One important update: there's a meeting geared towards parents, students, teachers, and school staff tomorrow (May 15th) at 6:00 PM at Hine Junior High; it's being hosted by William Wilhoyte and Lisa Raymond, the Assistant Superintendent of DC Public Schools and the Ward 5 and 6 School Board representative. Despite the meeting being targeted at those who attend Hine Junior High every day, the meeting is open to anyone; Raymond sent along a statement which reiterates the importance of figuring out how to minimize the impact of the temporary Market building on the Hine students and staff, and how to best respect the existing agreement the DCPS has with the weekend flea market vendors. I'm hoping to make it to the meeting, but as always, we'd love to hear your perspective if you attend.
Today, I spoke with Clay Johnson, who organized last Tuesday's Eastern Market Rescue bar and restaurant crawl; he reported that current estimates place the amount raised by the event at around $12,000. That's amazing, and like Linsey Silver's T-shirts, another community effort for which Clay should be incredibly proud.
On that note, there'll be another pub fundraiser this coming Wednesday, May 16th; Lil' Pub, the Capitol Hill institution at Sixth Street and Pennsylvania SE, will donate 10% of all proceeds from 6 PM to 2 AM to the CHCF relief fund.
Lastly, does everyone remember Isabella's letter from two weekends ago? You'd think it couldn't, but the story gets even better -- we got an email from Isabella's father this morning letting us know that she has recruited her entire first-grade class to hold a three-site lemonade and bake sale at school two Fridays from now. Her teachers are going to use the occasion for a unit on civics, and the money will come back to the CHCF! In addition, her school (Maret School) will have its annual Fete Champêtre this coming Saturday, March 19th -- all of Cleveland Park is invited to attend, and they've offered to help CHCF set up a table there selling Silver's “Rebuild Eastern Market” T-shirts and taking donations. (We're looking for confirmation of this, and will update when we find out.)