Our favorite mentions this week
BID tax bills have been mailed
BID
tax bills for commercial properties were mailed out earlier this week.
Payments are due by March 30.
If you haven't received your tax bill by Monday, contact
Kristen Barden
(202-997-0783) to obtain a digital copy.
Seeking awesome AdMo photography
Calling all Adams Morgan photographers!
We know you love your neighborhood, and have been shooting fantastic images of its restaurants, nightlife and street scenes for years. We’re seeking to build up our image library -- would you be willing to share your photos with us to help promote the neighborhood? AMPBID is a nonprofit and will provide credit for any photos used.
For more details, email Rachel Davis at marketing@adamsmorganonline.org.
Meeting on March 2 to discuss On-the-Job Training with the Department of Employment Services (DOES)
Adams Morgan businesses are invited to join participate in an information session with DOES on Friday, March 2 at 12pm in the Festival Center at 1640 Columbia Rd., NW for a discussion about the benefits of On-the-Job Training (OJT).
OJT training is a workforce development strategy where employers of all sizes have an opportunity to train, mentor and hire candidates as they become fully proficient in a particular skillset or job function. Through the OJT model, candidates receive the hands-on training necessary to increase their skills, knowledge and capacity to perform the designated job functions. The OJT strategy ensures unemployed and underemployed jobseekers have a chance to enter and reenter the workforce through an “earn and learn” model. This streamlined approach developed between select employers and the Department of Employment Services (DOES) allows employers to be reimbursed at an established wage rate in exchange for the training provided to participating OJT candidates.
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for more information including the benefits to both employers and employees.
Neighborhood memberships for Urban Athletic Club at The LINE Hotel
Urban Athletic Club at The LINE Hotel has opened up a limited number of neighborhood memberships, ideal for those who seek a more intimate fitness and training experience with the most current training equipment.
The gym is well-stocked with the best Strength and Conditioning equipment including:
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Concept 2 Rowers and Ski-ergs
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Rogue Rig, Squat Rack, Barbells and Plates
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Precor Treadmills and Ellipticals
Additionally, there are dumbbells up to 70 pounds, bikes, cable machine, kettlebells, and a 40 foot turf area.
Membership includes introductory training sessions, programming, and a body composition scan.
More information on UAC at The LINE:
https://www.urbanathletic.club/adams-morgan
Additionally, there's an Open House this weekend including the Urban Athlete Fitness class and Urban Om Yoga. More information can be found here:
https://www.urbanathletic.club/openhouse
The 2018 CSA season is rapidly approaching! Early Bird deadline is April 16
CSA information from our friends at
Licking Creek Bend Farm
:
As we are about to enter the 2018 farm season, we hope you will want to be a part of our CSA, visit our farm to see where your food is grown, and be a part of the voices speaking out to preserve healthily grown local food and cherish access to the wonders our earth produces.
WHY A CSA
The intent of Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) is to partner with the farmer by providing a cash flow to enable the farmer to purchase seeds, hire staff, prepare equipment, plant, nurture and harvest. All of this happens months before the farmer can begin to get income from the sale of produce. The pre-purchase of membership gives the farmer a good sense of how much of our yield is needed for the CSA, which is critical to a smooth operation.
The CSA will start the first week in June.
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We'll have 4 sessions - June-July; August-September; October; and November.
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You can sign up for the entire season or by session. Either way, you need to pay before the session begins. So we encourage you to plan accordingly. Early bird prices apply for the whole season
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You will get a reminder about two weeks before the beginning of each session, so you should have plenty of time to get your payment to us.
Membership Fee
We are not changing the prices from the last three years even though our costs have risen across the board on seeds, equipment, salaries, etc.! Please check the
Membership Form
for the prices.
Early Bird
If you start off with the early bird price, we will honor that throughout the season if we get your payment before each session begins. If not, then the regular price will apply for that session.
Pro-rating
If you know before you pay that you won't be picking up on particular dates, pro-rate your amount and make sure you write on your form the dates you will not pick up. That is essential for our weekly counts. The
Membership Form
lists the fees.
Credit
We do not give cash refunds. As is our practice, if you let us know in enough time you will not be picking up that week, we will give you credit towards the next session. Enough time means, before Monday for the Tuesday pickups and before Friday for Saturday pickups. If you just forget to pick one week, we donate your share to a good cause. Obviously, emergency situations are different so please let us know and we will make adjustments. The best reason we've had for not picking up was, "I'm so sorry, I went into labor Saturday morning."
Below are explanations of how we work and disclosures so hopefully, there won’t be confusion during the season about credit, pickup hours and details for the individual market pickups, etc.
How we operate weekly
To understand why we need to know the numbers each week, here is how we operate:
We call the farm the day before each pick up. So we call in early (before 8am) Monday mornings for our Tuesday CSA and early Friday morning for our Saturday CSAs. The staff first pick for the CSA. Then the staff picks for our markets and wholesale. So, if we don't have the correct number, we either don't have enough for the CSA, or we have extra that could have been used at our markets for sale. That is why it is so important we have the correct number.
Pick up hours
Adams Morgan market CSA pickups start around 9:00am until about 1:00pm. The sooner we can pack up and leave, the sooner we can bring the CSA to the Takoma Park pickup! You can call 240 505-6282, 6281 or 717 491-6842.
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We encourage you to try to pick up as soon as possible especially when it is really hot. We keep what we can in water or on ice, and we mist, but the heat can be brutal, as you know, so the sooner you can get your produce in the refrig or inside, the better it will keep for the week.
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If you need to be late, please let us know (for market pickups, we can't stay longer than it takes up to pack up).
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The best way to contact us on pick up days is by phone. 301 587-1739 (home) or 240 505-6281 or 6282 (cells). On market days, we rarely have time to check email so phone calls are best.
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If someone else will be picking up, even with their good intentions, they often forget, so please give us their contact information.
Don't hesitate to ask us questions. Check out our web site (www.lickingcreekbendfarm.com), which we are in the process of updating with wonderful new pictures and information.
Voting is almost over for the 2018 Washington City Paper Best of DC Awards!
Click the link
and support your neighborhood favorites -- you may not be able to visit your favorite spots as much as you'd like to, but you can still support them by helping get the word out about how great they are.
Also, please note that this year there is a category for "Best BID/Main Street." You probably know about at least some of the events we put on for the community (
Movie Nights
,
PorchFest
,
Apple Festival
,
Summer Concert Series
, etc.) but there's a lot more that goes on behind the scenes that you may not be aware of, including our clean team working 365-days-a-year to keep the neighborhood clean as well as our work with MPD and businesses to enhance your safety in Adams Morgan.
We would love to have your vote, but if you don't think we've earned it, please drop us a
line
and let us know how we can improve. Thank you.
