Some scenes from the James River Park Master Plan meeting last night at the Virginia War Memorial:
Much of the meeting was spent conversing and viewing and writing on maps… nothing was officially proposed…
For more information on the James River Park Master Plan, click here (and if you have not already, fill out a survey).
Sounds like a good deal for those that need a nice computer- from Craigslist ad:
late 2012 27″ Imac. 3.4GHz quad I7 processor. 750GB SSD drive installed. 32 BG RAM.
This thing is awesome! I used it in my studio for the last few years.The only reason I am selling is because I needed to move to thunderbolt 3 to accommodate new studio gear. $1000
text me at 804-eight five two-2 zero 61.
thanks.
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 local news, The Department of Public Works (DPW) is launching the Volunteer Neighborhood Cleanups this weekend. You can contact the Clean City Commission Liaison at (804)646-8325 or Darlene.Mallory(at)richmondgov.comto to set up a volunteer cleanup for your neighborhood. Oregon Hill’s dates would be April 27 & September 14. This is a volunteer run program with assistance from DPW.
Guidelines:
– Neighborhood cleanups are scheduled from 8:00 AM to 12:00 PM on Saturdays
– Department of Public Works will dispatch specific vehicles to individual cleanups
-Neighborhoods should have volunteers to assist getting items onto the trucks
-The Clean City Commission can provide supplies such as bags, litter grabbers and gloves upon request
-Acceptable items for pickup include: bulk household trash, yard waste; and furniture
-All brush must be cut into 4-foot lengths
-Unacceptable items include: items weighing more than 50lbs., broken glass, and building materials, hazard waste
These events are separate from the 5th District Cleanups sponsored by Councilperson Agelasto’s office.
From a neighbor Summer Shultz’s post (shared with permission):
Sweet Angel needs a home! She is a purebred husky, 12 years old and in excellent health. Her owner is dealing with a crisis and is no longer able to keep her. Look at this face! Do you have room in your heart for Angel, as either an emergency foster while her owner picks up the pieces, or as a forever home? Angel’s owner wants her safe and happy and is willing to give her up.
If you are able to supply such respite, please contact Summer via email- summrlyn(at)aol.com
It looks like this movie is now available. I understand it is streamable on Amazon. Many of us today live in homes built by and for the workers at Tredegar…
Style has a story on the passing of Ray Williams, City homicide detective.
Excerpt:
Retired Richmond police Detective W. Ray Williams died Feb. 1 at 68 following a long battle with heart disease, tragically dying on the same day as his younger brother Tommy, a retired American Filtrona factory worker who had long suffered from Alzheimer’s.
The gravel-voiced Richmond native had a tough upbringing in the city’s Oregon Hill neighborhood.
“You had to fight to exist in Oregon Hill,” said Ray Williams, who at age 12 witnessed a neighbor get shot through the neck. Ray was the third of six children, all of whom were placed in foster care as young children for four years. His two youngest siblings would be adopted by another family. Their father, a second-generation bootleg whiskey-maker who once sold his wares to the same undercover policeman twice in a single night, was in and out of the nearby state penitentiary and prison road camps during their early years. Years later, as a young homicide detective, Ray would be called to an abandoned house in Oregon Hill, where his father was found dead on a mattress in the kitchen.
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A memorial service for Ray Williams will be held Feb. 16 at 2 p.m. at the Richmond Police Academy, 1202 W. Graham Road. His family has asked that donations be made in his name to the Richmond Police Foundation, richmondpolicefoundation.org, or Apple Dog Daycare, appledogdaycare.com.
Bob Raynor, a reporter/columnist for the Times Dispatch who is retiring later this month, has written a very personal piece on Hollywood Cemetery. Here is an excerpt:
Reporting is usually best when it’s about small things: verifiable, human, close to home. Humility is essential. But it’s important not to forgo the ordinary miracles hiding all around us. Just be sure to treat them with the respect they deserve.
This year already: a rust-colored moon dims the heavens, if only for a moment, and reveals the shadowless light, suns reduced to sparkling pinpoints. How can we not wonder? And a rushing river, impatient for the sea, foams furiously as it crosses old stones and small dams, fueled by melting mountain snows. Does it sense the brackish muddle that awaits below the fall line? The necessary drift? It seems so. An ancient tributary, after all, wise to the ways.
Some stories are too precious to be written frequently. They require a gentle touch, like a fresh seedling, thirsty and fragile.
They must be approached obliquely, sheltered from lethal doses of certainty. But once told, unleash the soul.
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They rest among rolling green pastures along the high banks of the James, those good souls who never escape childhood yet testify to the power of grace. The waters below are never still, crashing around boulders and pylons in an endless race to the ocean, and the eternal silence is endlessly broken. A blessing. So this is Richmond’s beating heart. This is Hollywood. No place for the fearful, with its ferocious calm and soft, seeded mounds.
Stone crosses and angels — at once static and moving — stand guard even though they are no longer needed, except as reminders to the living.
You may look away. But there is no escape.
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From event page:
It comes down to this: our state government made a promise to us in the Constitution to provide free, high-quality schools for all children in Virginia. As teachers, we know that an equitable and high quality public education system is the cornerstone of the type of society we all want to live in.
The time is now. January 28 parents, teachers, students and community members will march on the capitol to tell our General Assembly to #FundOurSchools. We need you to join us. #RedForEd #Red4Ed
RSVP here: https://www.virginiaeducatorsunited.com/march-rally-details
From Richmond Police Department:
Also:
Ed. note: this neighborhood is very familiar with these issues:
Laurel Street neighbor Nina Naruszewicz spotted these deer in Hollywood Cemetery.
Drove past six deer just inside the fence at the northwest corner of Hollywood Cemetery on my way home from work today. Sadly by the time I parked and walked back there they had moved further away, so my photos are not the best. I think four were bucks.
This is not the first time we have seen photos of deer in Hollywood…
Found this morning on the sidewalk on Laurel Street…the written part says “Thanks 4 Double Parking”
The funny thing is that it was written on the back of this anti-stress handout…
