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The NorThwesT CurreNTWednesday, August 10, 2011 Serving Communities in Northwest Washington Since 1967 Vol. XLIV, No. 32

■ Track star siblings blaze through Kansas heat. 1.■ Wilson High replaces Smith as head baseball coach. Page 11.

■ Self-serve dog wash opens on Georgia Avenue. Page 4. ■ Preservation board suggests changes for condo project. Page 3.

NEWS SPORTS■ Washington Animal Rescue League finds new homes for 113 pets through weekend ‘Adopt-a-Thon’ event. Page 13.

PASSAGES INDEXCalendar/20Classifieds/29 District Digest/5Exhibits/23In Your Neighborhood/10Opinion/8Passages/13

Police Report/6Real Estate/17School Test Scores/15Service Directory/25Sports/11Theater/23Week Ahead/3

By JESSICA GOULDCurrent Staff Writer

Growing up in a family of 10 can teach you a lot about conservation. “I definitely received a lot of hand-me-downs from my sisters,” said Woodley Park business owner Katherine Limon. “So those values really stayed with me until today.” In March, Limon took over Carbon, an eco-friendly clothing, shoes and accessories boutique at 2643 Connecticut Ave. Now, she said, she’s doing her best to promote sustainability at her shop. Her clothes tend to be made of organic cotton, soy jersey or reclaimed material. And her store gets its power from the wind.

“Every time I turn on my lights and the computer, I’m [using] 100 percent wind power, generated through the Washington Gas energy saver program,” she said. So Carbon isn’t just a name. It’s

a philosophy. “I like to think that I’m reducing your carbon footprint by offering you a product that was sustainably made,” Limon said. Meanwhile, city officials are calling on more residents and busi-ness owners to follow Limon’s lead and sign up for green power. “Anybody in Washington who pays for electricity can participate in purchasing green power,” said Christophe Tulou, director of the D.C. Department of the Environment. This year, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency unveiled the Green Power Community Challenge, a national contest designed to encourage the purchase

District pushing for green-power progress

Bill Petros/The CurrentCarbon, a Woodley Park store, uses 100 percent wind power.

By BRADY HOLTCurrent Staff Writer

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is recommending tearing down a Spring Valley home to iden-tify and remove World War I-era munitions and chemicals feared to be buried beneath it. Since 2000, the Army Corps has removed more than 500 munitions items, 400 pounds of laboratory glassware and more than 100 tons of soil contaminated with arsenic and other hazardous substances from 4825 Glenbrook Road, officials said. But the Corps’ remediation investigation report, released to the public last week, says the distribu-tion of contamination at the vacant property, now owned by American University and fully enclosed with a fence, suggests there is even more under the building itself. “Potential for encountering addi-tional [American University Experiment Station]-related debris/glassware throughout the property,

including beneath the house, is highly possible and poses an unac-ceptable risk for residents,” the report reads. The remediation report also identified “unacceptable risk and hazard” from arsenic in the soil on two pieces of the property, and notes that “it is probable other areas of high arsenic remain posing an increased risk.” A 2007 health study of area resi-dents identified an elevated inci-dence of arsenic-related cancer in Spring Valley compared to Chevy Chase, which was used as the study’s control group.

Army proposes teardown of Glenbrook Road home

Bill Petros/The CurrentThe Art of Living Foundation hosted a yoga flash mob on Saturday around the fountain at Dupont Circle to promote a stress-free and violence-free D.C.

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■ Munitions: Report cites underground contamination


Although the U.S. government dodged the risk of imminent default earlier this month, the District remains in jeopardy from future congressional deadlocks and likely federal spending cuts, according to D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton. The congresswoman addressed the issues last Thursday at a “Norton in Your Neighborhood Conversation,” held during the Tenleytown/Friendship Heights advisory neighborhood commis-sion’s monthly meeting. Norton discussed various federal issues affecting the District, from the broader deficit debate to the Department of Homeland Security’s planned expansion of its Nebraska Avenue Complex. Norton expressed concern that the District, which routinely sells short-term bonds to cover expenses while waiting for local tax receipts, could face a “lack of liquidity” in the event of a federal default. “If you’ve got to go to the bond market and you are a federal city

Federal woes impact D.C., Norton says

By JESSICA GOULDCurrent Staff Writer

The school-by-school results of the D.C. Comprehensive Assessment System showed some dramatic gains among Northwest schools, as well as some significant losses. Meanwhile, certain schools that already had strong scores managed to boost results enough to qualify for the “adequate yearly progress” designation established under the

federal No Child Left Behind Act. Specialty secondary schools — including Duke Ellington School of the Arts and McKinley Technology — made big leaps, while School Without Walls, which already had high scores, also saw an increase. At Burleith’s Ellington, prin-cipal Rory Pullens said teachers worked hard to boost student scores by studying their strengths and weaknesses through interim assess-ments.

Test scores give mixed view of achievements■ Education: Charters see larger strides on DC-CAS

Bill Petros/The CurrentThe Spring Valley property was a World War I-era dumpsite.

See Scores/Page 18

See Glenbrook/Page 19See Power/Page 19

See Norton/Page 24

■ SCHOOL BY SCHOOL: A detailed look at the numbers. Page 15.

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By DEIRDRE BANNONCurrent Correspondent

The D.C. Historic Preservation Review Board late last month con-ditionally approved the latest design plans for Il Palazzo, a 110-unit condominium project proposed for the 16th Street site of the former Italian Embassy. Still at issue are the design, scale and size of the new building’s two entrances: a main entrance on Mozart Place and a secondary one on Fuller Street. Other elements of the redevelopment proposal have been less controversial, including the restoration of the former embas-sy’s exterior and conversion of parts of the historic interior into condominiums. The preservation board previ-

ously encouraged the design firm, Trout Design Studio, to make the Fuller Street entrance more promi-nent, but a staff report assessing the latest plan now says both entrances are “too grandiose and overscaled for the project and in comparison to surrounding buildings.” On Mozart Place, Il Palazzo will face a line of row houses. The staff report expressed concern that the development’s proposed two-story arched entrance with a three-story portico would extend as high as the row houses across the street and therefore seem more reminiscent of a major civic building than a resi-dential one. At the preservation board’s July 28 meeting, members expressed varying degrees of concern regard-

Preservation board still wary on entries to Il Palazzo condo

Wednesday, Aug. 10 The National Capital Planning Commission will hold a public forum on the Federal Transportation and Workplace Elements of the Comprehensive Plan for the National Capital. The meeting will be held from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the com-mission’s offices, Suite 500, 401 9th St. NW.

Tuesday, Aug. 16 The Ward 3 Advisory Neighborhood Commission Redistricting Task Force will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the Social Room at the Van Ness Apartments, 3003 Van Ness St. NW.

Wednesday, Aug. 17 The D.C. Lottery and Charitable Games Control Board will hold a Ward 4 com-munity meeting on plans for iGaming DC, its online gambling program. The meet-ing will be held from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the Petworth Neighborhood Library, 4200 Kansas Ave. NW.

Saturday, Aug. 20 The Potomac Appalachian Trail Club and National Park Service rangers will hold the first of several monthly volunteer work days to replace waterbars, fill in gullies and build a turnpike along an eroded stretch of Whitehaven Trail. Tools and instruction will be provided, and work will begin at 9 a.m. The location is west of 37th Street between T and U streets NW. To sign up, contact Alex Sanders at [email protected].

Monday, Aug. 22 The D.C. Lottery and Charitable Games Control Board will hold a Ward 2 com-munity meeting on plans for iGaming DC. The meeting will be held from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the Watha T. Daniel-Shaw Neighborhood Library, 1630 7th St. NW.

Tuesday, Aug. 23 The University of the District of Columbia will hold a community meeting to dis-cuss the launch of the new UDC Community-Campus Task Force. The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. in Room A-03, Building 44, University of the District of Columbia, 4200 Connecticut Ave. NW. For details, contact [email protected].

The week ahead

By DEIRDRE BANNONCurrent Correspondent

Concerned Palisades residents spoke out last week about the investigation of two sus-picious car fires that took place last month on Potomac Avenue. The two fires occurred July 6 around 10 p.m., within approximately 15 minutes of each other on the 5300 and 5600 blocks of Potomac Avenue. Two cars, a Mazda Miata and a Mercedes-Benz, were destroyed. The Metropolitan Police Department is working to investigate the crimes along with

the D.C. Fire and Emergency Medical Services Department, which is looking into whether the incidents should be classified as arson. According to a message posted by Police Lt. Victor Braschnewitz on the 2nd District listserv July 9, “Evidence on the scene strongly indicated the presence of an acceler-ant having been used… .” At a special community meeting on Aug. 4 in the Palisades, Lt. Eric Hayes said police have made no arrests and have no suspects. Officers have been patrolling the area near Potomac Avenue since the incident occurred,

Hayes said, and no more fires have been set. The lieutenant said both fires are now being classified as “destruction of property over $200.” D.C. Fire Chief Keith Ellerbe also fielded questions at last week’s meeting, which drew a crowd of about 75 residents to the Palisades Recreation Center. Bill Slover, president of the Palisades Citizens Association — which helped organize the event — said the high turnout reflected the level of concern about the fires. One resident asked Ellerbe about a bottle a neighbor found and police collected on

July 28 near the entrance to the Capital Crescent Trail on the 5700 block of Potomac Avenue. Residents wanted to know whether any fingerprints were discovered on the bot-tle, which was thought to have contained gasoline. Ellerbe said he didn’t know about the fingerprints, but he did say that the bottle’s contents — dried out by the time it was found — were flammable. Contrary to previously published reports, Ellerbe added, the bottle did not have a cloth attached to it and was not considered a

Palisades residents push District officials on investigation of two car fires

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Cathedral Pharmacy may rejoin the CVS Caremark prescription benefits management network after the businesses settled a recent dispute, but neither will say how soon that could take place. The 87-year-old pharmacy at 3000 Connecticut Ave. lost its contract to fill CVS Caremark prescriptions earlier this year after an audit faulted Cathedral’s inventory control practices. Cathedral owner Michael Madden,

who filed suit over the termination, has alleged that CVS Caremark was trying to drive busi-ness to its own CVS Pharmacy stores. In an interview with The Current last month, Madden said he wasn’t certain of his pharmacy’s long-term future without the CVS Caremark contract. Christine Cramer, spokesperson for CVS Caremark, wrote in an email to The Current Monday that the two businesses have “amica-bly settled their dispute arising from Cathedral’s termination from the CVS Caremark pharmacy network.”

“The settlement reaffirms the primary importance that both CVS Caremark and Cathedral place on patient safety and proper pharmacy practices,” Cramer wrote. She said “Cathedral may petition for rein-statement into the Network at the conclusion of its termination period,” but would not say what that process would entail or when it could begin. In a brief email, Madden confirmed that he had settled with CVS Caremark. “The agree-ment has been signed. I cannot answer any other questions,” Madden wrote.

He added that during the period Cathedral is unable to fill CVS Caremark prescriptions, loyal customers can change their prescription plans. “We are open and if there are those out there that would appreciate quality pharmacy services, just give me a call and I will person-ally handle the transfers of their prescrip-tions,” Madden wrote. The Cleveland Park/Woodley Park advi-sory neighborhood commission and Ward 3 Council member Mary Cheh have each requested investigations into CVS Caremark’s competitive practices.

Cathedral Pharmacy may get to rejoin CVS Caremark network after dispute

Ethel Taylor says she’s been lucky every step of the way in planning her new busi-

ness, the Doggie Washerette. She found a wonderful contrac-tor to revamp her Shepherd Park space simply by asking someone in her business class for a recommen-dation. An engineer at her church helped with drawings. And she found an accountant through her community as well. “It’s almost like divine connec-tions,” said Taylor. The result of that divinity will open to the public this weekend at 7714 Georgia Ave. NW. The busi-ness is a self-serve dog wash that Taylor says will allow customers to pamper their pooches for less than the cost of a groomer — and with-

out the potential anxiety of an unknown han-dler. “There’s no appointments necessary, no stranger han-dling your dog. Compared to a groomer,” she said, her $35 charge is “bud-get-conscious.” That $35 covers both the cost of the bath and use of Taylor’s grooming supplies: nail clippers,

brushes, towels, et cetera. She will have three tables set up for groom-ing. The system will work much like a do-it-yourself car wash. Dogs will

hop up — or climb steps Taylor provides for older pets — into the bath area of a special machine called the Tru-Blue K9000. Owners will pay via the machine, with either cash or credit card, and then select their

shampoo. The machine will dis-

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Bill Petros/The CurrentEthel Taylor’s Doggie Washerette will open this weekend.

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GDS graduate wins gold in math contest Georgetown Day School gradu-ate Ben Gunby, who is headed to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology this fall, was awarded a gold medal at the International Mathematic Olympiad last month. Gunby competed as part of the U.S. team, which finished second to China out of about 100 teams competing. Each of the six U.S. students, including Gunby, earned a gold medal. It was Gunby’s second time winning the gold at the inter-national math competition, which took place in Amsterdam this year. “It is thrilling to see years of hard work result in such spectacu-lar achievement, and I am extreme-ly proud of what Ben and the entire U.S. team accomplished this year,” said Georgetown Day math teacher Andy Lipps, who attended the event. Lipps said it was only the sec-ond time in the 38 years the United States has participated in the Olympiad that all six members earned a gold medal.

Restaurants offer weeklong discounts More than 200 area restaurants will temporarily offer discounted, fixed-price lunches and dinners starting Monday as part of Restaurant Week 2011, according to the promotion’s co-sponsor, Restaurant Association Metropolitan Washington. At participating restaurants, three-course meals will cost $20.11 for lunch and $35.11 for dinner from Aug. 15 through 21, states the promotion’s website, restaurantweekmetrodc.org.

Casey group doubles rebate for large trees Residents who plant large cano-py trees on their properties can now receive rebates of up to $100 from Casey Trees, according to a news release from the nonprofit. The organization has already

offered residents up to $50 for planting any size of noninvasive canopy tree, through a rebate pro-gram funded by the D.C. Department of the Environment. That program will continue even as more funds are available for plant-ing the larger trees, the release says. Instructions and a list of eligible trees are available at caseytrees.org/rebate.

Bowser kicks off Ward 4 campaign Ward 4 D.C. Council member Muriel Bowser celebrated her birth-day July 28 with a campaign kick-off fundraiser that attracted about 300 people to the Intown Uptown Inn on 14th Street. After an introduction by former at-large Council member Carol Schwartz, Bowser shared her goal of snaring 95 percent of the vote in the April 3 Democratic primary. Bowser led the field with 40 per-cent in her first run for the Ward 4

seat, and received 75 percent when she ran for re-election in 2008. Baruti Jahi, a past president of the Shepherd Park Citizens Association and a candidate in the 2008 race, has announced that he will challenge Bowser for the Democratic nomination. One of Bowser’s major goals in this next cycle, she said, will be

improving schools so that parents will once again want to choose their neighborhood institution. Lafayette, in the Chevy Chase sec-tion of her ward, is so strong that “people move to that neighborhood because of that school,” she said. Council Chairman Kwame Brown was among the attendees, along with Ward 3 Council mem-

ber Mary Cheh and former Council members Betty Ann Kane and Sharon Ambrose.

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PSA 201

Theft from auto (below $250)■ 5300 block, 29th St.; street; 10:30 a.m. Aug. 1.■ 3500 block, Rittenhouse St.; street; 5 a.m. Aug. 1.■ 5300 block, 28th St.; street; 8 a.m. Aug. 1.Theft from auto (attempt)■ 2700 block, McKinley St.; street; 8:30 a.m. July 31.■ 3800 block, Kanawha St.; street; 3 a.m. Aug. 1.■ 3500 block, Rittenhouse St.; street; 7 a.m. Aug. 1.

PSA 202

Stolen auto■ 4400 block, Harrison St.; street; 8:30 a.m. Aug. 4.Theft ($250 plus)■ 5300 block, Wisconsin Ave.; store; 12:45 p.m. July 31.■ 5300 block, Wisconsin Ave.; store; 2:15 a.m. Aug. 6.Theft (below $250)■ 4300 block, Brandywine St.; street; 3 a.m. Aug. 1.■ 4800 block, 41st St.; resi-dence; 10 a.m. Aug. 3.■ 4400 block, 49th St.; unspeci-fied premises; 6:48 a.m. Aug. 4.Theft from auto ($250 plus)■ 4100 block, Nebraska Ave.; parking lot; 11 a.m. Aug. 3.■ 4400 block, 39th St.; street; 4 a.m. Aug. 3.■ 5300 block, Wisconsin Ave.; parking lot; 5 a.m. Aug. 5.Theft from auto (below $250)■ 4800 block, Belt Road; street; 4:15 a.m. Aug. 4.■ 3900 block, Fessenden St.; street; 11 a.m. Aug. 5.

PSA 203

Theft (below $250)■ 2900 block, Upton St.; resi-

dence; noon Aug. 2.■ 3500 block, Davenport St.; residence; 2:30 a.m. Aug. 7.

