It looks like the graveyard shift is at work, preparing for this year’s parade.
For more information, check out All The Saints Theater Company on Facebook or at their new website.
Of course, now the “Renegade Market” season begins….click here for more info…
There are two nominee projects in the neighborhood for the A.C.O.R.N. 2010 Golden Hammer Awards.
The Alliance to Conserve Old Richmond Neighborhoods initiated the Golden Hammer Awards in 2000 to thank and recognize those who had rehabilitated blighted properties in Richmond’s oldest and most neglected communities, bringing new life to the individual buildings– thereby promoting the revitalization of their surroundings. As improvements were made, the results inspired others; and the number of renovations increased until it was great enough to bring several neighborhoods back from total decay.
Nominee for BEST COMMERCIAL RENOVATION
IVNA Building & Clinic, 219-223 South Cherry Street ~ Oregon Hill
Gammino Realty & Development
(click here for previous post on Gammino interview)
Nominee for BEST URBAN INFILL PROJECT
Paul & Phyllis Galanti Education Center, 621 S. Belvidere Street ~ Oregon Hill
Commonwealth of Virginia
(click here for previous post on this development)
From Oregon Hill Home Improvement Council Board President Jennifer Hancock:
OHHIC will be having a yard sale on Saturday from 8 until 1 PM at the Jacob House at 619 W. Cary St. I will be running this event. If anyone wishes to volunteer to help, drop me an email. I could use some help. OHHIC will be selling tools, construction over runs, some office furniture, and excess office supplies.
Culled from email announcements:
The Student Government Association (SGA) of Virginia Commonwealth University is holding a neighborhood clean up for four neighborhoods on Saturday. Volunteers will meet at Monroe Park at 9 AM for a rally to kick off this event. Debbie Anderson (OHNA Secretary) will be the Team Captain for the Oregon Hill neighborhood. After the rally, the volunteers will be divided into four groups and return to the neighborhoods for the clean up. At noon, the groups will head to their respective neighborhood’s meeting places for a party. Oregon Hill will be meeting at the William Byrd Community House.
VCU is providing 6 pizzas, 3 boxes of wings, and 3 sodas for the party after the clean up. Oregon Hill Neighborhood Association will be providing plates, napkins, cups, and, maybe, ice.
The Hans Falck Lecture Series looks into “the how, why, and what could be in the are a food and nutrition, with a focus on the democratization of the Food Culture.”
The site for the lecture is the auditorium of St. Andrew’s School and will be held on Wednesday October 27 at 7 pm.
Click below for flyer.
Flyer 2010 Save the Date
The Times Dispatch ran an article on Wilbur E. Ellis, who at age 90 still works at the firm that hired him almost 70 years ago.
You might have gathered by now that Ellis is a little on the spirited side. Tough, too.
You’d be that way, too, if you were a poor, short kid growing up on Oregon Hill where, in that era, fighting was as popular a sport as baseball or football. Yet, he never took anything off anybody.
At age 8, he was working for a few pennies a week at Tredegar Iron Works, where his father was a foreman. At John Marshall High, he remained south of 5 feet and the most vertically challenged member of the cadet corps. He wound up playing trumpet.
He got mixed up with bootleggers, running illegal whisky, before his future wife, Phyllis Franck, persuaded him to change his ways. He read of an opening at Atlantic Electrical and applied. He was hired, along with another man, for a monthlong tryout. Whoever performed best would get the job full time. The next week, the other guy was arrested for stealing a typewriter from a house.
Congratulations to neighbor Liz Canfield and other Richmond Zine Festival organizers for a great event.
Although it was not held in Oregon Hill, but the Gay Community Center, it was nice to see all the local tie-ins, like the Books-On-Wheels presence, plus the traveling zine folks.
According to an email from Lt. Hood, Richmond Police and possibly VCU Police will meet at the corners of China and Pine (near Open High School) on Wednesday, October 20th at 4 PM for a roll call. Once the Roll Call is over, about 5-10 minutes, the Sector 413 officers will walk and/or bike around Oregon Hill. If you have been wanting to raise an issue with the police department, this would be the perfect time to do so.
Message:
Hello Oregon Hill!
We at SynerGeo are having our October Community Dinner this coming Monday. It’s a potluck, so bring a dish if you can.
It starts at 6PM. Hope to see you there!Mary Beth
