Streetscape in Deanwood
The Nannie Helen Burroughs Ave Streetscape project hit its six month mark on June 1, 2011 with an Anniversary Site Tour and community meeting. The project is on schedule to complete in the Spring of 2012. Visit www.ddot.dc.gov to follow the progress.
New chairwoman for D.C. arts commission
Judith Terra has been appointed chairwoman of the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities, an agency that provides grants to artists and nonprofit arts organizations in the city. She succeeds Anne Ashmore-Hudson.
Terra is a co-founder of the Terra Museum of American Art in Chicago and the Musee D’Art Americain in Giverny, France.
City’s Africa Festival: July 16
The D.C. Office on African Affairs has scheduled its second annual Africa Festival for 12 to 6 p.m. July 16 at the Takoma Recreation Center, 300 Van Buren St. NW.
The free festival highlights African culture in the District. Activities include live performances of zouk, Afrobeat and mbalax music; Ugandan and Nigerian dance; a fashion show and a raffle.
The event will also kick off We Count!, a survey of African businesses, organizations and people in the District.
New Appointment
D.C. Public Service Commission chairwoman and former at large D.C. Council member Betty Ann Kane was recently named president of the Mid-Atlantic Conference of Regulatory Utilities Commissioners.
Kane will join the umbrella organization of 10 state public utility commissions, essentially watchdog groups that advocate for the regulation of public utilities, including the D.C. Public Service Commission.
