East of the River Magazine – January 2022 by Capital Community News

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Capitol Riverfront Neighborhood: From Industrial Backyard to Premier Waterfront Neighborhood by Michael Stevens

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The Modern Capitol Riverfront: It’s Not All About a Ballpark

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Our River: The Anacostia – Using Nature to Heal and Empower Communities Along Our River by Bill Matuszeski

Blowing in the Wind: DC Mandates Cleaner Leaf Blowers and Provides Rebates for Them by Catherine Plume

Bulletin Board by Kathleen Donner

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Jahmal Harvey: USA Boxing Featherweight Champion – Meet Your Neighbor by Anthony D. Diallo

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Featherweight boxer and East of the River resident Jahmal Harvey won his world championship bout in November in Belgrade, Serbia against Serik Temirzhanov, the 2020 Olympian from Kazakhstan. Photo: Ludo Saenz Lorenzo Luaces en Ringside y Fotos de AIBA, (see pg. 22)

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Profs and Pints (motto “love to learn”) brings college professors into bars, cafés, company ofﬁces, and other off-campus venues to share their knowledge. They speak on subjects of broad interest, including local history, their region’s environment, emerging trends in business or politics, and the ideas and innovations transforming our society and culture. All talks are delivered on an adult level and may feature mature content. Unless otherwise stated, anyone under 18 must be accompanied by an adult. Tickets are $12, plus tax and service charge. Find DC area lectures at profsandpints.com/washingtondc.

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SEVEN GAMES AND WHY WE LOVE THEM

WE THE PEOPLES BEFORE FESTIVAL

First Peoples Fund and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts present We The Peoples Before, a festival of events designed to explore and expand deep truths and reﬂections about the history and experience of this country’s Native peoples. Coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the Kennedy Center and the 25th anniversary of First Peoples Fund, We The Peoples Before is a multi-day event that features performances, workshops, ﬁlm screenings, cooking demonstrations, and discussions. The festival will take place, from Feb. 3 to 6, at multiple locations across the Kennedy Center’s campus including the REACH. All events are free, but some require advance reservations that will be available on Wednesday, Jan. 19 at 10 a.m. wethepeoplesbefore.org.

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Checkers, backgammon, Go, and chess. Poker, Scrabble, and bridge. These seven games, ancient and modern, fascinate millions of people worldwide. On Wednesday, Feb. 2, 6:45 to 8:15 p.m., join journalist and author Oliver Roeder as he charts their origins and historical importance, the delightful arcana of their rules, and the ways their design makes them pleasurable. He delves into the history and lore of each game: backgammon boards in ancient Egypt, the Indian origins of chess, and how certain shells from a particular beach in Japan make the ﬁnest white Go stones. $25. This program is part of the Smithsonian Associates Streaming series. smithsonianassociates.org. Photo: Oliver Roeder

Nollywood, Nigeria’s $3 billion film industry, is populated with savvy stars, directors, and producers. Artist Iké Udé returned to Lagos, Nigeria, in October 2014, after three decades away, to photograph its celebrities. In this exhibition, Udé’s portraits appear for the first time with garments and other items used in their creation to make a glamorous, bold statement about African identity. Each portrait conveys radical beauty by reclaiming, reconstructing, and redefining notions of African identity. Ike Ude: Nollywood Portraits opens on Feb. 5 at the National Museum of African Art, 950 Independence Ave. SW. Africa.si.edu.

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LIVING THE DREAM... SINGING THE DREAM

On Sunday, Jan. 30, 7 p.m., the long-running, ever-popular tribute to the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. returns to in-person performance at the Kennedy Center as the combined choirs of Washington Performing Arts and Choral Arts celebrate the power of music, collaboration, and the human spirit. $25 to $75. kennedy-center.org.

WINTER RESTAURANT WEEK RETURNS

Winter Restaurant Week, presented by Restaurant Association Metropolitan Washington, returns as the biannual celebration of the region’s resilient restaurant industry this Jan. 17 to 23 with specially priced menus offered throughout DC, Maryland, and Northern Virginia. Restaurant Week returns with a focus on on-premise dining, but keeps certain attractions diners have grown to love with the past few cycles including RW-To-Go dinner meals and cocktail pairings. During this time, participating restaurants offer three-course menus for lunch and brunch at $25 and dinners for $40 and $55. Visit ramw.org/restaurantweek for participating restaurant menus, to make reservations and place orders.

Wine glasses clink at City Winery, 1350 Okie St. NE, open Wednesdays, Thursdays and Sundays, 5 p.m. to 10 p.m.; Fridays and Saturdays, 5 p.m. to 11 p.m. citywinery.com/washingtondc.

FOLGER SHAKESPEARE LIBRARY’S NOT JUST ANOTHER DAY OFF

During Folger Shakespeare Library’s Not Just Another Day Off presentation, contemporary poets will be joined by actors for the annual celebration of the work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. This virtual event, available Jan. 17 to 24, features new poetry alongside historical speeches from Dr. King, Audre Lorde, Angela Davis, Frederick Douglass, Malcolm X, James Baldwin, and others. Free but registration requested. folger.edu/events/not-just-another-day-off-2022.

SEVEN METHODS OF KILLING KYLIE JENNER AT WOOLLY

When Forbes Magazine declares Kylie Jenner a “self-made” billionaire, Cleo takes to Twitter to call out white women who co-opt and profit from Black culture. Not long after Cleo’s tweets go viral with supposed support, the internet mob turns on her. Soon online discourse spills into reality, blurring the tenuous lines between internet personas and authentic relationships. Through a digital world of GIFs, memes, and #cancelculture, Seven Methods… offers a Gen Z analysis of Black womanhood, colorism, and the politics of social media activism. $46 to $64. $20 for age 30 and under. Seven Methods of Killing Kylie Jenner is at Woolly Mammoth, 641 D St. NW, from Feb. 14 to March 6. woolymammoth.net. Playwright Jasmine Lee Jones, Seven Methods of Killing Kylie Jenner. Photo: Helen Murray

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Capitol Riverfront Neighborhood

From Industrial Backyard to Premier Waterfront Neighborhood

egardless of whether a neighborhood is built quickly by a single developer or over decades with numerous landowners, the development of a neighborhood from vacant or underutilized lands usually involves vision, good planning, public investment —typically in infrastructure—and private investment. Such is the case with the nearly 500-acre Capitol Riverfront neighborhood which has been evolving for over two decades now.

An Industrial Backyard

Visitors to the Capitol Riverfront neighborhood of 2021 would not remember its previous incarnation as an industrial and manufacturing backyard for the District of Columbia that contained metal scrapyards, concrete manufacturing plants, asphalt batch plants, large oil storage tanks, an incinerator and trash transfer facility, car repair shops. That landscape also included the Arthur Capper Carrollsburg public housing complex, the Washington Navy Yard, and dance clubs. After WWII the neighborhood was largely forgotten and overlooked by the city and the real estate development community. But with almost

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two miles of riverfront frontage, and a 15-minute walk to the US Capitol complex, the neighborhood was well positioned for discovery and an intensification of uses.

