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‘Aquaman’ On Friday – The First Movie Of The Season!
Community Movie Night
Friday, May 10 at Dusk
Pleasants Park
AQUAMAN
The first movie of the season!
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 other news, save the date! Two events on May 18:
One event is the City of Richmond Special Recycling Collection Event
May 18 @ 10:00 am – 2:00 pm
The City of Richmond Department of Public Works , Richmond Clean City Commission and City of Richmond Stormwater Utility will be hosting a special recycling collection event on Saturday, May 18 at Elkhardt-Thompson Middle School from 10 am – 2 pm. For City of Richmond residents, only.
The event will include:
Document shredding: up to 5 boxes or 5 paper bags of personal documents ( such as taxes, bank statement, cancelled checks, credit card statements and receipts, financial accounts, medical and insurance records. NO COMMERCIAL BUSINESS documents accepted.
Electronics ( cash or check- no credit cards for *fees) *Click here for flier with fees
Hazardous Household Wastes: pesticides, herbicides and oil based paints in original containers
For more information on shredding and electronics call Darlene Mallory (804)646-8325 or for household hazardous waste call Jenn Clarke (804)646-8131.
The second event is the Sierra Club Falls of the James/University of Richmond BIG YARD SALE, Saturday, May 18, 2019 at 8 AM – 12 PM, at the Robins Stadium (23B Boatwright Drive, Richmond, VA 23173).
Thousands of student discards have been collected and sorted and are now available at discount prices. Shop til you drop and keep all this good stuff out of the landfill and save money too – A win-win for you and our environment! This award winning annual sale benefits benefits the Sierra Club and the UR Green student group. Goodwill is a supporting partner.
One of things this sale does is try to keep “fast fashions” out of the landfill. What is not sold is sent to Goodwill for further recycling. Lower your carbon foot print and wear your clothes longer.
Wildlife Sounds In The Canal
frogsincanal from Scott Burger on Vimeo.
This movie was taken about a month ago from the bridge over the Kanawha Canal on the Brown’s Island Way/Second Street Connector. The camera faced west towards the Lee Bridge but you can hear on the audio all of the wildlife noises. If you listen carefully, you can also hear a rock cover band playing a song at a private function at Tredegar.
Oregon Hill neighbors recently learned that New Market corporation has quietly submitted (with Venture Richmond’s support) an application to fill the canal just east of this site, adjacent to Tredegar Iron Works. More on this later and in the meantime you can read about past struggles between those who went to destroy and those who want to protect the canal (including the “Fences Of Contention“), but for right now listen to the nighttime nature sounds while you still can.
Bee Swarm Not From ‘Our Bees’
Last week some neighbors discovered a “wild” swarm of bees in Oregon Hill. Local bee experts have confirmed that those bees were NOT part of the hive installed recently by Open High students in Linear Park behind the 600 block of S. Pine St. From their statement:
During the inspection yesterday we found the
—queen,
—newly laid eggs,
—larvae, and
—pupating new bees.
Our hive showed no swarm queen cells.
Our bees are happy and busy building new comb on our widens frames, storing up lots of nectar and pollen and doing what bees do.
Next week the students will install the second nucleus hive. Hosting and caring for two hives will double the odds we have bees next spring.
There will BEE more information soon as well as announcements for a couple of public bee workshops later in 2019. In the meantime, if there are questions, please contact Pine Street neighbor Stephenie Harrington. Her telephone number is 804-551-0603.
Friday Cheers, Civil War Museum Opening, and Hollywood Cemetery Picnic This Weekend
As with Party For The Planet this past weekend, the Richmond riverfront around Oregon Hill should be pretty busy this coming weekend.
This Friday, public/private partnership, Venture Richmond starts back up their Friday Cheers concert series on Brown’s Island. They are claiming its their 35th season (though it seems like that would have to include time when there were not events on this part of the riverfront). This Friday, Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real with Landon Elliott will be playing. Their photos are above. Tickets cost $10.
