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Hi friends - We are in need of 5 small to medium size baskets for kids to carry with a handle on them, like an Easter basket but that doesn’t look easterish? LMK if you have one or 2 or any we could borrow for Sammy’s bar mitzvah. The little kids get to hand out candy to all the kids to throw at Sammy at the end of the service - to wish him a sweet life!! LMK if you have something we could use!! Thanks!

Happy rainy weekend folks - Anyone have an upholster they like that has a reasonable time frame? Send me their deets! Martha 202-669-3818

Hi all DC water is here to fix a pipe outside our house at 224 10th St. If you own a gray Prius, DC plate DN 7204 or black Dodge Challenger VA plate TMC 8653 can you please move them? Thanks

Hi all, If anyone owns the white Honda hatchback (license plate FM8283) parked on 11th St. between Gessford Ct. and C could you please move it? Our moving truck will be around 9am. Thanks! Shelby

Hi Friends and Neighbors! We have a lot of family and friends coming to town for Sammy’s bar mitzvah in May. Wondering if anyone near by has an air bnb type of rental available over that weekend. Thanks for any tips or leads you may have! Happy Spring! Martha

While the stop gap government funding bill, aka CR with budget cuts, passed the senate today this stand alone bill apparently also passed in the senate to uncut the DC budget cut, but it still needs to pass the house (and be signed by Trump) when they all return (republican members having fled DC on Tuesday). Begin forwarded message: On Friday, March 14, 2025, 7:47 PM, Mayor Muriel Bowser <mayor.bowser@...> wrote: Thank You John A. Wilson Building 1350 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20004 Phone: (202) 727-2643 Email: muriel.bowser@... Chief of Staff: Lindsey Parker City Administrator: Kevin Donahue Director of the Mayor's Office of Legal Counsel: Eugene Adams Senior Advisor: Beverly Perry Director of Mayor's Office of Community Affairs: Jackie Reyes-Yanes Director of Mayor's Office of Community Relations and Services: Phil Thomas Scheduling Requests: mayor.dc.gov/page/invite-mayor March 14, 2025 Letter from the Mayor Dear Washingtonians, Today, after a week of negotiations and thousands of residents and friends making their voices heard, the U.S. Senate passed legislation that will allow the District Government to continue expending funds from our congressionally approved Fiscal Year 2025 local budget. We thank Senate Appropriations Chair Susan Collins as well as Vice Chair Patty Murray, Senator Angela Alsobrooks, Senator Tim Kaine, Senator Chris Van Hollen, and Senator Mark Warner for advancing a measure to restore DC’s Fiscal Year 2025 approved budget. Senate approval today is a major first step as we continue working with the House of Representatives on final passage to ensure critical services provided in the Nation’s Capital, including our police officers, firefighters, teachers, medical services and hospital network, aren’t haphazardly cut in the middle of the fiscal year. DC is proud of our strong financial management, balanced budgets, and strong bond ratings. Thank you to DC residents and schoolchildren, businesses, and our neighbors and friends for highlighting the certain consequences of blocking our local and approved spending. As we work toward final passage, we will continue to work shoulder to shoulder with the DC Council, Chief Financial Officer, and Attorney General to meet our obligations, provide services, and invest in our growth. Sincerely, Find photos from this week on Facebook. In This Week's Newsletter: DMPED’s March Madness at Gallery Place Save the Date: Summer in the City #BeDowntown: The Big Draw at the National Building Museum DMPED’s March Madness at Gallery Place Join Mayor Bowser and DMPED for the 11th Annual March Madness! Showcasing new real estate, housing, and workforce initiatives, this year’s event will highlight exciting opportunities to shape the future of the District. Attendees will hear from District agencies, industry leaders, and local business owners while connecting with key stakeholders. When: Thursday, March 20 at 2:00 p.m. Where: Gallery Space at Gallery Place, 737 7th Street NW More information and RSVP: dmped.dc.gov/march-madness-2025 Back to Top Save the Date: Summer in the City Summer is right around the corner and so is our Summer in the City event! This event helps connect families with summer programs, learning experiences, jobs, internships, and more. Don’t miss this opportunity to plan for a fun, productive, and enriching summer. When: Saturday, March 29 at 11:00 a.m. Where: MLK Library, 901 G Street NW RSVP: SITC2025.eventbrite.com Back to Top #BeDowntown: The Big Draw at the National Building Museum Join the National Building Museum for The Big Draw, a free, day-long festival celebrating the power of drawing! The event includes live demonstrations, book signings, hands-on workshops, and interactive activities for all ages. Get creative with chalk art, bookmark design, and architectural sketching. Plus, attendees can meet artists and architects who bring their projects and stories to life through drawing. When: Saturday, March 15 at 10:00 a.m. Where: The National Building Museum, 401 F Street NW RSVP: nbm.org/event/the-big-draw/ Back to Top Mayor Muriel

