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).
From FaceBook event page:
One More Rock N Roll One More Again
Trust Fall (Virginia; 2011-2019)
a bridge adjusting to the water
https://trustfall.bandcamp.com/album/secret-keeperHex Machine (Richmond)
alternative nosie rock that’ll blow your ears off
https://hexmachine.bandcamp.comSibyl (Richmond)
zero-gravity pop sludge
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9pm
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
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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
Learn to appropriately critique a story in this interactive workshop. Participants are encouraged to submit their writing in advance, and YA author Christina June will critique the first 250 words at the workshop. Works will be critiqued anonymously and with respect, so young writers can feel safe in submitting their stories. Attendees will leave the workshop knowing how to appropriately and respectfully critique their peer’s work. Any pieces that are not critiqued during the session, due to time, will be returned with feedback to the author.
Teen writing samples of 250 words should be submitted to Jennifer.Deuell@richmondgov.com no later than February 14th, 2019.
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.
Don’t forget that the RVA Environmental Film Festival continues for just a little while longer. Tonight, see the movie Before The Flood at VCU Cabell Library Lecture Hall at 6 pm.
Tomorrow night, see A Man Named Pearl at the North Courthouse Road Library in Chesterfield. And then this Saturday, check out EVOLVE: Driving a Clean Future in Coal Country at the Henrico Library in Varina, along with an electric vehicle presentation.
In recycling news, in Henrico, Tuckahoe District Supervisor Patricia S. O’Bannon will host a Tuckahoe Town Meeting on Thursday, Feb. 28 to discuss the proper disposal of household waste, recycling programs and other ways to conserve natural resources. But the big news for the state may be the continued wrangling over recycling coal waste. Legislation moving through the General Assembly to clean up Dominion’s coal ash now includes a provision that would shield Chesterfield County from truck traffic due to recycling.
On the international front, a Hezbollah leader appeared on an Israeli recycling ad.
This is a copy of the constitution of the Virginia Abolition Society that is on microfiche at the Library of Virginia. Robert Pleasants, a prominent Quaker is shown as the president. His story is remarkable, and so is part of his legacy, Gravel Hill in Henrico.
The connection with Oregon Hill is that the mother of John Miller was freed from slavery by actions of Robert Pleasants. John Miller’s house in Oregon Hill is the only known surviving house in Richmond that was built, owned and occupied by free blacks before and during the Civil War. (Editor’s note: this is a correction from an earlier version of this post, which erroneously suggested that Robert Pleasants lived in Oregon Hill.)
The Oregon Hill Neighborhood Association successfully petitioned the Richmond City Council in 2003 to name Pleasants Park at 401 South Laurel Street for Robert Pleasants.
Of course, this is not to say that Oregon Hill has been a place of racial harmony either. There is an uglier past.
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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