Month: July 2004

Whoever painted my house many years ago and put on ten kazillion layers of paint and didn’t let it dry properly so it alligatored, I hate you. And what’s with the grey paint? I see it everywhere on floors and steps. Just say no to grey.

  The In Shaw webmistress is home sick with a nasty headache and the repair work going on in the alley sure ain’t helping. I shouldn’t call it repair. Maybe descruction. Apparently the top of the on again off again rehab house shouldn’t be there. Well it’s ugy too. 

There is a house on the 1500 block of 3rd St that has a ugly 3rd floor that juts up too, while the rest of the block has 2 stories. Ugly. I know why they do it. To add more square footage. But really it just adds to the ugly.

However there is a house on the 1600 block of 5th that has a lovely 3rd floor but it sits off from the rear, so if you are on 5th, on the street in front of the house you don’t see the 3rd floor. If you’re around that section of Shaw I recommend you take a look. Best spot is on the corner of R & 5th facing east.

Found on the Corner of NJ Ave and R St.

> To: Myers, Mary (DPW)

> Subject: No Trash Collection on Monday

> Importance: High

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> For Immediate Release

> Contact: Mary Myers

> July 23, 2004

> 202/671-2375

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> No Trash Collection on Monday in Honor of Fallen Sanitation Worker

> DPW will follow a holiday collection schedule next week

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> (Washington, DC) In honor of DPW Sanitation Crew Chief Johnny L.

Harrison,

> who was killed on July 16, there will be no residential trash or bulk

> trash collection on Monday, July 26, the day of his funeral. DPW

will

> follow a holiday trash collection schedule next week. Monday’s bulk

> collection appointments will be rescheduled. All other operations,

> including parking enforcement, booting and towing, street and alley

> cleaning, and sanitation enforcement will operate as usual.

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> Once-weekly Supercan trash collection and recycling collection will

> “slide” one day for the remainder of the week, beginning Tuesday,

July 27.

> Neighborhoods that normally receive twice-weekly trash service will

see

> their first collection slide one day, with normal collections on

Thursday

> and Friday.

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> Mr. Harrison’s funeral will be held Monday, July 26 at 11 am at the

Imani

> Temple on 609 Maryland Avenue, NE.

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