The Barcroft News
May, 2001 - Volume 98, Number 9
May Meeting: W&OD Trail
Many of us derive great joy from and make much use of the W&OD trail as it winds through Northern Virginia. Being blessed with a portion of this local asset for strolling, biking and hiking so very close to us along Four Mile Run, it is with anticipation that we await the unveiling of plans to further improve the trail in our area. For more information on this trail, check out www.wodfriends.org.
Join us for our next monthly meeting, May 3, 7:30 p.m., at the Barcroft Community House, 800 S. Buchanan Street to enjoy a presentation of these plans by W&OD Trail staff members.
The Barcroft School and Civic League will also hold elections for officers at this meeting. All members of the BSCL are invited to attend and vote.
Turnout, Volunteers Needed for April 28 Board Walk
The County Board, county manager Ron Carlee and other dignitaries will launch their ``Walking Town Meeting'' program in Barcroft on Saturday, April 28, at 10 a.m. The idea behind the program is for board members to get a first-hand look at problems and get out into the community. And Barcroft will be the first. What a great opportunity for us.
So we must turn out in force. Also needed: volunteers to help with refreshments at the Community House afterwards. Call Mark at 703-979-0339 or e-mail him at mark@bscl.org.
Here's the drill. The walk begins at 10 a.m. in the parking lot of the park just north of Fourth and Taylor. We'll proceed to the intersection of 4th and Taylor, where we'll talk about how the lack of Neighborhood Conservation funding is stymieing a curb, walk and drainage project there. We'll walk 4th to Pershing, where we discuss traffic calming. At Dead Man's Curve, we'll push for cleanup of toxic PCB's at the old Vepco site. On Buchanan we'll note the speeding cars flying by. At Buchanan and Columbia Pike, the problems of the tangled mess of the intersection will speak for themselves. We'll walk the shopping center and talk Columbia Pike renewal. We'll proceed to Ninth via the bucolic W&OD trail, noting how much we want the trail to remains safe and well-maintained. We'll end with a reception at the community house.
Barcroft, put on your walking shoes!
Barcroft Studied For National Register
Barcroft is a candidate for becoming a National Register Historic District. Don't worry: this doesn't mean the taste police will be invading the neighborhood. You can still paint your house purple, put pink flamingoes on the lawn, and raze your quaint century-old farm house and put up a McMansion.
But with such a designation, county planners could require developers of larger tracts that need zoning variances to design projects that reflect the historic character of the neighborhood. It means that planners will take pains to preserve the integrity of the neighborhood from encroachment by roads and other infrastructure changes. And buildings constructed in 1936 or earlier that are deemed to contribute to the neighborhood's historic character could become eligible for tax credits on major renovations and improvements.
In addition, the county hopes historic neighborhoods will draw tourists to help fuel Arlington's already booming tourist industry. While the tourism angle may be of no direct benefit to us, it's a bit flattering to be thought of in the same light as, say Old Town Alexandria or Charleston, SC. And it gives those ever-creative real estate agents a real hook when they're writing up your "For Sale" brochure.
All this will be several years in coming. A draft survey will hopefully be ready for us to review by June. Barcroft is one of five neighborhoods county-wide being targeted for historic district status. The others include Ashton Heights, Cherrydale, the Clarendon commercial center, and Lyon Park. It is not - repeat not - being considered for an Arlington County historic designation, which would involve more intrusive oversight by the county
So what's interesting in Barcroft? For starters, its age: The first structures were built here in 1892, and significant buildings were erected through 1952. The same builder put up many of them. Want more information, or have some history you'd like to share about your property? Call the county's planner in charge of historic resources, Mike Leventhal, at 703-228-3813.
Presenting!!! Barcroft Chili Dinner Theater
Friday, May 18, at the Community House. Chili dinner at 6:30 p.m., Play at 7:30 p.m.
Mark your calendar now for a fun evening. Who wants to cook on a Friday after work anyway? The newly formed Barcroft Players will present one (maybe two) short plays by comic playwrite David Ives, following a chili plus trimmings dinner.
