 p.m. July 12.■ 2100 block, N St.; sidewalk; 7 p.m. July 12.■ 1800 block, 19th St.; unspeci-fied premises; 10 p.m. July 12.■ 1700 block, N St.; office build-ing; 11:30 a.m. July 13.■ 1300 block, New Hampshire Ave.; sidewalk; 8:30 p.m. July 14.■ 800 block, Connecticut Ave.; office building; 10:13 a.m. July 15.■ 1300 block, Connecticut Ave.; unspecified premises; noon July 15.■ 1100 block, Connecticut Ave.; store; 3:30 p.m. July 15.■ 1700 block, Connecticut Ave.; restaurant; 3:30 a.m. July 16.■ 1700 block, Rhode Island Ave.; church; 12:15 p.m. July 16.■ 1000 block, Connecticut Ave.; store; 1:20 p.m. July 16.Theft from auto (below $250)■ 1600 block, M St.; street; 9:50 a.m. July 10.■ 1500 block, N St.; street; 10:30 p.m. July 10.■ 1300 block, 22nd St.; street; 10:45 p.m. July 10.■ 1700 block, T St.; street; 12:15 a.m. July 11.■ 1800 block, 17th St.; street; 8:50 a.m. July 13.■ 18th and K streets; street; 10:45 p.m. July 13.

psA 201■ chevy chase

psA 202■ friendshiP heiGhts tenleytown / au Park

psA 203■ forest hills / van ness

psA 204■ massachusetts avenue heiGhts / cleveland Parkwoodley Park / Glover Park / cathedral heiGhts

psA 205■ Palisades / sPrinG valleywesley heiGhts/ foxhall

psA 206■ GeorGetown / burleith

psA 207■ foGGy bottom / west end

psA 208■ sheridan-kaloramaduPont circle

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2011 Contest Winners Announced:What Can You Do

to Improve Your Watershed?

Hundreds of area sixth- and seventh-graders competed over the school year to best answer that question. Student teams presented their proposals at the Earth Force Environmental Youth Summit on

June 2nd.

Agrium, Inc., sponsor of the CARING FOR OUR WATER-SHEDS program, thanks all the students, teachers and volunteers who participated this year. This program empow-ers students to imagine, develop and create solu-tions in their local watersheds. Through the con-test, students not only learn about their environment, they develop research, problem-solving, budget-ing, community- involvement and presentation skills.

Agrium is a major retail supplier of agricultural prod-ucts and services. In sponsoring the contest, it provided $5,000 in prize money and an additional $10,000 to imple-ment the winning proposals.

Congratulations to Langdon Education Campus students for their winning entry: “WET!” This project created a board game centered on watershed stewardship, to be given to elementary schools. It earned the team the $1,000 �rst prize.

Contest winners were announced at the Youth Summit, where students, teachers, and partners joined together for a day of re�ection, celebration, and hands-on learning.

WASHINGTON, DC FINALISTS

Final Place

Award SchoolProposal

Name

1st $1,000 Langdon Education Campus

WET!

2nd $800 Washington Latin Public Charter School

Bring Bottle Deposits to DC

3rd $500 Friendship Public Charter School–Chamberlain

Recycling Bins in the Classroom

4th $300 Washington Latin Public Charter School

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5th $200 Whittier Education Campus

Water Sprin-kler Timer

6th $150 Kramer Middle School

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8th $150 Roots Public Charter School

Motor Oil Recycling for the Commu-nity


Community Trash Day


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By BORIS TSALYUKCurrent Staff Writer

The Northwest Little League All-Stars went down to their final turn at the plate, their last out and their last strike before pulling through to beat Capitol City 6-5 in the decisive third game of the city championship Saturday. With Northwest trailing 4-2 in the sixth and final frame, Capitol City’s Cooper Jenson struck out the first two batters he faced. Ty Love-Baker then took two quick strikes and the game seemed all but over. But Love-Baker worked the count to 2-2 and hit a single, and Matthew Dulaney followed with a walk. Ethan Roth then doubled home the tying runs, Luke Wallis doubled home Roth, and Henry Furlong’s extra-base hit scored Wallis to give Northwest a 6-4 lead. Roth then took the mound in the bottom of the inning, trying to seal the deal, but Capitol City kept fighting. The team scored one run and put two more run-

ners in scoring position, so just one hit could’ve spelled doom for Northwest. But Roth fielded a ground ball with two outs and threw to first just in time to get the out and end the game. Roth, one of the team’s most veteran players, said he kept telling his t e a m m a t e s , “We’re still gonna win,” late in the game when they were down. “It’s a big lesson on not giving up,” said Melinda Roth, Ethan’s mom. “And it wasn’t one kid — every-one did what they had to do to win the game.” Northwest came from behind not only in the game but also in the series. The team lost its first matchup — 13-3 to Capitol City — before bouncing back to win

6-2 Friday night to set up the decisive third game. This year’s tournament was one of the most competitive ever. While Northwest and perennial power Capitol City fought to the finish, DC RBI

All-Stars also had a nice show-ing, falling in two close games. Northwest Little League will advance to compete in the Mid-Atlantic Region tournament in Bristol, Conn., from Aug. 5 through 14.

Athletics in northwest wAshington July 20, 2011 ■


The Washington Senators travel team swept through its group at the ESPN Rise Softball World Championship in Orlando, Fla., on Sunday and Monday, clinching the top seed and a first-round bye in elimination play this week. The Senators, who are led by several play-ers from local schools, beat a Northern Michigan team Sunday, 9-4. Then, in back-to-back games Monday, they took down a team from California, 5-4, and from Georgia, 5-0. The former was the Senators’ first-ever triumph over a California squad. Top local players on the Senators include Maret’s Caroline Sealander; Visitation’s Katie Kolbe, the D.C. Gatorade Player of the Year; Visitation’s Juliette Lewis; Visitation’s Abby Peterson; National Cathedral’s Julia Reed; and St. John’s’ Kendra Hoes. Sealander and Tiffany Harvell (Bowie, Md.) were on the hill for the Senators as Kolbe, the team’s ace pitcher, was recovering from a slight injury. Kolbe will be back on the mound for elimination play. Washington will take the field again Thursday after a day of rest to face an as-yet-undetermined team. “We have some great competition ahead, but to date we have exceeded our expecta-tions,” said director Stan Kolbe.

D.C. Senators storm Disney

Above, photo courtesy of

Melinda Roth; left, courtesy of Sports Spotlight

PhotographyAbove, Northwest celebrates its D.C. title. Left, Syd Love-Baker was the only female on the team and one of its top players.


Wilson crew co-coach Linda Miller had already seen more than a few strong rowers by the time she started coaching Stuart Maeder. After all, Miller was a mem-ber of the U.S. National Team for six years and competed in the Olympic Games in 2000. But it didn’t take long for her to recog-nize that Maeder, who graduated from Wilson in June, had the right physique for the sport. “I was like, ‘Whoa! Who are you?’” she recalled of her first introduction to the 6-foot-6 Maeder, at the Wilson Boathouse Bash in October 2009. “It was very clear from his physical prowess that he’s built to be good rower.” Miller quickly took Maeder under her wing, and less than two years after their initial meet-ing the Wilson alum is now pre-paring to represent the United States at the World Rowing Junior Championships from Aug. 3 through 7 in Eton Dorney, England.

