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Byrd House Market Today

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From email announcement:
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What is for Supper?
I just learned about a cookbook project called Cheap and Good by Leanne Brown. You can download the cookbook as a free PDF: Click Here. Designed to show you that you can eat well on $4.00 per day, there are recipes from Breakfast to

I think my favorite section so far is “Things on Toast”! Like Tomato Scrambled Eggs or Irish Rare Bit (melted sharp cheddar cheese with dill pickle chunks)

What a range! How simple! It’s all about the flavor! http://www.leannebrown.com/

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Baked Goods
Organic Wheat Breads and Turkish Pastries
Irish Porter Cakes and Soda Bread
Baklava

“Dine In”
Brunswick Stew
Asian Noodles with Fresh Vegetables
BBQ Pork Buns
Chicken and Beef KeBobs
Vegie, Chicken & Shrimp Spring Rolls
Pork Rinds and Popsicles

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Who’s Playin’?
Guy G. Gorman
G-Man Extraordinaire!

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For more information, http://byrdhousemarket.blogspot.com

Neighborhood Businesses During The UCI Bike Race

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Cary Street restaurant Dinamo is working with local Ardent Craft Ales and international bicycle company Rapha to throw what is essentially a party during the upcoming UCI Bicycle Race.

Mamma Zu’s will be closed for its annual vacation during the UCI Bicycle Race.

Music store Vinyl Conflict will also close during the race.

The City’s Main Street library will be closed, as their facility will be used by race organizers.

What are other neighborhood businesses doing while the race is happening?

Byrd House Market Welcomes Back Students

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From email announcement:

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Welcome Back Students!

Okra Onions Peaches Peas Plums Potatoes Pastured Chicken Radishes Nectarines Melons Tomatillos Tomatoes Watermelons Zucchini Hummus
Cantaloupe Carrots

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WHO? The Byrd Farm
Shiloh’s Micros Agriberry
Tomten Farm Deer Run Farm
Epic Gardens Faith Farm Foods
Two & a Half Irishmen and Ninja Kombucha

Chard Raspberries Rosemary Goat Cheese Scallions Shallots Summer squash Chiles Bell Peppers Beets Asian Pears Blackberries Blueberries Sausages Corn Cucumbers Eggplant Garlic Green beans Green onions

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The BAKED Kind
Organic Wheat Breads and Turkish Pastries
Irish Porter Cakes and Soda Bread

EAT NOW!
Brunswick Stew
Asian Noodles with Fresh Vegetables
BBQ Pork Buns
Chicken and Beef KeBobs
Vegie, Chicken & Shrimp Spring Rolls
Pork Rinds and Popsicles

GIFTS and NICETIES
Bouquets and Cut Flowers
Goat Milk Soaps & Skin Care Goodies

DON’T FORGET! You’ve got OPTIONS!!
What kind of Card’s in your wallet? SWIPE your SNAP, CREDIT or DEBIT card at the Market Info Tent. We’re like an ATM but for wooden “nickels” (see image over there). Spend your tokens at Byrd House Market this week!

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For more information, go to Byrd House Market website.

Hollywood Cemetery’s New Enterprises

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Richmond BizSense has an article on Hollywood Cemetery’s new businesses:

Excerpts:

RVA Gem Car Tours recently began selling private tours of Hollywood Cemetery on six-person electric carts.

Owner Buck Ward said the venture, which launched in May, is a spin-off of his other businesses Segway of Richmond, which launched in 2008, and RVA Trolley, which got rolling in 2012.

Ward said the cemetery tour business is in keeping with his mission of letting people experience Richmond in different ways. He said the carts cater to groups too big for a Segway tour but too small to rent out a trolley.

“This is another way to see and discover Richmond,” Ward said. “It’s more geared toward private tours.”

RVA Gem Car Tours has three Polaris GEM cars in its fleet. Ward said they cost about $20,000 apiece – the price includes the cost to install solar panels on each vehicle. The cars are street legal and can go as fast as 24 miles per hour.

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On the virtual side of things, the nonprofit Friends of Hollywood Cemetery launched an interactive website in July that lets users take virtual tours of the burial ground.

The group enlisted local ad firm Addison Clark, the agency of record for the cemetery.

Jeff Allen, managing partner at Addison Clark, said the new site caters to the two segments Hollywood Cemetery serves: tourists and plot seekers.

“Hollywood Cemetery is a very unique entity,” Allen said. “Everyone thinks of them as an outdoor museum. Not a lot of folks know that they are an open, functioning cemetery. Those that do know assume they are cost prohibitive or for old Richmond elite.”

