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inspector on the project tested
positive for the coronavirus, a
project official and state
spokeswoman confirmed
Thursday.
Another Purple Line worker,
who spoke on the condition of
anonymity because he was not
authorized to comment
publicly, said the quarantine
order affects 30 to 40 workers
from a construction site on
University Boulevard in Prince
George’s County.
The man who tested positive
is sick but recovering at home,
the worker said.
Carla Julian, spokeswoman
for Purple Line Transit
Constructors, the state’s
contractor on the 16-mile light-
rail project, confirmed that a
utility employee had tested
positive.
“We are taking the
recommended precautions for
personnel who may have been
in contact with that
individual,” she wrote in an
email.
maryland Gov. Larry Hogan
(r) has deemed all
construction to be “essential”
and exempt from his stay-at-
home order.
— Katherine Shaverhoping to give a boost to
restaurants amid a statewide
stay-at-home order, tweeted a
photo of himself digging into a
takeout lunch and declaring this
“Virginia is for restaurant
Lovers Ta keout Week.”
“You can still support your
favorite restaurants under our
#StayAtHome order — many
continue to serve their
communities with takeout,
delivery, and no-contact pickup,”
he said in the tweet.
Northam (D) has ordered state
residents to stay home to slow
the spread of the novel
coronavirus, but they are
allowed to venture out for food,
medicine, medical visits and
exercise.
Sit-down restaurant service
has been banned, but takeout
and delivery are allowed.
— Laura VozzellamarylandPurple Line workers
to self-quarantineA number of workers on the
Purple Line construction
project were asked Wednesday
to self-quarantine for 14 days
after a Washington GasvirginiaDeaths double at
Canterbury facilityThe death toll at a richmond-
area long-term-care facility
doubled Thursday to 16, with five
residents dying of covid- 19 o ver a
24-hour-period and postmortem
tests confirming that three
others who recently died had the
novel coronavirus.
Canterbury rehabilitation &
Healthcare Center, home to one
of the largest known outbreaks
in the greater Washington area,
also said the number of residents
testing positive for the virus had
soared to 92.
The center serves patients
recovering from illnesses or
injuries; many are elderly.
Twenty-five health-care
workers also have been infected.
The spike in reported cases
came after the 190 -bed facility,
working with the county, had all
residents tested this week.
— L aura VozzellaSupport your favorite
eateries, Northam saysVirginia Gov. ralph Northam,Data shows hundreds
of suspected virus callsfirefighters and paramedics
in the District since early march
have responded to more than 730
emergency calls for suspected
coronavirus, the department said
Thursday.
Doug Buchanan, a spokesman
for the fire and Emergency
medical Services Department,
stressed that the vast majority of
callers did not have the virus.
Dispatchers have been asking
callers seeking help detailed
questions about their symptoms.
Buchanan said paramedics
and firefighters are warned
about the possibility of covid- 19
even when people seeking help
do not believe they are infected.
But even amid the crisis, fire
officials say calls for paramedics
and emergency medical
technicians have actually
dropped over recent weeks.
Buchanan said the fire
department is preparing for
spikes in calls and the possibility
that many firefighters and
paramedics will fall ill. So far, 21
members have tested positive for
the coronavirus.
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of girl has been solvedfairfax County police on
Wednesday announced that they
have solved the nearly 50-year-
old slaying of a 12-year-old girl,
determining that a now-dead
man who was 16 at the time of
the killing was the perpetrator.
The man died in 1997.
Police said the fairfax County
Commonwealth Attorney’s office
ruled in December that there
would have been enough
evidence to charge James
Edwards in the killing of Karen
Lee Spencer of Huntington if he
were alive. Some people thought
the teen was the girl’s boyfriend.
The girl’s body was found on
Dec. 2, 1972, in what was known
as fifer’s field, a wooded area
near what is now the
Huntington metro station. She
died of blunt-force trauma to the
upper body.
Several people were
investigated in the years after
the slaying, including the teen.
