Trash/Recycling Pickup Tomorrow

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This Wednesday is a “Red Wednesday”, which means trash and recycling pickup. Ideally, rolling recycling containers are stored and deployed in the back alleys along with trash cans. Please make sure you pick up containers after pickup tomorrow night.

If you have not done so already, don’t forget to sign up for your Recycling Perks.
In order to take your recycling to the next level, read this: 10 ways to improve your recycling.

In recycling news, after initially declining to renew its contract with Hampton, TFC Recycling has continued taking the city’s material and working through negotiations. The Daily Press reports that the Hampton City Council recently approved using $600,000 from an enterprise fund to cover higher costs through FY19.

Meanwhile, in international news…Scotland has recently adopted a new recycling measurement system based on ‘Carbon Metrics’. This may prove influential as weight-based goals lose favor in the U.S., and the urgency for climate action increases.

Planning Commission Presentation

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Laurel Street neighbor, Charles Pool, on behalf of the Oregon Hill Home Improvement Council, made a presentation to the City of Richmond Planning Commission at their meeting this afternoon. Above are slides from his presentation. They support and reiterate previous statements from Oregon Hill Home Improvement Council and the Oregon Hill Neighborhood Association.

The Commission was considering both VCU’s master plan and an important ordinance, #2018-276, from Councilperson Agelasto that would require better public notification of rulings by the Zoning Administrator.

Foundry Market At Tredegar On Sunday

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From FaceBook Event page:

We’re excited for the return of Foundry Market, our celebration of Virginia makers and doers, in conjunction with the completion of outdoor construction on our brand-new museum building.

We’re also thrilled to be joined by Triple Crossing Beer for another one of their Triple Crossing at Tredegar pop-up beer gardens. So make plans to come shop, drink, and enjoy the beautiful riverwalk.

Vendors include:
Ruby Belle Adornments
South Claw Woodworking (Instagram: @south_claw_woodworking)
ScatteredBrains
Lucky Signs (Instagram: @lucky_signs)
Flannel Cakes Fiber
Square Of The Bone – Handmade Jewelry by Icka Cantilo
BRK RVA
The Timbered Wolf
Rabbit & Wren
Tasha McKelvey – Handmade Clay Goodness
Naturally Devine Wellness
Crewel and Unusual (Instagram: crewelandunusual)
Flourish Creative
Petite Shards Productions
ZouZous Basement
Robin’s Egg Jewelry
and more!

Winning Jack O’ Lantern

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Congratulations to Pine Street neighbor Alex Grace for her winning entry!

She wins a $50 L’Opossum restaurant gift card and $20 from yours truly.

Runner up is Pine Street neighbor Stephenie Harrington. She wins an Oregon Hill Terribles patch, made by The Wild Wander Company, kindly donated by Spring Street neighbor Jennifer Hancock.

Happy Halloween! Hope for more competition and prizes next year…

Coliseum Vs. Schools: Time For A New Referendum

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Well, this one has been bubbling for a while…but the Coliseum vs. Schools debate is about to rise to a new level. What? You say you don’t know what I am writing about? Click here for a quick refresher course.

Yesterday’s headlines made it pretty clear that Tom Farrell and VCU are going to play hard ball to make sure that their coliseum scheme comes first-

VCU Cancels University-wide Spring Commencement Ceremony

I was going to write a whole bit explaining this, but let’s allow Paul Goldman to do it:

Earth to RVA citizens: Why do think VCU is being denied use of the current Coliseum in May/2019 despite having used it for commencements since 1970’s? HINT: The Stoney/Farrell plan to use $500 million in PUBLIC RVA CITY money to build and finance a new Coliseum that will NOT be to owned by the city calls for demolishing the current Coliseum in March/2019! FACT: Farrell’s team is going around Richmond promising no-bid contracts to politically connected individuals if they will lobby the Council to ram thru this fiscally irresponsible Coliseum without giving RVA taxpayers a fair chance to weigh in. That’s why my citizen group is circulating the “Choose Children over Costly Coliseum” petition so you can sign it and put to Special Election vote as called for in the City Charter. Sign the petition! It’s your only way to truly be heard.

In other words, this is the ol’ fait accompli thing -“citizens can’t stop this new plan, it’s already been decided and in the works“…………. WRONG!

We can still make sure that the City of Richmond PUTS SCHOOLS FIRST! Before the coliseum. Before any other giant corporate welfare project.

What Goldman is referring to is his new City referendum effort to establish by law that the City has to put money from certain types of financing towards SCHOOLS FIRST. It will not be on the ballot this Election Day, but referendum supporters will be collecting signatures for a petition to get the new referendum on the ballot in 2019. It’s going to be interesting to see if a good coalition of grassroots can come together like the last time. Goldman is looking for more poll volunteers and donations for this new campaign.

And by the way, speaking of last time, that original PUT SCHOOLS FIRST referendum became law this year. Tick tock, Mayor Stoney, City Council, School Board. Citizens want to see a real school modernization plan come together before the end of the year- if the Education Compact can’t do it, then figure it on your own. Relying on increasing state funding only goes so far, when there is plenty of corporate welfare that should be cut anyway. Don’t be scared this Halloween, it’s time to lead and PUT SCHOOLS FIRST.