Open House at Joseph's House, Saturday, January 22nd

Joseph's House is where homeless people with terminal illness go to rest & be treated well.

Community residents listened to the director Patricia Wudel of Joseph's House, located on Lanier Place NW at the corner of Ontario Road.   Residents sit around the table in the dining room where the 6 residents and 2 or more staff eat together.  

This mural wall-hanging adorns one dining room wall, where the story of Joseph's house is told in a visual expression/explosion.

The kitchen has a gallery of spices and photos  looking over the meal preparation.

 More photos adorn the dining room.

Joseph's House has a Needs/Wish List for in-kind donations:

-     board games

-     boomboxes with radio/CD player

-     Children's books & toys for visitors

-     lotions; toiletries

-     pillowcases

-     toothpaste/toothbrush

-     washcloths

They can be delivered to Joseph's House, 1730 Lanier Place, NW, telephone 202-265-7174.

Update on 18th Street Club Zone on New Years

Taking a look at what's happening on 18th Street right after the bewitching hour of midnight on New Year, it's the usual.  Women in spaghetti strapped dresses in freezing temperatures line the 18th Street club strip.  Must be the alcohol warms them up enough not to notice how cold it is.  

Club zone police, otherwise known as RDOs -- reimbursible detailed officers -- do the usual when assigned to the club zone detail.  Checking email and standing around keep these MPD officers busy.

 Officer Kurtz appears to enjoy his job patting down young African Americans.  This time he had 'em because they were violating curfew.

 While African-American non-patrons of the clubs appear to be the focus of MPD enforcement, a young blond woman is allowed to loiter and flash her wares with no intervention or interference from the police.