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Open High Fall Festival This Saturday
From the FaceBook event page:
Open High’s 2nd Annual Fall Festival will be on October 26, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. In addition to the chili cook-off, there will be a cornhole tournament! We are looking for teams to compete. Students, faculty, school families, alumni, parents, clubs – all teams are welcome. The cost to compete is $5 per student team and all other teams are $10 per team. There will be prizes awarded to the winners. Sign up here to help: https://signup.com/go/CGGdinR
Last year’s event was very good.
Open High School Alumni
Some Open High alumni recently got together informally to share some memories and laughs and discuss holding a bigger, more formal event in the future.
Throwback Thursday: St. Andrews School Staff Early 1900’s
VCU Pass Out
A Pine Street neighbor reports:
Just another Friday night living behind vcu. Drunk college student passed out in a pool of his urine on the sidewalk next to our house. Tired of the regular student drama here. Stay classy.
Meanwhile, VCU President Rao confirms local suspicions while refusing to respect our neighborhood.
Sexual Assault Investigation, Involving ‘Two Persons of Interest’
The Times Dispatch is reporting this morning that VCU police are looking Virginia Commonwealth University are looking for two “persons of interest” believed to be involved in a sexual assault that was captured on video and posted on Snapchat, a social media messaging service. They believe the incident occurred late at night on Saturday or in the early morning hours of Sunday but detectives are not exactly sure what house or apartment it took place in.
Using the university’s security cameras, police tracked the two men walking from Oregon Hill onto VCU’s Monroe Park Campus. The men were seen walking along West Main Street near VCU’s Gladding Residence Center.
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In images provided by police, one man wore a dark-colored and yellow top; the other man was wearing a gray shirt and a red Cincinnati Reds baseball cap.
If you have information, please contact the police.
VCU Ram Camp This Coming Monday – Focus On Graffiti Removal
VCU RAM CAMP 2019 is approaching August 12-15, 2019. As part of it, there will be a neighborhood clean up and graffiti removal on Monday from 9:30 am to 12:30 pm. Volunteer Sarah Gaskin will be meeting student volunteers at the Altria Theater and leading them into the neighborhood. If neighbors would like graffiti cleaned off their private property, please turn in liability waivers to City Councilperson Parker Agelasto’s liaison, Amy Robins.
Tree Down
Does anyone how or when this tree came down in the Linear Park?
Open High Beautification Day Thursday
Hands On Greater Richmond and Richmond Public Schools are sponsoring another ‘RPS Shines’ volunteer workday at Open High School this Thursday, August 8, from 9am to noon. The previous one looked like a lot of fun.
Chalk the Walk Tuesday
“India – Kolam chalk art – welcome”by McKay Savage is licensed under CC BY 2.0
Announcement-
Greetings dear neighbors, we’d love to invite you to join us on Tuesday between 5:30 – 6:30 to create chalk welcome messages for the students of St. Andrew’s School, who will be back to school this Wednesday, August 7! Let’s greet and encourage them! We will have chalk, just show up and share a drawing or greeting. Meet in front of the school at the corner of Idlewood and Cherry. See about it! — with Chris Milk.