Change Agents

The neighborhood’s trajectory was changed by a series of large economic development moves and public investment based on a new vision for the Anacostia River – that the river could be cleaned up and become a centerpiece for the east side of the city and neighborhoods in Wards 7, 8 and 6. The adoption of the Anacostia Waterfront Initiative (AWI) Plan in 2003 as public policy began changing the public’s perception regarding the value of the river and the importance of waterfront neighborhoods. The 1995 move of the Naval Sea Operations (NAVSEA) from offices in Crystal City to the Washington Navy Yard brought over 8,000 employees to the neighborhood. Private contractors followed as well resulting in the construction of five new office buildings. Several other key economic development moves followed that plan and laid the groundwork for today’s Capitol Riverfront neighborhood: • 2003 – the Federal DOT decided to move their head-

This is a neighborhood rendering that was commissioned by the BID, a number of our property owners, and the city during the Amazon HQ2 bid process. While a bit dated is still provides an accurate and compelling vision of what the neighborhood will look like at full buildout, as well as Poplar Point across the river. Courtesy Riverfront BID

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quarters office building to the SE Federal Center adjacent to the Navy Yard. The new building opened in 2007 bringing almost 7,000 employees to the neighborhood. • 2003 – after years of planning between GSA and DC’s Office of Planning, Forest City was awarded the development rights to 42-acres of the former SE Federal Center, later to become known as the Yards. • 2003 – the DC Housing Authority was awarded a HOPE VI grant for the demolition and rebuild of the Arthur Capper Carrollsburg housing complex. DCHA selected a master development team to undertake the rebuild which included a one-to-one replacement of 707 public housing units and the construction of another 1,100 units of workforce and market rate housing. • 2006 – construction began on the new Washington Nationals baseball stadium which opened in April of 2008. • 2010/2012 – Yards Park and Canal Parks open and create much needed open space, as well as a sense of place, community, and identity. • 2014 – the 50,000 square foot Harris Teeter grocery store opens branding Capital Riverfront as an urban neighborhood with services. These large economic development moves led to the construction of thousands of units of new housing, approximately six million square feet of new public and private office space, new restaurants, and hotels. Unfortunately, in late 2008 the national recession impacted the nation for approximately three years and most development projects came to a standstill. During that time Capitol Riverfront saw the construction of Yards Park and its opening to the public in September 2010. Yards Park has become a regional waterfront destination as well as one to the neighborhood’s greatest communal gathering spaces. Following the recession, the neighborhood began to once again see development projects underway with residential becoming the dominant land use.

A Look Forward

Capitol Riverfront is a “new growth” neighborhood comprised of seven subareas that offer different architecture,

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mixes of uses, and open spaces. Each subarea is evolving at its own pace, but each will contribute to the neighborhood’s ultimate buildout of 37.5 million square feet of mixed-use development. Let’s jump ahead to the year 2030 to see how the neighborhood looks at full buildout: The Yards – Phase I of The Yards has achieved full buildout with the construction of a new office building on the parking lot immediately east of District Winery. Yards Phase II has been realized as an office/commercial district north of N Street, SE with Chemonics being the first office building completed. The blocks south of N Street, SE are home to 4-5 new residential buildings with ground floor retail. New local roads have been constructed east/west and north/ south to provide circulation and ground floor retail opportunities. A new park space has been constructed north of Diamond Teague and to create additional open space overlooking the Anacostia River. The Yards in its entirety has become a new downtown on the Anacostia River with a vibrant restaurant and retail scene. The Heights – this subarea north of M Street, SE and west of 2nd Street, SE has become the highest density subarea in Capitol Riverfront. Greystar’s mixed-use project just south of the freeway and west of New Jersey has added another hotel (AC Marriott) and two new residential towers. The frontage on South Capitol Street has been built out with three additional apartment buildings and one office building, and a new office building occupies the southwest corner of Half and L Street, SE. The areas beneath the freeway have been transformed into a network of arts, recreation, and open space. The three DCHA sites that front on Canal Park have been constructed as residential building with affordable housing components, as well as ground floor restaurants or retail services. One of these sites contains a new condominium building and an affordable apartment building. Ballpark District – the Ballpark District has become not just the entertainment gateway to Nationals Park but a year-round celebratory space for residents and visitors to the neighborhood. The southwest corner of Half and M Streets SE has been completed as a new class A office building, and the Half Street streetscape improvements have been extended to M Street. All retail storefronts are active and lively, and the street is closed on Nat’s game days and on Saturdays for a year-round farmers market and street fair. Half and N Streets, SE now serve as pedestrian-only celebration spaces for the holidays and other special event days such as St. Paddy’s Day, Halloween, July 4th, etc. The area south of National’s Park has been completed with an office building and a new destination hotel on the river. Buzzard Point – this subarea has developed as a high density, mixed-use neighborhood with over 5,000 units of housing, two (2) hotels, new office space, seniors housing, a grocery store, new restaurants, and a new public park on the tip of Buzzard Point. It connects to both the Wharf and Capitol Riverfront east by way of the Riverwalk trail. S Street, SW serves as a pedestrian gateway to major new development on the former concrete manufacturing site, and new piers and docks provide river access for boaters. The Memorial oval that was constructed with the new Freder12

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ick Douglas bridge provides additional open space relief and the opportunity for food and music festivals. Canal Park /Capper/Lower 8th – Van Ness Elementary School and the Capper community center have become anchors of the neighborhood’s “civic” infrastructure providing a range of community serving activities. The old car barn at M and 8th Street, SE (now known as the Capital Turnaround) has been completely renovated and includes Phase Family Learning Daycare Center, a 982-seat auditorium (open), an Ebenezer’s Coffee house, a co-working facility, and an urban marketplace with restaurants and retail shops. The Humane Rescue Alliance has opened their new headquarters building at 11th and M Streets, SE overlooking Virginia Avenue Park. Virginia Avenue Park has been enhanced with additional landscaping, trees, and public art and serves a neighborhood park for this area of Capitol Riverfront. Development sites along Virginia Avenue, SE between 7th and 8th Streets, SE have been redeveloped as a hotel with a restaurant and celebration venue on the top floor. Washington Navy Yard – a new Navy Museum has opened at the Washington Navy Yard, and it occupies Building 74 and Building 202 – two historic structures from its earlier days as a munitions manufacturing center. A new exhibit space building and an entry plaza with ship artifacts and a water feature open on to M Street, SE and welcome over 1 million visitors a year to the museum’s interactive displays and installed memorabilia from the U.S. Navy’s rich history on the seas and in the air. A restaurant, museum shop, and conference facilities further activate this museum campus and make it a showpiece for the neighborhood and a tourist destination. Maritime Plaza/Boathouse Row – the Maritime Plaza site has been fully realized with the construction of a new office building, hotel, and residential building overlooking the river. Felice Development’s mixed-use project

at 1333 M Street, SE has delivered and contains an apartment building, condominium building and hotel, along with ground floor retail that overlooks and takes advantage of the Virginia Avenue ROW. A new park has been created by DOEE on the former Washington Gas gasification site and it is a passive meadow style park that provides access to the river along the trail. The historic shed structure on site has been renovated to serve as a canoe/kayak/bicycle rental space and refreshment center. Boathouse Row has been renovated and a new community structure built to serve all of the historic clubs. The river channel has been dredged here and new docks for the boathouse clubs as well as the public have been built.

