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Representing the 1200 households North of East-West Highway, South of Jones
Bridge Road, East of Wisconsin Avenue and West of Columbia Country Club.
President’s Notebook Mosquitoes!
By Ilaya Hopkins, President
My how time flies! I have been in
this position for two years and
have enjoyed getting to know more
residents and keeping East
Bethesda at the forefront of the
many issues impacting our
neighborhood. We have seen great
successes in these last two years,
including a revamped website with
more interactive features and a
monthly newsletter underwritten
in great part by our wonderful
sponsors. Our opinions are sought
on development projects near our
boarders and we continue to
provide an on-the-ground
perspective to decision makers on
issues such as the BRAC expansion
at the new Walter Reed in
Bethesda to the Purple Line
proposals. Our membership
continues to grow and participation
at quarterly meetings has been
strong. We continue to work to
make our neighborhood a strong
community by working with the
Montgomery County Public Schools
to clarify school assignments at the
elementary school level and by
General Membership Meeting
Wednesday, May 20th, 8 p.m.
Lynnbrook Recreation Center
Agenda:
8:00 p.m. Mosquito Presentation
8:30 p.m. Examiner Delivery
8:45 p.m. Elections
9:00 p.m. Old Business
9:15 p.m. New Business
9:30 p.m. Adjourn
working together to clean up our
parks and public spaces so that we
can all enjoy them.
At the May 20th general
membership meeting, we will hold
elections for the next set of officers.
Current nominees are listed in the
newsletter. We will also take
nominations from the floor. If you
have questions or want to
nominate someone, please contact
Nominating Committee Chair
Allen Rothenberg at
allenwrothenberg@verizon.net or
301-907-0232. In addition, we will
hear a presentation on reducing
the mosquito problem in our
neighborhood and finish the
discussion on The Examiner
newspaper.
It has been a tremendous honor
to represent this community over
the last two years. I look forward to
continuing to support EBCA and
working toward preserving the
strong sense of community and the
wonderful quality of life we are so
lucky to have here. Thanks to you
all.
Slate of Officers:
President: Greg Volz
1st VP: Kevin Kraus
2nd VP: Rebecca Fayed
Treasurer: Jack Hayes
Secretary: AB Carneal
Assistant Secretary: Open
MAY 2009
By Ella Krainsky
As the weather warms, many of
us look forward to spending time
outdoors with our families.
However, the early spring fantasy
of grilling in the backyard, working
in the garden, or watching our
children run through the sprinkler,
is marred by the reality of our
annual mosquito infestation.
This year, I decided to
investigate whether East Bethesda
could do something to control the
mosquitoes. I spoke to Janine
Dorothy, an entomologist at the
Maryland Department of
Agriculture. She explained that we,
as a neighborhood, could request
that the state spray for mosquitoes.
She will speak more about this
possibility at the next general
membership meeting.
She also stated that, while we
have the usual home-grown variety
of the insect, our real problem is
the Asian Tiger Mosquito, which is
prevalent in Montgomery County.
The Asian Tiger is extremely
aggressive and, unlike its native
cousin, bites during the daytime. It
flies low to the ground and likes
water as well as sheltered places.
Dorothy told me that the Asian
Tiger likes to nest in bamboo, and I
asked her whether the bamboo
that grows along the Crescent Trail
might be the cause of our problem.
She said, however, that the real
problem was standing water in our
yards.
Dorothy pointed out that many of
us don’t realize we have standing
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Neighborhood Roundup
Summer Concerts Neighborhood Event Space “Mosquitoes” from page 1...
water. Mosquitoes only need about
The Bethesda Summer Concert Need a place to host a party? half an inch to lay their eggs. So, in
Series will be held Thursday Consider renting the Lynnbrook addition to obvious sources of
evenings at Veterans Park, at the Recreation Center. The cost is only standing water, like children’s
corner of Norfolk & Woodmont $19 per hour weekdays and $38 per pools and birdbaths, we need to be
Avenues, from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. All hour Friday evenings, Saturdays, vigilant about hidden sources. For
concerts are free. More information Sundays, and holidays. The space example, tire swings, saucers
is available at www.bethesda.org/ is rented in 4 hour blocks of time. under flower pots, and tarps
specialevents/summerconcerts.htm. The description of the building and covering a background grill where
more details about renting the water might pool are all breeding
Plant Sale space can be found at www.mc- grounds for mosquitoes. Dorothy
mncppc.org/permits/permits/find/ said in family-friendly
Gardeners and anyone who loves activity.shtm. neighborhoods such as ours, there
plants won't want to miss the is often a problem with plastic
Bethesda Community Garden Scholarships children’s toys left in the yard.
Club's 66th annual plant sale on Those flexible plastic drain pipes
Thursday, May 7th. The sale, at Maryland Delegate Alfred Carr many of us have are also great
the Bethesda Farm Women's (D-18) has state scholarship money places for mosquitoes.
Market, 7155 Wisconsin Avenue, available for local students. I inspected my own backyard and
Bethesda, will run from 7:00 a.m. Applicants must be enrolled in a discovered an overturned paint
until 1:00 p.m. rain or shine. Find Maryland college or university or bucket with a half-inch rim along
wonderful buys on a large selection attending an out-of-state school in the bottom sitting behind the
of perennials grown in members' a field of study not offered in garage. In addition, my daughter’s
well-tended gardens, plus herbs, Maryland. Interested students plastic slide has an indentation
annuals, native plants and shrubs. must write an application, a letter suitable for mosquito-breeding. I
Novices and experts alike can pose detailing their accomplishments want to encourage all of you to
their gardening questions to and have a Free Application for take a close look at your own
Montgomery County Master Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) on property. All of us can help control
Gardeners on site throughout the file. The application deadline is the mosquito population by
sale. Proceeds benefit various May 30th. For more information, emptying these sources of standing
community projects including please contact Legislative Aide water at least once a week and
landscaping at Bethesda and Davis Kristin Fulkerson at 301-858-3638 rinsing them.
libraries and a Montgomery or alfred.carr@house.state.md.us. The good news is that Asian
College scholarship in landscape Tigers only travel about one
technology. Plentiful metered Legislative Wrap-Up hundred feet. So, if we can be
public parking is available in the vigilant about our own property, as
lot behind the Market. For more The District 16 Town Hall well as encourage our neighbors to
information call Simone at 301- meeting is scheduled for May 11th the left and right of us, we should
571-9782. at the Davis Public Library. be able to control this problem and
have a more pleasant summer.
Urban Trees If you are interested in learning
more about solutions to the
To learn more about trees in urban environments, visit these links: mosquito problem, including
www.ufei.org/files/pubs/22BenefitsofUrbanStreetTrees.pdf discussing whether the
www.tlcfortrees.info/tree_root_myths.htm neighborhood would be interested
www.treesaregood.org/treecare/tree_planting.aspx in having the state spray for
mosquitoes, Dorothy will speak at
the general membership meeting
Neighborhood News Online: www.EBCA.org on May 20th at 8 p.m. at the
Lynnbrook Recreation Center.
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