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📣 Welcome
📣 Welcome
Date 12/5/2025
Issue 18
Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
and never brought to mind?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
and auld lang syne?
Winter dormancy: if it’s good enough for the trees, it’s good enough for us. We’re tucking in for a short winter rest and will be back in February. Wishing you a cozy holiday season.
My Top 5:
Second Hand Holiday Gift Exchange at MiXt
Santa Runs for Christmas!
Harry Potter Burlesque at Joe's
Library Book Exchange
Snow Angel Sign Up
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🏛️ City Updates
🏛️ City Updates
PGC Housing Choice Voucher Waitlist Opens
Brentwood:
12/19 Fr - Town of Brentwood Holiday Celebration
12/21 - Brentwood VFD Santa Run starting at 5:15 PM
Colmar Manor:
Every Tues/Thurs (Not Christmas Day) - Zumba
12/9, 23 Tue - Rise and Shine Seniors
12/11 Thu - Dance Dance Party
12/16 Tu - Town Council Meeting
12/19 Sa - Open House and Christmas Event
12/19 - Santa Run Starting at 5:15 PM
Cottage City:
12/10 W - Town Hall Meeting, 7 PM
12/16 Tu - Green Team Meeting, 6:30 PM
12/19 - Santa Run Starting at 5:15 PM
Mount Rainier:
12/6 Sa - Sweaty Sweater Fun Run
Mount Rainier MD at 9 AM
12/6 Sa - Shop with a Cop
North Brentwood:
12/8 M - NBHS Annual Christmas Luncheon
12/21 - Brentwood VFD Santa Run starting at 5:15 PM
MRES Winter Concert (Advanced Chorus and Band)
As we wrap up another awesome semester at MRES, we’re grateful for the hard work, growth, and resilience shown by our students, staff, and families. We wish everyone a joyful, restful holiday season and look forward to welcoming you back in 2026!
Community Ask! The Mount Rainier Mall happening this month is a beautiful event the school puts on for families in need to shop for the holidays, for free. Please consider donating new and slightly used toys, clothing and household items. Donations are now being accepted through December 12 at the school, 4011 32nd St. Mount Rainier, MD.
📅 Upcoming Dates
12/6: Mount Rainier Holiday Craft Fair - MRES PTO will have a Cocoa stand, come say hi!
12/19: Early dismissal
12/22-1/2: Winter Break, school closed
Donate to help TSE replace their murals!
Donate to help TSE replace their murals!
Our raffle of a 55” TV and Stand is raising funds to replace the murals on the fence and temp building that are in desperate need of repairs. Last day to get your ticket 12/08 @ 8pm.
12/8 - 📚 TSES Book Club
5:30pm- 6:30pm.
12/19: Early dismissal
12/22-1/2: Winter Break, school closed
🌎 Stay Local
🌎 Stay Local
🎉Business Announcements
Shewa Studios, a new film studio from local filmmaker Mignotae Kebede and her company THR33 Productions, is opening this December inside Brentwood’s Gateway Arts Center. The studio will be housed at 3901 Rhode Island Ave., in the nonprofit’s building right next to miXt Food Hall via Hyattsville Wire.
🎭 Neighborhood Happenings
🎭 Neighborhood Happenings
Every Tuesday at 10 - Gateway Aging Together Walk from Joe’s
11/15 - 12/20 A Fragile Strength Exhibition by Laurel Lukaszewski
12/6 Sa - Mount Rainier Craft Show
12/6 Sa - Sweaty Sweater Run
12/8 M - Thomas Stone Book Club
12/11Th - Holiday Toy Exchange
7-9 PM at MiXt
12/13 Sa - Heauxs of Hogwarts: A Burlesque Variety Show 8 - 10 PM at Joe’s
12/19 Fr - Community Food Giveaway at the First Baptist Church of Mount Rainier
12/19 Fr - Nature Makers Space: Holiday Wreaths
Mount Rainier Nature Center 4-6 pm ages 13+
12/20 6-9 PM - 8th Annual Parade of Lights
Danielle Carter is looking for cider station volunteers! Email dscarter86@yahoo.com if you’re interested.
