Neighborhood Notes - Foxhall: 7 February 2001

Until summer of 1999, the ‘Georgetown Current’ was not home-delivered throughout the whole Foxhall community – that year the Foxhall Community Citizens Association made a conscious move to down-size our own monthly ‘Foxhall News’ from 12 pages to four, and to re-employ kids who delivered it to also deliver the weekly ‘Current’. Having the ‘Current’ became very popular with our residents, and contributes much to their awareness of quality-of-life issues in common with other readers in this western part of the city.

By winter that same year, this weekly column was initiated, and our delivery kids were then joined by Susan Palmer, a vigorous senior and cancer survivor. Through all weathers, she has always been our most conscientious in covering her route, easily the largest extending from Colony Hill at Reservoir / Foxhall to the newest town-homes at MacArthur / Lingan. However, a broken wrist has brought her delivery days to a halt, but we did not want to let Susan move onto her other projects without first rendering a public “thank-you”.

Thanks are also due to the Hardy Playground Pals who continue through all this coldest weather to keep working on the tot-lot, assembling play equipment and spreading wood chips. Also now making progress is the Contractor for soccer field renovation, having completed a new concrete sidewalk between the playing area and Rock Creek International School, from Foxhall Rd to the Rec Center, and clearing away old tree trunk stumps. Actual soccer field clearing awaits the right conditions to minimize soil erosion.

© Bob Andrew, Foxhall