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Marty Jewell’s Upcoming Meeting

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From press release:

Councilman Marty Jewell will hold a meeting in the Central 5th District which will include information on goals and accomplishments; a topical agenda; and, special guests. The meeting is free and all Central 5th District citizens are invited and encouraged to attend. Light refreshments will be served.

The Agenda for this meeting will include:

 Richmond City Council Fiscal Year 2011 Richmond Official Government Budget Overview

 Richmond Summer Fun Activities for Youth Richmond Department of Parks, Recreation and Community Facilities

Wednesday, 2 June 2010
6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
City of Richmond Southside Community Service
Center; 4100 Hull Street; Richmond, Virginia

For more information, please contact Francine Young in the office of Councilman Marty Jewell, at 804.646.5724 (office) or by email, at
francine.young@richmondgov.com.

St. Andrew’s School at Byrd House Market Tuesday

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Byrd House Market happens every Tuesday from 3:30 pm to 7 pm May thru October.

Greetings all,

Byrd House Market expects much better weather and continued good spirits at this week’s market. St. Andrew’s School will take up their traditional residence in our Byrd House Market information booth; Nandi Shabazz will do face painting (HURRAY!) and Pair-a-dice Farm will be back when the lambs are ready for market once more. If you missed Baby Boy, Wild Heaven’s goat, well you missed a lovely pet (pun intended). We were visited by our friendly neighborhood VDACS health inspector and all went quite well.

If you haven’t been by the market yet this season, don’t let the cool of spring pass you by – jump up and come see the goodies at the market.

Ana Edwards
Market Manager…

and don’t forget to EAT GOOD & GROW GREAT!

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Byrd House Market
William Byrd Community House
224 South Cherry St. Richmond, VA 23220
ByrdHouseMarket@gmail.com
(804) 643-2717
byrdhousemarket.blogspot.com

Upcoming Events at the Flying Brick

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From email from the Flying Brick:

Tomorrow Night!!

Eating Disorders and Body Image: One Survivor’s Perspective
presented by Matt Wetsel of the Flying Brick Library! Starts at 6!

Friday, the 14th: Our monthly potluck with a film showing of “XXY”. This is the fictional story of a 15 year old intersex person, living in a secluded village in Uruguay. Vegetarian and Vegan food welcome, and Gluten-Free options would be great! Please label! Starts at 7!

Sunday, the 16th: Flying Brick General Meeting! Starts at 7. If you are interested in getting involved, please try and come!

Sunday, the 23rd: Bike Workshop! All bikes welcome! Come learn to fix up bikes yourself, so you don’t have to pay someone else to do it for you! Hosted by Brian Wysong of R.O.T.A. bike club and U-Locks of Love. Starts at 6:30.

Saturday, the 29th: Film Screening of “The Corporation”, a film that attempts to explore the dominant institution of modern day life, and its accepted legal status as a “person”. Starts at 7:30.

Sunday, the 30th: Events/Workshops Planning Meeting. Please come if you have ideas for more events at the Flying Brick! Starts at 6.

Hope I see you all at these events! Tell all of your friends!

Byrd Market Officially Opens Tomorrow

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From press release:

Join us at Byrd House Market this Tuesday, May 4th, our 2010 OPENING DAY, 3:30 – 7:00 pm, to EAT GOOD and jumpstart your GROWing season with GREATness!

That’s our theme this year: “EAT GOOD GROW GREAT” and it applies to so many aspects of the market experience and the WBCH mission to transform the lives of Richmond’s families.

Admire and buy some of the freshest locally grown and produced foods our Central Virginia area has to offer. Fresh and local means the nutritional quality is at its highest and the costs are often lower (especially if eating better means you don’t have to eat as much!!). Eating fresh, local and delicious foods means your body is getting what it wants and needs, which allows your body to grow and maintain what makes it great. Can you imagine eating food that doesn’t interfere with your health and well-being? Pretty nice!

