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Byrd House Market Tomorrow
From email:
Byrd House Market is ON!
Celebrate the end of the regular season and daylight savings time…
Launch the cool chill
Lightly Breezy, Briskly Chilly. Will Feel Like 48.
Renegade (winter) Market!
3pm to 6pm (not 7pm)We’ll have an
Apple Pressing Demo
and
Music under the Big Top
(teehee, our version).What’s coming up?
November 8: A Community Conversation on Residential Segregation presented by Housing Opportunities Made Equal and Virginia Poverty Law Center
Click here for Details and RSVPDecember 6: Byrd House Bash at Perly’s – William Byrd’s annual spaghetti dinner is a great family, board, volunteer, event to celebrate a year of hard and great work in our community. Join us. Tickets just $15 per person (and they do sell out, so hurry! quick! quick!)
See you tomorrow!
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Ana Edwards, Manager
Byrd House Market & Library Programs
Grace Arents Library & Education Center
William Byrd Community House
www.wbch.org / 804.643.2717 ext.306
Moped Theft
From Richmond Police Department:
4th Precinct
MOPED THEFT
11/3/12 3:00 p.m. – 4:10 p.m.
100 block of South Laurel Street
An unknown person(s) stole a secured moped from the above location.
Smashing Pumpkins
On the Preservation of Richmond’s Canal
From email:
To all those interested in the future of Richmond’s historic canal:
The attached letter is from Mr. D.J. Ballinger, president of the international canal organization Inland Waterways International, containing a resolution of support for the preservation and wise use of the remains of the James River & Kanawha Canal in Richmond. Originally known as the James River Canal, it was the first operating canal system with locks in America. It first opened in 1789 and was completed into the Great Basin in 1800. The canal company elected George Washington as its honorary president and gave him a grand tour in 1791. Today, much of the canal is still intact in Richmond.
The resolution was passed at the annual World Canals Conference, held this year in Yangzhou, China, on China’s Grand Canal. For 25 years these conferences have been held annually in America or Europe, and now, for the first time, in the far east. This one was held in conjunction with the Sixth World Canal Cities Expo, which has been held annually in Yangzhou. The Chinese are making the most of their canal heritage. Communities along its length are working together to nominate the Grand Canal as a World Heritage Site, and are using it to create beautiful parks and waterways much beloved by both tourists and those who live there. Efforts like this are going on all over the world.
Richmond rightly prides itself as a River Town and has learned much from other river cities. But Richmond is also a Canal City. The technology and philosophy of canal park development is not the same as river park development. We need to work not only with other river cities, but with other canal cities and canal parks to learn how we can put our historic canal to its best use for our city. The sweep of the canal around Oregon Hill is in danger and needs our help.
Bill Trout
November’s Hollywood Cemetery Tours
From the Valentine Richmond History Tour:
Nov. 3, 10, 17, 24 Highlights of Hollywood Cemetery (10-11:30am) WALKING TOURS
Learn about the cemetery’s history, artwork, symbolism and famous residents, including two U.S. Presidents, writer Ellen Glasgow, Confederate President Jefferson Davis and Generals George Pickett and J.E.B. Stuart. Meet at the rear of the stone structure on the left at the cemetery entrance, Cherry and Albemarle streets.Nov. 4, 11, 18 Hollywood Cemetery (2-4pm) WALKING TOURS
An extension of the daily “Highlights” tour, this version covers in more detail the cemetery’s unique history, landscape design, architecture, symbols and residents. Meet at the cemetery entrance at Cherry and Albemarle streets.Nov. 24 I Know Richmond: The Bus Tour (1-4pm) BUS TOUR
An overview of the history of Richmond, including Court End, the James River and the Fall Line, Church Hill, Jackson Ward, the Fan and Monument Avenue. Tour drives by St. John’s Church, Hollywood Cemetery, Main Street Station, the Jefferson Hotel and the Museum and White House of the Confederacy. Tour the State Capitol, walk Capitol Square and see the Civil Rights Memorial. Reservations required: (804) 649-0711 x301. Meet at the History Center.
Pine Street Baptist Church Yard Sale Saturday
Pine Street Baptist Church is hosting a yard sale
Also, they are once again selling Oregon Hill prints and afghans…
The Vampire’s Crypt
Letters To The Editor
The Times Dispatch featured this letter about the new 2nd St. connector road, echoing concerns brought up by Oregon Hill residents as well as the local Sierra Club:
Connector road should have sidewalks
Editor, Times-Dispatch:
As I biked home recently and saw the Second Street connector road under construction, I pondered the design, which calls for two narrow travel lanes and a sidewalk on only one side of the road. This road will connect Second Street just north of the Lee Bridge to Tredegar Street and descends at an extremely steep grade.
The lack of an uphill bike lane and sidewalks will increase delays for motorists and compromise safety for everyone. This new road is in the middle of the city and immediately adjacent to Belle Isle, the Canal Walk and the James River Park System — some of the most popular places to walk, run and bike in the city. For even more evidence that a sidewalk on both sides of the street is needed, look no further than Tredegar Street itself, which lacks a sidewalk on the north side and has a worn dirt path there instead. Fixing this is one of the recommendations in the new Riverfront Plan. What about the thousands of pedestrians who descend this hill to attend the Folk Festival?
Dominion employees will probably have the most time to ponder the road design as they wait behind bicyclists traveling uphill at 5 mph, a problem that would have been easily avoided by adding a mere 5-foot bike lane. It is always more expensive to retrofit a road than to build new, so please, Richmond, let’s stop being pennywise and pound foolish.
John Bolecek.
Richmond.
Also, Oregon Hill resident Todd Woodson implored for a change of leadership in the 5th District:
Trash/Recycling Pickup Tomorrow
This Wednesday is a red Wednesday, which means trash and recycling pickup. Please make sure you pick up containers after pickup tomorrow night. They do not belong on the sidewalk after tomorrow night (let’s keep the sidewalks clear for the Halloween Parade!).
In recycling news, The Eugene (Ore.) City Council voted 6-2 to approve a ban on single-use plastic bags at retail stores on Oct. 22. The ban will take effect in six months. Single-use paper bags are still allowed under the ordinance, but retailers are required to charge at least 5 cents each for those bags.