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Yeah, me neither. But apparently that’s what’s happening according to the Washington DC Economic Partnership: “Think @7Eleven is just good for slurpees? Think again. Check out their new “fresh produce” concept at H St & Columbia Heights locations”Like the WDCEP says, I mostly think of 7-Eleven for Slurpees, drinks, chips, and crappy hot dogs and…
Yet another cool event at the Dunes, the gallery/art space above The Getaway at 14th and Meridian: this time it’sRose Mapendo, UNHCR’s Humanitarian of the Year. She’s a Tutsi from the Democratic Republic of the Congo who was forced into a death camp during the Hutu-Tutsi conflicts in the area. In the death camp she…
Upcoming event from the Georgia Avenue Task Force in the aftermath of the shooting of 4 people at the Caribbean Carnival a few weekends ago. Definitely sounds interesting. As discussed in our last Georgia Avenue Community Development Task Force meeting, we have a date of Wednesday July 27th at 6pm for a dialog on the…
Two birds, one stone. Jim Graham has started a program of jobs for kids in Ward 1, where they go around cleaning graffiti. Right now it’s 4 kids who have removed 130 instances of graffiti around the ward, and they’re also working with kids from the Columbia Heights Youth Club. Nice to see this, as…