The figures for this past Saturday’s cleanup are in — 4.27 tons (8,540 lbs.)!
Thanks to all the volunteers (including VCU staff and City workers)!
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VCU Warns About Upcoming Traffic
From VCU press release:
RICHMOND, Va. (June 1, 2016) – The Virginia Commonwealth University Police Department expects an increase in traffic near VCU’s Monroe Park Campus and around the Stuart C. Siegel Center during high school graduation ceremonies starting Tuesday, June 7. Twenty-seven high schools from Richmond and Chesterfield, Hanover, Henrico and New Kent counties and a technical school will host ceremonies at the Siegel Center between June 7 and June 18.
Graduating students and their guests are advised to arrive early at the Siegel Center. Attendance for the ceremonies is expected to range from 2,500 to more than 6,000. In anticipation of these events, VCU Police, VCU Parking and Transportation, the City of Richmond Transportation Engineering Division and the Richmond Police Department have established a regional traffic plan and have added staffing.
Law enforcement officers will be directing traffic around the Siegel Center before and after each graduation. Guests with mobility impairment can be dropped off in front of the Siegel Center on Broad Street, near the intersection of Broad and North Harrison streets.
“Our goal is to keep drivers and pedestrians moving as quickly and safely as possible through the area,” said VCU Police Capt. Sean Ingram. “Drivers in Richmond may want to consider alternate routes to avoid heavy traffic before and after the ceremonies. We appreciate the public’s patience during one of the busiest times of year at the Siegel Center.”
Attendees with blue or red parking passes, issued by area schools, can park in either the West Broad Street Parking Deck at 1111 W. Broad St. or at the Bowe Street Parking Deck at 601 Bowe St. The Siegel Center is located at 1200 W. Broad St.
2016 Siegel Center Graduation Schedule
(Doors open one hour prior to the start of each ceremony.)Tuesday, June 7
3 p.m., St. Gertrude High School
Thursday, June 9
10 a.m., Thomas Dale High School
2:30 p.m., Clover Hill High School
7 p.m., Monacan High SchoolFriday, June 10
10 a.m., Cosby High School
2:30 p.m., Manchester High School
7 p.m., Matoaca High SchoolSaturday, June 11
10 a.m., James River High School
2 p.m., Midlothian High SchoolMonday, June 13
10 a.m., Meadowbrook High School
2:30 p.m., L.C. Bird High School
7 p.m., Carver College and Career AcademyTuesday, June 14
11 a.m., Henrico High School
3 p.m., Highland Springs High School
7 p.m., Glen Allen High SchoolWednesday, June 15
11 a.m., Hermitage High School
3 p.m., J.R. Tucker High School
7 p.m., Deep Run High SchoolThursday, June 16
11 a.m., Varina High School
3 p.m., Douglas S. Freeman High School
7 p.m., Mills E. Godwin High SchoolFriday, June 17
1 p.m., ECPI
7 p.m., New Kent High SchoolSaturday, June 18
8:30 a.m., Hanover High School
Noon, Patrick Henry High School
3:30 p.m., Atlee High School
7 p.m., Lee-Davis High School
Project Clean and Green Move Dumpsters
From VCU Police:
Need a place to dump bags of trash when moving out of apartments? VCU’s Division of Community Engagement has a map posted online.
(For a full list of resources, visit: http://bit.ly/25e6Hmi) #VCU #RVA
Late Notice: The VCU Guitar Ensemble At Pine Street Baptist Church
The VCU Guitar Ensemble will be performing at the 11:00 service today at Pine Street Baptist Church. The ensemble has 20 guitarists. All are invited.
Open High Does It Again- Gold Medal
From the magazine:
Open High is ranked 10th within Virginia. Students have the opportunity to take Advanced Placement® coursework and exams. The AP® participation rate at Open High is 100 percent. The student body makeup is 42 percent male and 58 percent female, and the total minority enrollment is 60 percent. Open High is 1 of 10 high schools in the Richmond City Public Schools.
RVA Cleanup/VCU Paint The Town Green This Saturday
From announcement:
Randolph neighbors are looking for a few more volunteer hands this Saturday. We will be covering from Meadow to the western parts of Oregon Hill. In addition to the litter cleanup we will be working to finishing the storm drain marking we started last year.
We will meet at the Randolph a Community Center at 1415 Grayland from 9-12pm. If you can only come for an hour, we’ll take it! Thank you!
Www.meetup.com/RVA-Clean-Sweep
Www.facebook.com/rvacleansweep
@rvacleansweep
#pickuplitterRVA
Note that this is also the date for VCU’s Paint The Town Green community event.
RPS Student Walkout Protest Planned For Monday
From WRIC television news story:
Students at Open High School are spearheading plans to walk out of class at 2 p.m. on Monday, with students at every high school making plans to participate. The coordinated efforts come as a show of opposition to the potential closing of several Richmond Public Schools.
“We need better,” said Open High School junior Chris Bolling. “We know that we deserve better.”
Bolling and his classmates are ready to fight for the future of Richmond’s Public Schools.
This is not the first time that Open High students have lead this sort of protest. In 2014, Open High students marched on City Hall to bring attention to misplaced public priorities and dilapidated school conditions in other Richmond public schools’ buildings.
GRC Update Update
Paraphrased from neighbors who were able to attend yesterday’s meeting about the update to the Gladding Residential Center at Laurel and W Main:
Meeting with VCU yesterday and these facts came up- the new high rise first year housing building will be 12 stories tall, taller than both the Altria Theatre and the VCU School of Engineering.
VCU has posted on their web page drawings of the proposed dorm here:
http://www.housing.vcu.edu/grc-project/
Meeting attendees expressed concerns about how the sunlight in Monroe Park will be affected during certain times of year.
As of now, the private company leasing the property and building/managing the dorm WILL be responsible for taxes to the city but that issue still needs to be followed.
Nothing official yet but VCU is looking at disallowing the first year students living in the center from having cars as of the 2017 academic year.
To many peoples’ relief, the historic Branch Bath building will be retained and incorporated into the new building design.
There are concerns about the future of the rest of the lot. Residents do not want just a surface parking lot at this location or, on the other end of the scale, a building over four or five stories. It is important for the University to respect the scale of the adjacent Oregon Hill Historic District.
It’s important that VCU reiterate and hold previous promises that it will not expand into the south side of Cary Street or any further into the Oregon Hill Historic District.
In Monroe Park Saturday
VCU holds its 2016 Intercultural Festival. With the tagline “Uniquely United”, the ICF happens April 2nd from 1-6pm in Monroe Park.
Join us for live entertainment, cultural activities, and food from around the world!
Also in Monroe Park, at 2pm, the group ASWAN is holding a third community forum on the south edge of the park.
For more information, a recap of forum #2, printable flyers, and more, check out ASWAN’s website:
http://www.aswan-rva.org/2016/03/31/weekend-of-32-community-forum-art-making-meeting/
Urban Wildlife Camera Project
From Science in the Park webpage:
In the spring of 2014, we set out to catalog the biodiversity, or the number of different species, found within the James River Park System. Healthy and diverse habitats support healthy and diverse groups of plants and animals, but the animals in our park can be elusive and often go unseen. To catch them on video, we set out special “game cameras” that record a video when triggered remotely by motion or temperature. Scientists use these cameras to track and monitor wildlife or to record how a species behaves, and our animal friends did not disappoint! For almost a year, we recorded hundreds, if not thousands, of videos that reveal the animals that call our park home — some common and others that may surprise you …!
If you enjoy these photos and videos, you may want to join the Urban Wildlife_JRPS FaceBook page to stay updated with the latest…