After weeks of grueling try-outs — “Every practice you were wondering who’s gonna get cut,” he said — Maeder and 17 other rowers were selected from a group of 50 invitees. He will row for a world title in the men’s four with coxswain boat (M4+). For Maeder, who had played soccer since he was little, crew had started as a mere attempt to “do something different” athleti-cally, his mother Mary Beth Maeder recalled. Eventually, he had to choose his main sport. Miller, who has coached at Wilson since 2001, did every-thing she could to help Maeder realize he had vast potential. “You are limited in this sport only by what you want to do; it’s all on you,” she told him. Maeder ultimately decided to take the water route. He was recruited last school year by sev-eral top crew programs and land-ed at Dartmouth College. He missed his graduation day at Wilson this June, when he left for Kent, Conn., to try out for the national team. It wasn’t an easy choice, his mom said. And the level of work and

endurance required at tryouts put him to the test. “Twenty-four-seven you’re constantly thinking about what you have to do the next practice and whether or not you’re recovering fast enough,” he said. But Miller knew he had the ability to overcome. A few months back, she recalled, Maeder was frustrated by a tough workout and called her for guid-ance. “Give yourself a break, let it go,” she told him. But Maeder kept at it until he got it right. That was when she realized he had not only the talent, but also “the tenacity and work ethic” needed to compete in the sport on a high level,” she said. Maeder didn’t hesitate to turn to Miller for support during try-outs either. He sent her countless text messages narrating the ups and downs of the experience. One such message said some-thing like “Feeling awesome!” while another stated, “This is the hardest day of my life.” He made the first cut after two weeks and the final cut a week later. That made it a little easier to breathe, he said, though he’s

now in the midst of two- and three-a-day workouts. But with the hard work comes a sense of accomplishment. “It’s really exciting to say you are on a national team — all the guys here are really the best junior rowers in the nation,” he said. And while Miller never said

“I told you so,” it’s clear her early hunch was spot on. “Just an innate sense of how to put the blade in the water and what to do — it was clear to me early on that Stuart had that,” Miller said. “That’s what sepa-rates the good from the excel-lent.”

Maeder splashes onto crew’s world stage

Photo Courtesy of Mary Beth MaederStuart Maeder, who graduated from Wilson in June, will take his talents to an international competition in England next month.

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What if you stripped the District of Columbia of all its swanky buildings,

Victorian row houses and memori-als that commemorate a grand patriotic history? The diamond-shaped parcel of land left would be one marked by very specific vegetation patterns, topography and drainage systems — land the area’s first inhabitants were inti-mately familiar with. It’s not a common way of imagining Washington, but increasingly, that’s how Palisades resident Doug Dupin views the city. An amateur archaeologist who runs the Palisades Museum of Prehistory, Dupin, 44, has a passion for searching out Native American artifacts in an effort to better picture how those earlier peoples integrated themselves into the ecosystem. And along the way, he’s urging the District govern-ment to do a better job of ensuring that local artifacts are safeguarded for the future. Dupin is a bit of an unlikely candidate for the museum director-slash-gadfly role. A California native who looks much like the skateboard aficionado he still is, he seems about as different from the staid, squirrely archaeologist stereotype as one can get. A for-mer geographer, he’s a man of many hobbies, including cultivat-ing hops, grapes and mosquitofish, and brewing beer and wine. Then there’s the museum, another unorthodox specimen, which sits next to his house and garden. Probably best described as a hut, the little building is just big enough for a display case, a cou-ple of chairs and a simple plumb-ing system. A fully homemade job, built from rough-hewn pallet board, burlap and corrugated steel, it’s the reason Dupin got started in the archaeology business. Around 2003, he decided to build a wine cellar in his yard and started digging. “I got down around four-and-a-half feet and found flakes,” he said, explaining that he’d worked for a year as an archaeologist in Hawaii and knew that the small pieces of rock were the leftovers from tool-making efforts by earlier inhabitants. Soon enough, “I found a point, then more points, then pottery shards.” It turns out that Palisades is full of Native American artifacts.

“They had the same ideal places that we do,” said Dupin, adding that his far Northwest neighbor-hood, with its leafy bluffs over-looking the Potomac, was proba-bly as desirable to earlier inhabit-ants as to today’s residents. The land is mostly flat; Great Falls, a fish breeding ground, is just seven miles upriver; and the fall line marking the transition from the coastal plain to the piedmont is close by. Since then, Dupin has found dozens of artifacts, most of which are on display at his museum. There are perfect, serrated points that were attached to ancient spears and arrows; scraper tools that could’ve been used to work a hide or sharpen other tools; a pes-tle, one end smooth from use; and a bowl fragment that had been carved out of soapstone, a relic from the days before pottery. Determining how the items may have been used is a huge part of the attraction: “It’s about figuring out how people lived when they were really part of the ecosystem. It’s a mystery, and you have to have an imagination.” Just about everything comes from a small, 10-block-square area in Palisades; many items were the result of digging that occurred in 2006 when Palisades Park was being retrofitted with a new soccer field. Little by little, Dupin has developed an intuitive sense for where Native Americans might have left things, but he also uses his geography background to understand elements like soils,

stone and drainage, all of which can indicate areas that might have been favorable to them. And along the way, he has seri-ously educated himself. Aside from his homegrown investiga-tions (shaping bowls from Palisades clay and firing them in bonfires; boiling water by heating rocks and dropping them in, like Native Americans used to do), he’s engaged in more formal efforts, like talking with local archaeologists who help him iden-tify particular items and reading as much as he can about the Native Americans who used them. Not a lot is known about those people, who lived thousands of years before Europeans arrived on the scene; they’re mostly catego-rized according to their habits. “One hundred years ago, there was a lot of archaeology done in this area,” said Dupin. Some of the results of that research are on display at the Smithsonian, but not much has occurred in recent years. One exception is a 1972 paper by professors from American and Catholic universities, which refer-enced the “Birch Collection,” some 43 points gathered by an earlier Palisades resident, a Mr. Birch. After searching fruitlessly for the collection for years, Dupin recently heard that a board mount-ed with arrowheads and other points was located in the Boy Scout Room of the Palisades Community Church. “I saw it and

immediately knew that was it,” he reported. With the help of two Boy Scouts, who earned archaeology merit badges through their work, Dupin cleaned, cataloged and pho-tographed the points, which are now on display at the Palisades Post Office on MacArthur Boulevard. Coincidentally, the site where Mr. Birch found the points is again under construction, and Dupin has already found five new points there. He might have found even more across the street, in a sensi-tive spot where workers were dig-ging a trench to bury a fiber-optic line, but they replaced the soil too quickly for him to get in there. That’s exactly the kind of thing that gets him angry. “There should be an archaeology monitor watch-ing over things like that,” he said, railing at what he perceives to be the D.C. government’s lack of interest in the city’s own artifacts. “It’s very difficult to get informa-tion about the archaeology of the District. None of the artifacts are available,” he said, adding that his small museum is one of the only places where the public can view local relics. Dupin’s hunch is that the city government favors a development-at-all-costs approach and doesn’t want to be slowed down by something with very lit-tle revenue attached to it. Ruth Trocolli, the city’s archae-ologist in the Historic Preservation Office within the Office of

Planning, admitted that none of the city’s artifacts are viewable by the public, but she said it’s simply a fiscal problem. “In Alexandria,” she said, giving an example, “[the city] is about the same size, but they have five people on staff, and a big collection facility. It’s always going to be a problem in D.C. It’s hard to get funding.” Still, Dupin’s efforts have already borne some fruit. Testimony he gave to the D.C. Council in 2009 resulted in a small allocation to catalog and dis-play the city’s collection. Trocolli said it’ll be tough, given that she spends just about all of her time trying to determine which city development projects need to be monitored, but she’s purchased collection management software and has begun a “box-level inven-tory” — searching the boxes and logging their contents — to deter-mine what she has. With his strong opinions, Dupin says he’s probably a thorn in the side of Trocolli and other city workers, but she said he’s been helpful. “Doug has actually done a lot of good. Now we’re putting some resources towards it.” The Palisades Museum of Prehistory, located at 5766 Sherier Place, is open 3 to 6 p.m. on Sundays and by appointment. Posters illustrating points from the area are available for $15. Learn more at pmop.org.

