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According to a press release, the event will take place sometime early next year (no word yet on a tentative date, but we're told sometime in late January/early February), and will allow members of the public to climb aboard the streetcars for the first time. "The residents of the District of Columbia own these streetcars, and we want to give them a chance to see them up close for themselves as soon as the vehicles are cleaned up and ready to roll," said DDOT Director Gabe Klein in a statement. "We’re also thrilled to have the streetcars here locally so we can familiarize ourselves with them, test them and prepare for the day when we will put them in service." We'll be sure to keep you posted on the event as the details get firmed up. In the meantime, DDOT says it will be busy cleaning up and testing the streetcars after their long journey from the Czech Republic.
The Associated Press is reporting that authorities are investigating a suspicious package of the unidentified white powder variety that was delivered to the office of Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.). An Associated Press photographer at the scene, in the Hart Senate Office Building, heard officers say there was a threatening note with the package. Schneider would not confirm there was a note.Baucus of course was in the news all year long as the leader of the Senate Finance Committee's health-care reform effort. No illnesses have been reported, and police say the substance is being tested.
Via the Washington Post's Crime Scene blog, word that Prince William and Fairfax police say they have DNA evidence that connects the Halloween rapes of two teenage girls in Dale City to an alleged serial rapist who is suspected in at least a dozen other sexual assaults up and down the East Coast. The rapes span from 1997 to this year, with "at least four rapes in Fairfax County between 1999 and 2001, several in Prince George's County, one in Leesburg and several in Rhode Island and Connecticut." We'll update on this when more information becomes available.
If there are any problems with the comic or website, or if you have any questions, comments, or complaints you would like to address directly to Randy, please email him at choochoobear@gmail.com. Here's a little something fun to keep an eye out for this week. The Golden Triangle BID is projecting a selection of holiday films on the side of a building in the 1100 block of Connecticut Ave. NW, between 5 and 7 p.m. every day this week. They started out on Monday with It’s a Wonderful Life, yesterday was A Christmas Story, and tonight it'll be White Christmas. Sadly, the BID isn't able to offer any sound to go along with the moving pictures, but it's still a festive thing to see while strolling through this part of the city. The movies will continue through Friday on the wall of Tiny Jewel Box at 1147 Connecticut Ave. NW, and we're told the best spot to see them is on the west side of Connecticut, in front of The Gap. The remaining schedule is as follows: White Christmas - Wednesday, December 16
Now, Melissa. You didn't specify whether you were looking for floral corsages or non-floral corsages. But I decided you wanted non-floral corsages, and so of course I turned to my beloved Etsy to help me with this. Here are a few ideas… Much less formal, awesome for fall or winter wedding: Similar idea, better for a spring wedding: Knit floral corsage Very much of the Lasertron school of design, this one: Candy colored felt/button corsages Understated — more a bracelet than a corsage: Freshwater Pearls Bracelet with Organza Ooh! SO BOLD: Pink Poppy Bracelet, Hand Felted Merino Wool Quite understated — but lovely for a nouveau wedding: Art Nouveau Cuff Now, if you're looking for FLORAL wrist corsages … I like this one: Or of course you could make your own…then the sky's the limit! |