Day: March 29, 2004

Neighbors,

The admission deadline for McKinley Technology High School is April 2,

2004.

Please share this information with friends and neighbors whose children

will

be entering the 9th or 10th grade this September. Additional

information

follows.

McKinley Technology High School will open in the fall of 2004 with 9th

and

10th grade students recruited from across Washington, DC. The school

will

offer a learning environment that is digitally enhanced to allow for

teachers and students to engage in a project based curriculum that has

the

rigor of a first class liberal arts education and the job skills of a

technical program.

McKinley Technology High School will provide students the opportunity

to

pursue an intense focus in bio/medical technology

, information technology

, and/or broadcast technology

.

Admission to McKinley Technology High School is by a competitive

application

process. The process ensures that students who enter McKinley Tech have

demonstrated sufficient academic success, social maturity and the

personal

discipline necessary to be successful. Students from throughout the

District

of Columbia are invited to apply. The deadline for applying for

admission is

April 2, 2004.

The application process will ask for the following information:

* A photocopy of an official grade report from the last two years

* Attendance record for the last two years

* Recommendation forms

* An essay written by the student

* A personal interview

* A writing sample

Admissions information and applications for McKinley Technology High

School

are available in PDF format by clicking on the links below:

MTHS 2004-2005 Application in Adobe Acrobat (pdf) version



MTHS 2004-2005 Application Information Packet

in Adobe Acrobat

(pdf)

version

Hardcopy applications are available at the school’s temporary offices

at

1709 3rd Street, NE. For more information, call 202-576-8058 or email

the

principal at daniel.gohl@k12.dc.us.

Best,

Jim Berry

ANC 5C

Neighbors,

On Thursday, April 1, 2004, the kick-off event for the Keep America

Beautiful Great American Cleanup will take place at 1st and O Streets,

N.W.,

commencing at 10:00 a.m. I know that this is a workday and a weekday;

hence, it is not terribly convenient for most. Nevertheless, I

encourage you

to attend and participate, if you can.

Best,

Jim Berry

ANC 5C

Neighbors,

Below please find important information concerning Hazardous Waste

Collection events scheduled to occur in April 2004.

Best,

Jim Berry

ANC 5C

HAZARDOUS WASTE COLLECTION – 4/3 & 4/24

The DC Department of Public Works (DPW) will hold its bi-annual

household

hazardous waste event at two

locations on Saturday, April 3 from 9 AM to 3 PM.

Residents may bring household chemicals and other materials to the

Carter

Barron Amphitheatre parking lot at 16th and Kennedy Streets, NW or to

the

Penn

Branch Shopping Center parking lot at 3220 Pennsylvania Avenue, SE.

This

drop-off service is free and open to all District residents.

DC residents can bring items including old cleaning and gardening

chemicals,

small quantities of gasoline,pesticides and poisons, acids, varnish,

oil-based paints, solvents, aerosols, wood preservatives, spent

batteries of

all kinds, roofing tar, chemistry sets, automotive fluids, even

asbestos

floor tiles to the collection site for environmentally safe disposal.

A professional hazardous waste contractor will remove materials

from residents’ vehicles. The materials will then be taken to an

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)-approved facility for processing.

Electronics recycling, normally conducted in conjunction with the

household

hazardous waste collection, will instead take place at the Carter

Barron

parking lot on April 24, from 9 am – 3 pm.

Residents are asked to bring computers, cell phones,television sets,

office

equipment and other electronics to that special collection event.

Iems that will not be accepted during the Household Hazardous Waste

Collection Day include munitions, explosives, bulk trash, wooden TV

consoles, propane tanks, microwave ovens and other appliances, as well

as radioactive or biologically active wastes.

For more information on household hazardous waste,visit the DPW website

at

http://www.dpw.dc.gov/info/house_haz_waste.shtml