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Amateur archaeologist makes ‘prehistory’ in the Palisades

Bill Petros/The CurrentDoug Dupin first discovered Native American artifacts when digging out a wine cellar in his Palisades yard in 2003. Now a watchdog of the city’s archaeology efforts, he runs the Palisades Museum of Prehistory in a small building beside his house.


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ANC 2DSheridan-Kalorama

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At the commission’s July 6 meeting:■ commissioners voted unani-mously to support a request from Chain Bridge Road residents for speed humps on their street. The residents are concerned that once the road is repaved later this month, it will become a popular cut-though street, and that the smooth surface will make drivers more likely to speed. At least 75 percent of the house-holds on each of the road’s six numeric blocks signed petitions requesting speed humps, a resident said. D.C. Department of Transportation policy is to honor such requests, barring engineering hurdles.■ resident Mat Thorp asked the community to send him details of airplanes flying over the Palisades, which he plans to gather into a report for Reagan Washington National Airport officials. To report planes or for more information, write to [email protected].■ an American University repre-sentative said freshmen will be participating in the school’s Freshman Service Experience on Aug. 24 and 25, through which they do community service. Some students are considering volunteer-ing for the Tenleytown-Friendship Neighborhood Library and Iona Senior Services, the representative said, and residents can offer ideas at [email protected].■ commissioners voted 6-3, with Ann Haas, Ann Heuer and W. Philip Thomas opposing, to support street

closures for the second annual Audi Best Buddies Challenge race. The Oct. 22 event will begin at 7:30 a.m. near the Washington Monument and follow the Whitehurst Freeway, Canal Road and the Clara Barton Parkway. In opposing the plan, Heuer said, “We have enough races.”■ commissioners voted unanimous-ly to support street closures for a 5K run sponsored by the German Embassy to celebrate the 50th anni-versary of The German School Washington D.C. of Potomac, Md. The Sept. 17 event will close sec-tions of Canal and Reservoir roads in the morning, and a stretch of Whitehaven Parkway will be closed through 2 p.m.■ Carol Mitten of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security described modified routes of the Nebraska Avenue Complex’s employee shuttle service. Officials are closing one of the Nebraska Avenue driveways, so buses that used it will now instead use a remaining Nebraska entrance clos-er to Ward Circle or an entrance from Massachusetts Avenue. None of the buses will make a left turn from Massachusetts Avenue, but some will continue to turn left from Nebraska into the facility, Mitten said. The changes will go into effect around Aug. 1.■ representatives from the D.C. Water and Sewer Authority dis-cussed plans for water main work along Canal Road, which was scheduled to begin July 11. The work is closing a lane of eastbound Canal Road in non-rush-hour times through September.■ commissioners voted 6-3, with Ann Haas, Ann Heuer and Nan Wells opposing, to support a pub-lic-space application for a wall at 5001 Palisade Lane.■ commissioners voted unani-mously to approve a series of con-ditions for the Lab School of Washington, which is seeking to raise its enrollment cap. School representatives did not attend the meeting but had privately agreed to the conditions, commissioner Ann Heuer said.■ commissioner Ann Haas said the Zoning Commission’s delay in hearing the Georgetown University campus plan could provide a useful “cooling-off period.” The hearings will resume Nov. 17.■ commission chair Tom Smith reminded residents that the Zoning Commission’s next American University campus plan hearing will take place July 14, and the proceedings will continue Sept. 22. The university will also likely come before the advisory neighbor-hood commission in the fall to seek “further processing” approval for planned developments within its campus plan, Smith added.■ commissioners discussed hold-ing a special meeting to discuss the ongoing munitions cleanup in Spring Valley. Because the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers was

unable to attend, the special meet-ing will not be held at this time.■ commission chair Tom Smith announced that the Potomac Appalachian Trails Club was hav-ing trouble with its grant applica-tion to the D.C. Department of Transportation for trail work in Wesley Heights and elsewhere in the city, which the commission sup-ported earlier this year. “This may be something we want to have a conversation with DDOT about,” Smith said.■ commissioners voted unani-mously to send a letter to the Cafritz Foundation recommending that it approve a $5,000 operating grant to the Committee of 100 on the Federal City. The commission will meet at 7 p.m. Sept. 7 in the new medical building at Sibley Memorial Hospital, 5215 Loughboro Road NW. For details, call 202-363-4130 or visit anc3d.org.

ANC 3ETenleytownAmerican University Park

The commission will meet at 7:30 p.m. Aug. 4 at St. Mary Armenian Apostolic Church, 42nd and Fessenden streets NW. For details, visit anc3e.org.

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The commission will meet at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 19 at the Capital Memorial Seventh-Day Adventist Church, 3150 Chesapeake St. NW. For details, call 202-362-6120 or visit anc3f.us.

ANC 3/4GChevy Chase

The commission will meet at 7:30 p.m. July 25 at the Chevy Chase Community Center, Connecticut Avenue and McKinley Street NW. Agenda items include:■ consideration of an application for use of public space at 3803 Huntington St.■ further discussion of the Oregon Avenue reconstruction project.■ presentation by the National Capital Area Chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union on D.C. statehood.■ report on a July 13 public scoping meeting on the reconstruction of Broad Branch Road. For details, call 202-363-5803 or send an email to [email protected].

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“The U Street we see today is not what it was like then,” Smith said of conditions in the mid-1980s, when Metro construction cut a giant gash through the corridor and he started his push for the museum. “The businesses were left in the lurch.” Smith, who came to D.C. in 1968 as a civil rights activist, served as Ward 1’s representa-tive on the D.C. Council from 1982 to 1998. When he lost his last election bid to Jim Graham, Smith decided to devote himself full-time to the museum effort. In 1998, Smith presided over the installa-tion of the Spirit of Freedom sculpture by artist Ed Hamilton at the corner of 10th and U streets NW. Behind it, the Wall of Honor lists the names of the 209,145 African-American

soldiers and their commanding officers. A couple of blocks away, at 1208 U St., Smith maintained a small storefront that displayed relevant artifacts. But Smith said he always hoped to find a larger space for the museum — a goal he saw accomplished Monday. The new museum, which encompasses 5,000 square feet in the former Grimke Elementary School building, boasts original Union uniforms and antique muskets from the era. Giant photos of the army’s African-American battalions line the walls. And a timeline takes visitors on a visual tour of the soldiers’ lives. Smith said said the goal has always been “to correct the great wrong in history to ignore the contributions of these soldiers.” And he said the overarching theme of the museum is freedom. “There were 3.9 million slaves when the war started,” he said. When it ended, “There were none.”

