This Wednesday is a Red Wednesday, which means curbside recycling collection.
An estimated 80,000,000 Hershey’s Kisses are wrapped each day, using enough aluminum foil to cover over 50 acres of space — that’s almost 40 football fields. All that foil is recyclable, but not many people realize it.
Given some earlier editorials, it makes sense to follow up with an announcement from the Chesapeake Climate Action Network:
On Saturday, March 24th, hundreds of Virginians will take a stand against fossil fuel corruption. Will you join us at the MARCH to End Dominion’s Power MADNESS?
For years, Dominion Virginia Power executives have been raking in millions while using their dirty energy money to buy political power. They’ve been making backroom deals to rig the rules for fossil fuels and for themselves. They generate ZERO electricity for us from wind or solar power but they’ve bamboozled our state-mandated electricity rates to include a whopping $76 million renewable energy reward.
We are outraged and Dominion needs to know it. If this is what business as usual looks like, then business as usual isn’t acceptable and has to stop before the planet cooks. It’s time for Virginians to stand up to Dominion’s exploitation and fight for a massive shift to wind and solar power.
Momentum is building for this action. Last week, leading climate activist Bill McKibben released a video urging Virginians to sign up for the MARCH. Will you join us?
When: Saturday, March 24th, noon
Where: Richmond, VA- Kanahwa Plaza across from Dominion’s corporate headquarters, which takes up an entire city block
What: A rally and march to take a stand against Dominion’s dirty energy money and for a massive shift to wind and solar powerJust last week, Dominion displayed its fossil fuel madness in a number of ways: Dominion lobbyists blocked a bill to expand solar power access for schools and churches, Dominion CEO Tom Farrell unveiled a proposal for another humongous carbon-polluting power plant and we learned that company executives sent a letter to the federal government opposing a transmission backbone for offshore wind power.
Please sign up to join us on the 24th. Together, we can fight back against Dominion’s corporate greed and take a stand to stop climate change!
From Craigslist ad:
Yardsale this Saturday March 17th on the side of Fine Foods in Oregon Hill. We will start around 9am! Got a lot of stuff for sale: ladies clothes, shoes, household items, kitchen stuff, holiday decor, a few baby girls clothes, glass top kitchen table with four chairs very nice, kerosene heater, tapes and dvds, jewelry, plants and terrariums, 2 type writer’s from the 70’s, music, 8mm camera/video, clown stuff, knick knaks, and a bunch more! Come early in case it rains in the afternoon! Cheers!
From email announcement:
Please note that the MPACT/CAPS Meeting for Precinct 4, scheduled for Thursday, March 15th, has been cancelled. The next round of Community Conversations with the Mayor is quickly approaching and as soon as we have a date for Precinct 4, follow-up correspondence will be sent out. In the meantime, if there are any concerns or service requests, feel free to utilize the MPACT website, call 311, or reach out to your MPACT Co-Chairs (Charles Finley, Louise Caine, Horace Anderson and Barbara Abernathy).
On that note, the Mayor’s Food Policy Task Force is meeting next Wednesday:
RICHMOND, VA (WWBT) — Richmond Police are looking for a stabbing suspect, after a violent evening on Belle Isle Tuesday night.
Police tell us the victim was stabbed several times, but should be okay.
We’re told is all started out as some type of fight between the victim and suspect on Belle Isle. That escalated into the stabbing.
The victim was taken to the hospital. The suspect was still on the run.
RPD put up its plane, which used thermal imaging, to track the suspect. But, that suspect was never found.
Although Oregon Hill remains one of the most reported crime-free neighborhoods in the city, we are not totally immune.
From weekend police report:
THEFT FROM MOTOR VEHICLE
3/8/12 – 3/9/12 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 a.m.
100 block of South Cherry Street
An unknown person(s) entered the vehicle and stole the in-car radio.THEFT FROM MOTOR VEHICLE
3/5/12 – 3/6/12 12:00 p.m. – 9:10 a.m.
600 block of South Pine Street
An unknown person(s) broke into the vehicle and stole a firearm.
