Hollywood Cemetery is planning a ceremony at J.E.B. Stuart‘s grave site this Saturday, May 10th. This is in addition to a planned one in soldiers section. I guess we’ll have boom-booms several times that day.
Also, on Sunday, take your mother on a Sunday Specialty Tour of Hollywood Cemetery. An extension of the daily “Highlights” tour, this version covers in more detail the cemetery’s unique history, landscape design, architecture, symbols and residents.
From email announcement:
Community Movie Nights
begin Friday, May 9
at DuskPleasants Park
(Behind Pine Street Baptist Church)
Refreshments Served:
Grilled hot dogs, chips and beverage
Style magazine follows up on the student walkout.
Excerpt:
About 200 students from Open High School and other city schools walked out April 28 to draw attention to the lack of funding for the school district’s many pressing maintenance needs. Mayor Dwight Jones invited them into City Council chambers for a discussion.
But students say the discussion led to more buck passing. The mayor suggested that students take their complaints to the School Board, which receives its funding from the city.
Another walkout is possible, Open High School senior Levi Bane says. But for now he and fellow senior Isabella Arias are running two Facebook pages to keep the protest going online. One, dubbed Presence RPS, will serve as a place for students to document conditions at schools. The other will collect news about the district.
A couple of days after the walkout, City Council voted 5-4 to reallocate $12.6 million of the $13.6 million slated for the mayor’s Shockoe Bottom redevelopment plan. Of that reallocated money, $3.25 million will go toward schools.
But Jones has said he will veto the changes, a move Arias says proves her point: “It just shows that he cares more about commercial development than school development.”
From Councilperson Agelasto:
The temporary “LOVE” letters sculpture may be coming to the Oregon Hill Overlook pending the Public Art Commission approval on Tuesday, May 13th, at 9:15 am in the 5th Floor Conference Room at City Hall.
For some examples of “LOVE” installations, click here.