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Today at Byrd House Market!

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From email announcement:

You and your good taste!

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Grab supper on the way home!
from Byrd House Market: Simple pepper and onion stir-frys and juicy sliced tomato sandwiches with farm cheddar cheese. Grilled portobello mushshrooms with carmelized onions and salad greens drizzled with cucumber, dill and yogurt dressing. Pick any three veggies, chop, toss with olive oil and a little S&P to taste, roast 30 minutes at 385, serve with that same cucumber, dill and yogurt dressing!! Pasture raised beef burgers on a bed of arugula and padron peppers! Fruit and cheese for dessert. OR yogurt and honey. ALL LOCAL! ALL THE TIME!
Try a familiar recipe with a new ingredient!

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Eat Good Grow Great!
We accept SNAP and Credit/Debit cards – give you wooden tokens to spend at the market. What can you buy with your SNAP EBT? Click Here to find out!

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New Pet Watering station
We’ve put it right next to the People Watering station at Byrd House Market tent. They get thirsty too!

Renew Richmond presents:

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good with berries

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More More and More at ByrdHouseMarket.blogspot.com
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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

Oregon Hill Neighborhood Association Meets Tonight

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Just a reminder that the Oregon Hill Neighborhood Association (OHNA) is holding it’s monthly meeting tomorrow, Tuesday, August 27th, at 7 pm at William Byrd Community House (WBCH).

Councilperson Parker Agelasto’s office is making arrangements to have someone available from DPW to give a presentation on the Idlewood Roundabout and to discuss parking districts.

Welcome to ‘The Hill’

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Pine Street Baptist Church held a welcoming party for VCU students yesterday evening in Pleasants Park.

WBCH Community Carnival This Afternoon

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WBCH (William Byrd Community House) Community Carnival happens this afternoon from 4 to 8 pm.

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From FaceBook event page:

Join William Byrd Community House staff and friends as we celebrate the end of summer and the beginning of a new school year.
Family-friendly event featuring:
GAMES, PRIZES, FOOD, MUSIC, INFORMATION & GIVE-A-WAYS.
SPECIAL PRESENTATION by Ida Jones, Liaison to Parker Agelasto, 5th District City Council Representative, recognizing WBCH for 90 years of service to the Richmond community.
LOCATION – Carnival is held on the athletic field at the intersection of Idlewood Avenue and Linden Street behind our main facility. (GPS: 980 Idlewood Avenue)
SPONSORED BY – Kiwanis Club of Richmond,7th Street Christian Church and City Ice. Additional support provided by Capital One and the Associate Board of William Byrd.

Byrd House Market Tomorrow

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From email announcement:

Byrd House Market selected for Whole Foods 5% Day! Tues. Sep. 3, 2013

Happy 5th Anniversary Whole Foods Market!

So, make your loyal run to the market that Tuesday (just 2 weeks away), then take a little drive to Whole Foods Market at Short Pump, visit with some WBCH celebrities, and SHOP, SHOP, SHOP!!! Proceeds will benefit Byrd House Market and Byrd House Farmlet!!!

4pm and 5pm “What’s In a Ham?” Demo by Bill of Salt Pork

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“the OTHER white meat” ” Find out what makes ham taste so good, especially when in the hands of someone who knows. Bill will share the wheres and whyfores of delicious ham making and eating. At the Salt Pork tent at 4pm and 5pm. Look for the Chairs and Balloons at his tent!
See the Facebook Event

RENEW Richmond – GMO Info Session #1 – 5:30-7:00 pm

Anti-GMO session at the William Byrd House Market, Tuesday Aug 20th and 27th from 5:30-7pm. Come learn about Genetically Modified Foods that you are eating right now. If you don’t know, you need to come find out. Renew Richmond’s John Lewis hosts panelists Daniel Barnes, Duron Chavis, Christopher N. Doval, Theodora Evande, Greg Riggs, and Patricia Stansbury will field questions concerning the GMO’s and their effects on health and the environment. For more info email renewrichmondva at gmail.com.

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Richmond Food Coop

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Jim Mead of Mt. Airy Studio is back!

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Not to mention all the Good Music, Friends, Shade, and Great Food!

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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

WBCH News

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From email announcement:

Employment Opportunity
William Byrd Community House is accepting applications for the position of DIRECTOR OF CHILDREN’S SERVICES ROLE
The role of the Director of Children’s Services is to ensure the administration and operation of both the Early Childhood and After School Programs in a manner that will promote the best possible experience for each child enrolled in our programs; providing information and serving as a resource to others; and achieving defined objectives by planning, evaluating, developing, implementing and maintaining services in compliance with established guidelines.

Volunteers Needed!
for WBCH’s CARNIVAL 2013
Are you age 16 or older? Have you got a few hours to spare next Friday, August 23, 2013, from 4 – 8pm? Would you like to get in some volunteer hours at one of WBCH’s most fun annual events? Please email byrdhousemarket at gmail.com (or call 643-2717 ext. 306) and provide your name, phone number, email, and times you can work. Orientation provided. Please respond no later than Tuesday 7pm, Aug. 21.

This week at Byrd House Market!

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New Vendors!

Ted & Kirsten’s Excellent Adventure – bagels served with fresh ingredients expands our prepared food offerings.

Margy’s Comforts Home Bakery brings breads, rolls, and other savories to your table along with Pleased to Be Crafting crocheted hats, bags, and accessories.

And don’t forget the noodles, spring rolls, sweet potato rolls, butter, honey, berries, peaches, squash, tomatoes, potatoes, onions, chanterelles, shiitakes, portobellos and crimini, the cool cucumbers, riron-rich beets and melons and okra, green beans, leeks, creamy yogurt, cold milk and refreshing kefir, sausages, roasts, fryers, bacon, chops, tenerloins and soup bones…
Pets and Peeps Day

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“Returning Raw Foods to Pets” by Mugsy’s Dogtown Lounge

At 4:30, 5:30 and 6:30, Mugsy will show and tell why raw foods are important (and natural) to your dog’s and cat’s health and well being.

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Visiting Nonprofit:

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Artmaking with Virginia Center for Latin American Art includes an exhibit on the Bus: Helen Ruiz paintings, 3:30 – 5 pm

The Peeps: HandOn Teen Impact Farm to Plate Day Camp – 10 teens on hand to help set up the market, tour the farmlet, do a scavenger hunt and shop the market!

Live Music courtesy of the Blue Lotus Collective

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and much more at byrdhousemarket.blogspot.com
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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

Holmberg On The Rope Swing

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WTVR reporter Mark Holmberg did a nice little piece on the Tredegar Street rope swing. Here’s how it begins:

It’s just a missing rope swing. One that goes missing from time to time.
And yet, it’s an identifiable part of the cityscape, a Richmond tradition, if you will, every bit as evocative as the smell of Shockoe Bottom or the vista atop Sunset Hill where Grace Street surrenders for a clifflike block.
At least two generations and mayhaps more have loved this rope swing hanging high from the railroad trestle between Brown and Belle islands on historic Tredegar Street. It’s about 40 feet above the mighty James River, which offers a mostly friendly little eddy – with a deluxe sandy bottom – to embrace the tens of thousands of laughing, splashing swingers.

He goes on to say that although no one admits to cutting down the swing, it does happen from time to time and then returns.