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Dupont Circle is a vibrant, diverse community and most of us would like to continue living here. We share a sense of neighborhood: we participate in local organizations and activities, we shop at local stores and we eat in local restaurants. We also share a concern in common that we may need assistance in the future to maintain this way of life. DCV enables you to do this. It is a single organization that provides assistance in multiple ways. We furnish neighbor volunteers to respond to your requests, we refer you to additional service providers, we assist in home maintenance, we provide transportation, we connect you to villagers with interests similar to yours and we remain in touch so you never feel isolated.  In short, we exist to help you and your neighbors be part of a caring, inclusive community. Join us to make this happen.

 

Newsletters
 
Volume 4
January 2012
 
 
Note: Earlier volumes can be viewed on the Press page
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Announcements 

 

 

Posted on February 5th, 2012

 

February 19, 2012, 6 p.m. – 8 p.m.

Sunday Soup Salon

Member Only Event

 

Information about venue will be posted shortly. The Sunday Soup Salon Committee is happy to announce that Mr. Carter Bowman of Mt. Zion Methodist Church has agreed to talk about the history of Mt. Zion Cemetary and the Underground Railroad at our February 19 Sunday Soup Salon.  Mr. Bowman is the historian for Mount Zion United Methodist Church, one of the oldest African American churches in Washington, D.C. Its roots can be
traced back to the first group of organized black Methodists in the Georgetown section of the city in 1816. 
This a members only event. Stay tuned for information re: the venue.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Posted on January 18th, 2012

 

MARK THE DATE!

Saturday, March 10m 2012

 Woman’s National Democratic Club

 6:30-9:30 pm

With this year’s theme, Spring Forward With The Village, we welcome the return of daylight saving time, marking spring and Washington’s fabled cherry blossoms.

 

This year’s auction again features a week in a Paris apartment in historic Marais district. Located on a quiet one-block long street, this two bedroom apartment is a five-minute walk to Notre Dame and a ten-minute walk to the Place de Bastille.

In addition to joining us on March 10, you can help by donating items we want to focus us: wining and dining; celebrated authors; indulgences; learning and growing; in-and out-of-town getaways, and hearth and home. 

Click here to download a donation form

 
 

Posted on January 18th, 2012

 
Dupont Circle Village Offers Testimony in Support of “Age in Place and Equitable Senior Citizen Real Property Act of 2011”
 
On January 9, 2012, Bernice Hutchinson, Executive Director of the Dupont Circle Village, gave testimony in a hearing before the DC City Council, Committee on Finance and Revenue, supporting Bill 19-512, The Age-in-Place and Equitable Senior Citizen Real Property Act of 2011, urging for its swift passage into law. Jack Evans, Council member for Ward 4, introduced the bill
to increase the qualifying income cap from $100,000 to $125,000 for the District’s real property tax credit. Click here to read the testimony. 
 
 
 
Posted on January 18th 2012

 

Still available at a great reduced price! 2012 Dupont Circle Village Calendars, click here for a brief story and to place your order.

 

 
 
 

Posted on January 30th 2012

 

Sunday Soup Salon

 

 

 

 

Villagers had the pleasure of hearing Roberts Owen, the attorney who worked pro bono for over five years, to defeat the Congressionally generated plan to build a freeway that would have destroyed many Washington DC neighborhoods and wiped out the very house in which Soup Salon was held. The defeat of the freeway, paved the way for our current mass transit system.

 

 

 

Posted on January 18th 2012

 

 

 

 

Posted on January 18th 2012

 

In The News in 2011

 

Dupont Circle Village made the news! The May/June 2011 issue of AARP The Magazine, features a comprehensive article on Villages, “The Real Social Network” by Martha Thomas. We are pleased that Dupont Circle Village is mentioned. Please click here to read the entire article.

 

 

 

Posted on January 31st, 2012

 

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