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April 26 - Healthy Communities Spring Cleaning
On April 26, join us for a day of community care! Several sites across Ward 5 will host neighborhood clean-ups as part of our annual Ward 5 Healthy Communities Spring Cleaning. Click here to view the current list of locations and times, and sign up for the site nearest you!
April 30 - Ward 5 Public Safety Call
These quarterly calls are an opportunity for neighbors to hear updates from our office on efforts to address crime in Ward 5 and improve public safety. Attendees will have the opportunity to ask questions and hear from public safety agencies. The Ward 5 Monthly Public Safety Call is always livestreamed to the Councilmember’s YouTube Channel, where it remains as a recording afterward. Slides from the call are shared in the subsequent Ward 5 Weekly Newsletter.
Next Call: April 30, 2025 at 3:00 p.m. Register to attend at ward5.us/publicsafetycallMore details to come.
Recent events:
On March 12, 2025, we held the second annual Ward 5 Awards Ceremony! This special event celebrated remarkable neighbors, nominated through the Ward 5 Awards Nomination Form, who have gone above and beyond in giving back to our community. We also recognized and celebrated outgoing Ward 5 ANCs.
The winners of the neighbor-nominated awards, reviewed through a rubric by the selection committee (a group of neighbors with various backgrounds, areas of expertise, from across Ward 5) were:
- Gloria Dade – Good Neighbor Award
- Carrie Clark – Helping Hands Award
- Lisa Bell – Beautification Award
- Drew Steigerwald – Influencer Award
- Jessica Hart and Shavonne R. Healy – Safety & Wellness Award
- Jeannette Mobley – Legacy Award
You can view the presentation from the night, including all the nominees for these categories, at this link. We also gave out an Education Equity Award, Community Partner Awards to staff from District agencies and local community organizations, and Volunteer Awards to recognize the many individuals who have gone above and beyond in partnering with our office. These awardees are:
- Education Equity Award
- Wheatley Education Campus
- Community Partner Award
- Sylvan Altieri – Assistant Chief, Metropolitan Police Department (MPD)
- Alex Zewuge aka Coach Al – Department of Parks and Recreation (DPR)
- Barry Edwards – Department of Parks and Recreation (DPR)
- Faith Community Partners:
- New Samaritan Baptist Church
- Union Wesley A.M.E. Zion Church
- Greater Mount Calvary Church
- Grace Mosaic
- Dalando Baker – DDOT
- Randi Thorpe – DPW
- Shirley Rivens-Smith – North Woodridge Citizens’ Association
- Tiwana Smith – CSOSA
- Volunteer Award
- Terry Young
- Gary Mendel
Street Designation Ceremonies
During 2023’s Black History Month, Councilmember Parker introduced a package of street designation bills in honor of prominent Black figures with ties to Ward 5. With the passage of these bills, our office hosted street designation ceremonies for five of the ten designations across the Ward in 2024.
The first ceremony was on March 15, 2024 at 1900 Gallaudet St NE (symbolically designated Alexander Crummell Way).
The second ceremony was on April 4, 2024 in the 1400 block of Morse St NE (symbolically designated Edna Brown Coleman Way).
The third street designation ceremony was in the 1800 block of 2nd St NW on June 27, 2024 (symbolically designated Dorothy Celeste Boulding Ferebee Way).
The fourth street designation ceremony was in the 100 block of W St NW on July 11, 2024 (symbolically designated Jesse Mitchell Way).
The fifth and final street designation ceremony took place as part of Ward 5 Week leading up to Ward 5 Day 2024. The ceremony was in the 1900 block of Randolph St NE on Monday, September 16, 2024. This street designation honors Ward 5’s first Councilmember, William Spaulding, as the 1900-2400 blocks of Randolph St NE are designated William R. Spaulding Way.
