Trash/Recycling Pickup Tomorrow

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This Wednesday is a “Red Wednesday”, which means trash and recycling pickup. Please go over what can be recycled. 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…localities across Virginia continue to struggle with their recycling programs. In fact, Alexandria and some other Northern Virginia places have stopped recycling glass altogether. Roanoke is also struggling, but at the same time is experimenting with adding robots to its sorting process.

Public To Pay For More Corporate Takeover Of Riverfront

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From (recently re-elected) Oregon Hill Neighborhood Association President Todd Woodson:

On Monday, December 16th at 1:30PM, the City Planning Commission will hear a conceptual plan presented by Venture Richmond for a $17 million, taxpayer funded “improvement plan”, including a CORPORATE HELICOPTER PAD and DYNAMIC LIGHTING PLAN for publicly owned Browns Island, located on a flood plain in downtown Richmond. Venture Richmond and 3north held a planning charrette last April and invited DOMINION ENERGY, ALTRIA CORPORATION, NEW MARKET CORPORATION, certain developers, attorneys and City planning staff yet excluded the stake-holding public from the conversation. After being approved by only 3 members of the ten member Urban Design Committee last week, the proposal is poised to be approved “under the radar” by the planning commission on Monday. If you aren’t interested in building a corporate helipad on public property with taxpayer funds, I would urge you to attend and speak out against this ill conceived plan!

Of course, the corporate media has been silent about this, as they do not want to raise the ire of Venture (aka Vulture) Richmond. Remember, Richmond’s leaders don’t want to PUT SCHOOLS FIRST! Remember, corporate corruption takes from the public– even if most citizens agree with the improvements being made, they should not be excluded from the public planning process!

Pearl Harbor Day Remembrance ceremony At The Va. War Memorial Saturday

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Navy Cmdr. Jean Marie Sul- livan, commanding officer of the USS Whidbey Island, will be the keynote speaker at the Commonwealth’s Pearl Harbor Day Remembrance Ceremony at 11 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 7, at the Virginia War Memorial, 621 S. Belvidere St.
The free event is co-hosted by the Richmond Council of the Navy League of the United States and will be held in the war memorial’s Shrine of Memory.
During the ceremony, wreaths will be presented in memory of Virginians who died on Dec. 7, 1941, when the forces of Imperial Japan bombed the U.S. Pacific Fleet stationed at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, resulting in the United States entering World War II.
More than 2,400 American were killed and more than 1,100 were wounded during the surprise attack.
The Paul and Phyllis Galanti Education Center at the memorial will be open for tours 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Dec. 7.
Parking is available at the Virginia Housing Development Authority lot at 601 S. Belvidere St. and at the Afton Chemical Corp. lot at Belvidere and Spring streets.
Details: www.vawarmemorial.org. or (804) 786-2060.

Trash/Recycling Pickup Tomorrow

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This Wednesday is a “Red Wednesday”, which means trash and recycling pickup. Please go over what can be recycled. 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.

Due to the holiday shopping season kick off with ‘Black Friday’ and ‘Cyber Monday’, watch the nation’s struggling recycling system try to to ingest increased tonnage of cardboard.

And on the state front, the Virginia Mercury online newspaper asks “Will this be the year Virginia imposes a plastic bag tax?”

Tree Planting Tomorrow

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From Oregon Hill Neighborhood Association’s (re-elected) President Todd Woodson:

Friends: We will be planting 11 street trees in Oregon Hill Saturday morning and could use a hand in the planting and watering in. Meeting 9:30AM at 820 Idlewood Ave (front of St Andrews School). Bring a shovel and a jug of water and let’s fight global warming together! FAMILY FRIENDLY! See you there!

“Even though there was poverty, there was community. People took care of each other.”

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WTVR did a recent story on Caroline Neal, who founded a nonprofit for foster children called Worthdays.

Caroline developed her giving heart while growing up in Richmond’s Oregon Hill.

“Even though there was poverty, there was community. People took care of each other. There were people who were placed in the community who were helpers,” said Caroline.

Caroline says no child should go without knowing someone cares.