Oregon Hill Neighborhood Association Meeting On Tuesday

From OHNA email today:

Tuesday October 27: OHNA Monthly Meeting
Join at 7pm. Bylaws changes will be discussed—VIEW HERE:
Bylaws Summary of Proposed Amendments
Bylaws Redline showing proposed new and deleted language.
(Editor’s note Contact OHNA for meeting Zoom link and copies of the information above)

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Saturday, October 31: Hallowe’en in Oregon Hill
Hallowe’en Parade: Beginning around 7:30 pm, from Monroe Park, down Laurel, and up Pine to Albemarle and the Linear Park.
Expect many Trick-or-Treaters beginning before dark.
Get a hot dog at Pine Street Baptist!

OHNA Elections: Run for (OHNA) Office!
OHNA holds officer elections each November. Express interest now!
Any OHNA resident or member can serve as an OHNA officer or committee chair.
Get involved! Express interest in serving here: https://tinyurl.com/cnj2p7r4
An ad hoc Elections Committee will review expressions of interest, matching candidates to interests, skills, and available positions.
Learn more: OHNArva@gmail.com.

November:

Oregon Hill Street Tree Planting Blitz
Thursday 11/5 9:00am – Dominion workday
Friday – 11/6 9:00am – Alliance for Chesapeake Bay lead
Saturday – 11/7 9:00am – Arbor Day: Oregon Hill Community day!
Come for as many of the three days as you can, or just one! We’ll be planting trees each day. Meet 9am at Pleasants Park; drop ins are welcome any time.
Sign up to volunteer and more information (impacts, maps, tree species) here.
NOTE: Expect some neighborhood sidewalk impacts the week of November 2nd as augering, planting and watering occurs and impacts around Pleasants Park for staging.

Oregon Hill Community Craft Night
November 19, 6pm: Pine Street Baptist Church, 400 S Pine St

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Oregon Hill Neighborhood Association
Valerie L’Herrou, President
John Bolecek, Treasurer
Amanda Bradley, Co-Vice-President
Bryan Clark Green, Co-Vice President
Jennifer Hancock, Co-Vice President
Susan Hill, Co-Vice President
Scott Racette, Secretary

OHNA Committees:
Bylaws: ohna-bylaws@googlegroups.com
Concert Relations: ohna-concert-relations@googlegroups.com
Events: ohna-events@googlegroups.com
FOOHP: foohp@googlegroups.com
Traffic & Safety: ohna-traffic-safety@googlegroups.com
Zoning: ohna-zoning@googlegroups.com

JOIN OHNA: https://forms.gle/joCpHqcPrShu8qf86
For events and more: https://ohnarva.org/

OHNA Fall Festival Postponed To NEXT Saturday, Oct. 24th

From email announcement:

The Fall Festival is postponed from Saturday, October 17th, until Saturday, October 24th.
We scheduled a rain date for a reason, and we unfortunately need to use it!

Please come out on October 24th at 4:00pm to celebrate with your neighbors!

A reminder of the schedule:
4:30pm: Kids costume contest
4:45pm: Pet costume contest
5:00pm Visit from a firetruck
6:30pm outdoor movie: The Nightmare Before Christmas
All of the fun we have planned:
Hot dogs and popcorn donated by our friends at Pine Street Baptist Church
Incredible 6-person dinner to L’Opossum for auction
Gift cards to Adarra and Allianz Amphitheatre for raffle
Crafts and games for kids
Bake sale
Fabulous tee-shirts for sale
See you then!!

Questions? Contact Oregon Hill Neighborhood Association at ohnarva@gmail.com

Recycling Pickup Tomorrow Morning/Trash Pickup On Thursday

Tomorrow is listed on the CVWMA as a“Red Wednesday”, which means recycling pickup.

Because of the City’s Indigenous Peoples’ Day closure on Monday, trash collection is delayed one day, so Oregon Hill’s should be Thursday.

Please go over what can be recycled.

NOTE: CVWMA (Central Virginia Waste Management Authority) has announced that all curbside recycling must now be INSIDE the CVWMA containers with lid closed. Items beside the container or on top of it will not be collected. In fact, incorrect setouts may not be collected at all. This is new as of July 1 for all our curbside recyclers, with the exception of townhomes/condos still using small bins. (And yes, this also applies to flattened cardboard boxes.)

Ideally, rolling recycling containers are stored and deployed in the back alleys along with trash cans. Please make sure you pick up containers after pickup tomorrow night. More CVWMA information can be found at this link:
https://cvwma.com/cvwma-locations/richmond/

In order to take your recycling to the next level, read this: 10 ways to improve your recycling.

