THE WASHINGTON POST • THURSDAY, JULY 22, 2010
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L OCAL LIVING community news in brief
Visitor parking progam being tested in Ward 5
In a pilot program, the District Department of Transportation is mailing a new visitor parking permit to eligible households in Ward 5. The permit allows visitors to park for more than two hours on any block within the resident’s Advisory
Neighborhood Commission boundaries and will be good for one year. Usually, residents must obtain a new visitor parking permit from the police every time a guest is expected. Visitors should display the
parking pass on the driver’s side dashboard; the pass is not a residential parking pass. Duplication of the visitor pass is subject to a $300 fine. Eligible residents who do not
receive a pass in the mail should call 202-671-2333 or e-mail
damon.harvey@dc.gov. Future locations for the pilot program include ANC 1D (Mount Pleasant), wards 3 and 4, and the Ward 6 ballpark district in portions of ANCs 6B and 6D.
Police complaint office issues annual report
The Office of Police Complaints and its governing body, the Police Complaints Board, released their fiscal 2009 annual report Friday. In 2009,the office received 550 complaints from the public, prepared 301 investigative reports and conducted more than 800 interviews with resident complainants, police officers and other witnesses. The agency also conducted 41 mediation sessions, the most in its history, reaching agreement between the complainant and officer in 33. Also, the agency issued five
policy recommendations, including proposals for improving police services for
briefs continued on 17 Merit badges, memories on tap at jamboree
Boy Scouts head to Va. campground by the thousands
by Rick Rojas Area Boy Scouts will be joining
as many as 50,000 of their fellow Scouts from across the country for the National Jamboree next week in Virginia, expecting 10 days of adventure, a chance to earn coveted merit badges and to simply have fun. But their fathers know better. “They’re getting a lot of life les- sons we want them to get ex- posed to, and they didn’t even know it,” said Tom Zedan of Poto- mac Falls, a scoutmaster who has three sons who have been Scouts. And the jamboree, which
starts Monday, will be a sight to behold: Fort A.P. Hill near Fred- ericksburg, where the jamboree has been since 1981, will be trans- formed into a fully functioning city that Boy Scout officials say will become the ninth-largest in Virginia. The jamboree in 2005 at Fort
A.P. Hill was marred by a fatal ac- cident and the weather. Four adult troop leaders from Alaska were electrocuted when a metal pole they were carrying struck power lines as they attempted to pitch a dining tent. The heat of a particularly warm summer also led to Scouts suffering from heat exhaustion and dehydration. Organizers said that blueprints for the event’s layout do not al- low for any setups under power lines. J. Randall Minchew, a scoutmaster from Leesburg, said there will be “copious” amounts of ice and water, and Scouts in his troop have been instructed to drink water at least once every 15 minutes. Zedan said organizers have
taken precautions to prevent similar incidents to those that oc- curred at the previous jamboree.
2005 PHOTOS BY ANDREA BRUCE/THE WASHINGTON POST Patch trading is among the many activities at Boy Scout jamborees, including at this one at Fort A.P. Hill.
opportunity. The jamboree that would have happened last year was delayed a year to coincide with the centennial of Scouting in the United States. As Scouting reaches that land- mark anniversary in the United States — Scouting began a bit earlier in Britain, around 1908 — it’s trying to remain relevant in a time when it seems most boys would prefer to play video games than explore the outdoors. “We haven’t fared well [be- cause] we’ve been reluctant to embrace technology,” said Bob Mazzuca, Boy Scouts of America’s chief Scouting officer, the organi- zation’s equivalent to a chief ex- ecutive.
Scouts from the Del-Mar-Va Council, which serves Scouts on the Delmarva Peninsula, line up in their patrols to head to an event.
“There are lessons in everything you do in life, and there were les- sons learned at the last jambo- ree,” he said. The Boy Scout National Jam-
boree happens every four years, but for most Scouts, the chance for activities and camaraderie with troops from across the country is a once-in-a-lifetime
But the Boy Scouts are trying to adapt, he said. The jamboree, for example, will involve more technology than it ever has, with an AM radio station and wireless Internet access. And the next
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