Community Movie Night
Friday, June 26 at 8:45 P.M.
Pleasants Park
Inkheart
Refreshments served: Hotdogs, chips, and beverage
Friday Night Movie “InkHeart”
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Silver on Water Rates: 1st District Gets Special Treatment?
Oregon Hill resident Silver Persinger continues to cover AND challenge City Council. This time he takes on a topic dear to other Oregon Hill residents- water rates!
I spoke in opposition to ordinances 2009-113 and 2009-114 which exempt 836 residential water customers [ most who live in the “affluent first district,” Mr. Tyler’s district ] from higher water rates for having water meters larger than 5/8 inch.
DPU conducted a survey of over 200 of the 836 households and found that they all had appropriate sized meters for the type and number of water fixtures used by the customer. 93% of the 836 households [ 777 ] would have had to pay less than $20 a month additionally on their monthly water bill.
OH Neighborhood Association Meeting Tonight
The Oregon Hill Neighborhood Association (OHNA) meets tonight, as it does almost every fourth Tuesday of the month, at the William Byrd Community House (WBCH) at 7 pm. Lt. Baltz of the Fourth District police has indicated that she will try to attend. I have invited Mr. Bolling, director of the WBCH, to come and share WBCH plans. We will also discuss National Night Out and other upcoming events.
Monroe Park Mailbox
I am assuming this is (or maybe, was, at this point) some guerrilla installation art for Monroe Park. Speaking of which, Oregon Hill resident Todd Woodson was re-appointed to the City’s Monroe Park Advisory Committee at City Council last night.
Youth Dance Program to Perform June 26th and 27th
From press release:
City’s Award-winning Youth Dance Program to Perform
The Department of Parks, Recreation and Community Facilities’ award-winning City dance program will present its annual student performances on Friday, June 26, at 7 p.m., and Saturday, June 27, at 11 a.m. Both shows will be at Richmond’s Landmark Theater.
“Anyone who is interested in dance will be stunned to see these students perform,” said J.R. Pope, director of the Department of Parks, Recreation and Community Facilities. “Every year the students in our dance program compete with students from dance studios throughout the region and come home with a bag full of trophies. This year they won 14 first place awards and seven second place awards competing with dance troupes from across the southeast, and they were the only municipally-sponsored troupe. All the others represented private studios,” he said.
The Friday night performance will feature a complete story-ballet based on the Wizard of Oz. Children of all ages will enjoy this timeless classic, which includes the tornado and all of the much-loved characters, even the melting wicked witch. The cast will feature more than 200 dancers, some as young as three years old.
Saturday’s show, entitled “Back to the Future,” will also feature a large cast, this time performing a wide variety of dance and movement, including tap, jazz, modern, and hip-hop.
Advance tickets, which can be purchased at the Landmark Box Office, are $12 for adults and $8 for senior citizens and children under the age of 12. At the door, tickets are $15 for adults and $10 for children and seniors.
For more information call 646-3673.
CITY OLD & HISTORIC DISTRICT PUBLIC CONVERSATION
The press release:
A CITY OLD & HISTORIC DISTRICT PUBLIC CONVERSATION
Wednesday, June 24th
6:30 – 8:30 pm
The Firehouse Theatre
1609 W. Broad Street [MAP]
(Free parking across the street at Lowe’s)
Richmond’s Commission of Architectural Review
and City Staff want to hear from YOU!
Why do we have Old & Historic Districts?
Why do we choose to live in them?
Why do we think they are important?
What does the public want from them?
How can the Commission of Architectural Review (CAR), the City, and residents be better custodians of Old & Historic Districts?
How can we strengthen the alliance between CAR, the City and residents?
This meeting is free and open to all residents and interested parties of Old & Historic Districts.
Please attend. Your input is crucial.
For more information, contact James Hill at james.hill@richmondgov.com
or city staff at (804) 646-6313.
Some insight:
Oregon Hill has National and State Historic Designation, but by choice not City O&H, though it may happen in the future. While I am personally favorable towards O&H for Oregon Hill, many of my neighbors have objected to government involvement and any possible economic hardship from maintaining O&H standards, and I try to respect that. I often try to broach this topic at neighborhood association meetings. If nothing else, I try to keep a sense of humor about it.
We have also watched how the City and State government has not exactly been uniform in its approach to historic preservation. Keep in mind that VCU is exempt from City code and continues to encroach and destroy our neighborhood. The debate about Union Hill’s O&H needs to be heard.
Oregon Hill has the distinction of holding the most individual historic easements in the City. There was actually a DHR meeting at the Jacob House about that not too long ago.
To get on my soapbox a bit, those individual easements are important because while Oregon Hill may lack grand mansions, we are very historic for the overall collection of working class small houses and business fronts. Its not just rich neighborhoods and government buildings that are historic and deserve to be preserved.
Thanks,
Scott
Beaver in Hollywood Cemetery
NIH/VCU/RAA RAMPART Study to Begin Soon
The National Institutes of Health-sponsored research study known as RAMPART, has been approved by the Virginia Commonwealth University Institutional Review Board and will begin enrolling patients in Richmond during the summer of 2009.
Governor Kaine To Visit Byrd Market on Tuesday
Virginia’s Governor Tim Kaine will visit William Byrd Community House Byrd House Market and Grace Arents Community Garden on Tuesday, June 16, 2009, from 3:30 to 4:15 p.m. Gov. Kaine has a long history of supporting Early Childhood Education and accepted William Byrd’s invitation when he learned how the organization used its farmers’ market and community garden as teaching tools for its numerous children’s programs.
