DAILY DIGEST FOR 10/30/2019 

HELP! Humane Rescue Alliance URGENTLY needs fosters ASAP and is waiving adoption fees

HELP!!! The Humane Rescue Alliance is pleading for adopters and waiving adoption fees for select available animals at both of its adoption centers on Tuesday, Oct. 29 and Wednesday, Oct. 30.

Due to critical maintenance required at HRA’s New York Avenue facility later this week, we must evacuate 160 animals from the building by 5 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 30, and we need the public’s help.

“We are in critical need of adoptive homes,” said Claudia Roll, vice president of operations at the Humane Rescue Alliance. “We have so many wonderful animals in our adoption centers who are waiting to meet their new families, and we want to send as many of them home as possible.”

View all available animals at humanerescuealliance.org/adopt.

Those interested in adopting an animal should visit one of HRA’s two adoption centers:

• 71 Oglethorpe St. NW | Hours: 12 – 7 p.m. on Tuesday and Wednesday

• 1201 New York Ave. NE | Hours: 12 – 7 p.m. on Tuesday and 12 – 5 p.m. on Wednesday

Pets available for adoption from HRA have been spayed or neutered and microchipped.

HRA is also in urgent need of bedding donations, including clean blankets, sheets, towels, and comforters. Donations can be dropped off at either location or shipped to us via our Amazon Wish List: humanerescuealliance.org/amazonwishlist.

Oct 30 | Vinyasa Wednesdays at CHACC - All ages welcome!

Wednesday, October 9th @ 6:30pm
Congress Heights Arts & Culture Center
3200 Martin Luther King, Jr. Avenue, SE

$5 Class, $1 Mat Rental

Vinyasa is a style of yoga characterized by stringing postures together so that you move from one to another, seamlessly, using breath. Commonly referred to as “flow” yoga. Great for all levels including beginners.

Oct 30 - 31 | MPD 6th District presents Ghost Mansion - Free!

HIPS seeks Grants and Contracts Manager - $41k to $55k

The Grants and Contracts Manager leads HIPS grant, contract and partnership relationships, helping HIPS achieve our mission by attracting, securing and maintaining good relationships with our private and public funders. This position manages overall grant efforts, optimizes the grant administration process, preparing progress reports, ensuring compliance with grant regulations, reviewing grant proposals, managing grant databases, with donor agencies, educating staff on policies, and preparing reports and ensuring the successful execution of meaningful programs. The ideal candidate for this role should have superior organizational skills, great leadership qualities, and exceptional budgeting and monitoring skills. The outstanding Grants and Contracts Manager should reinforce relationships with donors, ensure that grant programs operate efficiently, streamline grant administration, and keep our organization fiscally sound.

LEARN MORE

Oct 31 | MPD hosts Halloween Safe Haven in 7D - Free event!

Oct 31 | Halloween Meet-Up and Trick or Treating in Penn Branch

Thursday, October 31st at 6:30 PM
1400 34th St SE

They’re not doing the horse-drawn Halloween hayride this year but it’s still going to be a great time! Meet up with neighbors for a good time before trekking through the Penn Branch neighborhood to trick-or-treat!

So….invite folks, bring snacks & beverages to share and wear costumes!

[PR] DC Health Department Confirms First Vaping-Associated Death

Thursday, October 24, 2019

DC Health Advises Residents to Stop Using E-Cigarettes

(Washington, DC) The District of Columbia Department of Health (DC Health) has confirmed one death associated with vaping. As of October 22, 2019, 1,604* cases of e-cigarette, or vaping, product use associated lung injury (EVALI) have been reported to CDC from 49 states (all except Alaska), the District of Columbia, and 1 U.S. territory.

DC Health urges District residents to refrain from using all e-cigarette and vaping products until further notice. Cannabis or THC (tetrahydrocannabinol) vape-products that are obtained off the street may pose the greatest risk.

Symptoms of Vaping-Associated Lung Injury:

• Frequently reported symptoms include shortness of breath, cough, chest pain, nausea, diarrhea or vomiting

• Many patients have reported initial symptoms such as unexplained weight loss, fatigue, abdominal pain, or fever

• Severe cases have required admission to the hospital

• Some patients have reported that their symptoms developed over a few days, while others have reported that their symptoms developed over several weeks. A lung infection does not appear to be causing the symptoms.

