The Edgewood/Brookland Family Support Collaborative (E/BFSC) is now officially providing neighborhood-based services to families in SW as well as all of Ward 5 and Ward 6. E/BFSC currently has a satellite office in St. Augustine’s Church and is in the process of opening another site in SW as the church […]
“Women of Promise” Program Promotes Breast Cancer Awareness
Southwest resident Carla D. Williams believes that it was an experience in her own family that unconsciously became the impetus for “Women of Promise,” an ambassador program to get more women screened for breast cancer. Not long ago, an aunt had detected a lump in her breast but didn’t do […]
Southwest Real Estate Update
Wow! October proved to be a very strong market for 20024 zip code. The average sold price is up 86.42% over October 2011 (keep in mind this is not an annual stat but rather a snap shot of the trend from the same month previous year). Markets can be tracked […]
Nurse & Educator Wins Prestigious Public Health Award
Dr. Rita Munley Gallagher is the American Public Health Association (APHA), Public Health Nursing Section, 2012 winner of the prestigious Ruth B. Freeman Award. The award was given on October 30 in San Francisco, CA during the American Public Health Association’s 140thAnnual Meeting. Each year the APHA honors an individual […]
Highlights of Monthly PSA 105 Meeting
October 18, 2012, 7-8:30 P.M., Potomac Place, 800 4th St. SW Participants : Sgt. Michael Architzel (substituting for Lt. Nicholas Gallucci) and Officer Vogel, PSA 105; Sgt. Woodland (PSA 102 – in training); Naomi Monk and Irv Gamza, PSA 105 meeting coordinators/facilitators and John McGrath, recorder; Carolyn Smith, 1D Outreach; […]