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Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
- Man falls into canal, is rescued.
- Albrecht Muth, still not mentally competent.
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Party The Block For Scheele’s
Photo by M.V. Jantzen.
Through the efforts of dedicated neighbors like Malcolm Peabody, the long term future of Scheele’s Market is secure. To recap: Jordan O’Neill purchased the building from the Scheele family and has signed a covenant with a group of neighbors to keep the market open for at least 15 years. In exchange for the covenant, the neighbors have agreed to pay O’Neill $75,000.
So far the Save Scheele’s fund has raised almost the complete amount it needs. Sixty neighbors have contributed $55,000 total. To push the over the top, tomorrow night there will be a block party. It will kick off at 6:00 and go till 9:00 and will be on 29th between O and Dumbarton. You can bring your donation (a check made out to Friends of Scheele’s) to the party. Continue reading
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Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
- In one of Georgetown’s more bizarre moments in history: a congressional committee met in the West Heating Plant yesterday to complain about GSA not unloading property fast enough.
- Only one more week to bid adieu to the canal boat. It is going to be destroyed next week.
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Harvesting the Rain
One of the hobbies GM has been looking forward to exploring once he got a yard of his own is gardening. Last November, he finally got his small slice of green and since this spring he’s been scurrying away trying to make something of it. But he’s quickly realized that gardens take an awful lot of water. And that deluge started to seriously inflate his water bill. So rather than see his bills get higher and higher, GM decided to do something about it while helping the environment to boot: install a rain barrel.
This weekend GM headed out to Frager’s on Capitol Hill to pick one up. Other stores, like Johnson’s in Tenleytown, sell rain barrels, but the advantage with going to Frager’s is that they only carry rain barrels that have been specifically approved for the DC rebate program. Under this program, the city will pay you back $50 if you buy a rain barrel up to 75 gallons. It will pay you $100 if you buy an even larger one. (Another reason to go to Frager’s? It’s the coolest hardware store in the city.)
GM ended up with the 50 gallon Rain Wizard from Good Ideas:
As you can see from this photo from the company, this barrel is designed to have the downspout pour right into the top of the barrel. Many of the rain barrels you’ll see around are designed this way. This isn’t actually how GM wanted to install it because once the barrel is full it just spills the water out through the over flow hole. This is fine if you have your barrel sitting in a garden bed, but if you don’t want water splashing out around your barrel, you’ll want to get something like this:
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Photo by Eliz.Joy22.
Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
- Who’s got the best fries in Georgetown? GM thinks it’s whoever makes sweet potato fries the standard. He can’t understand why bland normal fries are the only choice at most places. GM blames Big Idaho.
- Georgetown student jumped into and quickly out of a race against Jack Evans.
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Stachowski Market Carrying On Griffin Market Tradition
There were many things about the old Griffin Market that many Georgetowners miss. On top of that list was the hugely charming presence of Riccardo Bonino behind the cash register*. But second on that list is probably the nightly prepared dinners that Griffin Market sold.
The way it’d work is that you’d get an email during the day with the nightly menu. You’d call in and say when you wanted to pick it up. That night, a complete tasty meal would be waiting for you.
Luckily for Georgetowners, that tradition has been continued with Jamie Stachowski’s new market, which moved into the old Griffin Market space in the spring. Like Griffin Market, you get an email with the nightly menu, and you call in to place an order.
The photo above was from last Friday night: Herb-roasted pork tenderloin served with seasoned rice and Stachowski stuffed tomato ($13.95). It was delicious (especially the stuffed tomato, which had little bits of Jamie’s trademark sausage in it).
Sign up in the shop or send an email here: smarketdc@gmail.com. Continue reading
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