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■ Butler lifts Gonzaga to win with clutch catch. Page 13.■ St. John’s enjoys final Fragile X tournament. Page 13.

■ Whole Foods opens latest D.C. store in Foggy Bottom. Page 6. ■ A guide to local 9/11 anniversary events. Page 3.

NEWS SPORTS■ At the National Zoo, a bug-keeper’s life. Page 15.■ Looking back: Group focused on needs of survivors of Sept. 11 attacks. Page 15.

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By BRADY HOLTCurrent Staff Writer

As the Washington National Cathedral prepares to reopen Friday, officials are seeking — and receiving — a wide array of help as they look toward a multiyear, multimillion-dollar effort to repair damage sustained in last month’s earthquake. The Washington Hebrew Congregation has hosted the Episcopal church’s Sunday services. The Catholic Archdiocese of Washington has donated $25,000 toward repairs. And even neighboring residents are pitching in with a fundraiser scheduled for tomorrow night. “It’s one more example of how the faith community of Washington has come together in support of the Cathedral,” said Ari Geller, a National Cathedral spokes-person. “For people across faiths to come together like

this is just a great thing. And certainly as we lead into the 10th anniversary of 9/11, it’s a great message.” Workers have strung netting 60 feet off the ground in the Cathedral’s central nave to prevent any falling mor-tar from hitting guests of the weekend’s events com-

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Cathedral supporters offer help after quake

Bill Petros/The CurrentOfficials say a detailed inspection of the building’s nave likely won’t take place until after Christmas.

By DEIRDRE BANNONCurrent Correspondent

Do-it-yourselfers in Petworth will soon have a new neighborhood shopping option: Annie’s Ace Hardware, set to open on Upshur Street in November. Store owner Anne Stom current-ly directs YouthBuild, an alternative education program at the U.S. Department of Labor that trains youth in skills such as construction

while they earn their high school or equivalency diploma. She plans to transition to running the hardware store full-time in the coming months. “I’m kind of known among my friends as Miss Fix-It,” she said. “I really enjoy solving problems and fixing things, and I spend a lot of my time in hardware stores.” The entrepreneur, who said her own garage doubles as a workshop, has gathered groups of friends to teach skills like how to use circular saws while building birdhouses out of wood. And after living in the

See Hardware/Page 23

Entrepreneur plans for new hardware store in Petworth

By JESSICA GOULDCurrent Staff Writer

Curbside composting. Urban fruit trees. Energy-independent homes. Have ideas about how to make D.C. a greener place? City leaders want to hear them. “I want to make the District of

Columbia the most sustainable city in America,” Mayor Vincent Gray said in a Sept. 1 release. Last week, Gray kicked off “Start in September,” a new push toward a sustainability plan for the District. As part of the effort, the city is encouraging residents to host com-munity-based discussions and sub-mit ideas to a new website at sus-tainable.dc.gov. Officials will then draw on residents’ ideas to inform

the new plan. “D.C. is a green leader in many areas, including green building, transit ridership and renewable energy,” D.C. Department of the Environment director Christophe Tulou said in the release. “But we still have plenty of room for improvement. ‘Start in September’ is an easy way for residents to sug-gest new ideas and comment on other ideas to get D.C. to the next

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D.C. kicks off sustainability effort

Bill Petros/The CurrentD.C. Council member Mary Cheh checked in last week with students at Wilson High School to see what they thought of the school system’s new salad bars, which are a result of the council’s Healthy Schools Act. See story, page 3.

S A L A D D AY S

By ELIZABETH WIENERCurrent staff writer

With Hurricane Irene long gone, a striking remnant of its fury can still be spotted around the District: big tree stumps, clinging to ragged chunks of sidewalk that have been yanked out of the ground. The saddest victims of the hurricane here, tree experts say, may be the roughly 45 mature and healthy city trees that simply toppled over under the weight of wind and water. “What’s unique about Hurricane Irene is how many complete, large trees the storm toppled: older, healthy trees with full canopies that caught the wind and were knocked down,” chief forester John Thomas said in a statement last week. Earl Eutsler, supervisory forester at the city’s Urban Forestry Administration, explained why healthy trees are the most likely to go.

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Healthy trees among Irene’s casualities

■ Environment: Initiative encourages community input

Bill Petros/The CurrentA storm-damaged trunk remained yesterday at 37th and Upton streets in North Cleveland Park, where the tree’s demise buckled the sidewalk.

■ Retail: Upshur Street shop tackles neighborhood void

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Wednesday, Sept. 7 The Ward 4 Democrats group will hold its monthly meeting, which will feature a presentation by D.C. Council Chairman Kwame Brown and an update from Ward 4 D.C. Council member Muriel Bowser. The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. at Emery Recreation Center, 5701 Georgia Ave. NW.■ The D.C. Tenants’ Advocacy Coalition will hold its regular meet-ing, which will include a tribute to the late Jeanne Williams and a discussion of the potential effect of federal budget issues on D.C. rental housing. The meeting will be held from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the Sumner School Museum, 17th and M streets NW.

Thursday, Sept. 8 The Ward 3 Advisory Neighborhood Commission Redistricting Task Force will meet at 7:30 p.m. in Room A-03, Building 44, University of the District of Columbia, 4200 Connecticut Ave. NW.

Friday, Sept. 9 The D.C. Department of Real Estate Services will hold a public meeting on the leasing of 6428 Georgia Ave. The meeting will be held from 7 to 8 p.m. at the 4th District Police Headquarters, 6001 Georgia Ave. NW.

Saturday, Sept. 10 Ward 4 Community Day, presented by Ward 4 D.C. Council member Muriel Bowser, will feature music, food and information from D.C. agencies such as the Department of Employment Services, which will provide tips on job searching and résumé writing. Organizers will also collect school supplies for Ward 4 schools. The event will be held from 1 to 4 p.m. at Illinois Avenue

and Gallatin Street NW. For details, call 202-724-8052.

Monday, Sept. 12 The D.C. Office of Cable Television will hold a public meeting to hear comments on desired public, educational and governmen-tal access programming as part of the franchise-renewal process with Comcast. The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. in the second-floor Community Room at the Reeves Center, 2000 14th St. NW.

Tuesday, Sept. 13 The D.C. Historic Preservation Office will hold a public meet-ing to discuss preparation of the city’s five-year Historic Preservation Plan. The meeting will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Sumner School Museum, 17th and M streets NW.■ The University of the District of Columbia will hold a community meeting to discuss the launch of the new UDC Community-Campus Task Force. The new group is intended to address a range of physical planning issues and to enhance communication about campus-related issues. 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 Thomas E. Redmond at 202-274-5622 or tredmond@udc.edu.

Thursday, Sept. 15 The Ward 3 Democratic Committee will meet at 7:30 p.m. at St. Columba’s Episcopal Church, 4201 Albemarle St. NW. D.C. Attorney General Irvin B. Nathan will speak on government ethics reform and answer questions from the audience. A discussion on ethics reform will follow, and the committee will consider related resolutions.

The week ahead

By BETH COPECurrent Staff Writer

There will be numerous ways to mark the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks this weekend, from panel discussions on national security to a walk through Northwest neighborhoods. Unless otherwise specified, events listed are free.

Thursday, Sept. 8■ The American University Washington College of Law will host “Ten Years After 9/11: The Changing Terrorist Threat,” a pro-gram examining current national security law issues featuring Michael Leiter, former direc-tor of the National Counterterrorism Center; Lisa Monaco, the new assistant attorney gen-eral for the Department of Justice’s National Security Division; Ivan Fong, general counsel of the Department of Homeland Security; and Washington College of Law professors Kenneth Anderson and Stephen Vladeck.

Noon to 2:30 p.m. 4801 Massachusetts Ave. NW. wcl.american.edu.

Friday, Sept. 9■ D.C. Public Schools will open an exhibit, “We Remember: Commemorating the 10th Anniversary of the 9-11 Tragedy,” at the Sumner School Museum and Archives. The exhibit, which will pay tribute to the teachers and students from Backus, Ketchum and Leckie elementary schools who were lost in the attacks, will remain open through Sept. 19. 1201 17th St. NW. september11.dc.gov.■ D.C. Public Schools will present a “Special Program of Peace, Tolerance and Remembrance” at Leckie Elementary School, honoring the three D.C. Public Schools students and three teachers and two National Geographic Society staffers killed in the 9/11 attacks. 9 to 10:30 a.m. 4201 Martin Luther King Jr. Ave. SW. september11.dc.gov.■ D.C. Public Schools will present “Global DC: Creating the Vision” at Cardozo High

School, featuring a speech by Johnnetta Cole, director of the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art; a student panel discussion; and the announcement of a new public-private initiative to advance global education in D.C. public schools. 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. 1200 Clifton St. NW. september11.dc.gov.■ Washington National Cathedral will present “A Concert to Honor,” featuring a speech by Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta and a performance of Brahms’ “Requiem” by the Marine Chamber Orchestra and U.S. Navy Band Sea Chanters, along with the Cathedral Choir, soprano Christine Brandes and baritone Eric Owens. 7:30 p.m. Massachusetts and Wisconsin avenues NW. Passes are free, but there is a $4 handling fee to reserve them at calltocompassion.com.■ The Kalb Report will present “Anchoring 9/11: The Day and the Decade,” with modera-tor Marvin Kalb delving into the decade that changed the world with a panel of network anchors who covered the chaos: Charles

Gibson, Dan Rather, Brit Hume and Frank Sesno. 8 p.m. Main Ballroom of the National Press Club, 529 14th St. NW. research.gwu.edu/centersinstitutes/globalmedia/programs/thekalbreport.

Saturday, Sept. 10■ Exhibit9 Gallery will host a “participatory experience and celebration of human spirit.” People will gather at Dupont Circle’s center park wearing plain white shirts and carrying canvases draped over their shoulders. Their backs will serve as easels, while markers are handed out and the public is invited to write on their clothes about hopes for humanity, unity, world peace and more. Once the panels have been filled, people will form a link by holding hands or twine, and music will accom-pany the moment. 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. To participate, go to exhibit9gallery.net/calendar.htm.■ The D.C. government will host “Passing of

Events around District commemorate 10th anniversary of 9/11 attacks

By DEIRDRE BANNONCurrent Correspondent

As the school year got under way, new salad-bar programs rolled out at 10 D.C. public schools as part of the “Eat More Salad” initiative, designed to comply with the city’s Healthy Schools Act, which took effect May 2010. Ward 3 D.C. Council member Mary Cheh, who authored the act, stopped by Wilson High School during the lunch period Friday to see how the new program was going. “The number of kids eating a school lunch has increased dramati-cally,” said Cheh. “The Healthy Schools Act programs are going well, and the reason I think the nutrition program is doing so well is

that the food is so much better than it was in the past.” About 40 percent of students at Wilson buy school lunch — approx-imately 700 students — and more than 100 of them flocked to the new salad bar on Friday. According to D.C. Public Schools food services director Jeff Mills, who also visited the school Friday, Wilson and Ballou High School in Southeast are leading the way in salad consumption out of the 27 schools that have the new bars, many of which were introduced over the last school year. At schools that aren’t yet participating in the program, prepackaged salads are available for purchase at the cafete-rias. “We couldn’t do all this without Mary Cheh’s support,” said Mills.

“We have healthier food, and we’re serving more students while spend-ing less money.” During the 2010-2011 school year, D.C. Public Schools served 2.5 million more meals than it had the previous school year, while spend-ing $3 million less. Mills said a number of factors contributed to this accomplishment, including serving more students, which decreased per-pupil costs. So far this year, Wilson is serv-ing the same number of students in a day that it used to serve in a week. Mills credits the bump in consump-tion to the healthy food options and new menus that incorporate more locally grown, seasonal produce. “By putting more time into pro-curement and ensuring that we’re

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9/11 service event sees record signups An overwhelming interest in the annual 9/11 Day of Service and Remembrance, sponsored by HandsOn Greater DC Cares, has already generated enough volun-teers for Saturday’s events, accord-ing to a news release, but interest-ed residents can still participate in events on Sunday. A series of service projects —

which include painting a 9/11-themed mural and writing cards to soldiers — will be avail-able from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday at Freedom Plaza, according to the organization’s website, dc-cares.org. The three-day event also includes Friday’s “corporate day of service,” for which employees are given the day off to volunteer in some way, the news release states. The event is designed to “rekindle

the spirit of service that emerged following 9/11,” the release states.

Shaw Giant to close for redevelopment A redevelopment of the O Street Market will force the closure of the Giant Food located there until 2013, but a free shuttle will transport residents to the chain’s Columbia Heights store three days a week, according to a news

release from the supermarket. The Shaw Giant, at 1414 8th St. NW, will close at 6 p.m. tomorrow, the company announced last Thursday. The shuttle bus will col-lect passengers outside the Gibson Plaza apartments, 1301 7th St. NW, at 9:30 a.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays and noon Sundays, the release states. When the new City Market at O project is complete, it will include a 72,000-square-foot Giant store to replace the existing 35,000-square-foot supermarket, according to the release.

Outdoor mart debuts in Mount Vernon area A weekly outdoor market launched Sunday at 5th and I streets NW, bringing arts and crafts, antiques, food, furniture and other goods to the Mount Vernon Square neighborhood, according to a news release. Diverse Markets Management, which successfully applied to oper-ate the new Mount Vernon Triangle Market, also manages The Flea Market at Eastern Market. In its release, the company states that it will charge vendors a third of what they would pay at that Capitol Hill location. The market will be open Sundays from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., the release says.

Pinball museum to reopen in Baltimore The National Pinball Museum closed its Georgetown location Monday in preparation for the ren-ovation of its Shops at Georgetown Park storefront, but a news release from the museum states that it will reopen in Baltimore later this year. The news release does not name the address of the new location,

where the museum hopes to be up and running “in a couple of months.” Museum founder David Silverman told The Gazette news-paper that the space is near the Inner Harbor and larger than the Georgetown location. Shops at Georgetown Park co-owner Vornado Realty told Silverman in May that he would need to leave, and according to the release, he was unable to find an affordable location in the District. The museum had been housed in the mall since December.

Plans approved for Dunbar High School The District remains on track with its plan to break ground for a new Dunbar High School this fall, as the National Capital Planning Commission issued its approval for the project last week, a news release from the commission states. The Office of Public Education Facilities Modernization expects to complete a new $122 million facil-ity by fall 2013 on the site of the school’s athletic field at 1st and N streets NW, according to Mayor Vincent Gray’s office. The 264,000-square-foot facility will be able to accommodate 1,110 students, the commission’s release states, and the District will demol-ish the existing six-story school when its replacement is complete.

Kalorama tour fetes embassies, homes Embassies, ambassadors’ homes and architecturally significant pri-vate homes in Kalorama will be open to the public Sept. 18 as part of the 27th annual Kalorama House and Embassy Tour, accord-ing to a news release. This year’s tour will newly fea-ture the home of the European Union ambassador and will return to the residence of the ambassador of Colombia, as well as the Slovenian Embassy, the Woodrow Wilson House museum and other mainstays, the release states. The event, hosted by the Woodrow Wilson House, runs from noon to 4 p.m. and costs $40 per person, with a $5 discount for groups of 10 or more. Tickets must be purchased in advance at woodrowwilsonhouse.org.

Correction Due to incorrect information supplied by the Metropolitan Police Department, The Current’s police report incorrectly listed an Aug. 25 assault at Tilden and Sedgwick streets NW as occurring in Police Service Area 205, rather than Police Service Area 203. The Current regrets the error. As a matter of policy, The Current corrects all errors of sub-stance. To report an error, please call the managing editor at 202-244-7223.

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By BRADY HOLTCurrent Staff Writer

A proposed Washington Harbour ice rink came a step closer to reality last Thursday when the Old Georgetown Board signed off on the concept of freezing the develop-ment’s large fountain to attract win-ter visitors. But the board, a subsidiary of the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, sided with the Georgetown advisory neighborhood commission and Washington Harbour’s original architect, Arthur Cotton Moore, that other proposed design changes are more questionable. MRP Realty, which bought Washington Harbour in the 3000 block of K Street in June 2010, hopes to enlarge the fountain and remove a decorative base from its central tower to make room for a Zamboni ice resurfacer to park. The changes are intended to

address the development’s “season-ality,” which representatives said causes businesses there to struggle in the winter. At 11,000 square feet, the proposed ice rink would be the District’s largest. MRP hopes to begin construction in the first half of 2012. “In the end, the board made a recommendation that it was con-ceivable to reconfigure the pool for skating, but elements of Arthur Cotton Moore’s design, like the base of the tower, should be reworked rather than removed,” said Thomas Luebke, secretary to the Fine Arts Commission. “They were willing to entertain a lot of those changes, but they just needed to see more detail,” he said of the board members. “Especially on a big project like this. This is a very significant project in Washington on the waterfront … so the level of concern is somewhat elevated.”

Georgetown board approves rink for Washington Harbour By DEIRDRE BANNON

Current Correspondent

This week more than 100 boutiques, restaurants and salons in Georgetown will participate in Fashion’s Night Out, an event that has grown sig-nificantly since its D.C. debut last year. The evening, which will celebrate local retailers with special fashion events and promotions, food, cocktails and entertainment, will take place Thursday from 6 to 11 p.m. This year’s highlights include a fashion flash

mob dance at 7 p.m., at the PNC Bank parking lot at the corner of M Street and Wisconsin Avenue; a FotoDC photo booth at the same location where you can see your portrait projected on the side of the bank building; and free pedicab rides for patrons who show a receipt from a participating retailer. Fashion’s Night Out is a local offshoot of the global shopping event created in New York City in 2009. The Georgetown Business Improvement District adopted the event last year. For details on the plans for Georgetown, go to fashionsnightoutgeorgetowndc.com.

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Northwest Business

By BETH COPECurrent Staff Writer

The priorities at the new Whole Foods grocery store in Foggy Bottom, which

opened yesterday, became clear as a media tour wound through the lower level, into a food section marked “Cooking.” It’s a reason-ably sized section — and admitted-ly, there are plenty of items else-where in the store that require pots and pans — but the main focus here at the I Street store clearly lies in the ready-to-eat areas upstairs. One of the most notable of those areas is a first-floor “restau-rant row,” as the store’s Scott Crawford calls it. Instead of walk-ing up to the counters to order pizza, sushi or sandwiches, as one would at another Whole Foods, here customers type in their requests at a row of computer kiosks. The machines let you start from scratch — customizing your slice or burger and adding a side dish or drink — or enter in your phone number to recall past orders. The phone number function also enables another feature: a text mes-

sage that indicates when your food’s ready, allowing you to shop while you wait. This section of the store also houses the self-serve organic-salad, platter and hot bars, which are familiar from other Whole Foods stores. Rounding out the top floor are other grab-and-go options: a coffee/smoothie bar, a bakery and a floral shop. “The floral department is right here when you walk in, which is optimal for the hospital,” said Kim Bryden, one of the media relations folks on hand for press tours last

Whole Foods stresses to-go in new Foggy Bottom store

A rabbi, a vegan and a duck walk into a soup bar. The rabbi and vegan are thrilled

to learn that the soups offered are

kosher and animal-product-free. And the duck? He’s just there for the comedy. That’s about the gist of Sara Polon’s new soup shop in Takoma: After several years as a stand-up comic in New York, Polon returned to her native Washington area and launched a soup business, Soupergirl. A couple years in, the project has grown so much that she’s opening a storefront space today. “We never really thoughts about going retail. But this landlord found us, and he gave us an offer we couldn’t refuse,” she said. Meanwhile, the comedy lives on, in her soup names (such as “Ratatouille — the Sequel — Rise of the Eggplant Soup”), and in sto-ries she creates to go with the

soups (This week’s begins, “As some of you know, I went to a soup-focused charter school grow-ing up … ”). “I miss it very, very much,” Polon said of her stint in comedy. Infusing humor into the soup busi-ness has eased the loss, she said, providing a creative outlet for her chuckles. Of course, not everybody gets the joke. “I wrote a story about how someone came up from Ellis Island with an immersion blender. And someone asked me if it was true. I was like, ‘No. Nooooo.’” But when it comes to her prod-uct, Polon is serious. Her ingredi-ents are mostly local and organic, and all of her soups both vegan and kosher. “I am kosher, and I feel there’s a real dearth of kosher options,” she said of the decision to subject all of her tools to a ritual cleansing and then her ingredients and kitch-en to spot checks. She’s hoping to get the word out to the Orthodox Jewish community. “We’ve really put a lot of effort into it,” she said. As for the vegan factor, that makes Soupergirl a good fit for

tree-hugging Takoma Park. (Her spot by the Metro station puts her in Takoma D.C., not Takoma Park, Md., but she’s about a block from the border.) In fact, Soupergirl was such a good fit for the spot that the land-lord courted her. “I think that her business fits the ethos of the build-ing,” said Russell Katz, who con-structed and owns the mixed-use facility, which uses geothermal heat, features a green roof and sus-tainable materials, and manages all of its storm water on site. “For the first time I was much more proac-tive with who I wanted in there.” “We said no” at first, Polon said, explaining that she was look-ing for just a commercial kitchen. “He said, ‘Give it another

Soupergirl brings vegan, kosher brews to Takoma shopping area

ON THE STREETbeth Cope

bill petros/the CurrentComic-turned-soup-slinger Sara Polon opens her shop today.

bill petros/the CurrentThe 2201 I St. market features various ready-to-eat selections, plus traditional groceries.