As of this writing, we are still looking for some volunteers to help with food and backstage jobs - even though technically we don't have a backstage! If you have even a couple of hours to help, please call Barbara Swart at (703) 521-2080 or e-mail Barbara@bscl.org.
Dances of George Washington
Join us April 28 in the Barcroft Community House to learn the dances danced by George Washington and his neighbors in Northern Virginia! Barbara Harding, a consultant on the dances of this period, will explain and lead the dancers through each dance. Beginners and singles are welcome. Live music will be performed by Peascods Gathering.
The dance will be at the Barcroft Community House. The dances begin at 8 p.m. and end at 10:30. Those who are new to this style of dancing are invited to come at 7:45 for tips for beginners. Admission is $5.
Dances of the British Isles
Please join us May 26 for our last British Isles dance of the season. Local callers will teach and call these easy-to-learn dances. Beginners and singles are welcome. Live music will be performed by Peascods Gathering.
The dance will be at the Barcroft Community House, 800 S. Buchanan St., Arlington. The dances begin at 8 p.m. and end at 10:30. Those who are new to this style of dancing are invited to come at 7:45 for tips for beginners. Admission is $5. For further information, call Dottie Beck, dottieb@erols.com or 703-671-3240.
Accidents do Happen, Too Often
Do car accidents in Barcroft make you nervous? Report them to the police and to Traffic Committee Chair: Buchanan has had five accidents since 2000 (3 by "dead man's curve", one on the line with Pershing at 3rd and Wakefield plus an additional one at the Women's Club), Taylor one, Abingdon one. Remember, if they are not reported they are not counted; when reported, they add points toward traffic calming priorities!
Barcroft and Public Mixed-Use Space
The following is a thought-provoking piece by Barcroft resident Elaine Heumann Gurian regarding what she sees as the signs of a healthy, vibrant community in the shopping center at the foot of S. Buchanan and Columbia Pike - a very timely topic for the ongoing discussion of Columbia Pike redevelopment. A little about Elaine: She has lived with her husband, Dean Anderson, on South 8th Street for the last 8 years. They were married at the Barcroft Community House. She is a museum consultant who works mostly with governments around the globe that are building and opening museums. Her article about Barcroft is part of a longer paper about enhancing community building within museums by paying attention to mixed-use space using, based in part on the theories of Jane Jacobs and others.
I first began to encounter the subtle inter-relationship of space, use and civility in Barcroft, my multi-ethnic, multi-economic neighborhood close to Washington DC.
At the foot of the Barcroft hill, there is a small undistinguished shopping strip, built like others in the early 50's. It used to be failing but is now very active - day and night. Its metamorphosis has been fascinating and instructive to watch. The most common phenomenon has been to see a shop open with a sign that indicates the establishment will provide a known, needed, and straightforward function. Thus we have, for example, signs that tell us we have a Laundromat, a dry cleaner, and separate Asian, Latino and Halal food markets.
Upon close observation and from experi-ence, I know that the Laundromat has pool tables, a child's play area and a barbershop. It used to have a money order and check-cashing booth but that moved to its own shop next door and combined with the utility bill paying function that used to operate out of the Asian food market. The Asian owners speak Spanish, sell both Asian and Latino food and beer and liquor. Not to be outdone, the Latino Food market sells lottery tickets, phone cards, and is the French pastry outlet. The Halal food store rents movies and sells clothes.
I have watched these entrepreneurs expand their businesses without regard to their announced and original niche function. Their motivation has been to follow the money. Without plan or foreknowledge, they are reinventing the general store, combining the market of third world countries with a more rural American corner store of former years. (And if you look closely at supermarkets, chain bookstores and pharmacies, so are they.)
