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Busy Saturday Morning

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This coming Saturday morning, there is an Oregon Hill Energy Efficiency/Home Cooling workshop at the Jacob House, the City’s The Clean City Commission is partnering with the 2nd Precinct MPACT Co-Chairs to host the 4th Annual Civic Association Community Workshop, the Better Housing Coalition’s Center for Neighborhood Revitalization has a FREE Renovation Lending Workshop, and the Chesapeake Climate Action Network is having a workshop on lobbying for offshore wind.

That last item might sound a little out of place, but since the redistricting, Oregon Hill is likely to change representatives from the pro-renewables McEachin to Chesterfield developer and recent French nuclear tourist, Watkins.

Preview of Today’s Byrd House Market

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From email announcement:

SNAP EBT now available at our market.
Feed your family fresh, delicious, health fruits, vegetables, dairy, grass-fed meats, free range poultry, breads and desserts, preserves/jams/honey, food plants and pizza kits. Debit/Credit Card purchases may also be ready tomorrow. Will post via Facebook and Byrdhousemarket.blogspot.com when confirmed.

First Tuesday Wine Down with Byrd Cellars Winery
Always delicious, refreshing white grape and apple wines.

WRIR is our Featured Nonprofit: Richmond Independent Radio is a fresh new voice, on the air since January 1, 2005. Broadcasting music you DON’T hear on the radio dial with LIVE LOCAL DJ’s doing REAL LIVE SHOWS. In addition to our locally produced music shows, we offer a wide range of National and Local NEWS programming that covers issues underrepresented by other media. WRIR is a true community radio station: • We are locally owned, and by charter can never be bought out by any non local entity. • The station is operated by volunteers from the Richmond community. Our staff consists of your neighbors playing music, sharing news and operating the station.
Visit www.WRIR.org – Richmond’s Radio for the Rest of Us. and in case you didn’t know it, both your market manager Ana Edwards and vendor Patricia Stansbury (Epic Gardens) broadcast weekly programs on WRIR. check their schedule page for description and times.

Many thanks to Project Burning Bush summer institute, Shalom Farms interns, WBCH staff and all our volunteers for their patronage and ongoing assistance – You broaden the community and share the spirit of our mission to build sustainability and transform lives.

with sincere appreciation,

Your Byrd House Market Manager
Ana

See you at the Market!

Byrd House Market News For This Week

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From announcement:

June 28 will be the 3rd Byrd House Market day that EBT purchases are possible for our shoppers received SNAP benefits – thanks to a Federal grant through Va Dept Social Services. The first day, $4 in EBT sales were made and last week $47! An exponential increase! We knew this was a good idea. So spread the word. Better food for all, Better business for our food producers. Win. WinWin.

Our featured vendors this week? ALL of them! and Bill & Joyce Heath (in photo there)
Appearing in this week’s rotation: You! and the Richmond Public Library and Triple Stamp Press
Bernie’s Baked Goods returns for the summer.
Storyteller: Richmond Public Library brings books! (and voice)
Frank deAlto plays and sings under the Mulberry Tree, sharing the shady venue with Thea and/or Nadine on violin
Visitors: You! and Project Burning Bush Summer Institute
Coming soon:
July 5: First Tuesday Wine Down with Byrd Cellars
July 12: St. Andrew’s Church returns with their special canned yummies…
July 16: Cooking as a 2nd Language: Holiday Jewish Cuisine – What’s it All Mean? (and how to make it!) with Rabbi Andrew Goodman

Keep up with the good stuff!
ByrdHouseMarket.blogspot.com
and
EatGoodGrowGreat.blogspot.com

ConnectRichmond Meeting On Digital Divide Scheduled For Next Thursday

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Announcement from Nancy Stutts of ConnectRichmond:

All –

I’d like to thank our board, Connect members, donors, colleagues and
community partners for supporting ConnectNetwork’s mission to build stronger
local communities over the past 10 years. Some of you were there when we met
in Ebenezer Baptist Church in 2000, when many nonprofits did not even have
email addresses, to invent what became known as ConnectRichmond and later,
ConnectRappahannock and ConnectSouthside. The Network will close its doors
at the end of June; however, the three local networks will continue to serve
their communities and are currently in the process of rebuilding their
technology platforms (see contacts below for questions).

