Text Box: TOWN COUNCIL NOTES October 8 The council approved a gift of $200.00 to the Potomac Conservancy.. Town resident Carlotta Anderson who, with her husband Jim, volunteers for this organization, gave a brief presentation about the Conservancy and its contributions toward the protection of the Potomac watershed. She also gave the town a beautiful photo book entitled “Our Potomac,” which was recently published by the Conservancy… Councilmember Eve Arber attended the September meeting of the Maryland Municipal League, at which new District Two police chief Russ Hamill addressed questions about MacArthur Boulevard traffic. Chief Hamill indicated that he was very aware of the concerns about pedestrian safety, but did not have any further information about the investigation being conducted by the Department of Public Works on the issue. --Tom Helf Text Box: Melinda Henneberger of Oxford Rd. was featured on the Bethesda Library Fall Author Series on Monday, Oct. 22. She discussed her recent book, “If They Only Listened to Us:What Women Voters Want Politicians to Hear.” A former contributing editor at Newsweek and a former reporter for The NewYork Times, Melinda interviewed women voters across the country to get their views on political candidates. Photographer John Morrow spent three weeks in Alaska in July photographing and capturing the physical emotions of bears. There were hundreds of bears and no people, he said, which “makes for a great time for me.” He shot over 4000 images of bears on the trip. He also received an award from Nature’s Best Magazine for one of his landscapes and some of his images will be displayed for the third year in a row at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History in its Nature’s Best Photography 2007 Windland Smith Rice International Award exhibit. A videotaped interview with him also will be shown at the exhibit. You can view his photographs on his website: thewildasiseeit.com. Thefts from cars are increasing in the local Bethesda area according to the Motngomery County police. Thieves commonly target Global Positioning Systems, iPods, cellphones, purses satellite radios and even coins, The Washington Post reported. Of the 170 incidents in the local District 2 in September, 60 percent of the vehicles were unlocked. In addition to locking the car and removing all valuables, police advise keeping the registration in your wallet or purse rather than in the vehicle, and using an alarm system and a visible anti-theft device to lock the steering wheel. A path to an old cemetery and social hall for a black community in Cabin John has just been opened after a two-year effort by the Cabin John Citizens Association. The trail, just north of the intersection of Seven Locks Rd. and Cypress Grove La., leads to the ruins of Moses Hall, which was used during the late 1800s and into the 1900s as a gathering spot for the local African American community. It is not far from the Gibson Grove AME Zion Church, which is currently in use. The Citizens Association also unveiled a historical marker which it erected with a $1,000 grant from the Montgomery County Historic Preservation Commission plus matching funds which it raised. Boy Scout Troop 233 and Cub Scout Pack 1320 helped clear the path to the cemetery, according to The Potomac Almanac. Text Box: AROUND TOWN Text Box: