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The 2018 Oregon Hill/L’Opossum Jack-O-Lantern Contest
Creative Commons image- A Jack o’ Lantern made for the Holywell Manor Halloween celebrations in 2003. Photograph by Toby Ord on 31 Oct 2003.
It’s that time of year! The 2018 Oregon Hill Jack’O’Lantern contest is now open for entries from Oregon Hill residents.
David Shannon at L’Opossum restaurant kindly supplied a $50 gift card. I am willing to kick in $20. Would love to have more prizes from neighborhood businesses to sweeten the pot.
Submission Info
OregonHill.net invites submissions for its first annual Oregon Hill Jack O’ Lantern Contest. Entrants should read the following rules, terms, and conditions before submitting any photos or documentation.
Eligibility
Entrants must be 18 years of age or older. All entrants younger than 18 years of age must submit a note of parental consent with their entry. All entrants must be a resident of the Oregon Hill neighborhood to be considered. Contest is void where prohibited by law.
Contest judges (which is so far just me) and their immediate families are not eligible to enter.
Entries
Entries will start being accepted from October 15, 2018 at noon through October 30, 2018 at 11:59 pm. A winner and runners-up will be announced and presented on OregonHill.net on October 31, 2018 at noon. Please submit entries by emailing a photo jpeg file, size between 200 kb and 1.5 mg, of the entry to info@oregonhill.net, including a (real) name and a (real) address. Submitted photo should be of a carved or altered pumpkin in front of address. All entries must be original, newly-produced works, created after October 1, 2018. Entries must be original creations, with photo by the creator, and not infringe on the copyrights of any other parties. Any entires suspected, in the discretion of OregonHill.net, to be in violation will be rejected immediately from the competition.
OregonHill.net does not grant entrants the right or access to photograph private property or use of its name to secure access. Entries may have multiple co-producers, but one should be listed as the primary contact upon entry. The fair dissemination of any prize winnings will be the responsibility of the primary contact. Participants may submit multiple entries, however 1 photo entry per email. All forms of photos that are not produced by the entrant must be credited to the original photographer. Entries containing immoral, defamatory, obscene or scandalous content, or any other content which, at the sole discretion of OregonHill.net, is not in the keeping with OregonHill.net, will be deemed ineligible. By submitting a photo entry, each participant represents that the photo submitted is an original work that does not infringe on the copyright or intellectual property right of another party, and each participant agrees to indemnify OregonHill.net, and its contest judges from all liability arising from any alleged infringement in this regard. Photographer retains ownership rights to the submitted photo. However, the winning entrants grant to OreognHill.net the non-exclusive, non-transferable right and license to use the photos and the winners’ names in perpetuity without compensation, notification, or other limitation or condition, both in conjunction with the competition and promotion of the competition and promotion of OregonHill.net generally.
OregonHill.net is not responsible for entries that are not received or not received properly, or for any technical problems with corrupt digital files, internet outages, computer failures, and the like. OregonHill.net is not responsible for lost, late, or misdirected entries. OregonHill.net is not obligated to acknowledge receipt of entries.
Judging
Entries will be judged by a panel made up of OregonHill.net editors and Halloween experts invited by OregonHill.net. Judges’s decisions will be final and binding.
To select the winner, entries will be by judged by awarding of points based on the following criteria: (1) originality (40%), (2) composition and coherence (20%), (3) quality of photo (20%), and (4) consuming/recycling/composting of materials (20%) (this can be signified by a statement of intent included with entry). In the event of a tie score, the tie will be broken by awarding the prize to the entrant with the highest score in the first of the above-listed criteria (in order of appearance) as to which there is no tie.
Prize
Prize consists of $50 gift card to L’Opossum restaurant, $20 in U.S. currency, prominent featuring on OregonHill.net, and bragging rights. Runners-up will receive prominent featuring on OregonHill.net, and bragging rights. Applicable federal, state, and local taxes on prize are the sole responsibility of the winner.
Lastly, OregonHill.net reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to modify, suspend, or cancel the contest for any reason.
Folk Festival Sunday
Not quite as sunny, but still spectacular…
Larry Bland & the Volunteer Choir with Cora Harvey Armstrong
“Hot Strings” configuration
Harry Gore on the scene
The New York Crimean Tartar Ensemble
‘Till next year….
Folk Festival Saturday
Good weather and the crowds came…
Zuni Olla Maidens
Lulo Reinhardt and his German friend supplied some Gypsy jazz
Jarlath Henderson
Not sure the crowd got the finer points of millenarian Rastafarianism, but the band also seemed like they were still waking up…Ras Michael & The Sons Of Negus…
Mother Nature still putting on a show…
Overflow tent watchers…
Questionable parking…
Night fell…Claire Lynch on stage
The Zhou Family Band, on their first tour of the U.S., may have stolen the whole festival with their joyous cacophony…
Salsa band Orquesta el Macabeo got dancers excited…
Farah Yasmeen Shaikh’s brilliant dance and music…
Now, who’s ready to do it again? The Folk Festival starts again at noon today.
