Posted by request:
Moving sale this saturday at 424 1/2 S Pine ST (catty-corner to Mama Zu)! Furniture (bookshelves, kitchen cabinet, night stand, and more), antiques, tons of movies, CD’s, books, clothes, video camera, camera lenses, bike, carnival glass, kitchen items, linens, tools, miscellaneous. Kindergarten teacher moving out of state. Everything must go!
There is a benefit tonight for Girls Rock! RVA at the Fan hotspot Balliceaux.
From the FaceBook event page:
DJ Mike Albrecht (of Beard)
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Hot Dolphin!!!Join Girls Rock! RVA for a Rock’n’Roll Dance Party and Benefit at Balliceaux on Wednesday, July 25th in support of our free, volunteer-run summer music camp for girls.
While this event is free we will gladly be accepting donations so we can get all the things we need for camp this year! Guitar Picks! Drum Sticks! Food! Supplies! We need your help!
We will have:
*GR! Merch available
*Raffle with great prizes
*PhotoboothFree Entry 21+
Speaking of books, I just discovered this-
I may be late to the party, but I am looking forward to reading it for it does sound interesting… Continue reading
From email announcement:
4th Tuesday in July…
still warm after all these weeks. Yes. But isn’t it nice to know we can count on all the vendors who sell cold stuff!! Limeade and Lemonade, Iced Coffee, naturally flavored Fruit Ices, chilled Aloe Vera Juice, frozen grass fed meats and poultry, cool cheeses, naturally cool and delicious peaches and berries, cucumbers and crispy salad greens and herbs, and the yummiest of deserts. Everything you need to make cool summer dishes, creamy refreshing smoothies – feeling good, and so good for you! Gotta be there! byrdhousemarket.blogspot.com – Market Map and Product Search under “For Market Goers” tab…We have a Bike Rack
Thanks to “Richmond Rides” we have a bike rack located near the uphill entrance to the market. Matthew picked it up and set it in place over the weekend. Parking good.And WE HAD A FABULOUS Cooking as a 2nd Language Class – 15 sous chefs to Elicet’s mastery – Tamales con Pollo – so smooth, savory, delicious and the perfect large group activity. It felt like a big family tradition right before our eyes… Soon to come… Ethiopian, English, Korean, more from Central and South America – it’s all coming. 5 of the 15 were from one family visiting from out of town. What a great way to spend a Saturday morning. All ages welcome. Pictures and recipe will be posted on EatGoodGrowGreat.blogspot.com soon.
Sierra Club
Encouraging energy alternatives that will help us preserve what mother earth is made of, representatives of the Sierra Club will be at the market this week. www.sierraclub.orgRaffles
A $1 raffle ticket gets you a shot at $33.83 in Byrd Farm goodies and supports Byrd House Market! Every week all season long! We have had a happy winner every week – it’s a great deal and your pantry will love you for it.& Massage????
For every $10 you spend at the featured vendor of the week, you get 1 minute of chair massage with Robin Raver! Different vendor every week! Check the chalkboard for this week’s vendor. (Last week Robin tore into the boulders in my neck and shoulder blade muscles so hard she made me wish I could cry in front of everyone. She said “you may not like me now, but in a couple days I will be your goddess! Lucky for us both as soon as I stood up I wanted to fall to my knees and a week later the boulders are pebbles and I can turn my head!) So since you’re going to spend $20-30 anyway, go get a massage. Or not. I’m just sayin…Visit the Farmlet
Tomatos are coming in, peppers abound, cucumbers cavorting, bees may beard this week, herbs bloomin, greenhouse growin. Visit the food “we feed our community” every Monday and Thursday during Food Pantry distribution. Special thanks to Victory Farm for providing weekly gleanings from their gorgeous harvest.This Week and Every Week ! with You !
Facepainting by Nadine and Jodie, Storytelling by Beth from Richmond Public Library,
Great Food (by everyone!), Great Shade by the Mulberry, Great Nutrition (all over the place),
Great People (start blushing)!
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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
Regular readers know that I have brought up energy conservation measures again and again. Now you can enter a contest to win $ towards such measures-
Everyone has a To-Do List for their house. Where does energy efficiency fall on your list? Unfortunately for many of us it’s not at the top. The Richmond Region Energy Alliance wants to help you bump energy efficiency up the list with a chance to win a $10,000 Home Energy Makeover.
With record breaking heat here in Richmond, energy efficiency can save you money. Enter the contest here.
If you:
Pay too much on your energy bills
Struggle to stay comfortable in your home
Avoid certain rooms in the summer or the winter
…then take the 4 minute online energy assessment by August 26 and enter to win Richmond’s first Home Energy Makeover.One lucky Richmond area homeowner will win a Home Energy Makeover valued at up to $10,000. Home energy improvements range from small to large solutions and often include air and duct sealing, HVAC upgrades, insulation, sealing and/or replacing windows and doors, and lighting. With these upgrades, homeowners can enjoy lower energy bills, increased comfort and higher home values.