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Neighbors - if these cuts go through, we’ll immediately lose teachers at our already underfunded/understaffed public (and charter!) schools and lose police officers on the ground. Begin forwarded message: From: Charles Allen <Charles@...> Subject: Urgent: Call Senators Today Date: March 13, 2025 at 12:47:36 PM EDT To: Martha Stracener <martha.dantzic@...> Dear Martha, Thank you to all who have called members of Congress this week. It's really making a difference! After House Republicans recklessly voted to cut $1 billion local dollars from DC's budget on Tuesday, the Senate is now our last hope. Passing a continuing resolution that cuts DC's budget will have real and devastating impacts: ? Police & public safety cut by $240 million ? Public schools cut by $400 million ? Cuts to core government services, including WMATA, totaling $600 million The Senate vote could be as early as today – and you can learn more in a video I shared yesterday. Whether it's on your coffee break or over lunch, I urge you to please call Senators to tell them not to cut DC's local budget – which wouldn't save them a dime in federal spending.Here's where we need your support today: DMV-Area Senators: Thank them for their support of the District and region so far, and especially Sen. Alsobrooks, who's filed an amendment to protect the District's budget, and encourage them to stay strong and not cut DC's local budget: Chris Van Hollen (MD): 202-224-4654 Angela Alsobrooks (MD): 202-224-4524 Mark Warner (VA): 202-224-2023 Tim Kaine (VA): 202-224-4024 Key players to target: Senate Appropriations Committee members (both R and D), including: Susan Collins (ME), Chair: 202-224-2523 Patty Murray (WA), Vice Chair: 202- 224-2621 Bill Hagerty (TN), Chair, Financial Services & General Government Subcommittee: 202-224-4944 Jack Reed (RI), Ranking Member, Financial Services & General Government Subcommittee: 202-224-4642 Lisa Murkowski (AK): 202-224-6665 John Thune (SD), Majority Leader: 202-224-2321 John Barrasso (WY), Majority Whip: 202-224-6441 Chuck Schumer (NY), Minority Leader: 202-224-6542 Thom Tillis (NC): 202-224-6342 Bill Cassidy (LA): 202-224-5824 Rand Paul (KY): 202-224-4343 If you make your way through that list, move on to other Senators on both sides – most have little idea what's happening locally given the huge implications they're wrestling with nationally. Forward this email to your friends and family in other states, too. Every voice and every call makes a difference, and I'm seeing this through conversations with Senate offices. I'll include some talking points again, in case they're helpful: Please don't vote to cut the District's local budget. Support Sen. Alsobrooks' amendment to allow DC's FY25 budget to continue without disruption. The cuts proposed in the Continuing Resolution will immediately jeopardize public safety and core government functions. The unprecedented decision to decimate the District's budget mid-year would result in immediate and far-reaching cuts to our most critical government services, including police officers, firefighters, and teachers. Those agencies’ budgets are mostly salaries, so a reduction of $1.1 billion will require immediate RIFs, furloughs, and hiring freezes. This will make our streets less safe, lengthen wait times for fire and EMS calls, keep people on the street who could move out of homelessness, delay trash collection, and freeze teacher hiring. These are DC funds, not federal funds – paid by our residents – and if cut, they would go unspent. Because these funds come from locally paid tax dollars, they won’t somehow return to the federal government if they're cut. A 16% cut to the District’s local spending in this current year – which we're already halfway through – won't result in "efficiency," and it will mean these local tax dollars literally sit unused and wasted in a lockbox while city services deteriorate. Including these cuts would have a devastating and immediate impact on the District’s economy and undermine our shared goal of ensuring the nation’s capital remains a place all Americans ca

