From the Richmond Dispatch, December 18th, 1900:
Charlie Pettus, a son of Capitol-Policeman Pettus, took an involuntary cold bath Sunday afternoon. He fell into the canal at the foot of Oregon Hill. The youth caught hold of a post and sustained his head above water until Mr. Charles Hartman jumped in and landed him on the bank.
I heard people calling out her name last night while searching and I still see the flyers up around the neighborhood, so my guess is that this cat, named ‘Nobody’, is still missing and needs to be found.
From the Preservation Nation blog:
Window Wednesday
by National Trust for Historic Preservation on December 16th, 2009
Original windows matter. From dramatic Gothic masterpieces to the colorful details of stained glass, these gems are instrumental in telling the special stories of our older and historic homes and buildings. For this reason (and so many more), we’ve launched a Weatherization Guide to show homeowners how they can hang on to their unique windows and still meet their goals for going green and achieving greater energy efficiency. Each Wednesday, we’ll take that a step further and inject a little TLC into the blogosphere by spotlighting a user-submitted photo of an older or historic window for the world to see.
Bookmark our Weatherization Guide as a resource for making your older or historic home more eco-friendly without compromising its character. Want to give your favorite window a moment in the limelight? Grab your digital camera and join our Love Your Historic Windows photo group on Flickr for a chance to be next week’s spotlight.
From announcement:
Come to the Byrd House Renegade Market – Tuesdays from 3 to 6 pm
This week our gang of 5-7 wild bunch vendors will feature such things as Stewing Chickens, Holidays Wreaths & Greens, Chicken Eggs, Egg Noodles, Honey, home-baked Breads, Jams, Pickles, Leafy Greens, Turkey and Turkey Eggs, Sweet Potatoes, Rabbit, Really real Butter, Cider, Focaccia, Apples, Apple Butters…such good stuff!
Byrd House Market helped debut the Save Our Food Holiday Festival at the Farm Bureau this past Saturday at the new fairgrounds in Caroline County. We were visited by lots of people who had heard about our market on the news or through friends, were delighted to see the bounty of our vendors and our WBCH kids gardening, selling and shopping at the market. We met farmers and wine-makers, long-time locals and new neighbors and each one walked away with a flier listing each of our vendors and our new BHM bumper sticker: “Eat Good. Grow Great.” Special thanks to Epic Gardens, Pleasant Field, Empress Farm and Perennial Pleasures Plant Pharm for their donations to our booth display!
Check byrdhousemarket.blogspot.com for a recipe – BHM Lightly Curried Winter Vegetable Stew!
We’ll have cocoa for the kids this week, so come on by! And get the new “Eat Good. Grow Great.” bumper sticker, too.
Ana Edwards
BHM Market Manager—
Byrd House Market
William Byrd Community House
224 South Cherry Street
Richmond, VA 23220
ByrdHouseMarket@gmail.com
(804) 643-2717
THE FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR THE JAMES RIVER AT RICHMOND WESTHAM *
UNTIL SATURDAY MORNING…OR UNTIL THE WARNING IS CANCELLED. * AT 09:30
AM THURSDAY THE STAGE WAS 13.5 FEET * MINOR FLOODING IS OCCURRING AND
MINOR FLOODING IS FORECAST. * FLOOD STAGE IS 12.0 FEET *
FORECAST…THE RIVER WILL CONTINUE RISING TO NEAR 13.7 FEET BY
TONIGHT. THE RIVER WILL FALL BELOW FLOOD STAGE SATURDAY MORNING. * AT
13.0 FEET…APPROXIMATELY 20 ACRES OF LOWLAND FLOODED IN VICINITY OF
GAGE. THIS RIVER LEVEL IS COMPARABLE TO A PREVIOUS CREST OF 12.9 FEET
ON MAR 18 2007.
From a neighbor:
Help raise money for
by EATING PIZZA!! That’s right!
Here’s what you do:
Come to CiCi’s
7516 West Broad Street
on THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10,
from 5-8 p.m.
and mention your school at the
register.(Tell your friends and family to do the same) Enjoy all the pizza you can eat!
CiCi’s will donate 15% of your net sales back to
your school. Raising money has never been easier!
So, bring a friend and enjoy all the pizza, pasta,
salad and dessert you want!
From a neighbor….
tonite about 10:30PM RPD in what seems to be pursuit of a small truck
going south (wrong way) on S Cherry street. Truck loses control and
hits tree in 200 block S Cherry and driver gets out and runs. Police
swarm all over the place with many cruisers, briefly closing 200
block S Cherry. Not sure if suspect apprehended.This is just what appeared to have occurred and not official police
record.
broken car glass in front of William Byrd Community House
From the Times Dispatch (this follows coverage for his arrest in October):
Richmond City Councilman E. Martin Jewell pleaded no contest yesterday to driving under the influence in October and apologized to his constituents and the community.
