The Mid-County Citizen’s Advisory Board will award Crossing Georgia – a subcommittee of the Forest Estates Community Association (FECA) – the “Civic Association of the Year” for its efforts to get a pedestrian tunnel or overpass installed at the intersection of Georgia Avenue (Maryland Rt. 97) and Forest Glen Road in Silver Spring to reduce the risks to pedestrians. The Board will also award neighborhood resident Adam Pagnucco as “Citizen of the Year” for his tireless leadership of the committee. In addition to the Mid-County awards, Crossing Georgia and Pagnucco will receive citations from the State of Maryland’s District 18 delegation (Senator Rich Madaleno and delegates Ana Sol Gutiérrez, Jane Lawton and Jeff Waldstreicher), to be presented by Delegate Lawton.

This event was a fantastic success. Thank you to the House Tour Committee (Roberta Ciucki, Kathy Morgan, Laura Pawlowski, and Danielle Sodani), the hosts of the party (Richard Lutz and Paul Gordon), and all of the home-owners who opened their beautiful houses to us! View pictures of the event.

Our cat Kala ventured up into a tree in our backyard on the evening of Saturday, October 28th. She made it up near the top of the tree - nearly 5 stories high, and was too terrified to try to come down. We did not discover her until the next morning Sunday.

 

Because Kala had become stuck in a tree just 2 weeks earlier, and had managed to overcome her fears and climb down after only 16 hours, we were confident that she would once again figure it out. Yes, she was much much higher up this time, but eventually, she would get hungry or thirsty and climb down, right?

Click on the links below to download/view previous FECA newsletters. You will need a PDF viewer (we recommend Foxit's Free PDF Reader) installed in order to view the newsletters. All newsletters open in new window. 

 

 

January/February 2009 newsletter

 

September/October 2008 newsletter

 

July/August 2008 newsletter

 

May/June 2008 newsletter  

 

March/April 2008 newsletter  

December 2007/January 2008 newsletter

 

October/November 2007 newsletter  

 

August/September 2007 newsletter

 

July 2007 newsletter

 

September 2006 newsletter

 

July 2006 newsletter

 

 

The Forest Estates Community Association is a civic association in Silver Spring, Maryland that covers the neighborhood bordered by Georgia Avenue to the west, Dennis Avenue to the north, Sanford Road to the south, and Sligo Creek Park to the east.

All meetings take place at 7:30pm in the Holy Cross Resource Center, 9805 Dameron Drive, in room 14