A River Defines Us

Part of this transition to a waterfront neighborhood was predicated on the belief that the Anacostia could be cleaned up for human interaction – boating, swimming, and fish-

ing. Numerous nonprofit groups have been advocating for the river’s cleanup and leading efforts to do so. The catalytic change truly began with the implementation of DC’s Clean River Project – a series of deep tunnels that serve as storage cisterns for the combined sanitary and storm water effluents that had polluted the river for so long. The Clean Rivers project has eliminated over 95% of this effluent from being discharged into the Ana-

costia and changed the perceptions of the river at the same time. The Anacostia River is a point of differentiation for our Capitol Riverfront neighborhood and defines our “outdoor ethos” while connecting us to over 1,600 acres of public parks and open spaces along the river. Two new bridge systems connect us to neighborhoods in Wards 7 and 8, while creating a “bridge loop’ trail system of 3.3 miles for running, walking, and cycling. The new 11th Street Bridge Park when open will only reinforce this connectivity and destination appeal of the Anacostia and its parks.

Point of Comparison

The Capitol Riverfront is one of the largest riverfront redevelopment projects in the country, on a scale similar to Hudson Yards in New York; Pittsburgh’s riverfront redevelopment; San Francisco’s Waterfront Plan; and waterfront initiatives in Vancouver, BC and Toronto, Ontario. At buildout, Capitol Riverfront will include approximately 37.5 million square feet of new development on formerly underutilized or vacant industrial lands. For a point of comparison, the Phase I and II of the Wharf project in SW Waterfront contain approximately 4.2 million square feet of development and is a great urban interface with the Washington Channel and an example of one developer/owner implementing a neighborhood vision. Capitol Riverfront at build-out will be the equivalent of 9 Wharfs in size and will be developed by multiple ownership entities in partnership with the Federal Government and the government of the District of Columbia. As of the end of December 2021 Capitol Riverfront will be approximately 70% built out, and it is hoped that the remaining 30% can be achieved over the next decade. To most observers it may seem like a long time to achieve buildout. But these three decades (2000 – 2030) of development are chapters in the 231 years that Washington, DC has been evolving as a city. Neighborhood development is a complicated process involving multiple players and highly dependent on market economics. Capitol Riverfront is a vibrant example of a new growth neighborhood with a waterfront geography that has benefited from a definitive vision, good planning, public investment, and private response. ◆

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The Modern Capitol Riverfront It’s Not All About a Ballpark by Jacqueline Dupree

f one were to ask a non-interested observer about when the “revitalization” began of the neighborhood between the Southeast Freeway and the Anacostia River, it’s likely that the answer would have something to do with the arrival of the Washington Nationals. Some might have picked Sept. 2004 the Montreal Expos relocated to DC and the city decided to construct the team’s stadium on South Capitol Street, and other’s would choose the ballpark’s opening in March 2008. After all, in the preceding years the area hadn’t exactly been a destination for non-residents unless you worked at the Navy Yard, or knew someone who lived in one of the Capper/Carrollsburg public housing buildings, or who frequented the multiple dance clubs or strip clubs, or who needed cheap industrial space. The Nationals put the neighborhood on the map, many pundits would say. And yet, while there is no denying that 2005 and 2006 saw a “gold rush” of money being thrown at long-time landowners as big real estate companies swooped in, a strong case can be made that Nationals Park merely threw accelerant on the redevelopment fire that had actually started smoldering a few years earlier.

The City and the Feds

In 1995, Congress approved spending $200 million to modernize and construct portions of the Washington Navy Yard that would become the new headquarters of the Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) and bring more than 4,000 new employees to the brick-walled enclave. Five years later, 19 federal and District agencies signed the Anacostia Waterfront Initiative, committing to restor-

New Jersey Ave, SE looking south

Yards Park, looking north

Yards Park, looking east

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ing the city’s “forgotten river.” Not long afterward, federal legislation passed that allowed the General Services Administration to partner with private developers for the first time in its history in order to redevelop the 55-acre Southeast Federal Center site south of M Street and east of South Capitol Street. And in 2001, along with the official opening of the NAVSEA HQ, GSA chose JBG Cos. to build the new US Department of Transportation headquarters at New Jersey and M, and the Department of Housing and Urban Development awarded a $35 million grant to the DC Hous-

ing Authority to replace 700 aging public housing units at the Arthur Capper project between 2nd and 5th Streets SE alongside construction another 800 units of marketrate offerings. Because of these moves, by the time ground was broken in spring 2006 for what would become Nationals Park there were already five new office buildings completed along M Street SE and one more underway, filling up with contractors wanting to be close to NAVSEA and the Navy Yard. GSA had selected Forest City Washington to develop what would become “The Yards” on the rest of the Southeast Federal Center site. Capitol Hill Tower, a co-op that would be the neighborhood’s first “luxury” residential building, was under construction at New Jersey and K, opening in 2006 along with its sibling on th south side of the building, the Courtyard by Marriott hotel. Two buildings for low-income seniors were under construction as part of the Capper revitalization plans. And the Marines’ new Bachelor Enlisted Quarters had opened at 7th and L. 2006 also saw the last residents “temporarily” moved out of the existing Capper/Carrollsburg buildings. Nightclubs such as the Nexus Gold Club, Nation, Ziegfield’s, and others closed down, along with warehouses, asphalt and concrete plants, car repair garages, fast food joints, li-

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quor stores and taxicab companies. The Great Demolition was underway. From 2003 until the bulk of it was over at the end of 2009, more than 150 buildings would be torn down.

