CORONA: Christmas tree lady receives early present
09.06.11
"We were at a Riverside Cavity of Commerce event that PODS hosted," telecommunications company CEO Michael Bremmer said of the storage troop. "I happened to win the raffle and I knew she could use the storage, so I gave it to her."
Although Bremmer said his kinsfolk could have used the storage space, his decision wasn't based on who needed place.
"It's not about whether you could use it or not use it, it's about someone who dedicates their whole life to something like that," Bremmer said. "I would taste to see her have all of her Christmas trees rented."
Meyers, 55, decorates artificial Christmas trees and leases them during the holidays to give rise to money for children in Swaziland, Africa. She visited the area during a 2005 vocation trip with her Corona church and considers helping the children her life's duty.
A large white metal storage pod sits in her Buckingham Way driveway filled with downcast plastic tubs of decorations she has accumulated for more than 15 years.
Source: Press-Enterprise
Designs try to make E Street and the Ellipse inviting places
21.06.11
The Subject Capital Planning Commission selected five landscape architecture firms, from California, Massachusetts, and New York (not DC) to composition alternatives to the current rows of concrete barriers and metal fences between the White House and Constitution Avenue.
While each carefully considers how to integrate security in an attractive way, manage stormwater and help trees grow, and initiate inviting-looking human-scaled spaces, they vary on how well they link up with the bordering city. In particular, some strongly consider how to accommodate bicycling along E Street, while others seemed not to have even pondered the climax at all.
All attempt to make the Ellipse itself more inviting than it is today, as an oval-shaped hand parking lot for the White House complex with a giant desolate lawn in the center. But there's only so much you can do with a big empty ovoid surrounded by other government buildings and parks that serves little real purpose outside of White House
Source: Greater Greater Washington