Dominion Donates $2 Million To Landmark Theater Renovation

Excerpt from Times Dispatch article:

Dominion Resources Inc. is donating $2 million toward the $50 million renovation of the Landmark Theater.
In return, the stage at the performing arts complex near Virginia Commonwealth University’s academic campus will be known as the Dominion Stage.
CenterStage Executive Director Richard M. Parison Jr., Dominion Resources CEO Thomas F. Farrell II and Richmond Mayor Dwight C. Jones announced the gift Thursday night before the Richmond Ballet’s performance of “The Nutcracker” at CenterStage’s Carpenter Theatre. Dominion Resources has sponsored the ballet since 2009.
The 3,565-seat playhouse will become the Altria Theater next year. Altria Group Inc., the parent company of Philip Morris USA, bought the 20-year naming rights from the city for $10 million in July.
Due to be completed in 2014, the building’s renovation will include new restrooms, fire alarm controls, façade repairs, emergency lighting, roofing work, box-office and office improvements, new elevators and concession areas, as well as seating and theater-system upgrades.
The theater is hosting performances during the renovation, with shows scheduled around the work.

Hollywood Holiday Merch

From Hollywood Cemetery’s FaceBook page:

Looking for a great holiday gift?

Friends of Hollywood Cemetery just produced a DVD, Hollywood Cemetery – A Historical Treasure. This wonderful DVD was written and narrated by Dr. Hunter McGuire, one of Hollywood’s most accomplished historians. Copies of the DVD are available for purchase in the Cemetery Office for $20.00. Proceeds from the DVD sales will be used to support the continuing restoration and conservation of Hollywood begun by Friends in 2008.

For more information, please contact Kelly Wilbanks at kwilbanks at hollywoodcemetery.org.

December 18 is the Renegade Market’s Holiday Market!

From email announcement:

3-6 pm corner of Idlewood & S. Linden Sts. 23220

Be here, get hot drinks,
find warm gifts and good peeps.
May winter shine upon ya.
Produce, Specialty Foods

Agriberry
Byrd Farm / Rural Virginia Market
Deer Run Farm
Ettamae’s Oven
Faith Farm Foods
Sub Rosa Breads
Tomten Farm
Arts, Crafts, Holiday Greenery

Breeze Hill Farm (lamb’s wool yarns, holiday greenery and gifts)
CityGarden (holiday greenery designs)
Foraged (natural materials made into holiday decorations and gifts)
KR2 Knitting (fingerless gloves and half-mittens, scarves, hats, dickies, mufflers, berets…)
PrayerMonkey (crocheted wire & beaded jewelry)
Ron Stradone (holiday greenery designs)
WBCH Renegade Market Tent

Friendly faces, good cheer, holiday warmth
and More!
Holiday Schedule!!
CLOSED Tuesday CHRISTMAS DAY:
OPEN WEDNESDAY, Dec. 26, 3-5 pm
OPEN Tuesday NEW YEAR’S DAY: Normal Hours, 3-6pm


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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

Renegade Market will be 59 degrees and Welcoming!

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!

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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

This week at the Renegade & then some!

From email announcement:

Who’s Going to Renegade This Week?
Byrd Farm, Faith Farm Foods, Deer Run Farm, Tomten Farm, Agriberry, Ettamae’s Oven

Last days to buy tickets!
Perly’s (all you can eat) Spaghetti Dinner benefits William Byrd Community House. This annual event will be held this year on Thursday, December 6th from 5:30 to 8:30. Tickets are just $15 per person. For tickets, visit: WBCHPerlys.eventbrite.com or call 804/643-2717. Isn’t this your once a year time to hang with the peeps of your favorite 501(c)(3)? Then don’t miss it!

Dec.18: Byrd House RENEGADE Just-in-Time HOLIDAY Market
Mark your pockets, wallets, cards and calendars. Come shop for those PERFECT gifts that are only inspired during those last breathless gift-selecting moments in the week before Xmas, Channuka, Kwaanza, Etcetera. These are the artisan consumables that really get consumed, never gathering dust on a shelf – eaten, savored, enjoyed. YES! You! Should! Do! This! For yourself, your fella-students, your teachers, mom, sibs, pops, grammies and pop-pops, BFFs, puppy luvs, kit kats and old dogs.

A few notes …
The Renegade Market is an “at-will” market. Except for Byrd Farm/Rural Va Market and Faith Farm who come EVERY week, vendors come when they have goods to sell and/or when the weather permits. I will include a list of participating vendors in these notices, but changes do occur, so please take it as a guide. In addition, new vendors will occasionally test their products at our Tuesday afternoon market, so there’s always the chance of making a wonderful new discovery.

And, don’t forget to thank your Renegade Market vendors. They brave the weathers to grow and tend, harvest and haul their good stuff to this market, sometimes from far far (locally) away for the scant 3 hours they set up in our neighborhood. Good people. Thank them, cause they’re grateful for you too!
See you at the market!
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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

Renegade Market This Afternoon

From email:

Come one. Come all.
The goods are here. Shop our hardy, willing food producers, crafters, growers, makers, sellers. Call me a sourpuss, but I wouldn’t mind if we got snow… The Renegade Market it pretty in the snow. Alas, it is our lot to get rain. Tuesday’s forecast is for light rain throughout the afternoon, so really no hindrance to market vending or shopping. Winter soups, sautees, sauces – the kind of goodness that keeps colds and influenzi at bay (bey?).
Tuesdays, November through April, 3pm to 6pm.
byrdhousemarket.blogspot.com for details…

Spaghetti Dinner at Perly’s
If you’ve never joined friends and family for this annual WBCH event, you’ve missed out. All you can eat spaghetti, some famous rolls, great company, a happening part of Grace Street…you get all that for $15 per person and somehow manage to support the great work done by great people for great people at WBCH. Click here for details!

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

Pre-Holiday Renegade Market Today

From email announcement:

Greetings All!
For your last-minute pre-holiday farmers-market shopping-pleasure
this week’s Renegade Market vendors will offer…

Fresh, seasonally delicious foods:
Apples, Cider, Jams, Jellies, Honey…
Salad mix, Broccoli, Sweet Potatoes, Radicchio, Escarole…
Grass-fed Beef, Pork, Free-ranging Chicken – in roasts, parts, ground, sausages…
Eggs, Cheese and Noodles…
Artisan Breads, Rolls, Biscuits, Pies, Tarts and other desserts…
Raw food Dog and Cat foods and treats…
information about CSAs and Herd Shares
See you at the Market: 3pm to 6pm Tuesdays, November through April

byrdhousemarket.blogspot.com

Visit wbch.org for more doings at William Byrd Community House

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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

Byrd House Market Tomorrow

From email:

Byrd House Market is ON!
Celebrate the end of the regular season and daylight savings time…
Launch the cool chill
Lightly Breezy, Briskly Chilly. Will Feel Like 48.
Renegade (winter) Market!
3pm to 6pm (not 7pm)

We’ll have an
Apple Pressing Demo
and
Music under the Big Top
(teehee, our version).

What’s coming up?
November 8: A Community Conversation on Residential Segregation presented by Housing Opportunities Made Equal and Virginia Poverty Law Center
Click here for Details and RSVP

December 6: Byrd House Bash at Perly’s – William Byrd’s annual spaghetti dinner is a great family, board, volunteer, event to celebrate a year of hard and great work in our community. Join us. Tickets just $15 per person (and they do sell out, so hurry! quick! quick!)

See you tomorrow!

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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