Construction Explodes, Then Slows

Construction fences went up with colorful signage heralding planned apartment and office buildings with ground floor retail, accompanied by legions of construction cranes and workers in hard hats. And the city worked to not only get the ballpark completed but the associated infrastructure and streetscape improvements it had promised. Other than Five Guys, Subway, CVS, and the Starbucks that opened at USDOT in 2007, there was little else to offer visitors other than torn up streets and dust. One could walk the streets around the ballpark on Sunday morning and see nobody other than construction workers. Major League Baseball made its first regular season debut at Nationals Park on March 30, 2008, with much of the sell-out crowd emerging from the newly expanded Navy Yard Metro station, and others parking on the numerous surface lots put into use while developers waited for the right time to get started. Unfortunately, by the time Ryan Zimmerman hit the walk-off home run that gave the Nationals a win for their first game at their new home, both the U.S. and the global economies were starting to teeter. “The Great Recession” clobbered investment banks (among many others), which then clobbered companies that needed loans and couldn’t get them, like real estate developers.

Buildings underway slowed and then stopped altogether, such as the office building at 1015 Half Street and the renovation of the Pattern-Joiner Shop at the Yards into The Foundry Lofts, with both buildings standing incomplete for many months. The deep hole that had been dug immediately north of Nats Park for a new residential project remained unfilled for years. From spring 2008 to fall 2011, not a single project funded by private developers began construction in the neighborhood. But government money allowed a number of high-profile projects to start, including the new twin 11th Street Bridges spans, the Yards Park, Canal Park, and the mixed-income townhomes at Capitol Quarter. The financing behind the construction dust was now different, but the dust remained ever present. Slowly, private money began to return. In 2014, two new apartment buildings opened. By 2016, it was like the recession had never happened, with five more apartment buildings and two hotels completed. By early 2020, 10 more apartment buildings would arrive, along with two hotels, two office buildings, a winery, a marina, and a much-grumbled-about reconstruction and expansion of the 100-year-old train tunnel beneath Virginia Avenue. Equally slowly, the thousands of square feet of retail space that had remained mostly empty began to fill in, first with smaller offerings such as Potbelly Sandwich Works and Lot 38 Espresso, then with more high-profile arrivals, notably in the retail spaces in the historic Boilermaker’s Shop and Lumber Shed buildings at the Yards, where Bluejacket Brewery and Osteria Morini opened within weeks of each other in late 2013. And by 2018, there were not one but two full-sized grocery stores.

game at home, but let’s not quibble.) Not all of the changes seen south of the freeway have been welcome, of course. Block after block of similarly shaped 12-story buildings leave some observers cold. Cheap eats at old places like the Market Deli are now pretty hard to come by. The four gas stations that were in operation in 2003 have disappeared. The Display Ship Barry left its longtime pier at the Navy Yard. Traffic has increased markedly, and even with separated bike lanes and new stop lights, it’s still not easy for vehicles and bicycles and pedestrians and scooters to safely share the streets. And one of the earliest pledges of the neighborhood’s new path remains unfulfilled, as progress has stalled on the promised number of public housing units, preventing many previous Capper/Carrollsburg residents from returning to the area that used to be home. Almost everything has changed in the neighborhood in the 20 years after the first redevelopment plans were put into the pipeline. Even so, there are still more buildings to come. There will also be more residents, more office workers, more restaurants and more traffic. Hopefully there will also be more playoff games. After all, while Nats Park did not actually light the development fire, the stadium and its team are at the heart of this “new” neighborhood. Jacqueline Dupree, a longtime Capitol Hill resident, tracked the redevelopment of what was known as Near Southeast from 2003 to 2020 at her web site, JDLand. com, where thousands of photos documenting the journey from “before” to “after” are available for browsing. u

Assessing Two Decades of Change

As the 2010s ended, the neighborhood was approaching the visions that had been laid out two decades earlier. It not only had become home to thousands of residents and office workers, but it became a draw for people from all around the DMV beyond just trooping in and out of the ballpark gates. Nats fans now had places like The Salt Line, Mission, and Buffalo Wild Wings to hang out at on game days. Parents pushed strollers down from Capitol Hill to take advantage of the splash parks at Canal Park and Yards Park, or to sit on the grass and watch Friday night concerts, or just to amble along the Anacostia Riverwalk. As an exclamation point on all of this revitalization, in 2019 a most unexpected playoff run ended with the Nats winning the World Series. (They still haven’t actually won a World Series

4th and L Streets, SE. 2004 and 2016

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Our River: The Anacostia

Using Nature to Heal and Empower Our River Communities

here are a number of special people who are working to make t3he Anacostia River come alive as a place to learn about nature and to use that learning to serve our neighborhoods and communities. Tying life in Anacostia and other neighborhoods to the River and its tributaries adds new layers of activities and learning to traditional communities throughout the watershed. One of these people is Akiima Price, who grew up around the River in Southeast DC and nearby Prince Georges County. She studied communication at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore, and in 1991, after working for the National Park Service out west on Lake Mead, she began thinking about how to use the benefits of nature to help people in stressed communities. This led her to work in the 90’s for the Earth Conservation Corps, Anacostia Watershed Society, and other organizations working to improve the Anacostia. She even spent a spell in New York City in 2006 working on restoration issues. When she came back to the area, she began working with social service organizations, connecting them with environmental groups working to improve the Anacostia. Early on she met Brenda Richardson, President of Chozen Consulting LLC, and was impressed. “Brenda was an inspiration, a model of caring about social and environmen-

Akiima Price on the Anacostia. Photo: Akiima Price

by Bill Matuszeski

tal issues together for what I call ‘trauma-informed environmentalism.’ She has a gift for engaging people with the River, parks and trails east of the River as a natural resource they can use for healing.” And both women have joined forces with APACC (Anacostia Parks and Community Collaboration) to help achieve these goals by getting folks out and along the River for a range of recreation and community service activities. Since 2018, Akiima has been on contract with the National Park Foundation to help build Friends of Anacostia Park, a new group slated to start early this year. This group will prioritize not only the goals of the National Park Service, it will also empower stressed residents to inform projects and programs. Friends of Anacostia Park will not only add to the other organizations that make up APACC; it will assure that the efforts in and along the River are not simply for the partners and the River, but benefit the people living nearby in every way. There are a number of ways that Akiima’s talents might be useful. First, there are always proposed improvements to access and use of the lands along the River and its waters. Some are well thought out and support the goals to use the River and its lands to broaden public knowledge and provide recreation – a good example is the City’s plan for Kingman Island developed with neighborhood partic-