The hours of activity on my block are nearly around the clock. The days begins at about 5:30 a.m. when the laborers con-gregate, waiting to be picked up for day-work, and the early shift workers wait for the bus. The Laundromat is open 24 hours and has vending machines, so breakfast for some starts there. The other food stores open at 6:30, the cleaners at 7:00 and so it goes. The people going to work stop off in the morning, the families come all day and the returnees from work begin at about 3:00 p.m. At the end of the day the stores begin to close at 7:00 but the bar and the pizza shop stay open much later and then there is the Laundromat - open always.
Superimposed on these multifunction spaces has come an interesting array of more subtle mutual support within the community. There is a tolerance for the continued presence of mostly male hang-ers-on who stand around (varying from sober to intoxicated) and who watch out for, and comment benignly on, the ensuing foot traffic. The other day, I saw the com-munity police hanging out with the hip-hop Latino teenagers in the parking lot, the babies in the Laundromat playing with each other and learning English, the com-munity bulletin board offering baby sitting services at the Pizza parlor, and the Asian food store proprietors refusing to sell al-cohol to an already drunk adult, sending him home to his family.
The parking lot (and those adjacent) brings transient activities. There is a weekly food distribution for the needy. Trucks come in with homemade specialties, fresh coco-nuts, clothes and music tapes in the midst of an informally spontaneous (and proba-bly illegal) used-car lot.
Barcroft is safe, friendly and welcoming most of the time. It is not always entirely tranquil. It is above all an active useful mixed-use space, which has the effect of building civil community.
Barcroft Elections to be Held at May Meeting
A new slate of Barcroft officers and board members will go up for election at the May 3 Barcroft meeting. The biggest turnover will be on the five -member executive committee, where terms are limited to two, one-year terms. One slot in the four-member Board of Directors is up. The following is the slate chosen by the nominating committee (Mark Wigfield, Randy Swart and Scott Royal). May's meeting begins at 7:30 p.m., as always.
President: Pat Williamson Edwards. Pat is currently doing a terrific job as BSCL Vice President, a post she assumed in November to fill a vacancy. Pat has proven resourceful in her primary job of organizing the monthly meeting. But she has also stepped forward in a number of other areas, including organizing Barcroft's participation in the Neighborhood Day parade, reprinting Barcroft T-shirts, representing us at the Arlington County Civic Federation, serving on the History Committee, and other tasks. She has lived in Barcroft for about a year, moving here from nearby Columbia Forest, where she was also president of the civic association. She lives on S. 6th near Taylor.
Vice President: Candidate Eric Harold and his wife Annemarie have lived in the lovely turn-of-the-century white frame house at the corner of Ninth and Buchanan since Nov. 1998. He has lived in Northern Virginia for the better part of 10 years, with brief intervening stints in Takoma Park and Baton Rouge, La. They returned to Arlington with a love of Cajun culture. But he loves Barcroft culture as well: He agreed to take on the vice president's job out of a desire to get more involved in the neighborhood. An independent environmental contractor, Eric works at home, which helps us since no boss will catch him making Barcroft calls on company time. He and Ann are expecting their first child in July.
Treasurer: Gary LeFebvre. Gary is our current treasurer, and has been doing such a terrific job that we will ask members to waive the by-laws and allow him to continue beyond his term limits. Thanks, Gary. You're irreplaceable.
Corresponding Secretary: Eric Parker. Originally from Roanoke, Eric has lived on S. Abingdon for about three years, and in Arlington since 1989. His became active in community affairs during the struggle to keep the Glencarlyn Dog Park alive. The good working relationship he developed with county officials and his letter-writing skills will serve Barcroft well. He is a computer specialist by profession.
Recording Secretary: Sue Tenenbaum. Sue has lived in the charming 1926 Sears house - the Crescent model - on S. 8th St. between Taylor and Wakefield for two years. A 25-year resident of Arlington, she says she moved to Barcroft because it's a real neighborhood, something she couldn't say about her old one. Sue runs Annie's Garden, a garden consulting business, sells tomatoes and flowers from her front yard in the summer, and has two teenagers, Jon Uyama, 17, and Naomi Uyama, 19.