But the exhibit demonstrates that the march to liberty was slow for the soldiers — and the generations that came after. Some panels are devoted to African-Americans’ experience fighting in subsequent wars, only to encounter continued inequality at home. Others highlight crucial figures from the civil rights movement, showing that the battle for freedom would continue for more than a cen-tury after the Civil War ended. Meanwhile, the path to and from the museum is lined with posters detailing local African-American history, from D.C. church-es and schools to artists and entertainers. “When you walk out, you see a whole com-munity dedicated to these guys,” Smith said. And Smith said it was the support of the community, including seed money from Metro and a $5 million contribution from the city, that made the museum possible. “You can’t do this without the support of the mayor

and city council.” The Public Welfare Foundation, Friedman Billings & Ramsey, the Fannie Mae Foundation, the Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer Foundation, the Philip L. Graham Fund and Black Entertainment Television are also cred-ited for making the museum possible. But Smith, who works with the museum’s board of directors, emphasized that there’s plenty of work yet to be done. He hopes to see the museum expand into adjacent space in the Grimke building so that it can support even more visitors. “I want to see every stu-dent in D.C. come,” he said. Gray said he’d try to lend a hand. “We’re going to try to work with you, Frank,” he said. “If we can do something to expand this, it would be extraordinary.” The museum is open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday. Admission is free.

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have spent the better part of the past year working with constituents, Ward 3 D.C. Council member Mary Cheh’s office and the D.C. Department of Transportation to find ways to open up more parking spaces in the neighborhood. This fall they plan to recommend that the city increase restrictions on non-resident parkers to do just that. Specifically, the commission is suggesting that restricted hours for non-residents be increased for the entire commission area. The group will also consider a resident-only parking option in areas adjacent to Wisconsin Avenue, including Hall Place, W Place and parts of Tunlaw Road. The path to this recommenda-tion was carefully trod: Commissioners decided they first needed to develop consensus among the entire community, so they set up an online survey for residents. It went live in early May, and remained open through June 15. The commission posted com-munity notices about the survey in the Glover Park Gazette and in community listservs, and sent out a mass email to constituents. More than 300 people respond-ed, and 71 percent said they wanted the parking regulations in Glover Park to change. The survey presented four park-ing options to residents.• Option 1: Keep the status quo.• Option 2: Extend the Residential Parking Permit hours. Right now, cars without Zone 3 permits can park on neighborhood streets for two hours at a time between 7 a.m. and 8:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. Option 2 proposes extending Residential Parking Permit hours to midnight seven days a week.• Option 3: Make half of all neigh-borhood streets resident-only park-ing, and keep the other side of the street at the current Residential Parking Permit hours.• Option 4: Combine options 2 and 3, creating resident-only parking on

one side of the street and extending Residential Parking Permit hours to midnight seven days a week. Of the respondents who sup-ported changing the parking regula-tions, 25 percent chose Option 2, 30 percent chose Option 3, and 45 percent chose Option 4. The commission has posted the survey results on its website, anc3b.org, along with a map illustrating how residents on different blocks voted. Damon Harvey, of the D.C. Department of Transportation’s Policy Planning and Sustainability Administration, said the agency hasn’t yet determined what it will do in Glover Park. But he said the best approach to parking issues is typically to expand Residential Parking Permit limits. “Generally, on an RPP block, when you have a parking deficit as a result of increased parking pres-sure, the best way to deal with that situation is to increase the hours and days of RPP first,” he said. According to Harvey, restricting parking to just residents “only works if you have a special traffic generator that is bringing outside parking patrons to the area.” If resi-dents themselves are taking up most of the parking spaces, “resident-only could very well exacerbate the problem.” The neighborhood commission plans to discuss the issue further and establish consensus among res-idents at a special community meet-ing in September. Cohen said the commission will work with the Transportation Department and Cheh’s office this fall to finalize the proposal and hopes that new parking regulations

will be in place by February or March 2012. Harvey called the commission’s work on the survey “a model for how ANCs should work throughout the District of Columbia — and in fact we’re stealing some of their great work product and we’re going to use it in Ward 1.” Glover Park commissioners also hope to use other means to increase parking options in their neighbor-hood. At the July 14 commission meeting, Cohen said the group is working with the Transportation Department to free up more spaces, including evaluating restricted areas near intersections that could be safely converted to parking spaces. The agency is also working to crack down on of out-of-state cars parking for long stretches of time in the neighborhood. D.C. law requires new residents to register their cars in the District within 30 days, with limited exceptions. With support of the neighborhood commission, the department has instituted a “no tol-erance” policy on Registration of Out of State Automobiles enforce-ment in Glover Park. From October 2010 to July 14, parking officers issued 1,032 tickets to out-of-state vehicles in the neigh-borhood, according to figures from the Department of Public Works. W Street had the highest number of violations at 204 tickets. Cohen said this increased enforcement has helped open up more parking spac-es. But Cohen also noted that when it comes to parking, sometimes residents want it both ways. While they support more restrictive park-ing regulations and stronger enforcement, many Glover Park residents have also expressed con-cern that the two-hour visitor park-ing window isn’t enough time for guests, he said. The Transportation Department is also working on an enhanced online visitor parking permit sys-tem that will serve all District resi-dents, which might include some alternative options for residential parking. According to Harvey, the agency hopes to roll out the online system at the start of 2012.

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Children’s programs ■“TalesAlive!”willfeaturearetellingoffolktalesinspiredbybirdsfromaroundtheworldandarelatedcraftactivity(forages7through11).2p.m.Free.PalisadesNeighborhoodLibrary,4901VSt.NW.202-282-3139. ■RepresentativesfromtheBrazilianEmbassywilldiscusstheircountry,playBrazilianmusicandgiveoutcopiesofthebook“BrazilforKids.”3p.m.Free.ClevelandParkNeighborhoodLibrary,3310ConnecticutAve.NW.202-282-3080.

Concerts ■The“Live!onWoodrowWilsonPlaza”serieswillfeaturethePost-ClassicalEnsemble.Noonto1:30p.m.Free.RonaldReaganBuildingandInternationalTradeCenter,1300PennsylvaniaAve.NW.202-

312-1300. ■TheWashingtonJazzArtsInstitute,underthedirectionofDaveyYarborough,willperformjazzselections.Noon.Free.PeoplesCongregationalUnitedChurchofChrist,470413thSt.NW.dcjazzmusic.org. ■FunkArk,ledbykeyboardprodigyWillRast,willperform.5to8p.m.Free.SmithsonianAmericanArtMuseum,8thandFstreetsNW.202-633-1000. ■WashingtonSoundMuseumwillpres-entacross-culturalcollaborativemusicexperience.6p.m.Free.MillenniumStage,KennedyCenter.202-467-4600. ■“ThursdayNightKidConcerts”willfea-turemusicianJohnHenry.6:30p.m.Free.BroadBranchMarket,5608BroadBranchRoadNW.202-249-8551. ■TheFortRenoconcertserieswillfea-tureperformancesbySPRCSS,TheAmbularsandFellTypes.7:15p.m.Free.FortRenoPark,40thandChesapeakestreetsNW.fortreno.com. ■TheU.S.MarineBandwillperformworksbyEdwinFrankoGoldman,H.OwenReedandStephenSchwartz.8p.m.Free.SylvanTheater,WashingtonMonumentgrounds,15thStreetandIndependenceAvenueSW.202-433-4011.

Discussions and lectures ■FrankSmith,chairandchiefexecutiveofficeroftheAmericanCivilWarMemorialandMuseum,andJohnMoodyJr.,whospent39daysinjailinMississippiasaFreedomRiderinthe1960s,willdiscuss“CivilWartoCivilRights:ThePathtoRacialHealing.”11:30a.m.$30.Woman’sNationalDemocraticClub,1526NewHampshireAve.NW.202-288-7606. ■DavidSearswilldiscusshisbook“PacificAir:HowFearlessPilots,PeerlessAircraftandFastFlattopsConqueredtheSkiesintheWarWithJapan.”Noon.Free.NavalHeritageCenter,U.S.NavyMemorial,701PennsylvaniaAve.NW.202-737-2300. ■NationalPortraitGalleryseniorhistori-anSidHartwilldiscussPedroMartinez.6to6:30p.m.Free.NationalPortraitGallery,8thandFstreetsNW.202-633-1000. ■Agallerytalkwillfocuson“Music,Kandinsky,andtheKSeries.”6and7p.m.$12;$10forseniorsandstudents;freeforages18andyounger.PhillipsCollection,160021stSt.NW.202-387-2151. ■PhillipsCollectiondirectorDorothyKosinskiwillleadadiscussionaboutworksbyAugustusVincentTackthatareonviewintheMusicRoom.6:30p.m.Donationsug-gested.PhillipsCollection,160021stSt.NW.202-387-2151.