Before his death, he denied
involvement in the girl’s killing.
In the summer of 2018, two
acquaintances of Edwards told
detectives that he had told them
he had killed a girl and buried
her in a field when he was in his
teens, police said.
over the next year and a half,
police uncovered additional
evidence that implicated
Edwards and ruled out others in
the case, police said.
— Justin JouvenalPedestrian struck,
killed in CentrevilleA pedestrian was struck and
killed in a hit-and-run early
Thursday in Centreville, police
said.
The incident happened along
Lee Highway and Prince Way,
according to fairfax County
police. The person has not been
identified, pending the
notification of relatives. Police
said the person was pronounced
dead at the scene.
Authorities said they did not
have a description of the vehicle.
roads in the area were shut
down for several hours.
— Dana HedgpethmarylandSuitland man dies of
injuries from collisionA man died Wednesday, a
week and a half after he was
involved in a collision, in Prince
George’s County.
Local police identified him as
Keith Valentine, 38, of Suitland.
An initial investigation found
that Valentine was riding a dirt
bike on march 20 along the 3100
block of Branch Avenue in the
Te mple Hills area when he
struck an SUV as it was making a
left turn, according to police.
Valentine suffered critical
injuries and was taken to a
hospital.
The incident remains under
investigation. The condition of
the SUV driver was not
disclosed.
— Dana Hedgpethlocal digestthe district
Union: Grocery staffs
need more protection
A union representing D.C.
grocery store workers is urging
city officials to treat them like
first responders after an
employee at the Giant in
Columbia Heights tested positive
for the coronavirus.
Jonathan Williams, a
spokesman for United food &
Commercial Workers Local 400,
said his group has asked the
office of mayor muriel E. Bowser
(D) to allow grocery stores’ staff
members to qualify for free
testing and protective supplies
such as masks and gloves.
A spokesman for Giant on
Wednesday confirmed that an
employee who has not worked at
the location since march 19
tested positive for the virus,
which causes the disease c ovid-
19.
The store has been cleaned
and disinfected, while the
employee who tested positive
and others who worked with the
employee have been asked to
self-quarantine and will receive
sick pay, the spokesman said.
— Fenit Nirappil
coronavirus digestneeds one. (I got an adorable
purple flower-print one.)
The men in residence run the
kitchen and the food pantry,
learning management and
cooking skills while helping
those who are barely one rung
above them on the
socioeconomic ladder.
“We are a program, not a flop
house” s aid Kimberly Cox,
president of the center. “A nd
sometimes, what we’re doing
here feels really small. And
sometimes it feels really big.”
Usually, the food pantry clients
come into the church basement
and weave through the
catacomb-like pantry with their
grocery bags, going shopping.
“We had to close our day
program, but we had to find a
way to keep getting food to the
community,” Cox said.
of course they did. Aloysius
Gonzaga is the patron saint of
plague victims. He died in 1591
after leaving behind his Italian
family’s wealth to treat rome’s
plague victims, becoming one
himself at 23.
my son attends the collegiate
brick campus of Gonzaga College
High School next to the church,
which is filled with alarming
yellow signs and caution tape:
“Quarantine. Do Not Enter!
Jesuit use only.”
The school’s president, the
rev. Stephen Planning, tested
positive for covid- 19 and has been
self-quarantining.
So the volunteers keep the
food pantry customers outside
the church gates, where they fill
out a shopping list.
“Tuna or chicken?” they
wonder.
“You want tomato soup?” a
woman in a black blazer and
costume pearl earrings asked
another, as they made their lists.
There’s a breeze, and a flurry of
cherry blossom petals falls on the
people in line.
“I give this place five stars,”
france said. “They didn’t forget
about us. Look around. There’s
no one here but us and them.”
[email protected]
Twitter: @petuladfood banks will need $1.4 billion
dollars in funding in the next six
months to get Americans
through this.
The growing line along East
Capitol Street, a block from the
Capitol dome, illustrates this
point.
