Text Box: READY FOR SPRING CLEANING? SELL USED ITEMS AT YARD SALE Saturday, April 5 is the day of the annual town yard sale! Hours are 9:00-1:00, rain or shine. Spring clean your closets, attics and garages. What can be sold? Anything so long as it is clean and not broken! Tools, toys, furniture, linens, electronics, bicycles, cars, houses, even. How to price? According to how much you want to keep the article or 20% of new value. In case of rain, wares can be sold from inside the town hall; otherwise each participant will sell from his/her own yard, or can set up in the town park on Princeton Ave. Cost is $5 to defray the cost of advertising, signs, and the balloons that will mark each participating house. This needs to be paid by Mar 30 to Diana Hudson-Taylor, 301-229-2163 or email, dhudson_taylor@yahoo.com. Maps identifying your house will be be made up for distribution. Volunteer now to help setting up signs and getting balloons, and praying for sun. Just contact Diana. Text Box: LANDSCAPING PROPOSED FOR FRONT OF TOWN HALL By Sophie Keefer Chapel Valley has made a proposal for landscaping in front of the town hall intended to address the problem of the grass and other landscaping there repeatedly dying. The proposal is to place the gutter downspouts underground, to test and regenerate the soil, and to plant evergreens and deciduous plants in front of the town hall. Also part of the proposal is to create a perennial garden around the town sign, and to plant shade plants and perennials under the tree. Bushes that have been obstructing the sign will be removed. The proposal for this work was for $6700.00. Mayor Beers stated that there was enough money in the town hall improvements budget to cover the work. A motion to accept the bid was made and passed. There are also some improvements planned for the recently created town park at Princeton Ave. and University Ave. Some masonry work will be done and the town will buy a bench to place there, possibly a curved teak bench. Text Box: SHORTAGE OF PARK POLICE There is a serious shortage of park police, Glen Echo Park site manager Kym Elder told the Glen Echo town council on Feb. 11. There are only 12 officers assigned to the entire George Washington Memorial Parkway, from Mount Vernon to Great Falls, she said. Not all officers are on duty at one time. This situation is not likely to improve, she said. Many officers are resigning to join Homeland Security and new officers are not being hired to replace them. --Sophie Keefer