As a Market with a Mission, BHM is really pleased to show off the new Byrd House Farmlet – a small production farm that has been cultivated to provide each of our Early Childhood Summer Program families with a sackful of farmlet fresh produce every week for eight weeks. The Grace Arents Community Garden taps into a hundred-year history of learning by doing and our community will be learning so much from the Kid’s Pizza Garden, Keyhole Garden, Three Sisters Garden (coming soon) and Straw Bale Container Garden (also coming soon).
LIVE MUSIC
Lyle from Indiana (3:30-5 pm) Richmond Original Harry Gore (5:00-7 pm)

Visit: byrdhousemarket.blogspot.com for Happenings, Vendor Lists, Photos and more

May Day Parade Controversy Plus Workshop Schedule

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This Saturday’s May Day Parade is experiencing some controversy. Although the parade is not going through Oregon Hill, it was endorsed by the Oregon Hill Neighborhood Association at the March meeting, and there are related workshops scheduled for this Friday at the William Byrd Community House on Cherry Street (see workshop schedule after press release).

Press release:

A coalition of local activist groups plans to hold a parade in Richmond this Saturday, May 1, to commemorate May Day. On March 16, 2010, Fellow Worker
Kenneth Yates, one of the event organizers, submitted a parade permit
application to Sgt. Selander of the RPD Special Events Division. According
to the relevant city ordinance (Chapter 102, Article X of the City Code,
pertaining to Assemblies, Demonstrations, and Parades), the police should
have responded within five days. Instead, nearly a month went. On April 14,
Sgt. Selander informed Mr. Yates that, in order to receive a parade permit,
his group would have to pay for two off-duty police officers. According to
Attorney Rebecca K. Glenberg of the Virginia ACLU, who has been in touch
with both Mr. Yates and Sgt. Selander on this matter, the city code does not
include any authority for the police to impose such a requirement.

*PLEASE NOTE: * whether things work out or not, the rally and parade will
still happen. It will just have to happen on the sidewalks and not the
streets. We do have a permit for both the rally and the sidewalks.

Sign the letter here:
http://www.change.org/petitions/view/free_speech_for_richmonds_may_day

Dear Mayor Dwight C. Jones and Police Chief Bryan T. Norwood:

I am writing to protest the fact that the Richmond Police Department is
attempting to deny a parade permit to organizers of a Richmond May Day
Parade planned for this coming Saturday, first by failing to respond to the
organizers‚ permit application within the time limit imposed by city law,
and second by demanding that the organizers first agree to hire two off-duty
police officers, a requirement not included in the relevant city ordinance.
I urge the City of Richmond to do the right thing, respect the First
Amendment right to peacefully assemble and immediately grant the parade
permit.

Sincerely,

Cc:

The New York Times, Washington Post, Associated Press, Richmond Free Press,
Richmond Voice The Virginia Defender, Richmond Times-Dispatch, Style Weekly,
WRIR, Richmond-area Clear Channel radio stations, WTVR Channel 6, WRIC
Channel 8, NBC Channel 12, May Day 2010 Richmond Organizing Committee

Here is the workshop schedule for this Friday (to get more details on individual workshops, click here):

5:30pm – 6:00pm “STOP MEANS STOP!” | The Active Hand Ministry
6:00pm – 7:00pm “VCU Students For Social Action” | VCU Students for Social Action
6:00pm – 7:00pm “Restoration of Voting Rights” | Resource Information Help for the Disadvantaged
7:00pm – 9:00pm “Conflict Resolution for Activists” | Richmond Peace & Education Center
7:00pm – 9:00pm “Reproductive Justice & Prison Abolition” | Richmond Reproductive Freedom Project
9:00pm – 10:00pm “One City, One Community.” | RePHRAME

National Duathlon Festival (and subsequent road closing/parking advisories)

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From City advisory:

The National Duathlon Festival comes to Richmond next week, restricting some driving and parking on city streets.

On Saturday, April 24, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., Riverside Drive will be closed from the Lee Bridge to West 22nd Street. On Sunday, April 25, from 6 a.m. to 4 p.m., Riverside Drive will be closed from West 42nd Street to the Lee Bridge for the bicycle race portion of the 2010 Richmond Duathlon.

