Community Movie Night
Friday, October 1 at 7:30 P.M.
Pleasants Park
Refreshments served: hot dogs, chips, and beverages
Prince of Pleasants Park
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Artist Josh George to Exhibit
Neighbor Josh George is exhibiting some of his art locally this week. Click here to see his blog for more details.
Also,
Gallery Preview
Thursday, September, 30th
5:30-7 pm
Appalachia Rising At Flying Brick
The Flying Brick Library will be hosting an event on Sept. 30 at 6 pm with Tricia Shapiro, author and Mountain Justice campaigner.
Here’s some background:
Mountaintop removal (MTR) does exactly what it says: A mountaintop is stripped of trees, blown to bits with explosives, then pushed aside by giant equipment?all to expose a layer of coal to be mined. In recent years, local people fighting against MTR’s destruction of their homes in West Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Virginia have invited volunteers from outside Appalachia’s coalfields to help them bring national attention to this shameful practice, and abolish it. Since the Mountain Justice campaign began in 2005, dozens of local coalfield residents, students, Earth Firsters, and others have been arrested in nonviolent protest actions against MTR.
Tricia was there for some of it. Tricia is coming to us at the Flying Brick to offer her perspectives and experiences as an on-the-ground, inside reporter with the Mountain Justice Campaign. Her book, published by AK Press, is being released just as Mountain Justice and other environmental groups plan to converge on Washington DC for Appalachia Rising, the largest convergence against MTR in history. Please join us during open hours at the Flying Brick Library for a casual and educational talk on the struggle against Mountain Top Removal.
Brought to you by The Flying Brick Library, AK Press, and James River Earth First!
Tuesday Night- OHNA, 5th District, 4th District MPACC meetings
This Tuesday night the Oregon Hill Neighborhood Association is scheduled to meet.
Also, 5th District Councilperson Marty Jewell is holding a meeting in Randolph.
And, finally, received this nice note from Emily Griffey-
I hope that you will consider posting this event to the Oregon Hill News website. Unfortunately the event does conflict with the Oregon Hill Association meeting but it would be great if some community members could attend this event as well. Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions.
~EmilyDear North Richmond Community :
As you are aware, the Mayor is dedicated to collaboration, communication and cooperation between Richmond’s citizens and his administration. Mayor Jones knows that citizens expect and deserve a responsive government.
Many of you may know about the old “neighborhood teams” process. In an effort to improve upon service delivery and include residents and business owners in the decisions that affect them, Mayor Jones has created the Mayor’s Participation and Communication Corps (MPACC). MPACC is an integral enhancement to the sharing of information and increased community involvement.
MPACC has two major components:
1) Proactive, service driven initiatives including but not limited to matters relating to land use, public safety, parks and recreation, all of which will strive to improve services and conditions; and
2) Rapid, courteous responses to your requests for services such as fixing potholes, removing abandoned cars, addressing blighted properties, and cleaning up illegal dump sites.
To make sure services are close to you, MPACC has been organized around the four Richmond Police Department Precinct structure. Each sector within a precinct will have a MPACC Sector Team. Mayor Jones is selecting co-chairs from each sector to lead these MPACC Sector teams.
The MPACC groups will allow for more accountability not only from the City but also the residents. The Mayor will be holding the MPACC Sector Team launch in the 4th precinct on Tuesday, September 28, 2010.
This meeting will be held at Holton Elementary School ● 1600 West Laburnum Ave. ● Richmond, VA 23227 from 6:30 PM to 8PM. At this meeting Mayor Jones will introduce his co-chairs for the 4th Precinct and outline his vision for the MPACC Program. We hope you will attend and we urge you to invite your civic association’s active members to this meeting.
If you have any questions about this initiative or the meeting on Tuesday, please feel free to contact me as I serve as the Coordinator for the 4th Precinct.
We look forward to your participation and dedication to your community and the City of Richmond!
Sincerely,
EmilyEmily E. Griffey
MPACC Coordinator
City of Richmond
phone- (804) 646-7527
cell- (804) 229-0393
emily.griffey@richmondgov.com
Wine Down at the Byrd House Market this Tuesday
From Facebook page:
Come join us for a delicious wine tasting with local Virginia wineries! Grayhaven and Byrd Cellars will be back wil tastings and wines available for sale by the glass or bottle. music, merriment and fun in our Grace Arents Community Garden! As an added bonus our Byrd House Market vendors will be hanging out until eight as well so dinner will be covered!
Vintage Ross ‘Central Park’ Sky Blue Cruiser City-Bike! – $90
From Craigslist post:
I have for sale a vintage Ross ‘Central Park’ 51cm Single-Speed Cruiser! This bike has been cleaned, lubed, oiled and tuned, and is ready to ride. It is in good vintage condition with some road wear. It features a sleek vintage look and feel, easy to use coaster brakes, a brand new seat, a kickstand, and a recent tune-up. This is a nice, smooth riding “hop on and ride” city bike…perfect for the Fan! It has about a 51cm frame, and is ideal for short to medium riders about 5’3″ to 5’7″. $90.
All The Saints Theater Company Founder Profiled In Belle Magazine
Belle Magazine has a feature on Lilly Lamberta and her All The Saints Theater Company, which does the puppets for the annual Halloween parade through the neighborhood.
Note the spaghetti dinner fundraiser scheduled for this weekend.
Rock D 800 Block/SPCA benefit event this Saturday
From Donald Carver on the event’s Facebook page:
prizes,music,magic,hula-hoop contest,fun,etc…buy your tickets @:821 cafe’,SALVATION TATTOO,PESCADO’S,RED’S SALON,VINYL CONFLICT,NEED SUPPLY,AND THE S.P.C.A.
we are going to set-up at 9am with STEVE JONHSON MCing,STEVE DUKES STARTING US OFF on guitar and vocals,then PAUL IVEY AND THE MUSE,FOLLOWED BY CHRIS DOUTHIT and DENNIS ELLIOT (TWO PICKERS)a little hola-hooping then BAM all h*ll breaks loose with CHRIS FARMER(a one-man sound explosion),then comes THE BAY OF PIGS,and if we still have audio capabilities left HONEYBUSH IS THERE for us….WOW
Images of Hope Update
Update to an earlier post about an exhibit that appeared at St. Andrew’s Church…
There is a photo exhibition to support the Circle of Peace School at Art Works in downtown Richmond until the end of September. This exhibit is entitled “Images of Hope: What would you buy with $50?” and it is sponsored by Givology Spiders (a student organization at the University of Richmond whose mission is to support education in the developing world ). In addition to regular gallery hours, there will be a special reception next Friday night Friday September 24 at 6pm-10pm.
See flier by clicking below:
Images of Hope Exhibit_Flyer and Press Release_Reduced
Thanks to Holly St. Playground Volunteers
From a neighbor:
I just want to give a big shout-out to Sara Sitkiewicz, Erik Kelly, the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity and other students, and sundry neighbors who made a great turn-out for Saturday’s clean-up. They did a fantastic job, not just raking out the sand but painting the shed and cleaning the toilets.
Special thanks to Sara for keeping this whole initiative going.