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A Newsletter of the Palisades Citizens Association, Representing the Greater Palisades Area, Volume 28, Number 7, May 2017 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Go Solar!
Sam Brooks of District Solar, a community-based organization that aggregates prospective residential solar energy customers together to create simple, affordable, and charitable rooftop solar deals for DC will give a presentation about District Solar’s low-cost clean energy option that also benefits the community.
RFK Campus Redevelopment Project
Events DC Board Chairman Max Brown will provide an update on the RFK Campus redevelopment project and discuss recommendations for short- and long-term uses of the campus.
May PCA General Membership
Meeting
Tuesday May 2, 7:30pm
At the Palisades Recreation Center
In this issue: Out and About…………….……2, 4-5 From the President………………....3
News and Notes…………………..6-7
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Out and About
Your PCA Calendar for May 2017 The Palisades News welcomes announcements of all local events that may be enjoyed by all Palisades residents!
Every Sunday, 9am–1pm Palisades Farmers Market Next to Safeway
Tuesday, May 2, 7:30-9pm PCA General Membership Meeting Rec Center
Wednesday, May 3, 7-11pm ANC 3D Monthly Meeting Sibley Hospital
Sunday, May 7, 11am-3pm Lab School Spring Fair Lab School
Sunday, May 14 Mother’s Day
Friday, May19 Key School Parent/Teacher
Conferences—No School
Monday, May 29 Memorial Day
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The Lab School of Washington’s
SPRING FAIR 2017
Celebrate Lab’s 50th year with food, drink & games!
May 7th • 11 am-3 pm • 4759 Reservoir Road • Rain or Shine
ROCK WALL • LASER TAG • GIANT SLIDE • PLANTS
Public Welcome! Come Join the Fun!
Happy Birthday to PCA
Aircraft Noise Committee
Chairman Mat Thorp who
recently celebrated his 96th
birthday.
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Dear neighbors, Please join us on Tuesday, May 2 for our next regular monthly meeting. We will have special guests with presentations on solar energy in the District and the redevelopment of RFK Stadium. We’ll also have our regular committee reports and police report. The PCA will be holding elections for officer positions at the May meeting. A slate of officers will be presented by the Nominating Committee, and the slate will be circulated on the Palisades electronic mailing list ahead of the meeting. In addition, nominations will be taken from the floor. If you do not receive the Palisades electronic mailing list and would like to know the nominees, please contact Nick Keenan or Anne Ourand. It was a great pleasure to act as the official starter for this year’s Easter egg hunt. I’m happy to report that all of the eggs appear to have been found. Special thanks to Matthias Meuwissen and George Beronio and their band of teenage musicians for providing the music, the girls from Troop 4370 for stuffing and hiding the eggs, and to DPR employee Vincent Larry, Maria Garcia and Mark Orient for organizing. It’s events like this that make our neighborhood such a special place to live. Finally, last month was the birthday of stalwart PCA volunteer Mat Thorpe, who is still going strong at 96. He is a model for us all. I hope to see you on May 2. Sincerely, Nick Keenan PCA President
Out and About
Eggstraordinary Time Had by All at the Egg Hunt
The children of the Palisades got to experience an eggstra special morning at the Palisades Rec Center on April 8th. The Palisades Citizens Association once again hosted the annual Easter Egg Hunt and Potluck Breakfast. In all, there were over 1500 eggs for the little ones to collect!
The morning started out bright and early (and luckily sunny) with the Girl Scouts hiding the eggs. Neighbors started arriving at 10:00am to decorate Easter bags. PCA President Nick Keenan kicked off the egg hunt promptly at 10:30. Following the egg hunt, there were egg related relays on the field.
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Out and About
Neighbors got to mingle over potluck breakfast items and coffee (thank you, Starbucks, for the donation and everyone got to enjoy the wonderful performance by neighborhood teenagers led by Matthias Meuwissen and George Beronio.
A special thank you goes out to DPR employee Vincent Larry; neighborhood volunteer extraordinaire Maria Garcia and her husband Mark Orient and all the girls from Troop 4370 for stuffing and hiding the eggs! The Palisades Citizens Association is very interested in hosting community building activities and events. If you have an idea for such an event, please contact our office at 363-7441. We’d love to consider it!
News and Notes
Palisades Recreation Center and Library Modernization Projects
At the April 4 General Membership Meeting, the Department of General Services (DSG) and the contractor for these projects updated the community on the status of the Recreation Center Modernization. Work will begin in May to remediate the interior of the existing building, and will be staged to minimize the impact on the community’s annual 4th of July celebration. Actual construction will begin after the 4th with a ground-breaking at some point. Before then DGS and contractor will meet with the community on a date and at a location to be determined to present their plan for construction phase, explaining how this phase will impact usage of the balance of the recreation center’s components,
and steps they will take to minimize the impact of construction on the immediate neighborhood. On the positive side, the Department of Recreation gave the contractor on the project high praise based on his work on other projects, completing work in time and within budget. Several members of the team are also residents of our community. In addition the same contractor will working on both the library and recreation center projects.
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News and Notes
Et Voila reopens after renovation and expansion
Lab School Pool On March 21, the Lab School Head of School and President of the Board met with 50 or so community residents who are users of the Lab School pool. The Lab School representatives made the case for converting the school’s pool into a new theater space for the school. After presenting their case they listened for more than an hour as member of the community vigorously argued for keeping the pool as an important and irreplaceable asset to the school and the community. At the end of the meeting both Lab School representatives said that they would go back to the architects working on the theater project and ask them to consider other alternatives for creating a new theater on the campus. To date, the school has given no indication of how the reevaluation is proceeding. .
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The Palisades News is published eight times each year (October-December, February-June) by The Palisades Citizens Association, PO Box 40603, Palisades Station, Washington, DC 20016 www.palisadesdc.org President Nick Keenan 202-258-3155 First Vice President, Avi Green, 530-902-1886 Second Vice President, Ellen Maxwell, 202-297-5047 Treasurer, Ken Buckley, 202=248-7500 Secretary, Mary Ann Floto, 202,362-0566 PCA Administrator, Anne Ourand, 202-363-7441 [email protected] Newsletter editors, Elisabeth Brownstein and Hans Moennig, 202-462-5278, [email protected] Material must be submitted to the editors by the middle of the month for inclusion in next month’s newsletter. Annual dues for Membership in the PCA: Individual $25, Senior Couple (over $65) $20, Senior Individual $15, Household $40, Sponsor $100, Patron $250, Life $500 To join or for additional information, contact the PCA Administrator: 202-363-7441 or [email protected]
Membership Update
PCA memberships expire either at the end of September or the end of March. If you are unsure whether you are a “September” person or a “March” person, please check your mailing label. If your membership has expired, please send in your dues ($15 senior individual, $20 senior family, $25 individual, $40 household, $100 sponsor, $250 patron, $500 life) to PCA, PO Box 40603, WDC 20016. Please make your check payable to PCA. You can also renew on line using PayPal or a credit card. Go to www.palisadesdc.org and follow the easy instructions. We have PAL magnets for all paid up members. Please call the office at 363-7441 if you’d like one. Thank you for your continued support.
PCA Officers for 2016/2017 President: Nick Keenan [email protected] 1st Vice President: Avi Green [email protected] 2nd Vice President: Ellen Maxwell [email protected] Treasurer: Ken Buckley [email protected] Secretary: Mary Ann Floto [email protected]
