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All-day, outdoor, family-friendly festival FREE to the Public Saturday, June 22 - 12-9 p.m.
Parks at Walter Reed,
1010 Butternut Street NW

Performances by:
Malcolm X Drummer and Dancers
Vanessa Rubin
DuPont Brass
Idris Ackamoore and The Pyramids
Gary Bartz
Black Alley
Rare Essence

Also featuring:
• Record Fair featuring local music shops and dealers specializing in rare and used vinyl records
• Merch vendors including local businesses and vendors selling exclusive artist merchandise
• Local community organization fair with programs and services that provide much-needed DC government services and resources for residents
• Food truck and drink vendors
• Arts center with live and interactive mural painting
• STEAM Youth Village with games and activities that emphasize science, technology, engineering, arts, and math

The DC Home Rule Festival aims to put community voices at the forefront, honoring the indispensable contributions that Black ancestral voices have had in impacting jazz, go-go, and funk globally, and highlight how these genres have shaped our DC's cultural legacy.

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Hey everyone- please help Marisa Infante & her mother with paying their bills this month.
Hi everyone. I could really use your help. My mom and I are trying to get on our feet and pay for bills and I am struggling. I need $1600 for this month and the things I had lined up fell through. I would so appreciate you sharing the link wherever you can. I shared the details in the Gofundme.

Donate to Need Emergency Financial Support in mom's Cancer Recovery, organized by Marisa Infante I created this gofundme to financially help my mom, Leslie In… Marisa Infante needs your support for Need Emergency Financial Support in mom's Cancer Recovery

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Go sign up for yours if you are in DC.

This would be a GREAT SCOUT project that can be done many different ways and encorporated in many badges, merit badges, take action projects, even higher awards. Food for thought 💡 🤔 💭
I Just signed up for the free composting pilot program in my city. Not sure if I will get picked but share as an idea.

If you're in DC too, try to sign up... go to your ward and use that link. https://owd-dcgis.hub.arcgis.com/pages/residential-curbside-composting-program

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Tax details for those that worked from home this last year.
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/04/how-to-know-if-you-qualify-for-the-home-office-deduction.html

Here's who qualifies for the home office deduction this year, tax pros say If you worked remotely in 2022, you may be curious about claiming the home office deduction on your taxes. Here's how to know if you're eligible.

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RIP Queen Elizabeth II.

RIP to Girl Guide Queen Elizabeth II who passed away peacefully in her sleep. Not everyone knows she was a girl guide, but she was. And even as an adult, she visited many scouts (from different scouting organisations) across the world. May she rest in peace 💔🌎

Feel free to share from this post to honour her!

Did you know?? If you are a Girl Scout or a Girl Guide, you are (both) part of World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts?!

The main picture in the middle is of (then) Princess Elizabeth posing in her girl guide (scouts) uniform in Frogmore, Windsor, England on April 11, 1942.
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Retweet - twitter.com/allaboutscouts/status/1567963428123299845
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~ News of her passing (links) ~
BBC News - https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-61585886

Huffington Post -
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/queen-elizabeth-over-the-years_n_631a1b27e4b0ed021deff416?yptr=yahoo

USA TODAY-
https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/celebrities/2022/09/08/queen-elizabeth-death-reactions-king-charles-royal-family-world-leaders/8024257001/

NPR-
https://www.npr.org/2022/09/08/1121744376/queen-elizabeth-ii-dead-96

Pictures included in the collage are visits to cub scouts, boy scouts, girl guides, and scouts in Greenwich, Canada, America, and many more places.... links below.
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Main picture: Photo by Studio Lisa/Getty Images

www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/history/pictures-queen-plymouth-over-past-1387730

A visit to Australia - https://www.nowtolove.com.au/royals/british-royal-family/a-royal-visit-queen-elizabeth-in-australia-2583

https://manawatuheritage.pncc.govt.nz/item/b673b6f4-f8de-4b42-b70c-2cb3c693077f

https://www.hertsmemories.org.uk/content/herts-history/towns-and-villages/letchworth_garden_city/letchworth_events/royal/1993-queen-elizabeth-ii-opens-tabor-court

What an amazing project & learning experience, not just for Ms Ivy Akii, but for all those lives she affected for the better in her country. Imagine if we had more projects like this on this scale. It's amazing what these scouts all do!

Kenyan Scout Ivy Akii is my today! 💚What an incredible young woman who is & maybe she can inspire some more amazing scout projects around the 🌎!

She is helping build a brighter future for the country’s growing number of pregnant teenagers, them with an entrepreneurial skillset and network to address gaps in access to social, health, and financial support.

pin it - https://pin.it/5mkB0dp

As public services stopped or slowed over three months of nationwide lockdowns at the height of the , more than 152,000 teenage girls became pregnant, a 40% increase in monthly averages, according to VOA.

Determined to help, Ivy launched Gingko Africa in Kibera, the poorest district in the capital of Nairobi, in May 2021. supports and teaches women and girls aged 13-19 - many without family support – in finishing their education and starting businesses to create better lives for themselves and their children.

“We need to through social support, health education, and skills training, so they can be successful, confident and independent,” explained Ivy, who recently joined the World Scout Bureau as an intern for youth programmes.

Tweet it: https://twitter.com/allaboutscouts/status/1542568945638572039

Gingko is changing lives. In June 2022, Ivy shared the exciting news with eight young mothers that after just one month of business, the group had sold nearly enough products to cover a semester of school fees. While their unexpected pregnancies could have seen them drop out of school completely, the program and network at Gingko made it possible for them to stay in school.

