Text Box: AROUND TOWN Text Box: Jo Anne Murray was featured in the July “Interesting Careers in Your Neighborhoo” column of the new community newspaper, Next Door News.” The Princeton Ave. resident is an architect who specializes in “educational architecture,” according to the paper, and recently designed an elementary school. She also mentors high school students from Whitman who are interested in architecture. The wife of Marc Levenson, Jo Anne herself graduated from Whitman in 1969, and theirher son, Michael, is a senior there. Chris Anderson, who grew up in Glen Echo, has just published a book, “The Long Tail,” which is on the New York Times non-fiction best seller list. Issued by Hyperion Press, the book is about how the Internet has created a new world of business in which items that sell only a few copies each may still add up to greater rewards than the big hits. Chris, the editor of Wired magazine is the son of Jim and Carlotta Anderson and the brother of Julia Wilson. While weeping at the gas pump, drivers may take some consolation in the fact that all gasoline now contains 10 percent ethanol, according to Mike Carrick of Kenwood Sunoco. The switch happened May 1 in the state of Maryland because the additive previously used to help gas burn cleaner, i.e. oxygenate it, MTBE (methyl tert-butyl ether) was polluting waterways and groundwater, he said. Text Box: SEWAGE CONTAMINATES CABIN JOHN CREEK The president of the Cabin John Community Association, Burr Gray, notified residents July 10 of contamination of Cabin John Creek by around 600,000 gallons of raw sewage after the torrential July rains. The creek, which is a tributary of the Potomac River, runs below some houses in Cabin John before it emerges under the Cabin John Bridge. It continues its path between Glen Echo and Cabin John before emptying into the Potomac. Mr. Gray learned from WSSC that the spill occurred when one of the manhole covers near the intersection of River Rd. and Seven Locks Rd. was knocked over, probably by logs coming down the flooded stream. Gravel then entered the sewer pipe and blocked it so that sewage started streaming out of the pipe and into the creek. The WSSC official said that the overflow had been stopped and that it is usually considered safe to come into contact with the water 30 days after the spill occurred, which would make it mid-August. However, because it creek always has a certain level of pollutants in it, one should always wash one’s hands after coming into contact with it. Mr. Gray has invited the WSSC Project Manager to the Sept 26 Cabin John Community Association meeting to explain how this happened and how it will be avoided in the future. Apparently, WSSC has had an ongoing study of the Cabin John sewer pipe for the past three years. and was aware that certain of these manholes can be exposed to the creek when waters are a little high. —Carlotta Anderson Text Box: CHAMBER MUSIC CONCERT AT LOCAL CHURCH AUGUST 20 A chamber music concert will be given Sunday, Aug. 20 at 5:00 p.m. at the Episcopal Church of the Redeemer, 6201 Dunrobbin Dr. at MacArthur Blvd. It is the last of three such concerts held this summer as part of the Inscape Chamber Music Project. The program, “Folk Modes in Earthen Tones,” will include Dvorak’s “Serenade for Winds,” Martinu’s “Nonet,” and Nielsen’s “Serenata in Vario.” Tickets are $16, or $10 for seniors/military/students, and are available at the door. Cash and checks only.

 

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