Bloombars Giant Mural Video

Check out this fantastic video produced by Bloombars, regarding their production of the beautiful Giant community mural as part of the Columbia Heights Great Day of Service.

Tivoli North Event Featuring Mayor Gray

The Tivoli North Business Association is sponsoring a tremendous event at 6:00 on Wednesday, April 27th at Thaitanic on 14th Street.  The event will feature business networking opportunities, a community Q&A with Mayor Gray, and the premier of a short film documenting the entrepreneurial business stories of businesses on . . . → Read More: Tivoli North Event Featuring Mayor Gray

April 2nd Great Day of Service: Final Schedule

Weather permitting, here is the final schedule for Saturday, April 2nd:

– 9:30 A.M. to 11:30 A.M.:  Neighborhood Clean-Up sponsored by NCHCA.  Meet and pick-up supplies on 11th between Park and Monroe.  Please bring your own gloves if you have them!  Volunteers at the clean-up get 25% off brunch . . . → Read More: April 2nd Great Day of Service: Final Schedule

April 2nd Great Day of Service Schedule

Hey folks, the event schedule for April 2nd is nearly finalized. The Great Day of Service will kick off with a neighborhood clean-up (meet by Columbia Heights Coffee) from 9:30-11:30 (feel free to partake in any or all of this time frame). From 10 a.m. through 4 p.m. there . . . → Read More: April 2nd Great Day of Service Schedule

Neighborhood Community Service Update

We have officially chosen Saturday, April 2, 2010 as the first (we hope of many) annual Columbia Heights Great Day of Service We discussed preliminary planning for the Great Day of Service, as well as learned more about a few local community service organizations, at our November 3, 2010 meeting.  Read the meeting minutes here.  If you would like to get involved in the Great Day of Service (either by sponsoring a project, getting your community organziation on board, helping organize the event, or simply volunteering on that day), please contact jeff.zeeman@northcolumbiaheights.org.

In addition to the organizations presenting at the meeting, Brainfood has an urgent need for volunteer classroom assistants at its Columbia Heights site.  More details below the break.

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Vince Gray Ward 1 Town Hall Meeting, October 19, 2010

Taste of Tivoli North Saturday

Tivoli North Business Association, with help from our businesses, neighbors, CHSFSC’s Green Team, Neighbor’s Consejo, Councilmember Graham, and DC Government Agencies, hosts the “Taste of Tivoli North”, a community based event, on Saturday, October 16th, 2010 from 12 to 6pm on Spring Road between 14th and 13th Streets, NW.  . . . → Read More: Taste of Tivoli North Saturday

Community Service Opportunities in Columbia Heights

Save the date of our next meeting, Wednesday, November 3 at 7:00 P.M. (location to be announced), when you can learn more about community service opportunities in Columbia Heights.  This will also serve as a planning / brainstorming meeting for the first neighborhood Great Day of Service, which we . . . → Read More: Community Service Opportunities in Columbia Heights

Green Update

August 28, 2010 Dear Green Partners,

The community’s long dream of the North Columbia Heights Green is coming true.  Stage Two sitework is now complete, and we are now at last doing the fun part of planting and furnishing the Green!  Here’s what’s been done:

• Nearly all the . . . → Read More: Green Update

Columbia Heights Day is Here!

Look for our booth at Columbia Heights Day on Saturday!  We’ll be selling amazing t-shirts, designed by Robbie Behr, for fifteen dollars each.  Grab one while they last: we only have 100 total, in sizes ranging from small to XXL.

We’ll also be giving away free lemonade (while it . . . → Read More: Columbia Heights Day is Here!