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COMMUNITY SERVICE
Four Residents Receive $2,000 Awards
Four Washington area residents were honored by the Community Foundation for the National Capital Region yesterday for their approaches to community service.
The recipients of the 2008 Linowes Leadership Awards range in age from 23 to 72 and work in diverse areas, from reducing poverty to providing faith-based education and mentoring programs. The award, named for the late R. Robert Linowes, a philanthropist and civic leader, includes $2,000 cash prizes as well as $3,000 that winners will donate to the nonprofit groups of their choice.
Mark Bergel, founder of A Wider Circle, was recognized for giving residents food, shelter and furniture to help lift them out of poverty. Arva Jackson, a Montgomery County civil rights activist, is an advocate on such health issues as infant mortality.
Irwin Royster helps young black men in the District's Ward 7 lead healthy lives and develop leadership skills. Trayon White, 23, helps build self-esteem among his peers in his embattled Southeast Washington neighborhood, where crime and poor education often hold young people back.
-- Philip Rucker
TRANSPORTATION
Metro Evacuation, Route Maps In Works
Metro is creating site-specific emergency evacuation maps riders can take with them if they have to evacuate a rail station or find an alternative route during a lengthy service disruption. The maps will be customized for each of Metrorail's 117 station mezzanines, list all nearby available bus service and provide walking directions to the next-closest Metrorail station, along with the distance and estimated walking time.
The maps will show the location of the station exit with a "You Are Here" icon, pinpoint all bus stops in the immediate area and list all bus routes making those stops.
Each station mezzanine initially will receive 5,000 copies of the maps. Some maps will be available by the end of June. The busy downtown stations will be among the first to have the maps.
-- Lena H. Sun
