Day: June 7, 2004

Well the city is going to be a mess downtown with the Ronald comin’ to town. Not just downtown but the neighborhoods ajoining between the Capitol and the National Cathedral will be closed off and made terribly inconvienent to the residents. Which made me think. They wouldn’t dare come through my part of Shaw. One possible route would be from the Capitol up NJ to FL up Connecticut and over to Wisconsin via R or some other street. But really you don’t want great dignitaries to have to go through the hood where there are drug dealers, with guns! So when trying to figure out how to get back to VA, go through the hood, skip the whole hubbabalu downtown and take 395.

Neighbors,

I take this opportunity to remind you of tonight’s meeting of the Bates

Area

Civic Association, Inc. Specifically, the meeting will be held at

Mount

SInai Baptist Church, 3rd and Q Streets, N.W., between the hours of

7:00

p.m. and 9:00 p.m. Art Slater, the new Chairperson-elect of the Fifth

District Police Citizen’s Advisory Council is scheduled to make some

comments about his prelimary plans to move that group on matters of

public

safety. In addition, Alice Harper, the Community Relations Specialist

from

the Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency who is assiged to

cover

the Fifth Dstrict, plans to make some comments about the history of her

agency’s work with the MPD and the Fifth District community. Inasmuch

as

the summer is rapidly approaching, Lionel Taylor, Ward Five Coordinator

from

the DC Department of Parks and Recreation, wants to let you know about

some

of the activities that are happening in Ward Five for residents of all

ages.

And, consistent with our intention to have each of the candidates for

an

At-Large City Council seat appear before the Association in advance of

the

November 2004 election, Candidate Kwame Brown has been invited to

attend

this month. (It should be known that Mr. Brown had multiple campaign

events

on his schedule for the date of our meeting when the invitation was

initially extended to him. So, he was invited with the understanding

that

we would invite him again next month, if it turns out that delays from

his

pre-existing commitments, essentially, prevents him from coming to our

meeting this month.)

In addition to the above, we have a Flower Power update and other

announcements of importance. So, we hope to see you tonight!

Best,

JB