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Round for Jeb on Feb. 6
From Hollywood Cemetery management:
A ceremony will be held for JEB Stuart at 11 a.m. on February 6th lasting approx 90 minutes. A round of volleys will be fired during the service.

The First “Really Really Free Market” Of The Year
Oregon Hill Resident Runs For School Board/ Lots of meetings next week
Oregon Hill resident Maurice Henderson is planning to run for the Richmond School Board.
There is an upcoming meeting to introduce him on 2nd Baptist Church, 1401 Idlewood Avenue on Saturday, January 23, 2010 at 2:30 P.M.
This is an opportunity to meet and ask him questions regarding his candidacy for this position vacated by the former representative, Betsy Carr, who ascended to the position of 69th district representative in the General Assembly.
Also,
The next 5th District meeting with Councilperson Jewell will be held on Wednesday, January 27, 2010 at 6:00 P.M. – 8:30 P.M. It will be held at the Binford Middle School, 1701 Floyd Avenue, Richmond, VA 23220.
In addition,
The Mayor’s State of the City Annual Address will be next Tuesday, January 26, 2010 at 6:30 P.M. – 8:30 P.M. It will be held at the Richmond Center Stage, Carpenter Theater, 6th & Grace.
But please note: The Oregon Hill Neighborhood Association holds its monthly meeting at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, January 26, at 7 pm.
Volleys in Hollywood for Pickett This Saturday
Hollywood Cemetery management wants to let neighbors know that there will be a ceremony at the Pickett gravesite in Hollywood on Saturday, January 23 from 11 a.m. until noon. There will be volleys fired at this ceremony. Thank you for your assistance in getting this information out to the neighborhood.
Flying Brick Library Meeting
Paraphrasing a recent announcement from the Flying Brick Library:
The Flying Brick Library would like to announce that the first volunteer interest meeting will
be at 5pm on Friday Jan. 22nd! @ 506 South Pine Street (The Flying Brick!)This meeting will be more of a discussion and presentation about the
library and its history. Folks will also share stories and talk about
their goals for the space. There will be food and tea and hopefully a lot
of good discussion. This is a great opportunity to check out the space if
you haven’t had the chance to come by yet! We hope people will leave
feeling excited about the project and thinking about ways they want to
contribute.After this initial meeting there will be another meeting on Tuesday Feb.
2nd at 7pm. This meeting will be a little more organized and for folks who
are pretty positive that they are interested in volunteering. At this
meeting we hope to start plugging people into working groups, and just
helping folks get a better idea of exactly the kind of work they want to
be doing with the library.
Byrd House Market Tomorrow + Upcoming Vendor Meeting
From Ana Edwards, the Byrd House Market Manager:
Part 1)
I hear it’s going to be a balmy 60 degrees Fahrenheit this week. So you know where you need to be on Tuesday! (BHM at 3-5:30 pm, right? Right!) Follow the thoughtfulness of the observance of the birth and life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. with the determination to do good works in your neighborhood and for your family – get some good food at the market and get it into your stomach – Your body will thank you! Your brain will thank you! I invite all of you – staffs and bosses, employers and contract workers, swing shifters and indoor table tennis champions, CEOs and graphic artists – to join us at the Byrd House Renegade Market! Make us your regular good food stop-on-the-way-home.Part 2)
If you are a Renegade vendor now, were a vendor during the 2009 season or would like to apply to be a vendor during the 2010 Byrd House Market season, it is time to send in your application. This week we will post the application packet on our blog site: www.byrdhousemarket.blogspot.com just above a link to the 2010 Online Vendor Application Form.In addition we will be holding the annual Byrd House Market Vendor Information Meeting to discuss the application, plans for the season and to get your input. This meeting will take place on Tuesday, Feb. 16 at 1:30pm in the Grace Arents Library of William Byrd Community House and will give me a chance to meet many more of our current and prospective vendors for the upcoming season.
BHM\New fence for Grace Arents Community Garden
From Byrd House Market announcement:
Come on over to the BHM Renegade Market this Tuesday, Jan. 12, and
pick something up for your cooking pot, your late night snack, your
great breakfast on the go…your road trip, your stay-cation or your
good works on Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Day (Jan. 18).Dedicated and surprise volunteers help make our working world go
round, y’all. Some of you might have noticed that the fence around the
Community Garden is under construction. Well, one fortuitous day last
fall, a local Eagle Scout contender just happened by and noticed our
fence was in need of a little reinforcement. He proposed an entirely
new fence as his leadership project and began work during the
holidays. The fence should come to completion in the next few weeks.We look forward to showing off some of the structural improvements to
the garden and market areas when the 2010 market season begins in
May.Traffic is a mite slow in the cold and darkening minutes before
sundown, so our vendors will start packing up at 5:30. Come early!Stay warm and lively!
