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Announcement for City Council Candidate Meet And Greet
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Roger Harvey & The High Lifers with Piranha Rama & BEEX at Mojo’s Saturday
Book Talk At Tredegar: Attack at Daylight and Whip Them
From the event description:
The bloodshed that resulted from the two-day Battle of Shiloh exceeded anything America had ever known in its history. Learn how this battle unfolded and how the horrific casualty count rewrote America’s notions of war.
Trash/Recycling Pickup Tomorrow
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, “plastics professionals” are espousing plasma gasification as THE solution. ”
In plasma gasification, feedstock (trash) is introduced into a vessel of extremely high heat (~2,000 deg F) capable of breaking all organic chemical bond and reducing all trash including plastic, paper, glass, yard waste, food, filth, etc. to basic elements. The heat also melts metals, which are recovered.
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Sewer Repair
Extinction Rebellion In Monroe Park
Disaster Preparedness Workshop Scheduled For September 7th
From announcement:
The Disaster Preparedness Workshop (formally known as Survivor Day) is set for Saturday, September 7, 2019! The Office of Emergency Management will host the annual Regional Workshop where residents can learn how to live safely through natural disasters and other emergencies, like hurricanes, floods, tornadoes, earthquakes, blizzard, active threat and more. Residents will learn how to survive in their homes without power for at least 72 hours, and they’ll find out what to take with them should they need to leave in a hurry. Upon completing the training each household will receive a FREE disaster preparedness backpack to include supplies. Emergency and Community Response professionals will teach residents the best ways to prepare for those life threatening situations.
Find out more and sign up here: https://planrva.org/emergency-management-home/em-workshops/
Legal Attempts To Force Councilperson Agelasto From Office Fail
Judge William R. Marchant declined to issue a declaratory judgment deeming Agelasto’s seat on the City Council vacant after his move last year. Seeking the judgment was former Councilman Henry “Chuck” Richardson, who is among a field of candidates vying to replace Agelasto on the nine-member council in a special election scheduled for November.
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A separate challenge by another former councilman, Sa’ad El-Amin, also encountered a procedural stumbling block earlier this summer. El-Amin resubmitted his challenge in July, but no hearing has been scheduled on his new filing to date.
In April, Agelasto announced his plan to resign at the end of November, 13 months before his term expires. He has served as the council’s 5th District representative since 2013.
Art In The Park Sunday
From event page on FaceBook:
Every Second Sunday
5:30PM-Dark for the months of Aug/Sept/Oct
Free and open to the public
Visual artists come to plein air!
Performers come improv!Second Sundays Twilight Zone is an event to encourage collaboration/experimentation or just to have some company and chat while producing art in the park.
No registration required. Just show up and have fun!
We encourage spontaneous collaboration and experimentation
Note: Given the ongoing controversy and conflict over Monroe Park’s “renovation”, its not surprising that this newly-announced event series has lead to some interesting debate over the role of art.
Pigeon Coops Of Oregon Hill
Bobby Simms supplied this photo, taken around 1960, of Margaret Scruggs in front of her pigeon coops behind 201 S. Cherry Street. There were a few behind houses on Linden. There are still pigeon coops on the south side of the 800 block of Albemarle St.