Bianca Kersellius. Courtesy of Bianca Kersellius By Donna Purchase I recently had the opportunity to catch up with Bianca Kersellius, a previous scholarship winner of the Southwest Neighborhood Assembly’s (SWNA) Education and Scholarship Task Force program. We wanted to know: where she is now? One answer to that question is […]
Southwest Community Comes Together for Successful Spring Food Drive
Volunteers supported Serve Your City/Ward 6 Mutual Aid (SYC/W6MA) and Christ United Methodist Church 5000 Food Ministry’s Spring Food Drive. Courtesy of Karen McManus By Regina Mazur The community response to Serve Your City/Ward 6 Mutual Aid (SYC/W6MA) and Christ United Methodist Church 5000 Food Ministry’s Spring Food Drive was nothing […]
Southwest BID Is A Good Neighbor to Local Seniors
The Southwest BID Food Distribution Team. Courtesy of Beth Hall. By Beth Hall For the last eight months, the Southwest Business Improvement District (SW BID) had been assisting theSouthwest Chapter of AARP at their monthly meetings at River Park. The BID staff arrives early onmeeting days and sets up chairs […]
Garden Fest Celebrates Community Gardens Against Gun Violence
By Southwester Staff This Earth Day, GOODProjects, the Southwest Resident Council Presidents, Southwest Business Improvement District (SWBID), the DC Housing Authority and the DC Department of Parks and Recreation hosted Southwest Garden Fest, a community event celebrating the reopening of the Southwest Peace Gardens for the season. The festival included […]
Spring Food Drive Set to Stock the Shelves
By Regina Mazur For more than three years, the mission of Serve Your City/Ward 6 Mutual Aid (SYC/W6MA) has remained the same: providing Black and Brown youth and families with resources that others in DC may already have. Due to the tireless efforts of Serve Your City/Ward 6 Mutual Aid, […]
Where Are They Now: Southwest Neighborhood Assembly Scholarship Winner Kenneth Tinsley
By Vyllorya Evans, Co-Chair, Southwest Neighborhood Assembly and Wilma Goldstein, member Education and Youth Task Force At the Modern on M Apartments in Southwest DC, we recently had the chance to catch up with Kenneth Tinsley, a previous winner of the Southwest Neighborhood Assembly (SWNA) Education and Youth Task Force […]
Southwest Gardens Prepares to Celebrate Ten Years
By Pamela McKinney, Southwest Gardens President With spring approaching, we at Southwest Gardens are eager to open back up the communal section for the community again this year. Southwest residents founded the garden in 2013 and were intentional about maintaining part of the garden as resources for the community. We […]