Five (and a half) members of the Central Shaw Neighborhood Association (Ray R, Walter, Ray M, Lesly, Katya, Dmitri) plus a friend (Pilar) volunteered yesterday afternoon at Bread For the City. We were joined by volunteers from the Immaculate Conception Church on 7th & N as well. We participated in the gleaning program, sorting and bagging fresh vegetables that were donated by local farms and farmers’ markets. The food will be distributed to customers and families in need at the 7th St location and the SE locations.  Thanks for volunteering your time everyone. We’re looking forward to organizing more efforts like this in the future.

After volunteering we toured the 22,000 square ft facility. It was beautiful!  Bread for the City offers the following services:

• Food pantry
• Yoga, crafts and salsa lessons upstairs, other community classes
• Medical and dental clinic
• Financial services
• Housing and furniture
• Legal services
• A sustainable rooftop garden

And thankfully we hear that there will be retail along the long 9th St side, perhaps even a bicycle shop! 

Work is finally starting on this long vacant property at 1547 7th Street in Shaw.  A metro bus crashed into this building in 1997.  We can’t wait for Ambar to open!

Here is one of the renderings. More info can be found at the Warrenton website.

And this article has a tiny bit of history and a few points about the rare Arts and Crafts architecture.

The DOH rodent control team was in our neighborhood today – in full force. We had four trucks and covered a lot of ground. We also had a lot of neighbors turn out to help DOH treat the right places. Great work everyone and many thanks to DOH for bringing it!

Parcel 42 is going out for another round of bidding . . . the fourth round, to be precise.  The Deputy Mayor’s of for Planning and Economic Development  (DMPED) is using Parcel 42 as a test case for their new “Our RFP” program.  According the DMPED, that means more process and more community input.  There will be a public workshop on Saturday, June 13th at the Howard Theater from 10am to 12pm, where DMPED will take community input.

There is a lot of history concerning this site, but if you have a view on its use, please go to the workshop and make your views known. Rsvp links are below.

More info from MPED Parcel 42 website follows:

Parcel 42 / Our RFP

Please join us in helping to support a great local cause – New Endeavors By Women!

New Endeavors is a nonprofit based in Shaw that helps women and children by “providing housing, fostering life skills, and promoting education and employment to end the cycle of homelessness.”  Our very own Beau Thai is hosting a Happy Hour fundraiser to benefit New Endeavors on Wednesday, June 17 5-7pm.  Beau Thai is creating a special cocktail for the event – all proceeds all day and all night will go to New Endeavors By Women.

Happy Hour – Happy Day! – at Beau Thai to benefit homeless women and children

Wednesday, June 17  5-7pm

Beau Thai Restaurant, 7th & P St NW, Washington, DC

New Endeavor Happy Hour

The new O Street Market has been a wonderful benefit to our neighborhood.  With it comes significant foot traffic along 8th ST NW.  Also a wonderful thing!  However, cross-town vehicle traffic zips across 8th St at the intersections with Q, P, and O Streets.  We’ve had some very close calls, including with children on their way to Kennedy Recreation Center.

We would like to thank ANC6E, and in particular, Commissioners Wiggins and Padro, for voting last night to urge the District Department of Transportation to install 4-way stop signs at the intersections of 8th & Q St, 8th & P St, and 8th and O St.

The Central Shaw Neighborhood Association passed a resolution supporting this effort on April 20th. It is great to see our local elected ANC moving this forward. Thank you!