PSA 204

Burglary■ 3600 block, Upton St.; resi-dence; 2:30 a.m. Aug. 7.■ 2500 block, Calvert St.; hotel; 10:30 a.m. Aug. 7.Stolen auto■ 2400 block, 39th St.; street; 2 a.m. Aug. 2.■ 3900 block, Cathedral Ave.; street; 8 a.m. Aug. 4.Theft ($250 plus)■ 3100 block, 38th St.; resi-dence; 8:55 a.m. Aug. 5.Theft (below $250)■ 3500 block, Springland Lane; residence; 10 a.m. Aug. 1.■ 2500 block, Wisconsin Ave.; unspecified premises; 4 a.m. Aug. 7.Theft from auto (below $250)■ Massachusetts and Wisconsin avenues; street; 8:30 a.m. Aug. 1.■ 3400 bloc, 39th St.; street; 5 a.m. Aug. 2.■ 42nd Street and Tunlaw Road; street; 7:30 a.m. Aug. 2.■ 3400 block, 39th St.; street; 8 a.m. Aug. 2.■ 4100 block, Cathedral Ave.; street; 4 a.m. Aug. 4.■ 2900 block, Edgevale Terrace; residence; 11:50 a.m. Aug. 5.■ 2700 block, 29th St.; street; 8:50 a.m. Aug. 5.■ 28th and Calvert streets; street; 8:30 a.m. Aug. 6.■ 2700 block, 29th St.; unspeci-fied premises; 9:30 a.m. Aug. 6.

PSA 205

Stolen auto■ 5100 block, 52nd St.; resi-dence; 8:30 a.m. Aug. 4.■ 5100 block, 52nd St.; resi-

dence; 8:30 a.m. Aug. 4.Theft from auto (below $250)■ 4800 block, Loughboro Road; street; 1 a.m. Aug. 1.■ 4700 block, Woodway Lane; street; 12:05 p.m. Aug. 4.■ 4900 block, Hillbrook Lane; street; 1 a.m. Aug. 4.

PSA 206

Assault with a dangerous weapon■ 1200 block, 33rd St.; resi-dence; 3:15 a.m. Aug. 4.Burglary■ 2600 block, O St.; residence; 4 a.m. Aug. 4.Theft ($250 plus)■ 1000 block, Wisconsin Ave.; sidewalk; 1 a.m. Aug. 2.Theft (below $250)■ 3100 block, M St.; store; 6:45 a.m. Aug. 1.■ 1300 block, Wisconsin Ave.; restaurant; 5 a.m. Aug. 2.■ 1300 block, Wisconsin Ave.; restaurant; 6 a.m. Aug. 2.■ 1200 block, Wisconsin Ave.; store; 6:30 a.m. Aug. 2.■ 3200 block, M St.; street; 7 a.m. Aug. 3.■ 3000 block, M St.; unspecified premises; 11:15 a.m. Aug. 4.■ 3100 block, M St.; store; 5:30 a.m. Aug. 4.■ M and Potomac streets; side-walk; 8 a.m. Aug. 4.■ 1000 block, Thomas Jefferson St.; sidewalk; 3:15 a.m. Aug. 5.■ 1400 block Wisconsin Ave.; drugstore; 3:53 a.m. Aug. 5.

PSA 208

Robbery (force and violence)■ 1700 block, Riggs Place; side-walk; 3:30 a.m. Aug. 6.Robbery (pocketbook snatch)■ 1900 block, Q St.; restaurant; 2:15 a.m. Aug. 1.■ 1600 block, U St.; street; 2 a.m. Aug. 7.Assault with a dangerous weapon

■ 1000 block, 21st St.; unspeci-fied premises; 11:52 a.m. Aug. 1.■ 1700 block, I St.; tavern; 1:07 a.m. Aug. 4.■ 1200 block, 18th St.; tavern; 1 a.m. Aug. 6.Burglary■ 1600 block, R St.; residence; 10:45 a.m. Aug. 2.■ 1700 block, T St.; residence; 7:30 a.m. Aug. 3.Stolen auto■ 2000 block, O St.; sidewalk; 1 a.m. Aug. 5.Theft ($250 plus)■ 2000 block, K St.; sidewalk; noon Aug. 3.Theft (below $250)■ 2000 block, K St.; sidewalk; noon Aug. 1.■ 1300 block, 18th St.; office building; 1 a.m. Aug. 2.■ 2100 block, K St.; medical facility; 8:30 a.m. Aug. 3.■ 1700 block, Church St.; resi-dence; 11 a.m. Aug. 4.■ 1200 block, 18th St.; side-walk; 3 a.m. Aug. 5.■ 1600 block, T St.; residence; 4 a.m. Aug. 6.■ 1300 block, 19th St.; side-walk; 8 a.m. Aug. 6.■ 2000 block, Pennsylvania Ave.; hotel; 1:20 a.m. Aug. 7.Theft (shoplifting)■ 1500 block, K St.; store; 2:45 a.m. Aug. 1.Theft from auto ($250 plus)■ 1900 block, 16th St.; street; 11 a.m. Aug. 2.■ 1000 block, 19th St.; street; 8:30 a.m. Aug. 4.Theft from auto (below $250)■ Rhode Island Avenue and M Street; street; 11 a.m. Aug. 3.■ 1700 block, 20th St.; parking lot; 6:20 a.m. Aug. 3.■ 1200 block, New Hampshire Ave.; street; 9 a.m. Aug. 3.■ 1800 block, Riggs Place; street; 10:15 a.m. Aug. 4.■ 19th Street and Riggs Place; street; 8 a.m. Aug. 4.■ 1700 block, 16th St.; street; 6:50 a.m. Aug. 5.■ 2200 block, S St.; street; 12:05 p.m. Aug. 6.

psa 201■ chevy chase

psa 202■ Friendship heights tenleytown / aU park

psa 204■ MassachUsetts avenUe heights / cleveland parkwoodley park / glover park / cathedral heights

psa 203■ Forest hills / van ness

psa 205■ palisades / spring valleywesley heights/ Foxhall

psa 206■ georgetown / bUrleith

psa 208■ sheridan-kaloraMadUpont circle

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ing this issue but agreed that it needs work. “It’s still tall, it’s still very high, and it will loom for [the row house neighbors], but you’ve done a lot of work to reduce the perception of that,” said board member Robert Sonderman. Patrick Cook, who represented Trout Design Studio at the meeting, noted that the original design con-cept called for this entrance to “announce the front of the build-ing” on Mozart Place. “The sense of the opening is that we do have a two-story entry lobby behind there, so we’re responding honestly to the scale of the space behind it,” he said. Regarding the Fuller Street entrance, which is slightly smaller in comparison, the staff report rec-ommended that a proposed two-and-a-half-story portico be dropped in height by one floor and that the balcony above be accessed by the second floor rather than the third, in order make the entrance more in scale with the rest of the building. Board members also raised con-cerns regarding the scale of the proposed stone materials to be used at this entrance, and suggested a more modest design. During his 30-minute presenta-tion, Cook shared project highlights including a retractable glass roof for penthouse units and a lap pool

inside the courtyard. He also dis-cussed the building’s roof: Plans call for red clay tiles on the lower levels, which are particularly visi-ble from the street, and a composite material that mimics the clay look for the top levels, including those areas that will screen mechanical equipment. Cook brought samples of both roof tiles to the meeting, and after inspection, Sonderman said the composite tile looked as though it had a reflective surface that could prove problematic as a design ele-ment. He suggested that Cook go back to the manufacturer to rework the tile’s finish. Aside from concerns about the roof tiles and entrances, the board said the design appeared compati-ble with the character of the land-mark building. Board member Joseph Taylor characterized the plan as “intelli-gent architecture with intelligent solutions.” Cook asked that the preservation board yield final approval of design plans to the office’s staff, and the board granted that request, so the preservation board will not need review the plans again. On a concluding note, preserva-tion board member Pamela Scott commended Cook’s presentation and his use of 3-D architecture soft-ware, which can preserve each step of the design process as it moves forward. She said that as an archi-tectural historian, she bemoans the “loss of documentation in

Washington’s architecture,” and she asked Trout Design to consider archiving the project’s plans in this 3-D format in a library so that in the future, “this kind of information is not lost to history.” The July 28 hearing was the third time the Il Palazzo project has

been before the preservation board. Trout Designs first presented its design in December 2010 and then again in January 2011, at which point the preservation board approved conceptual plans to rede-velop the nearly 100-year-old embassy building into condomini-

ums while preserving its historic elements. The project will next go before the Zoning Commission on Sept. 8. The building, now owned by Valor Development and Potomac Construction, has been vacant for about 15 years.


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Muni melodrama It’s been an unfortunate summertime soap opera. In May, the D.C. Council voted to tax interest on out-of-state municipal bonds — including interest earned throughout 2011. The council provided no real notice beforehand, eliciting a justifiable out-cry from retired seniors who rely on income from the bonds. The next month, the council fell just short on a vote to preserve the tax exemption for bonds purchased before Oct. 1, 2011, if additional revenue allowed the city to do so. Come July, the council — by a tight 7-6 vote — agreed to delay the onset of the new tax until Jan. 1, 2012, thereby giving bondhold-ers the chance to change their portfolios before the government began collecting its cut. The council used $13.4 million previously slated to help build up the city’s depleted reserve funds. Last week, Mayor Vincent Gray used a pocket veto to derail the council’s latest action, which came as part of a package of technical amendments. In a letter to Council Chairman Kwame Brown explain-ing his action, the mayor criticized the “unfair retroactive income tax increase on bondholders” and reiterated his support for an increase on residents earning more than $200,000 as far preferable. Mayor Gray also objected to comments from Chairman Brown and Ward 3 Council member Mary Cheh that they had felt “ambushed” and “blindsided” by the pocket veto. He cited meetings he had with Chairman Brown the day of the pocket veto, as well as his initial statement on the eve of the council’s July vote that he would not support the use of funds targeted for the reserve funds. Neither of the mayor’s arguments is fully persuasive, though we agree on the importance of rebuilding the city’s reserves. If officials were to broker a resolution that avoids bondholders having to pay the new tax on their existing portfolios until Jan. 1, 2012, the meetings should have come far earlier than the day of the pocket veto. It wasn’t only legislators caught off-guard by the mayor. Local business leaders issued a joint statement describing the veto as mis-guided and lacking “proper notice or conversation.” It’s time for an end to this melodrama. Officials should come together to find a solution that reduces the retroactive nature of the tax so it applies only to income earned after Oct. 1, the start of the 2012 fiscal year.

A time for action Recent polls have shown a dramatic drop in the public standing of the U.S. Congress, largely due to partisan wrangling and legislators’ ethical lapses. There’s not really any partisan wrangling on the D.C. Council, with its 11 Democrats and two independents. But there unfortunately have been more than a few ethical lapses. Compounding the problem, the D.C. Council has not acted swiftly to tighten ethics rules and campaign finance loopholes, as groups such as the Ward 3 Democrats and the D.C. Republican Committee have appropriately criticized. Arguably, the situation has gotten even worse following the recent settlement between D.C. Attorney General Irving Nathan and Ward 5 D.C. Council member Harry Thomas. Without admitting guilt, the council member agreed to repay the $300,000 in city money that he allegedly converted to his personal use. The U.S. Attorney’s Office could still pursue criminal charges, but in the meantime Mr. Thomas’ supporters are reportedly establishing a legal defense fund. It’s essential that the council enact emergency legislation to require full public disclosure of the donors, as well as limitations on contribu-tions. Simply stated, D.C. law should not allow any politician to have a secret fund. The council ought to return from its recess to take up the matter. Emergency legislation won’t obviate the need for a comprehensive measure this fall, but it is necessary to forestall a potential quagmire.

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Last week came a little-noticed news release from U.S. Attorney Ronald Machen. Cheryl Ferrara, a former deputy assistant inspector

general, was sentenced for falsifying residency docu-ments and bank accounts to get a friend hired in her office, and for personally spending about $20,000 in funds from the national Association of Inspectors General, for which she was treasurer. Ferrara received a year of probation and a sus-pended sentence of 180 days, and she was fined $1,000 and ordered to perform 100 hours of community service. And, of course, the 46-year-old defendant lost her job and is no longer treasurer of the national association. She also had to resign from her most recent government job as a special inspector general for Afghanistan reconstruction. She also must notify federal agencies that granted her previous security clearances (you know what that likely means), as well as inform “the appropriate agencies” that granted her Certified Public Accountant license. In short, to foolishly help a friend fake docu-ments and bank accounts to get a job, and for violat-ing her fiduciary duties as treasurer, her career and life are in tatters. The case is one of any number of lower-level crimes of government workers pursued and prose-cuted by the U.S. Attorney’s Office. (We’re on the email list and a week doesn’t seem to go by without some local or federal government worker in trouble.) We mention all this as citizens continue to specu-late about the fate of Ward 5 Council member Harry “Tommy” Thomas, Council Chairman Kwame Brown and Mayor Vincent Gray, all of whom have active cases pending in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in one form or another. As we wrote last week, Thomas’ case is the one most directly involving city money. He settled the civil case against him by agreeing to repay the District $300,000 in grant monies that D.C. Attorney General Irvin Nathan said Thomas used for his per-sonal benefit. Thomas settled the civil suit without denying or admitting guilt. At this point, that’s an important legal nicety but will have no bearing on what U.S. Attorney Machen decides to do in that case as he explores criminal charges. If we were Thomas or any other public official facing a criminal probe, we would be very nervous at the conviction record Machen is amassing. Those who believe the feds are going to take a whiff on the worst cases of alleged corruption since the awful Marion Barry years of the 1980s ought to be on the mailing list for the drumbeat of announcements coming out of Machen’s office.■ Bike helmets? We did a story on NBC4 a few

days ago on the wildly successful Capital Bikeshare program. In less than a year, the use-a-bike-when-you-need-it system has recorded 800,000 individual bike trips on the red and yellow bikes. As we stood at Dupont Circle — site of the busi-est station — person after person praised the bikes. The only complaint was a wish for even more bike stations. But we were there because very few of the rental

riders actually wear bike helmets. For years now, there has been a drum-beat of safety folks urg-ing all cyclists to use helmets. (The law in the

District mandates only that children 16 and younger must have a helmet.)

Chris Holben, a D.C. Department of Transportation administrator who works with the bike program, says “we’ve had trouble” balancing the bike helmet issue with rental bikes. Few people want to carry around a helmet all day just for a few minutes of use. And tourists aren’t likely to bring a helmet with them. So the Transportation Department is beginning a pilot program to make 500 bike helmets available to the most frequent users of the bike system. And it also has hooked up with the five Kimpton Hotels in D.C. to offer loaner helmets to out-of-town visitors. It’s only a scratch-the-surface effort to explore better bicycle safety, but it’s a good start. Holben had some good news about the rental bikes. He says they are a bit “clunkier” than regular bikes you often see. He says that tends to slow down the bikes and helps keep them from weaving into and out of traffic as much. Holben also said of the 800,000 recorded rides, there have been only 13 reported bike wrecks or serious incidents.■ Sidewalk sanity. This week is the 50th anniversa-ry of sidewalk cafes in the District. It’s hard to believe, but there was a time when such cafes were prohibited as potential problems for sanitation and for passersby on sidewalks. (Hadn’t anyone ever been to Paris?) We’re glad that sidewalk cafes are now an inte-gral part of city life, but if anyone was sitting at one during our recent wave of high-90s temperatures, we feel sorry for them.■ Fudging the issue. This has nothing to do with local politics, but we were amused by a press release received last week from U.S. Rep. Marcia Fudge, D-Ohio. Fudge announced she had introduced “wide-ranging legislation aimed at combating child-hood obesity.” So, we mentally wrote the headline, “Fudge Fights Fat.” If only it were so. Tom Sherwood, a Southwest resident, is a political reporter for News 4.

The swirl of ethics … continued …

TOM SHERWOOD’S NotebooK

District’s bond tax robbing retirees Mayor Vincent Gray has shown that he is willing to see a retroactive expropriation of the income earned by D.C. retirees on non-D.C. municipal bonds. He has vetoed the D.C. Council amendment that would have made this new tax take effect on Jan. 1, 2012, rather than the origi-nal date, Jan. 1, 2011. So, those taxpayers who have earned income this year on non-D.C. muni bonds will be taxed this year on all of this income. They

might also be hit with a penalty for under-withholding tax. This is unconscionable. It’s confiscatory. It invalidates the investment strategy of 19,000 Ward 3 families. They bought bonds expecting a stream of tax-exempt income over 10 to 20 years, and now that strategy is in tatters — retroactively. The fact that the effective date for this tax is retroactive is only part of the outrage. The funda-mental outrage is over the tax applying to bonds bought before the council imposed the tax. The other states that have ended the tax exemption for out-of-state municipal bonds grandfa-thered old investments. D.C. is taking the most punitive, unfair

approach possible. Ward 3 Council member Mary Cheh did not fight for a grandfa-ther clause. And now she’s not been able to prevent the mayor from vetoing the change in the effective date. The last time this came up, Ward 3 Council member Kathy Patterson beat it back. Cheh’s effectiveness pales in comparison. The priority now should be to secure a grandfather clause, not change the effective date. If Cheh can’t secure a grandfather clause, she’ll be countenancing the out-right theft of tens of millions of dollars in assets of retirees in Ward 3.