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Government of the District of ColumbiaVincent C. Gray, Mayor

the Peace” at Hains Point. The event is for children, who will dis-cuss the value of peace in their communities, the United States and abroad. Noon. Ohio Drive SW. september11.dc.gov.■ Washington National Cathedral will present “A Concert to Heal,” hosted by news anchor Leon Harris and featuring local performers. 1 p.m. Massachusetts and Wisconsin avenues NW. Passes are free, but there is a $4 handling fee to reserve them at calltocompassion.com. Sunday, Sept. 11■ Washington National Cathedral will present an interfaith prayer vigil. 8:30 a.m. Massachusetts and Wisconsin avenues NW. No tickets are required to participate. callto-compassion.com.■ Holy Trinity Church will hold a prayer service. 10:15 to 11:15 a.m. 36th and N streets NW.■ Washington National Cathedral will present a forum on compassion with author Karen Armstrong and Cathedral Dean Samuel T. Lloyd III. 10:15 a.m. 3101 Wisconsin Ave. NW. No tickets are required to par-ticipate. calltocompassion.com.■ Georgetown Presbyterian Church will hold a special service of remembrance, featuring a brass and percussion ensemble, choir, organ and prayers led by Army Chaplain Mark Worrell of the U.S. Army 3rd Infantry Regiment. The Rev. Camille Cook will preach on the topic “God’s bricks, our mortar.” 11 a.m. 3115 P St. NW. gtownpres.org.■ Washington National Cathedral will offer a commemorative Holy Eucharist, with Cathedral Dean Samuel T. Lloyd III preaching and Bishop of Washington John Bryson Chane presiding. 11:15 a.m. Massachusetts and Wisconsin ave-nues NW. No tickets are required to participate. calltocompassion.com.■ St. David’s Episcopal Church will hold a special service to remem-ber lives lost and to honor rescue workers, featuring Gabriel Fauré’s “Requiem.” 11:15 a.m. 5150 Macomb St. NW. stdavidsdc.org.■ The Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle will hold a special observance during the 11:30 a.m. Mass. 1725 Rhode Island Ave. NW.■ Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick, Archbishop Emeritus of the Archdiocese of Washington, will celebrate Mass at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. Noon. 400 Michigan Ave. NE. nationalshrine.com.■ HandsOn Greater DC Cares and Serve DC — the Mayor’s Office on Volunteerism will pres-ent a “Tribute to Service” event, offering participants the chance to engage in on-site projects including painting a 9/11 mural, assembling educational kits for kids and writing honor cards to military families. 1 to 4 p.m. Freedom Plaza, Pennsylvania Avenue between 13th and 14th streets NW. september11.dc.gov.■ A two-mile 9/11 Unity Walk will

start at the Sikh National Gurdwara and end at the Gandhi Memorial. 1:30 p.m. 3801 Massachusetts Ave. NW.■ A 9/11 Unity Walk will start at the Washington Hebrew Congregation at 2 p.m. Registration begins at 1 p.m., and a welcome ceremony and program begin at 1:30 p.m. The walk ends at 5 p.m. 3935 Macomb St. NW. 911unity-walk.com. ■ Washington-based poetry ensem-ble Collective Voices will present “Poems to Heal and Honor a Nation,” a poetic and musical per-formance. 2:30 p.m. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, 901 G St. NW. ■ Damien Ministries will present “An Evening of Songs and Remembrance,” commemorating

25 years of Damien Ministries’ community service and honoring the 10th anniversary of 9/11. Mezzo-soprano Denyce Graves will make a guest appearance at the concert, which will feature baritone James E. Laws Jr. and host Sam Ford of ABC7. 4 p.m. New York Avenue Presbyterian Church, 1313 New York Ave. NW. Tickets cost $25. damienministries.org.■ The First Baptist Church of the City of Washington, DC, will host “Remembering Lives Lost … Honoring First Responders,” a can-dlelight service of remembrance for D.C. residents, students, teachers and chaperones who died during the 9/11 attacks. 5 to 6:30 p.m. 1328 16th St. NW. september11.dc.gov.■ Cardinal Donald Wuerl, Archbishop of Washington, will cel-

ebrate a Mass for Peace at St. Peter Catholic Church. 5 p.m. 313 2nd St. SE.■ The West End Cinema will pres-ent “Rebirth,” a documentary that follows the nearly 10-year transfor-mation of five people whose lives were forever altered on Sept. 11, 2001, and simultaneously tracks the evolution of the space where the Twin Towers once rose. 5:45 p.m. 2301 M St. NW. Tickets cost $11 for adults, $9 for seniors and students, $8 for members of the military and children. Advance tickets are now available online and at the box office. Half of the proceeds will benefit the DC Firefighters Burn Foundation. westendcinema.com.■ Washington National Cathedral will present “A Concert for Hope,” featuring a speech by President

Barack Obama and performances by mezzo-soprano Denyce Graves, country musician Alan Jackson and R&B singer Patti LaBelle. 8 p.m. Massachusetts and Wisconsin ave-nues NW. The event is currently at capacity, but there is a waiting list. The event will also be broadcast live on the website and on ABC affili-ates. calltocompassion.com.

Monday, Sept. 12■ The National Capital Planning Commission will present “Redefining Security a Decade After 9/11,” featuring a panel of experts examining the current state of security and effective ways to balance security with good design. 6:30 to 8 p.m. Auditorium, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Ave. NW. ncpc.gov.

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This is a listing of reports taken from Aug. 28 through Sept. 4 in local police service areas.

PSA 201

Theft (below $250)■ 5500 block, Connecticut Ave.; drugstore; 10:01 a.m. Sept. 1.

PSA 202

Robbery (assault)■ 3700 block, Brandywine St.; sidewalk; 10:15 a.m. Sept. 1.Robbery (pickpocket)■ 5300 block, Wisconsin Ave.; store; 2:30 a.m. Aug. 30.Theft ($250 plus)■ 4500 block, Wisconsin Ave.; drugstore; 1:45 a.m. Sept. 2.Theft (below $250)■ 5300 block, Wisconsin Ave.; store; 2:25 a.m. Aug. 28.■ 5300 block, Wisconsin Ave.; store; 12:58 p.m. Aug. 29.■ 3900 block, Chesapeake St.; unspecified location; 8 a.m. Aug. 29.■ 4400 block, Wisconsin Ave.; government building; 4 a.m. Aug. 30.■ 5200 block, Western Ave.; store; 6:20 a.m. Aug. 31.■ 4200 block, Davenport St.; school; 1:15 a.m. Sept. 1.Theft from auto ($250 plus)■ 3900 block, Ingomar St.; street; 8 a.m. Sept. 2.Theft from auto (below $250)■ 4500 block, Reno Road; street; 3 a.m. Aug. 28.

PSA 203

Burglary■ 3600 block, Albemarle St.; residence; 9 a.m. Aug. 30.Stolen auto■ Connecticut Avenue and Upton Street; street; 9:15 a.m. Sept. 2.Theft (below $250)■ 3000 block, Sedgwick St.; res-idence; 4 a.m. Aug. 28.■ 4600 block, Connecticut Ave.; residence; 6 a.m. Aug. 28.■ 3700 block, Connecticut Ave.; residence; 8:30 a.m. Aug. 30.■ 2900 block, Brandywine St.; residence; 1:50 a.m. Sept. 1.Theft from auto (below $250)■ 36th and Davenport streets; street; 10 a.m. Aug. 28.■ 4700 block, 36th St.; street; 6:30 a.m. Aug. 28.■ 4500 block, 36th St.; street; 11 a.m. Aug. 29.■ 5000 block, Connecticut Ave.; street; 2 a.m. Aug. 30.

PSA 204

Burglary■ 3100 block, Highland Place; residence; 10:45 a.m. Sept. 4.Theft (below $250)■ 4100 block, W St.; unspecified premises; 10 a.m. Aug. 28.

Theft from auto (below $250)■ 3000 block, Porter St.; alley; 1 a.m. Aug. 31.■ 2700 block, 29th St.; unspeci-fied premises; 7 a.m. Aug. 31■ 4100 block, W St.; street; 4:30 a.m. Sept. 2.

PSA 205

Theft ($250 plus)■ 2100 block, Foxhall Road; unspecified premises; 2:30 a.m. Sept. 1.

PSA 206

Assault with a dangerous weapon■ 1200 block, 35th St.; side-walk; 3 a.m. Sept. 4.Burglary■ 3000 block, M St.; store; 7:50 a.m. Sept. 1.Theft ($250 plus)■ 1200 block, Wisconsin Ave.; store; 4 a.m. Aug. 28.Theft (below $250)■ K Street and Wisconsin Avenue; street; 1:30 a.m. Aug. 28.■ 1500 block, Wisconsin Ave.; store; 4:54 a.m. Aug. 28.■ 2400 block, P St.; residence; 9 a.m. Aug. 30.■ 3000 block, Q St.; residence; 2 a.m. Sept. 1.■ 3000 block, M St.; store; 6:15 a.m. Sept. 2.■ 3200 block, M St.; store; 8:15 a.m. Sept. 3.■ 1000 block, 30th St.; street; 8:36 a.m. Sept. 3.■ M Street and Wisconsin Avenue; street; 11:30 a.m. Sept. 4.Theft (shoplifting)■ 3100 block, M St.; store; 4:20 a.m. Sept. 4.Theft from auto (below $250)■ 1600 block, 30th St.; street; 8 a.m. Aug. 30.■ 2400 block, P St.; street; 10 a.m. Aug. 31.■ 2800 block, M St.; hotel; 5:25 a.m. Aug. 31.■ 3200 block, Q St.; street; 1:20 a.m. Sept. 3.

PSA 207

Theft (below $250)■ 2200 block, I St.; restaurant; 7 a.m. Aug. 29.■ 1300 block, 23rd St.; side-walk; 10:25 a.m. Aug. 31.■ 2100 block, F St.; sidewalk; 9:53 a.m. Aug. 31.Theft from auto (below $250)■ 25th and I streets; street; 8 a.m. Aug. 31.■ 2600 block, Virginia Ave.; street; 1:30 a.m. Sept. 4.

PSA 208

Robbery (pocketbook snatch)■ 1800 block, 18th St.; restau-rant; 11:58 a.m. Sept. 2.Robbery (snatch)■ 19th and T streets; sidewalk;

12:45 p.m. Aug. 31.Robbery (stealth)■ 900 block, 18th St.; restau-rant; noon Aug. 29.■ 1100 block, 17th St.; restau-rant; 2:10 a.m. Sept. 1.Assault with a dangerous weapon■ 1700 block, I St.; tavern; 2:45 a.m. Sept. 4.Burglary■ 1900 block, S St.; residence; 8 a.m. Sept. 1.■ 1900 block, 14th St.; unspeci-fied premises; 8 a.m. Sept. 3.Burglary (attempt)■ 1400 block, U St.; office build-ing; 7 a.m. Aug. 29.Stolen auto■ 1400 block, S St.; street; 10:15 a.m. Aug. 30.■ 1500 block, P St.; street; 1 a.m. Sept. 3.Theft ($250 plus)■ 1100 block, Connecticut Ave.; store; 1 a.m. Aug. 28.■ 2000 block, M St.; hotel; 5 a.m. Aug. 31.■ 1000 block, Connecticut Ave.; restaurant; 5:30 a.m. Sept. 1.■ 1500 block, Massachusetts Ave.; residence; 8:30 a.m. Sept. 1.Theft (below $250)■ 1600 block, Connecticut Ave.; store; 5 a.m. Aug. 28.■ 1600 block, K St.; street; 1 a.m. Aug. 29.■ 1800 block, Jefferson Place; sidewalk; 2 a.m. Aug. 29.■ 2100 block, R St.; unspecified premises; 11:30 a.m. Aug. 30.■ 1500 block, 16th St.; unspeci-fied premises; 6:30 a.m. Aug. 30.■ 1300 block, New Hampshire Ave.; parking lot; 7 a.m. Aug. 30.■ 1300 block, Connecticut Ave.; restaurant; 1 a.m. Aug. 31.■ 1300 block, Connecticut Ave.; store; 11 a.m. Sept. 1.■ 1000 block, Connecticut Ave.; unspecified premises; 1:08 a.m. Sept. 1.■ 1500 block, Connecticut Ave.; store; 3 a.m. Sept. 1.■ 1500 block, Swann St.; resi-dence; 5 a.m. Sept. 2.■ 1300 block, Connecticut Ave.; store; 10 a.m. Sept. 3.■ 1800 block, Connecticut Ave.; drugstore; 4:45 a.m. Sept. 4.■ 1800 block, Swann St.; side-walk; 5:30 a.m. Sept. 4.Theft from auto ($250 plus)■ 1400 block, S St.; street; 1 a.m. Sept. 2.Theft from auto (below $250)■ 1200 block, 22nd St.; street; 11 a.m. Aug. 28.■ 1200 block, 17th St.; street; 3 a.m. Aug. 28.■ 1500 block, Corcoran St.; street; 10 a.m. Aug. 29.■ 1300 block, New Hampshire Ave.; parking lot; 8:30 a.m. Aug. 30.■ 1700 block, Riggs Place; street; 6:30 a.m. Sept. 2.■ 1200 block, 22nd St.; street; 12:01 p.m. Sept. 3.■ 1400 block, T St.; street; 3 a.m. Sept. 3.■ 1800 block, R St.; street; 5:30 a.m. Sept. 3.■ 1900 block, Connecticut Ave.; parking lot; 5:30 a.m. Sept. 4.

PSA 303

Robbery (force and violence)■ 2300 block, Ontario Road; res-idence; 2:50 a.m. Sept. 3.■ 1900 block, Calvert St.; side-walk; 2:25 a.m. Sept. 4.■ 18th Street and Columbia Road; street; 2:30 a.m. Sept. 4.Burglary■ 1800 block, Wyoming Ave.; residence; 2 a.m. Aug. 30.Theft (below $250)■ 2400 block, Ontario Road; res-idence; 12:20 p.m. Aug. 28.■ 1700 block, Columbia Road; restaurant; 5:12 a.m. Aug. 28.■ 1800 block, Columbia Road; store; 6:20 a.m. Aug. 29.■ 2300 block, 17th St.; alley; 8 a.m. Aug. 29.■ 2300 block, Champlain St.; parking lot; 8 a.m. Aug. 30.■ 1800 block, Connecticut Ave.; unspecified premises; 6 a.m. Aug. 31.■ 2500 block, Ontario Road; street; 9 a.m. Aug. 31.■ 2300 block, 18th St.; tavern; 1:50 a.m. Sept. 4.Theft (tags)■ 2400 block, Ontario Road; street; 10 a.m. Sept. 2.Theft from auto ($250 plus)■ 2300 block, Champlain St.; parking lot; 9 a.m. Aug. 29.Theft from auto (below $250)■ 1800 block, Columbia Road; parking lot; 9 a.m. Aug. 30.

PSA 307

Robbery (gun)■ 1300 block, 10th St.; street; 8:40 a.m. Aug. 31.Robbery (assault)■ 1400 block, 12th St.; alley; 5:35 a.m. Sept. 4.Stolen auto■ 1400 block, R St.; street; 1 a.m. Sept. 4.Theft (below $250)■ 1300 block, 14th St.; grocery store; 6 a.m. Aug. 28.■ 1200 block, R St.; sidewalk; 8 a.m. Aug. 30.■ 1100 block, 10th St.; store; 10:46 a.m. Sept. 3.■ 1200 block, R St.; parking lot; 1:45 a.m. Sept. 3.Theft from auto ($250 plus)■ 1500 block, 9th St.; sidewalk; 3:30 a.m. Sept. 4.Theft from auto (below $250)■ 1500 block, Kingman Place; street; 10 a.m. Aug. 30.■ 1400 block, Massachusetts Ave.; street; 9 a.m. Aug. 30.■ 1600 block, Vermont Ave.; street; 2:15 a.m. Sept. 3.Theft from auto (attempt)■ 1300 block, N St.; street; 11 a.m. Aug. 30.

PSA 401

Robbery (force and violence)■ 7000 block, Blair Road; side-walk; 8:45 a.m. Aug. 28.Assault with a dangerous weapon (gun)■ 6800 block, 9th St.; street; 2:20 a.m. Sept. 3.

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 207■ Foggy bottoM / west end

psa 208■ sheridan-kaloraMadUpont circle

psa 303■ adaMs Morgan

psa 307■ logan circle

psa 401■ colonial villageshepherd park / takoMa

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Scrutinizing spending The D.C. Republican Committee made some waves last week with its complaint to the D.C. Office of Campaign Finance about allegedly illegal contributions from legislators’ constituent services funds to political organizations. According to the GOP, 10 of the current 13 council members — including the two who do not belong to a political party — made such contributions, mostly to ward Democratic organizations and the Gertrude Stein Democratic Club. Even if all of the Republican Party’s data is correct, the money in question is only about $5,405 — hardly a major line item in the cur-rent litany of inappropriate or questionable expenditures by D.C. pol-iticians. And several council members have fired back with substantive objections. Ward 3’s Mary Cheh acknowledged that although she initially donated to the Gertrude Stein club for its Capital Pride Champions of Equality reception, she refunded the money to her constituent services fund within a day. And the other donation, she said, came from a separate fund held by her predecessor. At-large member Phil Mendelson disseminated a statement stress-ing that the Office of Campaign Finance has said his annual contri-butions to support educational scholarships — some of them spon-sored by ward Democratic organizations — are within the law. Still, we commend the GOP for its vigilance. Indeed, Republican leaders are doing their job as a minority party. Sunshine is the best antiseptic, and publicizing the way council members spend their pri-vately raised constituent services funds is useful. It’s important to provide context, however: It’s hard to violate regulations that are exceedingly lax, as these are when it comes to describing how funds can be used, aside from prohibiting campaign-related uses or “pro-moting or opposing a political party or committee.” As part of a comprehensive measure to tighten ethics rules, the D.C. Council should clarify permissible uses for constituent services funds. The restrictions should explicitly preclude any project or event undertaken by a partisan organization. We also believe that the D.C. Office of the Auditor should examine all expenditures before they are made.