No single product or chemical substance has been linked to all cases. Local, State and National Health agencies are actively investigating the outbreak.

On October 26, vaping devices and liquids will be accepted along with unused and expired prescription medications at all Drug Take Back Day locations. Find your nearest Take Back Day location: takebackday.dea.gov.

For more information on e-cigarettes, visit: www.cdc.gov/tobacco/basic_information/e-cigarettes/index.htm

For more information on the outbreak, visit: www.cdc.gov/tobacco/basic_information/e-cigarettes/severe-lung-disease.html

Oct 31 - Nov 3 | Theater Alliance presents Day Of Absence at Anacostia Playhouse

Anacostia Playhouse
2020 Shannon Place, SE

Directed by Raymond O. Caldwell and Angelisa Gillyard

Featured artists include Jared Shamberger and others!

It's another day in another southern country-fried town . . but something's missing. All the Black residents have mysteriously disappeared! With unexpected holes left in the town's daily operations, a whirlwind of panic rushes through the town, moving the remaining residents to recognize how much their Black neighbors contribute to the town's vitality. A reverse minstrel show, Ward's 1965 script provides a comedic and pointed commentary on systemic racism that still bears relevance today.

GO HERE FOR TICKETS!

Nov 1 | MahoganyBooks + VSB Book Club Discussion

The MahoganyBooks & Very Smart Brothas book club is excited to announce our October book club read, More Than Enough by Elaine Welteroth. Welteroth is an award-winning journalist, author, and judge on the new Project Runway. She was most recently editor-in-chief of Teen Vogue where she in 2017 became the youngest person ever appointed editor-in-chief and in 2012 had been the first African American ever to hold the post of beauty and health director at a Condé Nast publication. In this part-manifesto, part-memoir, the revolutionary editor who infused social consciousness into the pages of Teen Vogue explores what it means to come into your own--on your own terms.

"Elaine gifts us all with a beautifully intimate and powerful retelling of her ever unfolding journey. In sharing her joys, pitfalls, adventures, self doubt, and successes, she reminds us that through uncovering and discovering the many facets of ourselves, we are more than enough." --Yara Shahidi

Open to the public, as well as, live streamed to Facebook, the MahoganyBooks + Very Smart Brothas book club is a monthly book club that reads a wide range of books written for, by, or about people of the African Diaspora then meets the first Friday of the following month to discuss and debate the book and its associated themes. Join the MahoganyBooks + Very Smart Brothas Book Club on November 1, 2019 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM for what promises to be a fun and engaging book discussion.

Nov 4 | MahoganyBooks presents an Author Talk + Book Signing

We are excited to welcome the award-winning author of sixteen works of fiction and nonfiction, Marita Golden, to MahoganyBooks on November 3, 2019 to discuss her book, Us Against Alzheimer's: Stories of Family, Love, and Faith. In the non-fiction follow-up to The Wide Circumference of Love, a 2017 NPR Best Book and 2018 NAACP Image Award nominee, this groundbreaking multicultural anthology shares moving personal stories about the impacts of Alzheimer's and dementia.

Join us on Sunday, November 3rd at 4PM for an intimate author talk and book signing with Marita Golden, cofounder and president emeritus of the Hurston/Wright Foundation.

[PR] Arrest Made in a Second Degree Child Sex Abuse Offense: 3600 b/o Alabama Avenue, SE

Tuesday, October 29, 2019

Detectives from the Metropolitan Police Department’s Youth and Family Services Division have announced an arrest has been made in reference to a Second Degree Child Sex Abuse offense that occurred in the Spring of 2016, in the 3600 block of Alabama Avenue, Southeast.

At an undetermined time, a juvenile male was sexually assaulted by a suspect at the listed location.

On Monday, October 28, 2019, 46-year-old David Christopher Noble, of Arlington, VA, was arrested and charged with Second Degree Child Sexual Abuse.

Nov 6 | Big Chair Discussions: Beyond The Food - Free event!

REGISTER HERE!

Nov 11 | Volunteers needed for UDC Homecoming Day of Service

Monday, November 11th
12:00pm - 3:00pm EDT

We Act Radio Station
1918 Martin Luther King Jr. Ave SE Washington DC

SIGN UP HERE

Oct 29 + Nov 5 | Le Diplomate hosting Open Call for Servers

LE DIPLOMATE, 14th street corridor's beloved DC RAMMY award winning restaurant, is seeking enthusiastic SERVERS who are interested in being a part of our talented team.