Chuck LudlamCleveland Park

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Urban green space needs protection I am concerned about D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton’s efforts to change the way our federal parks are managed [“Park Service may review D.C. policies,” Aug. 3]. She wants the National Park Service to be more “flexible,” but lovers of our parks have all too often seen flexibility used as a euphemism for weaker and less-protective management. Indeed, Del. Norton herself went so far as to tell the House of Representatives that Dupont Circle Park is “not a place for enjoying the greenery of nature.” This cer-tainly comes as a surprise to myself and the many others who flock to Dupont Circle and other D.C. parks precisely because their greenery enriches us and offers us a brief respite from our stressful daily routines. When Justice Thurgood Marshall famously emphasized the “paramount importance” of pro-tecting the “few green havens that are public parks,” he did so in a case about an urban park (Overton Park in Memphis). D.C.’s federal parks are among the city’s most priceless treasures, and the

National Park Service is their steward. Let’s urge the agency to redouble its efforts to preserve our urban greenery, so it remains unmarred both for our own enjoy-ment and that of future genera-tions.

Howard FoxForest Hills

More than ‘some’ object to project The Current reports [“Akridge seeks to sell Wisconsin Ave. par-cel,” July 13] that “… Ward 3 Council member Mary Cheh and the smart-growth advocacy group Ward 3 Vision supported the [5220 Wisconsin Ave.] project,” as did the D.C. Zoning Commission. On the other hand, “The Friendship Heights-Tenleytown advisory neighborhood commis-sion, the Friendship Neighborhood Association and some individual residents opposed it … .” Some individual residents? A petition, limited to residents 18 years or older, was circulated in the area most affected by the Akridge project. Of the 442 addresses within that area, 59 went uncounted because no one was at home, and another 38 because there was not time to approach them before a deadline for publish-ing the petition results. This pro-cess, which amounted to coverage

of 345 (78 percent) of the 442 addresses, included noting the rea-sons that residents gave for not signing the petition. The results: Of the 548 responding resi-dents, 501 (91 percent) signed the petition opposing Akridge’s plan to exceed matter-of-right zoning limit height by 58 percent, lot occupan-cy by 67 percent and density (floor area in square feet) by 192 percent. Of the 47 — the actual “some individual residents” — who did not sign: Twenty-two (4 percent) agreed with the Akridge plan; 18 (3 percent) were undecided; and seven (1 percent) did not care one way or the other. Ward 3 Vision, though it boast-ed just the opposite, was at the time (and presumably still is) a small group, almost all of whose members lived well outside the most affected area. They, along with Council member Cheh (who lives far from that area) and the five D.C. zoning commissioners (ditto), completely disdained the petition results. They treated the clear will of the community as if it had no relevance whatsoever. If and when the Akridge-designed project is erected, it will stand as a monument to this small gang of oligarchists’ undermining of the democratic process.

Frederic BurkFriendship Heights

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The recent surge of investigations and allegations of corruption and conflict of interest that have been directed toward D.C.’s public officials has

eroded public confidence in the integrity of the politi-cal process in the District of Columbia. The political climate thus created threatens to depress citizen partici-pation in grass-roots politics as well as to undermine those engaged in the struggle for self-determination for the citizens of the District of Columbia. So far there has been a weak response from our elected officials — a lack of remorse on the part of those accused and, with some exceptions, a lack of outrage on the part of most of their D.C. Council col-leagues. It is left to local political and civic activists to repudiate an often-insidious culture where public offi-cials’ use of public office for personal gain is a com-mon occurrence. Expressing outrage only goes so far. We need to do the hard work of providing citizen input to the D.C. Council on reforms it should be contemplating for the future. Such legislative reforms should require that elected officials adhere to clearly stated codes of con-duct and rules governing transparency and public dis-closure. Reworked statutes must also contain strong sanctions for noncompliance with these rules of behav-ior as well as the mechanisms for genuinely indepen-dent oversight bodies to enforce them. While two reform bills are already pending in the D.C. Council (one sponsored by Ward 3 Council mem-ber Mary Cheh and Council Chairman Kwame Brown, and one by at-large Council member Vincent Orange),

Brown’s recent shuffling of the committee assignments could delay their consideration. Ward 4 Council mem-ber Muriel Bowser will probably need extra time to get up to speed on the ethics reform issue as the new chair of the Government Operations Committee (taking over from Cheh), which has jurisdiction over ethics reform matters. It is important that the legislative process in this area not be delayed or — worse yet — stopped in its tracks. The Cheh/Brown and Orange proposals should not be allowed to gather dust. More comprehensive ethics reform proposals need to be considered as well. Hearings affording ample opportunity for public com-ment should be scheduled as soon as the council recon-venes in September. Proper notice for these hearings should be provided to the public as well. It seems that it is up to citizen activists to sound the alarm and to serve as change agents. That is why the Ward 3 Democratic Committee as an active grass-roots organization dedicated to encouraging good govern-ment practices has constituted a government ethics reform task force to address this issue. The task force is in the process of developing recommendations for statutory changes to D.C. law designed to prevent cor-ruption, malfeasance and conflict of interest among D.C. public officials. With these objectives in mind, the task force is examining “best practices” in other jurisdictions as well as soliciting input from communi-ty organizations and residents in Ward 3. We can be contacted at [email protected]. Please join us in this citizen-based effort to restore public trust in our local government in the District of Columbia. We can make a difference. Shelley Tomkin is chair of the Ward 3 Democratic Committee.

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The commission will meet at 7 p.m. Sept. 8 at Stoddert Elementary School and Recreation Center, 4001 Calvert St. NW. For details, call 202-338-2969, contact [email protected] or visit anc3b.org.

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The commission will meet at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 19 at the 2nd District Police Headquarters, 3320 Idaho Ave. NW. For details, call 202-657-5725 or visit anc3c.org.

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At the commission’s July 13 meeting:■ local resident Adam Walwork said he is troubled that the University of the District of Columbia’s tennis courts are locked and unavailable for play. Commissioner Adam Tope said he had spoken with university officials and heard they plan to charge local residents up to $250 annually to use the courts and at some time in the future the swimming pool as well.■ Metropolitan Police Department Lt. Victor Braschnewitz reported that thefts and most other crimes are down and that there were no violent crimes in the area during the prior month. Commissioner Karen Perry asked him to look into the large number of cars that “block the box” at the intersections of Veazey

Terrace and Van Ness Street with Connecticut Avenue.■ commissioners voted unanimous-ly to recommend to the D.C. Public Space Committee that Indian Ocean be allowed to establish a 16-seat, five-table outdoor cafe at 4221 Connecticut Ave. as long as the remaining sidewalk is at least 10 feet wide. Commissioners also rec-ommended the voluntary agree-ment with the restaurant be amend-ed to allow alcoholic beverage sales at the outdoor cafe.■ commissioners voted 5-1, with Cathy Wiss dissenting, to oppose Aquila Recovery Clinic’s request for a certificate of need from the D.C. Department of Health to open an alcohol and drug treatment facil-ity at 4455 Connecticut Ave. NW. Commissioner Karen Perry said the commission had hired a consul-tant to study the issue and found that Ward 3 has a very small num-ber of people needing the service, and that the application was incom-plete and unclear about the length of the treatment programs. She was also critical of plans to have no full-time staff member to manage the facility. Wiss said she voted against the resolution partially because propo-nents of the facility were not allowed to speak at the meeting. “I think there is a need, but I am unclear how this [the proposed facility] fits in.” When the proponents asked to speak, Perry said they should have been present at previous meetings where open discussions were held. Later in the meeting, commis-sioners voted unanimously to increase the amount that can be paid to the consultant who advised the commission on the Aquila clin-ic’s application from $1,000 to a total of up to $5,000.■ commissioners voted unanimous-ly to oppose legislation recently approved by the D.C. Council allowing a facility seating over 500 people to host events with cigar smoking. Commissioner Bob Summersgill, who is active in the group Smokefree DC, said about 25 hotels would be eligible to host events. The council has since tweaked the law to make it appli-cable to only two hotels. ■ commissioners voted unanimous-ly to oppose an addition to Jake’s American Grille for a sidewalk cafe at 5016-5018 Connecticut Ave. According to commissioner Karen Perry, Jake’s had not proper-ly placarded the proposed addition. She said the entrance to the pro-posed sidewalk cafe would be from inside, not the sidewalk. “To me, it’s not really a sidewalk cafe, but an extension.” Legally, Perry added, there can only be 17 seats, but Jake’s is ask-ing for 25. No representative of Jake’s was present at the meeting to answer questions. In a separate resolution, the commission voted unanimously to reconsider its approval of a revised voluntary agreement with Jake’s.

The establishment is seeking to increase the number of customers allowed to 94 from 49. ■ commissioners voted 5-0, with Tom Whitley abstaining, to revise the commission’s grant guidelines. The general policy will be a $3,000 maximum, with an allowance for a larger amount under special consid-erations. The commission will meet at 7:30 p.m. Aug. 15 at the Capital Memorial Seventh-Day Adventist Church, 3150 Chesapeake St. NW. Agenda items include:■ announcements.■ update on the D.C. Department of Transportation’s decision not to install a four-way stop sign at 31st and Brandywine streets.■ police report.■ consideration of a public-space application by Jake’s American Grille, 5018 Connecticut Ave., for permission to build an unenclosed sidewalk cafe.■ consideration of a public-space application to permit the installation of an over-height fence (in excess of 42 inches) at 4600 Reno Road.■ consideration of a resolution to support the grandfathering of non-D.C. municipal bonds from the D.C. income tax. For details, call 202-362-6120 or visit anc3f.us.

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At the commission’s July 25 meeting:■ commissioners voted unani-mously to object to a public-space request for a curb cut at 3803 Huntington St., with the under-standing that the applicant, Joe Rubin, will submit a new plan that features a permeable material for a proposed driveway. Neighbors objected strenuously to the original plan partly because of its impacts on the site’s trees. Rubin said his new proposal — which he said he would submit to the city shortly after the meeting — will not hurt any trees, but neighbors said they hadn’t had enough time to consider the new proposal. Rubin is renovating a 1922 house on the site, which was recent-ly subdivided. A developer is build-ing a new house next door.■ commissioners voted 6-1, with Carolyn Cook opposing, to send a letter to the Transportation Department regarding proposed changes to Oregon Avenue. Rather than support one of the depart-ment’s proposed alternatives for redoing the road, commissioners listed the concepts they would like to see incorporated in the plan. The commission will meet at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 12 at the Chevy Chase Community Center, Connecticut Avenue and McKinley Street NW. For details, call 202-363-5803 or send an email to [email protected].


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While temperatures scorched at an average of 110 degrees, a pair of D.C. siblings overcame the dizzy-ing heat to finish strong at the National Junior Olympic Track & Field Championships last month amid fierce competition. Brightwood native William D. Simmons III, known to friends and family as “Tre,” captured the gold medal in the 1500-meter race at the U.S. Amateur Track and Field event in Wichita, Kan., from July 26 through 31. His time of 5 minutes, 5.42 seconds, held off the top-ranked bantam (9- and 10-year-old age group) runner in the country for that distance. The 10-year-old, who has been running competitively since he was 5, also took home second-place in the 800-meter race with a time of 2:25:65. Meanwhile, Tre’s sister, Regan Simmons, finished in eighth place in the 800-meter race. It was the first time the 8-and-under age group competed at nationals, and Regan, 8, became the youngest-ever par-

ticipant from the Hummingbird Track and Field Club in Greenbelt, Md. As one of the top eight finish-ers in the race, she also earned a medal. Fighting off the blazing heat was perhaps the toughest challenge, said their father, William D. Simmons II. “You had a lot of heat come into your throat right as you hit that backstretch,” he said. “But you just had to time it right — you don’t have to be out there all day. You just wait until your race, keep loose, stretch and just be prepared to run.” Preparing in D.C. this summer, he added, was also helpful when it came time to compete in Kansas. “Because it was so hot here and humid, it helped our kids out a lot more than, say, the California kids,” said the elder Simmons, a Gonzaga graduate who was a standout track runner in high school and won a conference championship in 1987. Tre Simmons, who will attend Landon School this year, earned high accolades for his performance in Wichita, where he established himself as a Nike Junior Olympic All-American and National Elite

Youth All-American. The latter dis-tinction recognizes the top 20 run-ners in the country. Regan, who attends Annunciation Catholic School, was also selected as a Nike Junior All-American. Regan just started on the com-petitive circuit last year and has looked to Tre, who has been run-ning competitively for close to five years, as a mentor. “It helps that they both run the 800 together because he gives her guidance on

how to stretch and how to be pre-pared,” said their father. “He’s kind of picked up on some of the things needed for running and imparted that on to his sister.” The siblings both got involved in running at a very young age; their father said it’s a highly beneficial sport for kids because “it gives you focus.” “For mid-distance running you have to really be able to be strategic and understand points in the race,” he said. “One of the things Tre has

been able to do over the last couple years is understand different seg-ments of the race. Each week it gives him a chance to establish a goal to make or tweak the average time per lap.” William Simmons II added that his kids are able to compete at a high level in races of several differ-ent distances, and thinks they both have a bright road ahead of them in the sport. “I think it’ll be a big part of both of their futures,” he said.

Athletics in northwest wAshington August 10, 2011 ■

By BORIS TSALYUKCurrent Staff Writer

Not only will Wilson have a new school building in the fall, but there will also be some fresh faces on campus. In the Tigers’ third coaching change this summer, Jimmy Silk — last year’s junior varsity baseball coach — will take over for varsity coach Eddie Smith. The move brings a sudden end to Smith’s three-year run as head coach at Wilson. Non-teachers who coach at the school work under one-year agreements, and Smith was told Friday he wouldn’t be offered a new pact. “I’m very appreciative of his time here, first as a Wilson baseball player … and his last three years as head coach,” athletic direc-tor Mitch Gore said Monday. “He did an admirable job — he really did — but we were ready to go in another direction.” The decision is the latest in a line of changes for athletics at Wilson. In June, the school announced it was replacing veteran football coach Horace Fleming with assistant Mark Martin. The Tigers will also have a new soccer coach this fall as Sal Caccavale takes the reins from Kenny Owens. Although the baseball team won three straight D.C. Interscholastic Athletic Association titles under Smith, Gore said he sought a better fit. “I was looking for someone that has a vision for the whole program and sets the course for where the program is going

and works with his assistants to make that happen,” he said. Silk, a 2007 graduate of George Washington University, finished his first year as junior varsity coach at Wilson last spring. He was a coach and mentor for Northwest

Little League from 2004 to 2009, and for the Northern Virginia Travel Baseball League from 2007 to 2010. Smith said he learned of the decision to replace him by phone on Friday — his 30th birthday — and that he took the news hard. “It’s hard to think about anything else when you get some bad news like that. “I gave this school a whole lot — almost 10 years — and to get the rug pulled up from under you just like that … I don’t know,” said

Smith, a 1999 graduate of Wilson who went on to be an assistant coach under Eddie Saah before replacing his mentor when Saah retired after the 2008 season. Under Smith’s direction, Wilson made it to the Congressional Bank Classic champion-ship game each of the last three seasons, but fell to St. Albans the first two times and Sidwell last May. But Smith pointed out that it took his predecessor several years to achieve great success against top private schools in the city. “You can’t expect me to come in and do the same job [right away] that Eddie did,” he said. “I don’t know what I did that was wrong.” The former coach also said it hurt that the school searched for his replacement before telling him first. He said he heard whispers that the team was going to make a switch several weeks before it happened. Maret coach Antoine Williams — a former All-Met baseball player at Wilson — con-firmed Monday that he was offered Smith’s spot in early July. Williams said he appreci-ated the interest and would have loved to return to his alma mater, but the timing just wasn’t right. “I would’ve left Maret in a pretty bad pre-dicament as far as looking for someone,” he said. “A lot of the players came to play for me so [while] I feel an allegiance for Wilson … I also feel an allegiance to those kids. … I didn’t think it would be fair to do that.”

Coaching carousel at Wilson: Smith out, Silk in

Matt Petros/Current File PhotoRobinson Mateo and his brother Pedro were among the top players under Wilson coach Eddie Smith last year.

Hummingbirds carry buzz to National Junior Olympics

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Photo courtesy of William D. Simmons IIWilliam “Tre” Simmons, right, and his sister Regan took home prizes in late July after proving to be among the fastest youth runners in the nation.

Matt Petros/Current File PhotoBen Whitener, right, accepts the trophy after Wilson won the 2011 DCIAA crown.


