Of course, now the “Renegade Market” season begins….click here for more info…
TD Video On End Of Byrd House Market Season
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Golden Hammer Nominees
There are two nominee projects in the neighborhood for the A.C.O.R.N. 2010 Golden Hammer Awards.
The Alliance to Conserve Old Richmond Neighborhoods initiated the Golden Hammer Awards in 2000 to thank and recognize those who had rehabilitated blighted properties in Richmond’s oldest and most neglected communities, bringing new life to the individual buildings– thereby promoting the revitalization of their surroundings. As improvements were made, the results inspired others; and the number of renovations increased until it was great enough to bring several neighborhoods back from total decay.
Nominee for BEST COMMERCIAL RENOVATION
IVNA Building & Clinic, 219-223 South Cherry Street ~ Oregon Hill
Gammino Realty & Development
(click here for previous post on Gammino interview)
Nominee for BEST URBAN INFILL PROJECT
Paul & Phyllis Galanti Education Center, 621 S. Belvidere Street ~ Oregon Hill
Commonwealth of Virginia
(click here for previous post on this development)
Yard Sale at 619 W. Cary (Jacob House/OHHIC) This Saturday
From Oregon Hill Home Improvement Council Board President Jennifer Hancock:
OHHIC will be having a yard sale on Saturday from 8 until 1 PM at the Jacob House at 619 W. Cary St. I will be running this event. If anyone wishes to volunteer to help, drop me an email. I could use some help. OHHIC will be selling tools, construction over runs, some office furniture, and excess office supplies.
VCU Student Neighborhood Clean Up Campaign This Saturday
Culled from email announcements:
The Student Government Association (SGA) of Virginia Commonwealth University is holding a neighborhood clean up for four neighborhoods on Saturday. Volunteers will meet at Monroe Park at 9 AM for a rally to kick off this event. Debbie Anderson (OHNA Secretary) will be the Team Captain for the Oregon Hill neighborhood. After the rally, the volunteers will be divided into four groups and return to the neighborhoods for the clean up. At noon, the groups will head to their respective neighborhood’s meeting places for a party. Oregon Hill will be meeting at the William Byrd Community House.
VCU is providing 6 pizzas, 3 boxes of wings, and 3 sodas for the party after the clean up. Oregon Hill Neighborhood Association will be providing plates, napkins, cups, and, maybe, ice.
Lecture on Food Wednesday
The Hans Falck Lecture Series looks into “the how, why, and what could be in the are a food and nutrition, with a focus on the democratization of the Food Culture.”
The site for the lecture is the auditorium of St. Andrew’s School and will be held on Wednesday October 27 at 7 pm.
Click below for flyer.
Flyer 2010 Save the Date
Key Found On Spring Street
I found this key on Spring Street near Belvidere. Please write in if you lost it and would like it back.
The Story On Ellis
The Times Dispatch ran an article on Wilbur E. Ellis, who at age 90 still works at the firm that hired him almost 70 years ago.
You might have gathered by now that Ellis is a little on the spirited side. Tough, too.
You’d be that way, too, if you were a poor, short kid growing up on Oregon Hill where, in that era, fighting was as popular a sport as baseball or football. Yet, he never took anything off anybody.
At age 8, he was working for a few pennies a week at Tredegar Iron Works, where his father was a foreman. At John Marshall High, he remained south of 5 feet and the most vertically challenged member of the cadet corps. He wound up playing trumpet.
He got mixed up with bootleggers, running illegal whisky, before his future wife, Phyllis Franck, persuaded him to change his ways. He read of an opening at Atlantic Electrical and applied. He was hired, along with another man, for a monthlong tryout. Whoever performed best would get the job full time. The next week, the other guy was arrested for stealing a typewriter from a house.
Congressional Candidates At The Crusade
Pictures of 3rd District Congressional Candidates at the Crusade for Voters meeting earlier tonight- in no particular order:
John Kelly
Bobby Scott
James Quigley
Chuck Smith
I did not get my question in for the candidates, but if you will forgive some editorial license, I will go ahead and pose it here:
Will you take the following pledge?
The Supreme Court’s flawed decision allowing corporations to spend unlimited amounts to influence election outcomes endangers our democracy and threatens to drown out the voices of individual citizens. I pledge to protect America from unlimited corporate spending in our elections by supporting a Constitutional amendment to overturn the Supreme Court’s decision giving corporations the same First Amendment rights as people.
Candidate Forums This Week
Tomorrow night, meet 3rd District Congressional candidates, including incumbent Congressman Bobby Scott, at the Crusade for Voters meeting.
From NorthRichmondNews.com :
On Thursday night, there is a 5th District School Board candidates forum.
West of the Boulevard News (wotbn.net) has the details:
Richmond Zine Festival yesterday
Congratulations to neighbor Liz Canfield and other Richmond Zine Festival organizers for a great event.
Although it was not held in Oregon Hill, but the Gay Community Center, it was nice to see all the local tie-ins, like the Books-On-Wheels presence, plus the traveling zine folks.