■CameronMcWhirterwilldiscusshisbook“RedSummer:TheSummerof1919andtheAwakeningofBlackAmerica.”7p.m.Free.PoliticsandProse,5015ConnecticutAve.NW.202-364-1919. ■IanGadd,seniorlectureratEngland’sBathSpaUniversity,willdiscuss“Guns,Barges,andBooks:ReassessingtheStationers’CompanyofEarlyModernLondon.”7p.m.Free.FolgerShakespeareLibrary,201EastCapitolSt.SE.202-544-7077. ■KulapatYantrasast,afoundingprinci-palofCalifornia-basedwHYArchitecture,willdiscusshisfirm’srecentwork,includingtheGrandRapidsArtMuseumandtheSpeedArtMuseumexpansion.7to8:30p.m.$20;freeforstudents.Reservationsrequired.NationalBuildingMuseum,401FSt.NW.202-272-2448. ■JournalistandauthorMaryLynnKotzwilldiscussSusanWeilandRobertRauschenberg’scollaborationsandrelation-ship.7p.m.$5.WashingtonDCJewishCommunityCenter,152916thSt.NW.washingtondcjcc.org. ■TheGeorgetownBookClubwilldis-cussKarenRussell’snovel“Swamplandia!”7:30p.m.Free.GeorgetownNeighborhoodLibrary,3260RSt.NW.202-727-0232.

Films ■SeniorCinemaThursdaywillfeatureMaryMurphy’s2010documentary“Hey,Boo:HarperLee&‘ToKillaMockingbird.’”10:30a.m.$3.50forages62andolder.AvalonTheatre,5612ConnecticutAve.NW.202-966-6000. ■The“CineAmericas:DominicanRepublic”serieswillfeatureLauraAmeliaGuzmánandIsraelCardenas’2010film“JeanGentil,”aboutaHaitianmanwhobeginsadesperatesearchforwork.6:30p.m.Free;reservationsrequired.ArtMuseumoftheAmericas,20118thSt.NW.cineamericasjuly2011.eventbrite.com. ■TheSixth&IHistoricSynagoguewillsponsorapoolsidescreeningofDavidWain’s2001film“WetHotAmericanSummer.”7:30p.m.$10inadvance;$12onthedayoftheevent.CapitolSkylineHotel,10ISt.SW.sixthandi.org.

Readings ■TheJoaquinMillerPoetrySerieswillfeaturereadingsbyJoeBueterandLynnWagner.7to9p.m.Free.RockCreekNatureCenter,5200GloverRoadNW.202-895-6070.

■WorkingmanCollectivewillpresent“AnEveningofSwingPoetry.”7to9p.m.Free.HemphillFineArts,151514thSt.NW.202-234-5601.

Sporting event ■TheWashingtonKastleswillplaythePhiladelphiaFreedomsinWorldTeamTenniscompetition.7p.m.$45to$75.KastlesStadiumattheWharf,800WaterSt.SW.202-397-7328.

Friday,July22

Children’s program ■SushmitaMazumdarwillpresent“IWish,IDream,IPromise:MakeaBooktoCelebrateYou,”abouthowtomakeabookofwishes(forages8through12).1p.m.Free.WathaT.Daniel-ShawNeighborhoodLibrary,16307thSt.NW.202-727-1288.

Concerts ■The“JazzintheGarden”serieswillfeatureElikehperformingAfro-funk.5to8:30p.m.Free.SculptureGarden,NationalGalleryofArt,7thStreetandConstitutionAvenueNW.202-737-4215. ■EgyptianbandMassarEgbariwillper-form.6p.m.Free.MillenniumStage,KennedyCenter.202-467-4600. ■TheWashingtonPostGoingOutGuideWeekendConcertSerieswillpresent“NeoSoulNight,”featuringCarolynMalachi(shown),NavashaDayaandAyannaGregory.7:30p.m.Free;ticketsrequired.CarterBarronAmphitheatre,16thStreetandColoradoAvenueNW.202-426-0486. ■TheU.S.ArmyConcertBandwillpres-ent“SunsetsWithaSoundtrack,”featuringAmericanclassicsbyCopland,KamenandMilburn.8p.m.Free.WestSteps,U.S.Capitol.703-696-3399.

Discussions and lectures ■U.S.BotanicGardenbotanistKyleWallickwilldiscuss“GrandGrasses—thePoaceae.”Noonto1p.m.Free;reservationsrequired.U.S.BotanicGarden,100MarylandAve.SW.202-225-1116. ■DorothyWickendenwilldiscussherbook“NothingDaunted:TheUnexpectedEducationofTwoSocietyGirlsintheWest.”7p.m.Free.PoliticsandProse,5015ConnecticutAve.NW.202-364-1919.

Films ■“FridayTeenFilmfestinJuly”willfea-tureHayaoMiyazaki’s1999film“PrincessMononoke.”2p.m.Free.ChevyChaseNeighborhoodLibrary,5625ConnecticutAve.NW.202-282-0021. ■The“CineAmericas:DominicanRepublic”serieswillfeatureDanielManatt’s2006documentary“TheRepublicofBaseball,”aboutthefirstbaseballsuper-starsfromtheislandnation.6:30p.m.Free;reservationsrequired.ArtMuseumoftheAmericas,20118thSt.NW.cineamericasjuly2011.eventbrite.com. ■“DocsinProgress”willpresentBethMurphy’s“TheList,”aboutoneman’sfighttohelpIraqiswhoworkedfortheU.S.gov-ernmentduringthewar.7p.m.$10.Room309,MediaandPublicAffairsBuilding,GeorgeWashingtonUniversity,80521stSt.NW.docsinprogress.org.

Performance ■The“Live!onWoodrowWilsonPlaza”serieswillfeaturealaunchpartyfortheD.C.CommissionontheArtsandHumanities’

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Thursday, july 21■Performance: ComediansNemaWilliams(shown),EdBlazeandVinceBarnettwillperformatabenefitfortheBoys&GirlsClubsofGreaterWashington.7and10p.m.$15.PureLounge,1326USt.NW.metrocomedy.com.

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DanceDCFestival,asalutetotheworldofhip-hop.Noonto1:30p.m.Free.RonaldReaganBuildingandInternationalTradeCenter,1300PennsylvaniaAve.NW.202-312-1300. The festival will continue through Sunday at various venues.

Special events ■“MarsDay”willfeaturedisplays,hands-onactivities,andpresentationsbysci-entistsparticipatinginpastandfutureMarsmissions.10a.m.to3p.m.Free.NationalAirandSpaceMuseum,6thStreetandIndependenceAvenueSW.202-633-1000. ■AreceptionwillcelebratetheopeningofFotoDC’snewAdamsMorgangalleryandtheexhibit“SpeakingtoSilence:AnExhibitiononCommunitiesDisplaced,DissidentsRepressed,andChildhoodBetrayed.”6:30to9:30p.m.Free;reserva-tionsrequired.FotoSpace,1838ColumbiaRoadNW.conta.cc/p3LQAe.