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An abnormal sort of quiet had settled upon the Washington Animal

Rescue League by Monday. “I’ve never seen it like this, so empty,” said Jim Monsma, director of communications at the 71 Oglethorpe St. NW shelter. “It’s like a ghost town.” Just the Friday before, the shel-ter had been swollen to capacity with 125 dogs and cats. The ani-mals had come from all over the place — from regions hit by floods and tornados, from a hoarder in upstate New York, from other shel-ters in the region that ran out of space. “Shelters are always slammed during summers,” Monsma said, since it’s a popular time for mov-ing. Some people even give up their pets when they’re going on vacation, he said. But over the weekend, the majority of the animals at the Takoma shelter moved out into new homes. For 33 straight hours on Saturday and Sunday, the rescue league kept its doors open for its first-ever “Adopt-a-Thon” event. Seventy-five volunteers helped out, and a half-dozen volunteers and staffers even camped out in the building Saturday night. The marathon offered a stream-lined process for pet adoptions, waiving normal fees and allowing

people to pay whatever they could afford for their new pets. Things started in a frenzy on Saturday morning, volunteers said. One family showed up at 5 a.m. to be first in line, and by the time vol-unteers arrived at 7, “the lines were already pretty long,” said volunteer Anna Colb. The pace had slowed down some by Saturday evening. “It’s been pretty phenomenal,” volunteer Jamie Hutton said around 6:30 p.m. “We’re almost out of dogs.” Those remaining at that hour included Buckaroo, a hound mix; and Oh! Susanna, a black lab. Some leapt up excitedly at each

visitor, some stared up with sad or wary eyes, and others napped through the activities. One woman cooed into the stall of a tail-thumping young pit bull mix. “I’m trying to take you home,” she told the dog. “I want to take you home so bad.” A shelter volunteer later informed the woman she couldn’t adopt the dog, because the area where she lives — Prince George’s County — bans pit bulls. The cat section was more crowded Saturday evening, with several felines roaming free on the floor of the room. A few kittens remained up for adoption, along-side a couple of memorable char-acters: Cirro, the dainty cat with a patch of gray fur where its left eye should be, and Amelia, the chunky three-legged cat who had survived a run-in with a car. The cats weren’t moving out of the shelter as quickly as the dogs, Monsma said, but that follows nor-mal shelter patterns. “It’s not hard to get a cat,” he said. Many people end up taking in a stray, or adopting cats from friends or acquaintances — “A coworker says, ‘My cat just had kittens,” he said. By the end of Adopt-a-Thon at

8 p.m. Sunday, 26 cats remained in the shelter, and only four dogs. The total — 113 animals — “is as good as we [normally] do in a month,” Monsma said. But the quick turnaround of adoptions inspired a mix of praise and skepticism, said Mary Jarvis, the animal league’s chief operating officer. “There’s criticism of this as much as there is excitement,” she said. Jarvis emphasized, though, that she had seen “very high-quality adopters” on Saturday, including “people who have adopted from us before, and people who already have animals.” And Monsma said while there is certainly concern about the qual-ifications of new owners, his shel-ter — and others — are generally becoming less restrictive with pet adoptions these days. “This is the way we’re going,” he said. “We’re trying to be friendlier to adopters,” rather than scaring them away with obstacles like “invasive question-naires.” During the weekend, adoption procedures skipped some of the traditional steps, such as a home visit with the potential new owner. “We’re putting more faith in the adopters,” said volunteer Hutton.

Adopt-a-Thon participants filled out an application, presented ID and picked out their animal. Then they sat down for an interview with an adoption counselor — a meeting that could be “as short as 15 minutes” for people with exten-sive pet-owning experience, Monsma said, or longer for first-time owners. The point was to “make sure you have realistic expectations” about caring for an animal, he said. With some animals, the owner would then be required to meet with a veterinarian or behavioral specialist. Then — after signing a contract and paying whatever fee they chose — the owner could leave the building with their new pet. Jarvis said adopters on Saturday had paid “as little as $20 and as much as $500.” On Monday Monsma reported that the shelter’s totals averaged about $75 per adoption. (The fees normally range from $150 to $250 for dogs and $50 to $100 for cats.) As for the uneasy sense of calm that filled the shelter after the weekend marathon, Monsma pre-dicted it wouldn’t last long: The rescue league already has new ani-mals coming in by the truckload to fill its empty stalls. “We’ll be at full capacity again by Saturday,” he said. More information about the Washington Animal Rescue League and the weekend event is available at warl.org.

The People and Places of Northwest Washington August 10, 2011 ■

‘Adopt-a-Thon’ nearly clears crowded shelter

Bill Petros/The CurrentLaura Wallach and Scott Ressler, above, were among the many area residents to find dogs and cats to adopt at the Washington Animal Rescue League’s all-weekend event.


RepoRt fRom The Field: Reliability Improvement Progress Report

July 2011 – District of Columbia

247 Miles of Trees TriMMeDFallen trees and limbs cause most power outages. To improve reliability, Pepco has trimmed more than 250 miles of power

lines in D.C. since September 2010. We’re on target to trim 416 miles in the District by the end of the year. Staffing for tree

trimming has been increased to four times the normal complement of workers to meet the project’s demands.

29 Power line UPgraDe ProJeCTs CoMPleTeDThis year, Pepco has completed seven projects to upgrade distribution feeders – power lines that serve large numbers of

customers – to improve reliability in areas that have experienced more frequent outages. Upgrades were completed in

June in Shepherd Park, Benning and two locations in Anacostia. Work has begun on two new projects, in Brookland near

Catholic University and Deanwood, and another project in Friendship Heights. Our crews continue to work on distribution-

level power lines in Anacostia, Benning, Chevy Chase, Crestwood, Capitol Hill and on Georgia Avenue. We will start an

additional seven projects in the next two months.

18 sysTeM growTh ProJeCTs CoMPleTeDTo serve the growing demand for electricity, Pepco is upgrading power lines and adding circuits throughout the District.

In June, Pepco completed upgrades in the Anacostia and Chevy Chase areas and continued work in the H Street, NE

Corridor, which is coordinated with the ongoing street improvement project. Pepco has completed 18 of 19 projects since

September 2010, with the final project on Minnesota Avenue planned for completion this December.

15 aDvanCeD ConTrol sysTeMs are Being insTalleDWe are installing advanced control systems that allow the electric system to identify problems and, in some cases,

automatically restore power to most affected customers within minutes. We continue making progress on the 15 projects

planned for completion this year in the Benning, Deanwood, River Terrace, Palisades and Van Ness areas.

assessMenT of UnDergroUnD ProJeCTs UnDerway In areas where traditional modifications to the overhead system have not produced the desired results, Pepco will selectively

replace the overhead system with an underground system. Two feeders in the District meet this criteria and an engineering

evaluation has begun on both.

ADDITIONAL PROGRESS AT PEPCOYou’ll also see improvements in our customer service. We have hired additional staff to answer your calls and are using

smartphone apps and our website to provide more convenient, efficient ways for you to report outages and find information

about your electric service. If you have comments or suggestions, reach us on Twitter (@PepcoConnect) or at pepco.com.

Pepco is committed to improving our customers’

experience through a comprehensive plan to upgrade the

system, announced last year.

We are making progress and our work continues to

reduce both the frequency and the duration of power

outages that cause our customers inconvenience

and frustration.

Our work on this plan will continue over the next three

and a half years, but it won’t stop there. We will always

work hard to more effectively provide safe, reliable electric

service to our customers.

Below is an update on our work in the District of Columbia.

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counties, we invite you to visit us at pepco.com.

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Reading Math

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ELEMENTARY schooLsBaRnaRd Meeting Target 66.37% 84.83% 67.31% 58.41% 55.75% 80.00% 64.42% 60.53% Below basic 9.32% 1.97% 5.41% 10.00% 16.95% 0.64% 7.21% 6.61% Basic 25.42% 13.16% 27.03% 33.33% 27.97% 18.59% 28.83% 33.06% Proficient 55.93% 68.42% 47.75% 51.67% 33.90% 53.21% 40.54% 44.63% Advanced 9.32% 16.45% 19.82% 5.00% 21.19% 27.56% 23.42% 15.70%

h.d. Cooke Meeting Target 36.89% 31.86% 36.26% 32.17% 43.69% 38.05% 38.46% 24.35% Below basic 17.31% 21.19% 21.43% 30.83% 20.19% 15.13% 25.00% 24.19% Basic 46.15% 46.61% 43.88% 37.50% 36.54% 47.06% 38.00% 51.61% Proficient 31.73% 32.20% 32.65% 30.83% 36.54% 31.09% 32.00% 20.16% Advanced 4.81% 0.00% 2.04% 0.83% 6.73% 6.72% 5.00% 4.03%

eaton Meeting Target 73.96% 85.57% 78.31% 79.01% 64.06% 80.10% 74.70% 74.21%AYP Reading Below basic 5.15% 1.95% 1.18% 2.45% 7.22% 2.40% 2.92% 3.05% Basic 21.13% 12.68% 20.00% 18.40% 28.87% 17.79% 22.22% 23.78% Proficient 57.73% 66.83% 61.76% 60.12% 41.24% 40.38% 49.12% 46.95% Advanced 15.98% 18.54% 17.06% 19.02% 22.68% 39.42% 25.73% 26.22%

FRanCiS- Meeting Target n/a 47.46% 45.14% 56.12% n/a 42.61% 39.58% 51.80%SteVenS Below basic n/a 12.83% 10.97% 9.66% n/a 17.89% 24.20% 17.65%AYP Reading Basic n/a 41.71% 45.16% 35.17% n/a 40.00% 36.94% 32.03%AYP Math Proficient n/a 42.25% 40.00% 47.59% n/a 38.42% 35.03% 42.48% Advanced n/a 3.21% 3.87% 7.59% n/a 3.68% 3.82% 7.84%

heaRSt Meeting Target n/a 80.77% 75.56% 65.28% n/a 92.31% 66.67% 66.67% Below basic 0.00% 3.70% 6.67% 2.70% 0.00% 3.70% 4.44% 6.76% Basic 13.04% 14.81% 17.78% 32.43% 13.04% 7.41% 28.89% 27.03% Proficient 56.52% 70.37% 64.44% 56.76% 47.83% 37.04% 42.22% 45.95% Advanced 30.43% 11.11% 11.11% 8.11% 39.13% 51.85% 24.44% 20.27%

hYde- Meeting Target 82.89% 82.89% 78.26% 81.18% 80.26% 85.53% 88.41% 75.29%addiSon Below basic 3.85% 3.75% 4.17% 4.40% 2.56% 1.23% 1.33% 3.30%AYP Reading Basic 14.10% 13.75% 16.67% 13.19% 17.95% 14.81% 13.33% 21.98% Proficient 67.95% 72.50% 54.17% 62.64% 46.15% 54.32% 48.00% 49.45% Advanced 14.10% 10.00% 25.00% 19.78% 33.33% 29.63% 37.33% 25.27%

JanneY Meeting Target 87.80% 90.80% 88.21% 92.02% 88.98% 85.44% 88.21% 89.67%AYP Reading Below basic 0.79% 1.15% 0.51% 0.47% 1.57% 1.91% 1.01% 0.47%AYP Math Basic 11.42% 8.02% 11.22% 7.51% 9.45% 12.60% 10.61% 9.86% Proficient 57.87% 59.16% 53.06% 54.93% 41.34% 40.84% 45.96% 40.38% Advanced 29.92% 31.68% 35.20% 37.09% 47.64% 44.66% 42.42% 49.30%

keY Meeting Target 84.21% 84.73% 89.84% 87.69% 92.11% 86.26% 90.63% 90.77%AYP Reading Below basic 0.00% 1.49% 0.77% 0.00% 0.00% 2.17% 0.77% 0.76%AYP Math Basic 15.79% 13.43% 9.23% 12.21% 7.89% 12.32% 9.23% 8.40% Proficient 64.04% 62.69% 63.85% 54.20% 42.98% 41.30% 43.85% 46.56% Advanced 20.18% 22.39% 26.15% 33.59% 49.12% 44.20% 46.15% 44.27%

LaFaYette Meeting Target 88.89% 90.56% 87.16% 87.76% 88.53% 89.51% 84.44% 87.07% Below basic 3.91% 0.35% 3.44% 3.04% 1.42% 1.03% 3.44% 2.69% Basic 7.12% 9.38% 9.16% 9.12% 9.96% 9.97% 12.21% 10.44% Proficient 60.14% 65.63% 62.21% 61.15% 43.77% 46.74% 55.34% 45.12% Advanced 28.83% 24.65% 25.19% 26.69% 44.84% 42.27% 29.01% 41.75%

Mann Meeting Target 91.40% 91.89% 90.09% 91.07% 84.95% 88.29% 89.19% 91.07%AYP Reading Below basic 0.00% 1.80% 0.00% 0.88% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00%AYP Math Basic 8.60% 6.31% 9.73% 7.89% 15.05% 11.86% 10.34% 9.09% Proficient 61.29% 69.37% 58.41% 63.16% 40.86% 42.37% 53.45% 44.63% Advanced 30.11% 22.52% 31.86% 28.07% 44.09% 45.76% 36.21% 46.28%

MURCh Meeting Target 80.65% 83.84% 86.91% 85.86% 74.19% 82.10% 80.21% 85.86%AYP Math Below basic 3.95% 1.73% 1.55% 2.58% 4.35% 3.80% 3.03% 0.99% Basic 16.60% 15.15% 12.89% 11.34% 22.53% 15.19% 17.17% 13.30% Proficient 63.24% 62.34% 58.76% 54.64% 43.08% 52.32% 40.91% 37.93% Advanced 16.21% 20.78% 26.80% 31.44% 30.04% 28.69% 38.89% 47.78%

oYSteR Meeting Target 74.53% 77.46% 75.41% 81.30% 69.66% 72.96% 72.13% 82.72%AYP Reading Below basic 5.54% 2.80% 3.54% 1.40% 5.54% 5.54% 5.18% 3.05%AYP Math Basic 20.66% 19.61% 20.98% 17.09% 25.46% 22.16% 22.62% 14.96% Proficient 60.15% 54.06% 49.05% 52.38% 41.33% 43.21% 44.96% 44.88% Advanced 13.65% 23.53% 26.43% 29.13% 27.68% 29.09% 27.25% 37.12%

PoWeLL Meeting Target 34.04% 26.22% 39.66% 38.10% 48.94% 43.03% 34.48% 50.79%AYP Math Below basic 18.12% 20.11% 36.07% 20.63% 12.08% 15.22% 21.54% 14.29% Basic 49.66% 52.51% 22.95% 41.27% 41.61% 43.48% 46.15% 34.92% Proficient 28.86% 26.26% 40.98% 38.10% 37.58% 34.24% 29.23% 44.44% Advanced 3.36% 1.12% 0.00% 0.00% 8.72% 7.07% 3.08% 6.35%

MaRie Reed Meeting Target 61.39% 69.42% 48.70% 41.04% 58.23% 73.55% 51.75% 44.78% Below basic 9.32% 4.03% 14.66% 16.42% 18.63% 5.65% 12.07% 20.29% Basic 29.81% 28.23% 36.21% 42.54% 22.98% 22.58% 36.21% 36.23% Proficient 48.45% 58.06% 44.83% 38.81% 37.27% 44.35% 31.90% 34.78% Advanced 12.42% 9.68% 4.31% 2.24% 21.12% 27.42% 19.83% 8.70%

RoSS Meeting Target 65.63% 77.05% 76.79% 72.41% 48.44% 70.49% 58.93% 70.69%AYP Math Below basic 5.97% 1.56% 5.36% 3.45% 13.43% 3.03% 1.79% 3.45% Basic 31.34% 21.88% 17.86% 24.14% 40.30% 28.79% 39.29% 25.86% Proficient 59.70% 65.63% 57.14% 58.62% 38.81% 45.45% 37.50% 48.28% Advanced 2.99% 10.94% 19.64% 13.79% 7.46% 22.73% 21.43% 22.41%

ShePheRd Meeting Target 73.91% 77.78% 63.16% 68.35% 63.77% 76.47% 63.16% 66.91% Below basic 2.05% 1.83% 10.07% 7.69% 3.42% 4.27% 11.51% 9.09% Basic 25.34% 20.73% 27.34% 24.48% 33.56% 20.12% 26.62% 24.48% Proficient 64.38% 62.80% 53.96% 58.04% 41.78% 49.39% 45.32% 47.55% Advanced 8.22% 14.63% 8.63% 9.79% 21.23% 26.22% 16.55% 18.88%

StoddeRt Meeting Target 77.50% 74.55% 90.48% 78.23% 66.25% 80.00% 92.38% 84.13% Below basic 6.98% 0.91% 0.87% 1.56% 2.33% 1.71% 0.83% 3.70% Basic 19.77% 24.55% 12.17% 20.31% 36.05% 18.80% 9.92% 12.59% Proficient 63.95% 64.55% 62.61% 57.81% 38.37% 37.61% 54.55% 45.93% Advanced 9.30% 10.00% 24.35% 20.31% 23.26% 41.88% 34.71% 37.78%

WeSt Meeting Target 56.04% 61.76% 49.60% 49.11% 38.46% 53.92% 44.35% 40.18% Below basic 5.32% 2.73% 7.46% 11.76% 7.45% 4.42% 10.45% 18.33% Basic 39.36% 38.18% 43.28% 39.50% 54.26% 44.25% 47.76% 42.50% Proficient 53.19% 55.45% 44.03% 44.54% 28.72% 34.51% 38.81% 33.33% Advanced 2.13% 3.64% 5.22% 4.20% 9.57% 16.81% 2.99% 5.83%

D.C. Comprehensive Assessment system

spring 2011 sChool-by-sChool results

These are the school system’s spring 2011 results for the D.c. comprehensive Assessment system tests for area public schools, compiled from data released last week and posted on the D.c. office of the state superintendent of Education’s website. The current test was first administered in spring 2006. The line after each school’s name shows the percentage of students who met the proficiency targets in reading and math. In 2011, to make “adequate yearly progress,” as defined by the District in adherence to the federal No child Left Behind Act, an elementary school had to have 73.69 percent of students meet the target in reading and 70.14 percent in math; a secondary school, 71.79 percent in reading and 70.27 percent in math; schools also had to meet the same thresholds for various subgroups of students. These percentages have increased over time. schools that do not meet the targets can also make adequate yearly progress by showing a 10 percent reduction in the percentage of students not meeting the academic target. The charts also show the percentages of students who tested at below basic, basic, proficient and advanced levels. Prior to 2009, the school system did not list some information for hearst Elementary because it had too few students in the grades tested. Francis-stevens Education campus opened in the 2008-09 school year.