Board Member: Current member Jim Kerr has agreed to run for re-election to his four-year board term. There is no limit on board terms, and apparently no limit on Jim's contributions to the neighborhood. They include stints as President and most other positions, Barcroft News ad salesman, and general handyman at the community house. Jim and his wife Kathy, who live on S. Abingdon, have lived in Barcroft forever.
Arlington Mill Advisory Member Sought
The Arlington Mill Community Center needs a volunteer from Barcroft to serve on its advisory board. Key issues include the facility's predominant use as a school rather than as a community center. This is a chance to help shape the future of an important facility, just across Four Mile Run from Barcroft on Columbia Pike. Interested? Call Mark Wigfield at 703-979-0339 or mark@bscl.org.
Neighborhood Day Parade
Saturday afternoon, May 12, Barcroft will participate in the Arlington County Neighborhood Day Parade along Wilson Boulevard in Clarendon. The Barcroft contingent's theme will be the "Rolling Brigade." Led by some adult members of the "Barcroft Commuter Bicycle Brigade" we hope to attract young and old Barcrofters on bikes, scooters and rollerblades to show of how our neighbors love to get around! We are talking with Ms. Hughey-Guy about school participation. We need banners, decorations and great ideas!!! It would be a great day to wear Barcroft t-shirts!!! Please contact Pat Williamson-Edwards at pat@bscl.org to plan.
Barcroft Book Benefit
Barcroft Elementary School and Borders in Baileys Crossroads invite you to participate in a benefit weekend. On Saturday, May 5th and Sunday May, 6th present this special certificate when you purchase items at the Baileys store, and 15% of the total sale will be donated to Barcroft Elementary School!
To further entice you to drop by Borders, the Barcroft Elementary School chorus will be performing at 1:00 p.m. on Saturday, May 5th. Any money raised will help provide funds for field trips and other important activities. Please help support your neighborhood school!
Barcroft T-Shirts for Sale
Back by popular demand -- Barcroft T-Shirts -- 100% heavy duty dark green t-shirts with white Barcroft maps. They will be available at the Community Houe after the Boardwalk on April 28, at the May 3 meeting and on other later occasions until they are gone!
Volunteers of the Month
The coveted Volunteers award this month goes to the outgoing BSCL Board members.
President Mark Wigfield will be going out to pasture, looking for new volunteer challenges --- but perhaps after a brief respite. Mark, a reporter by trade, found it fascinating to be part of the doing end of a democratic organization rather than simply the observing end. He thanks the community for the opportunity.
Corresponding Secretary Sharon Tope worked well above her pay grade in the association as a wise counsel on a number of broader concerns confronted by the community, from our response to the latest Hi Cue shooting to the Columbia Pike Revitalization. Her prompt and efficient letter writing was also appreciated.
Recording Secretary Bruce Atkinson would have accepted the draft to move up to Vice President, but reluctantly. But other volunteers stepped forward, freeing us to tap Bruce for his prodigious handyman skills without feeling guilty. Bruce provided a level head in board decisions and a steady eye in our all-volunteer picket fence project at the community house. He made sure the corners were square and the lines straight in our new fence and in countless other renovation and repair tasks. Thanks Bruce! Don't put the power saw away!
Barcroft Directory
Hopefully by now, most if not all BSCL members have received their copy of the new Barcroft Neighborhood Directory.
As with the previous directory, it lists all residents and business within Barcroft. It shows name, address and home phone for all residents. For members it additionally may include work phone and e-mail address.
In addition to an alphabetical listing, there is a listing by address for both residents and businesses.
While the directory lists all residents, it was distributed only to BSCL members. So if you haven't joined, or renewed for this year, send in your dues, and we'll get a directory to you. The membership form is available on the BSCL web page (bscl.org).
Thanks to all who helped with this effort.
Around the Neighborhood
with Kathy Kerr
Congratulations to Cecelia Cackley, who has been invited to join the Virginia All-State Honors Chorus. Cecilia, a junior at HB Woodlawn, is the first HB student to make it into this chorus and one of just 16 students from Faifax and Arlington counties to receive this high honor.
