Sixth Annual Summer Games, Saturday, June 22, 2013, Meridian Hill / Malcolm X Park

Winter is so over, but SUMMER is coming…From the north, from across the sea, up from the sewer, from your father's loins… Summer Camp is coming to host the 6th Annual Summer Games. This year, the games are getting medieval at the Summer Games of Thrones. All are welcome. Come to battle. Or just come to watch. More information. 

14th & U Farmer's Market, Saturday, June 1, 2013, and every Saturday until November 23

From the MHNA listserv:

It just takes a few 90 degree days to turn on all the summer vegetables who have been holding back in the chilly Spring we have been having. Where do I start?

Sugar Snap Peas, Sweet Garden Peas, just dug baby Yukon Gold potatoes, Leeks, baby zucchini with their flowers, sweet Candy Onions, Spring Onions, Green Garlic and Shallot scopes, Spinach, Broccoli rabe, Green Kale, Toscano Kale, Redbore Kale, Baby Beets, Turnips, Sweet Hakurei Salad Turnips,

The Northern Neck strawberries are slowing down but the Pennsylvania berries are taking their place -- look for Sweet Charlies, Earliglows, Ovations and Chandlers. Asparagus too. And don't forget the rhubarb

Strawberry rhubarb, chocolate pecan pies, chard with roasted garlic and goat cheese quiche are at Whisked. Panorama has a double decker table of Damien's Breton and Parisian pastries and breads.

Peonies, poppies, hanging baskets, hundreds of potted herbs and vegetables and summer flowers.

Grillers: tons of steak at Pecan Meadow and lots of NEW cuts of pork like Porterhouse and the Porcine version of New York Strip. (Ask Truck Patch). Sausages at both. Lamb, goat, rabbit, duck, Eggs from chickens, ducks and geese.

We welcome SNAP/EBT, WIC, Cvc, Senior and Produce Plus and match them with bonus dollars. We are part of the Fruit and Vegetable Prescription Program. Martha's Table is our gleaning partner.

Next meeting: Tuesday, May 21, 2013, 7-8:30pm

The next monthly Meridian Hill Neighborhood Association meeting will take place on Tuesday, May 21, 2013, in the Greater Washington Sports Alliance, inside the Solea building, at 2300 14th Street, NW, on the northwest corner of 14th Street and Florida Avenue. 

YMCA Anthony Bowen of Metropolitan Washington, 1325 W Street, NW, Washington, DC (rendering)Join us in welcoming back the YMCA Anthony Bowen, the first African-American YMCA in the world, to 1325 W Street, NW [history] [tour]. Allison Jones, Vice President of Operations and Community Relations, and her teammates will discuss the Y's offerings. 

Architectural historian Kim Williams, of the DC Historic Preservation Office, who gave a widely-attended talk about the history of Meridian Hill / Malcolm X Park before MHNA in April 2011, will provide an update and ask MHNA to co-sponsor a proposed Meridian Hill Historic District. Agenda:

(1) Introductions

(2) Proposal to add one story to private residence on 15th Street, NW, across from the park  

(3) Proposal to promote local independently-owned daytime retail businesses (tentative) (postponed until June meeting)

(4) Presentation by the YMCA Anthony Bowen 

• Allison Jones, Vice President of Operations and Community Relations
• Vision of branch and Y Anthony Bowen: Gene Jones, Vice President of Operations
• Membership opportunities and programs: Kevin Correll, Vice President of Member Services
• Youth Development and the  YMCA Academy: Toni Chebou-Webb, Vice President of Youth Development 

(5) Designation of a Meridian Hill Historic District, request for MHNA to co-sponsor 

• Kim Williams, DC Historic Preservation Office

(6) MHNA's contingent in the Capital Pride Parade, Saturday, June 8, 2013 

• Matthew Abbruzzese 

Meeting location, Greater Washington Sports Alliance, 2300 14th Street, NW