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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will meet with Ward 4 residents who live near Carter Barron Park Tuesday, October 23, 2012, from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at Mosaic Church of the Nazarene (4401 16th Street NW),to discuss tennis tournaments held at the National Park Service (NPS) facility.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Frederick Douglass Home as a national historic site and help launch a project called the New Proclamation of Freedom for those caught in human trafficking on Saturday, October 20, 2012, at 1:00 p.m. at the Frederick Douglass National Historic Site (1411 W Street SE). Norton will also discuss the passage into law of her bill to move the District of Columbia's Frederick Douglass Statue into the United States Capitol.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today announced that she will be one of the recipients of the 2012 Distinguished Service to the Humanities Award, to be presented Thursday, October 18, 2012, from 6:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. at the offices of Hogan Lovells LLP (555 13th Street NW). The Humanities Council of Washington, DC will honor Norton for the contributions she has made as a member of Congress, tenured professor of law at Georgetown University, civil rights figure, and feminist leader.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today alerted residents in the Ward Circle neighborhood to sidewalk and lane closures as the construction project at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Nebraska Avenue complex finishes up. The sidewalk along Nebraska Avenue NW in front of the DHS complex is closed for three weeks and the curb lane adjacent to the sidewalk is closed to traffic during daytime hours.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will welcome home from Afghanistan 70 soldiers of the D.C. Army National Guard's 273^rd Military Police Company and 45 members of the D.C. Air National Guard's 113th Wing Security Forces Squadron at a ceremony Tuesday, October 16, 2012, at 9:15 a.m. at the D.C. National Guard Armory (2001 East Capitol Street SE). Norton, who is devoted to the D.C. National Guard, has never missed sending off or welcoming home members deployed to Iraq, Afghanistan, and Kuwait.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – At a showing of artwork by young people responding to drugs in their communities on Tuesday, October 16, 2012, at 6:00 p.m. inthe Eastern Market North Hall (225 7th Street SE), Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will speak about substance abuse prevention efforts underway in Wards 5 and 6 as well as about her upcoming town hall meeting on Synthetic Marijuana. Tuesday's event, held by the Ward 5 and 6 D.C.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will hold an All-Parks Town Hall on Thursday, October 25, 2012, from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the John A. Wilson Building (1350 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Room 412). The meeting will begin with a panel examining how residents can work with the National Park Service (NPS), which owns most of the city's parks, to enliven D.C.'s green spaces and adapt them to the needs of the individual neighborhoods where they are located.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will join D.C. Mayor Vincent C.