Text Box: TOWN COUNCIL NOTES May 12 Clerk-Treasurer Polak reported that the voter qualification amendment to the Town charter was passed last month. It was circulated to town residents. Mayor Beers said that it must be posted for 40 days following adoption and must be published four times in a newspaper before it becomes effective. Clerk-Treasurer Polak said she would put it in the Bethesda Gazette. The town received two bids for painting the inside of the Post Office. One was for $8,000 and the other for $2900. A motion was passed to accept the bid for $2900. Bids for painting the exterior of the town hall were for $26,700, $29,500, and $28,211, Clerk- Treasurer Polak thought the best painter was the one with the highest bid because he would be the easiest to work with. Council member Kogelnik suggested that the Town ask that painter to match the next lowest bid, with a ceiling of $28,500. Mayor Beers said she was “stunned” at the prices, but the others noted that the painting would be a thorough job. The Town also received bids for landscape maintenance from Chapel Valley -- $600 more per month to manage the two new parks, including mowing, edging and mulching. Watering would be $50 per hour. A motion to accept Chapel Valley’s bid was not necessary because of the Text Box: CAROL BARTON’S POP-UP BOOK WINS AWARDS Yale resident Carol Barton’s pop-up Pocket Paper Engineers workbook Vol. 2, coming out in a few weeks, has already won two prestigious awards for its design. The Washington Book Publishers Association has awarded it the "Best Illustrated Book" award; it also is a finalist in the National Indie Book Awards competition. The Pocket Paper Engineer, Vol. 2, covers how to make pop-up platforms, props, spirals and straddles. (Carol constructed the large pop-ups of the town and of Glen Echo Park, displayed in the town hall, by using the pop-up prop technique). As publisher of her book, Carol went to China in February to oversee production. Presently the book is making its way through the Panama Canal, and should clear customs in Chicago any day now. Text Box: CLASSIFIED ADS Carol Barton's new book, Volume 2 of The Pocket Paper Engineer, is now available for $26.95. The workbook presents directions for how to make pop-ups in a clear, interactive format. Readers are guided through each project with illustrated step-by-step instructions, and the projects are lively and whimsical with illustrations that combine painting and photography. To order, email cbarton@mindspring.com or call 301-229-2213. Classified ads are free to Glen Echo residents. Fee to non-residents: $.75 per line of 50 characters or fewer. Display ads: $4 per column inch. Ads may be left with or mailed to the editor at 38 Wellesley Circle, Glen Echo, MD 20812. Make checks payable to: Town of Glen Echo. Deadline: 24th of each month.