THE WASHINGTON POST • THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2010
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L OCAL LIVING community news IN BRIEF
Broadband project wins grant to increase access
The D.C. Office of the Chief
Technology Officer recently received a federal stimulus grant of $4.2 million to fund the $5.8 million D.C. Broadband Education, Training and Adoption program. The program is a two-year project to increase broadband access to underserved groups, including low-income residents, seniors, people with disabilities, at-risk youth and residents whose first language is Spanish. The project will give eligible people free computer and job training at city libraries and D.C. Community College. Upon graduation, each enrollee will receive a free computer and six months’ free Internet service. The city has received a total of
$23.2 million in broadband access funding. Previous grants went toward expansions of computer learning centers and training at libraries, especially in Wards 5, 6, 7, and 8 east of the river, and expansion of the District’s high-speed fiber-optic network, DC-Net. For information, go to octo.dc.
gov.
City expands free Wi-Fi network to the Mall The District introduced free
wireless hotspots to the D.C. Wi-Fi network covering the Mall from Third Street to 14th Street on Sept. 1. The District has installed more than 200 free hotspots in government and outdoor sites throughout the city. To find city hot spots, go to
wifi.dc.gov and click on a hot spot icon on the D.C. map.
Fashion show to benefit HIV-positive teens
Black Fashion Focus 2010 will
start at 7 p.m. Friday at the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium, 1301 Constitution Ave. NW. The fashion show benefits Metro Teen AIDS, a nonprofit
briefs continued on 23 LINDA DAVIDSON/THE WASHINGTON POST Ducks paddle on the Potomac near the Woodrow Wilson Bridge, above, and below the bridge that joins Rosslyn to Theodore Roosevelt Island.
Progress, but not perfection, on the Potomac Campaign aims
to make watershed trash-free by 2013
by Christy Goodman
The Potomac River is the cleanest it has been in decades, according to a recent study, but there is still plenty of work to do. The Alice Ferguson
Foundation has been steadily working to stop littering in the Potomac River watershed, which includes areas of Maryland, Virginia and the District, as well as West Virginia and
Pennsylvania. At the group’s annual April cleanup, more than 14,500 volunteers picked up more than 250 tons of trash at 575 sites throughout the watershed. There is enough trash on the banks of the Potomac and its tributaries that a person “can build a house and furnish it several times . . . and even landscape it,” said Tracy Bowen, the foundation’s executive director. “For us, trash is just a . . . visible indicator for greater problems in our community.” Foundation organizers plan to
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