From the press release:

‘CarnivOil’ Comes to Richmond, Celebrating the Greatest Addiction on Earth
Big Oil: Keeping America dependent on oil for 150 years and celebrating
victory over
Virginia’s clean energy future

Richmond, Va. – The U.S. Senate’s failure to pass a clean energy and
climate bill this summer, coupled with the continued push to block new
clean air standards, is reason to celebrate if you profit from America’s
oil addiction. Highlighting Big Oil’s stranglehold on Washington, we
present “CarnivOil”: the Greatest Addiction on Earth – a celebration of
America’s addiction to oil with an outdoor midway-style carnival
complete with games, concessions, and some Big Oil-style celebrating.
Step right up! Don’t be afraid. See the world’s biggest polluters – by
looking behind the curtain.

Games will include the Petroleum Wheel of Doom, Oil Executive Boxing and
the Big Oil version of the famous Hammer game. The event highlights Big
Oil’s success in pocketing Congress, while blocking progress toward a
clean energy future and threatening to kill American jobs and worsen
public health with the Dirty Air Act.

WHAT: CarnivOil: The Greatest Addiction on Earth: complete with games to
celebrate Big Oil’s success

WHEN: Tuesday, August 31, 2010

TIME: 11 am – 1 pm ET

WHERE: Monroe Park, 620 W. Main St., Richmond, Va. 23220

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For more information, contact:
Sarah Driscoll, sdriscoll@environmentvirginia.org
Phone: (603) 236-2097

There is an atherosclerosis simulator that is touring our area from August 19th – 31st; it will be located at the Byrd House Market (Linden Street) on August 31, from 12 -6 pm. It shows a journey through the arteries with plaque build-up and blockages. It only takes about 5 minutes each session and can accommodate 10 people at a time. This is free. See flyer below for more information.

2010 UAA William Byrd Comm. House Flyer

You may have already seen the flyers in the neighborhood or maybe the Style magazine article or the newspaper article, but here’s information about an event happening this Friday:

Joanita Senoga, a single mother of two who fled her village in Uganda in 1996, came to America with virtually nothing, and is now an alumna and employee of University of Richmond. In 1994, two years before fleeing home, she started Circle of Peace School in Uganda for children who could not afford an education there (as education is not free there). The school is now 250 students strong.

St. Andrew’s Church will host a photo exhibition, “Images of Hope: What Would You Buy With $50?” on August 27 at 6:30 p.m. Proceeds benefit the Circle of Peace School development efforts – specifically, funding will go to a final payment to secure land for building classrooms and dormitories.

Students of the school in the village of Makindye, Uganda were asked what they would buy with $50, and these children responded by drawing what they would buy. None of these children have ever had $50 in their whole life.

The campaign needs help – it is trying to raise $18,000 by September 1 to make a final payment on land the school will be able to use to expand the campus to build classrooms and dormitories.

Here are a few photos:

The Oregon Hill Neighborhood Association will be holding its monthly (every fourth Tuesday) meeting at the William Byrd Community House at 7 pm.

The agenda includes discussion of Holly Street Playground plans.

Byrd House Market presents

the fabulicious
Susan Greenbaum
locally grown corporate babe turned singer/songwriter
Tuesday August 24
5:30 – 7:30 pm
AND
4th Tuesday Wine Down
featuring the fine fermentations of

and

Grayhaven Wines on sale from 3:30 – 8:00 pm / Tastings begin at 6:00 pm

(Market Hours Extended to 8pm on 4th Tuesdays)

Vendors returning from breaks include:
A Wise Gardener
Manakintowne Specialty Growers
Simply Delicious
Jill Parker Designs
and

Saturday 28 Aug. 9:30 am -12 noon
Cooking as a 2nd Language #6
Cuisine from Camaroon with Yvette Zintseme
(pronounced Zeen-chem)
Registration Necessary & Re-Confirmations Due Wednesday 8/25!

