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It's been about four years since Mayor Fenty walked out after a Blagden Alley and Naylor Court meeting at the Whitman to a vacant, impromptu parking lot of broken concrete and dubious provenance and was told that the community would love to have a pocket park there, fenced, for the new children in the neighborhood. He said yes.

And here we are. The amount of work, including volunteer, would be difficult to estimate. Since the editor would get most of the names right, he'd miss some and mangle who did what too often, so he'll leave it at this: Initially, Joe Martin and Mark Bjorge of Fenty's staff, Jack office, especially Jack and Michele Molotsky, and Amy Bryant, Terri Payne, and Alex Hanna locally. Of course, Jim Loucks, who has made more difference in this neighborhood than anyone understands.

Wow. Good things do happen!