Lovely library D.C. Public Schools students returned to the classroom in late August, many of them finding modernized facilities. At Northwest’s Garrison Elementary, students encountered a particularly important improvement — a school library renovated thanks to a sizable grant from a Heart of America Foundation/Target partnership program. When the students first entered the welcoming, brightly colored space, they were understandably enthusiastic, cheering and jumping up and down. On the walls are quotes from writers such as Maya Angelou and Edith Wharton, all testifying to the value of reading. The space houses 2,000 new books, seven new computers and 10 new iPads. There are kid-sized beanbag chairs and reading tables. Each child also received seven new books to take home. That’s particularly significant given that two-thirds of Garrison’s students are eligible for free and reduced-price lunch because of their fami-lies’ limited financial means. We are grateful that Garrison was one of five elementary schools in D.C. selected to receive a library makeover through the national program. The group does not release figures for individual renova-tions, but it donates an average of $250,000 per library. It’s doubtful that the donation would have occurred without the hard work of principal Rembert Seaward, who applied for the reno-vation. The director of Target’s education initiatives noted that the selection team saw in Mr. Seaward an “incredibly passionate leader, very committed to the school and very eager to see students improve academically.” We would all do well to emulate that passion.

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We are being inundated this week with 9/11 remembrances. No matter how sophisticated or simple, genuinely moving or maudlin, we’re certain nearly all are heartfelt. And they should be. Even the commercialization of trinkets to sell is part of our free enterprise system. You don’t have to buy that stuff; it’s your choice. Your Notebook is away this week, re-creating a visit to old friends in Florida in whose home we were 10 years ago. We’ll be flying back to Washington on Sunday, Sept. 11. That’s our little way of honoring American commerce, freedom and, yes, the victims of 9/11. Getting out of town also is a brief break from the bleak bunker that our nation’s capital has become. The National Park Service is spending great sums to rebuild the seawall so that the beautiful Jefferson Memorial plaza doesn’t slide into the Tidal Basin. Yet, an ugly ring of Jersey barriers lines three sides of the monument. On the south side, imposing security barriers block any vehicles besides police and maintenance workers from driving up close. At least there are no metal security stations to pass through — at least not yet — to see this monument to democracy. On Capitol Hill, a network of side streets remains blocked off, forming little pockets of free parking for Hill workers and security forces. Some of the streets now have flower gardens planted in the bun-kers. A sweet thought, but flowers can’t soften the image very much. At the Ellipse on the south side of the White House, E Street remains closed, and the wide, circu-lar roadway is inaccessible to tourists and others. It’s become a security ring of free parking for bureau-crats here, too. (The good news is that at least the National Capital Planning Commission has selected a firm to redesign the area. But it still will be a gussied-up security barrier rather than a place to cel-ebrate freedom.) In Foggy Bottom, does anyone even recognize the U.S. State Department site anymore? It looks like a compound in Baghdad’s Green Zone, not the focal point for diplomacy in the capital of the free world. At the massive Reagan Building downtown, the empty hallways remind us of how it was going to be a downtown shopping mall. But it was too danger-ous to have American commerce flourish in a build-ing named after Reagan. How incongruous is that? It

should be open and free-flowing to honor that presi-dent, not virtually shuttered. (The food court lives on, but it’s sad to see hundreds of teenage visitors lining up like sheep to go through security wands to get a hot dog.) Where is the American ingenuity to devise better crowd security without treating each person as a potential terrorist or terrorist stooge? We hear all the time that the wheelchair-bound senior or the baby in

a basket may be carry-ing bombs unknowing-ly. Well, what’s to stop a terrorist from putting on a ubiquitous security uniform and just walk-ing into a place?

For those of you have read this column for a while, little of this tale of woe is new. As a reporter and as a columnist we have returned time and again to the creep of security into our lives. Sometime ago, we coined the word “securicrats” to highlight the bureaucracy of security that we see and feel daily. It’s not a personal slam on the well-intentioned men and women who make up the police forces or the rank and file of other first-responders. They are doing what they can despite high-level acknowl-edgement that much of it is “security theater” to make us feel safe rather than to be truly safe. And do we as Americans want to live in truly safe, lock-down environments? Try this the next time you’re walking along Pennsylvania Avenue or other downtown corridor: Count the police officers you see, the police cars, the private security guards, the security cameras, the barriers, the bollards, the signs that forbid entry, the signs that demand identification cards and anything else that says you can’t do this or that. It could be depressing. But also, look up. Look up beyond the barricaded doors and bomb-proof glass to see how many flag-poles sprout from private and government buildings. Take a moment to enjoy the sight of Old Glory wav-ing in the wind. (We particularly like the big flag on Freedom Plaza, an aptly named space on Pennsylvania Avenue.) Look at those flags that stand for freedom — and for a country that honors freedom and tries to export it to the world. That’s the America we want to see. And we want to see it with as few barriers as possi-ble. Pause on 9/11 to honor the victims of those horri-ble attacks, but don’t give in to fear. It would be downright un-American of you. Tom Sherwood, a Southwest resident, is a politi-cal reporter for News 4.

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TOM SHERWOOD’S notebook

city deserves praise for tree removal Four years ago, C&D Tree Service, working for D.C., cut down a large locust tree on Potomac Avenue NW. Its workers were to return with a crane truck to remove the massive trunk. That never happened! During the cleanup for Irene, a D.C. Department of Public Works crew — with a new crane truck and chipper — were working to remove the storm damage a half block away from the forgotten locust log. I want to thank the supervisor, V. Bostic, for his gra-cious and efficient removal of the locust in addition to all he and his crew were dealing with. Hats off to the city’s

Department of Public Works.Irene S. Sinclair

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scotland tram vote has lesson for d.c. Last month the city council of Edinburgh, Scotland, decided to abandon a project to build a tram from the airport to the city center, even though most of the track had already been laid. It was simply too costly. “You can buy 10 envi-ronmentally friendly modern buses and still have change from the cost of one of Edinburgh’s trams,” columnist John Kay wrote in the Financial Times. Operating costs were similar for the two systems. The costs of construction continued to rise. This has lessons for the mas-sively mismanaged Metrorail extension to Dulles, which has wound up as a subsidized way for

Tysons Corner to attract business from downtown rather than an efficient way to get to the airport. It will probably take more than 50 percent longer to get to Dulles via this route than it would have taken on a set of express buses at a fraction of the cost. The lesson also holds for the city’s trams on H Street NE. The primary effect of these trams will almost certainly be to reward the politically connected owners of real estate on that corridor, effec-tively a transfer of wealth from the rest of the city. The cost is significant, and the benefit (com-pared to bus transit) is not appar-ent. Tramways sound like the eco-logical answer; they are not. As Kermit the Frog was known to have said, “It’s not easy being green.”

Vic MillerWashington Heights

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hardy middle serves ward 3 students well As a Ward 3 resident and former Hardy Middle School parent, I dis-agree with Ward 3 Council member Mary Cheh’s proposal for a new middle school in Ward 3. As former Chancellor Michelle Rhee stated many times, Hardy Middle School is a “neighborhood” school and not an arts magnet school. For parents who don’t want to send their kids to Hardy because of its “arts-focused curriculum,” I would say this is really not the issue. Middle schools in surrounding counties in Maryland and Virginia

offer art and music (band or cho-rus) as part of their school-day cur-riculum; students have music and art every day as part of their sched-ules. Unfortunately, this isn’t true for D.C. Public Schools. In fact, this is a problem for high school music programs in D.C., because students aren’t arriving proficient enough in an instrument to play in high school-level ensembles. My children flourished at Hardy. They went on to Wilson High School and Duke Ellington School of the Arts and were well-prepared for college. Hardy offered them music and art as part of the daily curriculum, which is hardly an arts-focused program. This should be the norm for all middle schools citywide. Also, I feel it is disingenuous

for anyone at this time to express concern about displacing out-of-boundary families if more in-boundary students choose to attend their neighborhood middle school. If anything, this situation empha-sizes the need for additional middle schools with strong programs in other wards, especially Ward 5. The removal of Hardy’s former principal was handled poorly, but the school can be brought back on track, with feeder schools in the neighborhood sending more of their fifth-graders on to Hardy. There would still be room to accommodate out-of-boundary stu-dents. I feel energy at this time would be better spent improving Hardy and building strong middle school programs in other wards.

Helen HagertyCleveland Park

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Back to school means many things for many people. But for residents of Tenleytown it means — among other things — it’s time to

face the unchecked expansion of American University in the neighborhood. Last week, the university submitted its final propos-al to expand the law school and move it to the Tenley campus. Under the proposal, law school enrollment would increase from 1,770 to 2,000 students. (To put that in perspective, the university’s Washington Semester program, the site’s current user, has about 300 students; the university’s immediate predecessor, the Immaculata School, had about twice that number.) To enrollment, add 500 faculty and staff, and hundreds of part-time daily users. The new law school would be housed in a massive, four- to five-story office complex nearly twice the size of its current facility. Unlike the location of the current law school, the Tenley site is zoned only for low-density, single-family homes. District law does not allow universities to expand in residential areas as a matter of right. But a university may obtain a “special exception” if it can demonstrate that the proposed development “is not likely to be objectionable to neighboring properties because of noise, traffic, number of students or other objectionable conditions.” Building a law school on this site is not a new idea. The university purchased the campus in 1986 with the idea of building a new law school there, but the reali-ties of the zoning law and opposition by the neighbor-hood forced officials to abandon the project and sign an agreement to limit future expansion. Now the uni-versity has reneged on the 1986 agreement and has offered District planners an extraordinary explanation to the zoning problem: This huge project will have no adverse impact on neighboring properties. None at all. Strangely enough, the university’s over-the-top plans have been getting some traction. Given that the zoning law is the same as it was in 1986, how can this be so? The answer is simple — American has deferred all the inconvenient issues (such as how to deal with parking, traffic, future expansion, ancillary uses, et cetera) and instead unleashed a multimillion-dollar public relations, lobbying and legal campaign. The two big themes are that this project will benefit the District economically, and that proximity to Metro will elimi-

nate any traffic and parking impact. Neither proposition withstands any serious scrutiny. The university’s own numbers show that few law school students and virtually no faculty members cur-rently take the Metro, and even its own “hired-gun” traffic consultants do not believe this will change sig-nificantly. If you factor in the proposed growth, it appears that any benefits to District residents of mov-ing the law school (in terms of increased transit rider-ship and fewer cars) will be washed out by the large number of additional people using the expanded law school, many of whom will drive and attempt to park somewhere in the neighborhood. The other prevailing public-relations myth is that this project will be an economic boon to our communi-ty, but this is no more plausible than the Metro story. When asked, the university is unable to provide any analysis to show that its law school project will “revi-talize” the Tenley corridor. Let’s all remember that American University is massively subsidized by the federal government and the District in countless ways. As a tax-exempt entity, the university pays no income or property taxes to speak of, and it benefits enormously from generous federal student financial aid programs. Moreover, it uses D.C.-approved tax-exempt revenue bonds to keep down its capital costs. At a time when our cities are undergoing major changes, city governments tend to support university expansion. But if universities are to take on this new role as the city’s developers, they must be held to the same standards as others are. No commercial develop-er could possibly get away with what is proposed for the Tenley neighborhood site. The people who live nearby do not support it, but it has been our hope that we could reach consensus with the university. Unfortunately, the university has not been willing to make any serious concessions. Unless District officials step up, it never will. District officials must hold the university accountable for the bounty it receives, and help protect the livability of our quiet res-idential neighborhoods. That’s why this fall’s return to school should be a wake-up call. We must let American University and government leaders know that the proposed expansion in our neighborhood is not acceptable without signifi-cant changes, and that the university must stick to its agreements. Gregory Ferenbach is president of the Tenley Campus Neighbors Association.

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animal rescue league fails some animals In his defense of the adopt-a-thon held at the Washington Animal Rescue League, Gary Weitzman states that the organiza-tion makes a “100 percent commit-ment” to all the animals in its care [“Adopt-a-thon event wasn’t a free-for-all,” Letters to the Editor, Aug. 24]. This phrase is appealing and probably quite effective as a fund-raising tool, but I would be inter-ested to understand what it means in practice. In my experience, the Washington Animal Rescue League has often fallen short of what a rea-sonable person might consider to be a 100 percent commitment. In one particular case that I was involved in, a Washington Animal Rescue League dog named Berdina managed to escape from the yard of the person who was fostering her. A number of volunteers launched an aggressive search for Berdina that involved posting fli-ers, hiring a tracking dog and set-ting up feeding stations and motion-detector cameras. I person-ally purchased and set up two motion-detector cameras at a site where Berdina had been spotted. Other volunteers also tirelessly contributed time and money to this effort over a number of months. The rescue league offered no sup-port and seemed uninterested in our efforts. Berdina was found after almost a year when someone saw a flier posted by volunteers. The rescue league contributed a reward and she was returned to her foster, who adopted her permanently. Unfortunately, her owner died unexpectedly several months ago. The rescue league rapidly retrieved Berdina from D.C. Animal Control, but inexplicably she was hidden at the group’s facility for some time and then remained off-limits to vol-unteers. This prevented her from receiving the attention and affec-tion she needed after the death of her owner. After only eight weeks, the rescue league euthanized Berdina because of so-called “qual-ity-of-life” issues. After all that Berdina had been through, it is dif-ficult to understand why no one at the rescue league was willing to make more of an effort on her behalf. Unfortunately, I do not believe that this represents an isolated case. The Washington Animal Rescue League should explain exactly how it gave “a 100 percent commit-ment” to Berdina, and other dogs that have been euthanized over pro-tests of both staff and volunteers.

Warren WattsForest Hills

Professionals need Georgetown parking My husband and I make a living as professional gardeners. We live

in Maryland, but the majority of our work occurs in Georgetown. Our company, Gardens Remembered, has been in business for more than 11 years now. We pay all required business taxes and insurance premiums, including monthly D.C. sales tax, which we bill to our clients. Our main hub centers around 30th, 31st, P and Q streets. Our cli-ents do not have driveways for us to pull into. Because we work out of our vehicles — hauling garden-ing equipment back and forth and carrying flats and flats of plant material, for instance — we need to be parked close to where we’re working. Finding parking in Georgetown is always a challenge for anyone, but we have a truck and trailer, plus another vehicle. Even if we could get weekly visitor passes, finding big enough spaces is pretty much impossible! Because of this, for 11 years parking enforcement officers gra-ciously overlooked us when we were parked along the side of Orchard Lane, which looks like an alley but is actually a street. We are not the only business vehicles doing this. But several months ago, a new parking enforcement officer took over. He has been issuing us $30 tickets whenever he sees us parked in a “No Parking” zone, even though he knows we have been given this exception for so many years. Now we are forced to have our clients pay our parking tickets (several a month), something we’ve never had to do before. We have made a living beautify-ing the area. Our clients include homes that have been on the Georgetown house and garden tours. We have called in rat prob-lems and drainage issues, and we have notified the Georgetown tree restoration committee when we have seen street trees planted or taken care of improperly. We have shoveled snow from neighborhood sidewalks at no charge. Now we are wondering how long we can continue burdening our clients with these added costs, just to do busi-ness in Georgetown. The neighborhood is rallying behind us and seeing what they can do to help us out. I’m sure we could get a petition together stating our problems and asking parking enforcement if they will allow us to park along Orchard Lane. If park-ing is allowed on other streets, why not Orchard Lane? What do we do if we can’t find parking? Stop working? We are at our wits’ end.

Gabrielle and Steve HornOwners, Gardens Remembered

blotter misstated location of assault Connecticut Avenue violence continues. A 6-foot-tall University of the District of Columbia athlete sur-vived being pummeled with a pipe and stabbed in the chest within a block of Connecticut Avenue on

Aug. 25. With nearly a week to copy/paste the police blotter, The Current misreported the location by more than two miles in its Aug. 31 edi-tion.

Frank WinsteadForest Hills

church should drop plan for apartments As the owner and resident of a condo unit at 17th and O streets NW, I am extremely concerned about the new apartment building proposed for the parking lot of the First Baptist Church of the City of Washington, D.C., on the opposite corner of 17th and O streets. When I purchased my condo unit just over a year ago, I chose the location partly because the neighborhood was quiet, not too densely inhabited, and surrounded by greenery — giving it the charm that makes the 17th Street side of Dupont Circle such a unique neigh-borhood. While the new develop-ment may bring revenue to the First Baptist Church and its mem-bers, most of whom are not neigh-borhood residents, it will negatively impact people who do live in the neighborhood by increasing densi-ty, noise and traffic; reducing prop-erty values; and changing the char-acter of the neighborhood. According to developer Keener-Squire Properties, the building will be 108 feet tall, higher than the neighborhood zoning regulations allow, and will contain 228 units that range in size from 320 to 600 square feet each, as well as a roof deck terrace, a party room and 57 parking spaces. A building with those specifications will bring hun-dreds of new residents, many of whom may be studying at the near-by Johns Hopkins University, to a neighborhood not intended to have a densely inhabited high-rise. O Street between 16th and 17th streets, now a narrow, quiet resi-dential block, will become a major throughway for cars — and people — traveling to and from the build-ing. It will be parked full of cars from the three-fourths of building residents who will not be afforded parking by the building. Further, the height of the building will block all sunlight and any view beyond the new building for neigh-boring residents and bring constant noise to this quiet neighborhood. The First Baptist Church and the new building’s developers have asserted that the new building will cause no harm to the public good; clearly this is not the case for neighbors. The First Baptist Church and Keener-Squire should drop plans to create a new high-rise apartment building at 17th and O streets. A new park or substantially smaller residential or commercial building would be much more appropriate for the location and would resolve many of the neigh-bors’ concerns about density, noise, traffic, green space and sunlight.

Melissa Maitin-ShepardDupont Circle

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As Wilson students enter a brand-new building, the football team also looks to rally around a brand-new coach. Mark Martin, an assistant with the team since 2000, was hired this summer to replace longtime head coach Horace Fleming, and he will look to take the Tigers back to the D.C. Interscholastic Athletic Association playoffs. Wilson (1-1 overall) got off to a good start to its season on Aug. 26, defeating Perry Street Prep — a D.C. public charter school former-ly known as Hyde — by a score of 30-0. Dana Robertson carried the ball 14 times for 107 yards while junior James Towns and senior Kamal Bryant returned intercep-tions for touchdowns. “It felt great out there, being an alum and everything,” said Martin, who graduated from Wilson in 1984. “I was excited — I had a lit-tle butterflies when the game start-ed, but when the game got rolling it was like I got in game mode. … I was ready to go.” This year’s Tigers are led by quarterback/defensive back Micah Harris, a junior, and quarterback Scott Beumel, a sophomore. Dana Robertson is teaming up with Jeremy Dixon to lead the team’s running game, and wide receiver Marlon Mitchell is another talent to watch. Wilson didn’t fare nearly as well in its second contest of the season, falling 48-13 at Yorktown (Arlington, Va.) on Thursday. The Tigers will open DCIAA West play at home against Theodore Roosevelt on Oct. 7. Rival Coolidge (4-7, 3-1), meanwhile, made it back to the playoffs last year under first-year coach Natalie Randolph, and the team should be hungry for more in 2011. Top players for the Colts include senior wide receivers Davon Pratt, who has committed to East Carolina University, and Fellonte Misher, an Old Dominion University commit. Also keep an eye on Chuck Gaines on both sides of the ball. Coolidge’s first game, against Archbishop Carroll, was resched-uled and then canceled due to Hurricane Irene. And the Colts’

By BORIS TSALYUKCurrent Correspondent

Playing on his team’s new field for the first time, wide receiver Devin Butler treated Gonzaga fans to a game-winning 47-yard touch-down catch in the final minute Saturday as the Eagles knocked off McDonogh (Baltimore) 17-14. Trailing by four, the 6-foot-3 junior Butler caught a 12-yard pass over the middle and turned up the field for an eye-popping sprint. He immediately shook off one defend-er, then juked around another would-be tackler and avoided sev-eral more en route to the end zone. “They didn’t wrap up,” Butler said after the game. “[McDonogh] just wasn’t ready for it.” “We had a little slant and slide, the linebacker went; Devin just made a great play,” said quarter-back Connor Ennis. For Gonzaga (2-0 overall), the win was payback for last September’s loss to McDonogh, one of the top football programs in Baltimore. And it was an indicator that the Eagles — a semifinalist in

the Washington Catholic Athletic Conference last year — may not take a step back this season even as a pair of inexperienced junior quar-terbacks look to replace Kevin Hogan, now at Stanford University. Ennis got the starting nod against McDonogh and completed 9-of-15 passes for 98 yards and the touchdown to Butler, and Chris Schultz also played and hit on 4-of-9 for 31 yards. Although Saturday’s affair showed that Gonzaga can make big plays through the air, the team will lean more heavily on its ground game this year. Against McDonogh, senior Duane McKelvin shoul-dered the road and ripped off sev-eral impressive runs. He finished the afternoon with 11 carries for 103 yards and one touchdown. The Eagles needed a strong effort on both sides of the ball to pull out the victory against a solid team, and that’s exactly what coach Aaron Brady got from his squad. The defense turned in a huge stand deep in its territory late in the game to give the Eagles offense a chance.

