Published on: Wednesday, September 01, 2010

The Mall at Prince Georges

With the back-to-school season underway, retail space at The Mall at Prince Georges has been transformed into an on-site information office for Westwood College’s Arlington Ballston Campus, enabling Westwood College representatives and local residents to connect regarding higher education and enrollment. On your next visit to the Plaza, stop by this office, as I did. This is a welcomed addition to our community.

St. Jerome’s School

Best wishes to St. Jerome’s School and its new curriculum. Students returning this fall will be returning to education’s roots with an ancient method of learning. As part of a complete curriculum overhaul, 13 veteran and eight new faculty members will be instructing students by stressing the classics of theology, literature and history. Students will be taught to succeed through problem solving while studying primary sources. The main goal would be to teach students how to think. Several students from St. Jerome’s live in my neighborhood and are very excited about the new system.

Upcoming events

Our city’s International Street Festival is scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 25 at the Queens Chapel Town Center on Hamilton Street, between Ager Road and Queens Chapel Road. I enjoy going to this celebration each year and seeing the talented performers and the variety of vendors. The festival concludes with fireworks at dusk.

Please, plan to come out and hear the sounds of Glass Onion, a Beatles tribute band, Sept. 10 at our city’s final Summer Jam Session. Unfortunately, this is one of the clear signals that summer is almost over.

Margritt Vausse and her Prince George’s Travelers are going to a crab feast at the Red Rooster Inn in Whitehaven on Saturday, Oct. 2. If you do not eat crabs, there will be other food choice available. If you plan to join us, please contact Vausse at 301-356-5566. We wish a very happy birthday to Vausse who celebrates on Sept. 3.

The Store

Thank you to the several people who called me regarding The Store at 38th and Hamilton. Yes, at one time it was owned and operated by Jim Lemon, who played centerfield for the old Washington Senators baseball team. If you were a sports fan, it was interesting to see the pictures on the wall and hear Lemon discuss the latest sports news with customers. He retired in 1980 and moved to South Carolina, and the business was sold.

Hyattsville History: 1940

The city’s rapid growth during this period also brought word from the phone company that the new dial system would be installed by the first of December. When operative, it would serve 5,300 customers. The original equipment, installed 10 years earlier, had a capacity of 2,500 customers.