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TPRD’s Halloween Events 2020

While we had to cancel Monster Bash this year due to COVID, the Recreation Department has been working hard behind the scenes to provide you with some great, safe alternatives.  Join us for a safe physically distant holiday!

We are planning the following:

  • Decorate Your Dwelling – contest open until 10/28 at noon
  • Virtual Magic Show – magic tricks and fun
  • Family Walk and Chalk – self guided walk and chalk art
  • Halloween Walk-Thru– looking for businesses/residents to join us and set up tables at our designated areas to distribute candy
  • Virtual Storytelling – spooky twists and turns sure to delight

Check out all the events at  https://takomaparkmd.gov/government/recreation/halloween-events-2020/

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All Departments, Arts & Humanities, News

When you gotta go, you gotta read some poetry!

 

 

The City’s Takoma Park Arts cultural series has revived the Bathroom Poetry Project with poems by local poets featured in bathrooms at the Takoma Park Community Center at 7500 Maple Avenue. Silver Spring poet Regina Coll founded the project in 2008 with poems spreading across the country in restrooms, loos, privies, latrines, and water closets. Bathroom poetry appeared in Takoma Park, Washington, D.C., Raleigh, Chicago, Austin, and Portland. Why let good poems go to waste so we’ve brought them back for a second visit or number 2 (sorry, couldn’t resist). The next time you’re at the Community Center, get some reading done when it’s time to relieve yourself.

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Makeover for Electric Vehicle Charging Stations

Two electric vehicle charging stations are sporting new designs with vinyl wraps commissioned by the City of Takoma Park. In the Takoma Park Community Center parking lot, a flock of hummingbirds have gathered in a colorful design by graphic designer Jay Shogo.  The project is part of the City’s public art programs designed to get art into the streets where everyone can enjoy it.

 

The downtown charging station has turned green with windmills and electric cars to symbolize the importance of addressing climate change. Located on Carroll Avenue near the Laurel Avenue intersection, the wrap was designed by graphic designer Cindy Herrera. Go check them out and charge up!

 

 

 

 

 

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Public Hearing: Priority Needs and Proposed Projects for the Community Development Block Grant Program

The Council will be holding a public hearing on October 3 to solicit comments regarding Takoma Park’s Community Development Block Grant program.

The Community Development Block Grant program (CDBG) was initiated in 1974 and is one of the oldest programs at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). CDBG grants are provided on an annual basis to communities to ensure decent affordable housing for all, to provide services to the most vulnerable, to create jobs, and expand business opportunities. On June 15, 2016, the Council adopted Resolution 2016-16, limiting the expenditure of CDBG) allocations to capital. Takoma Park’s CDBG funds are provided as a pass through from Montgomery County.

Qualifying capital projects must be located in designated CDBG eligible census tracts, illustrated in the accompanying map, or persons or households of low and moderate incomes as defined by HUD. In Montgomery County, a household of four with an annual income of $77,450 or less is considered low or moderate income for purposes of the CDBG program.

Community members are encouraged to comment during the hearing on the needs of the City’s low and moderate-income households and to suggest appropriate capital projects to address those needs.