Local Briefing: Crash Victim ID'd, Cultivate the City Fall Classes, & Two Local Stabbings

Here's a video (from 2009) that I'm sure Ms. Hall would enjoy 

  Pedestrian Killed on H Street NE Saturday Identified

Many of you already know that a driver in a minivan struck and killed a pedestrian at 10th and H Street NE on Saturday. According to a Washington Post article the driver did remain on the scene. The victim was 62 year old Jewel Lewis Hall. As this post from the Hill is Home reminds us, Ms. Hall might be familiar event to those who did not know her first hand, as she was the force behind the Michael Jackson house. Rest in peace Ms. Hall.



Cultivate Classes

Cultivate the City has a number of classes coming up, all of which will take place at H Street Farms, located on the roof of W.S. Jenks & Son Hardware (910 Bladensburg Road NE).

Oct 14, 11 am–12 - Fall/Winter Garden Maintenance ($15 for the class, or $35 for the class & $20 worth of seedlings)
Oct 14, 3–4 pm - Propagation & Cloning Workshop ($20 includes a reusable root pouch to take home)
Oct 21 11 am–12 pm - DIY Olive Oil Infusion ($25 includes the bottle of olive oil you'll infuse)
Oct 21, 3–4 pm - Hydroponics 101 ($20 includes a set of shotglasses for cloning)cloning shotglasse
Oct 28, 9–11:30 am - Worms & Coffee: vermiculture composting ($20 for class/$40 for class & build your own worm bin)
Oct 28, 4–5 pm -  Drinks And Dirt- Gardening Horror Stories: share your stories & learn about eco-friendly pest management over fall inspired cocktails ($20)

Two Local Stabbings Yesterday

We had two stabbings in the area yesterday, one in the 600 block of 24th Street NE (just south of Benning Road), and the other in the 1200 block of New York Avenue NE (the edge of Ivy City). The stabbing on 24th Street happened shortly before 6 pm, and the one in Ivy City about 11 pm. I don't have any information on the status of the victims and no lookout information was provided for either incident.