Saturday,July23

Book sales ■TheFriendsofthePalisadesLibrarywillhosta“SummerSaturdaySidewalkBookSale,”featuringleisurereadingselections.10a.m.to4p.m.$1formosthardbacks;50centsformostpaperbacks.PalisadesNeighborhoodLibrary,4901VSt.NW.202-282-3139. ■TheWestEndLibraryFriendswillholda“BagDay”used-booksale.10:30a.m.to3:30p.m.$5to$10forabagofbooks.WestEndNeighborhoodLibrary,110124thSt.NW.202-724-8707.

Children’s programs ■ArtistMaryannePollockwillpresent“MakeYourOwnSuperhero”workshop(forages6through12).1p.m.Free.Tenley-FriendshipNeighborhoodLibrary,4450WisconsinAve.NW.202-727-1488. ■CalligrapherElizabethBunnwillleadacursivewritingworkshopforages8through12.1to3p.m.$60;reservationsrequired.Fahrney’sPens,1317FSt.NW.202-628-9525.

Classes ■SusanneSimonandBettinaSternofLoulies.comwillleada“MarkettoKitchen”cookingclasson“QuickPickles,SalsasandSauces.”9to11a.m.$25;reservationsrequired.GloverPark-BurleithFarmers’Market,HardyMiddleSchoolparkinglot,WisconsinAvenueand34thStreetNW.loulies.com. ■TheDowntownDCDahnYogaCenterwillcelebrateitsseventhanniversarywithsampleclasses.10a.m.and1p.m.Free;reservationsrequired.70014thSt.NW.202-393-2440.The classes will also be offered Sunday at noon and 3 p.m.

Concerts ■ParticipantsintheWashingtonInternationalPianoArtistsCompetitionwillperform.10a.m.to12:30p.m.Free.ArtsClubofWashington,2017ISt.NW.wipac.org/competition.html.

Discussions and lectures ■DemetriaLucaswilldiscussherbook“ABelleinBrooklyn:TheGo-ToGirlforAdviceonLivingYourBestSingleLife.”Noon.Free.Barnes&Noble,55512thSt.NW.202-347-0176. ■NationalBuildingMuseumseniorvicepresidentandcuratorG.MartinMoellerJr.willdiscusstheresurgenceofglassbuild-ings.1to2:30p.m.$20;$12forstudents.Registrationrequired.NationalBuilding

Museum,401FSt.NW.202-272-2448. ■SandraBeasleywilldiscusshermem-oir“Don’tKilltheBirthdayGirl:TalesFromanAllergicLife.”3p.m.Free.PoliticsandProse,5015ConnecticutAve.NW.202-364-1919.

Family event ■“FamilyDay:AllThingsGullah”willfea-tureartactivities,storytelling,aperformancebythePotholesBrassBand,exhibitiontours,foodvendorsandamarket-placeofferingGullahbasketsandlocalhandcrafteditems.11a.m.to4p.m.Free.AnacostiaCommunityMuseum,1901FortPlaceSE.202-633-4875.

Films ■TheNationalGalleryofArtwillpresenttheWashingtonpre-miereofGereonWetzelandJoergAdolph’s2010film“HowtoMakeaBookWithSteidl.”1p.m.Free.EastBuildingAuditorium,NationalGalleryofArt,4thStreetandConstitutionAvenueNW.202-737-4215. ■TheU.S.BotanicGardenwillhostJenniferBaichwal’s2006documentary“ManufacturedLandscapes,”abouttheworkofrenownedartistEdwardBurtynsky.RayMims,conser-vationandsus-tainabilityhorti-culturistattheU.S.BotanicGarden,willleadapost-screen-ingdiscussion.2to4:30p.m.Free;reserva-tionsrequired.ConservatoryClassroom,U.S.BotanicGarden,100MarylandAve.SW.202-225-1116.

Special event ■TheDCAnimeClubwillpresentaMarioKartTournamentforages13andolder.2to5p.m.Free.AuditoriumA-5,MartinLutherKingJr.MemorialLibrary,901GSt.NW.202-262-2083.

Sporting event ■D.C.UnitedwillplayEvertonoftheEnglishPremierLeague.7:30p.m.$23to

$52.RFKMemorialStadium,2400EastCapitolSt.SE.202-397-7328.

Walks and tours ■NationalZooBirdHousekeeperDebiTalbottwillleadawalkfocusingontheresi-dentandmigratorybirdspeciesthatliveonthegrounds.9to10a.m.Free.MeetinfrontoftheBirdHouse,NationalZoo,3001ConnecticutAve.NW.nationalzoo.si.edu. ■Aparkrangerwillleada“PawsinthePark”hikethroughMontrosePark,withdogsonleashwelcome.10a.m.Free.RStreetbetween30thand31ststreetsNW.202-895-6070. ■Aparkrangerwillleadages7andolderonatwo-milehikewhilediscussinghowtoidentifycommonparktrees.10a.m.Free.RockCreekNatureCenter,5200GloverRoadNW.202-895-6070. ■Aparkrangerwillleadages7andolderonathree-milehiketoRapidsBridge.2p.m.Free.RockCreekNatureCenter,5200GloverRoadNW.202-895-6070.

Sunday,July24

Classes ■KnockonWoodTapStudiowillpre-sentadayofclassesforvariousagesandlevels,followedbyanall-agesTapJamattheendoftheafternoon.10:15a.m.to2:15p.m.$5to$20persession.Reservationsrequired.DCDanceCollective,4908WisconsinAve.NW.301-585-5722.

Concerts ■TheweeklySteelDrummerSundaysconcertserieswillfeatureRogerGreenidge.Noonto3p.m.Free.Plaza,TheWashingtonHarbour,3050KSt.NW.202-295-5007. ■ParticipantsintheNationalSymphonyOrchestraSummerMusicInstituteOrchestrawillperform.6p.m.Free.ConcertHall,KennedyCenter.202-467-4600.

Discussions and lectures ■NationalGalleryofArtlecturerWilfordW.Scottwilldiscuss“AmericansinItaly:1850-1925.”2p.m.Free.EastBuildingAuditorium,NationalGalleryofArt,4thStreetandConstitutionAvenueNW.202-737-4215. ■TomCarsonwilldiscusshisnovel“DaisyBuchanan’sDaughter.”5p.m.Free.PoliticsandProse,5015ConnecticutAve.NW.202-364-1919.

Film ■“Focus-In!CinemaforaConsciousCommunity”willfeatureTomandAmyValens’film“AugusttoJune,”aboutapublicschoolgoingagainstcurrenttrendsbypro-vidingopportunitiesforcuriosity,creativityandcompassion.8to10p.m.Free.RobesonRoom,BusboysandPoets,10255thSt.NW.202-387-7638.

Performance ■TheeighthannualDanceDCFestival’s“DowntownBattleGround”willfeatureb-boybattles,BeatYaFeetbattles,DJbattles,drumming,spokenword,livegraffitiart,fashionshowsandgo-gomusic.4to8p.m.Free.FStreetbetween7thand9thstreetsNW.dcarts.dc.gov.

Monday,July25

Children’s programs ■SushmitaMazumdarwillpresent“AnimalRhymes,”featuringstoriesabouthertravelstoIndia(forages5through12).10a.m.Free.TakomaParkNeighborhoodLibrary,416CedarSt.NW.202-576-7252. ■SushmitaMazumdarwillpresent“IWish,IDream,IPromise:MakeaBooktoCelebrateYou,”abouthowtomakeabookofwishes(forages8through12).1p.m.Free.PetworthNeighborhoodLibrary,4200KansasAve.NW.202-243-1188.