VPA Protest March On Saturday
I have not seen this covered yet by the other neighborhood blogs- here’s the announcement:
Virginia coalition to hold ‘Jan. 9 March on the State Capitol for Jobs,
Peace & Justice’On Saturday, Jan. 9, the Virginia People’s Assembly, a statewide coalition
of labor, community and peace organizations, will sponsor a march on the
State Capitol to oppose more budget cuts and layoffs of state workers.The demands of the march include: “Jobs, Peace, Justice! Don’t balance the
budget on the backs of Virginia’s workers! Make the big corporations pay
their fair share of Virginia’s tax burden!”The announcement of the march follows outgoing Gov. Tim Kaine’s proposal
for the 2010-2012 state budget, which includes $2.3 billion in new cuts,
including the loss of 2,543 state jobs, 664 through direct layoffs, as
well as slashing aid to cities and counties. The new cuts would be in
addition to the more than $7 billion already cut from the present two-year
budget in response to declining revenue caused by the ongoing national
recession.Bob McDonnell, who takes office as Virginia’s new governor on Jan. 16, has
already rejected revenue increases proposed by Kaine, so the actual
threatened cuts and layoffs will likely be even more severe.“Gov. Tim Kaine and incoming Gov. Bob McDonnell are both talking about
more layoffs of state workers, more cuts in social programs, higher
university tuition and less aid to the cities and counties,” said Lillie
Branch-Kennedy, a prisoner rights advocate and founding member of the VPA.
“But nobody is talking about the fact that Virginia has one of the lowest
corporate income tax rates in the country. We say raise the tax rate for
the biggest corporations and you won’t have to balance the budget on the
backs of working people and the poor!”On Jan. 9, the VPA and its allies and supporters will rally at 3 p.m. at
Kanawha Plaza, at 8th and Canal streets next to the Federal Reserve
Building in downtown Richmond. At 4 p.m., participants will march through
the city’s Financial District, past the offices of the banks and
corporations the VPA charges are not paying their fair share of the
state’s tax burden. The march will end at sundown outside Capitol Square.
City permits have been obtained for both the rally and march.The march and rally will be preceded by a meeting for VPA affiliates and
allies, to be held from 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. at St. Stephen’s Baptist
Church, 505 N. 33rd St. in the city’s East End.The Virgina People’s Assembly was formed in the fall of 2008 to sponsor a
march and rally on the opening day of the 2009 General Assembly session.
Organizers of the march and rally scheduled for Jan. 9, 2010, include the
Richmond organizations Richmond Jobs with Justice; Defenders for Freedom,
Justice & Equality, Resource Information Help for the Disadvantaged;
Prisoners & Families for Equal Rights & Justice; and United Parents
Against Lead National, Inc.; the Coalition for Justice (Blacksburg) the
People United (Charlottesville); Plowshare Peace Center (Roanoke);
Mexicanos Sin Fronteras / Mexicans Without Borders (Prince William
County); OffBase GI Coffeehouse (Norfolk) and many individual activists.A complete list of endorsers follows this announcement.
For more information, call (804) 644-5834 or e-mail
vapeoplesassembly@gmail.com. Also, visit the VPA Web site at
www.vapeoplesassembly.org.The following organizations and individuals have endorsed the
Jan. 9 March on the State Capitol for Jobs, Peace & JusticeAfter Downing Street; David Swanson, Co-Founder – Charlottesville
Phyllis T. Albritton – Blacksburg
Breanne Armbrust, Director, Richmond Jobs with Justice
Michael S. Berg, Peace & Social Justice Activist – Norfolk
J. Daniel Bickett, Activist – Richmond
Lillie “Ms. K” Branch-Kennedy, Director, Resource Information Help for the
Disadvantaged (RIHD)
Margaret Breslau, Chair, Coalition for Justice -Blacksburg
Rev. Indee Hopewell Brown, Concerned Virginian -Midlothian
Rain Burroughs, Code Pink – Richmond
Defenders for Freedom, Justice & Equality
Ana Edwards, Chair, Sacred Ground Historical Reclamation Project – Richmond
Sa’ad El-Amin, Human Rights Activist – Richmond
Lillie A. Estes, Community Strategist – Richmond
Flying Brick Library – Richmond
Rev. J.E. Gash, Exec. Minister, The Active Hand Ministry – Richmond Pastor
Benjamin W. Harris Jr., Concerned Community Activist – Richmond Rev.