ipation. At the other end is the confusion and lack of clear plans for Kenilworth Park, where the City Department of Environment wants to rebuild the tidal wetlands, the City Department of Transportation has plans for a trail in the same place, the Park Service wants to put in a bridge to the National Arboretum that will be big enough to handle police and emergency vehicles, and upstream citizens want to protect the long natural vista and the safety of their children practicing with their school team in racing boats. Access options are not always clear and simple. Second, the River can play a major role in education about nature, land use and protection, wildlife, and water quality. The schools for younger students seem to have found a number of groups to work with on trips and activities along the River. Third, neighborhood and community groups such as churches can be organized to go forth to explore and become engaged in projects to improve areas in and along the River. As the water quality improves, there is bound to be more interest in fishing, boating and swimming. And the 11th Street Bridge Project promises to provide spaces to gather and enjoy the views along the water and a range of associated activities. Fourth, the River and its parks can bring to the public the spirit and blessings of nature. Simply walking along the water is the easiest. But working together on gathering data or completing projects sponsored by the Park Service or non-profits broadens the experience of communing with nature. As Akiima sums it up, “There is the opportunity to serve both the land and the people when we expand the definition of environment to consider not just the physical factors but the social as well.” She sees the value of considering “affective” outcomes as well as “cognitive” outcomes when teaching about the River. “Cognitive outcomes focus on beliefs, ideas or knowledge about something. Affective outcomes focus more on feelings, emotions, attitudes, motivations, appreciation, etc., which gets to the root of necessary behavioral changes to sustain efforts to improve the River and its surrounding lands. For so long it has been about the River and not the people; that, thankfully, is changing.” Bill Matuszeski is a member of the Mayor’s Leadership Council for a Cleaner Anacostia River, and the retired Director of the Chesapeake Bay Program. He also serves on the board of Friends of the National Arboretum and on Citizen Advisory Committees for the Chesapeake and the Anacostia. u

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Blowing in the Wind DC Mandates Cleaner Leaf Blowers and Provides Rebates for Them by Catherine Plume

eaf blowers--sometimes it seems that everyone is foregoing the humble rake for these high-powered machines. People either love them for their efficiency or hate them for high-pitched noise they produce. But did you know that gas-powered leaf blowers are also a major source of pollution and a health hazard? As of January 1, 2022, the Leaf Blower Regulation Amendment Act of 2016 will prohibit the sale and use of gasoline-powered leaf blowers in DC. Residents and landscape companies alike will need to abide by this law or be subject to a fine of up to $500. To help make the transition to cleaner electric and battery-powered leaf blowers, the DC Sustainable Energy Utility (DCSEU) is offering $50 residential rebates for qualifying electric leaf blowers and $75 rebates for landscaping com-

panies. Rebates are limited to one per residential customer while any landscaping company licensed to work in DC will be eligible for rebates for up to five electric or battery powered machines under the DCSEU plan.

Why is this Legislation Necessary?

According to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), two-stroke gasolinepowered lawn and garden equipment (including leaf blowers) produce high levels

of hazardous air pollutants and carbon dioxide (CO2). Two-stroke engines are lightweight as they combine oil and gas in a single chamber. But they are also very loud and inefficient with as much as a third of the fuel spewed into the air as unburned aerosol. As testimony to the inefficiency of these machines, a 2011 study found that you’d have to drive a Ford F150 Raptor for 3,887 miles, or the distance from north Texas to Anchorage, Alaska to equal the amount of hydrocarbon emissions produced by a two stroke gas-powered leaf blower operated for only 30 minutes. People who operate these leafblowers breathe these emissions while landscapers who operate these machines for hours each day are exposed to much higher levels. Over time, these emissions can lead to a host of health issues ranging from cardiovascular disease, to strokes, and respiratory diseases. The noise they produce can lead to permanent hearing loss.

A 2011 study found that you’d have to drive a Ford F150 Raptor for 3,887 miles, or the distance from north Texas to Anchorage, Alaska to equal the amount of hydrocarbon emissions produced by a two-stroke gas-powered leaf blower operated for only 30 minutes.

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eager to see the switch to electric. Nancy Sainburg, owner of Enchanted Garden, a DC-based landscaping company notes, “We’ve been using only battery-operated blowers for the past five years. We’ve had no complaints from clients. In fact, several clients have come to us after hearing that we only use batterypowered blowers.” To get the DCSEU rebate, visit the DCSEU website at https://www. dcseu.com/homes/electric-lawn-care. Residents will need a copy of their receipt that includes a model number of the leaf blower purchased. Rebate applications (limGas-powered leaf blowers are out, but cleaner air is in! it one per utility account) Photo: C. Plume can be submitted through the Online Rebate Center Mary Cheh (D-Ward 3) and Chair of or through the mail-in application. Comthe DC Council’s Committee on Transmercial customers will need to submit a portation and the Environment is hapcopy of their DC business license and can py to see these gas-powered machines apply for the rebate online through on the abolished in DC, noting, “Gas-powered DCSEU’s website. leaf blowers are noisy, toxic, and excepTed Trabue, Managing Director of tionally polluting. The gas-powered the DCSEU urges people to act on this leaf blower ban is an environmental and rebate now. “Don’t wait until every leaf public health effort, and I enthusiasticalhas fallen to take advantage of our rebate. ly welcome the launch of the DCSEU’s Make the switch before January 1, 2022, leaf blower rebate program to assist with to stay in compliance with the new Disthe phasing-in of electric/battery altertrict ordinance. Electric leaf blowers and natives. Not only will it lead to safer enlawn equipment are better for the envivironments for landscapers, neighborronment and for the health, safety, and hoods, and local wildlife, but the rebate hearing of workers and residents, and program will also make the transition to we look forward to helping residents and cleaner, quieter alternatives more accesbusinesses make the switch.” sible for everyone.” And if you really want to be carbon While electric and battery-powneutral and even get some exercise, reered leaf blowers are better for operator member, that rake will still work, too! health and the environment, other technological advancements are also favoring electric leaf blowers. In addition to being quieter than gas-powered machines, a November 2021 New York Times article comparing types and brands of leaf blowers also notes that “the best corded models are on a par with or better than many gas blowers.” At least some local landscaping companies are embracing the legislation and

Catherine Plume is a lifelong environmentalist, an urban homesteader, a writer, and blogger for the DC Recycler: www.DCRecycler. blogspot.com; Twitter: @DC_Recycler. She is also the Chair of the DC Chapter of the Sierra Club, however, perspectives expressed are her own and do not necessarily represent the positions of that organization. u

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Join Serve DC’s Volunteer Snow Team

Residents are encouraged to join Serve DC’s Volunteer Snow Team, which helps clear sidewalks for registered seniors who are 65 and older and residents with access functionality needs. This year, Serve DC especially needs volunteers in Wards 4, 5, 7 and 8. Volunteers can sign-up at www.servedc. galaxydigital.com. For more information about DC’s snow program, preparing for winter weather or where District Snow Team plows are during a storm, visit www.snow.dc.gov.