Concerts ■The“Live!onWoodrowWilsonPlaza”

serieswillfeatureLooseChangeTheoryper-formingcontemporaryjazz.Noonto1:30p.m.Free.RonaldReaganBuildingandInternationalTradeCenter,1300PennsylvaniaAve.NW.202-312-1300. ■Maraca,the12-membergroupdirect-edbyCubanflutistandcomposerOrlandoValle,willperform.6p.m.Free.MillenniumStage,KennedyCenter.202-467-4600. ■TheFortRenoconcertserieswillfea-tureperformancesbyTitleTracks,OfficeofFuturePlansandTheAkomaDrummers.7:15p.m.Free.FortRenoPark,40thandChesapeakestreetsNW.fortreno.com. ■TheU.S.NavyConcertBandwillper-form.8p.m.Free.WestSteps,U.S.Capitol.202-433-2525.

Discussions and lectures ■ThemonthlyDupontCircleVillageLiveandLearnSeminarwillfeatureattorneySamH.Robersondiscussinglegaldocumentspeopleneedtohaveonhandincaseofemergencyordeath.3:30to5p.m.$10;freeforDupontCircleVillagemembers.Reservationsrequired.DupontCircleBranch,PNCBank,1913MassachusettsAve.NW.202-234-2567. ■SallyJacobswilldiscussherbook“TheOtherBarack:TheBoldandRecklessLifeofPresidentObama’sFather.”7p.m.Free.PoliticsandProse,5015ConnecticutAve.NW.202-364-1919.

Films ■AseriesonPolishdirectorKrzysztofKieslowski’s“ThreeColorsTrilogy”willfea-turethe1994film“Red,”aboutayoungmodelwhomeetsastrangerbychanceandheadsdownapathofintrigueandsecrecy.2p.m.Free.ChevyChaseNeighborhoodLibrary,5625ConnecticutAve.NW.202-282-0021. ■“Dial‘H’forHitchcock,”asummermovieseries,willfeatureAlfredHitchcock’s1951film“StrangersonaTrain,”starringFarleyGranger,RobertWalker,PatriciaHitchcockandMarionLorne.6:30p.m.Free;ticketsrequired.HelenHayesGallery,NationalTheatre,1321PennsylvaniaAve.NW.202-783-3372.

Performance ■Thenationaltouringcompanyof“Wicked”willpresent“OurWicked,WickedWays,”aneveningofcabaretperformancestobenefitBroadwayCares/EquityFightsAIDSandFood&Friends.6:30to10p.m.

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Saturday, july 23■Concert: MusicianThomasMapfumo,knownas“TheLionofZimbabwe,”willperformwithhisband,theBlacksUnlimited.6p.m.Free.MillenniumStage,KennedyCenter.202-467-4600.

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$45to$75.GreenbergTheatre,AmericanUniversity,4200WisconsinAve.NW.202-885-2787.

Tuesday,July26

Concerts ■TheHarbourKidsconcertserieswillfea-tureMr.KnickKnack.10:30a.m.tonoon.Free.Plaza,TheWashingtonHarbour,3050KSt.NW.202-295-5007. ■The“Live!onWoodrowWilsonPlaza”serieswillfeatureOvertheLimitperformingbigblues.Noonto1:30p.m.Free.RonaldReaganBuildingandInternationalTradeCenter,1300PennsylvaniaAve.NW.202-312-1300. ■Boston-basedgroupDavidWaxMuseumwillperformamixoftraditionalMexicanfolk,Americanrootsandindierock.6p.m.Free.

MillenniumStage,KennedyCenter.202-467-4600. ■TheU.S.NavyConcertBandwillper-form.8p.m.Free.U.S.NavyMemorial,701PennsylvaniaAve.NW.202-737-2300. ■TheU.S.AirForceBand’sAirmenofNotewillpresent“ATributetoStanKenton.”8p.m.Free.WestSteps,U.S.Capitol.202-767-5658.

Discussions and lectures ■MilitaryhistorianJeffreyGreenhutwilldiscuss“Jewish-ArabRelations,theIsraeliWarofIndependence,andtheArabDispersalin1948.”Noonto2p.m.Free.NationalMuseumofAmericanJewishMilitaryHistory,1811RSt.NW.202-265-6280. ■TheMuralsDCprogramwillpresentapaneldiscussionon“TheArtofVandalism:AClose-upLookatGraffitiinD.C.”6to8p.m.Free.LangstonRoom,BusboysandPoets,202114thSt.NW.202-387-7638. ■“ThePublicMemoryof9/11”—abouthowthesitesinNewYork,WashingtonandPennsylvaniaarememorializingandinter-pretingtheSept.11terroristattacks—willfeaturepanelistsAliceGreenwald,JeffReinboldandAndyAmmerman.6:30to8p.m.Free;reservationsrequired.NationalBuildingMuseum,401FSt.NW.nbm.org.

■ArchitecturalhistorianPamelaScottwilldiscussherbook“FortressofFinance:TheUnitedStatesTreasuryBuilding.”6:30p.m.Free.Reiter’sBooks,1900GSt.NW.202-223-3327. ■“Food&Folklore”willfeatureadinnertalkbyjournalistandbartenderDanSearing,authorof“ThePunchBowl:75RecipesSpanningFourCenturiesofWantonRevelry.”6:30p.m.$45;reservationsrequired.EatonvilleRestaurant,212114thSt.NW.202-332-9672. ■JeremyBen-Ami,presidentoftheadvoca-cygroupJStreet,willdiscusshisbook“ANewVoiceforIsrael:FightingfortheSurvivaloftheJewishNation.”7p.m.Free.PoliticsandProse,5015ConnecticutAve.NW.202-364-1919. ■DavidRobarge,chiefhistorianattheCentralIntelligenceAgency,willdiscuss“SecretRevolution:HowthePatriotsUsedIntelligencetoHelpWinAmericanIndependence.”7p.m.Free.SocietyoftheCincinnati,AndersonHouse,2118MassachusettsAve.NW.202-785-2040. ■“CivilWarSisterhoodofSpies”willfea-tureAnnBlackman,authorof“WildRose”;AmandaOhlke,directorofadulteducationattheInternationalSpyMuseum;andEmilyLapisardi,ahistoricalimpersonator.7to9p.m.$25;ticketsrequired.WillardInterContinental,1401PennylvaniaAve.NW.202-654-0932.

Films ■Aseriesofscreeningsbasedon“AFI’s100Years…100Movies”listwillfeatureNo.85—theMarxBrothers’1935film“ANightattheOpera.”6p.m.Free.GeorgetownNeighborhoodLibrary,3260RSt.NW.202-727-0232. ■The“PopMovies”serieswillfeature

OrsonWelles’1941film“CitizenKane,”aboutapublish-ingmagnatemodeledonWilliamRandolphHearst.6p.m.Free.AuditoriumA-5,MartinLutherKingJr.MemorialLibrary,901GSt.NW.202-727-1295. ■DirectorJanksMortonwillpresentthepremiereofhisfilm“GuiltyUntilProvenInnocent,”aboutfamilycourtissuesfromtheperspectiveoffathers.8p.m.$10;res-ervationssuggested.AvalonTheatre,5612ConnecticutAve.NW.gupifilm.com.

Performance ■TheTheatreLabSchooloftheDramaticArtsandTheaterJwillpresentastagedreadingofAriRoth’s“GiantShadows,”thefirstpartofatrilogyonthedramaofbeingsecondgenerationintheshadowoftheHolocaust.7p.m.Free;reser-vationsrequested.HelenHayesGallery,NationalTheatre,1321PennsylvaniaAve.NW.202-824-0449.The series will continue July 31 at 3 p.m. with staged readings of the other two plays, “Born Guilty” and “The Wolf in Peter.”

