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, there have been some interesting media reports on how Italian commuters can turn in plastic bottles for transit credits.

Peddler On Pine Closes Restaurant, But Keeps Cart Business

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Peddler On Pine released this message:

We want to say thank you to all of our amazing customers! It has been a pleasure to serve Oregon Hill over the past year and a half. We have decided to close our to-go restaurant in order to focus our time and attention on the carts and catering. You can still find most of your Peddler favorites at the Peddler on Pine St cart located at 11th & Clay! We look forward to seeing you there weekdays from 11-2! Again, thank you for your business.

Book Talk At Tredegar: Dixie’s Daughters: Shaping Culture in the American South

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From event description:

While recent events have focused on the United Daughters of the Confederacy’s monument building efforts in the early 20th Century, Dr. Karen Cox argues that the Daughters had a far-reaching agenda with implications for race relations that are still with us today. Discover the UDC’s work–especially its efforts to shape the worldview of young white southerners–during the organization’s heyday between 1894 and World War I.

OHNA Meeting Tonight

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The Oregon Hill Neighborhood Association is meeting tonight at 7 pm at St. Andrew’s Church.

The agenda will include a short presentation by a group concerned with recidivism and alternatives to incarceration, new data regarding traffic and speeding along Idlewood,
new stop signs, parks master plan suggestions from Storefront for Design, an update on non-demolition overlay district application. Also, 5th District City Council candidate Stephanie Lynch is supposed to make an appearance.