Text Box: Holly Shimizu, the executive director of the Botanic Garden, will be receiving the 2008 Great American Gardeners Award at a ceremony on June 6. It is given by the American Horticultural Society to a public garden administrator whose work has “cultivated widespread interest in horticulture,” Roll Call reported. Holly, a resident of Bryn Mawr Ave., developed the National Garden, which opened in 2006… Cynthia Word’s World Dance Theater received a glowing review from The Washington Post after its performance of Isadora Duncan dances last month at the Ratner Museum. The works were “brilliantly performed” by dancers who “leapt and turned with joyful abandon” according to the review, which noted that the early 20th century choreography had been reconstructed through Duncan’s dancers and their students. Cynthia, who lives on University Ave., “whirled across the stage with spiraling arms” dressed in a flowing blue scarf tunic… Burglaries are up in our police district, The Gazette reported last month. However the police have arrested a man whom they believe was responsible for a large number of the burglaries. Unlocked doors and windows invite such crimes, police reminded residents. Montgomery County and the Maryland Dept. of Agriculture have begun spraying for gypsy moths in some areas of the county, but not near Glen Echo. Residents of Mohican Hills have seen several foxes in the area recently and one resident believes he saw a young coyote at MacArthur Blvd. and the exit from the Clara Barton Parkway, the Mohican Hills Newsletter reports. As elsewhere, Text Box: AROUND TOWN Text Box: deer are a problem and their nibbling has motivated one resident to erect a scarecrow. No information yet on whether it works… Your old jeans can help to build houses for Habitat for Humanity, the Gazette reports. The jeans will be collected, converted back into cotton fiber and made into insulation for new houses built in New Orleans and the Gulf region. It takes 500 jeans to insulate one house. The jeans drive is sponsored by Cotton, Inc. and Habitat for Humanity of Montgomery County ReStore and spearheaded locally by eighth-grader Christa Guild, a student at Pyle Middle School. Drop off locations include Pyle and Walt Whitman High School. A 30-minute documentary on the history of the park’s Dentzel carousel was shown on PBS last month. The film was produced by Cintia Cabib last year and is now used in county schools for social studies classes. It is available through public libraries. Video clips at www.cintiacabib.com.

 

TREASURER’S REPORT

April 2008

 

A. Morton Thomas (street repair study)                $8,760.00

Edward E. Paden (police, 2 mos.)                     $875.00

Chapel Valley, (T.H. landscaping + mo. fee) $5,508.35

PEPCO (streetlights)                                        $437.55