Reading Math

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sEcoNDARY schooLsBannekeR Meeting Target 97.12% 97.03% 96.30% 94.25% 98.08% 98.02% 100.00% 97.70%AYP Reading Below basic 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00%AYP Math Basic 2.88% 2.97% 3.70% 5.75% 1.92% 1.98% 0.00% 2.30% Proficient 55.77% 44.55% 57.41% 45.98% 55.77% 50.50% 55.56% 68.97% Advanced 41.35% 52.48% 38.89% 48.28% 42.31% 47.52% 44.44% 28.74%

CooLidge Meeting Target 29.09% 36.17% 56.57% 42.06% 50.91% 42.55% 48.48% 31.75% Below basic 18.25% 9.00% 5.45% 18.12% 15.87% 11.00% 8.18% 26.62% Basic 54.76% 53.00% 40.91% 40.58% 36.51% 46.00% 43.64% 43.17% Proficient 24.60% 35.00% 48.18% 34.06% 37.30% 31.00% 44.55% 28.06% Advanced 2.38% 3.00% 5.45% 7.25% 10.32% 12.00% 3.64% 2.16%

deaL Meeting Target 78.59% 78.37% 83.05% 83.48% 77.01% 77.63% 84.12% 88.85% Below basic 1.34% 1.45% 1.28% 1.96% 4.77% 4.16% 2.79% 2.79% Basic 20.04% 21.05% 16.32% 15.33% 18.13% 19.53% 14.29% 9.56% Proficient 44.85% 45.37% 43.94% 45.65% 49.43% 45.03% 44.95% 44.15% Advanced 33.78% 32.12% 38.46% 37.07% 27.67% 31.28% 37.98% 43.50%

eLLington Meeting Target 75.97% 77.42% 72.73% 85.62% 51.94% 61.29% 60.33% 76.47%AYP Reading Below basic 2.27% 1.59% 0.00% 1.30% 3.03% 0.00% 1.64% 3.25%AYP Math Basic 21.21% 20.63% 27.87% 13.64% 44.70% 38.10% 38.52% 20.78% Proficient 62.88% 61.90% 51.64% 53.90% 44.70% 50.79% 50.00% 68.18% Advanced 13.64% 15.87% 20.49% 31.17% 7.58% 11.11% 9.84% 7.79%

haRdY Meeting Target 70.63% 72.85% 74.63% 66.26% 64.21% 69.21% 66.67% 67.97% Below basic 1.95% 0.93% 2.40% 5.18% 7.52% 7.43% 6.92% 6.72% Basic 26.71% 26.32% 22.84% 28.88% 29.08% 24.15% 26.73% 25.49% Proficient 54.72% 58.82% 56.73% 49.40% 49.67% 55.73% 50.84% 51.58% Advanced 16.61% 13.93% 18.03% 16.53% 13.73% 12.69% 15.51% 16.21%

MCkinLeY Meeting Target 72.44% 68.50% 72.02% 88.08% 62.67% 70.50% 76.19% 87.42%teChnoLogY Below basic 0.88% 2.00% 1.76% 0.00% 3.52% 4.00% 1.76% 0.66%AYP Reading Basic 27.31% 29.50% 26.47% 11.84% 33.92% 25.50% 21.76% 11.84%AYP Math Proficient 65.64% 54.50% 55.29% 68.42% 57.27% 58.00% 66.47% 77.63% Advanced 6.17% 14.00% 16.47% 19.74% 5.29% 12.50% 10.00% 9.87%

RooSeVeLt Meeting Target 22.13% 29.27% 31.73% 23.33% 26.23% 26.02% 43.69% 24.17% Below basic 30.66% 23.08% 22.95% 28.68% 31.39% 39.69% 25.83% 31.62% Basic 48.18% 47.69% 45.08% 47.79% 41.61% 35.88% 34.17% 43.38% Proficient 21.17% 26.15% 28.69% 20.59% 26.28% 21.37% 34.17% 23.53% Advanced 0.00% 3.08% 3.28% 2.94% 0.73% 3.05% 5.83% 1.47%

SChooL Meeting Target 92.73% 98.02% 96.19% 99.14% 92.73% 94.06% 95.24% 98.28%WithoUt Below basic 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00%WaLLS Basic 7.02% 2.88% 3.77% 0.82% 7.02% 5.77% 4.72% 1.64%AYP Reading Proficient 57.89% 51.92% 41.51% 31.15% 61.40% 68.27% 50.00% 59.02%AYP Math Advanced 35.09% 45.19% 54.72% 68.03% 31.58% 25.96% 45.28% 39.34%

WiLSon Meeting Target 62.42% 72.18% 64.48% 65.71% 60.00% 67.17% 67.44% 52.25% Below basic 6.19% 3.70% 8.27% 11.86% 10.91% 10.41% 9.06% 16.45% Basic 31.27% 24.07% 28.20% 22.94% 29.20% 22.30% 24.53% 31.33% Proficient 44.84% 38.89% 43.61% 40.21% 35.10% 42.01% 43.40% 35.77% Advanced 17.70% 33.33% 19.92% 25.00% 24.78% 25.28% 23.02% 16.45%


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CATHEDRAL HEIGHTS $450,000BEAUTIFUL RENOV 2BR, 2BA unitin full service bldg. Balcony &garage PKG. Gym, tennis courts,convenience store on premises,blocks from AU, shops & offices.Mary Jo NashFoxhall Office 202-363-1800

CHEVY CHASE DC $1,050,000NEW PRICE! REDUCED 100K!Amazing amount of space. 6BR, 4.5BA, 4fin lvls & huge 2 story addition. LR w/FP,renov KIT, Formal DR + lrg open DiningArea, FR, expansive LL w/Rec Rm, full BA& 2nd KIT; Move in condition w/ HighCeilings & beautiful HWFs.Julie Roberts 202-276-5854Chevy Chase Office 202-363-9700

CHEVY CHASE DC $1,079,000ACROSS FROM THE PARK Rarely avail-able, this updtd 4BR, 3.5BA semi-detached home has over 3,500 SF of liv-ing space. LR has 12’ ceilings & a wall ofwindows overlooking the private reargarden. FR w/FP, remod Eat-In KIT. HWs,fin LL w/Au-Pair Ste, lots of storageAndra Gram 240-515-6059Mike Senko 202-257-5787Chevy Chase Office 202-363-9700

COLUMBIA HEIGHTS $274,500WARDMAN COURT. Fantastic 1BR –

shows like a model. Renov historic bldg,HWF’s, W/D, CAC, Low Condo Fee,Extra Storage & Pet Friendly. Walk toMetro & all U St shops & restaurants.John Mammano 571-331-8557Woodley Park Office 202-483-6300

CONN AVE /VAN NESS $310,000NEW ON MARKET! Large & bright1BR facing RC Park. Newly updtd KIT,freshly painted, beautifully refin par-quet flrs. Wall of closets. Walk toshops, restaurants & METRO. Greatbuilding amenities incl 2 pools, gym,bike storage, 24/7 desk. Gar pkg. Catsonly. FHA approved.Orysia Stanchak 202-423-5943Chevy Chase Office 202-363-9700

DUPONT $249,500SPECTACULAR RENOV of well locatedunit in the Boston House. Brand neweverything! Gleaming HWFs, new KITw/ granite, SS, new cabinets, totallynew fixtures in the BA. Full serv bldgw/24-hr desk, on site mgmnt and main-tenance as well as a roof deck. Fee inclsall utilities.

Scott Purcell 202-262-6968Woodley Park Office 202-483-6300

DUPONT $369,000THE BOSTON HOUSE. Don’t miss outon this rarely available, expansive 860 SF1BR apt conveniently located in the heartof Dupont. Recently updated KIT, a din-ing alcove, open floor plan & located onthe quiet side of the building. All withlow fees that incl 24-hr desk, on-sitemaintenance & management, roof deck.Close to shopping and metro.Scott Purcell 202-262-6968Woodley Park Office 202-483-6300

DUPONT PARK $227,000ATTRACTIVE detached brick w/ built-ingarage, huge yard @4125 SF with shade& mature trees, sunroom/porch over-looking oversized garage- attractive price.Norris Dodson 202-786-4800Friendship Hts Office 202-364-5200

G’TOWN /BURLEITH $665,000CHARMING 2BR row house with PKG.Spacious BRs, HWFs, renov open KIT, LRw/frplc, DR, sep laundry room offKitchen. Just blocks to new Safeway,

Starbucks & Gtown University.Karen BarkerFoxhall Office 202-363-1800

GLOVER PARK $225,000FABULOUS newly renov 1BR featuringbrand new KIT w/gran counters, SS appl,renov BA, Jet tub, Brazilian cherry HWFs.Sintia Petrosian 301-395-8817Friendship Hts Office 202-364-5200

GLOVER PARK $279,000LARGE END-UNIT 1BR, 1BA condo w/ 3exposures & great light. Fully renov,granite/SS kitchen. 3 blocks to shops &restaurants! www.chrisjoneshomes.com.3925 Davis Pl, NW #207.Chris Jones 202-441-7008Georgetown Office 202-944-8400

LOGAN CIRCLE $1,245,000SPECTACULAR 2007 renov of Victorianend row house. 2400sf 28ft ceilings, 2BR,2.5BA, rusticated HWFs, sep DR. Gourmett/s KIT w/brkfast bar, custom Ital cabinets& honed marble counters. Gas FP. PKG.1306 Rhode Island Ave, NW, Penthouse.Denise Warner 202-487-5162Georgetown Office 202-944-8400

OBSERVATORY $1,995,000CLASSIC 1920 7BR, 4.5BA on sun-filledcorner lot. Enchanting garden, terrificKIT opens to FR, deck & yard. Mstew/deck & paneled library w/fpl. Highceilings and orig details. Nr Guy MasonPk, Cathedral, shops. 2700 36th St, NW.Terri Robinson 202-607-7737Georgetown Office 202-944-8400

OBSERVATORY CIRCLE $299,500LARGE 975 SF 1BR, 1BA + xtra HBA inelegant full service Westchester. Foyer,large LR w/din area, built-ins, huge BR, 2large closets, updated BA, view fromevery window. Co-op fee incls all utilities& taxes (except cable/phone) Bldg hasgrocery, beauty salon, dry cleaners.No pets.Ingrid Suisman/Tatjana BajramiFoxhall Office 202-363-1800

PETWORTH $135,000GREAT VALUE! Large unit loaded withcharacter. KIT, sep DR, big LR, HWFs, hiceils, 3 closets, cat OK. Walk to Metro!www.TheChampionCollection.comDenise Champion 202-215-9242Chevy Chase Office 202-986-1001

PETWORTH $225,000REDUCED! NEW 2BR with outdoorspace, oak HWs, marble BA, recessedlights. Wide open living area w/big KIT &granite island. Closing cost credit.Phil Di Ruggiero 202-725-2250Friendship Hts Office 202-364-5200

PETWORTH $199,900 - $299,900FHA APPROVED & One year Condo feesPaid! Light filled, fantastic condos avail-able in THE FLATS AT TAYLORSTREET. Choose from 1BR, 1BR withden, 2BR/2BA homes. Quality & afford-ability, finished with stylish and superiormaterials: granite, ss, hdwd & bamboo,CAC & W/D in each unit. Walk toMetro! www.804taylorstreet.com. 804Taylor St, NW.Christy Zachary 202-494-2248Woodley Park Office 202-483-6300

TAKOMA DC /BRIGHTWOOD $449,500WALK TO Takoma Metro from thisdetached 4BR, 2FBA, 2HBA. Just reduced$50K. Needs updating, great opportunity,bring your offers. 515 UnderwoodRd, NW.Emmanuel Sturley 202-503-8607Georgetown Office 202-944-8400

GEORGETOWN1680 Wisconsin Ave. NW

202.944.8400

FOXHALL3201 New Mexico Ave. NW

202.363.1800

FRIENDSHIP HEIGHTS5101 Wisconsin Ave. NW

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CHEVY CHASE20 Chevy Chase Circle NW

202.363.9700

WOODLEY PARK2300 Calvert St.202.483.6300

GLOVER PARK $339,000BRIGHT, FRESHLY PAINTED apt. NewCalifornia style KIT & remodeled BA. HWFs. Allnew appliances. Balcony. W/D in unit. Roof deck.Exceptional location. Pet friendly. 2320Wisconsin Ave NW, #305.Scott Polk 202-256-5460Georgetown Office 202-944-8400

CHEVY CHASE MD $1,285,000SUPERB KENWOOD LIVING Sunny, gracious4BR home. LR has windows on 3 sides; FR w/FP& exposed brick wall adjoins KIT. Rec Rm &ample storage on LL. Delightful landscaped 1/3acre lot w/stone Patio on a street edged byfamous cherry trees & babbling brook.Cheryl Kurss 301-346-6615Chevy Chase Office 202-363-9700

16TH ST HEIGHTS $1,249,000MAJESTIC HOME boasts several delightful liv-ing areas. Inviting front porch, grand foyer, FRoverlooking the rear deck & English garden, LRw/marble FP, formal DR, KIT w/Brkft bar, SubZero, Thermador cook top/dbl oven. LL In-LawSte + 2-car Garage!Matthew Paschall 202-439-7063Chevy Chase Office 202-363-9700

GEORGETOWN$2,350,000

Wonderful Victorianin Georgetown’s WestVillage. Four finishedlevels, 5BR, 4.5BA,landscaped garden.Grand double livingroom, family/diningroom, high-end KIT,master bedroom suite,in-law suite, andmore. 3407 N St, NW.

Jennifer Wellde 301-602-1596Georgetown Office 202-944-8400

GAITHERSBURG $375,000BEAUTIFUL 4BR, 2.5BA renov Colonial, 3 finlvls, brand new pergo flooring, designer granite,FR off KIT, screened-in porch with step downdeck. Located in desired Hadley Farms commu-nity. Close to Shady Grove Metro & ICC.Sintia Petrosian 301-395-8817Friendship Hgts Office 301-652-2777

CHEVY CHASE DC $1,099,000UNIQUE 4BR, 4.5 BA Contemp nestled in cul-de-sac on 1/3 acre lot. View of mature trees. Brickhome is combo of interior HWDs, expanses ofglass, beamed ceiling in Chef's KIT w/ FP & fam.area. LR & DR are awesome. 1st flr deck is widthof house which overlooks pool, its kit, gazebo.Ramona Greene 202-494-2557Friendship Hts Office 202-364-5200

GEORGETOWN $1,199,000G’TOWN’S MOST SOUGHT-AFTER luxurywaterfront condominium. Stunning over-sized 1BR w/ upgrades galore. Top-of-the-line gourmetgranite Poggen-pohl Kit, designer lighting andhigh ceilings. 1 gar spc & storage spc convey withunit. 2nd gar/storage spc can be sold separately.Rooftop pool & fitness. 24-hr frt desk. Canal vws.Nancy Itteilag, Foxhall Office 202-363-1800

SILVER SPRG/CHEVY CHASECREST$249,900

CHARMING 2BR,1BA townhousestyle renovatedcondo in a lushsetting that’s walk-able to Metro,Starbucks and thebest of downtown

Silver Spring! 1782 E West Hwy.

Richard Oder 202-329-6900Woodley Park Office 202-483-6300

POTOMAC $850,000SOUGHT-AFTER WORLAND, unique TH com-munity. Complete renov, newly enlarged KIT, fabhuge slate patio & landscpd grdns. Newlyremodeled MBR & MBA by Gilday (once a fourthBR) New energy efficient screens that cut the util-ity bills in half! Best location in neighborhood!Nancy Itteilag, Foxhall Office 202-363-1800

Realtor Steven Figman notes that new construction often emphasizes a “great room”

— a large space, usually at the rear

of the house, offering casual living adjacent to a kitchen — while the traditional living room gets short shrift. But this 1988 property in Colonial Village fea-tures a large casual area in the rear as well as a full living room out front. “There’s a balance here,” said Figman. It’s a generously sized living room, too. The space sits just to the right of an expan-sive two-story entry, set apart by pillars. Large Palladian windows bring in light through three exposures — two of them looking at Rock Creek Park, which sits just across the street — while a marble-surrounded fireplace offers additional warmth. The Palladian windows contin-

ue in the entry, where one sits above the doorway and another decorates the entrance to an office/library. The current owner works at a desk in this room, but it could also house reading materials or a bedroom. A bay window would be a perfect spot to curl up with a good book. The dining room sits in the cen-ter of the home, accessible from all sides: the front entry, a side hall-way and the kitchen. Another entry opens to a flagstone patio that

stretches all the way around the house.