By BORIS TSALYUKCurrent Staff Writer

Early Saturday afternoon at this year’s Fragile X Volleyball Classic at St. John’s, Liz Pribac made an announcement that caused quite a stir in Gallagher Gymnasium: After 10 years of organizing the tournament, she and her hus-band were calling it quits. Bill Pribac, the Cadets volleyball coach and founder of the event, was quickly bombarded with questions. He said the discussion made it tougher for him to focus on coaching his team, but “It was important we let everyone know it was coming to an end.” In an email sent to coaches, parents, friends and supporters on Sunday, the coach wrote, “It did feel time for me to focus on other things. Thanks for everyone over the years who have entered and helped raise awareness for Fragile X Syndrome.” The event didn’t end without the Cadets making their presence felt on the court, as they have many times since 2002. Led by All-Tournament selection Darien Dozier, St. John’s won its three-team pool with straight-set wins over Maret and St. Gertrude’s (Richmond, Va.) and advanced to the next round. In the quarterfinals, though, Washington Catholic Athletic Conference rival Holy Cross proved too tough, beating the Cadets in straight sets, 25-21 and 25-17. Holy Cross, which beat St. John’s in the tour-

nament finals in 2010, went on to top Nansemond Suffolk (Suffolk, Va.) in four sets in the champi-onship round to capture its second-straight crown. The Maret Frogs, meanwhile, reached the quarterfinals before losing to Nansemond Suffolk in straight sets (25-18, 25-19), while National Cathedral was swept during pool play. Maret’s Kathryn Petkevich was named to the All-Tournament team. This year’s event raised nearly $2,000, bring-

ing the 10-year tally close to $35,000. Bill Pribac, whose son Trevor has Fragile X syn-drome, a genetic condition resulting from changes to the X chromosome, said he was proud of the money the event raised and the friends and family it brought together. He also said he felt good about his team’s success at the tournament: The Cadets won titles in 2003 and 2008, reached the championship game five times and advanced to the playoffs each year. “It’s been fantastic,” he said.

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Photo courtesy of Joey LoMonaco/Precision Sports PhotographyGonzaga, which improved to 2-0 with Saturday’s win, features several playmakers this season, including senior receiver Davon Graves.

Big play by Butler sends Gonzaga Eagles soaring

New Tigers coach looksto earn stripes

Photo courtesy of Bill PribacThe 10th annual Fragile X Classic All-Tournament Team included Maret’s Kathryn Petkevich, far left, and St. John’s’ Darien Dozier, third from right, a University of South Carolina commit.

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“It was a tough battle,” Brady said. “Our kids just hung in there and we were lucky enough to get a win. What a great game.” As far as debuting the new field in style, the coach said, “I think the football gods were with us today to give us this win.” Butler added: “The atmosphere, all the fans, I just loved it. This is what you live for as a football player.”

Henderson, Davis come up huge for Maret The only bad news for Maret seniors Tre Henderson and Sean Davis is that the only direction their individual seasons can go from here is down. That’s because it doesn’t get much better than the nine touchdowns they combined for in an opening day 48-0 win over The Model School. Henderson led off his team’s scoring with a 21-yard run in the first quarter, adding two throwing touchdowns by the end of the open-ing period — 25 yards to Davis and 52 yards to Kahlil Edley. Henderson threw two more scoring strikes before exiting the game shortly after halftime. He was a perfect 9-for-9 passing for 234 yards. Davis, a University of Maryland commit, caught two touchdowns,

ran for another and also returned a punt 61 yards for a score. It’s tough to imagine that the pair will ever

have another chance to make as many plays as they did against a clearly outmatched Model team.

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GONZAGAFrom Page 13

second contest, a meeting with Bishop McNamara that was set for Friday, was called off because the school didn’t have security assigned for the game. The team will once more try to start its season on

Sept. 16 at Ballou. Another league foe — Theodore Roosevelt (0-1, 0-0 DCIAA) — is moving to a spread offense this year to take advantage of explosive senior running back Blair Crutchfield. The Rough Riders have an interest-ing local schedule this year including non-league games at Forestville (Forestville, Md.) on Sept. 17 and at home against Maret on Sept. 30.

PREVIEWFrom Page 13

Matt Petros/Current File PhotoMaret’s Tre Henderson and Sean Davis, above, showed their game-breaking abilities on Saturday against The Model School. Maret’s next game will be against the Friends School of Baltimore this weekend.

National Cathedral alum leavescompetition in her wake Helen Beckner, a 2009 graduate of National Cathedral School, recently stroked her women’s lightweight quadruple sculls team to victory at the 129th Royal Canadian Henley Regatta, the largest rowing regatta in North America. She was also part of a team that won the People of Port D a l h o u s i e Trophy in the senior light-weight women’s eight-oared race earlier at the Aug. 7 event. The double gold in Canada capped a particularly successful season for Beckner and her teammates from the Vesper Boat Club (Philadelphia). They also won gold in the U.S. Rowing Boat Club National Championships in the intermediate light-weight women’s quadruple sculls and in the inter-mediate openweight women’s quadruple sculls race at the 131st Independence Day Regatta in

Philadelphia, held July 1 through 3. A D.C. native, Beckner rowed for four years at National Cathedral and was part of a varsity eight crew that won the Virginia State Championship in 2009. She currently rows for the University of Wisconsin, where last year her crew won the women’s lightweight eight event in record time at the Head of the Charles Regatta in Boston and took bronze at the National Championship Intercollegiate Rowing Association Regatta. Beckner and her Vesper Boat Club quad team-mates hope to reunite next summer for a shot at representing the United States in the World Rowing Under 23 Championships in Lithuania.

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Yorktown (Arlington, Va.) 48, Wilson 13North Hagerstown (Hagerstown, Md.) 54, Theodore Roosevelt 0Maret 48, Model School 0Gonzaga 17, McDonogh (Baltimore) 14Calvert Hall (Towson, Md.) 35, St. John’s 18St. Mary’s (Annapolis, Md.) 26, St. Albans 13

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By AMANDA ABRAMSCurrent Correspondent

What’s the first thing that comes to mind when you think of the Zoo? Be honest. It’s prob-ably pandas, right? Or maybe chimpanzees. Or big cats. Which is not sur-prising. Just about everyone visits the Zoo to check out those furry, cute, amazing mammals they can’t see anywhere else. It’s forgivable, for sure, but what about all the other inhabitants of Washington’s National Zoo — don’t they deserve some love and attention, too? That’s a little bit how Donna Stockton feels. One of the Zoo’s many animal keepers, she works in the invertebrate exhibit, taking care of insects, spiders, corals, clams and many other creatures that are fre-quently, if inadvertently, left out of the “animal” category. “It’s a constant battle against the pandas,” she said. “We’re not mam-mals, so we really have to prove our case.” But she’s not bitter about it. After eight years in her position as the main staff entomologist — taking care of insects, that is — Stockton, 44, understands that some animals are simply more popular than oth-

ers. She just wants a chance to help you understand her babies a little bit better. Give her an opportunity and she’s off and running. Make a dis-paraging comment about cock-roaches, for example, and you’re in for it: Stockton will explain that the pests are perfectly fine, decent crea-

tures that simply seek out food and water; coincidentally, our homes happen to be perfectly suited to their habits. She might even pull out some photos of tropical cockroach-es, to demonstrate just how lovely they can be. The Bowie, Md., resident wasn’t always a great defender of insects. “As a girl, I ran from butterflies,” she recalled. “I was very happy to kill insects for you.” But after major-ing in land and water science in college and spending several years with a U.S. Department of Agriculture team that evaluated the health of waterways by studying the insects living nearby, she realized she had a knack for working with the small creatures. So she went

back to school and got a master’s degree in entomology. The Zoo job kind of fell into her lap. Stockton had worked briefly at a trade association for pest manage-ment professionals, but she quit around the time she got pregnant with her son. To stay busy, she vol-unteered at the Zoo’s invertebrate

exhibit, but after nine months as a mostly-stay-at-home mother, it was time for a real job. She contacted the Zoo with the intention of lining up a reference and heard that a posi-tion was open. “It was perfect,” she said. “I knew what I was get-ting into.” She says it’s still perfect. “The best part of the job is that not one thing stays the

same. It’s different every day — more dynamic than going to an office or a lab. I wouldn’t trade it for the world.” All of the invertebrate keepers — there are four — have to know how to feed and care for the roughly 100 species in the collection, includ-ing the octopus, jellyfish, spiders and anemones. Stockton is also responsible for all of the aspects of insect husbandry: choosing new varieties to feature in the exhibit’s display cases, then raising and minding them. Determining which of the millions of insect species to highlight is a tricky decision, but many simply don’t work in a zoo: If they must spend months or even years underground as grubs, then

live above ground for only a few weeks (like many beetle species), they’re probably not a great candi-date. What do work are stick insects, leaf cutter ants (a perennial favorite with visitors), and those hardy cock-roaches, all of which are currently on display.

It’s a science, but still an evolv-ing one. So doing the job well means staying on top of new devel-opments in the field, which has been turned sideways by DNA research techniques, and troubleshooting with colleagues via listserv. If, for

The People and Places of Northwest Washington September 7, 2011 ■ Page 15

By JESSICA GOULDCurrent Staff Writer

Valecia “Chee Chee” Parker doesn’t remember what happened after she felt the building shake. Thinking it was an earth-quake, she took cover in the nearest doorway. But she must have fallen to the floor and hit her head. Hard. When an ambulance transported Parker from her office at the Pentagon to a nearby hospital, she was covered with jet fuel. She suffered from smoke inhalation, a head injury, a series of burns, torn muscles and post-trau-matic stress disorder. “The people sitting 30 feet from me at their desks, they died,” she told the Community Foundation for the National Capital Region in 2002. “The people sitting 25 feet from me at the copy machine died. The people who were 15 feet from me were severely burned.” That, she could remember. But in the

weeks and months following the attack on the Pentagon, Parker had trouble remembering her name, phone number and address. Once a competitive body builder, she stumbled when she walked. No one could reverse that kind of tragedy.

And everyone wanted to help. Just ask Dan Mayers. Mayers was at his Massachusetts Avenue Heights home on Sept. 11, 2001, when a friend called to tell him about the terrorist attacks. The next day, Mayers drove to the Pentagon to survey the damage. “I wanted to be part of something,” he said. Mayers, after all, has always played a prominent role in the D.C. community. An attorney, he came to the area in 1960 to clerk for Supreme Court justice Felix Frankfurter. In 1968, he headed up the D.C. arm of Robert F. Kennedy’s campaign for president. Mayers began working at Wilmer Cutler Pickering when the firm was founded, and continued for 35 years, eventually becoming partner. Meanwhile, he served on the boards of Children’s National Medical Center, National

Children’s Research Center, Sidwell Friends School, the National Symphony Orchestra and WETA. By September 2001, Mayers was retired, but active — serving on the board of the Community Foundation for the National Capital Region, among other organizations. The foundation’s mission is to administer grant-making funds that have been established by individuals and corporations. And it didn’t take long before the organization began field-ing requests from donors who wanted to assist individuals affected by the 9/11 attacks. “Money started flowing in,” Mayers said. It came from lemonade stands and law offices, beef producers and basketball stars. The message was the same: People just wanted to help, however they could. So the foundation quickly established a new fund — called The Survivors’ Fund — to assist those who had been directly affected by

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Photo by Rick ReinhardDan Mayers, back row center, and fellow board members ran a fund to support those impacted by the Pentagon attack.

Bill Petros/The CurrentDonna Stockton, the main staff entomologist at the National Zoo, wants a chance to help you understand her babies a little bit better.

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British School of Washington Coming to school was very exciting because I can make new friends and learn about the American culture. Before school started, I was very bored. I had computer games to play, but I had no one to play with. My friends are in Singapore, and when it’s night here it is morning there. When I found out that school was starting in one week, I was so happy. I knew I could make new friends and learn new things like speaking French, which I know is going to be hard. On the orientation day I met another new kid who was going to be in my class. I hoped that Samuel and I could become good friends because he seemed like a nice kid. A few days later school started. At first I couldn’t find Samuel, but after our teacher asked us to queue up I saw him. We went up to our new classroom and after a few hours, we were very good

friends. During break and lunch-time, I made even more friends. At the end of the day I knew that I was going to like my new school!

— Chervin Lim, Year 5 York (fourth-grader)

Deal Middle School There has been lots of buzzing excitement at Alice Deal Middle School since the school year start-ed. Extracurricular activities have already been introduced to the stu-dents. New lunches are being made fresh every day in the Deal kitchen. There are lots of changes going on at the school. Some of the sixth-grade and language teachers have been switched around. The music meet-ing went great, drawing all the kids who are interested in partici-pating in the musical activities the school has to offer. We have already heard about sports and cheerleading tryouts. We have many more sixth-grade students this year, so the

school is always busy. All of the students have been going to their language classes — French, Spanish and Chinese. They have also been participating in gym, music and art. That’s all for now. Talk to you next week!

— Ava Zechiel, seventh-grader

Paul Public Charter School What I would like to talk about in this news article is my first day of school. Everybody knows that the first day of school is really scary when you are a new student. You go into the school and you are scared about what will happen. You go to your homeroom, and they give you a schedule. When you walk through the hallways, you are scared that everybody is looking at you. When you go to all your class-es, there are a lot of papers your parents have to sign. When you go to lunch, no one is talking — it is just quiet. When you leave, you don’t see anyone giving dap or saying bye or “I’m going to text you,” you just leave. When you get home, you are relieved that you don’t have to be quiet. When your mom asks how the first day of school was, you say: “Fun” and just run your mouth. After that you are ready for the next day!

— Alicia Fulford, seventh-grader

Hello, my name is JaVon Quigley. The natural disasters that happened last month were very

interesting to me. These disasters affected the people of D.C. On Aug. 23, there was an earth-quake. This earthquake was not a major one, but it was a surprise for D.C. because we usually don’t get that many natural disasters here. This earthquake has damaged my school’s gym, but not severely. This quake also damaged the Washington National Cathedral. How did it affect you? — JaVon Quigley, seventh-grader

School Without Walls This week the entire student body and faculty of the School Without Walls briefly relocated to Eastern High School due to dam-age to our school from the recent earthquake. Though Eastern’s cavernous building easily swallowed up our school, Walls students adapted quickly, finding classrooms and learning their way around. For those two days, classes resumed as normal. We were cordoned off from Eastern students by both our facul-ty and their own, for reasons that were never quite explained to us. Even without them actively pre-venting it, we might never have made contact with them due to the sheer size of the building. But after school ended on Monday, a fresh-man from Walls was reported to have gotten into a fight with an Eastern High student over an iPod.

No one was seriously hurt, and the remainder of our two-day stay con-tinued without incident, though members of the Eastern and Walls staff were seen conversing with those involved. Even so, we returned to the “old” building almost as if we had never left. The year is looking to be a good one. Sports teams such as boys and girls crew and soccer have been practicing and holding tryouts, preparing for the competi-tive season that is sure to come. Interest meetings have been held regarding a spring trip to Germany, and those interested in running for student government positions were seen hurrying to acquire signatures for their appli-cations. Though I cannot speak for all students, I’m happy to be back.

— Keanu Ross-Cabrera, 12th-grader

Shepherd Elementary Shepherd Elementary School had an open house for all students and their families the Friday before the first day of school. It was such an exciting day! Students ran into their friends; they also had a chance to visit their previous teachers and discov-er their new teachers for this school year. All teachers were cleaning, organizing and decorating their rooms for the first day of school. I helped Ms. Holt and Madame Gadié collect trash. Speaking of our French teacher, there is now a real wall separating the French and Spanish class-rooms! The open house was definitely a success. All the students I spoke to told me they had a lot of fun. Have a great school year, fellow Mustangs! I encourage you to share news tips and comments with me. Please contact me at snherisse@yahoo.com

— Sophia-Rose Herisse, fourth-grader

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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

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example, the millipedes aren’t thriv-ing as they should, Stockton will post a question to one of her ento-mology email lists to find out what others are doing differently. With all the time she spends with the animals, it’s not surprising that Stockton gets to know them pretty well. “I can tell the personalities of a lot of the cockroaches here,” she said. It’s kind of a ludicrous statement — or at least it sounds that way, if you don’t know much about insects. That’s the real objective of the invertebrate exhibit: to educate visi-tors and encourage them to tune in to these smaller denizens of the animal kingdom. The exhibit’s staff — not just the keepers, but also the 60-some aides and volunteers — make a specific effort to talk, even briefly, with every visitor who enters the building. Stockton estimates that she

spends between 30 and 50 percent of her time talking to the public. But things have changed over the last five years or so. In the past, not many Zoo visitors knew the inverte-brate exhibit existed, but those who made it over had a particular interest in the topic. Eventually, though, the Zoo administration improved the signage indicating the exhibit, and now the place is just about always busy. But according to Stockton, people tend to rush through without really taking in what the exhibit has to offer. “You stop and talk, but you just wish it could be longer,” she said. That means she doesn’t often get the chance to share her passions. A current one is native bees, a catego-ry that include 1,400 species of pol-linators, but not, contrary to popular perception, the honeybee, which is actually a Mediterranean import. That’s the kind of thing that, if it were up to Stockton, everyone would be aware of. And whether or not they care as they should, she’s doing her best to let them know.

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the attack on the Pentagon. It was just one of many funds that sprang up in the chaotic days following the attacks. And organizers felt like they were creating the playbook as they went along. “We didn’t know the needs,” Mayers said. But they knew there would be many. So Mayers and his fellow board members convened a group of com-munity representatives to draft a kind of constitution for the fund; something “simple,” he said, but “comprehensive.” Counselors who had been on the ground in Oklahoma City warned that it might take years before the emotional and psychological impact of the tragedy set in. So, while the central fund estab-lished by Congress sought to com-pensate families based on the earn-ings of a lost loved one, The Survivors Fund focused on recovery — channeling its efforts through a team of social workers at Northern Virginia Family Service in Falls Church. “The thing that really set us apart is entering through the social ser-vices system,” Mayers said. “We didn’t give any checks to anybody. We paid for various services [to meet the] needs they had.” And, Mayers said, “we didn’t spend one cent on administrative expenses.” For example, while Pentagon worker Parker worked on regaining her strength through physical thera-py, The Survivors’ Fund helped cover her mortgage bills and student loan payments. The fund also helped flight atten-dant Christine Fischer learn about the Japanese relaxation technique reiki to address the depression she felt following the attacks. And when Dean and Donna Taylor, a childless couple in

Colorado, agreed to take in their orphaned nephews, the Survivors’ Fund helped them build an addition to their home. Mayers admits that he was ini-tially skeptical about the decision to focus on social services. “I thought it was something of a gimmick,” he said. But as it turned out, he said, that the emphasis ended up making The Survivors’ Fund a success. “Here were people in the days and months after 9/11,” he said. “We were the only ones ... helping them negotiate the system and have people to talk to.” The fund distributed $25 million in assistance, ultimately closing its doors after the money ran out in March 2008. “We were there when they needed us,” Mayers said. And while there were some peo-ple who wanted more help, or dif-ferent services, the message from most survivors was simple: Thank you. In fact, many, like Parker, are trying to help others. As of a few years ago, she was doing her best to rebuild her strength, and beat back the memo-ries. But when her office returned to the Pentagon’s area of impact, she decided to move on — and started selling candles to benefit people with brain injuries. “It’s my way of giving back,” she told the commu-nity foundation in 2004. Mayers said his work with The Survivors’ Fund was one of the most meaningful things he’s ever done. But, then again, when faced with people in need, he can’t imag-ine doing anything else. And so, as the streams swelled and rivers overtook their banks in Vermont after Hurricane Irene last week, Mayers left the comforts of his country house near Woodstock to survey the damage. He drove past broken bridges, collapsed roads and waterlogged homes. And, once again, he asked, “How can I help?”