“I made a mistake. I should not have driven after drinking,” the 5th District council member said outside Richmond’s John Marshall Courts Building.
Substitute Judge Randy Rowlett fined Jewell $500, with $250 suspended, and imposed a 90-day jail sentence with the time suspended for three years. Jewell’s driver license also was suspended for 12 months, but he will be allowed to drive to and from work, including City Council functions. Jewell is owner of Total Home Care, a residential cleaning service.
In addition, Jewell was referred to the Virginia Alcohol Safety Action Program, an anti-drunken-driving school that will last at least 10 weeks. Attorney Craig Cooley, who represented Jewell, said the punishment was standard for a first-time offender such as Jewell.
Richmond police pulled over and arrested the councilman about 1:30 a.m. Oct. 24 near Byrd Park. Cooley said Jewell’s blood-alcohol reading was 0.11 percent. In Virginia, a motorist is presumed to be legally intoxicated with a blood-alcohol concentration of 0.08 percent or higher. Cooley noted that Jewell’s level was below the 0.15 percent that would trigger mandatory jail time.
The state’s maximum punishment for first-offense DUI, a Class 1 misdemeanor, is one year in jail and a $2,500 fine.
From announcement:
SynerGeo would like to invite you to our children’s art show on Thursday,
Dec. 10, 5:30-7pm. We will have some refreshments and we hope you can
make it out to see the great works they have created during our studies of
Chinese art.We are located on the corner of Laurel and Albermarle streets, look for
our blue building. Our newsletter will be delivered this week.Thanks,
Bonnie
—
” Not all who wander are lost”Bonnie Hofmeyer
SynerGeo, Inc.
804.648.2287
www.synergeo.org
Recently the Sierra Club Falls of the James Group blog ran a cursory review of area colleges and universities. It basically cruised through school media to glean more information on environmental initiatives.
Of course the biggest, Virginia Commonwealth University, Oregon Hill’s neighbor to the north, received the treatment:
Checking On VCU…
I did not get a chance to go to Project Winterfood on Wednesday night, but I do want to commend it anyway. Graphic design students promote locally grown food and community, which is great for the environment. Click here for Commonwealth Times article.VCU’s green initiative was discussed as part of student organization’s funding forum:
“SGA Vice President Roberto Celis introduced the university’s green initiative as another key priority. Celis said students, faculty and staff will have to make a behavioral change in order to reach the goals laid out in the President’s Climate Commitment.
Grant Matthews, a representative for the VCU Office of Sustainability, said the overall goal is to develop a climate action plan that will promote energy conservation and new projects.
Matthews said over the next 41 years, VCU should reach carbon neutrality.”
Note to VCU- 41 years is way too long. Click here for article.
In exciting news, VCU is looking at more solar-
“VCU’s Director of Sustainability Jacek Ghosh, said the state might fund the university for more solar projects on campus, which could lead to solar panels on parking garages.
“The final details are being negotiated,” Ghosh stated in an e-mail. “The Commonwealth of Virginia can be very slow in these matters.”
Late last summer, VCU installed a system of 30 solar panels on the MCV Campus Steam Plant, which provides steam power for heating and sterilization for much of the MCV Campus, the VCU Health System and nearby state and private office buildings in downtown Richmond.
This 6.6-kilowatt solar panel array helps VCU offset about 7,000 metric tons of carbon gases each year.
The solar panels on the MCV Campus Steam Plant were installed by City Space Solar, a renewable energy company that focuses on solar energy in residential and commercial construction.
VCU has installed two PV solar-powered trash compactors, the one at the Stuart C. Siegel Center helps manage waste after sporting, concert and other large-scale events.
The solar-powered trash compactors have five times the capacity of standard trashcans with fewer collections and up to 80-percent emissions reductions.
According to the BigBelly Web site, energy from the sun is the only new input Earth receives every day and it is free, silent and non-polluting. In 20 days, the sun provides the equivalent amount of energy that is contained in all of the coal, oil and gas reserves combined.
VCU has added the first solar thermal system to the historic Ginter House on Monroe Park Campus. The system reduces the building’s hot water CO2 emissions by 77 percent annually, which saves 13,400 KBTU, according to the Richmond By Solar Web site.”
Its worth remarking that as VCU has expanded further into what was historically Oregon Hill, residents have asked for VCU to go more green to help the LOCAL environment.
And like I said, its not just VCU. University of Richmond, Virginia Union, and even Richard Bland were also featured on the blog.
It’s also worth noting that this Wednesday is the Sierra Club Falls of the James Group’s annual holiday fundraiser at the Virginia Science Museum.