UPCOMING ITEMS INCLUDE:
-"POPS" [Plan Our Places and Spaces]
-Lee Highway Charrette report
-"Premium Bus Service" for Columbia Pike
-"The Girls Who Glow"
Help Arlington Set a Course for our Parks and Recreation Places and Spaces
Come to a public meeting to provide input on and ask questions about the changing needs for parks, recreation, and natural resources. Each meeting will feature interactive stations, brief presentations by the project consultants, and different opportunities for the public to provide input to help updated Arlington’s Public Spaces Master Plan.
· Happy Hour on Feb. 5 @ Whitlow’s on Wilson 5-7 p.m.
Saturday, February 6th, results of the Lee Highway Visioning November charrette. The presentation will be held atYorktown High School, 10-1 pm.
"Premium Bus Service" Planned for Columbia Pike; public input will be sought. From the County press release:
County staff have identified several features that could be part of any premium bus service on Columbia Pike, including:
- Faster service with near-level boarding platforms, traffic signal priority for buses, off-board fare collection/loading, and/or dedicated lanes for buses.
- More frequent service with limited stop/express service, a variety of service types, and new transit connections.
- Easy to use features such as simpler route structures, real-time information at stations, branded vehicles and stations, and comfortable and attractive amenities.
Read the Board presentation for an overview of all features under consideration.
Specific recommendations will be presented to the community for feedback at a series of public events in late February and early March. Event dates and locations will be listed at arlingtonva.us/transit2026.
The Girls Who Glow: February 11, 7pm @Yorktown HS [free event]
A theater event sponsored by the Arlington and Falls Church chapters of the League of Women Voters and AAUW-Arlington will be held at Yorktown High School on February 11, 2016 at 7 pm Thursday. The play is The Girls Who Glow by Ginny Mohler, a Yorktown graduate ('06).
The Girls Who Glow is based on an historical tragedy that is useful as a framework for discussing modern-day health, safety and consumer issues. During the early 20th century, teenage girls were hired by several U.S. companies to paint watches to make them glow in the dark for use in war. The paint was made with radium, known at the time by scientists to be toxic, particularly because the girls were encouraged to lick the brushes to maintain fine points and thus ingested the paint. The truth about the radium-laden paint’s dangers was hidden for many years, as the companies profited from the glowing watches and other radium-containing products. Hundreds of young girls fell ill and many died from cancers caused by the paint. Six of these desperately ill girls sued U.S. Radium Corp. for poisoning them. In the face of an increasing public outcry, the company settled and the Radium Girls were left with meager settlements and lives cut short by the toxic paint.
Arlington Public Schools graduate and playwright Ginny Mohler will join us for the talkback after the performance. Ms. Mohler is an NYU-Alfred P. Sloan feature film grant winner and was a theatre student at Yorktown. Ms. Cadby and the Yorktown Theatre Arts IV class adapted her screenplay about the Radium Girls. The play will be followed by a talkback with Ms. Mohler, Yorktown Theatre Arts Chair Carol Cadby and the actors as well as a social hour with refreshments Yorktown High School Auditorium is located at 5200 Yorktown Blvd. in Arlington Admission is free and all are welcome.