Take control of your home energy costs. Enter the contest today.
From Craigslist ad:
We are selling appliances, books, DVD’s, and women’s clothing size Medium and Large! See you at 7 a.m. 618 S. Pine St.
As the new group RVA League of Leisure and Public Pool Appreciation takes shape, some events are starting to be scheduled. This one is for August 11 at 1 pm in the bottom of the Randolph Public Pool. Practice, practice, practice.
From the Facebook event page:
This event’s platform is continuing to re-envision our public space while providing a recognizable pastime in performance. The direction of this recording situates the group in a circle formation dialoging to one another. Submerging together the group screamingly sing which will be received through the condenser microphones in the center of the ring.
Advancing towards this event I realized that this pastime of underwater vocal projection is enjoyed through basic achievement in absurdity. The enlarged statement making of the group dilutes any talent, content, or exacted consciousness. This fundamental encourages participation whether cloaked or not and now being said i hope to see you, my friends, at Randolph Public Pool 1pm sharp for a musical collapsing of classical reservations. hahaha ♥
From the WBCH site:
Ground has been broken for a new greenhouse out by the Byrd House Farmlet. Josh McVeigh, one of our Associate Board members is leading the effort. Josh has been laying the groundwork (no pun intended) for this project for several months. He arranged for Richmond Window Corp. to donate old windows that otherwise would have been destroyed. He also drew up the plans and is coordinating with Home Depot who is generously supporting this effort. The greenhouse will allow us to start seedlings as early as January each year for transplanting to our Farmlet. The Byrd House Farmlet is a 1/4 urban production farm located behind William Byrd Community House. All the produce harvested from the Farmlet goes directly to our on-site Food Pantry for distribution to individuals and families seeking food assistance.
From the Times Dispatch article:
The Community Foundation, in collaboration with funding partners The Pauley Family Foundation and Richmond Eye & Ear Foundation Fund, awarded nearly $1.3 million in grants to 33 local organizations.
The Community Foundation supports programs through the endowments of local donors that focus on the health of central Virginia. The community grant-making program addresses needs and opportunities as they emerge and engages philanthropic partners in the advancement of regional solutions. The grants include:
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William Byrd Community House: $50,000 to partially support staff salaries for the early childhood education and after-school programs.
Speaking of WBCH…a new greenhouse is being built…see upcoming post…
Open letter from Oregon Hill resident and Monroe Park Advisory Council member Charles Woodson:
Dear Friends,
Two years or so ago when the Monroe Park Advisory Council stopped meeting and an exciting Monroe Park Master Plan was delivered to our City Government, I figured the Park was at its most downtrodden. It was impossible to fathom Monroe Park – our first City Park and one that just oozes with fascinating history and promise of a great rebirth, falling even further into a rotting, even more trash filled and untended and dangerous corpse of a place. On Sunday, July 15, 2012 at around 3PM, that realization slapped me in the face. Three RPD cruisers were parked by the overgrown fountain with blue lights flashing, responding to reports of a “crazy man screaming and brandishing a gun” in the Park (their words). I felt afraid for my life.
Historic Monroe Park is situated equidistant from the James River, the soon to be refurbished $50,000,000.00 Altria Theatre (nee Mosque) project and VCU’s beautifully planned $32,000,000.00 Institute of Contemporary Art but there is no word on poor Monroe Park with its terrific $6,000,000 plan of redemption. No website for either the Park itself or the phantom Monroe Park Foundation exists on the web. Nothing… Nada … just Yelp.com’s disturbing descriptions of drunks and hobos and a few other meaningless entries.
The many feedings continue to pour trash into the Park. Trashcans full after one or two feedings, the patrons sit on the benches beside the fountain and just throw refuse on the ground where it gets blown with the trash can overflow into VCU and the neighborhoods surrounding the historic Park.
The trees need maintenance, some need removal and a hundred or so need planting.
The barren brown grounds, devoid of grass in many areas need work to revive.
The decrepit sidewalks and pathways crumble beneath your feet.
Substance abuse is rampant. I wouldn’t want my kids playing here.Im ashamed mostly at myself for not being a more consistent voice for this great Park. But im also ashamed of you, Charles Samuels, since this is your district and you were a champion for the Park at one time. And there is shame for the Mayor who I know to be aware of the dire situation. Im also upset with VCU for not putting a boot in our rear ends for not making ANY progress – this is weak leadership on their end as well. This is, after all, their face for the newbies that come crashing into Gladding, Johnson and Rhodes Halls, etc, each August and have to live with this mess.
It’s time to get rid of the running mouths and roll up our sleeves and crack open the city wallet to address these issues.
Sincerely,
Charles Todd Woodson.
His letter included the following photos:
