The Mid-Atlantic Off Road Enthusiasts (M.O.R.E.) are doing some more trail work on Belle Island tomorrow and could use more volunteers. Click here for more details, including how you can get involved.
Oregon Hill is lucky to have these folks helping with our adjacent city parks.
Even trace amounts of tobacco can kill. As with pet waste, keeping litter off the ground is more than a social etiquette issue, its a health matter. Animals need all the help they can get.
Last night new Canal Walk restaurant/nightclub Off The Hookah had a small introductory party. Perhaps more Oregon Hill residents will find themselves walking down to the river to visit.
With all of the, um, renewed interest in City Council, I thought I would post this reminder from the City:
Numerous opportunities for Richmond Citizens to learn more, provide input and participate: New Plan to be adopted by December 31, 2011
(Richmond, Virginia U.S.A) — In 2011, Richmond City Council will redraw (redistrict) the existing nine Richmond Voter District boundaries that we use to elect our local Richmond Elected Government Officials in response to results of the 2010 U.S. Census. Adjustments to voting precincts and locations may also be made at this time. New Richmond Voter Districts are to be adopted by December 31, 2011.
The 2011 Richmond Decennial Voter District Redistricting will be a year-long open public process that will include a comprehensive array of public information communications and numerous opportunities for Richmond Citizens to learn more, provide input and participate, which will include many Public Information Meetings, Public Council Meetings, and Public Hearings. All Richmond citizens are invited and encouraged to learn more about the process and to participate during each step of the way. Some of the many ways to engage in this process include:
1. Contacting the Richmond City Council Councilmember that represents you via phone, email, meeting or letter (contact information below)
2. Sending a letter to Richmond City Council
2011 Richmond Decennial Voter District Redistricting
Richmond City Hall; 900 E. Broad St., Suite 305
Richmond, Virginia 232193. Attending Public Information Meetings, Council Public Meetings and Public Hearings to learn more, ask questions and make suggestions (dates, times and locations listed below)
4. Visiting the 2011 Richmond Decennial Voter District Redistricting website to learn more (to be established soon)
5. Asking questions, learning more, and sending suggestions or information by email to steven.skinner@richmondgov.com
6. Sending suggestions or asking questions by sending a fax to 804.646.5468
7. Learning more, asking questions and providing suggestions by calling 804.646.6052
8. Signing up for information and Public Information Meetings, Public Council Meeting and Public Hearings email updates/alerts, at: steven.skinner@richmondgov.com
An excerpt from Richmond Magazine article (click here for full article):
Richmond City Council’s first meeting of the new year typically is one filled with little more than a vote to select its president and vice president for the next two years. Instead, tonight’s meeting was a political faceoff between Council President Kathy Graziano and City Councilman Marty Jewell, who promised on Jan. 2 to ask for an investigation into e-mails that outlined alleged inappropriate behavior by Graziano’s Council liaison and close political advisor, David Hathcock, at the meeting. He accused Graziano of mishandling the situation.
Jewell followed through on his promise, making a motion to defer voting on a new president until an investigation could be conducted by the city’s office of the inspector general, referring to an alleged incident in which Councilman Bruce Tyler’s liaison, Jennifer Walle, was allegedly inappropriately touched on April 21 by Hathcock. The alleged incident was detailed and acknowledged in an e-mail exchange between Walle and Hathcock on May 6.
“When I asked Graziano, she said that issue was done with — over,” Jewell said, referencing conversations that he had with her in December.
Despite Jewell’s motion calling for an investigation, which failed, and despite his nomination of Tyler for the presidency, Graziano carried the vote five to three (Trammell, Tyler and Jewell voted against her, and Councilman Doug Conner was absent).
But Jewell, Trammell and Tyler each said that the matter of Hathcock’s alleged behavior was far from over. They all said that the unofficial inquiry that was conducted, overseen by Graziano herself, was flawed.
Not sure if someone is coming or going, but the goods are on Craigslist:
From Richmond Youth Peace Project News:
Mark Your Calendars for Generation Dream 2011:
Sunday, January 30 and Friday, February 4The Richmond Youth Peace Project will present its sixth annual youth Educoncert, Generation Dream 2011, honoring the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Two performances are scheduled this year. The first show will be held at the VCU Singleton Performing Arts Center, 922 Park Avenue, on Sunday, January 30, 2011 at 4 p.m. A second performance will be held at the Richmond Public Library’s main branch, 101 E. Franklin Street, on Friday, February 4 at 7 p.m. A $5 donation is requested to help defray expenses at the Sunday afternoon show. Admission to the Friday evening show–part of February’s First Fridays events–is free.
Generation Dream 2011 features youth performers from throughout metro Richmond, along with several adult professional artists. This uplifting 90-minute multi-cultural variety show is built around the themes of peace, nonviolence and social justice. The show is part of Living the Dream, Richmond’s annual commemoration of the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Click below for more 2011 youth opportunities:
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From Nathan of Flying Brick:
Upcoming Events in January!
– January 7th, 7pm – SPARC presentation on organizing in VA Prisons. This is to also to celebrate the release of the book, Defying the Tomb, out now on AK Press!
– January 17th, 6pm – Slingshot Hip-Hop film showing about Hip-Hop in Palestine. View the trailer by clicking here. Potluck Dinner starts at 6!
– January 23rd, 7pm – A Dirty Shame film showing to benefit LIPS, a female sexuality zine. Please bring a donation! View the trailer by clicking here. This film is Rated NC-17. Please keep this in mind. Contains sexual content. Directed by John Waters.
– In addition to our events, we are open Mondays 9-4 and Thursdays 4-9. Please come and say hi, chat, and check out some books!
Keep checking back for last minute additions to the schedule! If you have questions, would like to volunteer, or have an idea for an event, you can send us an e-mail at theflyingbrick at riseup.net. Find us on Myspace and Facebook!
All events at the Flying Brick Library are sober unless noted otherwise. Please no booze or drugs.
From The Daily Dispatch: December 30, 1863:
On yesterday morning, in the 32nd year of her age, of consumption, Mrs. Mary E Francis, wife of Mr. Wm T Francis.
She had been a consistent member of the Methodist E. Church for more than ten years, and died in the hope of a blissful immortality.
“Why do we mourn departed friends,
Or shake at death’s alarms?
‘Tis but the voice that Jesus sends,
To call them to his arms.”Her funeral will take place from Oregon Hill M E Church, on Wednesday morning, 30th inst, at 11 o’clock. The relatives, friends and acquaintances of the family are invited to attend.