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“These largest, healthiest trees have the fullest, most robust crowns,” Eutsler said in an inter-view. “The leaves and stems hold an enormous amount of water, and they literally intercept the wind.” Hurricane-force winds, he said, can blow the water-soaked trees over, just as they might blow over a boat with an oversized sail. It’s not a failure of the root sys-tem, Eutsler said, although rain from the hurricane can saturate the soil and reduce the friction support-ing the tree. “Standing dead trees weather the storm” because they don’t have a crown of heavy leaves to catch the rain and wind, he said. The citywide toll so far, includ-ing street trees that fell into public or private space, as well as trees that didn’t fall but suffered enough dam-age to require removal, is 351 trees — small and large. Eutsler’s rough tally includes about 45 trees of diameter 30 inches or greater felled by the hurricane. Hurricane Isabel, in the summer of 2003, caused more tree damage because it hit the city directly, as opposed to the glancing blow struck by Irene, Eutsler said. Residents of the 3600 block of Upton Street, for instance, suffered a milder fallout from Irene. They lost electricity for three days when a big old oak keeled over during the height of the late August storm, tak-ing down power lines and some branches of a small fruit tree before landing in a yard across the street. Resident Richard Danzig had praise for city workers, who spent two days clearing the street, and Pepco workers, who then restored power the following night. But

Danzig said he’s now worried about another street tree on the same block that appears to have shallow roots and a slight lean to the south. Pepco workers, he noted, cautiously strung a thick new power cable — but on the north side of that tree. Nearby, a house at Quebec Street and Idaho Avenue suffered a double whammy, hit by both a large maple and a utility pole. But by Tuesday, two days after the storm passed, contractors hired by the city had removed the large trunk and pole, and most of the debris. Damage to the home appeared relatively minor. Irene also did a number on the D.C. Department of Transportation’s budget. There’s not only the cost of tree removal, but also the upcoming sidewalk repair. “This storm may cost us $1 million,” agency spokes-man John Lisle said, but he was unable to provide exact figures before The Current’s deadline. Lisle noted that the city may be eligible for some federal reimbursement. The District covers the expense of tree removal when a street tree damages private property, or when a private tree falls on public land, Eutsler said. The cost ranges from $2,000 to $5,000 for removing a large fallen tree, he said, adding, “We in the city government have never said, ‘If our tree fell on your house, you clean it up.’” But homeowners or their insur-ers are liable for repairing damages to the property itself if the tree was healthy before the storm. A state-ment by the D.C. Office of Risk Management explains: “In order for the District to be found liable for damage caused as a result of a fallen tree, there must be some evidence of negligence on the part of the District, for example, notice that a tree was diseased or damaged prior to a storm.”

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An apparently unhealthy — and very big — oak tree in Tenleytown came down during the hurricane, landing unevenly on the front porch roof at 3716 Yuma St., where Sam Langerman has lived since 1985. Fortunately, Langerman and his wife, so sure that the old oak across the street would come down, were sleeping on the first floor. Langerman, still cleaning branches from his yard a week after the storm, said the old oak had recently been marked for removal by city arborists. “They were on notice,” he said, “and all the neigh-bors said, ‘When the storm hits, that tree’s going to go.’” On the Saturday night when Irene’s winds hit 60 miles an hour, Langerman said he saw a flash, then heard a crash. The tree trunk ripped out of the sidewalk, fell across Yuma, grazed another oak in front of his yard, sending more branches flying, and then hit his porch. Both city and Pepco crews did a good job cleaning up “that horrible

mess,” he said, clearing the road and getting power back on by that Monday night. But the ill health of the old oak seemed evident when they sawed through the trunk, exposing a huge black hole in the stump. Now Langerman is preparing to file a damage claim, and hoping the District will accept liability. He’s also trying to get the Urban Forestry Administration to take a look at an oak in his tree box, which is not only missing limbs now but also leaning ominously toward his house. The city’s supervisory forester, Earl Eutsler, said the tree that hit Langerman’s house had been identi-fied as unhealthy and marked for removal just two weeks before the storm. He said the northern red oaks on that block are particularly sus-ceptible to wind damage because of their unusually large leaves, and that at least four have failed in recent years. But Eutsler said his agency has done a good job of reducing the wait for removal of unhealthy trees to an average of 20 days.

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Realtors for homes in Upper Northwest often point out the area’s signature combi-

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neighborhoods and access to city amenities. But a Cleveland Park contemporary-cum-Colonial ups the ante for such claims, offering a secret-garden sensibility moments from Wisconsin Avenue’s commer-cial center. Realtor Elizabeth Russell notes the tucked-away amenities just beyond the back fence of this 1976 home, which includes a path to the tennis courts, dog park, tot lot and community garden of McLean Gardens. There’s also a stream that has contributed more than charm to this home: A lower-level fireplace, one of three, is ringed by fieldstone gathered from that brook. The home’s main hearth is in the living room, which is lined, like most of the four levels, by hard-wood planks. Classic proportions and gently arched six-over-six win-dows mean this room reads as clas-sically Colonial, but two tall, slen-der windows flanking the fireplace

hint that traditional features here will come with a twist. That principle holds true in the center hall’s powder room. A utili-tarian space is now a highlight thanks to the vanity here: A slab of live-edge wood gives the space a natural warmth and is on-trend to boot; the undulating edge is spied on wood pieces everywhere these days. Also unlike in a classic Colonial, this kitchen is not hidden in the rear of the property. Sandwiched between a family room at the back and a casual-din-ing space at the front, the open-plan space is certainly the heart of this home. With cabinets sporting a warm gray and countertops in creamy tumbled-stone tiles, the spot offers an updated French Country vibe. Thanks to that open plan, cooks have an easy sightline through the family room to the large outdoor deck, lawn and forest beyond. Another sunny room — visitors will love the light here — waits opposite a center hall from the kitchen. Lined by white wood pan-eling and bookshelves, the space could be a library or a formal din-ing room. Or, with a little work, Russell pointed out, owners could

install a first-floor bedroom suite, thanks to plumbing that’s already in place behind a wall here. Upstairs, four bedrooms wait on the home’s second level. All offer ample nat-ural light through single-pane windows — another contemporary riff on this property’s Colonial bones. A warm red-walled master bed-room offers double closets and a good amount of square footage. An alcove behind the spot where most residents would locate a bed is fit-ted with lighting, making it good display space as well as a helpful way to read in bed. The room is open to the master bathroom, which showcases a clawfoot tub but also features a walk-in shower. More live-edge wood acts as a sink surround here; the warm material works well with the porcelain and metal finishes in the room. A hall bath serves the other bed-rooms and features a tumbled-stone

tile lining a shower-tub combo. With five bedrooms in the home, buyers who can afford to sacrifice one may be interested in extending the master suite to incor-porate the smallest bedroom on this floor. It was once a dressing room for the master suite and could be again; hook-ups are in place for a stacked washer and dryer. A top level is carpeted and open to possibilities. As-is, the spot could be a playroom, home office or more. With a little effort, any-thing could work here. The bottom level’s fieldstone fireplace is centered in a family room that opens to a back terrace.

That space is separated by a fence from a parking pad, which is only one of the home’s parking options; there’s also a circular drive in front. Back inside, this level is also home to a room that can be easily used as a bedroom, a full kitchen and bath, a laundry room and a storage area. The space can easily be a hangout area for a large fami-ly, an in-law suite or both. This five-bedroom, 3.5-bath home at 3310 Idaho Ave. is offered for $1,193,310. For more informa-tion, contact Elizabeth Russell of Long & Foster Real Estate at 202-966-2598 or elizabeth.russell@longandfoster.com.

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The commission will meet at 7 p.m. Sept. 19 at Our Lady Queen of the Americas Church, California Street and Phelps Place NW. For details, contact david-anc2d01@aol.com or visit anc2d.org.

ANC 2EGeorgetownCloisters

The commission will meet at 6:30 p.m. Oct. 3 at Georgetown Visitation Preparatory School, 1524 35th St. NW. For details, call 202-724-7098 or visit anc2e.com.

ANC 2FLogan Circle

The commission will meet at 7 p.m. Sept. 7 at Washington Plaza Hotel, 10 Thomas Circle NW. Agenda items include:■ announcements.■ police report.■ consideration of requested street closures for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Light the Night Walk;So Others Might Eat’s Trot for Hunger; and AIDS Walk Washington.■ consideration of Alcoholic Beverage Regulation Administration matters: Mood Lounge, 1318 9th St., license revocation; Ghana Cafe, 1336 14th St.; Tortilla Coast Restaurant, 1454-1460 P St., volun-tary agreement; and The Pig, 1320 14th St., voluntary agreement.■ committee reports.■ consideration of community development committee matters: a request by the National Park Service for the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority to change the name of the Smithsonian Metro station to National Mall-Smithsonian; 901 New York Ave., Starbucks, sidewalk cafe applica-tion; 700 14th St., Starbucks, side-walk cafe application; 1328 14th St., applications to the Board of Zoning Adjustment and the Historic Preservation Review Board for a new residential building with ground-floor retail; 1321-1325 Naylor Court, Stables at Naylor Court, applications to the Board of Zoning Adjustment and the Historic Preservation Review Board for ren-ovation of a former stable to con-vert it to a residential building; and 1275 Pennsylvania Ave., building renovation requiring Commission of Fine Arts approval under the Shipstead-Luce Act.■ discussion of redistricting issues affecting the commission’s area, including voting precinct boundar-ies.■ discussion of noise complaints regarding Donovan House.■ discussion of a community round-table invitation to D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton. For details, call 202-667-0052 or visit anc2f.org.

ANC 3BGlover Park

The commission will meet at 7 p.m. Sept. 8 at Stoddert Elementary School and Recreation Center, 4001 Calvert St. NW. Agenda items include:■ police report.■ consideration of a grant applica-tion by the Community Council for the Homeless at Friendship Place.■ update on the advisory neighbor-hood commission redistricting pro-cess.■ update on the commission’s park-ing initiative.■ open forum. For details, call 202-338-2969, contact info@anc3b.org or visit anc3b.org.

ANC 3CCleveland ParkWoodley ParkMassachusetts Avenue Heights

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.

ANC 3DSpring ValleyWesley Heights

The commission will meet at 7 p.m. Sept. 7 in the new medical building at Sibley Memorial Hospital, 5215 Loughboro Road NW. Agenda items include:■ police report.■ presentation by Brenda Barber of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on recommendations for the clean-up of 4825 Glenbrook Road.■ update by Jerry Price, senior vice president for real estate and con-struction at Sibley Memorial Hospital, on the hospital’s master plan.■ community concerns.■ presentation by American University on the planned North Hall dormitory, the subject of a fur-ther-processing application filed with the Zoning Commission on July 19.■ discussion of a resolution on the taxation of non-D.C. municipal bonds.■ consideration of a public-space application for 2507 Foxhall Road.■ consideration of a Board of Zoning Adjustment application for a special exception to allow a two-story addition at 5133 Sherier Place.■ consideration of an Alcoholic Beverage Control application by Al Forno Pizzeria and Trattoria, 3201 New Mexico Ave., for a restaurant-class license (Italian restaurant serv-ing dishes such as pizza and panini; no live entertainment; daily hours of operation, sales, service and con-sumption from 10 a.m. to midnight in the summer garden and interior). For details, call 202-363-4130 or visit anc3d.org.

ANC 3ETenleytownAmerican University Park

The commission will meet at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 15 at St. Mary Armenian Apostolic Church, 42nd and Fessenden streets NW. Agenda items include:■ announcements.■ open forum.■ consideration of a grant request from the Lisner-Louise-Dickson-Hurt Home.■ discussion of and possible vote on a resolution supporting the D.C. Department of Transportation’s proposal to add morning-rush-hour turn restrictions on 43rd Street and a four-way stop sign at 46th and Fessenden streets.■ discussion of and possible vote on a resolution regarding Janney Elementary School’s 5K Fun Run on Oct. 15.■ discussion of and possible vote on a resolution regarding measures to make the Wilson Aquatic Center appealing to multiple constituen-cies. For details, visit anc3e.org.

ANC 3FForest Hills

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

ANC 3/4GChevy Chase

The commission will meet at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 12 at the Chevy Chase Community Center, Connecticut Avenue and McKinley Street NW. Agenda items include:■ announcements.■ discussion of a ceremonial reso-lution to rename the Northampton Oak in honor of Felix Lapinsky as a way to recognize his dedication to one of the oldest trees in the District.■ consideration of the use of public space for a curb cut at 3803 Huntington St.■ consideration of an application for the designation of 3901 Jocelyn St. as a historic landmark.■ discussion of boundary proposals for the commission’s single-mem-ber districts and a report on the redistricting task forces for wards 3 and 4. For details, call 202-363-5803 or send an email to chevychase-anc3@verizon.net.

ANC 4AColonial VillageShepherd Park

The commission will meet at 7:15 p.m. Oct. 4 at Fort Stevens Recreation Center, 13th and Van Buren streets NW. For details, call 202-450-6225.

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level.” Gwyn Jones, president of the Sierra Club’s D.C. chapter, said she’s pleased to see the mayor renew his commitment to the city’s environment. “I think it’s good that he’s tak-ing it on,” she said in an interview. And she said there’s plenty of room for improvement. For example, Jones said she’d like to see the city reduce its carbon footprint by strength-ening its public transit system. “Continued commitment to our public transportation is going to be essential,” she said. “We see the streetcar initiative continue to be pushed back

and pushed back and pushed back. I think people lose faith when they see these plans and nothing comes of it.” Meanwhile, she said, the city should expand successful initiatives such as bike lanes. “What’s been happening with the bike lanes has been great,” she said. “It would be great to see more bike lanes east of the river.” Furthermore, Jones said she’d like to see the city extend its green building requirements to include renovations as well as new con-struction. “Buildings use 40 percent of our energy,” she noted. Jones also said the city should do a better job with recycling. “Make it easy for people to do it,” she said, “by providing incentives or enforcement for businesses to follow through.” And she said D.C. should place a stronger

emphasis on stewardship of its rivers and parks. “Make sure that our street trees are cared for and being replaced,” she said. “Let’s face it, we all like walking down tree-lined streets. And trees do a lot for us.” After all, local environmental activist Nina Dodge said, D.C. must keep striving to advance its already-progressive policies. For example, she said, as recently as 2006, D.C. was a leader in green building. Now it has been eclipsed by other cities. “There’s no rea-son we can’t put ourselves at the forefront once again,” she said. So Dodge said she’s thrilled about the administration’s focus on sustainability. “We’re delighted that the mayor has risen to the challenge this way and put this so firmly on his docket,” she said.

Still, Jones said it’s not just up to city lead-ers to make D.C. a greener place; everyone has a role to play. “We’re looking at how we can make sure that people who care about the District’s envi-ronment really participate in this,” she said. Jones said the Sierra Club will host con-versations related to the sustainability plan in the coming months. Meanwhile, Dodge and fellow organizers are putting together the third annual Green Living Expo, set to take place Sept. 24 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the University of the District of Columbia. The event grew out of the D.C. Office of Planning’s Neighborhood Sustainability Indicators Project in the North Cleveland Park, Forest Hills and Tenleytown areas. Details are at greenlivingdc.org.

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District for 12 years and in the Park View neighborhood for the past six, she saw a need for a hardware store in Petworth and decided to take matters into her own hands. “Petworth is a very commercial-ly underserved area, and I think our neighborhood can support a hard-ware store,” said Stom. “There are a lot of young families moving in who are renovating homes, and they need a place to pick up items to maintain and repair their homes.” The Georgia Avenue Task Force, a community group focused on business development, asked resi-dents and business owners in April 2010 what types of new retail they most wanted in the area. Nearly 700 people responded to the survey, and a hardware store was among the “most desirable” stores, according to task force co-founder Sylvia Robinson. “We’re looking forward to Anne’s hardware store opening,” Robinson said. “We always like for the businesses to interact and be a part of the community by participat-ing in different activities, and she already does that now and we expect she will continue to do so.” The new store will be located at 1240 Upshur St., a 7,000-square-foot space formerly occupied by Rainbow Auto Body & Paint. Stom said the store will include a lawn and garden center and will stock about 15,000 products. Tools will also be available to rent, and cus-tomers will have access to an inven-tory of more than 80,000 items from the Ace warehouse. Stom is also thinking about offering “Tool Time with Annie” workshops to teach customers home-improvement skills. Stom had urban customers in mind when she chose the location and amenities: The site is located about a half-mile from the Georgia Avenue/Petworth Metro station and near multiple bus lines. There will also be two Zipcar spaces at the store, one of which will house a pickup truck. Customers biking to the store will be able to choose between parking their own bicycle at the racks Stom plans to install in

front and using a nearby planned Capital Bikeshare station. The store’s location is part of a developing area in Petworth that includes a newly renovated library, a Friday farmers market and several restaurants. Advisory neighborhood com-missioner Joseph Vaughan said the neighborhood seems ready for the new store. “There’s a large segment of our community who really focus on the ‘buy local’ concept,” he said. Stom said hiring residents who live near the store will be a priority. She plans to partner with local groups to recruit, including So Others Might Eat, Jubilee Jobs and the Latin American Youth Center’s YouthBuild program in Columbia Heights. “I definitely intend to hire local-ly, and to work with local workforce development programs to hire local residents,” she said. “I think it’s really important on a lot of different levels.” Responding to Walmart’s plans to open a shop farther north on Georgia Avenue, at the intersection with Missouri Avenue, Stom said she is not that concerned. “It will definitely have an impact, but I think that we’re going to sell differ-ent product lines of a higher quali-ty,” she said. “I hope that if we’re there for a couple of years before Walmart comes in, we will have established a presence as a good community anchor that will make people loyal to the store.” While Ace Hardware is a nation-ally known brand, the stores them-selves are locally owned. “I think people think of Ace as being a franchise, and it’s actually a coop-erative owned by the individual store owners,” said Stom. “As an independent owner, I can respond to the needs of the community, but I also have Ace’s remarkable support network behind me.” According to Ace representative Rob Frost, a vast majority of the company’s owners are male. But Stom is actually the second woman to open an Ace hardware store in the District: Gina Schaefer opened her first Ace store, Logan Hardware, in 2003, and now owns four stores in D.C. and three in Maryland. Stom said Schaefer has been “incredibly supportive.”