Some buyers might want to update the wallpaper here, which also covers the interior of an adjacent powder room. Tucked behind this bath is a laundry room, a useful amenity to have on the first floor.

In the rear is this home’s version of a great room. To one side

is a family room with the house’s second fireplace, as well as built-in shelves and a flat-screen TV that conveys. On the other is the kitch-en, which was updated just a few years ago. Granite tops the coun-

ters and center island, which hous-es a four-burner range and grill. Appliances are Jenn-Air, Kitchen Aid and Whirlpool, and the cabi-nets are made of cherry. A recently added sunroom rounds out this space, providing a bright breakfast spot with its three walls of windows and three sky-lights. Hardwood floors cover this room and much of the rest of the house. Upstairs, two bedrooms sit on one side of the house connected by a Jack and Jill bath, while the mas-ter suite stretches the entire 42 feet

of the house on the opposite side. Here is the home’s third fireplace, as well as a wet bar, two walk-in closets, a built-in dressing table and a vast bathroom. In the bathroom, a jetted tub sits under skylights, with an enclosed marble shower across the way. A water closet houses the toilet, and granite tops the double vanity. Columns here mimic those in the entry. Two stories down, the bottom

level houses a three-car garage and a two-bedroom in-law suite. This area is carpeted, aside from a full kitchenette. This five-bedroom, 3.5-bath Colonial at 7960 West Beach Drive is listed for $1,195,000. For more information, contact Steven Figman at 202-494-5902 or [email protected], or visit his website at dcrealestateques-tions.com. A virtual tour is avail-able at homevisit.com/DC7606496.

A Look at the Market in Northwest Washington August 10, 2011 ■

Big rooms, big windows enchant in Colonial Village home

Photos courtesy of Weichert, RealtorsThis Colonial Village house is on the market for $1,195,000.

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In addition, he said, struggling students attend a four-week summer program designed to boost their skills, and new students all attend a one-week camp in West Virginia to build strong relationships with teach-ers. Students from George Washington and Georgetown universities provide tutoring for students, and the school maintains a multi-tiered intervention program for students in need. “As much as we are all pleased about our growth, we recognize that a school’s success cannot be ade-quately measured by test scores alone,” he wrote in an email. “This is just part of what we do, but in whatever we do, we try to do with an Ellington flair!” Meanwhile, at Foggy Bottom’s Walls, parents touted the continued success of a school that won a national Blue Ribbon Award for achievement last year. “To improve on those high levels is a testament to our students, teachers, and administrative staff,” Linwood Jolly, president of the school’s parent associa-tion, said in a statement. “Yet we are not stopping here or content to rest on our laurels.” Terry Lynch, vice president of the parents’ associa-tion, noted that the gains come as the school and sev-eral others across the District prepare for a reduced budget. “I am confident that together as a team we will work to overcome the hurdles presented to us and con-tinue to excel,” he said. In the West End, Francis-Stevens Education Campus, which has undergone major physical and pro-grammatic restructuring over the past three years, also saw large gains among elementary students. Scores at comprehensive high schools Coolidge and Roosevelt saw large drops. Wilson High School, which operated in temporary digs at the University of the District of Columbia last year, saw scores increase only slightly in reading and plunge in math. The school demonstrated notable gains in reading among Hispanic students but a stark decline in math proficiency across the board. Janet Alexander, lead teacher at Wilson, called the scores “a wake-up call.” She said the school has resources in place to boost the scores, including strong

“teachers, a beautiful facility, and a principal with the commitment to take us where we need to go.” “Now,” she said, “it’s about execution.” On the elementary level, Janney, Key, Oyster and Mann made adequate yearly progress in both math and reading. For some, the gains were across the board. Others benefited from progress among the racial and ethnic subgroups measured by No Child Left Behind. For instance, at Oyster Elementary all subgroups measured under No Child Left Behind saw significant gains in reading and math, pushing the school to make adequate yearly progress in both subjects. Meanwhile, at Janney, black students made large jumps in both reading and math. But white students held steady in reading and posted a decline in math. Taken together, the 2011 citywide results offered a mixed portrait of D.C. Public Schools’ achievement, with slightly more secondary school students scoring proficient in math and reading compared with 2010, and slightly fewer elementary school students scoring proficient in either subject. Charter schools showed more progress. According to a release from the D.C. Public Charter School Board, a majority of local charter schools made gains over last year’s scores. “This year’s standardized tests in math and reading show that D.C.’s public charter schools continue to raise the bar in increasing student proficiency,” said Naomi Rubin DeVeaux, deputy director at Friends of Choice in Urban Schools (FOCUS). At Capital City Public Charter School in Columbia Heights, for instance, elementary school students saw increases in reading and math of four and five points respectively. Upper school students saw gains in read-ing and math of three and six points respectively. Petworth’s E.L. Haynes, on the other hand, saw an increase in math scores and a drop in reading. Charters are also beating traditional public schools in another category, DeVeaux wrote in an email. “The data also show that charters also are ahead of the curve in cutting the achievement gap between African-American students and their white peers which has plagued the city for decades. The gap between these students in D.C. charters fell from 46 to 38 percent in reading and from 44 to 37 percent in math. In D.C.P.S. this year the achievement gap increased from 51 to 52 percent in both reading and math.”

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In 1918, 4825 Glenbrook Road was a dumpsite for chemical and explosive muni-tions and related debris; officials believe a pit was disturbed when the home was built, scat-tering that material throughout the property. The Army Corps is now proposing to clean up whatever it finds beneath the home to a depth of 12 feet, spending an estimated $12.5 million to restore the site to residential stan-dards. “And that will be depending on which additional items we find when we are in the field,” Brenda Barber, project manager for the

4825 Glenbrook remediation effort, said in an interview, adding, “It is a fairly large unknown.” Other possible solutions include cleaning up the area around the house and banning

disruptive digging that could unearth muni-tions, or removing the house but only cleaning the site four feet into the ground. The public will have a chance to weigh in on those

options — which are less costly — but Barber warned they’re not as effective. “We are proposing the remedy that we feel is going to provide the long-term protection for the environment and for the neighbor-hood,” she said. Tom Smith, chair of the Spring Valley/Wesley Heights advisory neighborhood com-mission, said he would have liked this news to come sooner but that he’s pleased with the recommendation. “What we’ve always want-ed is the maximum cleanup in the community, and what they’re coming forward with is the maximum cleanup, which gives me some confidence,” Smith said. When the Army used American University

as a testing site, it fired weapons into then-undeveloped woods around the campus. The Army Corps has spent more than $200 million on Spring Valley cleanup since 1993. Officials will discuss their latest plans at the Sept. 7 meeting of the Spring Valley/Wesley Heights neighborhood commission. Meanwhile, a Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health study is slated to move forward as a follow-up to the school’s 2007 investigation, said Spring Valley advi-sory neighborhood commissioner Nan Wells. As planned, the new yearlong study will examine new and newly available health data and contamination information from monitor-ing wells in the neighborhood.

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of power from sources other than pollution-producing fossil fuels. And according to Tulou, as of March, D.C. was in the lead. “The District government, for example, is purchasing 50 percent of its electric-ity from green sources,” he said. “Altogether, throughout the city, we are buying 8 percent of our electric-ity from [those] sources as well.” But, Tulou said in an interview, federal officials have indicated that other cities could be gaining on D.C. “We’re really having a big-time fight to be still No. 1 even against competitors as large as Philadelphia, Boston, New York and others.” So Tulou is urging residents and businesses to switch their energy away from coal-fired power plants, and toward renewable sources such as solar, wind or geothermal. He hopes to see D.C. increase its citywide green-power portfolio to 10 percent by September. “What we’re encouraging people to do — businesses, commercial establish-ments and the citizens of our city — is buy green power and report to people through our website that they have done so, and that added up will keep us No. 1,” he said. After all, Tulou said, it’s not just good for the environment — it’s also good for the city’s reputation, and, ultimately, its bottom line. “When that college graduate, or the person who is looking for a new home, or even when kids determine what college to attend, find out we’re a city with the best energy policy, the best water, the best air quality and all these other elements of sustainability, chances are they’re going to make a decision to move here,” he said. Limon said she thinks it’s impor-tant that a high-profile city like D.C. remain a standout in sustainability. “I think of anywhere, being in the nation’s capital, we should really be leaders in this movement,” she said. According to the Environmental Protection Agency’s website, resi-dents and businesses can sign up for green power locally through renew-able energy credit programs pro-vided by Washington Gas Energy Services and Clean Currents, or from a variety of national vendors. For more information, visit epa.gov/greenpower/communities/gpcchal-lenge.htm.

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Wednesday, Aug. 10

Benefit ■TheFriendsoftheNationalZoowillpresent“Rock’n’Roar,”aben-efitconcertfea-turingtheB-52s.6to9p.m.$65.Lion/TigerHill,NationalZoo,3001ConnecticutAve.NW.nationalzoo.si.edu.

Class ■Aweeklyworkshopwillofferinstruc-tionin“SahajaYogaMeditation.”7p.m.Free.WestEndNeighborhoodLibrary,110124thSt.NW.202-724-8707.

Concerts ■Participantsinthe2011WashingtonInternationalPianoFestivalwillperform.6p.m.Free.MillenniumStage,KennedyCenter.202-467-4600. ■“MusicandMoreontheGraceLawn”willfeatureProjectNataleperformingstraight-aheadjazz.7to8:15p.m.Free.GraceEpiscopalChurch,1041WisconsinAve.NW.202-333-7100. ■TheHarbourNightsconcertserieswillfeaturesinger,songwriterandguitaristWillemDicke.7to9p.m.Free.Plaza,TheWashingtonHarbour,3050KSt.NW.202-295-5007. ■TheU.S.MarineBandwillperformworksbyJohnPhilipSousa,MortonGould,LeonardBernsteinandJohnWilliams.8p.m.Free.WestTerrace,U.S.Capitol.202-433-4011.

Discussion ■TomScoccawilldiscusshisbook“BeijingWelcomesYou:UnveilingtheCapitalCityoftheFuture.”7p.m.Free.Politicsand

Prose,5015ConnecticutAve.NW.202-364-1919.

Films ■“MovieNight”willfeatureCatherineHardwicke’s2011film“RedRidingHood,”aboutayounggirlwhofallsforanorphanedwoodcutter,muchtoherfamily’sdisplea-sure.6p.m.Free.JuanitaE.Thornton/ShepherdParkNeighborhoodLibrary,7420GeorgiaAve.NW.202-541-6100. ■“NoMaSummerScreen”willpresentJoelCoen’s2000film“OBrother,WhereArtThou?”7p.m.Free.LStreetbetween2ndand3rdstreetsNE.nomasummerscreen.com. ■WJFFYear-RoundwillpresenttheD.C.premiereofMichalBat-Adam’s2009film“Maya,”aboutastrugglingyoungactresswholandsthelead-ingroleinathe-aterproductionandresearcheshercharacterbyspendingtimeobservinginapsychiatricward.7:30p.m.$10;$9forseniorsandstudents.GoldmanTheater,WashingtonDCJewishCommunityCenter,152916thSt.NW.washingtondcjcc.org. ■TheLionsofCzechFilmserieswillfea-tureTomásMasín’s2009film“3SeasonsinHell,”abouta19-year-oldnon-conformistpoetlivingin1947CzechoslovakiawhoisblindtotheCommunistbehemothlookingoverhim.8p.m.$11;$9forstudents;$8.25forseniors;$8forages12andyounger.AvalonTheatre,5612ConnecticutAve.NW.202-966-6000.

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

Thursday,Aug.11

Children’s program ■Aparkrangerwillleadchildrenages5andolderonanexploratoryhikealongtheWoodlandTrail.4p.m.Free.RockCreekNatureCenter,5200GloverRoadNW.202-895-6070.

Concerts ■The“Live!onWoodrowWilsonPlaza”serieswillfeatureMiramarperforming

rumbamusic.Noonto1:30p.m.Free.RonaldReaganBuildingandInternationalTradeCenter,1300PennsylvaniaAve.NW.202-312-1300. ■TheHarwichRoyalBritishLegionBrassBandwillperform.6p.m.Free.MillenniumStage,KennedyCenter.202-467-4600. ■TheEmbassySerieswillpresentaconcertbyOktet9,aSlovenianacappellaensemble.7:30p.m.$30.EmbassyofSlovenia,2410CaliforniaSt.NW.202-625-2361. ■TheU.S.MarineBandwillperformworksbyJohnPhilipSousa,MortonGould,LeonardBernsteinandJohnWilliams.8p.m.Free.SylvanTheater,WashingtonMonumentgrounds,15thStreetandIndependenceAvenueSW.202-433-4011.

Discussions and lectures ■HarryK.ThomasJr.,theU.S.ambassa-dortothePhilippines,willdiscuss“TheUnitedStatesandthePhilippines:StrategicPartners,LongtimeAllies.”5to6:30p.m.$15inadvance;$20atthedoor.CinnabarRoom,AsiaSocietyWashington,1526NewHampshireAve.NW.202-833-2742. ■RelationshipcoachAmySchoenwilldiscussherbook“GetItRightThisTime:HowtoFindandKeepYourIdealRomanticRelationship”atafund-raiserforDressforSuccess.6:30to8:30p.m.$20.Secondfloor,Bloomingdale’sChevyChase,5300WesternAve.NW.getitrightthistime.eventbrite.com. ■LarrieD.Ferreirowilldiscusshisbook“MeasureoftheEarth:TheEnlightenmentExpeditionThatReshapedOurWorld.”7p.m.Free.PoliticsandProse,5015ConnecticutAve.NW.202-364-1919.

Films ■TheInter-AmericanDevelopmentBankCulturalCenterandtheNationalMuseumoftheAmericanIndianwillpresenttheD.C.premiereofMarianoAiello’s2010documen-tary“RebellionatDawn,”aboutthelivesoftheindigenouspeoplesofnorthernArgentinawhentheirlandwasoverrunbysettlersattheturnofthe20thcentury.6:30p.m.Free.EnriqueV.IglesiasAuditorium,Inter-AmericanDevelopmentBank,1330NewYorkAve.NW.202-623-3558. ■ReelAffirmationswillpresentAshChristian’s2011film“Mangus!”7and9:15p.m.$12.Landmark’sEStreetCinema,55511thSt.NW.reelaffirmations.org.

Special events ■“PhillipsAfter5”willfeatureaprogramon“TheArtofSound:KandinskyandBeyond,”featuringsoundandinstallationartistRichardChartierandcuratorElsaSmithgalldiscussingtheroleofsoundinChartier’swork;andagallerytalkon“Bonnard’sRomanceWithNature.”5to8:30p.m.Costvariesbyactivity;registrationsuggested.PhillipsCollection,160021stSt.

NW.phillipscollection.org/phillipsafter5. ■TheNeighborhoodFarmInitiative’sthirdannualfilmfundraiserwillfeaturelocallightfareandwine,livemusicand Ian Cheney’s2010documentary“TruckFarm,”aboutaNewYorkerdeterminedtogrowhisownfoodinthecity.6:30to9p.m.$20.LetelierTheater,3251ProspectSt.NW.neighborhoodfarminitiative.org.

Performances ■StudentsattendingtheEnergizersCreativeArtsCampwillperform.7p.m.$10;$5forages17andyounger.DancePlace,32258thSt.NE.202-269-1600.Theperfor-mancewillrepeatFridayat7p.m. ■TheTopazHotelBar’sweeklystand-upshowwillfeaturelocalcomics.8to10p.m.Free.1733NSt.NW.202-393-3000.

Tour ■AparkrangerwillleadvisitorsonatouroftheOldStoneHouseasseenthroughtheeyesofapre-Revolutionarywoman.10a.m.Free.OldStoneHouse,3051MSt.NW.202-426-6851.

Friday,Aug.12

Children’s program ■ArtistMaryannePollockwillpresenta“MakeYourOwnSuperhero”workshop(forchildrenages6through12).1p.m.Free.PetworthNeighborhoodLibrary,4200KansasAve.NW.202-243-1188.

Concerts ■JulienGirardofPariswillpresentan

organrecital.12:15p.m.Free.NationalCityChristianChurch,5ThomasCircleNW.202-797-0103. ■The“JazzintheGarden”serieswillfeaturejazzvibraphonistChuckRedd.5to8:30p.m.Free.SculptureGarden,NationalGalleryofArt,7thStreetandConstitutionAvenueNW.202-737-4215. ■TheU.S.ArmyConcertBandwillper-formselectionsfrom“TheSoundofMusic”and“TheKingandI.”8p.m.Free.WestSteps,U.S.Capitol.703-696-3399.

Discussions and lectures ■U.S.BotanicGardenbotanistKyleWallickwilldiscuss“FabulousFabaceae.”Noonto1p.m.Free;reservationsrequired.ConservatoryClassroomandTerrace,U.S.BotanicGarden,100MarylandAve.SW.202-225-1116. ■Panelistswilldiscuss“JewsandtheLawinModernEurope:Emancipation,Destruction,Reconstruction.”2to4p.m.Free;reservationsrequired.RubinsteinAuditorium,U.S.HolocaustMemorialMuseum,100RaoulWallenbergPlaceSW.ushmm.org/events/summerworkshop2011.