They dress nicely when they
come to get their staples. france
has shined-up loafers, a collared
shirt and tie, a wool scarf. T here’s
the woman in a worn but office-
appropriate blue blazer and
chiffon scarf; behind her is a
retiree in a cardigan and lilac
pants.
There are eight men who live
inside the center, in the basement
of St. Aloysius Gonzaga Church.
one of them is a seamster who
taught two other men to sew, and
they’ve been producing masks
with whimsical prints — purple
flowers, anchors, foxes — that
they’re giving to anyone who“taco tent” — that little one-
person thing that looks like a
taco. He’s in an apartment now.
“But I didn’t get rid of my taco
tent,” he said. “Just in case. We
have no idea where this is all
going.”
The folks there are the
working poor, the retired, the
paycheck-to-paycheck strugglers.
There was the man whose entire
livelihood as an Uber driver just
vanished — poof.
“I don’t know what I would do
without this,” he said, quietly,
asking that I please not use his
name.
The center is trying to get
ahead of what is going to be a
massive crisis for millions of
people, as unemployment and
income loss make it harder to get
food.
Just this week, feeding
America, one of the nation’s big
food bank networks, said thatreal nice,” s aid Andrew
Anderson, pointing to the
portable toilet trailer, the kind
you see at a county fair, that
miriam’s rented for $5,0 00 a
month. “If we can have that all
the time? That would be nice.”
But miriam’s can afford to staff
it only during their lunch and
dinner service. And another
$5,000 for another month was
never in their budget.
Closer to the Capitol, the
father mcKenna Center is also
changing its operation for
coronavirus times.
There, I met Vincent Jaquet
france, who asks me to
pronounce his name properly.
“frahhhnce, like the french say
it. Not frantz,” he said.
france was outside the
mcKenna Center on monday at 11
a.m., as always, to get his food
pantry supplies. He used to sleep
on the streets in what he called aWashington Post, including me,
fanned out across the city to
chronicle what 24 hours looked
like in a city under siege by a
virus. We were accompanied by
four photographers and a video
journalist.
I talked to folks getting
breakfast at miriam’s, lunch at
the beloved Shrimp Boat
carryout in Northeast
Washington and groceries from
the food pantry at the father
mcKenna Center near Union
Station.
It didn’t take long to confirm
the rumor about a positive test
that was rippling through the
breakfast line at miriam’s. on
Wednesday, health officials
confirmed five positive cases
within the D.C. homeless
shelters, according to Street
Sense.
of course so many of the folks I
talked to at miriam’s are avoiding
shelters and taking their chances
sleeping rough — outside, on the
street — rather than risk getting
sick. They keep hearing from city
officials, from volunteers to keep
clean, to keep washing their
hands, to stay inside.
And they can’t really do any of
it.
“okay. G o ahead and get your
hand sanitizer,” Scott
Schenkelberg, president and
CEo of miriam’s, said to the next
guy in line that morning. And he
went to the gate, got two squirts
of hand sanitizer from a
volunteer in gloves and a mask,
and ducked into the white tent.
He got his pancakes, home
fries, eggs and fruit salad in a
white to-go container.
“They say, ‘Keep washing your
hands, keep clean,’ ” he said. “But
where are we supposed to go do
this? Everything is closed.” And a
bunch of men gathered in a knot
to “amen” a nd “uh-huh” him
before Schenkelberg asked them
to break apart.
They moved away from the
tent to their second-favorite
place in this crisis.