1/31 - Seed Swapping Festival at the Mount Rainier Nature Center
Activities for all ages!
☮️ Volunteering and Mutual Aid
Donate Money:
Support neighbors impacted by ICE Detainments through various GoFundMes, organized by PGIRC. These funds help families pay attorneys, electric bills, rent, grocery bills, etc.
Thomas Stone Elementary is raising funds to replace the murals on their outdoor buildings. Buy tickets for a 55” TV raffle here, or donate.
Support Food Banks
Every other Friday there’s a Community Food Giveaway at the First Baptist Church of Mount Rainier. They need volunteers - (301) 927-5565.
Rt 1 Mutual Aid and Indivisible Rt 1 Corridor are partnering with community organizations to help feed our neighbors, now through Feb 2026. They are seeking weekly or one-time donations of culturally appropriate food that can be dropped off at a number of porches and businesses in the area as well as fresh produce donations on Saturday mornings at the Lustine Center (5710 Baltimore Ave). For more information - including what, where, and how to donate - go to https://rt1mutualaid.org
Toy Donations Needed:
Mount Rainier Elementary Mall Toy Drive (all ages)
Drop off new or gently used toys by Dec 12. School families in need will shop from the donations.
PG IRC Family Toy Drive
Purchase toys for families impacted by ICE detainments
Help Shovel Snow:
Volunteer to shovel sidewalks and walkways for neighbors unable to do it themselves. Email DCarter@MountRainierMD.org to sign up as a Snow Angel.
🩰 Joe’s Movement Emporium
🩰 Joe’s Movement Emporium
Joe’s Movement Emporium harmonizes with the artistic community this holiday season for an immersive Kwanzaa craft and activity experience for the whole family. Connect and create while sharing community on Sunday, December 14, 2025, at our Mount Rainier location. We're kicking off the Kwanzaa season with special performances, hands-on craft workshops, demo classes, diasporic cuisine, and more. See you there! #free but donations suggested.
📚 Mount Rainier Public Library
📚 Mount Rainier Public Library
Interested in joining a book club? Join the Solidarity Stories book club for our annual book swap on Tuesday, December 9th at 6:30 PM in the upstairs lounge at MiXt Food Hall! Participants bring a book (or two) they’ve enjoyed and would like to share with others. We chat about what we’ve loved reading this year and swap books so everyone has something to read over the holidays. We’ll also be announcing our 2026 book club picks. If you haven’t been to the book club before, it’s a great chance to meet everyone and check it out! Reach out to caitlin.clark@pgcmls.info with questions about this event or the Solidarity Stories book club.
🌎 Slightly Less-Local Stuff
🌎 Slightly Less-Local Stuff
12/6 Sa - Santa Fly-In
12/6 Sa - 5th Annual Material Things & Friends Holiday Market Extravaganza
4-9 PM
☕ Etc.
☕ Etc.
Summer 2025: NDC’s landscape team planted a native garden and created a reading classroom at the Gazebo on Bunker Hill in Mount Rainier for the elementary school!
North Brentwood has a new pocket park honoring a notable Black entrepreneur, Henry Randall, whose family was among the first residents of this historic, majority-Black incorporated town.
Route 1 artist Luther Wright just turned five concrete planters in Brentwood into bright, mini murals. Look for them on the west side of Route 1, across from miXt Food Hall—part of a bigger neighborhood effort to add more color and care to this stretch of Rhode Island Ave. Read the coverage in the Hyattsville Wire.
The Thomas Stone Elementary Book Club was a hit! Join the next one 12/8.
PTO Mom Genna slings pillowcases at Vigilante, a festive tradition fundraiser for the elementary school!
Brentwood Art Walk highlighting some of the amazing work in the town.
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