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Welcome YAHOO WACO list migrants! By consensus we decided to move to the IO platform, at least for now, since YAHOO will be ending its group service soon. There are features here to explore and utilize if we wish. I’m as much a newcomer to the site as most of you, so feel free explore, try out new features and report back to the group. This is, still, the Westmoreland Area Community Organization email discussion list It is a discussion list for the residents of the Westmoreland Area Community Organization (WACO) neighborhood, Takoma Park, Maryland. Please recommend the list to your neighbors. LIST GUIDELINES We follow the guidelines and statement of purpose set forth at the beginning by then-president of the Westmoreland Area Community Organization Arthur Karpas. The current president is Bruce Moyer. __________________________________________________________ Hello neighbors, I hope this listserv works to bring our neighborhood closer together. Here we can ask for and offer services, loan and borrow tools, books, and all sorts of stuff. We can discuss common concerns, plan group parties, ask neighbors to watch our houses while we are away on vacation. We can set up child care cooperatives, find apartments and sublets. Let's do it! --Arthur Karpas July 7, 2001 __________________________________________________________ Also some reminders and additional guidelines: Please keep your messages civil, even if you are in disagreement with someone else. Remember that if you reply to a list message, you are not sending a private message to that person, everyone will read it. Please do not "cross-post" material written by another person without that person's permission - this includes posting a message from this list to another list or posting a personal note to you. Thank you all! You make this a good community by participating! --Bill Brown, Moderator

WACO Neighbors: Seventeen folks attended last night’s informative WACO meeting via zoom. Thanks to everyone who participated, especially City staff and Council Member Schlegel. City staff from the police and housing/community development departments provided briefings on parking enforcement, Ward 3 crime data, and traffic and pedestrian issues in the neighborhood. A Ward 3 crime data report from the police department was especially illuminating. Also, those present approved sending a WACO letter to the DC Dept. of Transportation to request DDOT’s review of the safety of the Eastern Avenue and Walnut Avenue intersection and the benefit of a traffic signal at that intersection. We’ll share that letter with everyone once drafted. The link to the meeting video is here: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/bwkckewvp2ihuj2ynu1bg/video1041369346.mp4?rlkey=j2ow3mhsxxfc9ewg2g5x8dwcf&st=29aj48iq&dl=0 Here are the time cues to topics discussed during the meeting. Parking enforcement in WACO and Old Town 6:00 - 35:32 Ward 3 Crime data (powerpoint) 35:45 - 52:30 New city process for considering new speed bumps (traffic calming measures) and sidewalks (powerpoint) 52:40 - 1:06:55 Eastern/Walnut Intersection Traffic and Safety: 1:07:00 - 1:16:55 Approval of WACO Letter to DC DOT re: Eastern and Walnut Intersection 1:17:00 - 1:28:50 Please contact me if you have any questions. Enjoy a safe Memorial Day weekend! Best, Bruce Moyer WACO President 6907 Westmoreland 301-452-1111 bruce@...

If someone was expecting two half finished bottles of wine on their porch yesterday---they were left on our porch and would be happy to turn over to the correct recipients. If someone is gifting it to us, thank you and let us know who you are! -Lois and Bob 7005 Westmoreland

WACO Neighbors: A friendly reminder of our WACO meeting via Zoom tonight at 7:30 pm. The meeting will cover parking enforcement and traffic/pedestrian issues in the WACO and Old Town neighborhood with two City staff — A/Lt. Gregory Wolff (TP PD) and Devan McNally (HCD). And we’ll consider sending a WACO letter to DC DOT in support of Walnut/Eastern intersection study. Below are the zoom coordinates. See you tonight. Best, Bruce Moyer WACO President Join Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/4720392480?pwd=SQjxWGnsEkJb0cj8PUL0gS8nXp2GzG.1&omn=81254289592 Meeting ID: 472 039 2480 Passcode: WACO --- One tap mobile +13017158592,,4720392480#,,,,*645884# US (Washington DC) +13052241968,,4720392480#,,,,*645884# US --- Dial by your location ? +1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC) ? +1 305 224 1968 US ? +1 309 205 3325 US ? +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago) ? +1 646 931 3860 US ? +1 929 205 6099 US (New York) ? +1 719 359 4580 US ? +1 253 205 0468 US ? +1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma) ? +1 346 248 7799 US (Houston) ? +1 360 209 5623 US ? +1 386 347 5053 US ? +1 507 473 4847 US ? +1 564 217 2000 US ? +1 669 444 9171 US ? +1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose) ? +1 689 278 1000 US Meeting ID: 472 039 2480 Passcode: 645884 Find your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kcAyDPr3I7

This afternoon, while I was writing the update sent a little while ago, the agenda for this evening's 6:30 pm closed "administrative function" meeting of the Council was narrowed. It no longer will include any discussion of the scope of the planned audit. The new description of the meeting reads: "The Council will meet regarding evaluation of an outside legal firm to perform an independent audit relating to the events giving rise to the litigation known as Cooper v. City of Takoma Park. Administrative function sessions are closed to the public." As I said in my update, I've been seeking assurances that any discussion of the scope of the audit itself can be as transparent as possible, so I'm happy that this change has been made. I'm comfortable that evaluations of the merits of possible outside investigators (which would likely involve naming them) indeed qualifies as an administrative function. Best regards, Roger -- Roger Schlegel City Council Member, Ward Three 7500 Maple Avenue Takoma Park, MD 20912 Email: RogerS@... Phone: 240-997-3041 Please note that all City emails can potentially be public.

