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Trash/Recycling Pickup Tomorrow

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This Wednesday is a red Wednesday, which means trash and recycling pickup. Please make sure you pick up containers after pickup tomorrow night. They do not belong on the sidewalk after tomorrow night.

Holiday Recycling

It’s the holiday season. The time when we create more throw away material than at any other time of the year. But just because we create it all doesn’t mean we have to throw it all away. With your local curbside or drop off program and other recycling resources, you can make the holiday season the season of recycling. You can recycle gift boxes, Christmas trees, wrapping paper, cards, junk mail, magazines, catalogs, plastic, glass and aluminum beverage containers, and more!

http://www.holidayrecycling.com/

Renegade Market will be 59 degrees and Welcoming!

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From email announcement:

Should be a nice day…
Hope you’re planning to come on by. 3pm to 6pm.

Wanna Stock up on Stocking Stuffers?
December 18 is the Renegade Market’s Holiday Market!
Be here, get hot drinks,
find warm gifts and good peeps.
May winter shine upon ya.

Thanks to Everyone!
who attended this year’s Spaghetti Dinner at Perly’s and to the WBCH associate board and staff who made it happen. special thanks to Perly’s for being THE joint for THIS happening annually for the last 6 years.

ByrdHouseMarket.blogspot.com
Visit our blog for more info on the market, WBCH programs, Eat Good to Grow Great recipes and so much more.

Bees Up Your Alley?
See the Beehive Grant Fund information (Click to open PDF)! You could get money (or reimbursement for funds spent) to start a beehive in your backyard, neighborhood, school, community garden, park… check it out. Remarkable!

_____________________

Ana Edwards, Manager
Byrd House Market & Library Programs
Grace Arents Library & Education Center
William Byrd Community House
www.wbch.org / 804.643.2717 ext.306

Pancake Exam BREAKfast Monday Morning

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From the flyer:

 

Need a break from studying for exams?
Join us for the
Pancake Exam
BREAKfast
Who: College Students living in the Oregon Hill Neighborhood
What: FREE Pancakes with toppings
Where: Pine Street Baptist Church (400 S. Pine Street) Come to side door on Albemarle St.
When: December 10th • 9:00-11:00 PM
Why: Because Pine Street Church cares about our neighborhood students!
www.pinestbaptist.com

Mamma Zu Grub

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Food blogger “grub like a girl” recently posted a review of Oregon Hill’s Mamma Zu restaurant.

Excerpts:

Forget “have it your way” hospitality, Mamma Zu has customers playing their way; of course, this can make pretentious diners feel powerless, making for one interesting customer service experience. For me, I prefer the raw un-fluffy service and ambiance centered around good food, not fancy font menus or hand stitched table linens. If you’re open to mediocre service, no ass-kissing, and food that’ll make you melt with delight, this is your place.
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Mamma Zu isn’t one of Richmond’s top restaurant for nothing, this place is an experience and the food is exceptional. For me, it solidifies the ongoing admiration I have for local eateries and the servers, cooks, and team that delivers authentic deserving food.

Community Biking Forum On Sunday

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From RideRichmond.net:

Richmond’s Bike-Ped Coordinator will be present, as will members of Virginia Bicycling Federation and BikeVirginia. With the General Assembly for the Commonwealth in Richmond, we have to make use of our community strength to effectively lobby and show that as cyclists, we’re also humans, and deserve rights and legislation that protects us on the road.

Flying Brick Library Schedules Screenings of “The Century of the Self”

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From their website:

Join the Flying Brick Library for a four-part workshop/screening of “The Century of the Self,” a British documentary mini-series that covers the western psychological theories of the 20th century as they relate to capitalism and democracy… specifically, in terms of consumerism, propaganda, mass media, advertising and ideas about normalcy and identity.

Each session will start with a screening of an hour-long episode, followed by discussion. You don’t need to attend all four events to attend one, although each flows into the next.

When: 4pm on Dec 10, 13, 17 and 20 (Mon and Thurs)

Congratulations to Ram Bhagat

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Ram Bhagat, celebrated Open High teacher, founder of Drums No Guns and the Richmond Youth Peace Project, recently received one of this year’s Pollak Awards. (Click here for article).

Here is a an earlier profile from a Richmond Magazine article on standout teachers:

Although Ram Bhagat’s students don’t always relish their time in his demanding science classes, the Open High School teacher says “99 percent” of them like him after the classes are over. In his large classroom lined with windows, Bhagat teaches chemistry and AP environmental science.

Open High, part of the Richmond Public Schools system, has always taken an expansive approach to education, allowing students to follow their interests and learn subjects in creative ways. So, when Bhagat’s students study how water molecules behave, they may invent a dance or go to the James River. A teacher for 27 years, Bhagat is a Virginia State University graduate who grew up in New Haven, Conn. In college, Bhagat says, he became engaged in learning, particularly about microbiology, his major. The teachers there were “very inspirational by the way that they taught and cared.”

Free holiday performance set for December 9 at Landmark Theater

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Editors’ Note: Attached photo is from the 2011 production.

From City press release:

Richmond, VA –The City’s Department of Parks, Recreation and Community Facilities will present its annual holiday gift to the city, its free production of “Amahl and the Night Visitors,” at 4 p.m. on Sunday, December 9, at the Landmark Theater.

The one-act family musical composed by Gian Carlo Minotti was commissioned by NBC and broadcast live for the premiere of Hallmark Hall of Fame on Dec. 24, 1951. A heart-warming holiday classic that will charm both children and adults, it tells the story of the mischievous shepherd boy Amahl and his mother and how their lives are changed forever after meeting three kings.

The work is thought by some to be the most frequently produced opera in the world, and this will be the 51st year that the department has offered this holiday production to the public for free.

No reservations are required, and seating is based on a first-come, first-served basis.