It’s been a privilege to work with you and the many volunteers, staff and
students who worked to build the first social network for good. I am
especially grateful to the donors who took a chance on me, my poster board
of circles that represented the Connect vision and what was then a pretty
radical idea for a Web-based community for information and knowledge to
promote civic action. I thank the Network communities who have driven our
work and the academic institutions that have housed and supported the vision
of a web-based portal: the University of Richmond (the original host) and,
for the last five years, Virginia Commonwealth University.

Though we will no longer staff ConnectNetwork, Liana Kleeman and I will
continue to work in the community through the Wilder School at VCU. I will
serve as Interim Chair for the Master in Public Administration Program,
teach and continue research and Liana will continue our recent work
exploring the local digital divide and digital equity, an issue that emerged
as a key local concern in Richmond’s 2010 Community Summit and was recently
declared a human rights issue by the United Nations. In the last several
months, we have worked with VCU MPA students, a UR Business School class and
those of you in the trenches overcoming inadequate access to information and
knowledge for many in our community.

We hope you will join us for a meeting in conjunction with this work on June
30, from 3:30-5:00 PM, at Richmond Public Library’s main branch to review
what we know about the digital divide in the Richmond region and learn from
those in attendance where the community might go from here. Thank you to the
many individuals who have taken surveys and attended meetings; per your
suggestions to map local assets, we have completed a preliminary map of
computer/Internet access centers in the Richmond region:
http://bit.ly/iD6kFZ If we are missing locations, please email us and we
will add your information.

VCUarts Launches Cinematheque Series

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From press release:

The Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts today announced the introduction this fall of VCUarts Cinematheque, a new series of 10 world and independent art films to be screened at the Grace Street Theater.

Feature films will be projected in 35mm with VCUarts’ brand-new, state-of-the-art projecting system. The system includes a new theatrical screen, Dolby Stereo Surround Audio System and a German Kinoton FP 30D projector. The Grace Street Theater, which is located at 934 W. Grace St., seats 250 people in a stadium-seating layout.

The inaugural Cinematheque season will hold Tuesday screenings that start promptly at 7 p.m. The screenings will be free and open to the public on a first-come basis.

“We are excited that there will be an alternative theatrical film venue in Richmond to present art and world cinema in 35mm in a state-of-the-art movie theater,” said Rob Tregenza, director and professor in the VCUarts Department of Cinema and the programmer for the Cinematheque. “This series will provide a new opportunity for the VCU and Richmond community to experience great films in a setting and format that honors the work.”

Tregenza selected and programmed feature films in the series from current theatrical art house releases, world cinema and classic art cinema with input from the School of the Arts, the School of World Studies and cinephiles from the community.
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Tuesday @ Byrd House Market

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From announcement:

No Chocolate and no Greenhouse Bus this week, but we have the 3rd Tuesday Acoustic Jam with Sunny Gardener and maybe Thea or Nadine…and besides the fruit and vegetable and garden plant offerings are getting lusher every week. TOMATOES are beginning to crop up, the tipping point approaches. The KIDS last day of school is TODAY! What will they do? Come to the market with you! Make dinner once a week with good stuff from Byrd House Market, eh?

Last Saturday’s Cooking as a 2nd Language class was fantastic! Raidah conducted her students like an orchestra leader and we were seated and eating in record time. Oh, it smelled so good in the WBCH lobby – you had to be there. Recipes and photos will be posted this week. Next class is July 16 (3rd Saturday) – Traditional Holiday Jewish Dishes with Rabbi Andrew Goodman.

Here’s a fun site: Useful Weeds

See you at the market!

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