Good afternoon, Ward 3 neighbors. In this update: PBES meeting #2 highlights. Last week’s Council meeting outcomes. Another closed session this evening at 6:30. Tonight’s Council meeting (performance metrics and rent stabilization). News and announcements. - Click here for a searchable archive of previous updates. - PBES meeting #2 highlights. There was again a big turnout last week at the second community meeting about a feasibility study for Piney Branch Elementary School (PBES) renovations or replacement. At this meeting, the Stantec architectural team (contracted by the school system) presented a range of broad options for renovation, expansion, and/or replacement of the school facility on site. The remaining community meetings are scheduled for next Thursday, May 29 and Thursday, June 4 - in the PBES auditorium at 7 pm. At the outset, Montgomery County Park and Planning officials gave reasons for that agency’s opposition to a land swap, whereby the Ed Wilhelm Field or other areas of Piney Branch Park (behind the existing school) would be used for a new school. Chief concerns are the loss of flat playing fields, the bifurcation of the park, tough elevation/slope issues, difficult accessing the land through neighborhood streets, and the loss of more land to access routes into and out of the school (for buses and cars). However, the school system does have the option of pushing the school back behind about 40 feet to the very edge of the playground. School system officials also reiterated that there are no plans at this time to consider using part of the former Washington Adventist Hospital site for a new County school. The architectural team shared community and staff feedback received so far. Staff feedback emphasized supervision and safety problems with the split-level arrangement of the building (the library above the auditorium/cafeteria “floats” between two levels); the lack of windows in about half of the classrooms; the awkwardness of passing through those classrooms to reach windowed classrooms; problems with the aging HVAC system; and the lack of sufficient parking for teachers. The architects shared four concepts: Simple renovation of all areas of the existing building, with no change to the footprint. More intrusive work: restacking the auditorium/library core to align with other areas. Reworking the front two-thirds of the building (perhaps eliminating the pool, too). Razing and rebuilding the school, generally with more parking in front. Options (1), (3), and (4) included concepts with or without the community pool. Architects also said they are considering including up to four not-built-out “shell” classrooms to accommodate potential future expanded enrollment if there is more residential density added to Maple Avenue and/or the former hospital site. The architects and the school system representatives shared that they see a phased approach to a renovation (undertaken across summers) as difficult, given the small site, but not necessarily impossible. Many parents at the meeting expressed deep dismay about the likelihood of students being bused for two or more years to a holding center elsewhere in the County during construction (which could commence in as soon as three years). Attendees put forth proposals for using vacant space in the hospital/university area, at the former John Nevins Andrews school on Elm Avenue, or in modular classrooms somewhere nearby in order to avoid long bus rides. Other parents, teachers, and former parents called for a recognition that short-term disruptions could be worth it in order to bring about a school that is better for kids in the long term. The continued existence of spaces available for community use (the pool, an auditorium, a larger-than normal-sized gymnasium) came up as an issue in the meeting. If you would like to participate in a community survey (not City-sponsored) about the pool issue, this survey link was shared with me by Ward 3 Sue Miller, who was involved in a “save-the pool” effort several years ago. Note that under the original agreement by which Takom