Over the course of about six months, Addison Clark and HostRVA, formerly NimblePitch, built a digitized map of Hollywood Cemetery and overlaid it with GPS coordinates. They then focused on compiling online reference materials and integrating them with points of interest on the digital map.

The website can be used both by on-site visitors looking for interactive, self-guided tours and by remote desktop users curious about the cemetery.

Beautiful Day to Spend at Byrd House Market!

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From email announcement:

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86 with low humidity. Beautiful day to spend some time at Byrd House Market.
See you there.

Cantaloupe Carrots Chard
Raspberries Rosemary
Scallions Shallots Summer squash
Chiles Bell Peppers Beets
Blackberries Blueberries
Corn Cucumbers Eggplant Garlic
Green beans Green onions Melons
Nectarines Okra Onions Peaches
Peas Plums Potatoes
Radishes Tomatillos Tomatoes
Watermelons Zucchini and buckets of Bouquets and cut Flowers Goat Milk Soaps & Skin Care Goodies

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Show your College ID Card (Student, Faculty or Staff) to Today’s $10 Deal Vendors:
Origins Farm
The Byrd Farm
Shiloh’s Micros
Agriberry
Two & a Half Irishmen
Tomten Farm
Deer Run Farm
Epic Gardens

Thanks St. Edwards Episcopal Church summer interns for spending a week fixing, cleaning, lifting, building, sanding, painting, mowing, wiping, watering, hauling, setting up and taking down. They were great!
WCVE Idea Stations is back!
What’s playing? Where IS Sesame Street? Bring ALL your local public television questions with you today.
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DON’T FORGET! You’ve got OPTIONS!!
What kind of Card’s in your wallet? SWIPE your SNAP, CREDIT or DEBIT card at the Market Info Tent. We’re like an ATM but for wooden “nickels” (see image over there).
Spend your tokens at Byrd House Market this week or next, all the way through October.

For more info, go to Byrd House Market web page.

Virginia Nuclear Energy Consortium Meeting Thursday

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Open to the public:
The Virginia Nuclear Energy Consortium Authority (VNECA) Board is meeting Thursday, August 20 at 10am at the VCU East Engineering Hall, Room E3218. 401 West Main Street, Richmond, VA.

Additionally, as a reminder the last meeting of the year will be held on Thursday, November 5th at 10am in Richmond. Please mark your calendars if you have not already.
As you may have seen, the Governor announced five appointments to the VNECA board last week. In addition to reappointing David Christian, Mary Alice Hayward and Matthew Mulherin, Dr. William Briscoe of GWU and Mr. Woody Lawman of Flowserve were appointed to the Board.
All five appointments are for four years running until June 30, 2019. Their titles and contact information is listed below.
William J. Briscoe of Charles Town, West Virginia, Chair, Department of Physics, George Washington University and Director, GW Institute of Nuclear Studies, GWINS;
David A. Christian of Toano, CEO, Dominion Generation;
Mary Alice Hayward of McLean, Vice President, Government Affairs & Advocacy, AREVA INC.;
Woody Lawman of Midlothian, Director of Sales for Navy and Nuclear Products, Flowserve-Limitorque;
Matthew J. Mulherin of Yorktown, President, Newport News Shipbuilding;

See proposed minutes from previous meeting by clicking here.

Some additional nuclear news:

“$19 Billion for Dominion’s New Nuclear Reactor? Huge cost involved to expand North Anna plant.”

“Low-dose radiation exposure slightly increases leukemia risk: study”

Symbolism and Monument Styles Walking Tour of Hollywood Cemetery Today

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There is a Symbolism and Monument Styles Walking Tour of Hollywood Cemetery today from 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm

Learn to interpret the spiritual, occupational, vegetal and fraternal signs and symbols found on headstones and ironworks. Discover the historical origins of monument styles including cradle stones, pyramids, pier stones, mausoleums and reliquaries. Meet at the entrance at Cherry and Albemarle streets.

$15 per person
$5 for Valentine Members
Walk-ups welcome.
Cash or check
On-street parking.

– See more at the Valentine’s event page.

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Fun fact: The office at Hollywood Cemetery was first built as a gate house, designed to look like the ruins of a stone tower. It cost just over $2,000 to construct.

WBCH and Rostov’s School Supply Drive: Aug. 8-15

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From the William Byrd Community House (WBCH) blog:

Rostov’s Coffee & Tea is a Richmond institution and WBCH is honored to partner with them in supplying those most in need with school items to start the school year.

Rostov’s is located on 1618 W. Main Street, RVA 23220
They have over 50 types of coffee and 60 types of tea.
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The supply drive will run from August 8 – 15, 2015
Rostov’s Coffee & Tea will match your school supply donation.