The Silver Spring Market area was animated Saturday with its first Community Roundtable in Veterans Plaza. It will be followed by weekly repeats, in the same location, same time at a "round" (well, maybe rectangular) table outdoors directly in front of the Silver Spring Civic Center. The meeting on was hosted by Maryland State Senator (District 20) Jamie Raskin.
This first group was truly a mixed group of Silver Spring and Takoma Park residents throwing out their ideas, their experiences, their experiments, in setting their own paths while living out their own dreams, ideals and goals.
Representatives from Blessed Coffee (of "Black Gold" Sundance movie fame), corporate officers of different Benefit Corporations (reflecting our new Maryland law which protects corporate entities from takeover targeting), TCOB, the Humane Society, "Gap Busters", Compassion Over Killing, Langley Park businesses as well as a few political groups and just citizens who wanted to make known their own preferences (like the Potomac fight to preserve Nick's Organic Farm). And ordinary folks like me (that's me in black, actually Navy blue, on the far left end facing Raskin with my hand in chin).
Paramount was the push by Reemberto Rodriguez, the Executive Director of the Silver Spring Regional Center. He has spearheaded a calendar for the Silver Spring "town center" to emphasize Community and Commerce by setting aside the VA Plaza area for daily events. These include: Monday nights for conversation, tables out like Saturday to discuss "issues", Tuesdays for exercise, Wednesdays for game nights, Thursdays for outdoor performances in the "center" and Sundays for the "drum circle". This in the plaza across from Majestic Theatre at the corner of Fenton and Ellsworth.
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Stay posted. There is a "Taste of Fenton" coming up Sunday May 15th to spotlight the 25 restaurants east of Wayne Avenue on Fenton!
