UPDATE 10/7: You can still sign up for a prescreening for today! Click link below. Are you looking for a job? There is an upcoming job fair this Friday, October 9 2015, happening at the Kennedy Recreation Center, 1401 7th St NW. Read on for more information, and make sure you complete a pre-screening session tomorrow, […]
It can often seem that news about DC General focuses on the many problems with the site and the city’s plan to close the homeless shelter. But this won’t happen for years. Until then, it will remain home to hundreds of families. Many of those residents include children and teens who, like any child or teen, […]
After discarding your OTC medications safely this weekend, you know you want to make a difference in your neighborhood. So on Saturday, September 26, come down to the Sherwood Recreation Center, 640 10th Street NE, and celebrate the beautiful open space, the diverse community, and the first birthday of the playground that the recreation center shares with School […]
The DC Diaper Bank needs your help, Capitol Hill: Starting this Saturday, September 12, the Capitol Hill community is kicking off a Diaper Drive to benefit the DC Diaper Bank! Whenever I volunteer at the DC Diaper Bank, surrounded by mounds of 25-diaper bundles ranging in size from newborn to adult, I give thanks to whoever listens […]
The Street Sense newspaper vendors, each with their melodious peddling, are fixtures of the weekend Flea Market at Eastern Market. For those new to town, or those who have never picked up a copy, Street Sense is a newspaper made, for and about the homeless community in DC. The paper was started in 2003 by Laura Thompson-Osuri […]