PSA 504 Meeting Tomorrow

What: a police service area meeting for psa 504 (includes all of Trinidad)
Where: Developing Families Center (801 17th Street NE).
When: Saturday from 10:00-11:30am

Community Meeting & March

GOVERNMENT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
Advisory Neighborhood Commission 5B,
Single Member District 5B10
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: Kathy Henderson
JANUARY 16, 2007
PHONE: (202) 397-2777
(202) 489-7100 (c)

Community Rocked by Recent Violence Calls for Help

(Washington DC) – A contractor, working to rehabilitate a building located at 1229 18th Street, NE was shot nine times on January 13, 2007, after asking a group of youths to get off of his car. The victim, a law-abiding and peaceful family man is in stable condition following the shooting. The victim’s ten-year old child witnessed the shooting. The community was shaken again, the very next day by a shooting occurring at Yums Carryout, located at 1023 Bladensburg Road, NE. Two quadruple shootings and other shootings have resulted in four homicides within the last four months, shaking the very foundation of the Carver Terrace community.

Commissioner India Henderson and former Commissioner Kathy Henderson will lead a peace march with citizens, Police Chief Cathy Lanier, 5D Commander Jennifer Greene and the Guardian Angels to denounce the violence in this community. Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton, Mayor Adrian Fenty, U.S. Attorney Jeffrey Taylor, Ward 5 Councilmember Harry Thomas Jr. and all At-Large Councilmembers and clergy are invited to participate in the peace march. Fourteen Carver Terrace youth were recruited for neighborhood patrols as a direct result of the first Carver Terrace/Guardian Angels community march on January 10, 2007.

Underscoring the peace march is a demand for the immediate installation of a surveillance camera for the 18th and M Streets area and heightened police patrols to restore law and order in the this community. The march will begin at the corner of 17th and M Streets, NE, at 7:00 p.m.; on January 17, 2007. An emergency community meeting will convene at the DC Developing Families Center, located at 801 17th Street, NE, prior to the march at 5:30 p.m.

“We are tired of the violence in our neighborhoods and we want the police to step up and do a better job of protecting this community, stated longtime resident S. Harris”.

TCCR Monthly Meeting Updated

Trinidad Concerned Citizens for Reform, Inc.

MONTHLY MEETING

Wednesday January 24th 2007 - 6:30pm
Joseph H. Cole Fitness Center
1200 Morse Street, NE

AGENDA

Community Informational Update

Status of Community Educational Development Facility
1601 Montello Avenue, NE

• Meet Trinidad Neighborhood- New 5B - Elected Commissioners

Topics of Discussion

• Neighborhood Enhancement Strategy Discussion

1. Clean&GreenDC – “Adopt-Block”
2. Community Enhancement – “DDOT Grant”
3. Casey Trees – “Planting”

STRENGTH IN UNITY

Information: TCCR 202 - 397 1596
J.O. Cole 202 -724 4876

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UPDATE:
Mayor Fenty will now attend the 2/28 meeting instead of this meeting.
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