This is incredibly important! Please read below and make the call. Share with your neighbors. Thanks! Antonia Begin forwarded message: From: Charles Allen <Charles@...> Date: March 11, 2025 at 10:15:05 AM EDT To: Antonia Herzog <avherzog@...> Subject: Congress Aims to Block $1 Billion in Local DC Spending ? They want to fire teachers, police, firefighters, and more DC workers. ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Dear Antonia, Late Sunday night, the news broke that the current spending proposal in the US House of Representatives to avoid a government shutdown includes a disastrous provision requiring the District to cut more than $1 billion from our current year's budget. And here's the kicker: it won't even save the federal government money because they want us to cut local tax dollars, not federal. It's as ridiculous, reckless, and misguided as it sounds – and we need your help. Yesterday, I walked the halls of the Capitol with my colleagues to knock on doors and talk to members before joining the Mayor and Congresswoman Norton at a press conference to urge members of Congress to leave the District's local tax dollars alone, as they have done in past years. (Covered by The Washington Post and The New York Times.) Again, these are your local tax dollars – paid through property taxes, income taxes, and sales tax. They pay the salaries of the people who keep the city running every day: teachers and classroom aides, police officers, firefighters and EMS staff, social workers, trash collectors, crossing guards, building inspectors, and so many more. I don't usually send emails like this, but the District needs your help urgently. The city's budget is in jeopardy. Please take a few minutes today to call Speaker Mike Johnson's office. The number is 202-225-2777. And ask your friends and family who have congressional representation to call on your behalf, as well. Here are some simple talking points: The cuts proposed in the Continuing Resolution will immediately jeopardize public safety and core government functions. The unprecedented decision to decimate the District's budget mid-year would result in immediate and far-reaching cuts to our most critical government services, including police officers, firefighters, and teachers. Those agencies’ budgets are mostly salaries, so a reduction of $1.1 billion will require immediate RIFs, furloughs, and hiring freezes. This will make our streets less safe, lengthen wait times for fire and EMS calls, keep people on the street who could move out of homelessness, delay trash collection, and freeze teacher hiring. These are DC funds, not federal funds – paid by our residents – and if cut, they would go unspent. Because these funds come from locally paid tax dollars, they won’t somehow return to the federal government if they're cut. A 16% cut to the District’s local spending in this current year – which we're already halfway through – won't result in "efficiency", and it will mean these local tax dollars literally sit unused and wasted in a lockbox while city services deteriorate. This would have a devastating and immediate impact on the District’s economy and undermine our shared goal of ensuring the nation’s capital remains a place all Americans can be proud of – especially when combined with the recent economic forecast indicating we’re moving toward a local recession in our four-year financial plan due to federal government layoffs. Moody’s rating agency is now considering downgrading the District’s bond rating as a result of the Administration's layoffs, which will make borrowing more expensive and cost much more to build or repair schools, bridges, and roads. This will exacerbate the situation further. And make no m

Hi all, For anyone looking to donate books, please see the message below from Turning the Page, a wonderful DC-based non-profit, run by a good friend of mine. They pick-up from your house! Thanks, Shelby Clear your Shelves and Donate Used Books, CDs, DVDs and Vinyl Capitol Hill Pick-ups on Monday, January 27th from your porch! On Monday, January 27 education non-profit Turning the Page will conduct a Capitol Hill neighborhood donation pick-up used books, CDs, and vinyl (of all genres, for all ages). Donations must include a minimum of 15 items (at least one bag). Donors will be asked to leave their items outside on a porch or in an apartment building lobby for collection. If you’d like to contribute, email books@.... Each donor will receive an email confirmation with instructions. Turning the Page engages D.C. public school families for student success. To raise funds for its programs, Turning the Page sells donated items at pop-up bookstores and pop-up used book sales (save the date of Saturday, May 31st for the next Lincoln Park learning festival and sale!).

They are trimming trees on the east side of 200 block of 11th. There are signs up. There is a black suv parked in their way in front of 224. If it’s yours or you know whose it is it should be moved. They are going to work around it otherwise. Antonia

Happy New Year! Doing some spring cleaning and came across a box full of my father’s sheet music (for Viola) — if anyone is interested, let me know. Will happily let you have whatever music you want for free. Just shoot me a note here or a text at 202-320-4062. Best, Shannon . Please excuse typos. Shannon Togawa Mercer togawamercer@... +1 (202) 320-4062

Thanks for the reminder Nick! I hate to admit we’ve never gifted to the garbage/recycling team and we will now!! For those of us on 11th St, our mail carrier’s name is Dell. (and I’d argue he’s more amazing than Wade because he is the BEST!) Happy Holidays folks, stay safe!! Martha Stracener Dantzic 213 11th. St. SE 202-669-3818 cell martha.dantzic@...

Hello, I am having a small yard sale Saturday 12-2ish on the Independence side of 200 11th St SE. Items include boys clothes sizes 7, 8, 10, 12 and 14. The brands are Janie & Jack, Ralph Lauren, Tommy Hilfiger, Umbro, Nike .... Thank you! Cathy