Letter to the Editor
Recently, we have come across notes that have been placed on selected, legally parked cars along our street (9th Street). These notes read: "This block has limited available parking for homeowners, residents, and guests. Kindly be considerate and PARK your vehicle in the block where YOU RESIDE. Your co-operation will be appreciated." The text has also been conveniently translated into Spanish.
It is unclear how neighborhood residents legally parking within their neighborhood on a public street is inconsiderate. We recognize that parking has been a hot-button issue in the neighborhood. We further recognize that it has been common to proudly describe Barcroft as "semi-urban," to distinguish ourselves from the average American suburb. Being a semi-urban neighborhood, however, carries with it some very urban trials, and limited parking is one of them. So to the continuing debate on parking, we respectfully submit the following points:
The streets are public space, not controlled by the homeowners or residents or reserved for the homeowners or residents.
We are under no obligation to reserve public parking for our guests. Homeowners who have off-street parking (driveway, etc.) and have more cars than that space allows for are part of the (perceived) problem as well.
We have been residents of Barcroft for over two years now, and thoroughly enjoy the proximity to such wonderful amenities as the bike path and DC, the friendliness of the neighbors, the active community spirit, and the pride with which we all participate in creating a vibrant, semi-urban neighborhood. While parking in Barcroft does present a problem, in our estimation it is a relatively minor one and a tradeoff we gladly make in return for the benefits the neighborhood provides. If parking is to be addressed, then solutions should be developed based on input of all parties affected by this issue, not by neighborhood vigilantes attempting to control public space. Our neighborhood would have much to benefit by being inclusive, and working along with our neighbors and the County to seek solutions that address everybody's concerns.
Respectfully submitted, Eric and Annmarie Harold
Indifference to Pedestrian Safety
My kids attend public school in the suburbs, so, like any other parent, I cringed upon hearing about the two high school murders last week in Santee, California. But though school shootings are a shock and an outrage, I don't stay up at night worried that they endanger my kids: Overall, school violence has been declining for a decade, and homicide by adolescents has been falling for nearly as long. When I worry about my kids' safety, I think about far more likely threats: drugs, driving young--or getting hit by a car while crossing the street.
In 1999, the year of the Columbine massacre, 28 students nationwide were killed in schools, while 840 kids under age 20 were killed when struck by cars as they walked, often to school. But, although school shootings spark a national outcry and huge government spending, street-crossing deaths draw no notice and no action. Pedestrian deaths are deemed, well, pedestrian.
Nationally, cars and trucks kill about 5,000 American pedestrians per year--about one-quarter the number of murders. Pedestrian deaths, though not intentional, have much in common with homicides: An innocent person is suddenly cut down by someone wielding a dangerous weapon. But, while Americans devote enormous attention to murder (as we should), our 5,000 dead pedestrians largely escape public consciousness. And government consciousness: The Surface Transportation Policy Project, a nonpartisan group, estimates that the government spends roughly 150 times as much on highways as on pedestrian safety.
Could it be that we hear so little about pedestrian deaths because many of the victims are poor or immigrants? In the "safe" suburbs-- where pedestrian deaths increasingly occur--the affluent typically move exclusively in cars, and the only ones trying to cross busy streets are students or the poor. Studies in California and other states have also shown that pedestrian deaths occur disproportionately among Hispanics and the poor.
Another reason we ignore these deaths is that it's easy to blame the victim. Two-thirds of pedestrian fatalities happen in darkness, and those struck are often wearing dark garments. Many others occur when someone tries to dash across a busy boulevard rather than cross at a traffic light. Dashing across is a particular problem among immigrants, who often come from small villages where everyone dashes across the street but where there aren't anywhere near as many vehicles moving anywhere near as fast.
