Text Box: Text Box: CAN’T FIND YOUR ECHO? If you’ve misplaced your Echo and want to find when the next town council meeting is, where the next Ladies Night is, the date of the next town movie, or how to place a classified ad you can find out by going online to the town website, www.glenecho.org. It has the Echo archives since 2004. The town website also has information about the town history, businesses in the town itself, the town charter, animal control information, and many other useful items. Text Box: Another change in the original amendment focused on the role and authority of the town Clerk-Treasurer in registering voters. Councilmember Robin Kogelnik commented that Mayor Beers indicated that she would summarize the proposed changes and create another modified amendment for formal introduction at the April Town Council meeting. Text Box: ELECTION ORDINANCE (FROM PAGE 1) Text Box: TOWN CHOREOGRAPHER TO REHEARSE IN TOWN HALL By Dave Chitwood Town resident and choreographer Cynthia Word, the Artistic Director of Word/Dance/Theater was granted permission at the Mar. 10 town council meeting to use the town hall for rehearsals on three April Wednesday afternoons. Because each resident is annually allowed three rentals of the hall, the request would account for all of Ms. Word’s 2008 uses. She indicated that if any additional requests would be needed, a class or special performance could be provided for town residents in exchange for use of the hall. The rehearsals would be in preparation for the dance troupe’s next performance, “Isadora Duncan: An Evening of Music and Dance,” on May 1 at 7:00 p.m. at the Dennis & Phillip Ratner Museum in Bethesda. In response to some concern expressed about excessive noise in the post office below the dance rehearsals, Ms. Word pointed out that the only users would be three shoeless adults. She also described the philosophy and artistic aims of her group, which focuses on the choreography and philosophy of Isadora Duncan. Two recent performances were at the “Women Who Wow Festival”at the National Museum of Women in the Arts. Depending upon the scope and aims of the performance, Ms. Word utilizes as many as five dancers and two actors. Town Resident Carlotta Anderson referred to Isadora Duncan as the originator of modern dance. She thought that a performance in town would be a valuable event to hold. Councilmember Nancy Long said that such an event would be well suited to the Chautauqua series. Ms. Word stated that Isadora Duncan’s work “was in the style of the Chautauqua movement” and that she would be interested in discussing such an invitation. . Text Box: FOLKLORE FESTIVAL RETURNS TO PARK MAY 31 & JUNE 1 The Folklore Society of Greater Washington’s 28th annual Washington Folk Festival once more returns to Glen Echo Park for the weekend of May 31 and June 1. The two-day festival will feature music, craft demonstrations, dancing, and more. There will be over 450 performers on seven stages including a participatory dance program in the Spanish Ballroom, a storytelling stage, and many types of music from bluegrass to folk rock. The carousel will operate through the festival and during the evening of Saturday, May 31, until 9:00 p.m. For more information visit www.fwgw.org