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Scene from ‘Welcome Back’ Cookout Yesterday
Despite emergencies, the ‘Welcome Back’ cookout went on in Pleasants Park. This photo was take as it was winding down- I understand there were a lot more people there earlier.
Welcome Back Cookout For Students Sunday
Virginia Nuclear Energy Consortium Meeting Thursday
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”
VCU Volunteers Help With Sidewalks
Here is a nice group of about four dozen VCU students volunteering to scrape sidewalks in Oregon Hill today.
“OREGON HILL BEAUTIFICATION – YARD TOOLS NEEDED”
This plea came from neighbor Jimmy Blackford last week in regard to upcoming volunteer work:
Can you lend us some yard tools for a special Oregon Hill work project happening Wed & Thurs of next week (8/12 & 8/13)?
We’re scraping the grass from our brick sidewalks. So we need:
– SQUARE BLADED SHOVELS & SPADES
– WHEEL BARROWS
– HEAVY DUTY SCRAPERS
– GARDEN EDGERS
– GARDEN RAKES
If you can provide any, please contact me by phone,text or email. If possible, you can mark each item with your name using duct tape or some such thing.
Also, if you’d like to join this project, please contact me. Some 50 VCU students are volunteering in Oregon Hill for this task. It’s going from 8am-1pm on Wed & Thursday. You could join us at any time there – but the earlier the better.
Yours,
Jimmy Blackford
prairiegates@hotmail.com
(804) 335-5808
Councilman Parker C. Agelasto to hold a meeting for 5th District with Back to School Supply Drive On Wednesday
From City Council press release:
Councilman Parker C. Agelasto to hold a meeting for the Richmond Central 5th Voter District: Back to School Supply Drive
NOTE: This meeting was previously schedule to be held at the Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Richmond – Southside Club, but will now be held at the Richmond Government Services Center at Southside Plaza: All Richmond Central 5th Voter District residents invited and encouraged to attend
WHAT (Richmond, Virginia U.S.A.) – The Honorable Parker C. Agelasto, Councilman, Richmond City Council, Richmond Central 5th Voter District, will hold a district-wide meeting for the Richmond Central 5th Voter District. This meeting will include a 2015 Richmond Central 5th Voter District School Supply Drive and all individuals wishing to donate school supplies for children for the upcoming school year are invited and encouraged to bring them to the meeting. The most needed school items include the following:
· #2 Pencils
· Crayons
· Colored Pencils
· Boxes of Tissues
· Scissors
· Rulers
· 2 Pocket folders
· 3 ring binders
· Spiral Notebooks
· Loose Leaf Paper
· Composition Notebooks
· Elmer’s Glue/Glue SticksThis is part of regular meetings Councilman Agelasto holds, which include information on his Richmond Central 5th Voter District goals and accomplishments; a thematic agenda of current interest; and, special guests. These meetings are free and open to the public and all Richmond Central 5th Voter District residents are invited and encouraged to attend. The planned agenda/discussion topics for the upcoming meeting include:
· Richmond Public Schools – Update
Dr. Dana T. Bedden, Superintendent, Richmond Public Schools
and “Executive Cabinet Members”· Groundwork RVA – Presentation
Ms. Giles Harnsberger, Executive Director, Groundwork RVA· Reedy Creek – Update on upcoming work
Ms. Rosemary Green, Deputy Director, Richmond Department of Public Utilities· Questions, Comments and/or Concerns
The Honorable Parker C. Agelasto, Councilman
Richmond City Council, Richmond Central 5th Voter DistrictWHEN Wednesday, August 5, 2015
6:30-8:00 p.m.WHERE New Location:
Richmond Government Services Center at Southside Plaza
4100 Hull Street; Richmond, VirginiaWHO The Honorable Parker C. Agelasto, Councilman
Richmond City Council, Richmond Central 5th Voter DistrictCONTACT For more information, please contact:
The Honorable Parker C. Agelasto, Councilman
Richmond City Council, Richmond Central 5th Voter District, at 804.646.6050 (tel), or parker.agelasto@richmondgov.com(email)Councilman Agelasto’s Future Richmond Central 5th Voter District Meetings
Wednesday, October 7, 2015
Richmond Department of Parks, Recreation and Community Facilities
World War Memorial Carillon
0 S. Boulevard, Richmond, VirginiaWednesday, December 2, 2015
HOLIDAY PARTY
Virginia War Memorial
621 South Belvidere Street, Richmond, Virginia– E N D –
Open High Grad To Train With Wynton Marsalis
Excerpt from Richmond.com article:
Drew Anderson, a young jazz trumpeter from Richmond, will perform with Wynton Marsalis’ Summer Jazz Academy at the Castleton Festival over the next two weekends.
Anderson, 18, joins 42 other U.S. high school jazz students who were handpicked by Jazz at Lincoln Center to participate in the new advanced training program.
A recent graduate of the Open High School, Anderson sharpened his talent at Richmond Youth Jazz Guild, which his father founded.
1889 Baist Atlas
Like the more widely known early 20th century Sanborn Insurance maps, the 1889 Baist Atlas covers the entire City of Richmond in great detail, identifying frame structures in yellow, and brick buildings in red. The map above covers a portion of the Oregon Hill neighborhood south of Spring Street. This area is still referred to as “Belvidere” on the map because it was largely subdivided from the original Belvidere estate. In 1889 few houses south of Spring Street and west of Belvidere Street were made of brick, other than the Parsons House (identified as the Spring St. Home), and the row of brick houses on the 600 block of Holly Street. All of the vibrant Oregon Hill neighborhood east of Belvidere Street has been demolished, including the row of brick houses on Green Street shown on this map that were built by the infamous Ben Green.
The 1889 Baist Atlas is available for free download from the VCU Libraries digital archives:
http://dig.library.vcu.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/bai/id/27
VCU/HDL Deal Blowup
Excerpts from Richmond BizSense article:
Just after it informed VCU that it must back out of a promise made three years ago, Health Diagnostic Laboratory must also explain what happened to “large sums of money” that may have changed hands in the years leading up to its recent financial troubles.
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HDL also recently informed VCU that it will not be able to fulfill the $4 million pledge it made to the school’s athletic department three years ago, the school confirmed this week.
HDL, once one of the city’s fastest-growing and most generous corporations, failed to pay its most recent $400,000 annual installment to the school due June 30.
The pledge – the largest in VCU Athletics history – promised equal installments over 10 years to help fund the school’s new $25 million basketball practice facility, along with other capital projects.
In exchange, HDL’s name was plastered on signage around all of VCU’s athletic facilities, including the Siegel Center, Sports Backers Stadium and the Cary Street Gym, declaring them part of the HDL, Inc. Athletic Village.