Come celebrate Spring with Southwest Community Gardens at Lansburgh Park on March 22nd! A kids planting workshop, nutrition workshop, and bucket gardening are just some of the events that will be taking place from 1:00-5:00pm. Snacks will be provided. Contact swgardensdc@gmail.com or call Kamilla at (571) 426-0466 for more information.
Port of Washington Yacht Club Change of Watch Celebration
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To say to the boating community in SWDC is a close-knit one would be a significant understatement. Friends and neighbors dressed in their finest proved this on the evening of January 11th, 2014, when they gathered together to celebrate the Port of Washington Yacht Club’s Change of Watch ceremony […]
Private Drive Lane for Sky House Open
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The private drive lane that runs in front of Safeway at Waterfront Station officially opened on Tuesday, January 14th. The roadway serves Sky House East, which opened for leasing earlier this month. It is a one-way road that starts on M Street, runs north to the Sky House East garage […]
Felicia Couts Announced as New CBCC Coordinator
The Near SE/SW Community Benefits Coordinating Council (CBCC) is pleased to announce the hiring of Felicia Couts as Coordinator. Felicia is an 18-year resident of Southwest and has been working with the CBCC as Project Manager for the Southwest Playground Project, a playground that is in development for the 3rd and I St SW […]
New Clothing Bin in Southwest to Benefit People in Need
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Julian Tait, a parishioner at Southwest’s St. Augustine’s Episcopal Church, 600 M St SW, stands next to the newly installed clothing donations bin on St. Augustine’s property, across from the church’s sign. Tait is the church’s representative to Samaritan Ministry of Greater Washington and he also sits on its board of […]
‘Mother Courage and Her Children’ and More at Arena Stage
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Bertolt Brecht’s Mother Courage and Her Children has been called by some the greatest anti-war play ever. The astonishing work, written in a month in 1939 on the eve of Hitler’s invasion of Poland, tells of a single mother determined to keep her family alive and her business afloat during […]
AARP SW Waterfront Chapter #4751 News
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Andy Litsky, AARP-DC Executive Council member and Chair, ANC 6D Commission, installed the 2014 officers and committee chairs of the AARP Southwest Waterfront Chapter #4751 at its first meeting of the year on January 15th. He administered the oath of office to (L to R) Betty Jean Tolbert Jones, president; Evelyn B. […]