Text Box: AROUND TOWN Text Box: The C&O Canal provided excellent conditions for ice-skating last month for several days. Local residents assembled just below Glen Echo and at Lock 7 for hockey games or just blissful cruising between them. Newspapers reported people skating to work in Georgetown. After a warmer than usual January, February brought several snowfalls and heavy icing which remained for days. After the first day, the ice was too heavy to lift and residents who enjoy a walk through town were very grateful to those public-spirited citizens who cleared the sidewalks in front of their houses before it was too late to do so. Especially to be commended are most residents whose homes border University Ave. and Wellesley Circle, although throughout town many residents made the effort to do their civic duty. Several town residents are participating in the useful Bethesda-Chevy Chase freecycle website, it appears from seeing their email addresses pop up. Freecycle is a recycling project that exists throughout the U.S. and abroad as a way of keeping useful objects from trash bins or landfills. If you become a member of this listserve you may post information about items you wish to have or those you wish to give away, stressing that these should be items that would otherwise be thrown away. This editor has acquired doll houses, a bagful of pens, a typewriter (from a town resident) and photo equipment and given away books, maps, posters and even a cake still in its Safeway packaging. No money is ever involved. To become a member, visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/freecycle-bcc-md/ Michelle Brafman of Oxford Rd. gave a reading of her story, “Sylvia’s Spoon,” which was published in Lilith Magazine, at the Sharon Fine Gallery in Bethesda on Feb. 11. Several Glen Echo residents were there to hear her. She was also the subject of a feature article in last month’s Washington Jewish Week.… Michelle’s husband, Tom Helf, will be performing with the band, “Cravin’ Dogs,” at Jammin’ Java, a music room in Vienna, Va., on Friday, Mar. 9. For information, please visit www.jamminjava.com. The forthcoming book by Melinda Henneberger, “If They Only Listened to Us: What Women Voters Want Politicians to Hear,” was featured in an article in the February issue of Next Door News. She will host a book discussion of it at Politics & Prose bookstore on May 19 at 1:00 p.m. For her first book, Melinda spent 24 months in 20 states asking groups of women their political opinions and whether they felt ignored Text Box: Text Box: LOCAL CHURCH SPONSORS SUMMER MUSIC CAMP The Episcopal Church of the Redeemer, Bethesda, is pleased to announce its one-week Summer Music Camp 2007. It will take place from Monday, June 25 through Friday, June 29 from 10:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. daily. The camp is designed for children and youth ages 6-15 and will be staffed by four professional musical educators from the Washington, DC metropolitan area. Tuition for the week is $300. This includes a non-refundable fee of $100 due at registration. The camp will utilize portions of the Orff and Dalcroze methodologies, introduce musical notation and study rhythm through motion. It will also include arts and crafts and Camp highlights include lunch and a snack daily. Information from Thomas Smith, Director of Music, at (301) 229-3770, or by e-mail at music.redeemer@verizon.net. Deadline for registration is May 1, 2007. Text Box: by politicians. The Oxford Rd. resident is the new political editor of The Huffington Post; she formerly was a Newsweek editor and a New York Times reporter. Washington Post reporter Andrea Rouda attended last month’s Ladies Night at the home of Debbie Beers to learn more about Glen Echo for an article she will be writing for the Post’s regular “Where We Live” column… County Councilmembers Marc Elrich and Roger Berliner are leading efforts to write legislation controlling clear-cutting of trees on lots that have not been subdivided, The Mohican Hills Citizen reported last month.