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getting a good quality product that’s local — a lot of times you pay less for a local product than you do for one that’s shipped across the coun-try — we’re bringing down costs,” he said. Mills also noted that two food vendors on a pilot contract are costing the school system less than incumbent Chartwells. Mills takes the time to taste-test the farm produce before approving it for use in school meals. Thus far he has travelled to approximately 30 local and regional farms to test vari-ous greens, vegetables and fruits to make sure they meet his standards, including the Spring Valley Farm and Orchard in Romney, W.Va., which provides a number of differ-ent greens to school meals; Richardson Farm in Owing Mills, Md., which grows collard greens and kale for the schools; and Crown Orchards in Batesville, Va., which

provides apples, peaches and nectar-ines. Using local food is a priority for Wells, who said 37 percent of school meals were prepared with local pro-duce last year, compared with 4 percent the year before. He noted that in fall and spring, the system can use more local produce than it can during winter months. At the schools on Friday, the salad bar offered items from its “Southwest Barbeque Chicken Salad” menu, which included romaine, mesclun and local baby spinach mixes, local corn and pep-pers along with other vegetables, parmesan cheese and, of course, barbecued chicken strips. Salad dressings are always light or fat-free. Each day of the week brings a different salad-bar menu, with the rotation changing at the beginning of each month. Other new menu items include fish tacos, shrimp with grits and Mexican Caesar salad. One historically popular item

that has remained on menu is lasa-gna, and according to Mills, most students don’t notice that it’s vege-tarian. The cost of a paid student meal at the salad bar is $1.60; it’s free for students on the reduced- and free-lunch programs. Two registered dieticians who signed up through community list-servs to volunteer with the “Eat More Salad” initiative were on hand Friday at Wilson to help students build balanced salads that reflect new Food and Drug Administration food guidelines. “It was great to see how enthusiastically the kids ran toward the salad bar,” said Lara Khalil. “If you’re not fueled with proper energy, you can’t learn,” said Mills. His office is taking that concept one step further by looking into whether the increased student par-ticipation in school breakfast and lunch programs is having an impact on test scores. Mills is currently analyzing the figures.

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thought.’” Now she’s thrilled to be taking on retail. When doors open today, customers will be able to pick up cold soups from the shop’s fridge, or buy hot soups and sit at one of her 25 seats. The shop will start with two soups and one salad per day, and it will also serve fresh

bread, pita chips and brownies. Importantly for existing custom-ers, Soupergirl will continue its deliveries: Soup lovers who can’t make it to 314 Carroll St. NW can place orders at thesoupergirl.com for delivery the following week in most of D.C., as well as some parts of Maryland and Virginia, or for pickup at one of nine locations. Soupergirl will be open 10 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Friday. Polon plans to eventually add later evening and Sunday hours, but she will remain closed on Saturdays. And will Polon get to rest on the Sabbath? “That’s the one day I don’t set my alarm. I’ll say that.” But she doesn’t really have much time to rest. “It’s been more than full-time for three and a half years,” she said. “I still have things on my to-do list from 2008.”

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week. The hospital, George Washington University and the numerous nearby office buildings are the reasons for the quick-grab focus of the new store. There’s an emphasis on both creating easy lunch options and enabling shop-pers to pick up dinner on the way home without hassle. In the meat department, for instance, Joe Wood says the store is working on developing a system that would allow customers to pay for their cut at lunch and then pick it up after work. The counter already has a system for custom dry-age orders: Spy a piece you like, and “we’ll put your name on it,” he said. Despite the focus on quick and easy, the Foggy Bottom store is a full-service grocery, and though smaller than suburban shops, it carries all that an aver-age cook will need. The meat department is extensive, as is the fish counter, and the shop also sells beer and wine. The bulk section here includes bins of snack items like rice crackers, and nearby is the “Whole Body” department, featuring toiletries and serve-yourself bath salts (good gifts for visiting the hospital, the staff notes). Two final features might be familiar to those who have trolled the chain’s area stores: a “cartalator” (also

at the Rockville store) that transports your shopping cart from first floor to second, and a checkout system (also featured in Friendship Heights) in which a screen tells you when it’s your turn. Getting there can be trickier. There’s free 90-minute parking for shoppers, but you must enter a parking garage from 22nd Street, drive down to level P3, and then enter a separate — and small — Whole Foods-designated section. Bring the ticket to the register for validation. Whole Foods might prefer you walk or bike, any-way: The store is setting up bicycle racks outside, and its front door practically opens into the Foggy Bottom Metro station. The store has other eco chops as well: It’s the first D.C. supermarket to win GreenChill certification from the Environmental Protection Agency. The honor indi-cates its efforts to “reduce harmful refrigerant emissions and decrease … impact on the ozone layer and climate change,” according to an email from the agency. The Foggy Bottom store received a gold-level award, mean-ing it will prevent “about 75 percent of the refrigerant emissions of a typical U.S. supermarket.” Whole Foods also plans to donate many of its unsold products to nearby Miriam’s Kitchen, which provides meals and support services to the area’s home-less population.

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memorating the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. A 7:30 p.m. concert and ceremo-ny on Friday will be the first public event at the Cathedral, which will reopen for daily tours on Monday. The safety netting will remain in place until engineers can inspect the 102-foot-high ceiling up close, and a fence restricts access to much of the building’s exterior. Reporters invited to tour the building last week were asked to wear hard hats. Officials said the difficulty of accessing the nave’s ceiling means the inspection probably won’t take place until after the Christmas sea-son, when scaffolding can be con-structed. Engineers already went over the lower ceilings “inch by inch” and checked the higher ceil-ing with binoculars and a spotlight, said chief stonemason Joe Alonso. Mortar that fell was likely already loose, and no additional pieces appear to have fallen since the net-ting was strung, he said. “We didn’t see anything serious at all,” Alonso said. “There’s no big cracks that appeared, or any big stones about to come down. The little bits of mortar in the joints are a concern, of course; that’s why we’re having this debris netting strung across the nave to catch any further debris pieces that may be dislodged and would come down.” It was the outside of the Cathedral

— its high, decorative towers — that suffered damage, not the struc-ture of the building, said Alonso, likening the earthquake’s effect on the towers to “cracking a whip.” “I really can picture the Cathedral, that energy coming up through these massive walls — and of course they’re not going to move,” he said. “But on the outside

you’ve got all these pinnacles and embellishments, and where’s that energy going?” Officials said that the cost of the damage hasn’t yet been calculated. But it will undoubtedly cost mil-lions of dollars and take many years to restore the Cathedral’s damaged towers — including both decorative and structural elements — to their original form, they said. The build-ing was not insured for earthquake damage and, as a religious institu-tion, cannot receive public funding. Residents of the Cathedral Court Condominium, across Wisconsin Avenue from the Cathedral, are hosting a happy-hour fundraiser for the Cathedral from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. tomorrow at Cactus Cantina, 3330 Wisconsin Ave. NW. The Cathedral “will count on the kindness of people across the coun-try to help rebuild the building,” said Geller.

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eignpolicyandEuropeanstudiesattheSchoolofAdvancedInternationalStudiesBolognaCenter,willdiscusshisbook“TheColdWar.”5:30p.m.Free.RomeBuildingAuditorium,JohnsHopkinsUniversitySchoolofAdvancedInternationalStudies,1619MassachusettsAve.NW.202-663-5626. ■NationalPortraitGalleryeducatorMiriamSzubinwilldiscussNancyReagan.6to6:30p.m.Free.NationalPortraitGallery,8thandFstreetsNW.202-633-1000. ■AgallerytalkonJacobLawrence’spaintingswillfocuson“OnceUponaPicture:LawrenceasStoryteller.”6and7p.m.Donationsuggested.PhillipsCollection,160021stSt.NW.202-387-2151. ■NationalGalleryofArtcuratorofmod-ernandcontemporaryartHarryCooperwilldiscuss“ColorBlast:MorrisLouisatthePhillips.”6:30p.m.Donationsuggested.PhillipsCollection,160021stSt.NW.202-387-2151. ■SachaZ.Scoblicwilldiscussherbook“Unwasted:MyLushSobriety.”6:30p.m.Free.Barnes&Noble,55512thSt.NW.202-347-0176. ■D.C.OfficeofPlanningdirectorHarrietTregoningandotherpanelistswilldiscusshow“bigboxretail”isaffectingD.C.’splan-ning,landuse,transportationandeconomicpolicies.6:30p.m.$20;$12forstudents.Reservationsrequired.NationalBuildingMuseum,401FSt.NW.202-272-2448. ■ThomasL.Friedman(shown)andMichaelMandelbaumwilldiscusstheirbook“ThatUsedtoBeUs.”7p.m.$12inadvance;$15onthedayoftheevent.Sixth&IHistoricSynagogue,600ISt.NW.202-364-1919. ■ArtistChrisMartinwilldiscusshisartis-ticprocess,myriadinspirationsandprepara-tionsleadinguptotheexhibition“Chris

Martin:PaintingBig.”7p.m.$15.CorcoranGalleryofArt,50017thSt.NW.202-639-1770.

Films ■TheAmericanRepertoireserieswillfeatureJohnHuston’s1941film“TheMalteseFalcon.”6:30p.m.Free.NationalPortraitGallery/SmithsonianAmericanArtMuseum,8thandFstreetsNW.202-633-1000. ■TheDCShortsFilmFestivalwillopenwithascreeningofninefilms,including“After-SchoolSpecial,”basedonaNeilLaButescriptaboutaseeminglyinnocentteacherwhospurnsapotentialsuitor;“SheWastheOne,”aboutmemoriesofalovedonekilledbythefallingWorldTradeCenter;and“SpiralTransition,”aboutthefilmmak-er’sevolvingrelationshipwithhismotherashetransitionsgenders.7p.m.$13.50to$16.50.Landmark’sEStreetCinema,55511thSt.NW.dcshorts.com. The festival will continue through Sept. 18 at various venues. ■TheCharlesGuggenheimCenterfortheDocumentaryFilmwillpresentthe2010film“LunchLine,”aboutthenationalschoollunchprogram.Apost-screeningdiscussionwillfeatureformerSecretaryofAgricultureDanGlickman,nutri-tionistMargoWootanandfilmmakerMichaelGraziano,amongothers.7p.m.Free.McGowanTheater,NationalArchivesBuilding,PennsylvaniaAvenuebetween7thand9thstreetsNW.202-357-5000. ■CodePinkDCwillpresenttheAlJazeeradocumentary“ShoutingintheDark,”abouttheuprisingsintheislandkingdomofBahrain.7p.m.Free.CullenRoom,BusboysandPoets,10255thSt.NW.202-387-7638.

Performance ■TheLocalDanceCommissioningProjectwillfeature“Hammock,”acollabora-tiveworkthatusesmovement,textandanoriginalsounddesigntoexaminenotionsofrestandrestlessnessintoday’ssociety.6p.m.Free.MillenniumStage,KennedyCenter.202-467-4600.The performance will continue Friday at 6 p.m.

Walks and tours ■Aparkrangerwillleadanall-agesnaturehikeinMontroseParkandpointoutearlysignsofautumn.10a.m.Free.MontrosePark,RStreetbetween30thand31ststreetsNW.202-895-6070. ■Aparkrangerwillleadages8andolderonatouroftheoldesthouseintheDistrict.Noon.Free.OldStoneHouse,3051MSt.NW.202-426-6851. ■ASmithsonianhorticulturistwillleadatourofthemuseum’s“VictoryGarden”anddiscusssomeoftheplantsthere.1p.m.Free.Welcomedesk,ConstitutionAvenueentrance,NationalMuseumofAmericanHistory,14thStreetandConstitutionAvenueNW.202-633-1000.The tour will repeat Sept. 22 at 1 p.m.

Friday,Sept.9

Concerts ■CharlesMiller,ministerofmusicattheNationalCityChristianChurch,willpresentanorganrecital.12:15p.m.Free.NationalCityChristianChurch,5ThomasCircleNW.202-797-0103. ■The“JazzintheGarden”serieswillfea-

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Friday, SePtember 9■Concert: PianistRobertoHidalgowillperformworksbyChávez,Copland,Bernstein,delaFallaandChopin.7p.m.Free;reservationssuggested.MexicanCulturalInstitute,282916thSt.NW.rsvp@instituteofmexicodc.org.

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turetheGregHatzaORGANization.5to8:30p.m.Free.SculptureGarden,NationalGalleryofArt,7thStreetandConstitutionAvenueNW.202-737-4215. ■TheWashingtonNationalCathedralandthePentagonMemorialFundwillpres-entaperformanceofBrahms’“Requiem”inhonorofthevictimsandsurvivorsofthe9/11attackonthePentagon,theirfamilies,emergencyrespondersandthemilitaryper-sonnelwhohavediedintheIraqandAfghanistanwars.7:30p.m.Free;ticketsrequired.WashingtonNationalCathedral,MassachusettsandWisconsinavenuesNW.202-537-2300. ■ViolinistEvaSteinschadenandpianistAlexanderVavtarwillperformworksbyBeethoven,Furrer,SchmidingerandBrahms.7:30p.m.Free;reservationsrequired.EmbassyofAustria,3524InternationalCourtNW.202-895-6776. ■AzaleaCityRecordings’15thAnniversaryCelebrationShowcasewillfea-tureHoag/Kelley/Pilzer,LauraBaron,CareyCreed,JessePalidofskyandRuthieandtheWranglersDuo.7:30p.m.$15.SeekersChurch,276CarrollSt.NW.carrollcafe.org.

Discussions and lectures ■Apaneldiscussiononthe“10thAnniversaryof9/11”willfeatureLynnSpencer,authorof“TouchingHistory:TheUntoldStoryofDramaThatUnfoldedintheSkiesOverAmericaon9/11”;RickNewman,co-authorof“Firefight:InsidetheBattletoSavethePentagonon9/11”;andJimDwyer,co-authorof“102Minutes:TheUntoldStoryoftheFighttoSurviveInsidetheTwinTowers.”Noon.Free.McGowanTheater,NationalArchivesBuilding,PennsylvaniaAvenuebetween7thand9thstreetsNW.202-357-5000. ■ThomasCarothers,vicepresidentforstudiesattheCarnegieEndowmentforInternationalPeace,willdiscuss“TheObamaAdministration’sEvolvingApproachtoInternationalDemocracySupport.”12:30p.m.Free;reservationsrequired.Room200,

RomeBuilding,JohnsHopkinsUniversitySchoolofAdvancedInternationalStudies,1619MassachusettsAve.NW.202-870-6677. ■AlectureseriesonthephilosophicalthoughtofMartinHeideggerwillfeatureatalkon“RethinkingDifference”byDanielDahlstrom,professorofphilosophyatBostonUniversity.2p.m.Free.AquinasHallAuditorium,CatholicUniversity,620MichiganAve.NE.202-319-5259. ■JimWoodringwilldiscusshisgraphicnovel“CongressoftheAnimals.”7p.m.Free.PoliticsandProse,5015ConnecticutAve.NW.202-364-1919. ■LoriWaselchukwilldiscussherbook“GraceBeforeDying:ConnectingCommunitiesInsideandOutsidePrisonWalls.”7p.m.Free;reservationsrequired.CorcoranGalleryofArt,50017thSt.NW.202-639-1770.

Film ■“MovingPerspectives:SelectedbyHaleTenger”willfea-tureSteveMcQueen’s2008film“Hunger,”aboutthe1981hun-gerstrikeinBelfast’sMazePrison.7p.m.Free.MeyerAuditorium,FreerGalleryofArt,JeffersonDriveand12thStreetSW.202-633-1000.

Performances ■“TheU.S.Army’sSpiritofAmerica,”fea-turingmorethan300active-dutysoldiersfromtheU.S.ArmyMilitaryDistrictofWashington,willfeaturehistoricalre-enact-ments,musicalentertainmentandprecisionmilitarydrills.10:30a.m.and7:30p.m.Free;ticketsrequired.VerizonCenter,601FSt.NW.soa.army.mil/ticketing.The performance will repeat Saturday at 2 and 7:30 p.m. ■The“Live!onWoodrowWilsonPlaza”serieswillfeatureaperformancebymagicianAlainNu.Noonto1:30p.m.Free.RonaldReaganBuildingandInternationalTradeCenter,1300PennsylvaniaAve.NW.202-312-1300. ■“NineontheNinth,”hostedbyDerrickWestonBrown,willanopen-micpoetryread-ing.9to11p.m.$5donationsuggested.LangstonRoom,BusboysandPoets,202114thSt.NW.202-387-7638.

Sporting event ■TheWashingtonNationalswillplaythe

HoustonAstros.7:05p.m.$5to$350.NationalsPark,1500SouthCapitolSt.SE.888-632-6287.The series will continue Saturday at 7:05 p.m. and Sunday at 1:35 p.m.

Saturday,Sept.10

book sale ■BooksPlusandtheFederationofFriendsoftheD.C.PublicLibrarywillholdtheirannualfallused-booksale.9:30a.m.to4p.m.Freeadmission.Plaza,MartinLutherKingJr.MemorialLibrary,901GSt.NW.202-727-6834.

Classes and workshops ■ShawnWalkerandPriscillaBocskorofCaseyTreeswillleada“Trees101”class,featuringafoundationintreeanatomy,treeidentificationandthebenefitsofanurban

forest.9a.m.to2p.m.Free;reservationsrequired.CaseyTrees,303012thSt.NE.caseytrees.org. ■ScientistsandresearchersfromtheSmithsonianAstrophysicalObservatorywilldiscuss“ExploringCosmicMysteries.”9:30a.m.to4:15p.m.$120.S.DillonRipleyCenter,1100JeffersonDriveSW.202-633-3030. ■AmyBrecountWhite,authorofthenovel“Forget-Her-Nots,”willdemonstratehowtoenlivencommunicationskillsusingtheVictorianlanguageofflowers.1to2p.m.Free;reserva-tionsrequired.ConservatoryClassroom,U.S.BotanicGarden,100MarylandAve.SW.202-225-1116.

Concerts ■MusiciansDawnAvery,JohnnyWhitehorse,LarryMitchellandStevenAlvarezwillperformcontemporaryandtradi-tionalNativemusic,sunginbothEnglishandMohawk.Noonto2p.m.Free.PotomacAtrium,NationalMuseumoftheAmericanIndian,4thStreetandIndependenceAvenueSW.202-633-1000. ■“AConcerttoHeal”willfeatureSweetHoneyintheRock(shown),OchodeBastosandtheHumayunKhanEnsembleper-formingpopularmusicthatencouragesinterfaithunderstand-ingacrossculturesandgenerations.1p.m.Free;ticketsrequired.WashingtonNationalCathedral,MassachusettsandWisconsinavenuesNW.202-537-2300. ■WashingtonNationalOpera’sDomingo-CafritzYoungArtistswillperform.6p.m.Free.MillenniumStage,KennedyCenter.202-467-4600. ■SingerNancyScimonewillperformjazzselections.7:30to11:30p.m.Free.BlueBarLounge,HenleyParkHotel,926

MassachusettsAve.NW.202-638-5200. ■VocalArtsDCwillpresentbass-bari-toneEricOwens(shown)andpianistCraigRutenbergper-formingworksbyWolf,Schumann,Schubert,Debussy,Duparc,RavelandWagner.7:30p.m.$45.TerraceTheater,KennedyCenter.202-467-4600. ■EhsanKhajeAmiriwillperform.8p.m.$49to$99.LisnerAuditorium,GeorgeWashingtonUniversity,73021stSt.NW.202-397-7328.

Discussions and lectures ■CollectorsTimandPennyHayswillsharetheircollectionofManastirprayerkilims.10:30a.m.Free.TextileMuseum,2320SSt.NW.202-667-0441,ext.64. ■WilliamMeredith,directoroftheIraF.BrilliantCenterforBeethovenStudies,willdiscuss“WhattheAutographCanTellUs:Beethoven’sSonatainEMajor,opus109.”Noon.Free.CoolidgeAuditorium,JeffersonBuilding,LibraryofCongress,101stSt.SE.202-707-5502. ■DavidW.Blightwilldiscusshisbook“AmericanOracle:TheCivilWarintheCivilRightsEra,”at1p.m.;PamelaConstablewilldiscussherbook“PlayingWithFire:PakistanatWarWithItself,”at3:30p.m.;andEricSchmittandThomShankerwilldiscusstheirbook“Counterstrike:TheUntoldStoryofAmerica’sSecretCampaignAgainstAlQaeda,”at6p.m.Free.PoliticsandProse,5015ConnecticutAve.NW.202-364-1919.

expo ■TheFashion,Beauty&LifestyleExpowillfeaturerunwayfashionshows,make-oversandinformationondesignandstyletrends.Noonto6p.m.$10inadvance;$15atthedoor.WashingtonConventionCenter,801MountVernonPlaceNW.dc50tv.com.

