https://hunewsservice.com Your Neighborhood. Your Nation. Your News! Mon, 03 Mar 2025 03:41:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://hunewsservice.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/cropped-407787_352128264798897_1461219382_n-1-32x32.jpg https://hunewsservice.com 32 32 https://hunewsservice.com/news/district-libraries-aarp-provide-free-tax-service/ Mon, 06 Apr 2015 10:53:12 +0000 http://hunewsservice.com/uncategorized/district-libraries-aarp-provide-free-tax-service/ Fredella Baylor, left, and Carrie Nobles, volunteers at Southwest Library with AARP to help residents get their taxes filed. WASHINGTON – The April 15 federal deadline for filing taxes is right around the corner, and the District’s libraries, in conjunction with the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) Foundation, is providing free services to taxpayers with low to moderate income, especially seniors. Patricia Banks-Helman, a retired medical illustrator, sat reading a book, waiting patiently at Southwest Library last week to see a tax assistant. She had her tax documents tucked away in a folder with a rubber band securing them. ]]> https://hunewsservice.com/news/capital-area-food-bank-is-staple-to-d-c-residents/ Mon, 06 Apr 2015 10:29:20 +0000 http://hunewsservice.com/uncategorized/capital-area-food-bank-is-staple-to-d-c-residents/ Scores turned out to get free fresh produce at the Capital Area Food Bank over the weekend. WASHINGTON – Tyrell Holcomb, the distributions program manager with the Capital Area Food Bank, took a look at the long line of people who were queuing for the fresh produce and meat that the organization offers the first Saturday of every month and made a prediction. “Today, it looks like we are going to have a record in terms of the number of households in which we are going to be serving,” Holcomb, 26, said.  “I’m anticipating that we’ll probably serve about 300]]> https://hunewsservice.com/news/rosedale-library-makes-proms-come-true/ Tue, 31 Mar 2015 10:36:31 +0000 http://hunewsservice.com/uncategorized/rosedale-library-makes-proms-come-true/ WASHINGTON – Spring is here and, the wondrous, once-in-a-teenager’s-lifetime event, the prom, is around the corner. But not all high school seniors can afford to buy their dream dress or tuxedo. Jasmine Jackson was one of those who was on the outside looking in. “I was one of the families that could not afford prom,” Jasmine said. “My guidance counselor had to give me some stuff to make it work out,” said Jackson. “It’s very expensive. The prom, graduation itself, getting the teen ready and looking nice and everything. “A lot of families cannot afford it.” Jackson, a 23-year-old library]]> https://hunewsservice.com/news/former-abuser-speaks-out-against-domestic-violence/ Sat, 28 Mar 2015 10:26:11 +0000 http://hunewsservice.com/uncategorized/former-abuser-speaks-out-against-domestic-violence/ WASHINGTON – Che Sayles said he used to beat his first wife.  Former abuser Che Sayles, with his new wife, Kanija, now speaks out against beating women. In fact, if he had done to a man what he did to his wife, police would have taken him to jail, Sayles said. “You have same sex relationships where men abusing other men, but when you call the police, they don’t write it up as maybe as domestic,” he said.  “They write it up as assault.” Sayles, a 39-year-old government contractor, is now remarried and reformed.  These days, he speaks out against]]> https://hunewsservice.com/news/walk-run-to-help-homeless-children/ Mon, 23 Feb 2015 20:07:49 +0000 http://hunewsservice.com/uncategorized/walk-run-to-help-homeless-children/ Photo by Francesca Fourniillier, Howard University News Service: Marquita Holmes, longtime Bright Beginnings employee, works with children in the Early HeadStart classrooms.  WASHINGTON – Mariah , a homeless mother living in a Washington shelter, still remembers how her 4-year-old son, Willy, struggled with his speech.  That was before he enrolled in Bright Beginnings. “Before he came here, his speech was really messed up,” Mariah said. “But they did the proper procedures to give him speech therapy and anything else that he needed.” Bright Beginnings, which provides quality childcare for the homeless families in Washington, has been helping children like Willy]]> https://hunewsservice.com/news/men-women-children-party-for-anti-slavery-pioneer/ Tue, 17 Feb 2015 15:28:31 +0000 http://hunewsservice.com/uncategorized/men-women-children-party-for-anti-slavery-pioneer/ Black History Month: Frederick Douglas WASHINGTON — It may have been freezing outside, but the people in the Anacostia Arts Center were working up a sweat as they boogied and bounced to the sounds of Gwen McCrae, the Jackson 5, James Brown, the Sugar Hill Gang and Gladys Knight and the Pips in honor of anti-slavery and civil rights icon Frederick Douglass. Sores turned out to  dancing at Douglass' House party It was called a Blue-Light house party, and last Friday night, the center was transformed by D.J. Scooter Magruder and patrons who wanted to celebrate the 197th birthday of]]> https://hunewsservice.com/news/d-c-wellness-centers-a-joy-for-seniors/ Tue, 27 Jan 2015 14:34:43 +0000 http://hunewsservice.com/uncategorized/d-c-wellness-centers-a-joy-for-seniors/ Hayes Senior Center Photo 1 Caption: Catherine Pridgen, 76, has found an oasis at the Hayes Senior Wellness Center following the death of her husband.  WASHINGTON — Catherine Pridgen could no longer bear the thought of sitting in the house she once shared with her husband, Allen.  After Pridgen’s husband died from cancer, she needed somewhere to go so she wouldn’t be depressed. This, she said, was when she learned about the Hayes Senior Wellness Center Center. Hayes  in Ward 6 is the latest of six senior wellness centers that caters to Washington’s residents ages 60 years and older. The]]> https://hunewsservice.com/news/the-sushi-bars-no-child-policy/ Tue, 19 Nov 2013 00:00:00 +0000 http://hunewsservice.com/uncategorized/the-sushi-bars-no-child-policy/