Fort Dupont Public Ice Skating

The Fort Dupont Ice Arena, 3779 Ely Pl. SE, offers public skating. The schedule through the end of February 2022 is Sundays, 2:30 to 4:30 p.m.; Saturdays, 1:00 to 3:00 p.m.; Fridays, noon to 2:00 p.m. Adult admission is $5; kids, $4. Skate rental is $3. www.fdia.org

Mid-Day Movies at Capitol View Library

On Thursdays, 1 to 4 p.m., adults and seniors are invited to unwind with friends at an afternoon movie. Attendees vote each week for the movie to be shown the following week. Free. Capitol View Library is at 5001 Central Ave. SW. www.dclibrary.org/capitolview

US National Arboretum are open daily to the public from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. www.usna.usda.gov

Intro to Digital Books at Belleview Library

On Jan. 26, noon to 1 p.m., library staff will speak about public library resources available on phone, tablet or computer with the free Libby app. The presentation will explain how to get started with the app and answer questions about Libby or electronic resources in general. Free. The Belleview Library is at 115 Atlantic St. SW. www.dclibrary.org/bellevue

College & Career Readiness at Capitol View Library

On Jan. 12, 20 and 26, 4 p.m., Capitol View Library offers College & Career Readiness sessions in the first-floor computer lab. Each week features a different topic: Jan. 12, Resume Building & Writing; Jan. 20, SAT Test Prep; Jan. 26, So You Don’t Want to Go To College. Capitol View Library, 5001 Central Ave. SW. www.dclibrary.org/capitolview

Wild Turkeys at the Arboretum

Thanksgiving may be over, but turkeys are still out and about at the National Arboretum. Wild turkeys have called the arboretum home for at least the last 12 years. Trail-camera footage indicates three to six may be living at the arboretum. One group, a male and two females, lives in the eastern side of the grounds near the Dogwood and Gotelli Conifer collections. Visitors are asked to be respectful and keep their distance if they encounter turkeys. The outside grounds of the 20

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Ward 8 Woods Volunteer Opportunities

Tabletop Tuesdays at Belleview Library

On Tuesdays, 3 to 5 p.m., the Bellevue Library offers classic board games like chess and Monopoly, as well as materials to play Magic: The Gathering and Dungeons & Dragons. Tabletop Tuesdays is for all ages. The Belleview Library is at 115 Atlantic St. SW. www.dclibrary.org/bellevue

Find an Indoor Pool East of the River

The Department of Recreation operates indoor pools that are free for DC residents (photo ID required); a paid membership is required for nonDC residents. • Ward 7: Deanwood Aquatic Center, 1350 49th St. NE, open Monday to Friday, 6 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; closed Sunday. H.D. Woodson Aquatic Center, 540 55th St. NE, open Monday to Friday, 6 to 8 a.m. and 5 to 9 p.m. • Ward 8: Barry Farm Aquatic Center, 1230 Sumner Rd. SE, Monday to Friday, 6 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; closed Sunday. Therapeutic Aquatic Center in Ward 7 and Ferebee-Hope Aquatic Center in Ward 8 are closed for renovations. www.dpr.dc.gov/page/indoor-pools-00

Ward 8 Woods seeks physically active, nature-loving residents and visitors as volunteers for a range of activities. Most volunteers work in the woods removing trash and cutting invasive vines. Shepherd Parkway volunteer clean-ups are held every second Saturday of the month from 10:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Volunteers should dress for the weather with washable clothes and footwear (boots preferred) with strong traction. Gloves, bags, and water are provided. Documentation of community service hours is provided upon request. Reserve your spot at www. ward8woods.org/volunteer; meet at 555 Newcomb St. SE. For more information, contact Nathan at nathan@ward8woods.org.

Washington Post Best Books of 2021

The Washington Post has released its annual series of articles with top book recommendations for the year. The categories are Top 10 Books, Children and Teen Books, Thrillers, Feel Good Books, Graphic Novels, Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror and Romance Novels. This year offers titles for readers of all ages and interests. Check them out with your library card. www.dclibrary.org/washingtonpost2021

Become a DPR Lifeguard

The Department of Recreation uses the International Lifeguard Training Program (ILTP) to train and certify lifeguards to work at both indoor and outdoor aquatic facilities across the District. The ILTP is an objective-driven program that produces lifeguards who perform at a higher level than those of other national/international training agencies. The content includes Health Care Provider level CPR (one- and two-person CPR, AR, Foreign Body Airway Obstruction, and AED training), Emergency Oxygen Administration training and First Aid, along with stateof–the-art rescue techniques. The comprehensive nature of the program allows for a complete training curriculum that prepares the lifeguard with a single course. Lifeguard candidates must pass written and hands-on tests to receive an ILTP course completion certificate, which can be used to gain employment at any aquatic facility in the world. Training is free. Read more at www.dpr. dc.gov/lifeguard.

Getting Health Coverage During Open Enrollment

DC residents are urged to sign up for high-quality, affordable health insurance at www.DCHealthLink.com, the District’s online, state-based health insurance marketplace established under the Affordable Care Act. Open enrollment for individuals and families continues through Jan. 31, 2022.

ESL Conversation Circles

Non-native speakers of English who want to practice speaking English or build vocabulary may join an English as a Second Language (ESL) Conversation Circle at Martin Luther King Jr. Library. The groups meet Wednesdays, 10 a.m. to noon and/or 6 to 8 p.m. The online sessions meet for two hours. They are designed for adults 18 and older with low-intermediate to high-level English skills. For more information, contact adultlearning.dcpl@dc.gov.

Become a Resident Artist

Art Enables provides an opportunity for DC residents interested in exploring the art-making process and art as a career. It serves adult artists with intellectual and developmental disabilities and individuals with a mental health diagnosis. Artists must be 21 or older and live in the DC area. Previous art experience is not a requirement, only a genuine interest in the art-making process and developing as a professional artist. Art Enables is a fee-for-service program. Applicants must have funding from a sponsoring agency/organization or have the capacity to meet the fee requirements independently. Art Enables, 2204 Rhode Island Ave. NE, has a limited number of scholarships available for those unable to meet the fee requirements. Candidates must have a formal intake interview and assessment. To schedule an initial studio tour and interview, contact the studio at 202-5549455. www.art-enables.org

Air & Space Museum Temporary Closure

The Smithsonian Air & Space Museum will close to the public from March 28 until fall 2022 to complete work on new galleries

in the west wing of the building. The west-end galleries will reopen at a date to be announced later in 2022. The west-end exhibitions will include “America by Air,” “The Wright Brothers & the Invention of the Aerial Age,” “Nation of Speed,” “Thomas W. Haas We All Fly,” “One World Connected,” “Kenneth C. Griffin Exploring the Planets Gallery,” “Destination Moon” and “Early Flight.” The museum store and Albert Einstein Planetarium will also reopen in the fall. www.airandspace.si.edu/visit/mall-temporarily-close-2022