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willfeatureanartsandcraftsmarket,athe-atershowcase,commemorativeactivitiestomarkthe10thanniversaryof9/11,andmusicalanddanceperformancesbyFloAnito,ChristylezBacon,TheSweaterSet,Elikeh,Fela!,FourStarCombo,GloriousSounds,OnaSensualNoteandStacyBrooksMusic.11a.m.to7p.m.Freeadmis-sion.8thandFstreetsNWandadjoiningblocks.artsonfoot.org.The festival will contin-ue Sunday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. ■The22ndannualGloverParkDaywillfeatureafleamarket,bocceball,adogobstaclecourse,ateamtugofwarcontest,foodfromlocalrestaurants,children’sactivitiesandlivemusicbyEstherHaynesandHokumJazz,TheUnforgiven,BoxcartelwithJeffBlakemanandPatKehs,TheUnknownsandUpperNinthWard.11a.m.to5p.m.Freeadmission.GuyMasonRecreationCenter,3600CalvertSt.NW.gloverparkday.org.

Films ■“Lookingat9/11inFilms”willfeatureAllenCoulter’s2010film“RememberMe,”starringRobertPattinsonandEmiliedeRavin,at11:30a.m.;andMikeBinder’s2007film“ReignOverMe,”starringAdamSandlerandDonCheadle,at2p.m.Free.

ChevyChaseNeighborhoodLibrary,5625ConnecticutAve.NW.202-282-0021. ■TheNationalArchiveswillpresentGeorgeSidney’s1946musical“TheHarveyGirls,”starringJudyGarlandasamail-orderbridewhodecidestoworkinoneofFredHarvey’sfamousrailroadstationrestaurants.Noon.McGowanTheater,NationalArchivesBuilding,ConstitutionAvenuebetween7thand9thstreetsNW.202-357-5000. ■“ThisOtherEden:IrelandandFilm”willfeatureJohnSayles’1994film“TheSecretofRoanInish.”2p.m.Free.EastBuildingAuditorium,NationalGalleryofArt,4thStreetandConstitutionAvenueNW.202-737-4215. ■“APolishQuartet:JerzySkolimowskiinthe1960s”willfeaturethedirector’s1966film“Barrier.”4:30p.m.Free.EastBuildingAuditorium,NationalGalleryofArt,4thStreetandConstitutionAvenueNW.202-737-4215.

Special events ■Spiritualteacherswillcommemoratethe10thanniversaryof9/11witha“WeekendofPeace,CompassionandForgiveness,”featuringmeditation,teach-ings,filmsandconversation.10a.m.$65.WoollyMammothTheatre,641DSt.NW.buddhafest.org.The event will continue Sunday.

■WashingtonInternationalChurchwillcommemorateits20thanniversarywithacelebrationofthanksgivingandpraise,fol-lowedbyaninternationalbanquetprovidedbymembersofthecongregation.2p.m.Free.WashingtonInternationalChurch,4420RiverRoadNW.202-895-9060.The festivi-ties will continue Sunday at the 10:30 a.m. service. ■TheDCAnimeClubwillhostaVideoGameDay(forages13andolder).2to5

p.m.Free.RoomA-5,MartinLutherKingJr.MemorialLibrary,901GSt.NW.202-262-2083.

Sporting event ■TheinauguralNation’sFootballClassicwillfeatureHowardUniversityandMorehouseCollegerenewingtheirhistoricrivalry.3:30p.m.$15to$60.RFKMemorialStadium,2400EastCapitolSt.SE.202-397-7328.

Walks and tours ■ArchitectureWeek2011,sponsoredbytheWashingtonChapteroftheAmericanInstituteofArchitecture,willfeatureabikingtourofthreeofD.C.’snewlibraries—therecentlyreopenedTenley-FriendshipandWathaT.Daniel-Shawbranches,andthestill-under-constructionMountPleasantbranch.9:30a.m.to12:45p.m.$10;reservationsrequired.MeetatTenley-FriendshipNeighborhoodLibrary,4450WisconsinAve.NW.aiadc.com.Architecture Week activities will continue through Sept. 23 at various locations. ■ACivilWar-themedtourofTudorPlacewillfocusonthelivesofthepredominantlySouthern-sympathizingPeterfamily,whichopenedaboard-inghouseforUnionofficersandtheirfami-liesduringthewar,at10:30a.m.;andawalkingtourofGeorgetownwillpointoutthefinalrestingplaceofthreerenownedCivilWarspies,aUnionhospital,theresidencesofmilitaryleadersandaneighborhoodofenslavedandfreeAfrican-Americans,at12:30p.m.$10foronetour;$15forboth.TudorPlaceHistoricHouseandGarden,164431stSt.NW.202-965-0400. ■Aparkrangerwillleada“TragedyontheCanal”walkingtour,abouttragiceventsthathavehauntedtheC&OCanalsinceits

verybeginnings.12:15p.m.Free.C&OCanalNationalHistoricalParkVisitorCenter,1057ThomasJeffersonSt.NW.202-653-5190. ■U.S.BotanicGardenvolunteerSusanOllingwillleadatouroftheNationalGarden,focusingontreesandshrubsofthemid-Atlanticregion.1to2p.m.Free.NationalGardenLawnTerrace,U.S.BotanicGarden,100MarylandAve.SW.202-225-1116. ■Aparkrangerwillleadages7andolderonahalf-milestrolltotheFrancisScottKeyMemorialwhilediscussingthelifeandlegacyoftheauthorofthenationalanthem.2p.m.Free.OldStoneHouse,3051MSt.NW.202-426-6851.

Sunday,Sept.11

Children’s program ■Ages5andolderwilllistentoastoryaboutactivistCésarChávezandcreateaspecialpieceofart.2to5p.m.Free.NationalPortraitGallery,8thandFstreetsNW.202-633-1000.

Concerts ■TheweeklySteelDrummerSundaysconcertserieswillfeatureRogerGreenidge.Noonto3p.m.Free.Plaza,TheWashingtonHarbour,3050KSt.NW.202-295-5007. ■Semifinalistsinthe2011TheloniousMonkInternationalJazzPianoCompetitionwillperform.1to4p.m.Free;ticketsrequired.BairdAuditorium,NationalMuseumofNaturalHistory,10thStreetandConstitutionAvenueNW.202-633-3030. ■Choraliswillcommemoratethe10thanniversaryof9/11withaperformanceofchoralandinstrumentalmusic,includingthepremiereofWashingtoncomposerGaryDavison’s“ShadowTides”andworksbyBarber,BachandLauridsen.4p.m.$25to$40;$5forstudents;freeforages12andyounger.NationalPresbyterianChurch,4101NebraskaAve.NW.703-237-2499. ■DahlakRestaurantwillhostitsweekly

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Sunday, SePtember 11■Concert: Bluesguitaristandvocal-istEleanorEllis,afoundingmemberoftheD.C.BluesSociety,willperform.6p.m.Free.MillenniumStage,KennedyCenter.202-467-4600.

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“DCJazzJam”session.6:30to9:30p.m.Free.1771USt.NW.202-527-9522. ■TheSongwritersAssociationofWashingtonandBusboysandPoetswillpres-entanopen-miceventforsinger/songwriters.7to9:30p.m.$3.CullenRoom,BusboysandPoets,10255thSt.NW.202-387-7638.

Discussions and lectures ■TheSundayForumserieswillfeatureWashingtonPostcolum-nistDavidIgnatiusdis-cussing“TheDecadeSince9/11/2001.”10a.m.Free.St.John’sEpiscopalChurch,LafayetteSquare,16thandHstreetsNW.202-347-8766. ■AuthorKarenArmstrongwilldiscuss“ACalltoCompassion”aspartof“TheSundayForum:CriticalIssuesintheLightofFaith”series.10:10a.m.Free.WashingtonNationalCathedral,MassachusettsandWisconsinavenuesNW.202-537-6200. ■CharlesKurzmanwilldiscusshisbook“TheMissingMartyrs:WhyThereAreSoFewMuslimTerrorists,”at1p.m.;andCharlesC.Mannwilldiscusshisbook“1493:UncoveringtheWorldColumbusCreated,”at5p.m.Free.PoliticsandProse,5015ConnecticutAve.NW.202-364-1919. ■ScholarAnnMarieMoellerwilldiscuss“KimonoandGreen:TheColorofGodsandYouth.”2p.m.$25;reservationsrequired.TextileMuseum,2320SSt.NW.202-667-0441,ext.64.

Films ■“ThisOtherEden:IrelandandFilm”willfeatureJoeComerford’s1977film“DowntheCorner,”aboutfiveteenageboysinasuburbofDublin.2p.m.Free.EastBuildingAuditorium,NationalGalleryofArt,4thStreetandConstitutionAvenueNW.202-737-4215. ■“GlobalLens2011”willfeatureSidharthSrinivasan’s2010film“SoulofSand,”aboutawatchmanandhiswifewhoaretrappedintheirtyrannicallandlord’sschemes.2p.m.Free.MeyerAuditorium,FreerGalleryofArt,JeffersonDriveand12thStreetSW.202-633-1000. ■“APolishQuartet:JerzySkolimowskiinthe1960s”willfeaturethedirector’sfilm“HandsUp!”4:30p.m.Free.EastBuildingAuditorium,NationalGalleryofArt,4thStreetandConstitutionAvenueNW.202-737-4215. ■AscreeningofJimWhitaker’sdocu-mentary“Rebirth”—aboutthetransforma-tionoffivepeoplewhoseliveswereforeveralteredonSept.11,2001,andtheevolutionoftherebuildingoftheWorldTradeCentersite—willbenefittheDCFirefightersBurnFoundation.5:45p.m.$11;$9forseniorsandstudents;$8formilitarypersonnelandages12andyounger.WestEndCinema,23rdStreetbetweenMandNstreetsNW.westendcinema.com. ■TheNationalPortraitGallerywillhostascreeningofJimWhitaker’sfilm“Rebirth.”6p.m.Free.NationalPortraitGallery,8thandFstreetsNW.202-633-1000. ■The“Focus-In!CinemaforaConsciousCommunity”serieswillfeaturetheDalaiLama’s2011film“CompassioninEmptiness.”8to10p.m.Free.LangstonRoom,BusboysandPoets,202114thSt.NW.202-387-7638.

Open house ■TheWashingtonStudioSchoolwillhost

anopenhouse.1to3p.m.Free.2129SSt.NW.202-234-3030.

Special events ■AninterfaithprayervigilwillfeatureWashingtonNationalCathedralDeanSamuelT.LloydIII;BishopofWashingtonJohnBrysonChane;RabbiBruceLustigoftheWashingtonHebrewCongregation;JetsünKhandroRinpoche,Buddhistnunandincarnatelama;D.C.Rao,aHindupriest;ImamMohamedMagid,presidentoftheIslamicSocietyofNorthAmerica;andmusicianHamayanKhan.8:30to10a.m.Free.WashingtonNationalCathedral,MassachusettsandWisconsinavenuesNW.202-537-6200. ■Aspecialserviceofremembrancetomarkthe10thanniversaryof9/11willfea-tureabrassandpercussionensemble,choir,organandprayersledbyArmyChaplainMarkWorrell.11a.m.Free.GeorgetownPresbyterianChurch,3115PSt.NW.202-338-1644. ■A9/11ServicetoHonorLivesLostandRescueWorkerswillfeatureFauré’s“Requiem.”11:15a.m.Free.St.David’sEpiscopalChurch,5150MacombSt.NW.202-966-2093. ■“PoemsToHealandHonoraNation”willfeaturetheD.C.-basedpoetryensembleCollectiveVoiceswithmusicalaccompani-mentbyDocPowell,SydneyMarchandRonjaninceEdwards.2:30p.m.Free.MartinLutherKingJr.MemorialLibrary,901GSt.NW.202-727-0321.

Walks and tours ■Aparkrangerwillleadages8andolderatouroftheGeorgetownWaterfrontParkanddiscusstheroletheneighborhoodhasplayedduringtimesofconflictbetweentheUnitedStatesandothernations.10a.m.Free.GeorgetownWaterfrontPark,WisconsinAvenueandKStreetNW.202-895-6700. ■HeaddocentMikeBloomwillleadatouroftheSixth&IHistoricSynagogue.Noon.Free;reservationsrequired.Sixth&IHistoricSynagogue,600ISt.NW.800-745-3000.sixthandi.org. ■Aparkrangerwilllead“AVeryRetailGeorgetown,”awalkingtourabouttheneigh-borhood’straditionasamagnetforshop-pers.12:15p.m.Free.C&OCanalNationalHistoricalParkVisitorCenter,1057ThomasJeffersonSt.NW.202-653-5190. ■LocalhistorianandtourguideAliceStewartwillleadawalkingtouronGermanartistsandarchitectswholivedorworkedintheolddowntownarea.1to2:30p.m.Free.MeetinfrontoftheGoethe-Institut,8127thSt.NW.202-289-1200. ■Aparkrangerwillleadages8andolderonatouroftheOldStoneHouse’sgar-denwhiledescribingthemultiplebenefitsofplantsandherbsusedduringColonialtimes.2p.m.Free.OldStoneHouse,3051MSt.

NW.202-426-6851. ■Aparkrangerandhisdogwillleadanall-ageshikealongportionsoftheWesternRidgeTrail.Leasheddogsarewelcome.2p.m.Free.RockCreekNatureCenter,5200GloverRoadNW.202-895-6070.

Monday,Sept.12

Concerts ■The“Live!onWoodrowWilsonPlaza”serieswillfeaturejazzmusicianGregAbate.Noonto1:30p.m.Free.RonaldReaganBuildingandInternationalTradeCenter,1300PennsylvaniaAve.NW.202-312-1300. ■LesPetitsChanteursandChamberOrchestra,avocalchoirof30boysandsev-en-piecestringensemblefromHaiti’sHolyTrinityMusicSchool,willperformHaitianfolkandsacredmusic.Noonto1p.m.Free.Flag

Hall,NationalMuseumofAmericanHistory,14thStreetandConstitutionAvenueNW.202-633-1000. ■TheShenzhenLilyChildren’sChoirwillperform“BlossomsFromAroundtheWorld,”aprogramofchildren’schoralmusic.6p.m.Free.MillenniumStage,KennedyCenter.202-467-4600.

Discussions and lectures ■PaulFarmerwilldiscusshisbook“HaitiAftertheEarthquake.”9to11a.m.$30to$50;$22.50forstudents.Amphitheater,RonaldReaganBuilding&InternationalTradeCenter,1300PennsylvaniaAve.NW.hooksbooksevents. ■Inthefirstoftwolectures,militaryhis-torianandanalystEhudEilamwilldiscussIsrael’snationaldefensestrategyandmilitarydoctrine,focusingon1948to1967.Noonto1:45p.m.Free.NationalMuseumofAmericanJewishMilitaryHistory,1811RSt.NW.202-265-6280.The lecture series will continue Sept. 19 at noon. ■ArtistTomasRiváswilldiscusshisworkinconversationwithFayaCausey,headofacademicprogramsfortheNationalGalleryofArt.12:10and1:10p.m.Free.EastBuildingSmallAuditorium,NationalGalleryofArt,4thStreetandConstitutionAvenueNW.202-737-4215.

■RalphNader,MikeGermanandBruceFeinwilldiscuss“10YearsLater:9/11—LessonsLearned.”12:30to2:30p.m.LangstonRoom,BusboysandPoets,202114thSt.NW.202-387-7638. ■TheTocquevilleForumontheRootsoftheAmericanDemocracywillpresentatalkon“TruthandFreedom”byCardinalFrancisGeorge,arch-bishopofChicago.6to7p.m.Free.LohrfinkAuditorium,HaririBuilding,GeorgetownUniversity,37thandOstreetsNW.tocquevilleforum.org. ■WilliamM.Adlerwilldiscusshisbook“TheManWhoNeverDied:TheLife,Times,andLegacyofJoeHill,AmericanLaborIcon.”6:30to8p.m.Free.CullenRoom,BusboysandPoets,10255thSt.NW.202-387-7638. ■GeorgePelecanoswilldiscusshisnovel“TheCut.”7p.m.Free.PoliticsandProse,5015ConnecticutAve.NW.202-364-1919. ■TheChevyChaseD.C.LibraryBookClubwilldiscuss“TheGuineaPigDiaries:MyLifeasanExperiment”byA.J.Jacobs.7p.m.Free.ChevyChaseNeighborhoodLibrary,5625ConnecticutAve.NW.202-282-0021. ■“SpaceasArtisticInspiration”willfea-

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Sunday, SePtember 11■Festival: AdamsMorganMainStreetwillhostthe33rdannualAdamsMorganDayFestival,featuringfood,artsandcrafts,agreenpavilion,livemusicanddanceperformances.Noonto7p.m.Free.18thStreetbetweenColumbiaRoadandFloridaAvenueNW.202-232-1960.

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tureTomCrouch,curatoroftheNationalAirandSpaceMuseum,andJimDeanandBertUlrich,thepastandcurrentdirectorsofNASA’sartprogram.7p.m.$25.S.DillonRipleyCenter,1100JeffersonDriveSW.202-633-3030.

Films ■“LookingattheOther:CulturalDialogueThroughFilm”willfeaturePakistan’s“TheLivingAmongsttheDead,”“MatchFactor,”“FadingStrokes,”“VoicesFromPakistan:PakistaniPerspectivesonaBlasphemousSituation”and“AGardeninShigar.”6:30p.m.$7.Goethe-Institut,8127thSt.NW.202-289-1200,ext.160.

Performance ■JeffAllinandNaomiJacobsonwillpresent“TwoHalvesofaCircle:RonaldandNancyReagan.”abouttheReagans’rela-tionship.7p.m.Free;reservationsrequired.NationalPortraitGallery,8thandFstreetsNW.reagantwohalves.eventbrite.com.

Wine tasting ■The“LeStudio:WineTasting101”serieswillpresent“TourdeFrance”withsommelierPhilippeMarchal.7p.m.$75.La

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book signing ■GeorgeNorfleetwillsigncopiesofhisbook“APilot’sJourney,”abouttheTuskegeeAirmen.Noonto5p.m.Freeadmission.NationalMuseumofAmericanHistory,14thStreetandConstitutionAvenueNW.202-633-1000.

Class ■TeacherandtherapistHeatherFerriswillleadaweeklyyogaclass.Noon.Free.WathaT.Daniel-ShawNeighborhoodLibrary,16307thSt.NW.202-727-1288.

Concerts ■TheHarbourKidsconcertserieswillfea-tureMr.KnickKnack.10:30a.m.tonoon.Free.Plaza,TheWashingtonHarbour,3050KSt.NW.202-295-5007. ■BrazilianmusicianMarceloJeneciwillperform.6p.m.Free.MillenniumStage,KennedyCenter.202-467-4600.

