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NEW:  Job Announcement Ward 8 Farmer's Market (part-time), deadline extended to Friday, March 22, 2019
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Mayor Bowser Celebrates the Grand Opening of a New Busboys and Poets in Historic Anacostia

From Mayor's Newsletter:  March 14, 2019 | Vol. 5, Issue 11

On Tuesday, Mayor Bowser joined community members in celebrating the grand opening of the new Busboys and Poets in Anacostia. The new restaurant is part of an innovative District project that is transforming a vacant building into the new home of the Far Southeast Family Strengthening Collaborative (FSFSC) and delivering new jobs, opportunity, and amenities to the residents of Ward 8.

This is the first Busboys and Poets east of the Anacostia River, and includes a full-service restaurant, bookstore, event space, and hospitality training center. Watch the grand opening HERE. 
New Ward 8 Grocery Store Breaks Ground — And Barriers — To Fresh Food
by Sasha-Ann Simons, WAMU
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https://wamu.org/story/19/01/03/new-ward-8-grocery-store-breaks-ground-and-barriers-to-fresh-food/#.XF35j3dFxhE
Courtesy:  Sasha-Ann Simons, WAMU

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