Marilyn Heckstall, Activist – Richmond
Pearl & Lawrence Hopewell, Concerned Virginians – Richmond
Rev. Rodney Hunter – Richmond
Rev. George Jordan, Founder, A.F.R.I.C.A. – Richmond
King Salim Khalfani, Executive Director, Va. State Conference NAACP Little
Flower Catholic Worker Farm – Louisa
May Day 2010 – Richmond
Mexicanos Sin Fronteras – Prince William County
Donnell Newton, Community Activist – Norfolk
Tom Palumbo, Interim Project Manager, OffBase Coffeehouse & Activist
Center – Norfolk
The People United
Rev. Nichole Phillips, Concerned Virginian – Midlothian
Tench Phillips, President, Art Repertory Films, Inc – Norfolk
Charity Pierce, President, Afrikana (VCU)
Plowshare Peace Center – Roanoke
Prisoners & Families for Equal Rights & Justice
Prosser-Truth Division #456, UNIA-ACL
RePHRAME – Richmond
Richmond Anarchist Black Cross
Richmond Peace Education Center
Richmond Reproductive Freedom Project
Richmond Social Justice Collective
Adria Scharf, Peace Activist – Richmond
Jennifer Schockemoehl, Labor Organizer – Richmond
Self-Improvement and Education Center – Norfolk
Queen Zakia Shabazz, Director, United Parents Against Lead National, Inc.
Brian Taylor, Democratic Congressional Candidate, 7th District
UE Local 160, Va. Public Service Workers Union
VA CARAT (Virginia Community Action & Response Against Toxins)
Virginia Solidarity Association
Joan Wages – Floyd County
Phil Wilayto, Editor, The Virginia Defender
The Wingnut – Richmond
Cathy Woodson, Activist – RichmondOutside Virginia
The Virginia People’s Assembly is attracting attention from beyond Virginia.
As of Dec. 21, the Jan. 9 march has been endorsed by:Pam Africa, Co-Chair, The International Concerned Family & Friends of
Mumia Abu Jamal – Philadelphia
Ramona Africa, Minister of Communication for The MOVE Organization –
Philadelphia
A.N.S.W.E.R.Coalition
Black Workers for Justice
Noam Chomsky, Professor, MIT – Lexington, Mass.
Donna S. Dewitt, President, S.C. AFL-CIO – Columbia, S.C.
Fellowship of Reconciliation – USA
Sara Flounders, Co-Director, International Action Center
Yoshie Furuhashi, Editor, MRZine
Teresa Gutierrez, Co-Coordinator, May 1st Coalition for Worker & Immigrant
Rights
Mike Konopacki, Huck/Konopacki Labor Cartoons – Madison, Wis.
National Assembly to End the Iraq & Afghanistan Wars & Occupations Rostam
Pourzal, Former President, Campaign Against Sanctions & Military
Intervention in Iran (CASMII) – Washington, D.C.
Tuesdays 3-6pm – Byrd House Renegade Market brings you Fresh and Tasty stuff!
From announcement:
Come to the Byrd House Renegade Market – Tuesdays from 3 to 6 pm
This week our gang of 5-7 wild bunch vendors will feature such things as Stewing Chickens, Holidays Wreaths & Greens, Chicken Eggs, Egg Noodles, Honey, home-baked Breads, Jams, Pickles, Leafy Greens, Turkey and Turkey Eggs, Sweet Potatoes, Rabbit, Really real Butter, Cider, Focaccia, Apples, Apple Butters…such good stuff!
Byrd House Market helped debut the Save Our Food Holiday Festival at the Farm Bureau this past Saturday at the new fairgrounds in Caroline County. We were visited by lots of people who had heard about our market on the news or through friends, were delighted to see the bounty of our vendors and our WBCH kids gardening, selling and shopping at the market. We met farmers and wine-makers, long-time locals and new neighbors and each one walked away with a flier listing each of our vendors and our new BHM bumper sticker: “Eat Good. Grow Great.” Special thanks to Epic Gardens, Pleasant Field, Empress Farm and Perennial Pleasures Plant Pharm for their donations to our booth display!
Check byrdhousemarket.blogspot.com for a recipe – BHM Lightly Curried Winter Vegetable Stew!
We’ll have cocoa for the kids this week, so come on by! And get the new “Eat Good. Grow Great.” bumper sticker, too.
Ana Edwards
BHM Market Manager—
Byrd House Market
William Byrd Community House
224 South Cherry Street
Richmond, VA 23220
ByrdHouseMarket@gmail.com
(804) 643-2717