Discussions and lectures ■AmericanUniversityprofessorGershonGreenbergwilldiscuss“RethinkingtheCanonofModernJewishThought.”Noon.Free.AfricanandMiddleEasternDivision

ReadingRoom,JeffersonBuilding,LibraryofCongress,101stSt.SE.202-707-3680. ■ArtistPeterWaddellwilldiscussthepaintingsintheexhibit“AnArtistVisitstheWhiteHousePast:ThePaintingsofPeterWaddell.”1:30p.m.Free.WhiteHouseVisitorCenter,1450PennsylvaniaAve.NW.202-737-8292.The talk will repeat weekly through Sept. 27. ■MonicaDuffyToftandTimothySamuelShahwilldiscusstheirbook“God’sCentury:ResurgentReligionandGlobalPolitics.”2p.m.Free;reservationsrequired.ExecutiveConferenceRoom,seventhfloor,InterculturalCenter,GeorgetownUniversity,37thandOstreetsNW.mem297@georgetown.edu. ■TheCenterforInquirywillpresentatalkon“FromThomasJeffersonandJFKtoMittRomneyandRickPerry:HowAmerica’sPoliticiansHaveLostTheirWayonChurchandState”byJamieRaskin,aMarylandstatesenatorandAmericanUniversityconstitutionallawpro-fessor.6to8p.m.Free;reservationssuggested.LangstonRoom,BusboysandPoets,202114thSt.NW.bit.ly/jamieraskin. ■Anewgroupforcomicloverswilldis-

cuss“Batman:BattlefortheCowl.”6:30p.m.Free.GeorgetownNeighborhoodLibrary,3260RSt.NW.202-727-0232. ■JoseBarreiro,assistantdirectorforresearchattheNationalMuseumoftheAmericanIndian,willdiscuss“AMessagetoPosterityFromtheChawaytiriofPeru.”Afilmscreeningwillfollow.6:45to8:45p.m.$40.S.DillonRipleyCenter,1100JeffersonDriveSW.202-633-3030. ■DeborahRossWarin,co-founderandco-directoroftheRenaissanceTourCo.,willdiscuss“TheRenaissanceCourtofUrbino.”6:45to9p.m.$40.S.DillonRipleyCenter,1100JeffersonDriveSW.202-633-3030. ■AmericanmusicspecialistandpianistRobertWyattwilldiscuss“JeromeKern,AmericanMusicalTheater’sGodfather.”6:45to9p.m.$40.RasmusonTheater,NationalMuseumoftheAmericanIndian,4thStreetandIndependenceAvenueNW.202-633-3030. ■PanelistsElliottWoods,OlgaGrushin,RobinWrightandSteveCollwilldiscuss“Granta116:10YearsLater,”aboutthedecadesince9/11throughaliterary,politi-calandculturallens.7p.m.Free.PoliticsandProse,5015ConnecticutAve.NW.202-364-1919.

Films ■Aseriesofscreeningsbasedon“AFI’s100Years…100Movies”listwillfeatureNo.76—RobertZemeckis’1994film“ForrestGump,”starringTomHanksasakindsimpletonwhounwittinglyfindshimselfinthemiddleofmajormile-stonesinAmericanhistory.6p.m.Free.GeorgetownNeighborhoodLibrary,3260RSt.NW.202-727-0232. ■“WJFFYear-Round”willpresentEitanGreen’s2008film“ItAllBeginsatSea,”aboutatypicalIsraelifamilythatenduressit-uationsfraughtwithdangeranddrama.7:30p.m.$10;$9forseniorsandstudents.WashingtonDCJewishCommunityCenter,152916thSt.NW.washingtondcjcc.org. ■TheSixth&IHistoricSynagoguewillpresentKarenGoodmanandKirkSimon’s2010film“StrangersNoMore,”aboutaschoolinTelAvivwherechildrenfrom48countriesanddiversebackgroundscometogethertolearn.Apaneldiscussionwillfol-low.7:30p.m.Free;reservationsrequired.Sixth&IHistoricSynagogue,600ISt.NW.sixthandi.org.

meetings ■TheClevelandParkChessClubwillreviewhistoricalgames,studyscenariosandplaychess.3:30p.m.Free.ClevelandParkNeighborhoodLibrary,3310ConnecticutAve.NW.202-282-3080.The group meets every Tuesday. ■RecoveryInternationalwillhostagroupdiscussionforpeoplesufferingfromstress,anxiety,panic,depression,sleepproblems,anger,fearandothermental,nervousoremotionalproblems.7p.m.Free.ChevyChaseCommunityCenter,5601ConnecticutAve.NW.202-364-2680.The group meets every Tuesday.

Performances ■The“Live!onWoodrowWilsonPlaza”serieswillfeatureballetperformances.Noonto1:30p.m.Free.RonaldReaganBuildingandInternationalTradeCenter,1300PennsylvaniaAve.NW.202-312-1300. ■ActressAdiBielskiwillstarinapro-ductionofPninaGary’s“AnIsraeliLoveStory,”aboutloveandlossinatimeofwar.

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Tuesday, SePtember 13■Discussion:Journalist,authorandforeignpolicyanalystRobinWrightwilldiscussherbook“RocktheCasbah:RageandRebellionAcrosstheIslamicWorld.”11:30a.m.$30.Woman’sNationalDemocraticClub,1526NewHampshireAve.NW.202-232-7363.

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“Upper Middle,” featuring large-scale landscape paintings of the upper Midwestern United States

by native Washingtonian Ben Ferry, will open today at Georgetown University’s Lucille and Richard Spagnuolo Gallery and continue through Oct. 16. An opening reception will take place

today from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Located in the lobby of the Walsh Building at 1221 36th St. NW, the gallery is open Wednesday through Friday from noon to 7 p.m., Saturday from noon to 5 p.m. and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.■ “Natural Selection,” presenting drawings by Amy Lin and sculpture by Paul Wolff inspired by nature, will open today at the Heurich Gallery and continue through Dec. 7. An opening reception will take place today from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Located at 505 9th St. NW, the gallery is

open Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. and Saturday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. 202-223-1626.■ “Left Behind (Zurückgelassen): Photographs by Friederike Brandenburg,” highlighting imagery by the German photographer that focuses on human traces left behind in nature, will open tomorrow at the Goethe-Institut and continue through Nov. 4. An artist’s reception will take place tomorrow from 6 to 8 p.m., for which reserva-tions are requested. Located at 812 7th St. NW, the institute is open Monday through Thursday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Friday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. 202-289-1200, ext. 163.■ Curator’s Office will open “elsewhere,” featuring sculpture and new works on paper by Joseph Dumbacher and John Dumbacher, on Friday and continue

it through Oct. 22. Located at 1515 14th St. NW, Suite 201, the gallery is open Wednesday through Saturday from noon to 6 p.m. 202-387-1008.■ Gallery plan b will open an exhibit Friday

of paintings by Virginia artist Kevin H. Adams and contin-ue it through Oct. 16. An opening reception will take place Saturday from 6 to 8 p.m. Located at 1530 14th St. NW, the gallery is open Wednesday through Saturday from noon to 7 p.m. and Sunday from 1 to 5 p.m. 202-234-2711.■ “7.4.11, Photographs by Facing Change: Documenting America,” highlighting photographs by the photojournalist collective about the ways in which

Americans celebrated this year’s Fourth of July, will open Friday with a reception from 6 to 8 p.m. at Carroll Square Gallery and

continue through Nov. 18. Located at 975 F St. NW, the gallery is open Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. 202-234-5601.■ “Ellington Robinson: In Quest of the Sun,” presenting new works by Columbia Heights artist Robinson that explore the ways by which people reach their physical locations and socioeconomic stations in life, will open Friday at Project 4 and continue through Oct. 15.

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On exhibit ben Ferry’s “After the harvest, North Dakota Wheatfield” is on display at Georgetown University.

Ford’s Theatre will present the Washington premiere of the Tony Award-winning

musical “Parade” Sept. 23 through Oct. 30.

The centerpiece of this year’s “The Lincoln Legacy Project” and a co-production with Theater J, “Parade” is based on the true story of Leo Frank’s trial and lynching in early 20th-century Atlanta. Ostracized for his faith and Northern heritage, Jewish factory manager Frank is accused of mur-dering a teenaged factory girl the day of the annual Confederate Memorial Day parade. Isolated from the world, Frank develops a new and deeper love for his wife, who crusades tirelessly for his free-dom. Performance times vary, but most begin at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday and 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Ticket prices start at $15. Ford’s Theatre is locat-ed at 511 10th St. NW. 202-347-4833; fordstheatre.org.■ Faction of Fools Theatre Company will present Niccolò Machiavelli’s “The Mandrake” Sept. 15 through Oct. 8 at Gallaudet University’s Elstad Auditorium. D.C.’s com-media dell’arte theater compa-ny opens its 2011-12 season with a classic Italian romantic comedy. In

“The Mandrake,” a young scholar named Callimaco returns to Florence in the early 1500s in search of a legendary beauty named Lucrezia. The only problem is that Lucrezia is married to a dith-ering old lawyer named Messer Nicia, who is desparately attempt-ing to father a child. With the help of a crooked friar, a shameless mother-in-law, some bumbling ser-vants and a con man named Liguiro, a twisted web of grotesque

manipulations results in all parties getting what they want.

Performance times are 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday. Tickets cost $20. Gallaudet University’s Elstad Auditorium is

located at 800 Florida Ave. NE. 800-838-3006; factionoffools.org.

■ GALA Hispanic Theatre will present “¡Ay, Carmela!” Sept. 15 through Oct. 9. Carmela and Paulino, a vaude-ville comedy duo, have fallen into the hands of Franco’s troops during the Spanish Civil War. Forced to perform for the fascists, they rehearse their show — flamenco songs, the paso doble and bizarre comedy routines. But as heels and castanets clatter, their own intrigu-ing story unfolds in a riot of black humor and ghostly passion. The play will be performed in Spanish with English surtitles. Performance times are 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday. Tickets cost $34 to $38. GALA is located at 3333 14th St. NW. 202-234-7174; galatheatre.org.■ The Essential Theatre will pres-ent Ella Joyce in “A Rose Among Thorns,” a tribute to Rosa Parks, Sept. 20 through 24 at Mount Vernon Place United Methodist Church.

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reading ■GeorgetownUniversityprofessorJenniferNatalyaFinkwillreadfromherrecentlyreleasedshort-storycollection“13Fugues.”8p.m.Free.CopleyFormalLounge,CopleyHall,GeorgetownUniversity,37thandOstreetsNW.202-687-6294.

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tours ■BiochemistandU.S.BotanicGardenvolunteerBethBurrouswilldiscussmedicinalandpoisonplantsduringatourofthecon-servatory.Noonto1p.m.Free.ConservatoryGardenCourt,U.S.BotanicGarden,100MarylandAve.SW.202-225-1116. ■ArchitectureWeek2011,sponsoredbytheWashingtonChapteroftheAmerican

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Concerts ■TheAgustinLiraTrioandQuetzalwillperformChicanomusicfromCalifornia.Noon.Free.CoolidgeAuditorium,JeffersonBuilding,LibraryofCongress,101stSt.SE.202-707-5404. ■The“Live!onWoodrowWilsonPlaza”serieswillfeaturesignerCarolynMalachi.Noonto1:30p.m.Free.RonaldReaganBuildingandInternationalTradeCenter,1300PennsylvaniaAve.NW.202-312-1300. ■TheAgustinLiraTrioandQuetzalwillperformMexicanandAfro-Cubanrhythms,jazz,R&Bandrock.6p.m.Free.MillenniumStage,KennedyCenter.202-467-4600. ■TheHarbourNightsconcertserieswillfeaturevocalistJonKaplan.7to9p.m.Free.Plaza,TheWashingtonHarbour,3050KSt.NW.202-295-5007.

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“AppetiteforAmerica:HowVisionaryBusinessmanFredHarveyBuiltaRailroadHospitalityEmpireThatCivilizedtheWest.”Noon.McGowanTheater,NationalArchivesBuilding,ConstitutionAvenuebetween7thand9thstreetsNW.202-357-5000. ■“LunchBytes—DigitalArt&Culture”willfeatureapaneldiscussionon“CopyCulture,”aboutquestionsaboutcopyrightandauthorshipintoday’scontext.Noonto2p.m.Free.Goethe-Institut,8127thSt.NW.

202-289-1200,ext.160. ■SamerShehata,JonathanBrownandHebaRaoufwilldiscuss“TheRoleofIslamintheNewEgypt.”12:30p.m.Free;reserva-tionsrequired.Room270,InterculturalCenter,GeorgetownUniversity,37thandOstreetsNW.mem297@georgetown.edu. ■AkihitoTanakaoftheUniversityofTokyoandNaoyukiAgawaofKeioUniversitywilldiscuss“JapanandtheAsianPowerShift.”3to4:30p.m.Free;reservationsrequired.InterculturalCenter,GeorgetownUniversity,37thandOstreetsNW.krh45@georgetown.edu. ■“CreativeVoicesDC”willfeatureapaneldiscussiononthecity’sfirstinterna-tionalcontemporaryartfair,(e)merge.6p.m.Free.PhillipsCollection,160021stSt.NW.202-387-2151. ■TheAmericanIndiaFoundationwillpresentatalkbyjour-nalistMirandaKennedyonhermemoir“SidewaysonaScooter:LifeandLoveinIndia.”6to8p.m.$15;$10forstudents.CullenRoom,BusboysandPoets,10255thSt.NW.aifypdc.eventbrite.com. ■PhilosophyCafe,amonthlydiscussiongroup,willfeatureadiscussionof“NicomacheanEthics,”focusingonAristotle’sviewsonjustice.6:30p.m.Free.WathaT.Daniel-ShawNeighborhoodLibrary,16307thSt.NW.202-727-1288. ■TanaUtley,chieftechnologyofficerforCaterpillarInc.,willdiscuss“InnovationinConstructionTechnology.”6:30to8p.m.$20;$15forstudents.Reservationsrequired.NationalBuildingMuseum,401FSt.NW.202-272-2448. ■ChristopherPhillipswilldiscusshisbook“ConstitutionCafé:Jefferson’sBrewforaTrueRevolution.”6:30to8p.m.Free.LangstonRoom,BusboysandPoets,202114thSt.NW.202-387-7638. ■JenniferF.Goldsboroughwilldiscuss“WhatIsAmericanAboutAmericanSilver?”6:45to8:45p.m.$40.S.DillonRipleyCenter,1100JeffersonDriveSW.202-633-3030. ■MusichistorianBobbyHortonwilldis-cuss“SongsandStoriesFromtheCivilWar.”

6:45to9p.m.$40.S.DillonRipleyCenter,1100JeffersonDriveSW.202-633-3030. ■CalvinTrillinwilldiscusshisbook“QuiteEnoughofCalvinTrillin:FortyYearsofFunnyStuff.”7p.m.Free.PoliticsandProse,5015ConnecticutAve.NW.202-364-1919. ■EricaBrownwilldiscuss“TheBIGSorry,”aboutwhathappenswhenwefailtoforgive.7:30p.m.Free;reservationsrequired.Sixth&IHistoricSynagogue,600ISt.NW.sixthandi.org. ■E.J.Dionne,asyndicatedcolumnistandseniorfellowattheBrookingsInstitution,willdiscuss“GodBlessAmerica:ReligionandPoliticsintheUnitedStatesToday.”7:30p.m.Free.AdasIsraelCongregation,2850QuebecSt.NW.202-362-4433.

Films ■WomeninFilm&VideoandtheGeenaDavisInstituteonGenderinMediawillpres-entadiscussionwithGeenaDavisaboutgenderinmediaandascreeningof“ThelmaandLouise”20yearsafteritsrelease.6:30p.m.$65;reservationsrequired.Woman’sNationalDemocraticClub,1526NewHampshireAve.NW.wifv.org. ■TheAllRoadsFilmFestivalwillopenwithRenaudBarretandFlorentdelaTullaye’s2010film“BendaBilili!,”aboutaCongolesebandmadeupofdisabledmusi-cians.7p.m.$8.GrosvenorAuditorium,NationalGeographic,1600MSt.NW.202-857-7700.ThefestivalwillcontinuethroughSept.18withscreeningsatvarioustimes. ■TheLionsofCzechFilmserieswillfea-tureMilosFormanandPetrForman’s2009film“AWalkWorthwhile.”8p.m.$11;$9forstudents;$8.25forseniors;$8forages12andyounger.AvalonTheatre,5612ConnecticutAve.NW.202-966-6000.

Open house ■AnopenhouseatAmericanUniversity’sOsherLifelongLearningInstitutewillspotlightupcomingclasses,lecturesandstudygroups.1to2:30p.m.Free.TempleBaptistChurch,3850NebraskaAve.NW.202-895-4860.

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Wednesday, SePtember 14■Discussion: BiographerMeryleSecrestwilldiscuss“WorldsApart:RomaineBrooksandAmedeoModigliani.”7p.m.Free;ticketsrequired.SmithsonianAmericanArtMuseum,8thandFstreetsNW.202-633-1000.

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Performance times are 7:30 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday, 8 p.m. Thursday and Friday, and 3 p.m. Saturday. Tickets cost $45. The church is located at 900 Massachusetts Ave. NW. 800-838-3006; theessentialtheatre.org.■ No Rules Theatre Co. will present Diana Son’s drama “Stop Kiss” Sept. 7 through Oct. 1 at the H Street Playhouse. Holly Twyford, a four-time Helen Hayes Award recipient who appeared in a Woolly Mammoth produc-tion of the play in 2000, will make her directorial debut in “Stop Kiss,” which deals with the emotions that lead up to a budding new romance and the reper-cussions of an act of hate that follows a first kiss. Performance times generally are Thursday through Saturday at 8 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday at 2 p.m. Tickets cost $25. H Street Playhouse is located at 1365 H St. NE. norulestheatre.org.■ Studio Theatre will present the U.S. premiere of Alan Bennett’s comedy “The Habit of Art” Sept. 7 through Oct. 16. Deep in the bowels of London’s National Theatre, rehearsals for a new play go apace: Benjamin Britten is having trouble with his latest opera and seeks out his collaborator, poet W.H. Auden, after a 25-year separa-tion. Between visits by a rent boy and a biographer — whom Auden briefly mistakes for the rent boy — these aging artists wrestle with their desires, their jealousies, the ephemeral connection between creativity and inspi-ration, and all the reasons their friendship fell apart. Performance times are 8 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday; 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday; and 7 p.m. Sunday. Tickets cost $35 to $69. Studio Theatre is located at 1501 14th St. NW. 202-332-3300; studiotheatre.org.■ Arena Stage will present Alice Childress’ “Trouble in Mind” Sept. 9 through Oct. 23 in the Kreeger Theater. In this midcentury play, which made author Childress the first woman of color to win an Obie Award, battle lines are drawn within a newly integrated theater company preparing to open a misguided race play on the Great White Way. As personalities and prejudices collide, lead actress Wiletta Mayer has the

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Nelson Marban 202-870-6899

LOGAN/PENN QUARTER, WASHINGTON, DCChic loft-like, sun-filled 2 bedroom, 2 full bath condo inThe Whitman. Designer finishes include custom cabinets,stainless steel appliances & granite and marble in the bath-rooms. 1 garage parking space. Rooftop pool and cityviews. $574,900Nelson Marban 202-870-6899

BRADLEY FARMS, POTOMAC, MDEnlarged and updated custom built home on beautiful 2 acrelot in prestigious Bradley Farms brings the outdoors in.Walls of glass & skylights provide exquisite views of theproperty, pool & tennis court. $4,795,000

Marsha Schuman 301-299-9598

POTOMAC, MARYLANDHummingbird Hill – Custom built, Gosnell Cape Cod onan unbelievably beautiful 2.6 acre setting with a pool,gazebo, koi pond and tennis court. Beautiful main levelmaster suite and sitting room with upper level paneled li-brary. $1,998,000

Anne Killeen 301-765-8307

ARLINGTON, VIRGINIAWonderful home in spectacular North Arlington neighbor-hood only 1 red-light to DC! Beautiful lot, 3 bedrooms, 3baths, gorgeous hardwoods, freshly painted, finished base-ment, 2 fireplaces, cozy den off eat-in kitchen, two-cargarage and more!

Kay McGrath King 202-276-1235

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