With the recent warm-up, lots of Richmonders are planning their spring planting. Holly Street neighbor Phaedra has announced that there is a now a small seed library in a alley off her street. Residents are encouraged to take seeds or leave seeds. It was built by Jake Urbanski with salvaged materials, including a handle from an old filing cabinet and a bus window from the GRTC. Lizzy Cox painted it.
Please pick up after your dogs. All of this gets swept into the river and no one, fish included, wants to swim with all this. Pet wastes are the major source point of pollution on this part of the James River.
This photo was taken yesterday morning with the sun, but expect more scattered rain this afternoon, evening, and tomorrow.
Beautiful morning. Rain coming Sunday evening.
This photo looks down the alley between the 600 block of S. Laurel and S.Cherry.
Trash and recycling trucks already went through on Wednesday. This photo was from after that.
Dear landlords and tenants,
The citizens of Richmond need you to take more responsibility for your refuse. I know some of you think that taxes are only good for two things, fire protection and refuse collection, but the truth is that OUR taxes also pay for things like police, schools, parks, etc. When the City spends all of its money picking up at the end of your leases, it can take away from other priorities.
While I appreciate efforts to improve the City’s services, you have a personal responsibility to make a point of either taking your excess to the dump, or, at the very least, scheduling a ‘bulk refuse’ pickup with the City. Just leaving it out in the alley, no matter how neatly, is not the neighborly thing to do. Let’s do better.
http://www.richmondgov.com/PublicWorks/RefuseCollection.aspx
According to VCU Alert:
Armed Robbery CORE MP Campus–(Cumberland/Belvidere Alley)at 12:49 PM. Police on scene. Avoid area.