“These bathrooms here are
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Programs serving the poor, homeless are forced to adjust operations
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a volunteer with Miriam’s kitchen gives hand sanitizer to those waiting in line for breakfast on
Monday. The organization moved its food service outside to keep it social distancing friendly.BY JUSTIN WM. MOYERAdvocates for inmates and psy-
chiatric patients filed separate
court actions Thursday that
sought the release of some men-
tally i ll people from D istrict facili-
ties and detainees at t he city’s only
halfway house for men because of
the coronavirus.
on Wednesday, D .C. health o ffi-
cials announced that one patient
and five staff members a t St. Eliza-
beths, the District’s public psychi-
atric hospital, tested positive for
coronavirus, and 22 additional
staffers were quarantined. The
outbreak occurred in a section of
the hospital where some patients
are housed for competency resto-
ration so they can participate in
court proceedings.
on Thursday, the city’s Public
Defender Service filed an emer-
gency motion in D.C. Superior
Court seeking the release of those
charged with misdemeanors who
are undergoing competency pro-
ceedings anywhere they are
housed in the District, including
St. Elizabeths and the D.C. jail in
Southeast Washington.
The suit noted positive cases at
St. Elizabeths as well as at the jail,
saying outbreaks of covid- 19 “are
far from speculative — they are
imminent, with confirmed posi-
tive cases [at the jail] now ap-
proaching double digits.”
These defendants are “under-
going a range of competency pro-
ceedings that currently serve no
significant purpose” a mid corona-
virus-related court closures “be-
cause their trials have been sus-
pended essentially indefinitely,
and at a minimum for a signifi-
cant number of months,” accord-
ing to the suit.
Laura E. Hankins, the Public
Defender Service’s general coun-
sel, said the agency filed the mo-tion because making the jail and
the attached Correctional Treat-
ment facility “safer places — with
fewer people, more space for so-
cial distancing, and better hy-
giene — is better for our clients,
DoC staff, our attorneys who still
work in these facilities, and for all
of D.C.”
City officials did not return a
request f or comment Thursday.
In other litigation, two people
detained at the Hope Village half-
way house, a contract facility for
the federal Bureau of Prisons,
brought a federal class-action law-
suit seeking the release of some
residents to home confinement to
protect t hem from c ovid-19.
The lawsuit claimed “condi-
tions in H ope Village facilities dis-
regard all medical and public
health directives for risk mitiga-
tion,” with no medical staff on site
or space to isolate individuals
with symptoms, among other
problems.
“Hope Village does not encour-
age or practice social distancing
in its facilities,” according to thecomplaint. “furthermore, the
structure and layout of Hope Vil-
lage makes social distancing im-
possible.”
The suit seeks an injunction to
force the halfway house to stop
admitting n ew r esidents, improve
hygiene and “release enough peo-
ple such that the remaining peo-
ple can be housed safely and in
compliance with CDC guidance,”
among other r elief.
The Washington Lawyers’
Committee for Civil rights and
Urban Affairs and the ACLU o f the
District of Columbia were among
advocates representing the plain-
tiffs in the case, filed in U.S. Dis-
trict Court for the District of Co-
lumbia one week after D.C. Coun-
cil member Charles Allen (D-
Ward 6) asked the Bureau of
Prisons to provide halfway house
residents with supplies and re-
lease as many as possible to home
confinement amid the coronavi-
rus crisis.
In a letter to Bureau of Prisons
Assistant Director Hugh J. Hur-
witz, Allen said Hope Village hadended “all non-emergency move-
ment” of residents on march 20,
“effectively t erminating most resi-
dents’ employment and immedi-
ately isolating them in the facility
without access to income.”
“Without immediate action, a
severe outbreak of CoVID-19 in
Hope Village and the District’s
other [residential reentry cen-
ters] is i nevitable,” t he letter said.
In a statement, Jonathan
Smith, executive director of the
Washington Lawyers’ Committee,
said Hope Village residents are
“very low custody” and regularly
left the facility to work, attend
classes or visit family before the
lockdown. most will be released
within months, he said.
“There can be no reasonable
argument justifying their contin-
ued confinement in light of the
risk of catastrophe that it poses,”
he said.
Hope Village did not respond to
a request for comment. The Bu-
reau of Prisons declined to com-
ment.
[email protected]the district
Court actions seek release of some detainees, mental patients
Advocates say facilities
and halfway house can’t
protect against outbreaks