But pedestrian deaths aren't mostly the fault of pedestrians; they're mostly the fault of drivers. One major factor is speed. According to a Department of Transportation study, raising average traffic speed limits from 35 miles per hour to 45 miles per hour doubled the pedestrian death rate. As anyone who regularly drives in the suburbs knows, traffic increasingly moves at breakneck speed even on residential streets, partly because traffic backups cause frustrated drivers to nail the throttle whenever the road is clear and partly because those enormous SUVs make people feel invincible. So even if you're wearing hot pink and dutifully cross at a stoplight, you're still taking your life into your hands.
Threats to pedestrian safety do not just imperil school kids, the poor, and immigrants. They diminish a sense of community: Adults can't go on strolls and kids can't walk to school because people become predatory behind the wheel. And not being able to walk is also, not surprisingly, bad for public health: Studies show that during the last generation the trend line for obesity has risen at almost exactly the same rate that the trend line for "percentage of trips made on foot" has gone down. Still, the car-commuter lobby is so strong that many local governments don't even try to restrain speeding and hostile driving.
National policymakers endlessly focus on new safety devices for drivers and passengers. But, measured by collision deaths per mile traveled, it is 36 times more dangerous to walk than to be in a car, according to the Surface Transportation Policy Project. What about heading off pedestrian deaths? Intersections can be engineered to make walking safer; speed bumps and traffic circles can force traffic to slow down. Local governments can increase fines for violating pedestrians' right-of-way and make it more likely that killing a pedestrian will result in a charge of manslaughter, bringing this offense in line with most unintentional killing with a weapon. (Amazingly, in many cases there is no legal penalty at all for running someone down.)
And why confine technological advances to the people inside cars? Standard traffic-light design could be reengineered so that when someone pushed the "walk" button at an intersection, it would cause a distinctive signal--let's say, a rotating blue strobe atop the stoplight. This would tell drivers there was a pedestrian about to cross, something they don't know now. We'll never stop the random homicides by people who go berserk. We could stop most pedestrian deaths if only we tried.
by Gregg Easterbrook (the full article appeared in the Washington Post, March 26, 2001).
Metrorail Expands Bike-on-Rail Program
Thanks to years of urging by the Washington Area Bicycle Association (WABA), Washington Metro Area Transit Authority (WMATA) staff announced a major expansion of the system's Bike-on-Rail program. All changes will be effective for a six month trial period from May 29 through the end of November. During this time WMATA will closely monitor the impact that the enhancements have on the system and other riders.
First, the midday hours of access for passengers with bikes have extended two hours (10:00 to 4:00 p.m., rather than 10:00 to 2:00). Second, for the first time ever, cyclists will be able to board trains with their bikes in the early morning, from 5:30-6:30 a.m., on weekdays, making it possible for commuters to commute both ways with their bike on board. Finally, in a major change, cyclists would be able to board any uncrowded car of a train via the front and back doors of the car. Bicyclists can never enter a car through the middle doors, which must remain clear for emergency exits. As always, bicyclists enter and move through the system using the elevators not the escalators. Please show your support for these changes by remembering and reminding others of the rules for bikes on Metro.
Barcroft Exchange
Columbia Pike Blues Festival
On Saturday, May 12, the Columbia Pike Revitalization Organization presents The Sixth Columbia Pike Blues Festival, a free community celebration on Columbia Pike-South Arlington's main street. The outdoor festival takes place from noon to 6 pm at Patrick Henry School, rain or shine. The Festival includes blues of all kinds-from the recently inducted Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, Johnnie Johnson (father of rock and roll piano) to The Archie Edwards Blues Heritage Foundation, a Washington-based organization to preserve Piedmont Blues. Also featured are The Ola Dixon Band, The Daryl Davis Band, and The Mary Shaver Band. In addition, The Curbfeelers, a soul-blues band based in Arlington, will represent the Festival in Arlington's Neighborhood Day Parade, on the afternoon of May 12. Volunteers are needed before and on the day of the festival.