First Night Of The Folk Festival
Tamburaški Sastav Ponoć
Tribu Baharú
Mother Nature
Spider attacking Dominion headquarters
With Hurricane Michael’s Remnants Gone, Weekend Folk Festival Is A Go
After slamming the Richmond area with a lot of rain and wind yesterday, what’s left of Hurricane Michael has moved off the coast. City of Richmond schools will open with a two hour delay, but the rest of the weekend weather should be dry and cool.
This is a relief to many, but especially the Richmond Folk Festival, which takes place just down the hill, and kicks off at 6 pm this evening.
Because of the massive crowds expected, visitors are encouraged to use shuttles and other options instead of parking in Oregon Hill. But hopefully, everyone can enjoy this great festival.
Question For Wilder Symposium (Wednesday)
From VCU press release:
The 2018 Wilder Symposium at Virginia Commonwealth University will explore the challenges and opportunities facing urban communities as they seek to improve in the areas of housing, education and public policy.
The L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs will host the symposium, “By the People: The Role of Urban Communities in Improving Housing, Education and Public Policy,” from 6 to 8 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 3, at the W.E. Singleton Center for the Performing Arts, 922 Park Ave. The event will be free and open to the public.
Submitted question to symposium:
Lonely Bird On Rainy Night
Richmond’s 13th Annual Halloween Parade Scheduled
The Richmond Halloween Parade, it goes without saying, has become a real tradition for Oregon Hill.
Graciously hosted and organized by the All The Saints Theater Company, the event continues to grow and evolve.
There have been many YouTube videos and photo postings devoted to past years’ parades.
From the new FaceBook event page:
* PLEASE HELP US GET THE WORD OUT!
* RSVP TO THE EVENT PAGE
* SHARE THE EVENT IN YOUR FEED
* INVITE YOUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY!Richmond’s 13th Annual Halloween Parade presented by ALL THE SAINTS THEATER COMPANY and friends is right around the corner! Join us on October 31st!
Guys and gals and all non binary conforming pals, join us in this all inclusive Richmond tradition!
Dress up in a costume, make your own giant puppets or flags, and/or volunteer to assist withour giant puppets, flags, props and more!
We are so excited to continue this yearly Richmond Halloween tradition! Join us as we take the streets in celebratation of our 12th year with costumes, live music, dancing, creativity, puppetry, and comraderie!
*The 13th Annual Halloween Parade is a “Funeral March for Patriarchy”!
A Celebration of the Divine Feminine! We return the number 13 to the Matriarch and dismantle patriarchy to remove flying monkeys ICE & the NRA with their King NoOne to save humanity.
We return to grandma society with Grandma Elder on her Tiger, day of the dead 2 person 15 ft “families belong together” Madonna skeleton puppets, queen Harriet, trans remembrance, Black Lives Matter, Matriarch & Mother Red with Goddess of Tree sits fighting the patriarchy of pipelines against Mother Earth.
The All the Saints Hawk (the resistance) and Black Snake (pipeline) featured at the ICA will also March with us! We look at the fierceness it takes to organize, and the gentleness it takes to be fierce together.
Wednesday Oct 31st
No later than 7pm
meet at Monroe Park!Support includes: cardboard, fabric, bike tubes, brown paper!
VCU’s ‘Free Ride’
This past week Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) announced that it had signed an agreement with the Greater Richmond Transit Company (GRTC) that will give their students and employees unlimited access to the new $65 million Pulse system and all other GRTC bus routes. In other words, as much local media trumpeted, VCU students and workers will get to ride ‘for free’.
Of course, this is welcome news. If nothing else, it may alleviate parking pressures and reduce carbon emissions. However, Richmond citizens should look past the headlines and consider the big picture of VCU’s ‘free ride’.
The conversation about the need to grow GRTC and mass transit in general has increased measurably as VCU has grown in both population and physical plant. All along, this community news site has advocated for more commitment from counties and universities to GRTC and mass transit. This call has only increased as ‘The Pulse’ BRT project has spent federal and state funds for implementation.
The problem is that with federal and state monies now spent, more and more of the cost burden will be shifted back to City taxpayers. And VCU, despite the announcement this week, is still falling very short in its commitment. $1.2 million is a drop in the bucket. Heck, VCU probably spent close to $1.2 million on all of the PR for their new ICA building. One year is not that long. Consider that VCU has made more of a commitment to its basketball coach than Richmond’s mass transit.
So what, the neoliberals say, college basketball brings in more money and GRTC can’t even support itself. VCU spends so much on transportation per student, university administrators say (if I was a student, I would be looking at where that money is going exactly). Yet, despite supposed sports profits and rising tuition, more poor and longterm Richmond residents are getting forced out of the City with rising tax bills. The City of Richmond continues to pay the overwhelming majority of GRTC’s budget and now it has increased its operational costs. Remember when ‘The Pulse’ backers said that it was designed to help Richmond’s poor? Now the largest entity by far on ‘The Pulse’ route is hedging its bets and waiting to see how the chips fall.
The local media and elected officials should be questioning this ‘deal’ more, but the majority of them won’t for fear of falling out of VCU’s favor (and advertising budget). If VCU alumni want to arrogantly claim that ‘they built this city’, they should be required to put their money where their mouth is. Other urban universities do more than brag.