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An Invitation to Experience Holy Week at St. Andrew’s Church
From St. Andrews Church announcement:
Maundy Thursday, 7:00 pm.
Footwashing, Eucharist, Night Watch at Gethsemane. “On this night of love and betrayal, suffering and hope, Jesus beckons us to learn to pour back into the world the love that embraces, forgives, and attends to suffering in all its forms.”Good Friday, 7:00 pm.
Prayers, Devotions at the Cross, Communion from the Reserve Sacrament. “The Good Friday liturgy is an invitation to us to join with brothers and sisters around the world and through the ages in learning to love and be loved in the face of our deepest fears and the world’s deepest pain…”Great Vigil of Easter, Saturday, 7:00 pm.
Dark, Light, Stories, Baptisms, Incense, Eucharist.
“Can it be true? Can life really explode from the grave? This is the night we celebrate Christ’s ever-burning, life-giving, redemptive light given to all creation.”Easter Sunday:
Joint “Sunrise” service at Pine Street Baptist, 8:30 a.m.
Breakfast and egg hunt, 9:30am, St. Andrew’s House (236 S. Laurel)
Feast of the Resurrection, 11 a.m., church.Child care is available at all services.
Style Runs Story On Homeless Woman’s Hoard
According to police and residents, for most of the last four years, the woman (Style Weekly isn’t using her name) has kept a collection of odds and ends in the backyards and vacant lots of Oregon Hill, sometimes with residents’ permission.
Six months ago, she placed several pallets of things in Samuel P. Parsons Park. After receiving complaints, police told her to move her stuff. She then transferred her possessions to a tarp-covered pile, perhaps 25 feet long, on the edge of the Hollywood Cemetery parking lot.
Recycling Is Tomorrow, Not Last Week
Some of my neighbors put out their recycling out on the sidewalk last Wednesday, but in fact, recycling gets collected every other Wednesday, and tomorrow is considered a ‘Red Wednesday’ for collection. Please click here for more information.
Flying Brick Presents Ciclovida
From the Flying Brick Library website:
We are excited to host the crew from Ciclovida: Lifecycle, who will be stopping in Richmond to present their documentary and to host a workshop!
On April 20 at 3 p.m. Ciclovida will host a workshop on Pedal and Solar Powered Projection systems!
On April 21 at 7 p.m. we will host the first backyard movie screening of 2011 with the presentation of the documentary, Ciclovida: Lifecycle.
The film pedals alongside a group of subsistence farmers from Brazil who bicycle over 6,000 miles across the South American continent in search of natural seeds.
This feature-length documentary is made up of moving stories from landless peasants, indigenous communities, and small farmers that expose the devastating effects of industrial agriculture destined for agrofuels. Filmmakers and protagonists will be here for both events!
Magazine33 Correspondent Sadie Powers profile
Local, music/culture online publication Magazine33 has added a nice profile of one of its writers, Sadie Powers:
Sadie Powers is the bass player for indie band Those Manic Seas, based in Richmond, Virginia. She started playing violin in fifth grade to get out of math class and met the love of her life, bass, four years later. Powers has played in several bands, including the Richmond cult post-rock band Planar.
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Powers lives in Oregon Hill, RVA and restores porcelain in order to fund her music habit.
Passing of Tom Robertson
A neighbor supplied this sad news…though more can be seen on a FaceBook page.
Thomas E. Robertson (1942-2011) passed away April 7 after a brief illness. Tom resided at 302 S Laurel St.
Born in Richmond, Tom was orphaned and left school in the third grade. He was pipefitter by trade, Tom was with his beloved domestic partner Bette Wilson for 34 years until her passing last year. Despite a lack of education, Tom bought and sold property and ran an innovative natural lawn care service/health food store in Northside. Tom picked up stray animals out of kindness. Tom left no family but will be missed by Bette’s four grown sons, and his dog Cleo. Tom will be cremated; in lieu of a funeral.
Favorite Lyric:
Broken windows and empty hallways,
a pale dead moon in a sky streaked with grey.
Human kindness is overflowing,
and I think it’s gonna rain today.
Get Wise About Plants At The Library Tomorrow
From the Grace Arents Facebook page (now what would she think of social media?):
Get ready for Virginia Garden Week – John Wise, one of our favorite garden Gurus and a BHM vendor will be at the Main Branch of the Richmond Public Library on Wed. April 13 at noon for a talk about the history of landscape plants in Richmond. It is a free talk and open to the public. Come and ask John garden questions, his knowledge about woody plants is encyclopedic/wikipedic!
Hoopstown Celebration Downtown
Here’s a photo from the “Hoopstown Celebration” Downtown at the James Center this afternoon. Mayor Jones spoke and once again congratulated the Spiders and Rams for their March Madness.
Mayor’s Walk-Through Tomorrow Afternoon
Mayor Jones’ office has confirmed that he and other City staff, including members of Public Works, Richmond Police Department, and Community Development, will be conducting a ‘walk-through’ of the Oregon Hill neighborhood tomorrow afternoon (Wednesday).
One of the main purposes of this event is to give residents a chance to meet first-hand with the Mayor and provide valuable feedback on City services and neighborhood needs.
The walk though will start at 4:30 pm at the William Byrd Community House on Cherry Street. Weather permitting, the group will then walk to different parts of the neighborhood.
(Personally, I encourage residents to attend and to bring written or printed documents to share with City staff in order to have an effective meeting.)