Dear Sumner residents: 

If you are like me, because of the pandemic shutdown, you may not believe that summer is ending.  Chrysanthemums are on sale at grocery stores and bins of Halloween candy crowd the aisles inside.  And School starts, mostly virtually, on Monday.  Labor Day, the un-official close of summer, is a week later.  Neighborhood events that bring us together have been cancelled because  of the shutdown. 

Yet, neighbors still help one another, for example, by picking up newspapers or pulling in trash bins of a neighbor who is away or by organizing food drives and campaigns to send letters to people in nursing care.

 As we move into the cooler days of autumn, lots of residents are still working from home and children and students will be studying at home on-line.  Please keep in mind two neighborly ideas:    First, during the pandemic, traffic has declined everywhere, including in our neighborhood, but that is likely to change.  Be mindful that youngsters cooped up in the house for classes may be out on the street to play in the mid-afternoon and may not recall a time when there was lots of car traffic on our streets.  So, please, drive slowly and carefully.  Second, give thought to noise levels.  For example, is your landscape company in compliance with County regulations about leaf blower noise levels?

Rich Landfield, SCA President

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Rich Landfield  
202-441-9732