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Safeway or UnSafeway ??

		Monday, 22 January 07 - 09:19 PM (GMT) By Jonathon Lunardi in News

The other evening I was casually strolling to the Safeway on Columbia as I usually do on a Sunday night before the start of the work week.  This evening was different though as I looked to enter the Safeway doors.  This evening as I walked toward the doors, caution tape was placed across the main window, which had a huge hole in it!  A sign hung on the caution tape saying “caution, do not enter, broken glass.”  

 

The broken glass looked like someone had shot a bullet through the glass.  My heart sunk as I hoped it was not a gun shot in my neighborhood, but knew that the neighborhood can be a bit rough.

 

I went home that night and wished I had gone back that night with my camera, but it was dark so I decided to take some photos and investigate the next day.  As I went back with my digital camera the next day, the management of Safeway had boarded up the large window, which you can still see today and in the photos below.

         

I asked the girl who was checking me out what had happened, and to my relief there was no gun shots fired.  A shop lifter had been caught and tried to escape supposedly.  As the shop lifter was caught just before fleeing through the doors, the shop lifter managed to wrestle with the guards and kick the large glass window with his shoes.  So, good for the guards at Safeway!  They kept the store from being robbed and keep the local Safeway, well, safe.  So, if anyone wants to know why the Safeway glass is boarded up, that is the story.

”Heritage Trail” Markers in Mt. Pleasant to be Unveiled

		Thursday, 11 January 07 - 02:12 PM (GMT) By Jonathon Lunardi in News

From:

By P.L. Wolff

The Mt. Pleasant neighborhood will be celebrating the inauguration of 17, informative and artfully-designed “Heritage Trail” poster-sized, illustrated street signs mounted on sidewalk stanchions that combine storytelling, photography, and maps on Saturday, December 9, starting with an 11:30 a.m. unveiling ceremony at Lamont Park (Mt. Pleasant and Lamont Streets). Doing the honors will be Mayor-elect Adrian Fenty, who grew up in the neighborhood. He will be joined by Ward 1 Councilmember Jim Graham and members of the Mt. Pleasant Heritage Trail Working Group, Historic Mt. Pleasant, and representatives from Cultural Tourism DC.

Starting at 12:30 p.m. and continuing until 4 p.m. everyone will be able to join in on what is being billed as the “Mt. Pleasant Heritage Trail Stroll,” which will start at Lamont Park where trail brochures and maps will be available and also where volunteer English- and Spanish-language guides will be on hand. Then follow the trail signs and learn about the neighborhood’s history while also sampling the neighborhood’s many restaurants. More than 20 local businesses will be offering free drinks, snacks, and discounts.

Although it is not necessary to follow the trail signs in their established order to enjoy the 90-minute self-guided walking tour, for those that so choose to do so, the first sign is located at 16th and Harvard Streets and from there the trail winds through Newton Street and Park Road, ending on Mount Pleasant Street. Along the way will be discovered places that many residents will not have known about, such as Ingleside, the neighborhood’s oldest house, built in 1851, and designed by Thomas U. Walter, who served as the fourth Architect of the Capitol.
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