The hiring of a sustainability coordinator will also be discussed.
Tuesday night's council meeting will be a somber one as the council will remember two Takoma Park residents who died recently. Walter Rave, who died Dec. 10 from injuries sustained in a house fire Dec. 7, was a well-known environmental activist in the city and served as Takoma Park's tool librarian from 1988 to 2007. Betty Barclay passed away Nov. 13 and was the library director of the Takoma Park Library from 1973 to 1982. She was known for her friendliness and dedication, her improvements to municipal library service, and her extensive book knowledge, according to the city council agenda. The council will also discuss the hiring of a sustainability coordinator. Back in May of 2011, the council allocated $150,000 from the budget to hire a…
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If you have a story about Walt Rave, be sure to let us know.
Walter Rave, a prominent activist and Takoma Park community member, succumbed to injuries from a fire in his house on Dec. 10, but for many his memory stands out even though he's gone. We asked anyone who had a story to share what Rave meant to them. Below are the entries we received. If you have a story or photo to share of Rave, either add it in the comments below or email ryanm@patch.com. Compassion Over Killing will be holding a memorial for Rave Jan. 8 at 2 p.m. at its headquarters. Paul Shapiro: I’ve known him since 1993, live a block from his house, and was with him in the hospital with him when he died (and earlier in the week in the hospital, too). Walt was surrounded many friends in his final hours (it was literally standing …
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Takoma Park resident served in the Army for two decades.
Joseph Wancheck, of Takoma Park died at age 91 on Nov. 9th at Holy Cross Hospital after suffering a heart attack. Wancheck was a retired Army chief warrant officer for two decades, and is survived by his wife of 41 years, Mary Chapin Wancheck, a son, a stepson, two sisters, two grandchildren and four great grandchildren. Wancheck served in Europe and was part of the attack on the bridge at Remagen, Germany, and was in the 25th Infantry Division in Hawaii, according to an obituary in the Washington Post. Wancheck, born in Martin, PA, moved to the DC area after his time in the Army, and working at Vitro in Silver Spring, ultimately becoming the head of shipping and receiving.
Here are some things you need to know.
Here are five things to know for Monday, July 11. 1. I'm back from vacation. I was away all last week, but now I'm back and excited to dive back into what's going on in Takoma Park. We'd like to see your vacation pictures and vacation ideas so send them along to ryanm@patch.com 2. Tonight's Takoma Park Council meeting will feature a hearing on whether to recommend it for a Class B liquor license. There will also be a public hearing. 3. It will be sunny and in the low 90s today according to the National Weather Service. 4. Five years ago today 209 people are killed in a series of bomb attacks in Mumbai, India. 5. One of my favorite writers, E.B. White was born on this day in 1899. He would have been 102 years old.
These are things you need to know.
2. Today is also National Go Skateboard Day. I was a young skate punk once. Go out and ollie a gap. 3. The weather today is going to be in the 80s with a 40 percent chance of rain. 4. Jean-Paul Sartre would be 106 today. Get your existentialism on. 5. Today in 1964, civil rights activists James Chaney, Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman were killed by the Ku Klux Klan in Philadelphia, Miss. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was signed 11 days later.
Sweetie Pie made everything better.
Our first sight of Little Sweetie Pie was telling. She was tiny, eight weeks old and the size of my hand. She was a little crazed looking, gray like a rat, and the runt of the litter. And she had her big brother – probably 25 percent larger – pinned on his back and was biting his head. For a while the kids and I wavered as we stood in the Big Bad Woof. Should we get the docile female in the litter with the cute marking over her ear like a beret? But she was a tad skittish and the man holding her was in love. We asked for the gray cat, and Daughter named her Little Sweetie Pie. I told the LSH (long-suffering husband) what we had done, and he pushed for us to go back and ask again for the cute one. But it was too late. She was taken and the…
State flags ordered to be flown at half staff; Schaefer will lie in state at the State House in Annapolis and in the rotunda of Baltimore City Hall.
UPDATE (8:30 a.m.)—William Donald Schaefer—Baltimore's legendary former mayor, Maryland governor and state comptroller—died Monday at around 6:30 p.m. in his bed at the Charlestown retirement community in Catonsville, according to his longtime friend Lainy M. LeBow-Sachs. "I was with him holding his hand," LeBow-Sachs told Patch. "He couldn't speak." Schaefer, 89, was released from the hospital earlier this month after a five-day stay for pneumonia and returned to Charlestown, where Maryland's 58th governor has lived for three years. LeBow-Sachs said she did not know the official cause but said it was likely multiple "organ shutdown." "There will never be another William Donald Schaefer," LeBow-Sachs said. "I think everyone will be so …
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