Additionally, the below streets will also be closed during the stated time periods:

2nd Street, from the Lee Bridge to Byrd Street from 4 p.m. Friday, April 23, to 6 p.m. Sunday, April 25

North 5th Street, from Tredegar Street to Byrd Street from 6 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday, April 25

Spring Street, from Belvidere Street North to South 2nd Street, from 4 p.m. Friday, April 23 to 4 p.m. Sunday, April 25

Byrd Street, from South 2nd Street to South 12th Street, from 4 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, April 25

Canal Street, from South 12th Street to South 14th Street from 6:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, April 25

Lee Bridge-One Southbound lane, from South 2nd Street southbound access ramp to southbound Riverside Drive exit ramp from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, April 24

Lee Bridge, from the Northbound side of bridge from Semmes Avenue to Spring Street to include the Riverside Drive access ramp to northbound side of Lee Bridge as well as the South 2nd Street exit ramp from 4 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, April 25

Manchester Bridge-One southbound lane, from the Byrd/9th Street exit ramp to Semmes Avenue from 4 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, April 25

Tredegar Street, from the entrance to Dominion Parking Lot to South 12th Street from 6 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday, April 25

Tredegar Street between the entrance to Dominion Resources and South 10th Street from 6 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday, April 25

Riverside Drive, from the southbound exit ramp of the Lee Bridge to West 22nd Street from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, April 24

Riverside Drive, from the Railroad Avenue ramp for the Lee Bridge to West 42nd Street parking lot from 6 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, April 25

Semmes Avenue, from the Manchester Bridge exit ramp to the Lee Bridge/Cowardin Avenue from 5 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, April 25

In addition to the street closings, parking will be prohibited prior to and during the Duathlon on 2nd Street, 5th Street, Spring Street, Byrd Street, Canal Street, Tredegar Street, and Riverside Drive from 22nd Street to the Bridge on Saturday, April 24, and from 42nd Street to the bridge on Sunday, April 25. Please note this additional street closing: Tredegar Street between the entrance to Dominion Resources and South 10th Street from 6 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday, April25.

Byrd House Market This Tuesday

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From Richmond Food Collective blog post:

Ana sent out an e-mail listing all of the vendors that will be at the Byrd House Market this Tuesday April 20th. It looks good enough for a full season listing! Hope you can make it out.

Amy’s Garden: Asparagus, Salad, Asparagus, Chard and Eggs
Bread for the People: Baguettes, Foccacia (feta, herbs, olives…), Brioche, Wheat loaves, Rolls and other good breads -breadman@netscape.net
Deer Run Farm: Tender Young Greens, Sweet Potatoes, Eggs and more
Empress Farms: Whole Turkey, Ground Turkey Turkey cutlets, Turkey eggs, Rabbit, canned apple goods (Apple-Maple Jam, Spicy Pickled Tomatoes…) rabbits.for.you@gmail..com and sometimes
Faith Farm Food: Grass Fed Beef, Pastured Poultry & Pork, Amish Roll Butter, Farm Fresh Eggs, Noodles, Jams, Honey, Amhurst Mill 3-grain Pancake Mix, Grits, Buckwheat, Self-rising cornmeal; Organic raw meat Dog food and treats – faithfarmfoods.blogspot.com
Perennial Pleasures Plant Pharm: Blossoming branches and cut flowers – See examples at perennialpleasures.blogspot.com
Rural Virginia: Asparagus, Mushrooms, Herbed Butters, Spinach and Preserves … ruralvirginiamarket.com
Thistledowne Farm: Beautiful sacs of early spring salad greens and kale, flats of lettuce and pansies plants, Jams (Peach-Rosemary, Blueberry-Basil…), Pizelles, Apple Pie, Cherry Pie and handmade Soaps … thistledownefarm.gmail.com
Sub Rosa Bread: Offers exclusive monthly subscriptions to a naturally leavened, rustic, wood fired bread every week for the period of that month – subrosabread.blogspot.com

I am not sure why the phrase “and sometimes” is left hanging above Faith Farm. If you are planning on going just for them you may want to check in with them or with Ana at the Byrd House.