<div dir="ltr">What a totally wonderful thing to do!! All of you are angels.<div>dq</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Dec 6, 2020 at 3:42 PM Cathie Woteki <<a href="mailto:cathie@woteki.com">cathie@woteki.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">Dear Roberta,<div><br></div><div>That was a lovely thought and a generous gift to the hard-working staff at WHC. And thanks for the tip about Bistro Bis take-out!</div><div><br></div><div>Cathie<br><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Dec 6, 2020, at 12:08 PM, Roberta Shapiro <<a href="mailto:rshapiro1153@yahoo.com" target="_blank">rshapiro1153@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><div><div style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div><div dir="ltr"><font size="3" face="verdana, helvetica, sans-serif">With so much sad and bad news, Jerry and I wanted to share something that made us feel good about what some of our business neighbors are willing to do. </font></div><div dir="ltr"><font size="3" face="verdana, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font size="3" face="verdana, helvetica, sans-serif">Jerry and I decided to provide dinner<font color="#050505"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> to the incredibly talented and devoted weekend night shift staff in Washington Hospital Center's Covid ICU. We had enjoyed several delicious gourmet takeout meals from </span></font><span style="color:rgb(5,5,5);font-size:12px;white-space:pre-wrap"><span>Bistro Bis (</span></span><span style="font-size:12px;white-space:pre-wrap"><span><span><a href="http://bistrobis.com/" target="_blank">http://bistrobis.com/</a></span></span></span><span><span><font color="#050505" style="background-color:inherit"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> 15 E ST NW, DC) and we really like the owner and staff. I was not sure that more casual Saturday night "box dinners" would be their thing. However, when I presented the possibility to the owner, Jeff Buben, his </span></font><font color="#050505" style="background-color:inherit"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">response</span></font><font color="#050505" style="background-color:inherit"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> was, "</span><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">absolutely</span><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">, we want to partner with you."</span></font></span></span></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="verdana, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font size="3" face="verdana, helvetica, sans-serif"><span><span><font color="#050505" style="background-color:inherit"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">From delicious appetizers, amazing sandwiches, homemade chips, and Opera Cake, to a lovely note of appreciation on each of the 30 dinners, Bistro Bis went above and beyond. They even </span></font><font color="#050505" style="background-color:inherit"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">accommodated</span></font><font color="#050505" style="background-color:inherit"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> vegetarian and gluten free staff members. Needless to say, the ICU staff was very pleased to have all of their hard work acknowledged, even in this admittedly small way.</span></font></span></span></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font size="3" face="verdana, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(5,5,5);white-space:pre-wrap"><span><br></span></span></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font size="3" face="verdana, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(5,5,5);white-space:pre-wrap"><span>Thank you Jeff, Memo, Adrian and the other Bistro Bis team members. FYI, their gourmet multicourse takeout dinners are truly fabulous. </span></span></font><br></div><div dir="ltr"><font size="3" face="verdana, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(5,5,5);white-space:pre-wrap"><span><br></span></span></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font size="3" face="verdana, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(5,5,5);white-space:pre-wrap"><span>Roberta and Jerry</span></span></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font size="3" face="verdana, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(5,5,5);white-space:pre-wrap"><span><br></span></span></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font size="3" face="verdana, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(5,5,5);white-space:pre-wrap"><span><span></span><br></span></span></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font size="3" face="verdana, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(5,5,5);white-space:pre-wrap"><span><br><span></span><span></span><span></span><br></span></span></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font size="3" face="verdana, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(5,5,5);white-space:pre-wrap"><span><span id="gmail-m_-7626498601473109546cid:00a7b6ce-fd1d-b6a6-92f1-cebc2eba0ee7@yahoo.com"><1607274521693blob.jpg></span><br><span></span><br></span></span></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font size="3" face="verdana, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(5,5,5);white-space:pre-wrap"><span><span id="gmail-m_-7626498601473109546cid:33212a81-4456-61ed-bf22-c58a92e8f212@yahoo.com"><1607274381562blob.jpg></span><br><span></span><br></span></span></font></div><div style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div><strong><font size="3"><font face="verdana"><br></font></font></strong></div><div><strong><font size="3"><font face="verdana">Roberta Shapiro</font><br></font></strong></div><div><font face="arial">Mobile 205-901-7415 <br>email </font><a href="mailto:rshapiro1153@yahoo.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><font face="arial">rshapiro1153@yahoo.com</font></a></div></div></div></div></div></div><span id="gmail-m_-7626498601473109546cid:33212a81-4456-61ed-bf22-c58a92e8f212@yahoo.com"><1607274381562blob.jpg></span><span id="gmail-m_-7626498601473109546cid:00a7b6ce-fd1d-b6a6-92f1-cebc2eba0ee7@yahoo.com"><1607274521693blob.jpg></span>_______________________________________________<br>LincolnParkDC mailing list<br><br>To post to the list address your message to: <a href="mailto:LincolnParkDC@lincolnparkdc.info" target="_blank">LincolnParkDC@lincolnparkdc.info</a><br>When replying, please consider whether to reply to the sender only, or to the list, which is the default.<br>Not all replies are appropriate for the entire list.<br><br>Please do not send administrative requests to the list. 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