On Saturday, the American Civil War Museum at Tredegar will be holding a celebration in honor of its new building. The Times Dispatch recently had a sneak peak of this $25 million, 29,000-square-foot new museum, which is the result of the merger of two museums: the Museum of the Confederacy and the American Civil War Center at Historic Tredegar. The grand opening will include special guided tours of “A People’s Contest: Struggles for Nation and Freedom in Civil War America” exhibit, walking tours, and artifact encounters with curators. Event also features the hosts of BackStory, eight emerging scholars, and Triple Crossing Brewery, and food trucks.
Schedule highlights:
– 9 a.m.: Ribbon cutting
– 10 a.m., 2 p.m., & 4 p.m.: Cannon firing demonstration by Museum staff
– 10:30 a.m.: Live panel program with the hosts of the podcast, BackStory. (90 minutes)
– 12-4 p.m.: Emerging Scholars lightning talks, sponsored by The Civil War Monitor, also in collaboration with Emerging Civil War. (30 minutes each, beginning every 30 minutes at noon)
– 12-4 p.m.: Beer garden, by Triple Crossing Beer. Food trucks also onsite (TBA).
Cost: Free with Museum admission. Free for members.
And then on Sunday, the Annual Sunday Picnic at Hollywood Cemetery will take place from 1:00pm to 3:30pm. Pack a picnic basket, bring a blanket or chair, and join in for an annual tradition that dates back to the 1800s! Live music will be provided by the Oak Lane Band and UNCOMMON, a contemporary acapella band. An ice cream truck and hotdogs will be on site. Trolley tours will also be provided. The picnic is free to attend, but they do ask for RSVP in advance. Please email nrowe@hollywoodcemetery.org or call (804) 648-8501 to make reservations.
Hopefully, rains will hold off for these events, but the forecast is looking iffy.
Busy Weekend? Don’t Forget About Peddler On Pine
Stormy evening, but with better weather tomorrow, there is a lot going on around RVA and the neighborhood. Here is your reminder that Peddler On Pine is available for a quick snack or meal. Just click on the link above or the ad to the right at the top of the home page.
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, Treehugger.com has an interesting post entitled ‘How the plastics industry is hijacking the circular economy’, which takes on both the plastics and recycling industries.
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Exciting news today as bees arrived. Pine Street neighbor Stephenie Harrington had this to say,
Thanks to the dedicated teachers and volunteers who assisted with beekeeping instruction since last fall. Today we watched a wonderful group of confident students handle bees! #OpenHighSchool
We established one hive today and will receive the second hive in a few weeks.
I will be documenting activities and later this year we will offer some public workshops with Parks and Rec Dept so folks can learn more about this urban pollinator project and more things coming this fall.
Thanks to OHHIC (Oregon Hill Home Improvement Council), OHNA (Oregon Hill Neighborhood Association) and neighbors for your support.
More details and publicity soon…
Play Ball! 100 Years Of Baseball in Virginia At War Memorial
Come to the War Memorial on April 16 to celebrate the long history of baseball in Virginia!
Join local experts and fellow baseball fans as we discover the intertwined history of baseball and World War I from the Virginia National Guard Command Historian Al Barnes. Al will also be available during the event to personalize copies of his brand new book “Play Ball! Doughboys and Baseball in the Great War.”
Jump forward to today with the Richmond Flying Squirrels’ Todd “Parney” Parnell, to learn how the Squirrels are redefining baseball in Richmond today. Come ready to ask questions and learn, and see a variety of baseball artifacts spanning back through a century.
This family-friendly event is FREE and open to the public, and baseball-themed snacks will be available for purchase!
Speakers:
Al Barnes, Virginia Army National Guard Command Historian
Todd Parnell (Parney), Chief Operating Officer and Vice President, Richmond Flying Squirrels
James Triesler, VWM Director of EducationCost:
FREE