Neighbor Ruth Twiggs graciously hosted a candidate-meet-up with Stephanie Lynch, candidate for City Council 5th District, last night at her lovely Pine Street home.
Lynch took questions from the audience, including an important one about VCU. She and other candidates still need to submit their written pledges.
Not trying to embarrass anyone personally, but I found this scene somewhat ironic. Note that this northern portion of Holly Street has no sidewalk.
After two rain postponements it looks as if we will be having a community movie night this Friday, September 27th.
If you are a candidate for political office (state or City), please submit via official campaign email to info@oregonhill.net a pledge to defend the neighborhood from more VCU disrespect and encroachment, to recognize the demands already made to Richmond300 and the City of Richmond’s Planning Commission, and to do everything in your power to get VCU to make a written Memorandum of Understanding (aka MOU or commitment) to Oregon Hill, including but not limited to requesting a meeting with VCU Board of Visitors.
Extra credit: Submit your own ideas on how to defend Oregon Hill from VCU hegemony. Feel free to be creative.
These assignment will be accepted up to October 15. Late work will NOT be accepted. Grades will NOT be on a sliding scale.
By October 16, neighbors will know who NOT to vote for. We are looking for candidates who we CAN vote for.
Virginia Living magazine gives a very positive review to L’Opossum.
It begins with:
The atmosphere is dark and moody, but the décor is light and fun. You’ll find anything from Star Wars collectible plates emblazoned with the Millennium Falcon to foot-tall golden statues of Michelangelo’s David lining the red walls—all items owner and chef David Shannon has collected over the years. “I wanted to capture the feeling of the restaurants I grew up with in the ’60s and ’70s,” says Shannon. Specifically, he wanted to evoke the contrived fanciness of a French restaurant of that era—“a French restaurant in the Cleveland airport in 1977,” he says. What he has accomplished with his Richmond restaurant, L’Opossum sur la Colline de l’Orégon, is transportive.
Sorry, I forget to post a reminder last time.
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, congratulations to the Virginia Chili, Blues and Brews Festival. Their 12th iteration will also mark a significant first: as the first-ever Zero Waste Festival in Waynesboro, VA’s history.
The event, which brings thousands of guests to town to sample over 200+ gallons of chili, local brews and ciders with world-class blues, will offer guests the chance to reduce the waste footprint of the event.
“Last year we threw away over 30,000 non-recyclable styrofoam serving cups, plastic spoons and drink cups, and sent it directly to the landfill,” said Terry Short, the festival organizer.
This year the event will replace all of those items with compostable material, as will all of its food vendors.
“In fact, we’ll conduct composting demonstrations throughout the event as well,” said Short, who is also Waynesboro’s mayor. “We’re also incentivizing our chili competitors with an extra cash prize to help us educate patrons of some eco-friendly steps they can take back home with them.”
In March, the City of Waynesboro suspended its plastic recycling program, following a sad trend nationwide as communities deal with a lack of after-market demand for plastics.
“Like anything in life, you can either sit down and accept things, or stand up and do something. At the Virginia Chili, Blues and Brews Festival, we’ve decided to do something,” Short said.
The Virginia Chili Blues and Brews Festival is scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 28 in Downtown Waynesboro from 2:30-9pm, featuring music from the son of blues legend Muddy Waters, Big Bill Morganfield, award-winning Texas guitarist Chris Duarte, and more.
Discounted tickets and more information are available online at VirginiaChili.com.
Let’s see more Richmond festivals show this gumption.
It looks like they are turning the canal at Tredegar into a sewer line to collect New Market’s drainage to deposit into the remaining canal. They totally removed the north bank of the historic canal. Looks like they are burying lots of stone in the canal …
From email:
Dear Friends and Neighbors,
We will have our monthly OHNA meeting this coming Tuesday at 7PM at St Andrews Church. We will have the usual updates from police, VCU, etc and we will have candidates for 5th district city council elections there. Jer’Mycheal McCoy and Nick Da Silva have said they will attend as may others.
There is a meet and greet with candidate Stephanie Lynch at Ruth Twiggs house on October 1st at 329 1/2 S Pine at 6pm. Thanks to all that came out to the forum last week.We need volunteers to help plant our 11 trees from our successful Community Roots Grant. I’ll let you know when a planting date is set. Meanwhile, please see below for a small tree giveaway from the same folks every Saturday in October from 10am til 1pm.
The neighborhood association donated $100 to Lily Lamberta and the folks putting on the 14th annual Halloween parade. Another grand night on the Hill.
Finally, Congratulations to St Andrews School on getting proper zoning for the new Sprout School located at 224 S Cherry St. It will be a big asset for Richmond families.
See you Tuesday,
Todd.
One thing to keep in mind is that with many of these property descriptions, the houses are described as being built in 1900. The reality is that many were built earlier but 1900 is the earliest date that the City of Richmond has on record.
To learn more and contact Wes Fertig, please click on his advertisement on the side of the home page.