We will be hosting OPEN CALLS at our restaurant (1601 14th St NW, Washington, DC 20009) on the following dates:

Tuesday, October 29th; 12:00PM-2:30PM
Tuesday, November 5th; 12:00PM-2:30PM

Please stop by the restaurant with an updated resume for an on-the-spot interview!

We are a very busy restaurant and take pride in delivering a memorable guest experience. If you embody an elevated level of service and want to take home a lot of money each shift, then LE DIPLOMATE is the place for you to shine!!

As the top independent restaurant group in the country, we offer comprehensive training, excellent benefits, abundant advancement opportunities, and a dynamic environment that fosters creativity, teamwork, and excellence!

Qualified Candidates Will Have:
- a minimum of 1 year of experience working in a high-end, high-volume restaurant
- AM weekend availability, a must! - knowledge of elevated levels of service standards and customer etiquette
- a passion for great food and wine served with care and consistency. You should naturally radiate warmth, and sincere hospitality.
- a great food and French wine acumen and willingness to learn more

WE LOOK FORWARD TO MEETING YOU TOMORROW AFTERNOON!

Oct 29 - 31 | MPD 6th District presents Ghost Mansion - Free!

Oct 29 | Public Hearing for Restore The Vote Amendment Act of 2019

Oct 31 - Nov 3 | Theater Alliance presents Day Of Absence at Anacostia Playhouse

Anacostia Playhouse
2020 Shannon Place, SE

Directed by Raymond O. Caldwell and Angelisa Gillyard

Featured artists include Jared Shamberger and others!

It's another day in another southern country-fried town . . but something's missing. All the Black residents have mysteriously disappeared! With unexpected holes left in the town's daily operations, a whirlwind of panic rushes through the town, moving the remaining residents to recognize how much their Black neighbors contribute to the town's vitality. A reverse minstrel show, Ward's 1965 script provides a comedic and pointed commentary on systemic racism that still bears relevance today.

GO HERE FOR TICKETS!

Nov 1 | MahoganyBooks + VSB Book Club Discussion

The MahoganyBooks & Very Smart Brothas book club is excited to announce our October book club read, More Than Enough by Elaine Welteroth. Welteroth is an award-winning journalist, author, and judge on the new Project Runway. She was most recently editor-in-chief of Teen Vogue where she in 2017 became the youngest person ever appointed editor-in-chief and in 2012 had been the first African American ever to hold the post of beauty and health director at a Condé Nast publication. In this part-manifesto, part-memoir, the revolutionary editor who infused social consciousness into the pages of Teen Vogue explores what it means to come into your own--on your own terms.

"Elaine gifts us all with a beautifully intimate and powerful retelling of her ever unfolding journey. In sharing her joys, pitfalls, adventures, self doubt, and successes, she reminds us that through uncovering and discovering the many facets of ourselves, we are more than enough." --Yara Shahidi

Open to the public, as well as, live streamed to Facebook, the MahoganyBooks + Very Smart Brothas book club is a monthly book club that reads a wide range of books written for, by, or about people of the African Diaspora then meets the first Friday of the following month to discuss and debate the book and its associated themes. Join the MahoganyBooks + Very Smart Brothas Book Club on November 1, 2019 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM for what promises to be a fun and engaging book discussion.

Oct 31 | Halloween Meet-Up and Trick or Treating in Penn Branch

Thursday, October 31st at 6:30 PM
1400 34th St SE

They’re not doing the horse-drawn Halloween hayride this year but it’s still going to be a great time! Meet up with neighbors for a good time before trekking through the Penn Branch neighborhood to trick-or-treat!

So….invite folks, bring snacks & beverages to share and wear costumes!

Nov 2 | Humane Rescue Alliance hosts Dog Dip at Washington Hilton

Saturday, November 2, 2019
12pm - 3pm

Washington Hilton
1919 Connecticut Ave NW,
Washington, DC 20009

The Washington Hilton and LivingWell Health Club close its seasonal pool for the year on November 2nd and we are celebrating! The outdoor pool is heated to 75-80 degrees and is saline-treated. Dogs only in pool and owners must stay on the pool deck. Enter at the corner of 19th Street & Florida Ave. Benefitting the Humane Rescue Alliance.

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