On Saturday, July 13th, Paws of SW, the local community group formed to help bring a dog park to SW DC, organized a “Poop Patrol and Neighborhood Trash Pickup.” Members of the group met at the SW Duck Pond at 6th and I St to start the morning off with […]
Fighting the “New Jim Crow”
Westminster DC, 400 I St SW, will be hosting a Town Hall Meeting at 7:00pm on Thursday, August 1st to hear from civil rights attorney Phil Fornaci about the recent report on “Racial Disparities in Arrests in the District of Columbia (http://www.washlaw.org/pdf/wlc_report_racial_disparities.pdf).” The report is from the Washington Lawyers’ Committee […]
August Community Calendar
AUGUST THURS 1 @ 3-4 P.M. SCIENCE IN THE SUMMER, How do magnets work? What makes electricity? SW Neighborhood Library, 4th-6th grades. Phone: 202-724-4752 FRI 2 @ 6:30 P.M. Potluck, 7 P.M. Games. St. Augustine’s Game Night. Bring a potluck dish to share. Board and card games provided, but feel […]
Neighborhood Employee Wears the Curly ‘W’ with Pride
Considering her love of sports and family, it made sense for Nationals guest services usher Lajaun Lawson to move from Silver Spring, MD to Southwest DC six years ago. At the time, the construction of Nationals Park was just wrapping up and she was offered a place to stay next […]