For those of you who are not TPSS co-op members, I thought this might be interesting. ____________________________________________________ Jordan Barab Confined Space: https://jordanbarab.com/confinedspace Bluesky: jbarab.bsky.social Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jbarab/ ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: TPSS Co-op <connect+tpss.coop@...> Date: Wed, May 21, 2025, 11:32 Subject: A Riff on Tariffs To: <jbarab@...> Watch Out For Bad Apples TPSS Member-Owners and Shoppers, One of the many advantages of owning your own grocery store is access to information that other consumers don’t have. I wanted to talk a little about one of the biggest topics in the industry at the moment: tariffs and the cost of groceries. The tariffs and trade instability initiated by the Trump administration are having devastating effects across all industries, but none as high profile as groceries. Consumers have already dealt with a 10-years’ worth of “food at home” inflation since 2022. However, hidden in those real cost increases have also been price gouging and opportunistic profiteering among many large companies. A first and important thing to understand is that food and agricultural goods imported from Mexico and Canada are exempt from the tariffs under the USMCA trade agreement. That crucially means that products like avocados, berries, and tomatoes that are frequently grown in Mexico are not being charged any additional tariff. I compared invoices from today to those from early January and confirmed our avocado, banana and tomato costs have remained consistent. So it’s important to understand that if you are seeing cost increases at other grocery retailers on those types of products, you should question their validity. There are real areas where cost increases from the tariffs will make their way onto grocery shelves. Packaging, much of which comes from China, will increase costs for packaged goods companies. At a recent trade show, a large dairy company explained that while their cows were domestic, their cow feed came from Canada and was subject to tariff. What these hidden costs mean is rather than seeing an immediate 25% increase on bananas that would shock consumers, these policies will lead to smaller increases in the coming months. Some yogurt goes up 8% two months from now from those cow feed increases, or a small brewery raising prices in six months when they’ve run through their current supply of aluminum cans. While we use our voice and our national partners to advocate for the end of tariffs that are a needless tax on our own consumers, we need to stay vigilant against bad actors using the cover of those policies to raise prices. Luckily the co-op has a variety of pre-existing practices that help. The co-op has a fair margin pricing strategy in each department. When other retailers dramatically increased the prices of eggs in recent months due to scarcity, TPSS kept our margins consistent on eggs, and purchased from natural and organic vendors that used practices which kept their flocks healthier. The Co-op purchases from over 200 local vendors in every department in the store. These vendors are small businesses with no corporate earnings calls. During the pandemic, pricing on our certified organic chicken from Locust Point and Farmer Focus held their prices steady while Purdue and Tyson dramatically increased theirs. We work with these vendors who have a history of doing the right thing and treating their people and products better. We also purchase from other cooperatives like Lancaster Farm Fresh and Frontier. Recent consumer reports articles have highlighted bad practices among retail grocery giants like Kroger. They were cited for routinely overcharging customers at the register despite listing sale prices on items. These issues are caused in part by chain store cutting back their human workforce, leading to sales tags being weeks out of date. Even more insidious, these large chains are leveraging their customer loyalty data to create income streams and even charge different prices to different consumers. Th

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Hi, Can anyone recommend a lawyer to review a severance agreement? I think it's pretty standard; just want to make sure I'm not missing something big. Thanks for any help, Katherine Westmoreland -- "When we remember that we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained." Mark Twain

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Hello, Can anyone recommend a company or individual that would dismantle and possibly haul away a trampoline? Also, interested in deck repair companies as well. Thanks in advance, Heather on Allegheny

Hi, friends and neighbors. I'm forwarding the appeal below for another friend and neighbor, Jamila Larson, who is seeking this car for a single mom she has been mentoring. If you have a car you're willing to donate or to sell for $2000 or less, or if you know someone who might, please contact Jamila directly as soon as you can. Her email address is: jamilalarson at yahoo dot com jamilalarson@... As always, many thanks. Greg Do you have a working car that you are looking to get rid of? I have been mentoring an amazing mother of two little ones (newborn and age 2) who's partner needs a car to get to work, which she also needs to use to get to all the kids' appointments. She has been through more than anyone should go through as a child and teen and is the most resilient person you'll ever meet, committed to giving her children a different childhood, one of safety, consistency and nurturance she didn't have. Now in her mid-20s, they are living paycheck-to-paycheck, barely getting by, yet paying and arm and a leg for daily car rental and Ubers. They don't have the savings and credit one would need to buy a used car the traditional way, so I am asking our community of anyone would consider donating or selling a working car for $2000 or less to make a difference in this young family's life? Thank you for considering! Enjoy this beautiful weather, Jamila Larson

WACO Neighbors: A reminder of our WACO meeting via zoom on Thursday night, May 22, at 7:30 pm. We’ll discuss parking enforcement and traffic/pedestrian issues in the WACO and Old Town neighborhood with two City staff — A/Lt. Gregory Wolff (TP PD) and Devan McNally (HCD). Councilmember Roger Schlegel also will join us. And we’ll consider sending a WACO letter to DC DOT in support of Walnut/Eastern intersection study. Below are the zoom coordinates. Best, Bruce Moyer WACO President Join Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/4720392480?pwd=SQjxWGnsEkJb0cj8PUL0gS8nXp2GzG.1&omn=81254289592 Meeting ID: 472 039 2480 Passcode: WACO --- One tap mobile +13017158592,,4720392480#,,,,*645884# US (Washington DC) +13052241968,,4720392480#,,,,*645884# US --- Dial by your location ? +1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC) ? +1 305 224 1968 US ? +1 309 205 3325 US ? +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago) ? +1 646 931 3860 US ? +1 929 205 6099 US (New York) ? +1 719 359 4580 US ? +1 253 205 0468 US ? +1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma) ? +1 346 248 7799 US (Houston) ? +1 360 209 5623 US ? +1 386 347 5053 US ? +1 507 473 4847 US ? +1 564 217 2000 US ? +1 669 444 9171 US ? +1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose) ? +1 689 278 1000 US Meeting ID: 472 039 2480 Passcode: 645884 Find your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kcAyDPr3I7

We did sandwich making for the soup kitchen but got the proportions wrong! After buying many many additional loaves of bread, we still have five jars of sun butter. Would anyone like them? Jess on Allegheny

Hi neighbors, If anyone still gets a newspaper delivered, and you're looking for good uses for the bags, please feel free to drop any and all on my porch at 6707 Allegheny. Still prefer using them for dog waste to the too-small pre-made doggie bags. karen Karen Paul karenpaulstern@... karen@... www.catalyzingphilanthropy.com (301) 802-4155