In recycling news…Would you like to see what happens to your recycling after you put it in the container? CVWMA is coordinating tours of the TFC Recycling facility in Chester, Va. on Thursday, Nov. 5, at 10 a.m. Participants must be at least 18 years old.
Spots are limited and first-come, first-served. Signup is required at this form: https://bit.ly/4hScMh9

Community Craft Night & Pumpkin Decorating This Thursday

From FaceBook event page:

Join the monthly Community Craft Night at Pine Street Church. This month, we will also have pumpkin decorating at our gathering. Bring your own craft to work on, a snack to share, and conversations to enjoy with your neighbors. All ages and crafting abilities welcome. Enter through the Albemarle Street door.

Dada the Data! A Funeral March for Intelligence! – Halloween Parade Announced

From All The Saints Theater Company:

Dada the Data! A Funeral March for Intelligence! Our 21st Annual Halloween Parade!!! What is dada but the ether, the string and the oscillation, the vibes are Dada. The oppressors who push for a post human realization, 100 years aftter Dadaism was born because the deranged taste for violence, war, and tyranny had left the people no choice! Again we must stand up to the oppressors and their mania for improvement, all the while we sell our blood and days for the promise of intelligence and a glimpse of immortalizzed bourgeoisie. We do not consent! Saintly Dadaist believe in the divine ability to be silly in the face of war. Join us in this Requiem of data collection. Let us smash the flocking reality that does not serve us. We have the right to privacy, we do not consent to surveillance. As the late great Dada Parton taught us, 9-5 blue collar dadaists roll out of bed and sip out of the holy grail of ambition and take to the streets every Halloween and to go to work on Monday!!!!!so we can go head to head with the Money God system and their liquid intelligence. So intelligence is dead!! And so what?? What for do we care ? What for do we love?? What for makes us shiver when the wind touches our scalp? The stocks are nothing but paper plates!to be trades people to burn the meat robot makers from the inside out! Time to play dumb, intelligence is dead, the resistance is full of fools, and boo hoo, big scum!! Create your own world, mimes the word, and pie the clowns is the new eat the rich!!!!

And…

All the Saints Annual Halloween Parade is a labor of love, supported through community fundraising and donations. This year, Puppets Off Broad Street is thrilled to help with fundraising in celebration of the 21st Anniversary of this Richmond tradition. Your donation is tax deductible.
Dada your dollars!
This year we are using everything but the kitchen sink to bring you a ready made revolution. All the Saints humbly ask for some money love from the Richmond community to help support the small but mighty crew of blue collar Dadaists coming together to bring you the parade. In the last few years, our crew has been larger, encompassing more traveling artists. This year we are scaling back to a small core team and using up our existing materials in order to shrink our overhead and fundraising goal to make the parade more sustainable. Please help us keep the parade alive this hallows eve by throwing us some bones.
Donations go towards
Material Costs & Art Supplies:
We strive to use recycled and donated materials primarily, but additional material costs do come up! Paint, brushes, fabric, hardware, bells, tape, cornstarch. Art ultimately is free, but paint is not. It shouldn’t be unsustainable to create art, a little goes a long way to help us manifest the full colorful world we build (and repair) every year without putting the saints in debt.
Transportation
Every parade is a beautiful storm of coordination, favors, and a love for Halloween. We pull upon a network of friends with vehicles able to transport the puppets all around town during October and to ferry our cardboard creations to the parade and back. Additionally we rent a truck. Donations help keep gas in the tank and us able to show up with more and more puppets.
We’re really just trying to cover costs and keep our crew fed this year, but anything additional gets distributed amongst the artists as compensation for all the hard work they do.
Thank you for supporting us Richmond, see ya on the streets 🙂
Our goal is $5500 this year✨
https://www.paypal.com/donate?campaign_id=TNLAK5SEALHPQ
If you’d prefer sending us donations via Venmo, send donations to @saintmarkoos

‘The Wolf House’ Saturday Morning

Nowhere Cinema will present ‘The Wolf House’ at the Richmond Main Library this Saturday at 11 am.

From Wikipedia:
‘The Wolf House’ is a 2018 Chilean adult animated horror film directed by Cristobal León & Joaquín Cociña and written by León, Cociña and Alejandra Moffat. Inspired by the actual case of Colonia Dignidad, The Wolf House is presented as a fairy-tale themed animated propaganda film produced by the leader of the sect in order to indoctrinate its followers. The film uses elements of avant-garde cinema, dark fantasy, psychological drama, surrealism, and supernatural horror. It had its world premiere at the 68th Berlin International Film Festival in the Forum section on February 22, 2018.