The Festival is one of numerous community events taking place May 12, Arlington County's Neighborhood Day 2001. The Blues Festival also features diverse food specialties, craft sales, civic information, bike registration, a free moonbounce and instrument "petting farm" for kids, and a display of antique Model "A" Ford cars. D.C.'s most popular swing dance teachers, Tom Koerner and Debra Sternberg, will be on hand to offer dance tips and show you the way the pros do it! (2:20 p.m.)
Admission: Free. Donations of canned goods for the needy welcomed.
Date: Saturday, May 12, 2001; 12 noon to 6 p.m.
Location: Patrick Henry School field, 701 South Highland Street, Arlington, Va.
For more info: Call (703) 892-2776 or e-mail info@columbiapikepartnership.com
Our Advertisers
Please support these good people who advertised in the Barcroft News this month:
- Borders Books
- Cowboy Cafe - 2421 Columbia Pike - 703-486-3467
- Todd Ottenstein Home Improvement 703-553-TODD
- Petrona's Cleaning - 703-671-1791
- H. H. Saravia Home Improvement - 703-538-5076
The Barcroft Community House can be rented for your
special event. Call 521-1116 for more information or send an email to rentals@bscl.org.
Calendar
For the most up-to-date listing of Barcroft events, please consult our Web page Calendar
- Saturday, April 28 - County Board Board Walk, 10 a.m., meet at corner of S. 4th and S. Taylor.
- Saturday, April 28 - George Washington Dance, 8:00 p.m., Community House, 800 S. Buchanan Street.
- Thursday, 3 - BSCL Community Meeting, 7:30 p.m., Columbia Pike, Community House.
- Saturday, May 12 - Neighborhood Day Parade
- Friday, May 18 - Chili Dinner Theater, 6:30 p.m. dinner, 7:30 p.m. play, Community House
- Saturday, May 26 - Dances of the British Isles, 8:00 p.m., Community House
All Barcroft News phone numbers are area code 703 unless indicated.
Barcroft News Staff
Editors - Mark Rom, 486-2983 editor@bscl.org
Publisher/Mailing - Lisa Rom, 486-2983 editor@bscl.org
Contributions - Mark Wigfield, 979-0339 mark@bscl.org
Advertising Manager - Jim Kerr, 892-6458 jim@bscl.org
Neighborhood News - Kathy Kerr, 892-6458 kathy@bscl.org
Deadlines: 1st (ads) or 10th (editorial material) day of the month preceding the issue month.
BSCL Officers for 2000-2001
President - Mark Wigfield, 979-0339 mark@bscl.org
Vice President - Pat Williamson-Edwards, 521-1082 pat@bscl.org
Recording Secretary - Bruce Atkinson, 979-4868
Treasurer - Gary Lefebvre, 521-0184 gary@bscl.org
Corresponding Secretary - Sharon Tope, 920-2567
Membership Secretary - Peg Lefebvre, 521-0184 peg@bscl.org
Board Members
Community House
Facility Managers - Steve Reiss, 553-0909 and Lori Fitchett 979-3920
Restoration - Jim Kerr, 892-6458 jim@bscl.org
Fundraising - JoAnne Barnhart, 920-0821
Landscaping - Scott Brinitzer, 892-0308 scott@bscl.org
Traffic Committee - Elaine Squeri 920-7014
Parade - Andrew Hunter 979-8247
Columbia Pike - Bryant Monroe, 271-0944
Demeter House Liaison Committee - Daphne Miller 920-5681
Crime - vacant
Parks - vacant
Volunteers - Scott Royal 553-0909 volunteers@bscl.org
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The paper version of the Barcroft News is printed on recycled paper with
vegetable-based ink by the Stanley Adams Printing Company. This Web page is put
up by Randy Swart using recycled bits and bytes,
and it is not absolutely identical to the paper one, but pretty close. All telephone numbers are 703 area code.
Barcroft School and Civic League
800 South Buchanan Street
Arlington, VA 22204
Neighborline: (24 hr. announcements, Community House rentals) 703-521-1116
Email: info@bscl.org
Web: www.bscl.org
This page was last revised on: April 26, 2001.
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