DDOT Deploys Traffic Cameras to New Locations

The District Department of Transportation (DDOT) has announced the planned deployment of automated traffic enforcement cameras to new locations throughout the District. The locations are sites where data analysis has identified speeding and stop-sign running as safety issues. Once “Photo Enforced” signs are installed in the direction of travel within at least 100 to 150 feet of the approach of the location, a 30-day educational phase will start for each camera deployment. During this period, violators will receive warning citations. After the 30-day warning period, DDOT will begin issuing notices of infraction with fines that will range from $100 to $500 based on excess of the speed limit. The new photo enforcement locations are: 1700 block N. Capitol St. NE 3400 block MLK Jr. Ave. SE 3400 block Wheeler Rd. SE 4000 block Wheeler Rd. SE 100 block Florida Ave. NW Malcolm X Ave. and Oakwood St. SE 1500 block Rhode Island Ave. NE 4400 block MLK Jr. Ave. SW 1300 block Eastern Ave. NE 3100 block S. Dakota Ave. NE 3700 block S. Dakota Ave. NE 4800 block S. Dakota Ave. NE 4900 block 16th St. NW 1500 block Gallatin St. NE 4700 block Reservoir Rd. NW 2200 block Franklin St. NE Fessenden St. and 44th St. NW Blagden Ave. and Allison St. NW www.ddot.dc.gov/page/dc-streetsafe-automated-traffic-enforcement

Track DC Snowplows

The District’s Snow Team consists of 882 employees and a 296-vehicle fleet, including 120 heavy plows and 100 light plows. This year’s equipment will feature 46 all-biodiesel plows. Snowplow operators clear 2,644 lane miles of residential and commercial streets annually, as well as the interstates. Residents can track snow removal progress in real-time by visiting www.snow.dc.gov/ page/about-track-our-plows.

January Foreclosure Prevention Webinars

Nonprofit Housing Counseling Services will be conducting Foreclosure Prevention webinars on Jan. 5, 12, 19 and 26, at noon, to provide valuable information about options for residents who E AST

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In-Person Choral Singing Returns

Older DC residents who love to sing can join in person when Encore Creativity for Older Adults returns for the winter/spring session of its Capital Encore Chorale and DC ROCKS. Capital Encore Chorale is a local group that sings a mix of music in many styles and from many eras. DC ROCKS takes singers back to their favorite rock hits from the 50s through the 80s. Encore welcomes new and returning singers to its 15-week, in-person programs that begin the second week in January 2022. No auditions are necessary. Encore’s mission is to provide accessible arts education and performance opportunities for older adults regardless of ability or experience. Capital Encore Chorale will meet at First Congregational UCC, 945 G St. NW, on Wednesdays, starting Jan. 12, from 10:30 a.m. to noon. DC ROCKS will meet at the Westminster Presbyterian Church, 400 I St. SW, on Tuesdays, starting Jan. 11, 6:30 to 8:00 p.m. Tuition is $190 per person for each 15-week program. For more information and registration, visit www.encorecreativity.org or call 301-261-5747. are having difficulty paying their mortgage. Residents delinquent on condo fees or property taxes may also receive help. Offered on the internet or via telephone, webinars are free. Registration is required at www.housingetc.org/webinar-registration; or at the Foreclosure Prevention Hotline at 202-265-2255. With advanced request, webinars are available in other languages. ◆

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Jahmal Harvey: USA Boxing Featherweight Champion Meet Your Neighbor by Anthony D. Diallo

In December, he returned triumphantly to his school, located at 425 Chesapeake Street, as the recently crowned Association Internationale de Boxe Amateur (AIBA) boxing champion in the male elite weight class of 57 kg/125 lbs. division. He was welcomed back enthusiastically by students, faculty, and Principal Demetrius Lucas who wrote to Harvey’s family saying, “We are so honored to have Jahmal come back to his alma mater.” “Boxing changed my life because I loved all sports and especially this one. It gave me discipline and allowed me to travel the world,” Harvey said by phone before preparing to attend a small parade in his honor, organized by ANC Commissioner Olivia Henderson (8D02).

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Champion featherweight boxer Jahmal Harvey poses with some of his winning belts.

he last time that Jahmal Harvey was at Flora L. Hendley Elementary School, he was a rambunctious kid in the fifth grade known more for antics than achievements. Everything is different now for the featherweight.

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AIBA, also known as the International Boxing Association, is an independent sport organization that sanctions amateur (Olympic style) boxing matches and awards world and subordinate championships. The now 19-year-old pugilist won his world championship bout in November during a two-week stay in Belgrade, Serbia against an opponent from Kazakhstan named Serik Temirzhanov. Temirzhanov was a 2020 Olympian. The Eastern European bout brought Harvey’s illustrious record to 125 wins and five losses. Before claiming his first world title in that fight, Harvey beat another Olympian, Samuel Kisohurry, who is a French native. Harvey also vanquished the defending world champion Mirazizbek Mirzakhalilov who hails from Uzbekistan. Harvey started boxing six years ago and since then has cumulated eight first-place finishes in various competitions including ones held at the National Junior Olympics, Youth National Championships, Elite National Championships, and the Emil Jechev Memorial Tournament in 2019. He became USA’s Boxing first male elite World Champion since 2007. Harvey recorded six wins in the Serbian tournament that totaled three rounds per a match and thus became the first USA Boxing featherweight World Champion since 1999.

Preparation & Dedication

Benjamin Franklin once said, “If you fail to plan, you are

planning to fail.” Harvey and his coach, Daryl Davis, took this saying seriously because Harvey’s diet and practice are not for the light-hearted. His training regimen for a fight includes waking up daily by 7 a.m., eating hot oatmeal, and drinking a bottle of water before running four miles around Rosecroft Village. Upon his return Harvey will shower, relax, and grab lunch around 2:00 p.m. It is always the same, a small sandwich or a small bowl of noodles. He forsakes his favorite food – French toast – to maintain his weight and phenomenal physique. By 6 p.m. he is at The Campus in Prince George’s County. It is a multi-faceted academic, athletic, and wellness facility. While there Harvey participates in daily strength conditioning and sparring six to eight three-minute rounds with a multitude of other fighters at the facility. The strength conditioning consists of pushups and a myriad of ab works. The day ends around 8:30 p.m. with Harvey showering and having dinner – a hearty but healthy salad.

Hendley Elementary School Principal Demetrius Lucas (left) and Jahmal Harvey pose for a picture.

