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Holly Street Playground Meeting Next Wednesday

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Culled from email announcements:

On Wednesday (not Tuesday), November 10th, the Oregon HIll Neighborhood Association‘s Holly Street Playground Committee is holding a meeting.
The time is 7 PM. The place is William Byrd Community House.

Holly Street Playground has received interest from green space advocates, skateboarders, bike polo players, and concerned parents of young children. I hope that, working together, Oregon Hill can design a multi-use, flexible space that will appeal to many different groups of users. At this meeting, I hope we can start the process. If you have ideas about the park that you would like to share, please join us.

Banding Together For Wyatt

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(some paraphrasing here):

Join Oregon Hill in raising money for Wyatt Geisel, a three year old boy battling leukemia.
*A portion will also fund pediatric cancer research.*

On Monday, November 1, Pescados China Street restaurant will donate 15% of ALL SALES
to benefit *Wyatt*

On Sunday, November 7, from 12:00 pm – 6:00 pm in Oregon Hill Linear Park, there will be a benefit concert/festival featuring Jackass Flats, The Slack Family, 11th House, DJ EJ, food, vendors, a bounce
house, & fun for the family.

Pack a picnic & enjoy!
rain or shine
Suggested donation: $10.00

Sorry if the picture of the flyer is hard to read. You may want to click here to see more on this.

Golden Hammer Nominees

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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)

See the other nominees and get more info by clicking here.

Yard Sale at 619 W. Cary (Jacob House/OHHIC) This Saturday

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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.

VCU Student Neighborhood Clean Up Campaign This Saturday

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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 Story On Ellis

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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.