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Community kitchen to give small entrepreneurs a boost

Community kitchen to give small entrepreneurs a boost

Posted by | Sep 13, 2017 | , , , | 0 |

Nancia Sical, owner of Nancia’s Antojitos, roasting tomatoes and tomatillos and doing other prep for her chicken tamales. Photo by Mike Diegel.  The Takoma Park Silver Spring Community Kitchen will hold its grand opening this weekend, bringing a new production facility to local, small-scale food entrepreneurs. The venture grew out of the Crossroads Farmers Market, which was the reason the Crossroads Community Food Network was founded, said Executive Director Christie Balch. The group discovered that a number of customers wanted to start a food business of their own and sell at the market. “We had to say ‘no’ to everyone...

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Arts center offering creative camps for kids when schools are closed

Arts center offering creative camps for kids when schools are closed

Posted by | Sep 6, 2017 | , , | 0 |

Photo courtesy CREATE Arts Center. With area schools now in session, CREATE Arts Center in Silver Spring is once again offering parents a creative care alternative with “No School Day Camps” on days when schools are not open. The camps for 6- to 14-year-olds are scheduled for more than 20 days on holidays such as Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Veterans Day, as well as teacher conference days, professional development days and others. The camp schedule follows Montgomery County Public Schools and Washington D.C. Public Schools, along with several local private schools and a variety of charter schools. Parents...

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Local restaurants raising funds for hurricane relief

Local restaurants raising funds for hurricane relief

Posted by | Sep 5, 2017 | , , | 0 |

Photo of Texas shake courtesy Lincoln’s Bar-B-Que. At least three restaurants in Silver Spring and Takoma Park are raising funds to help Hurricane Harvey victims this week. Black Restaurant Group, which includes Republic in Takoma Park, has added a hurricane donation line to each guest check to collect relief funds. Owner Jeff Black, a Houston native, told The Washington Post the funds would go to help hospitality industry employees in the Houston area, including those of Tacos A Go Go, a small taqueria chain in which he is a partner. Donations will be accepted through Sept. 14 and handled...

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County agencies, other organizations team up to collect school supplies

County agencies, other organizations team up to collect school supplies

Posted by | Aug 29, 2017 | , , | 0 |

Photo from theodysseyonline.com. A number of government agencies, businesses and community organizations have joined together to collect school supplies for county school children and are accepting donations this week. The organizations are looking for contributions of backpacks along with wide-ruled paper; pens; pencils; sharpeners; glue sticks; colored pencils; folders; rulers; highlighters; three-ring binders; index cards; pencil pouches; erasers; plain colored plastic folders; Crayon 24; and blunt scissors. Other desired items are Mead Five Star spiral notebook, college ruled; Mead Five Star pocket folders (assorted colors); Mead Five Star composition notebook, college ruled and bound; Mead Five Star reinforced filler paper,...

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Artist spaces coming to former police headquarters

Artist spaces coming to former police headquarters

Posted by | Aug 28, 2017 | , , , | 2 |

The building will be converted to studio and gallery spaces. Photo by Mike Diegel. While there have been delays, new artist spaces and housing will be coming to 801 Sligo Ave. on the property where the former 3rd District Police Headquarters was located. The holdup has been the financing, said Heidi Zimmer, senior vice president, property development for Artspace. “We applied for a nine percent tax credit last fall, in October. That’s the primary financing vehicle for the housing,” she explained, adding that it’s a competitive state program and Artspace did not get the award that year. “We went back...

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