« May 2: Evening news and links | Main | Pottery Fundraiser »

May 3: Morning news and links

  • There's now a Facebook group, Rebuild Eastern Market, started by DC resident Clay Johnson. The informal group's first order of business is trying to convince District bars to donate a portion of their proceeds from next Tuesday night to the Capitol Hill Community Foundation rebuilding fund, and they've started a website to track participating bars. If you're on Facebook, go join the group and help out, and no matter what, try to visit a participating bar next Tuesday to spend a little money and thank them for contributing to the Market!
  • Overnight, the Save Our Market Community Action Group (mentioned in yesterday's evening news) set up a Yahoo! mailing list to use for spreading information about how people can help. There's already a request on the group for volunteers to assist by staffing a table at Eastern Market over the weekend -- we've already offered to help, so you might see us there!
  • DC has set up a Restoring Eastern Market page; it's currently home to a few relevant links about the fire and the history of the Market, but hopefully will contain updates on government plans and news releases. (One thing we'd love to see that's not on the page is the text of the draft legislation Mayor Fenty is proposing which will direct all surplus revenue for the fiscal year to the Market and Georgetown Library recoveries; if anyone out there has access to the legislation, please feel free to drop us a line!)
  • From Matthew Gilmore's H-Net mailing list comes some good news about that other fire that happened on Monday, the Georgetown Library fire: it looks like most of the Peabody Collection is going to be OK! (The Peabody Collection is the crown jewel of the library, housing irreplaceable DC records, maps, and newspapers.)

Posted by Jason on May 3, 2007 |