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the constant struggles that people in the southeast quadrant Harvey’s mother, Kim are facing and overHarvey-Blakely, rememcoming because, as a bers vividly when life non-paid communiwas not sublime for Jahty advocate for a dozmal and her other three en years, she is at the children that included forefront of addresshis older brother, Doing a number of issues monic Harvey, 20, Amir that include dealing Lee, 14, and 13-year-old with landlords, lack Kimora Lee. of food resources, “It was hard at times lack of employment as a single-mother. I’ve opportunities, and a always been a workhigh crime rate. ing parent. It seems like “I have known Ward 8 (lower middlehim and his siblings class) families don’t get for all of their lives. I any help. You have to be applaud his mother practically destitute to for her efforts and for get some assistance,” Ms. Jahmal’s accomplishJahmal with teacher Natalie Germain who was at Harvey said, recalling the school when Jahmal attended ments. I am proud her darkest times strugbut more importantgling to keep her family ly the community is inspired by a young man like intact, off the streets, and out of the penal system. this who didn’t get lost to the streets. He is one of That was one of the reasons why Jahmal (and our (Ward 8) treasures,” said Henderson who orgaDomonic) sometimes lived with their father, Janized a parade held in Jahmal’s honor that toured marr Moody, in Prince George’s County. This patthrough her single-member district that spans tern began shortly after Jahmal was in the seventh parts of 4th Street, 6th Street, Chesapeake Street, grade at Charles Hart Middle High School on 601 and South Capital. Mississippi Avenue, SE. Domonic also excelled in sports, particularly basketball while at Frank Ballou High School, and earned a scholarship to ColFuture Aspirations by Community College in Kansas before transferHarvey hopes to qualify for the 2024 Olympics. ring this school year to Clayton State University Thus, the teenager bides his time by listening to in Georgia. rapper NBA Young Boy, watching the Washington Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner OlWizards, and working hard to be like his favorite ivia L. Henderson (8D02) knows too well about boxer, Terence Crawford.

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“I’ll make the decision to turn pro or stick around for another Olympic cycle. The plan is to make enough money in the future to support myself and family. Once I make enough, I’ll also give back to the community,” Harvey promised. In the meantime, Harvey agrees with his mother, Harvey-Blakely, who recently got married and moved out of the Douglas Knoll Apartments, that the best way to be successful and productive is to focus on positive activities. “Go to the gym. Do the exercises. Stay off the streets. Stay focused and out of trouble,” says Jahmal. ◆

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A Prayerful Breakfast The Old Man of Anacostia by Philip Pannell

ards 7 and 8 faith leaders hosted a prayer breakfast on Dec. 11. Nearly 200 fully vaccinated, temperature-checked and socially distanced attendees filled the Panorama Room of Our Lady of Perpetual Help Roman Catholic Church (OLPH) in the Fort Stanton neighborhood of Anacostia. OLPH provided the gratis breakfast served by Ward 7’s Imani Catering and blessed by Rev. Ricardo Payne of Lighthouse Baptist Church. Mayor Bowser was represented by Rev. Thomas Bowen, the director of her office of religious affairs. Most of the guests had not been together in person since the beginning of the pandemic, and the prayer breakfast did not disappoint. Reverend Karen Curry, associate minister of the Pennsylvania Avenue Baptist Church, was the emcee and knitted together an inspirational two-hour program which began with a welcome from OLPH pastor Father Michael Thompson. In 2020, OLPH celebrated its centennial anniversary and Father Thompson noted that the church was founded by African American Catholics who were tired of having to attend racially segregated masses in their parish and petitioned the archdiocese to grant permission to form their own congregation. Making his first public appearance as the new US Attorney for the District of Columbia, Matthew Graves informed the audience that he has been a Reverend William Lamar. DC resident for two decades, Photo: Lamont Mitchell his children attended DC public schools and he will engage in energetic community engagement during his administration. He said that “our city has seen an unacceptable rise in homicides” and pledged that “my job as US attorney is to see that 2022 doesn’t look Amir Muhammad, president, America’s Islamic Heritage Museum. Photo: Lamont Mitchell

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like 2021. Prosecuting and incarcerating people will not make our communities safer.” He was warmly received by the prayer breakfast attendees. Recognizing that neighborhoods east of the river have been the hardest hit by the COVID-19 pandemic and homicides, Amir Muhammad, the president of Ward 8’s America’s Islamic Heritage Museum, spoke of healing, and Rev. George Gilbert Jr., director of the Center for Racial Equity and Justice, prayed for peace. The prayer breakfast was not all talk and food. There was also music and dance. Rawn Harbor, director of music, and Debra Tidwell-Peters, cantor of OLPH, gave two selections. A liturgical dance performance was rendered by Sister Tasha Rhodes, The Move of God Dance Ministry, Rock ChrisUS Attorney for the District of Columbia tian Church Ministry. Matthew Graves. Photo: Salim Adofo It had been announced early in the year that Barry Black, the US Senate Chaplain, would be the featured speaker at the prayer breakfast, but he had to cancel in order to speak at the funeral of former Senator Robert Dole in Kansas. Only two days before the prayer breakfast did the organizers confirm the featured speaker: Rev. William Lamar IV, pastor of the Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church and co-chair of the Washington Interfaith Network. Rev. Donald Isaac Sr., the Southeast Tabernacle Baptist Church pastor, was effusive in his introduction of Rev. Lamar, who delivered a rousing message that brought the auFather Michael Thompson. Photo: Salim Adofo

Reverend Karen Curry. Photo: Lamont Mitchell

Changing Hands

Changing hands is a list of most residential sales in the District of Columbia from the previous month. A feature of every issue, this list,based on the MRIs, is provided courtesy of Don Denton, manager of the Coldwell Banker office on Capitol Hill. The list includes address, sales price and number of bedrooms.

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3109 N St SE $660,000 1711 33rd Pl SE $658,500 2133 31st Pl SE $630,000 FEE SIMPLE 3055 Q St SE $585,000 3155 Westover Dr SE $540,000 ANACOSTIA 3505 Carpenter St SE $535,000 2242 Chester St SE $642,500 3 2137 36th Pl SE $510,000 2509 1/2 West St SE $490,000 3 2511 Fairlawn Ave SE $350,250 1915 21st Pl SE $484,900 2 1522 White Pl SE $450,000 4 KINGMAN PARK

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dience to its feet several times. Rev. Lamar may have been a last-minute substitute keynote speaker but he brought a right-on-time spirit to the event. Closing out the prayer breakfast were remarks from Irwin Royster and Rev. Wanda Thompson, coconveners of the monthly meetings of Wards 7 and 8 clergy and faith leaders. Rev. William Young, the recently installed pastor of the Covenant Baptist United Church of Christ, gave the benediction, which he preceded with an a cappella solo. The video of the prayer breakfast can be viewed by visiting YouTube.com and searching “Wards 7 & 8 Faith Leaders Breakfast.” Or you can click on https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=w ards+7+and+8+prayer+breakfast. There are nearly 200 churches and two mosques east of the river. If these institutions work collectively on community issues and problems, the benefits could be immeasurable. The Dec. 11 prayer breakfast set a tone and sent a message of unity that hopefully will guide the community in 2022. Arrangements are being made to host another prayer breakfast on the weekend of the celebration of Juneteenth. Keep your eyes and ears open for the announcement. Long-time Ward 8 community activist Philip Pannell can be contacted at philippannell@comcast.net. u

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