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Monthly Archives: March 2008
Hollywood Cemetery Walking Tours return tomorrow
The Valentine Richmond History Center’s Highlights of Hollywood Cemetery Walking Tour kicks off tomorrow. The tour is every Monday-Saturday from 10-11:30 until October 31st. Meet the guide at the cemetery entrance at Cherry and Albemarle Street. $10 adults; $9 in advance; $5 History Center members and children 6-18 years old; children under 6 are free.
Byrd House Market this Tuesday
The Byrd House Market will be open April 1, from 3:30-7PM, with the official season opening set for May 6. Come and get back into the habit of shopping at the BHM, pick up some fresh and local seasonal produce, farm fresh eggs, grass-fed meats, free-range chickens along with all the yummy baked goods. Come and see what are crafters have been creating over the winter!
Slaughterama 2008
There is an article in RVA Magazine that outlines all of the details of the events with locations and times…here is a link to the pdf. scroll down to page 64
http://www.rvamag.com/shared/webRVAv3i12.pdf
As many of the people that run this live in the neighborhood, I imagine most of this is caused by out-of-towners, but if you have a chance, go out and check out the festivities…it’s fun stuff!
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Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008
Subject: [OregonHill] Slaughterama 2008
I just wanted to warn everybody to be on the lookout for illegal activity in the neighborhood this weekend. Last year the neighborhood got tagged in numerous locations and trash was left everywhere. I’m all for having a good time as long as everybody keeps it legal, respects their neighbors and cleans up their mess.
OHNA minutes
One of the things that makes this site different from most of the other local neighborhood/community blogs is it’s relationship to the neighborhood association. I serve as President of the neighborhood association as well as manager/moderator of this blog. At this point, I am certainly willing to step down from one or both positions if replacements are agreed upon.
The topic of minutes is tricky. On one hand, the Oregon Hill Neighborhood Association (OHNA) does want to be transparent and open, on the other hand, its important that neighbors feel free to speak at meetings and that standards are kept. I will try to offer these OHNA meeting minutes on this site whenever I can, however I also think it is important that they be approved by the Association before publication. This may prove difficult if quorum is not reached and the Secretary position remains unfilled. At tonight’s OHNA meeting, the January meeting minutes (taken by acting Secretary Silver Persinger) were approved for publication.
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Bolling Interview
Richmond.com has an interview with the William Byrd Community House’s new Executive Director, Robert Bolling.
Upcoming Events, Art Mania
Neighbor Peter Baldes (Also see article in this week’s Style):
Hello All!
This week, my department (VCU Painting and Printmaking) is hosting
the Southern Graphics Council Conference.
Over 1000 printmakers, from all over the world will be attending….
There are many events which are free and open to the public, of note
are the Thursday (Main st area) and Friday (Broad st.) gallery walks,
but get this,
on Saturday, from Noon to 4 pm are the Open Portfolio sessions. These
will be in the basement of the Landmark Theatre and are open to the
public.
The Open Portfolio consists of over 500 individual artists,
collectives and presses showing and selling their works….. its a
fantastic opportunity to get some great art from great people…. we
have been working on this conference for over two years, and I wanted
to invite the neighborhood to some really fun events…
see you there….
for more info visit.
sgc.vcu.edu
pete
plant sale today @ Byrd House Market
Don’t miss the Tricycle Gardens plant sale today – Tuesday March 25th – at the Byrd House Market from 3:30-6PM. They have spring vegetable seedlings ready to plant now! All Seedlings are $3 per 6 pack and include: lettuces (several types), broccoli, chard, and spinach. [via]
Silence Says It All
No response whatsoever.
From: scottburger@mac.com
Subject: Ordinance No. 2008-34
Date: March 14, 2008 1:56:25 AM EDT
To: PantelWJ@ci.richmond.va.us
Cc: Norman.Sales@Richmondgov.com
Dear President Pantele,
The Oregon Hill Neighborhood Association takes a strong position against VCU’s request to close two alleys within the Oregon Hill Historic District. We believe that the legal requirements for alley closure established by the Richmond City Code Section 90-327 were not followed, and, therefore, the vote to approve the Ordinance No. 2008-34 closing was in error and must be reversed.
City Code Section 90-327 (2) specifically states that an ordinance proposing a city alley closure cannot be introduced until written consent is given by the owners of real property who have a right of ingress and egress from their own property to those portions of the alley to be closed and whose property is situated between the block boundaries encompassing a proposed alley closing. These written consents must be approved as to form by the city attorney and filed in the office of the city clerk.
It is our understanding that neither the City nor VCU obtained the written consent of the two property owners at 130 and 132 S. Cherry before the Ordinance No. 2008-34 was introduced, as required by City Code Section 90-327 (2). These two property owners have a right of ingress and egress from their property to the portions of the alley to be closed and their property is situated between the block boundaries encompassing the proposed alley.
President Pantele, we ask that you request the City Attorney to review this matter as soon as possible, and we request that Ordinance No. 2008-34 be nullified as not meeting the legal requirements of City Code Section 90-327 (2).
Sincerely,
Scott Burger
President, Oregon Hill Neighborhood Association
New Dog Station Along Riverside
Stomp Stomp Dave helped me dig the hole for the post, and I took advantage of the beautiful weather on Saturday to install yet another dog station. This makes no. 4. Number 1 was put into Pleasants Park, Number 2 was put on the linear Parsons Park greenway near Holly St., and Number 3 was put in the linear Parsons Park greenway behind the 200 block of Pine (and promptly, sadly, destroyed by vandalism). I hope this new one will serve Overlook condo dog owners as well as the many visitors to Oregon Hill Riverside Park.