Help Hearst Get the Playground
We Deserve!

Parents are needed to collect signatures for the Hearst Playground Rehab.

Time frame: Immediate.

Contact: Dean Nielsen at jdnielsen@verizon.net or dnielsen@worldbank.org

The petitition supports full funding and development of the approved design for two playlots (baby lot and grade K-4 lot) on the Hearst Recreation grounds, with other amenities. Parents are needed to collect signatures before and after school, and especially to go out within the neighborhood served by the park.

We have collected 165 signatures so far, and our goal is 500. If you are not comfortable going door to door, you might approach a local business like Whole Foods or Giant and ask to set up a table for two upcoming Saturdays.

Background: The DC Department of Recreation overspent on Phase I and now says it has only $400,000 to $500,000 to reconstruct the playground (Phase II). There is a landscape plan in place that received widespread approval and took into account neighborhood comments and surveys completed by children at Hearst and in th neighborhoods. For more about the approved landscape design firm, Lee & Associates, click here.

Contact Dean Nielsen at jdnielsen@verizon.net or dnielsen@worldbank.org for details.

[disclaimer: the image accompanying this post is intended for illustration only. It does not represent the plan for our playground nor the work of Lee and Associates, Inc.]




Open House Volunteers Needed
To Welcome Prospective Parents
Time frame: First open house is November 17. Future open houses will be in January (at the DC Convention Center) and monthly or twice monthly throughout the spring at the school.

Contact: Lisa Schamess at 202-232-1421 or lisaschamess@yahoo.com (email preferred)
Parents are needed from 8:30 until noon on Open House days at th school to help set up refreshments and materials and to meet-and-greet prospective parents and guide them on tours through the school. The January DCPS-wide Open House is a bit different: parents are needed on a rotating basis all day on a Saturday to staff the Hearst table. Parents may also be needed to prepare material and exhibits before the DCPS event, and to set up and break down the table displays.

Contact Lisa Schamess at 202-232-1421 or lisaschamess@yahoo.com (email preferred)