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Update: Due to the Emancipation Day holiday this week, DPW has moved trash pick up back one day. Those regularly receiving trash and recycling pick up on Friday's should expect pickup tomorrow, Saturday.

Folks can help keep Shaw beautiful this weekend and next. Work out in the community with neighbors and friends this Saturday during Shaw Main Streets Keep Shaw Beautiful Day. Next weekend, those who purchased plants from the Historical Society's sale, can pick those up from the Carnegie Library on Friday, April 25. And on Saturday, those still looking to add a little more color to their home gardens, might head over to the National Arboretum which is holding its annual sale.

On Saturday, April 19, 2008, Shaw Main Streets will hold the fourth annual neighborhoodwide cleanup and greenup event in central Shaw. Keep Shaw Beautiful Day will include planting of cherry trees and perennial and annual flowering plants in treeboxes, picking up trash on sidewalks and in alleys, and removing and painting over graffiti. Neighborhood civic associations will focus on their blocks, with supplies provided by event sponsors.

9am-1pm, Meet at Shaw Middle School
925 Rhode Island Avenue, NW
ShawMainStreets.com | (202) 265-SHAW.

Alexander M. Padro
Executive Director, Shaw Main Streets, Inc.

The Historical Society of Washington will have plants available for those who ordered them back in March. Plants should be available at the Carnegie Library, 801 Mt Vernon Square, after about 10am until 6pm. Call 202/422-1161 for more details.

The National Arboretum sale should not be missed. From residents who have gone before, I'm told there are a lot of great plants for the local urban gardener — plenty of the popular herbs for cooks who want to grow their own as well as rare plants and trees. Apparently, the prices are pretty hard to beat any where else.

15th Annual Garden Fair and Plant Sale
9am-4pm, Saturday, April 26
The US National Arboretum [directions]
New York Avenue Parking Lot