Text Box: HARVARD AVE. FENCE HIT SECOND TIME BY POSTAL TRUCK By Bill Turque Resident Raya Bodnarchuk received an early and unwanted Christmas present via the U.S. Postal Service: the front end of a mail truck destroyed portions of the fence in front of her Harvard Avenue home. Ms. Bodnarchuk told the Town Council at its January meeting that she was home shortly before noon on Dec. 14 when the driver of the truck, apparently attempting to back into the Post Office driveway across the narrow residential street, hit her fence. It is the second time that a Postal Service truck has damaged the fence. What made this latest incident especially aggravating, Ms. Bodnarchuk said, was the indifferent attitude of the driver, who continued driving into the fence even after she came outside to warn that he was getting too close. "He just looked at me and kept pushing and cracked it," she said, referring to the top runner of the white picket fence. "The driver didn't even want to tell me his name. I had to read his badge. He didn't even say he was sorry." Postal service transportation supervisor Wanda Greer later apologized, Ms. Bodnarchuk said, and arrangements are under way to compensate her. But the larger issue is the size of the trucks coming into the Glen Echo Post Office. She said they should be smaller, or should park briefly on Harvard Ave. instead of attempting to maneuver in such a tight space. Mayor Debbie Beers said she would draft a letter to the Postal Service. "It's a good thing you were home," the mayor said. Text Box: METAL RECYCLING CONTEST IN CABIN JOHN, CARDEROCK A group of Carderock Springs and Cabin John citizens are organizing a two-to-three month metal recycling contest beginning this month in which everyone in both communities will be notified by flyers about the collection drive. Montgomery County has offered to place one dumpster at the Clara Barton Community Center and one at the Carderock Clubhouse, according to the Village News. On Earth Day, the dumpsters will be weighed by the county and the winner announced. Tom Rojas of the construction company, RBC, Inc, is trying to make metals a normal part of the county’s weekly pick-up, according to the article. He wrote that his construction company does not use dumpsters and recycles most of its debris. Text Box: PROPERTIES FOR SALE 6106 Bryn Mawr Ave. $875,000 (under contract)