Sale ■St.Alban’sOpportunityThriftShopwillhosta“HalfPriceSale.”9:30a.m.to3p.m.Free.3001WisconsinAve.NW.202-234-4512.The sale will continue through July 30.

Sporting events ■TheWashingtonMysticswillplaytheSanAntonioSilverStars.7p.m.$10to$300.VerizonCenter,601FSt.NW.202-397-7328. ■TheWashingtonNationalswillplaytheFloridaMarlins.7:05p.m.$5to$350.

NationalsPark,1500SouthCapitolSt.SE.888-632-6287.The series will continue Wednesday at 7:05 p.m. and Thursday at 12:35 p.m.

Wednesday,July27

Class ■MichelleCohenwillleada“BabywearingandClothDiapering”classaspartofaparentingseries.7p.m.$40;regis-trationrequired.LilOmm,4830VSt.NW.202-248-6304.

Concerts ■TheAnnYaoTriowillperformChineseensemblemusiconthezheng,along,hori-zontalpluckedzitherthatisoneofChina’smostancientmusicalinstruments.6p.m.Free.MillenniumStage,KennedyCenter.202-467-4600. ■TheHarbourNightsconcertserieswillfeatureChrisCollatt.7to9p.m.Free.Plaza,TheWashingtonHarbour,3050KSt.NW.202-295-5007.

Discussions and lectures ■NationalMuseumofNaturalHistoryanthropologistLarsKrutakwilldiscuss“SkinDeep:TheHistoryandArtofIndigenousTattooing.”6:45to8:45p.m.$40.S.DillonRipleyCenter,1100JeffersonDriveSW.202-633-3030. ■“ThisIsNPR…AnEveningWithPlanetMoney”willfeaturereportersAlexBlumbergandAdamDavidsonofferingapracticalandhumorousfieldguidetoAmerica’seconomicfuture.7p.m.$20inadvance;$25onthedayoftheevent.Sixth&IHistoricSynagogue,600ISt.NW.sixthandi.org.

Meditation ■TheDivineScienceChurchwillofferaweeklyhourofsilentmeditation.Noon.Free.202535thSt.NW.202-333-7630.

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Danish-born Adams Morgan artist Jette Skandauge, will open today with a reception from 6 to 8 p.m.

at Nana. The exhibit will continue through Aug. 30. Located at 3068 Mount Pleasant St. NW, the gallery is open Tuesday through Friday from noon to 7 p.m., Saturday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday from noon to 5 p.m. 202-667-6955.■ “Conversations With the Earth: Indigenous Voices on Climate Change,” highlighting a Native perspective on climate change through photographs, videos and audio recordings, will open Friday at the National Museum of the American Indian and continue through Jan. 2. Located at 4th Street and Independence Avenue SW, the museum is open daily from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. 202-633-1000.■ “1460 Wallmountables 2011,” an uncurated show open to all artists, will open Friday at the District of Columbia Arts Center and con-tinue through Aug. 28. An opening reception will take place Friday from 7 to 9 p.m. Located at 2438 18th St. NW,

the center is open Wednesday through Sunday from 2 to 7 p.m. 202-462-7833.■ “Reinventing the Wheel: Japanese Ceramics, 1930-2000,” highlighting trends in modern and contemporary Japanese pottery, will open Saturday at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery and remain on view indefinitely. Located at 1050 Independence Ave. SW, the gallery is open daily from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. 202-633-1000.■ Watergate Gallery will open a summer exhibit of sculpture Saturday, featuring many of the sculptors who have participated in the past two “Arts in Foggy Bottom” outdoor sculpture exhibi-tions and introducing several new artists. The show will continue through Sept. 10. An artists’ reception will take place Saturday from 6 to 8 p.m., artist talks will be offered July 27 and Aug. 4 at 6 p.m., and a closing party will take place Sept. 10 at 6 p.m. Located at 2552 Virginia Ave. NW, the gallery is open Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. 202-338-4488.■ “More Than Meets the Eye,” highlighting observations of the natural world made by advanced imaging techniques, will open Saturday at the National Museum

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down a suggestion from neighbors of the university’s Tenley campus that plans to locate the Washington College of Law off Tenley Circle were incomplete and would likely be incompatible with their neigh-borhood. The university has offered only an outline of its plans for the site, promising to bring forward detailed building designs later. “The process envisions the establishment of an overall campus plan and the ability of the Zoning Commission to review details at further processing” — a separate application, said the Planning Office’s Joel Lawson. Planners noted the campus has been an insti-tutional use for decades. Three advisory neighborhood commissions will each have an hour to offer presentations when the campus plan hearings resume in the fall. A collection of other opponents will split a fourth hour. The next hearing, set for Sept. 22, will begin with a presentation by and cross-examination of the D.C. Department of Transportation. Proceedings will likely continue Oct. 6 and Oct. 13.

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of prescriptions to lose. … My mother can’t even get her medicine from me.” Cathedral Pharmacy has been open since 1924, and Madden has owned it for 38 years. CVS Caremark — created in 2007 when prescription benefits manager Caremark merged with CVS Pharmacy — has said an audit revealed that Cathedral violated its accounting policies. Madden acknowledges the mistake, in which he confused drugs supplied by CVS Caremark with those from the D.C. government, but said it was minor, and quickly resolved. CVS Caremark spokesperson Carolyn Castel said in an email that the company believes its decision was justified. “As part of our ongoing com-mitment ensuring patient safety and best practices in the delivery of pharmacy services in our networks, when faced with an issue of this nature and scope, we must suspend noncompliant pharmacies,” she wrote. Cathedral can apply to be reinstated when it has “sufficiently addressed” CVS Caremark’s con-cerns, she added. Madden and some community members worry the contract was terminated to drive out CVS’ com-petition, especially as the company works to expand its own Woodley Park location near Cathedral. The Cleveland Park/Woodley Park advisory neighborhood commis-sion passed a resolution Monday asking the D.C. Department of Insurance, Securities and Banking and any other applicable local or federal agencies to investigate the termination. “It is normally not something that the ANC would weigh in on,

but in this case because [CVS Caremark] then sent letters to [Cathedral’s] customers saying, ‘Here’s the other pharmacies you can go in the neighborhood, like these CVSes,’ there seems to be a little conflict of interest,” commis-sion chair Anne-Marie Bairstow said. Castel said CVS hadn’t seen the commission’s resolution and couldn’t comment on it. There are already numerous broader inquiries into CVS Caremark’s competitive practices, by the Federal Trade Commission and the attorney generals of more than 20 states and the District, according to The Washington Post. The neighborhood commis-sion’s resolution also highlighted Cathedral Pharmacy’s free medica-tion deliveries and decades of his-tory. “This is a landmark that has provided a service beyond anyone’s comprehension,” said commission-er Lee Brian Reba. Despite his struggles, Madden said he’s glad to see so much evi-dence that his customers and neigh-borhood care about the pharmacy. He has even noticed some CVS Pharmacy customers who aren’t insured through CVS Caremark switching their prescriptions to Cathedral. “The support and the people coming in here have just been over-whelming, and we appreciate all of it,” Madden said. “Our job is to give back to the community ... and when we’re in this type of problem, it is gratifying to see that we are appreciated.” Madden is fighting CVS in court, but he still hopes to settle the disagreement amicably. While he’s confident the pharmacy will sur-vive in the short term, he said it’s possible it might eventually suc-cumb to financial pressures if he can’t restore the CVS contract.

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