Festival ■RestorationChurchwillhostaTurtleParkblockpartyfeaturingmoonbounces,facepainting,popcorn,snowcones,hotdogsandmusic.6:30to8p.m.Free.FriendshipRecreationCenter,45thandVanNessstreetsNW.

Films ■“FridayTeenFilmfest”willfeaturethe1987film“Spaceballs,”starringMelBrooksandJohnCandy.2p.m.Free.ChevyChaseNeighborhoodLibrary,5625ConnecticutAve.NW.202-282-0021. ■The16thannualMadeinHongKongFilmFestivalwillfeatureAlexLaw’s2009film“EchoesoftheRainbow,”aboutafamilyin1960sHongKong.7p.m.Free.MeyerAuditorium,FreerGalleryofArt,JeffersonDriveand12thStreetSW.202-633-1000.The film will be shown again Sunday at 2 p.m.

Performances ■The“Live!onWoodrowWilsonPlaza”serieswillfeature“BestofSpokenWord,”hostedbyPoem-Cees.Noonto1:30p.m.Free.RonaldReaganBuildingandInternationalTradeCenter,1300PennsylvaniaAve.NW.202-312-1300. ■MetroDCDanceswillfeatureRasMikeyC,SilkRoadDanceCompany,NewSchoolofDanceArts,CapitolMovementDanceandMayzsoul.7:30p.m.Free.CarterBarronAmphitheatre,16thStreetandColoradoAvenueNW.202-426-0486.

Sporting event ■TheWashingtonMysticswillplaytheNewYorkLiberty.7p.m.$10to$300.VerizonCenter,601FSt.NW.202-397-7328.

Saturday,Aug.13

Children’s program ■ArtistMaryannePollockwillpresenta“MakeYourOwnSuperhero”workshop(forchildrenages6through12).2p.m.Free.MartinLutherKingJr.MemorialLibrary,901GSt.NW.202-727-0321.

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Friday, auguST 12■Concert:ElectricJunkyardGamelanwillperformbandleaderTerryDame’soriginalgroove-drivenmusiconself-inventedinstruments,suchasanelectricrubberbandharpandcopperpipehorn.6p.m.Free.MillenniumStage,KennedyCenter.202-467-4600.

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willpresentanall-levelsyogaclassforages12andolder.8:30to9:30a.m.Free.Courtyard,BroadBranchMarket,5608BroadBranchRoadNW.202-686-1104. ■MarilouDonahuewillleadaseminaron“ImproveYourSpeakingVoice.”10a.m.tonoon.$45.FirstClassInc.,172620thSt.NW.202-797-5102.

Concerts ■TheWashingtonPerformingArtsSociety’sMenandWomenoftheGospelChoirwillperform.6p.m.Free.MillenniumStage,KennedyCenter.202-467-4600. ■SingerNancyScimonewillperformjazzselections.7:30to11:30p.m.Free.BlueBarLounge,HenleyParkHotel,926MassachusettsAve.NW.202-638-5200.

Films ■“RecoveredTreasure:UCLA’sAnnualFestivalofPreservation”willfeatureDouglasSirk’s1948film“Sleep,MyLove,”at12:30p.m.;andRobertAltman’s1982film“ComeBacktotheFiveandDime,JimmyDean,JimmyDean,”at2:30p.m.Free.EastBuildingAuditorium,NationalGalleryofArt,4thStreetandConstitutionAvenueNW.202-737-4215.

Performances ■TheyoungartistsofPasoNuevoandtheSummerYouthProgramwillpresenttwooriginalproductions,“LaFamiliaLobato”and“YoungandCorrupted.”7p.m.Free.GALATheatre,333314thSt.NW.202-234-7174. ■The“CultureShockEastCoastDanceConcert2011”willfeatureCultureShock,FutureShock,MightyShockandAftaShock.7:30p.m.Free.CarterBarronAmphitheatre,16thStreetandColoradoAvenueNW.202-426-0486.

Sporting event ■D.C.UnitedwillplaytheVancouverWhitecaps.7:30p.m.$23to$52.RFKMemorialStadium,2400EastCapitolSt.SE.202-397-7328.

Walks and tours ■AbustourwillvisitD.C.locationsusedasbackdropsinmorethan50televisionshowsandmovies,including“TheExorcist,”“TheWestWing”and“WeddingCrashers.”10a.m.$34;reservationsrequired.TourdepartsfromalocationnearUnionStation.800-979-3370. ■RoccoZappone,anativeWashingtonianandfreelancewriter,willleadaninteractive“WalkingTourasPersonalEssay,”filledwithhisreminiscencesandimpressionsofa

lifetimeinD.C.10a.m.orbyappointment.$25.MeetatthestatueofAndrewJacksoninLafayetteSquare,16thandHstreetsNW.202-341-5208. ■DumbartonHousewillpresent“Mr.Nourse’sGeorgetownNeighborhoodc.1810,”ledbytourguideDwayneStarlin.10:30to11:30a.m.$10;freeforages3andyounger.MeetatDumbartonHouse,2715QSt.NW.202-337-2288. ■ACivilWar-themedtourofTudorPlacewillfocusonthelivesofthepredominantlySouthern-sympathizingPeterfamily,whichopenedaboardinghouseforUnionofficersandtheirfamiliesduringthewar,at10:30a.m.;andawalkingtourofGeorgetownwillpointoutthefinalrestingplaceofthreerenownedCivilWarspies,aUnionhospital,theresidencesofmilitaryleadersandaneighborhoodofenslavedandfreeAfrican-Americans,at12:30p.m.$10foronetour;$15forboth.TudorPlaceHistoricHouseandGarden,164431stSt.NW.202-965-0400. ■Aparkrangerwillleadages8andolderonawalkthroughGeorgetowntotheFrancisScottKeyMemorial.Noon.Free.OldStoneHouse,3051MSt.NW.202-426-6851. ■Aparkrangerwillleada“TragedyontheCanal”walkingtour,abouttragiceventsthathavehauntedtheC&OCanalsinceitsverybeginnings.12:15p.m.Free.C&OCanalNationalHistoricalParkVisitorCenter,1057ThomasJeffersonSt.NW.202-653-5190. ■Aparkrangerwillleadages7andolderonahikeandexplainhowtoidentifycommonparktrees.2p.m.Free.RockCreekNatureCenter,5200GloverRoadNW.202-895-6070.

Sunday,Aug.14

Children’s program ■Childrenages5andolderwilllistentoastoryaboutAmericantrackstarWilmaRudolphandcreateaspecialpieceofart.2to5p.m.Free.NationalPortraitGallery,8thandFstreetsNW.202-633-1000.

Concerts ■TheweeklySteelDrummerSundaysconcertserieswillfeatureLennardJack.Noonto3p.m.Free.Plaza,TheWashingtonHarbour,3050KSt.NW.202-295-5007. ■TheensembleGamelanWrhatnalaUSAwillperforminhonorofIndonesianIndependenceDay.6p.m.Free.MillenniumStage,KennedyCenter.202-467-4600. ■DahlakRestaurantwillhostitsweekly“DCJazzJam”session.6:30to9:30p.m.Free.1771USt.NW.202-527-9522. ■TheSongwritersAssociationofWashingtonandBusboysandPoetswillpresentanopen-miceventforsinger/song-writers.7to9:30p.m.$3.CullenRoom,BusboysandPoets,10255thSt.NW.202-387-7638.

Discussions and lectures ■RobertSokol,directorofstrategicpro-gramsattheWashingtonNationalCathedral,willdiscuss“StrategicPlanning:Realizing

theVision.”10:10a.m.Free.WashingtonNationalCathedral,MassachusettsandWisconsinavenuesNW.202-537-6200. ■NationalGalleryofArtlecturerSallyShelburnewilldiscuss“ItalianFuturism:ExpressingtheEnergyoftheModernWorld.”2p.m.Free.EastBuildingAuditorium,NationalGalleryofArt,4thStreetandConstitutionAvenueNW.202-737-4215. ■PoliticsandProsewillhostaninforma-tionalsessiononhowtodownloadaGoogleeBookthroughthestore’swebsite.5p.m.Free;reservationsrequired.PoliticsandProse,[email protected].

Films ■“RecoveredTreasure:UCLA’sAnnualFestivalofPreservation”willfeaturethreeepisodesofNBC’s1950stelevisionshow“ThisIsYourLife”aboutwomenwhosur-vivedtheHolocaust.4:30p.m.Free.EastBuildingAuditorium,NationalGalleryofArt,

4thStreetandConstitutionAvenueNW.202-737-4215. ■The“Focus-In!CinemaforaConsciousCommunity”serieswillfeatureMichaelMadsen’s2010documentary“IntoEternity,”aboutthesafetyofnuclearstor-age.8to10p.m.Free.LangstonRoom,BusboysandPoets,202114thSt.NW.202-387-7638.

Walks and tours ■Aparkrangerwillleada“DumbartonOaksSummerStroll”forages8andolder.10a.m.Free.RStreetbetween30thand31ststreetsNW.202-895-6070. ■Aparkrangerwillleada“GeorgetownInandOut”walkingtour,abouthowthearea’stransportationsystemevolvedover.12:15p.m.Free.C&OCanalNationalHistoricalParkVisitorCenter,1057ThomasJeffersonSt.NW.202-653-5190. ■Aparkrangerwilldiscusshowtheciti-zensofGeorgetownhavehelpedwareffortsthroughoutAmericanhistory.2p.m.Free.GeorgetownWaterfrontPark,WisconsinAvenueandKStreetNW.202-895-6070.

Monday,Aug.15

Concerts ■The“Live!onWoodrowWilsonPlaza”serieswillfeaturevocalistAngelaGordon.Noonto1:30p.m.Free.RonaldReaganBuildingandInternationalTradeCenter,1300PennsylvaniaAve.NW.202-312-1300. ■NewOrleanssinger/songwriterMiaBorderswillper-formaspartofMillenniumStage’s“HappyHour”series.6p.m.Free.GrandFoyer,KennedyCenter.202-467-4600. ■TheU.S.NavyConcertBandwillper-form.8p.m.Free.WestSteps,U.S.Capitol.

202-433-2525.

Films ■The“MarvelousMovieMondays”serieswillfeatureCurtisHanson’s2000film“WonderBoys,”basedonanovelbyMichaelChabon.2p.m.Free.ChevyChaseNeighborhoodLibrary,5625ConnecticutAve.NW.202-282-0021. ■“Climate.Culture.Change”willfeaturePeterWedel’s2009film“TheBill”andHansWreckmeister’s1920silentfilm“Algol—TragedyofPower.”AlexOchs,energyandcli-mateprogramdirectorattheWorldwatchInstitute,willintroducetheprogram.6:30p.m.$7.Goethe-Institut,8127thSt.NW.202-289-1200,ext.160. ■TheScreenontheGreenfestivalwillfeatureStuartRosenberg’s1967film“CoolHandLuke,”star-ringPaulNewman,GeorgeKennedy,StrotherMartinandJ.D.Cannon.8p.m.Free.NationalMallbetween12thand14thstreets.877-262-5866.

Tour ■AU.S.BotanicGardenvolunteerwillleadalunchtimetouroftheconservatoryanddiscussconnectionsbetweenexoticplantsandeverydaylife.Noonto1p.m.Free.ConservatoryGardenCourt,U.S.BotanicGarden,100MarylandAve.SW.202-225-1116. The tour will repeat Aug. 22 and 29 at noon.

Tuesday,Aug.16

Children’s program ■“Japan-in-a-Suitcase”willfeaturehands-onactivities,demonstrationsandsto-ries(forchildrenages7through12).2p.m.Free.GeorgetownNeighborhoodLibrary,3260RSt.NW.202-727-0232.

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Monday, auguST 15■Discussion: RoryStewartwilldiscusshisbook“CanInterventionWork?”7p.m.Free.PoliticsandProse,5015ConnecticutAve.NW.202-364-1919.

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willleadaweeklyyogaclass.Noon.Free.WathaT.Daniel-ShawNeighborhoodLibrary,16307thSt.NW.202-727-1288. ■ForbesRobbinBlairwillleadasemi-naron“TheGenieWithin:UsingtheLawofAttraction.”6:30to8:30p.m.$45.FirstClassInc.,172620thSt.NW.202-797-5102.

Concerts ■TheHarbourKidsconcertserieswillfea-tureMr.KnickKnack.10:30a.m.tonoon.Free.Plaza,TheWashingtonHarbour,3050KSt.NW.202-295-5007. ■The“Live!onWoodrowWilsonPlaza”serieswillfeatureMythicaperformingCeltic,folkandrootsmusic.Noonto1:30p.m.Free.RonaldReaganBuildingandInternationalTradeCenter,1300PennsylvaniaAve.NW.202-312-1300. ■TheEbonyHillbillies,astringbandthat

mixestraditionalandoriginalsongs,willper-form.6p.m.Free.MillenniumStage,KennedyCenter.202-467-4600. ■TheU.S.NavyBandwillperform.8p.m.Free.U.S.NavyMemorial,701PennsylvaniaAve.NW.202-737-2300. ■TheU.S.ArmyBandwillpresentitsannual“Overture1812”concert.8p.m.Free.SylvanTheater,WashingtonMonumentgrounds,15thStreetandIndependenceAvenueSW.703-696-3399. ■TheU.S.AirForceConcertBandandSingingSergeantswillpresent“AroundtheWorldinEightyMinutes.”8p.m.Free.WestSteps,U.S.Capitol.202-767-5658.

Discussions and lectures ■TheWestEndBookClubwilldiscussHarperLee’sPulitzerPrize-winningnovel“ToKillaMockingbird.”12:30p.m.Free.WestEndNeighborhoodLibrary,110124thSt.NW.202-724-8707. ■JenniferClosewilldiscusshernovel“GirlsinWhiteDresses.”7p.m.Free.PoliticsandProse,5015ConnecticutAve.NW.202-364-1919.

Film ■Aseriesofscreeningsbasedon“AFI’s100Years…100Movies”listwillfeatureNo.81—StanleyKubrick’s1960film “Spartacus,”starringKirkDouglas,Laurence

Olivier,CharlesLaughtonandJeanSimmons.5p.m.Free.GeorgetownNeighborhoodLibrary,3260RSt.NW.202-727-0232.

Performances ■LocalcomedianWayneManigowillhostaweeklycomedyshowfeaturinglocalcomics.8to10:30p.m.Free.RASRestaurant&Lounge,4809GeorgiaAve.NW.202-291-2906. ■BusboysandPoetswillhost“TuesdayNightOpenMic,”aweeklypoetryevent.9to11p.m.$4.LangstonRoom,BusboysandPoets,202114thSt.NW.202-387-7638.

Sporting event ■TheWashingtonNationalswillplaytheCincinnatiReds.7:05p.m.$5to$350.NationalsPark,1500SouthCapitolSt.SE.888-632-6287.The series will continue Wednesday and Thursday at 7:05 p.m.

Support ■RecoveryInternationalwillhostagroupdiscussionforpeoplesufferingfromstress,anxiety,panic,depression,sleepproblems,anger,fearandothermental,ner-vousoremotionalproblems.7p.m.Free.ChevyChaseCommunityCenter,5601ConnecticutAve.NW.202-364-2680.The group meets every Tuesday.

Wednesday,Aug.17

Children’s programs ■ArtistMaryannePollockwillpresent“MakeYourOwnSuperhero”workshop(forchildrenages6through12).1p.m.Free.PalisadesNeighborhoodLibrary,4901VSt.NW.202-282-3139. ■MothersandsonswilllistentoAesop’sfableswhilemakingbreaddough(forchil-drenages6andolder).4p.m.Free;reserva-tionsrequired.ClevelandParkNeighborhoodLibrary,3310ConnecticutAve.NW.202-282-3080.

Classes ■HousingCounselingServices,alocalnonprofit,willpresentaforeclosure-preven-tionclinictohelphomeownersindangerof

losingtheirhomes.Noon.Free.Suite100,241017thSt.NW.202-667-7712. ■DavidBourgeoiswillleadaseminaron“GettingPaidtoTalk:AnIntrotoProfessionalVoice-Overs.”6:30to9p.m.$45.FirstClassInc.,172620thSt.NW.202-797-5102.

Concerts ■The“Live!onWoodrowWilsonPlaza”serieswillfeatureaconcertofoperaarias.Noonto1:30p.m.Free.RonaldReaganBuildingandInternationalTradeCenter,1300PennsylvaniaAve.NW.202-312-1300. ■DanielBoucherofBristol,Conn.,willper-formFrench-CanadianfiddlemusicaspartoftheAmericanFolklifeCenter’sconcertseries.Noon.Free.CoolidgeAuditorium,ThomasJeffersonBuilding,LibraryofCongress,101stSt.SE.202-707-5510. ■FiddlerDanielBoucherwillperform.6p.m.Free.MillenniumStage,KennedyCenter.202-467-4600. ■TheHarbourNightsconcertserieswillfeatureJoshBurgess.7to9p.m.Free.Plaza,TheWashingtonHarbour,3050KSt.NW.202-295-5007. ■TheU.S.MarineBandwillperformworksbyJohnPhilipSousa,NicolaiRimsky-KorsakovandHermanBellstedt.8p.m.Free.WestTerrace,U.S.Capitol.202-433-4011.

