Good morning, Washington. Today, several Washingtonians will participate in the Washington Post’s annual Scavenger Hunt, though it’s unclear what kind of bonus, if any, hunters will receive for grabbing a glimpse of Denzel Washington or Ryan Reynolds.
>> The Wegmans is open! (Okay, in Frederick, but still.) The grocer, who recently held discussions with a D.C. government consortium to move to the soon-to-be city-owned Walter Reed campus, opened a new 130,000-square-foot supermarket — including an ice cream shop and a vegetable market — in the Maryland suburban town this morning to over 20,000 new customers, creating traffic concerns around the area. Those wondering about the validity of the Wegmans/Walter Reed proposal will certainly ask whether we could imagine 20,000 people in vehicles clogging Georgia Avenue and 16th Street on a Sunday morning.
>> The bus company that owned the vehicle which overturned on Interstate 95 in Virginia last week, killing four and injuring dozens of others, has had its license revoked by the Department of Transportation after trying to continue service by using different names (108 Tours and 108 Bus) and repainting its buses after the crash. The driver in that fatal crash, Kin Yiu Cheung, will be arraigned on four charges of involuntary manslaughter this Wednesday — Cheung was overheard saying he was tired while talking on a cell phone before the crash. (Just pile all of this onto the “unreassuring discoveries” pile.)
>> Speaking of suburban traffic, Falls Church could be a gridlocked nightmare today — that’s because the only voting site for a runoff in the Peruvian presidential election on the East Coast of the U.S. is located inside Falls Church High School on Leesburg Pike. Thousands of Peruvians are expected to descend on the site, which, fortunately, is at least located close to the West Falls Church Metro station.
>> The intersex bass are back! As Potomac Conservancy President Hedrick Belin tells WTOP: “clearly, the fact that the male bass have eggs is telling us something’s wrong with our water.”