Email from VCU:

MPC move in map.2010

Friends of VCU,

It is time for all new and returning VCU students to begin moving in. This process may impact all of us in different ways. In an effort to better manage, I am attaching our move in maps for both the Monroe Park Campus and the MCV campus. We will begin blocking off surrounding streets at approximately 6:00 a.m. on both Saturday and Sunday and will end the process at 7pm on Saturday and 6pm on Sunday. I am also attaching the informational letter we send to students about how the process works.

Ron Brown

From City announcement:

Richmond, VA – Teens from the Mayor’s Youth Academy will present the Lifestages Showcase at 7 p.m. on Friday, August 20, 2010, at the Landmark Theatre, 6 North Laurel Street. The showcase will feature Mayor’s Youth Academy participants ages 14 through 15 in a variety of artistic performances to include song, dance, theatre, fashion and more. The public is strongly encouraged to attend this free event.

“It has been an exciting summer and I am pleased with all that the young people involved with the Mayor’s Youth Academy have accomplished over the past few months. I have a real vision for our youth in Richmond and I pledge the city’s continued investment in their future,” said Mayor Dwight C. Jones. “I would like to thank the public, private and non-profit entities who have partnered with us in providing this tremendous service to our city’s youth.”

During recent months, more than 442 city youth participated in the Mayor’s Youth Academy program. Approximately 172 youth between the ages of 14 and 15 participated in the Life Stages program which consisted of leadership training and life skills enrichment opportunities, while 67 youth within the same age range participated in the Youth Urban Conservation Corps. This summer, 203 city youth between the ages of 16 through 19 were employed in public, private and non-profit organizations.

Mayor Jones launched the Mayor’s Youth Academy earlier this year to reduce teen crime, social deviant behavior and create a future emerging workforce. The program is constructed to provide development opportunities designed to promote leadership, career awareness, workforce skill development, community engagement, improve school attendance, heighten understanding of career and educational pathways, and increase the number of high school students graduating with post-secondary aspirations. The Mayor’s Youth Academy program has had a 98 percent retention rate with several youth being offered both full and part-time employment.

This Friday from 4 to 8 pm, the William Byrd Community House is holding its annual Carnival celebration.

Join us for our annual Carnival! Bring the kids, Learn more about WBCH programs, there will be games, slides, and fun for all ages! This event is free, open to the public! Sponsered By Capital One, the Kiwanis Club of Richmond, and Seventh Street Christian Church.

Click here for a few photos from last year.

It took me a moment to register it, but I like the theme on the flyer:

Here’s the website for info.

I am looking forward to hearing former Laurel Street neighbor Tim Barry play at Fine Foods on Saturday.

From Byrd Market Manager Ana Edwards:

It’s mid August and the flavors are at their peak! You know me, I’m perfectly happy to drool as I draft a long, long list of the delicious foods available at our market on a weekly basis. I just made my first quiche (really my first, and really yummy, and REALLY EASY) this weekend and all I could think was how I couldn’t wait for Tuesday to start experimenting with all the good ingredients at my fingertips. How about you? Tried a new recipe this summer?

The SPCA will be with us this week as well as the 3rd Tuesday Jam with Epic Gardens’ own Patricia Stansbury.

Madyun’s Jewelry and A Rose Above Pastries observe the Muslim tradition of fasting for the month of Ramadan, so they’ll take a break from the heat of the market day at this time and rejoin us mid September. Also away: Fertile Crescent, A Wise Gardener, Manakintowne Specialty Growers.

However, joining us this week will be Boka Truck (with Noodles!) and on 8/24 Jill Parker Designs will bring back her groovy glasswork jewelry.

See you at the Market!

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Byrd House Market
William Byrd Community House
224 South Cherry St. Richmond, VA 23220
ByrdHouseMarket@gmail.com
(804) 643-2717
byrdhousemarket.blogspot.com