Discussions and lectures ■WillKaufmanwilldiscusshisbook“WoodyGuthrie,AmericanRadical.”Noon.Free.NationalPortraitGallery,8thandFstreetsNW.202-633-1000. ■WhitneyA.J.Robertson,collectionsassistantatDumbartonHouse,willdiscussan18th-centuryvalanceownedbytheNoursefamilythatfeaturesaprintcelebrat-ingGeorgeWashingtonandBenjaminFranklin.12:30p.m.Free.DumbartonHouse,2715QSt.NW.202-337-2288. ■KevinLowtherwilldiscusshisbook“TheAfricanAmericanOdysseyofJohnKizell:ASouthCarolinaSlaveReturnstoFighttheSlaveTradeinHisAfricanHomeland.”6:30to8p.m.Free.LangstonRoom,BusboysandPoets,202114thSt.NW.202-387-7638. ■DonPeckwilldiscusshisbook“Pinched:HowtheGreatRecessionHasNarrowedOurFuturesandWhatWeCanDoAboutIt.”7p.m.Free.PoliticsandProse,5015ConnecticutAve.NW.202-364-1919.

Films ■“MovieNight”willfeatureKevinMacdonald’s2011film“TheEagle,”aboutayoungRomansoldierwhoseekstohonorhisfather’smemorybyfind-inghislostlegion’sgoldenemblem.6p.m.Free.JuanitaE.Thornton/ShepherdParkNeighborhoodLibrary,7420GeorgiaAve.NW.202-541-6100. ■TheFrenchCinémathèqueserieswillfeatureMarcDugain’s2010film“AnOrdinaryExecution,”aboutthelastdaysofJosephStalin.8p.m.$11;$9forstudents;$8.25forseniors;$8forages12andyounger.AvalonTheatre,5612ConnecticutAve.NW.202-966-6000.

Meditation ■TheDivineScienceChurchwilloffera

weeklyhourofsilentmeditation.Noon.Free.202535thSt.NW.202-333-7630.

Thursday,Aug.18

Children’s programs ■“Japan-in-a-Suitcase”willfeaturehands-onactivities,demonstrationsandsto-ries(forchildrenages7through12).2p.m.Free.ClevelandParkNeighborhoodLibrary,3310ConnecticutAve.NW.202-282-3080. ■Aparkrangerwillleadaplanetariumpresentationon“OasisinSpace”(forchil-drenages5andolder).4p.m.Free.RockCreekNatureCenter,5200GloverRoadNW.202-895-6070.

Concerts ■PookieHudson’sSpanielswillperformdoo-wopmusic.Noonto1:30p.m.Free.RonaldReaganBuildingandInternationalTradeCenter,1300PennsylvaniaAve.NW.202-312-1300. ■BraziliansingersTiêandTulipaRuizwillperform.6p.m.Free.MillenniumStage,KennedyCenter.202-467-4600. ■VocalistHeidiMartinwillperformworksbyGeorgeGershwin.6:30p.m.$12inadvance;$15atthedoor.DumbartonHouse,2715QSt.NW.202-337-2288. ■TheU.S.MarineBandwillperformworksbyJohnPhilipSousa,NicolaiRimsky-KorsakovandHermanBellstedt.8p.m.Free.SylvanTheater,WashingtonMonumentgrounds,15thStreetandIndependenceAvenueSW.202-433-4011.

Discussions and lectures ■AparkrangerwilldiscusshowpeopleovertheyearscherishedtheOldStoneHousewhethertheylivedthereorownedabusiness.Noon.Free.OldStoneHouse,3051MSt.NW.202-426-6851. ■WillardSterneRandallwilldiscusshisbook“EthanAllen:HisLifeandTimes.”7p.m.Free.PoliticsandProse,5015ConnecticutAve.NW.202-364-1919. ■ChristineO’Donnellwilldiscussherbook“Troublemaker:Let’sDoWhatItTakestoMakeAmericaGreatAgain.”7p.m.Free.Barnes&Noble,55512thSt.NW.202-347-0176. ■TheGeorgetownBookClubwilldis-cuss“TheEvolutionofBrunoLittlemore”byBenjaminHale.7:30p.m.Free.GeorgetownNeighborhoodLibrary,3260RSt.NW.202-727-0232.

Films ■TheNationalArchiveswillpresentshortfilmscreatedbyWaltDisneyfortheU.S.government,including1942’s“OutoftheFryingPanIntotheFiringLine,”1943’s“Water,FriendorEnemy”and1943’s“TheGrainThatBuilttheEmpire.”Noon.Free.McGowanTheater,NationalArchivesBuilding,PennsylvaniaAvenuebetween7thand9thstreetsNW.202-357-5000. ■“Shakespeare’sGlobeLondonCinemaSeries”willfeature“HenryIVPart2.”6:30p.m.$12.50.AMCMazzaGallerie,5300WisconsinAve.NW.fathomevents.com.

Special event ■“PhillipsAfter5”willfeatureaperfor-mancebytheD.C.-baseddancecompanyStepAfrika!andatalkonthetechniquesJacobLawrenceusedtocreate“TheMigrationSeries.”6to8:30p.m.Donationsuggested.PhillipsCollection,160021stSt.NW.phillipscollection.org/phillipsafter5.

Sporting event ■TheWashingtonMysticswillplaytheMinnesotaLynx.7p.m.$10to$300.VerizonCenter,601FSt.NW.202-397-7328.

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Tuesday, auguST 16■Discussion: TheCenterforInquiryDCwillpresentmagicianPennJillettediscussinghisbook“God,No!SignsYouMayAlreadyBeanAtheistandOtherMagicalTales.”7p.m.$15to$35.LisnerAuditorium,GeorgeWashingtonUniversity,73021stSt.NW.202-397-7328.

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“Portraiture Now: Asian American Portraits of Encounter,” highlighting the work of seven artists who interpret the Asian-American

experience, will open Friday at the National Portrait Gallery and continue through Oct. 14, 2012.

Located at 8th and F streets NW, the gallery is open daily from 11:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. 202-633-1000.■ “Whispers of Palestine: Photography by Bassima Mustafa,” featuring images made when the New Jersey artist revisited her family’s olive groves in Palestine dur-ing the summer of 2004, will open Friday at the Jerusalem Fund Gallery and continue through Sept. 23.

An opening reception will take place Friday from 6 to 8 p.m.

Located at 2425 Virginia Ave. NW, the gallery is open Monday through Friday from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. 202-338-1958.

■ “Gun Show,” artist John James Anderson’s dissec-tion of the contentious gun-control debate, will open Friday at Washington Project for the Arts and con-tinue through Sept. 2. An opening reception will take place Friday from 6 to 8 p.m. Located at 2023 Massachusetts Ave. NW, the gal-lery is open Monday through Friday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. 202-234-7103.

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and there’s a default and the mar-kets freeze on you, how do you keep revenue coming to the District of Columbia?” Norton said. “We would have faced a situation where we could not borrow and we would go to the control board again. And not because we’re not fiscally unhealthy.” Norton blamed the recent poten-tial default on Republicans who demanded what she said were unreasonable spending cuts while refusing to raise taxes. A compro-mise reduced the level of immedi-ate cuts while establishing a com-mittee to identify further ways to reduce expenditures, but Norton said any large-scale cuts would hurt the D.C. economy, which depends heavily on federal spending. “It’s really going to hit this

region and this city badly,” she said. “This region has done better than most of the country because the federal government has been spend-ing in this region.” Norton also told residents that federal control over the District’s budget offers Congress the ability to dictate local laws, which legisla-tors have already done in terms of gun control, school vouchers and abortion rights. “Everything is in danger,” she said. “They could try to put marriage on there. Anything controversial, they could try to do.” The federal government also controls much of the open space in the District through the National Park Service, which complicates local initiatives, Norton said. She recently secured support from some of her voting colleagues in Congress to require the Park Service to con-sider tailoring its policies for local jurisdictions, she said. Because guidelines are applied

to all Park Service property nation-wide, the District often misses out on opportunities that make sense in an urban setting, said Norton. For instance, she said, the public golf courses in the District could be refurbished if the Park Service would allow a public-private part-nership. Also, rigid rules have made it difficult to install Capital Bikeshare stations on the National Mall and to redesign the Ward Circle traffic pattern, she said. In response to questions from community members, Norton iden-tified one possible silver lining to the federal budget crisis: Many neighbors have expressed concern over plans to expand the Homeland Security facility on Nebraska Avenue, but Norton said the con-gressional mood is discouraging nonessential spending. “Don’t worry, nobody’s going to be building anything there for a very long time,” she said.

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facilities. Taylor has even prepared for the multiple-pet owner: Three cages — small, medium and large — will be available should a cus-tomer need a place for one pooch to rest while the other is bathed. “I really see a need in D.C. because there’s really nothing like it that’s only self-serve,”

said Taylor, noting that other facilities that offer similar services are attached to pet stores or other operations. “My mission is to be strictly self-serve.” The Doggie Washerette will be open 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Saturday and noon to 8 p.m. Sunday. A grand opening will begin Saturday at 10 a.m.

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“Molotov cocktail.” Investigators are working to determine whether the bottle has any connection to the car fires. The meeting’s discussion got heated when one resident asked Ellerbe about a surveillance video a neighbor took July 6, showing two people near the scene of the fires. Residents wanted to know if city officials were reviewing the video for evidence, and whether still images from the tape could be circulated to the public to help determine the suspects’ identities. Ellerbe declined to confirm whether a video had been entered into evidence, explaining that he didn’t want to compromise the ongoing investigation. He also warned residents against circulat-ing images of people captured on the video, because it could be con-sidered defamation and could derail a prosecutor’s case in a courtroom. To those who had already seen the surveillance tape, Ellerbe said, “If you can see and identify people in the video, then share that with investigators.” Residents also raised concerns that some adults in the neighbor-hood claim to have heard teenagers bragging about the fire, but are choosing not to share that informa-tion with investigators. Expressing a level of anxiety shared by many in the room, one

resident said, “I’m concerned that it will happen again — and that it will escalate.” Attendees were interested in knowing not only what city offi-cials were doing, but what they as a community could do to help. Some offered to help fund a reward for information related to the crime, and by the meeting’s end plans were in motion to set up that reward through the D.C. Crime Solvers line at 800-673-2777. Ellerbe encouraged anyone with information about the fires to call the tip line, noting that they could do so anonymously. Tips can also be submitted via text by sending a message to 50411. Officials will continue to can-vass the neighborhood as the inves-tigation continues, he said. Moving forward, Ellerbe told residents the best thing they can do is, “Pay attention to your neighbor-hood. Join the Neighborhood Watch. Be vigilant.” Karen Schaar Whale, director of the Palisades Neighborhood Watch, announced at the meeting that the group still needs block captains. The Palisades has more than 200 blocks, she said, but only 30 have block captains or co-captains. Slover of the citizens associa-tion said the meeting helped make clear what residents should and should not do to assist with the ongoing investigation. “It’s a nice glimpse into how this neighborhood comes together for important issues in the commu-nity,” he said.

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and Thursday; 8 p.m. Saturday; and 3 p.m. Sunday. Tickets cost $45, with certain discounts available. The Washington DC Jewish Community Center is located at 1529 16th St. NW. 202-777-3230; theaterj.org. ■ The Longacre Lea theater company will present the world premiere of Kathleen Akerley’s “Something Past in Front of the Light” at Catholic University’s Callan Theatre Aug. 10 through Sept. 4. What would you do if the devil wanted to collabo-rate with you on a documentary film about himself? Would you fear for your soul, or just your artistic integrity? Performance times are 7:30 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday. Tickets cost $15 to $18, with discounts for students and seniors. The Callan Theatre is located at 3801 Harewood Road NE. 202-460-2188; longacrelea.org. ■ Studio 2ndStage will continue an extended run of the new Andy Warhol musical “Pop!” through Aug. 21. Who shot Andy Warhol? This musical murder-mystery extravaganza — featuring book and lyrics by Maggie-Kate Coleman and music by Anna K. Jacobs — re-creates the freewheeling atmosphere of Warhol’s infamous Factory, complete with a cast of colorful characters. Performance times are 8:30 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday and 7:30 p.m. Sunday. Tickets cost $38 to $43. Studio Theatre is located at 1501 14th St. NW. 202-332-3300; studiotheatre.org.■ The Mead Theatre Lab at Flashpoint will present Henry Mills and Stephen Fleg’s world premiere of “Underwater Poems” Aug. 12 through 20. “Underwater Poems” integrates music, poetry and theater in a room filled with amplifiers, creating an elegy for a lost friend who found joy in music and poetry. Performance times are 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday. Tickets cost $10. The theater is located at 916 G St. NW. 866-811-4111; flashpointdc.org.■ The GLBT Arts Consortium and Capitol Hill Arts Workshop will close “D.H.S. Pinafore” — a Department of Homeland Security-focused rendition of “H.M.S. Pinafore” — through Aug. 13. Performance times are 7 p.m. Thursday through Saturday and 3 p.m. Saturday. Tickets cost $10 to $20. The Capitol Hill Arts Workshop is located at 545 7th St. SE. 202-547-6839; chaw.org.■ Charlie Fink is staging two new musicals at Woolly Mammoth. “Who’s Your Baghdaddy or How I Started the Iraq War,” featuring singing and dancing CIA agents, will close Aug. 13. “F#@king Up Everything,” a Brooklyn-based rock comedy, will close Aug. 14. The shows are running in repertory, with the for-mer at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday and the latter at 5 and 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 5 p.m. Sunday. Tickets cost $17 to $25. Woolly Mammoth is located at 641 D St. NW. whoisyourbaghdaddy.com.■ Scena Theatre will close Oscar Wilde’s “The Importance of Being Earnest” Aug. 14 at the H Street Playhouse.

Thanks to carefully crafted double lives, Jack and Algy have it all — until love and marriage enter the equation. Jack loves Gwendolyn. Algy loves Cecily. Yet both women insist on marrying the elusive man who is “Earnest.” After “true” identities are revealed, will all live happily ever after? Performance times are 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday. Tickets cost $16 to $40. The H Street Playhouse is located at 1365 H St. NE. 703-683-2824; scenatheater.org.■ Bruce Norris’ “Clybourne Park,” the recipient of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, will close at Woolly Mammoth Aug. 14. Performance times are 8 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday, 3 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, and 7:30 p.m. Sunday. Ticket prices start at $30. Woolly Mammoth is located at 641 D St. NW. 202-393-3939; woollymammoth.net.■ Shakespeare Theatre Company will present “Julius Caesar” Aug. 18 through Sept. 4 at Sidney Harman Hall as its annual “Free for All” production. Performance times are 7:30 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday; 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday; and 2 p.m. Sunday. Free tickets can be reserved through either an online ticket lottery the day before each show or the box office two hours before the perfor-mance. Season subscribers and Friends of Free for All members may reserve tickets in advance. Sidney Harman Hall is located at 610 F St. NW. 202-547-1122; shakespearetheatre.org.■ Constellation Theatre Company is remounting “The Ramayana” through Aug. 21 at Source. Performance times are 8 p.m. Thursday through Sunday and 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, as well as at 8 p.m. Monday, Aug. 15. Tickets cost $20 to $35. Source is located at 1835 14th St. NW. 202-204-7741; constellationtheatre.org.■ Keegan Theatre is presenting Robert Harling’s “Steel Magnolias” through Aug. 21 at the Church Street Theater. Performance times are 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday. Tickets cost $30 to $35. The Church Street Theater is located at 1742 Church St. NW. 703-892-0202; keegantheatre.com.■ The Kennedy Center is hosting the hit Broadway musical “Wicked” through Aug. 21. Performance times generally are 7:30 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday and 1:30 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Tickets cost $37 to $250. 202-467-4600; kennedy-center.org.■ Sydney Theatre Company is presenting Anton Chekhov’s “Uncle Vanya,” starring Cate Blanchett, through Aug. 27 at the Kennedy Center. Performance times generally are 7:30 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday and 1:30 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Tickets cost $59 to $120. 202-467-4600; kennedy-center.org.■ Arena Stage is offering a summertime run of last year’s hit production of “Oklahoma!” through Oct. 2 in the Fichandler Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater. Performance times generally are 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Wednesday and Sunday; 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday; and 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Ticket prices start at $45, with certain discounts avail-able. Arena Stage is located at 1101 6th St. SW. 202-488-3300; arenastage.org.

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■ “The Character of Chevy Chase,” highlighting six Chevy Chase artists who all work in more than one medium, opened recently at Zenith Gallery, where it will continue through Sept. 10. Featured are artists Kim Abraham, Harmon Biddle, Deborah Brisker Burk, Lou Kaplan, Carol Gellner Levin and Joan Samworth. An artists’ reception will take place today from 6 to 8:30 p.m.

Located on the second floor of the Chevy Chase Pavilion, 5335 Wisconsin Ave. NW, the gallery is open Wednesday through Saturday from noon to 6 p.m. 202-783-2963.■ “Mexico Through the Lens of National Geographic,” featuring 132 photographs of Mexico culled from articles published in National Geographic magazine over the last 100 years, opened recently at the Mexican Cultural Institute, where it will continue through Oct. 22. Located at 2829 16th St. NW, the institute is open Monday

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