This wasn’t Ivy’s first successful cohort at Gingko - and it won’t be her last! Through the organization, she has empowered 72 pregnant teens and teenage mothers with 206 hours of training in just one year. So far, over 2,000 people have benefited from Gingko’s programmes, including students at six schools where they’ve provided education to mitigate the prevalence and effects of teen pregnancy in .

Encouraged by a year of successes, the programme is expanding into other counties across Kenya. Young women who have already been through from the programme in Kibera will help train new beneficiaries. Ivy has also co-authored a book to raise awareness of reproductive health, personal development and entrepreneurship basics, that is being translated into French so that she can bring the programme to Burundi, Côte d’Ivoire and Senegal.

World Organization of the Scout Movement - WOSM
https://www.scout.org/Kenyan-Scout-supports-teenage-mothers

Kenyan Scout Ivy Akii is my today! 💚What an incredible young woman who is & maybe she can inspire some more amazing scout projects around the 🌎!

She is helping build a brighter future for the country’s growing number of pregnant teenagers, them with an entrepreneurial skillset and network to address gaps in access to social, health, and financial support.

pin it - https://pin.it/5mkB0dp

As public services stopped or slowed over three months of nationwide lockdowns at the height of the , more than 152,000 teenage girls became pregnant, a 40% increase in monthly averages, according to VOA.

Determined to help, Ivy launched Gingko Africa in Kibera, the poorest district in the capital of Nairobi, in May 2021. supports and teaches women and girls aged 13-19 - many without family support – in finishing their education and starting businesses to create better lives for themselves and their children.

“We need to through social support, health education, and skills training, so they can be successful, confident and independent,” explained Ivy, who recently joined the World Scout Bureau as an intern for youth programmes.

Tweet it: https://twitter.com/allaboutscouts/status/1542568945638572039

Gingko is changing lives. In June 2022, Ivy shared the exciting news with eight young mothers that after just one month of business, the group had sold nearly enough products to cover a semester of school fees. While their unexpected pregnancies could have seen them drop out of school completely, the program and network at Gingko made it possible for them to stay in school.

This wasn’t Ivy’s first successful cohort at Gingko - and it won’t be her last! Through the organization, she has empowered 72 pregnant teens and teenage mothers with 206 hours of training in just one year. So far, over 2,000 people have benefited from Gingko’s programmes, including students at six schools where they’ve provided education to mitigate the prevalence and effects of teen pregnancy in .

Encouraged by a year of successes, the programme is expanding into other counties across Kenya. Young women who have already been through from the programme in Kibera will help train new beneficiaries. Ivy has also co-authored a book to raise awareness of reproductive health, personal development and entrepreneurship basics, that is being translated into French so that she can bring the programme to Burundi, Côte d’Ivoire and Senegal.

World Organization of the Scout Movement - WOSM
https://www.scout.org/Kenyan-Scout-supports-teenage-mothers

Girl Scouts will have a new CEO & it's first Asian-American CEO.

Did You Know... Martin Luther King Jr. was a Boy Scout?
MLK was in Boy Scouts of America. King was registered as a member of Troop 151 in Atlanta.
I am going to leave you with just a few of the amazing quotes from Dr Martin Luther King Jr.
~ “Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.”
~ "Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
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Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/CKOAhS8jwuK/
Article: Scouting magazine
https://blog.scoutingmagazine.org/2015/01/15/martin-luther-king-jr-was-a-boy-scout/

The MLK Holiday DC Student Essay Contest is open!

The essay contest is open to Elementary (4th & 5th grade), Middle (6th – 8th grade), and High (9th – 12th) School students. This year’s overall theme for the Holiday Events is "Change Happens with Good Hope & A Dream” The essay topic poses the question- Is voting the vehicle for effective change?

In your essay, speak to the above question and include your hopes and dreams for voting, if you agree that voting is the vehicle for effective change. If you do not agree, share an alternative vehicle for effective change. Feel free to explore issues like poverty, gun violence, etc. when looking at voting as a vehicle for change.

There will be three (3) prize winners for each division that includes a cash prize.

*Elementary Division (4th & 5th grades) 250 - 500 words, *Middle Division (6th – 8th grades) 500 - 700 words, *High School Division (9th – 12th grades) 700 - 1,000 words

Students are invited to a Virtual Essay Contest Writing Workshop: Thursday 12/23/2021, 11:00am. Register for workshop prior to event, by clicking the following link: https://forms.gle/yEf7hGEY8mKMaUUq6

Students must register to receive the zoom link for the workshop!!

The deadline for essay submission is Friday, January 7, 2022. Submit essays by visiting our website at: WWW.MLKHOLIDAYDC.ORG ; click the “Get Involved Tab” then “Essay Contest”. Make sure to read essay contest rules and submission instructions before getting started. All questions and concerns should be emailed to: [email protected] and/or [email protected].

Genius & Hilarious 🤣

The rivalry between siblings is as old as time; although they have endless and unconditional love for each other, siblings also tend to get quite competitive, as this photo shows. When his sister took his $20 without asking, this guy decided to do what he knows best: pull a prank on his sister to teach her a lesson. Of course, these pranks are always harmless, but they are just annoying enough to send the message across.

As her brother, he has access to her laptop and he knows her weak spots – the biology project she’s been working on for weeks. It didn’t take long to devise this devious plan, and I can imagine the horror on the girl’s face when she wanted to submit her project only to realize she couldn’t find it.

Home Alone vibes anyone? 🤣 This is hilarious!

ADHD personified... 😂

First Day of School 2021-2022
5th, 8th, 9th & 10th

The total lunar eclipse is tomorrow morning-- totally cool esp if you are able to view it or be able to talk about it in a STEM lesson or activities!

Check out the post below for details!