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St. Andrew’s Students Paint Mural for Jonny Z

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The Richmond Times Dispatch has an article about St. Andrew’s School students painting a mural in honor of the late Jonny Z.

“ART 180 enlisted the help of students at St. Andrew’s to come up with ideas for the mural. Zanin’s friends told the students about Jonny Z — about his love of art and music, community, coffee and pizza — and they went from there. The mural, running the length of a back building connected to Joe’s Inn, 205 N. Shields Ave., in the alley between Shields and Rowland Street, contains a little bit of everything, or “kind of random, fun and colorful,” said Lauren Healy, another project coordinator.”

SynerGeo Community Dinner on Monday

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This Monday, June 16th, SynerGeo will have our Oregon Hill Community Dinner at 6pm. The dinners are held every 3rd Monday of
the month(except August due to our volunteering trip to Seattle. Our
doors will be open with lots of food to share! I plan to pass out
little flyers at the movie friday night in pleasants park, hopefully
we can spread the word and get more neighbors to join us!!!

Also at this month’s dinner we are going to be asking people to
help us out with one of our projects for this summer’s art camp, so
come prepared with a nice quote or a happy message!!

Please help us by telling your neighbors and friends about this, I
really want this to be known as something positive for everyone to
join in for Oregon Hill!

Hope to see you all on Monday!
Katie Cowles

Volunteer Coordinator
cowleskatie@yahoo.com
www.synergeo.org

Border Crossing Puppet Show

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June 17 @ 7 p.m.
William Byrd Community House
224 South Cherry St.
Richmond, VA 23220

In April, two Virginia activists walked three days south crossing the Arizona desert into Mexico. They walked in solidarity with the countless number of people who traverse the dangerous terrain in search of better lives in the U.S., to protest unjust anti-immigrant policies in Virginia and the millions of dollars annually spent on border militarization.

Jeff Winder and Sue Frankel-Streit of The People United! will report back on their experience with a puppet show. They will also promote the Fifth Annual Gathering of The People United \”Taking Root: Building Community, Sustaining Resistance\” to be held the weekend of June 27 in the mountains of central VA. All are welcome to come. This is a kid-friendly event.

Byrd House Market Benefit Dinner Hosted by Six Burner, June 18

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Cool, but who\'s this bearded guy?

RICHMOND, VA May 30, 2008. Six Burner Restaurant will host a benefit for the Byrd House Market on Wednesday, June 18th from 5:30 to 9:30 pm. Diners will receive a delicious three course dinner for their donation of $35 to benefit the Byrd House Market, a program of William Byrd Community House.

The William Byrd Community House provides services to children, teens, parents, and seniors in the Richmond community. The Byrd House Market’s goal is to promote the health and welfare of its community while supporting local farmers, food producers, and artisans.

Six Burner restaurant is generously supporting BHM by offering customers a pre-fixe menu featuring fresh foods from BHM’s vendors for one night only on June 18th. The proceeds from this event will go to supporting the Byrd House Market. Call now for reservations as seats will fill up fast!

Six Burner Restaurant
1627 West Main St
(804) 353-4060

See It While You Can- City Auditorium

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One of the few good things about the VCU rec center project is that VCU will finally properly renovate the historic City Auditorium building. Right now you can really see and appreciate this magnificent architecture of the original structure, though sans its supporting stables. It was the ‘white elephant’ arts center project of its day, and went through a couple of uses, including a farmer’s market as well as concert hall. It hosted a number of famous speakers, including Presidents.

See it while you can, because it is supposed to be enveloped by the construction of the massive, 100,000 sq. ft. rec center.

Open High Mentioned in Article on ADA for RPS

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Richmond Schools Step Up

An addition should be added to Open High for an elevator.
Along with solar panels.

Money should not be that big of an issue.

That building is a beautiful part of Grace Arents‘ legacy to Oregon Hill and Richmond education. It should not be closed. Open High, as a small school, is one of RPS’ greatest success stories.

Congratulations to Beatty and Wolf! They have worked tirelessly on behalf of Richmond children.

Bear, Deer, and other wildlife

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Who saw the bear this morning?

If you do see it in the future, don’t approach or even gawk, just call 911 so Animal Control can be alerted. They are hoping it will find its way back to more wilderness.

This reminded me of a few years ago when the deer came into the neighborhood and was clattering his hooves along the cobblestone alleys.

My neighbor on China Street, Larry, told me about growing up in Oregon Hill back in the 50’s, when there was ponies behind the Parsons House and you could go furtively hunting on the James River with a .22.

Anyone have any good wildlife (nonhuman, please) stories in Oregon Hill?