Text Box: HOME & GARDEN MAGAZINE MOVES TO GLEN ECHO Washington Home & Garden magazine moved its business offices to Glen Echo last month. It is located at 6112 Oberlin Ave., where Bell Builders was formerly housed. The magazine was started in 2003 by Jerry Cave, one-time sales manager for WTOP. Each issue is half about homes and half about the area around the home, i.e., landscaping, patios, etc. The current issue has articles about automatic generators, evergreen trees, remodeling, art in the garden, and how to mix fabrics, patterns and styles. A history article is always included; past subjects have included Glen Echo Park, the Cabin John Bridge, and Lockhouse 8. Mr. Cave, who lived in Sumner from 1953 on and remembers Glen Echo Park from its amusement park days, now lives in Carderock. He went to school at Little Flower and then Sidwell Friends before attending Tulane University, and used to buy candy at Sycamore Store. He is delighted to have his offices only a block from Tulane Ave., reminiscent of his alma mater. Publisher Cave has four employees at the Oberlin address, but the magazine’s writers work out of their homes. The 120-page plus publication is printed in Pennsylvania in two batches—50,000 for Maryland and 50,000 for Virginia, with different ads. Most are mailed free to residences, but some are distributed at Safeway, Giant, Whole Foods, and other stores. This year there were three issues. There will be four in 2007 and Mr. Cave has promised that all Glen Echo addresses will receive them. Text Box: TOWN COUNCIL NOTES November 13 The town is trying to get Bell Builders to stop unauthorized construction activity. Mayor Debbie Beers said the town attorney has been told to advise the company it faces a fine of $500 a day if it continues such activity. She said the company dug up the right-of-way and built an asphalt curb on Princeton Avenue without getting the necessary approval and that Frank Bell has been told to stay off town property but ‘’totally ignores’’ the warning. The transfer of part of the late Shirley Strong’s property to the town has been completed. The town now owns the piece of land that Strong bequeathed to the town that is located at the corner of University and Princeton Avenues. The council has approved a bid of $3,795 to build a six-foot high pine fence with a criss-cross lattice top between the town hall and the adjoining property. It will replace a fence where several areas are rotting. --Jerry Bodlander

 

next town council meeting

 

Monday,  December 11—8:00 p.m.

Glen Echo Town Hall

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Text Box: NOTICE: At the Dec. 11 town council meeting there will be a hearing on resolutions to grant Verizon a non-exclusive license to operate cable and communications services within the town and to enter into a contract with the county to administer it.