The October Really Really Free Market will be on Saturday October 25th from noon until 6. The Really Really Free Market happens the last Saturday of every month in Monroe Park, at the corner of Main and Laurel.
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“Grab the snake!”, plus potluck dinner and the return of the puppets!
Community Movie Night:
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
October 17 at 7:00 P.M.

Grilled hotdogs, chips, served
(last movie until Spring)
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MONDAY OCTOBER 20TH AT 6PM, SynerGeo is hosting the O. Hill community
dinner of the month. Please join us to share a meal together and meet
some new neighbors or talk to someone you’ve been meaning to for days.
We do ask that you please bring a dish or dessert to share with
everyone! We also ask that you please stay and sit and engage in
conversation. It is meant as a community builder!!
We are located at 349 S. Laurel street on the corner of S. Laurel &
Albemarle streets. Please come and also help us spread the word!!!
If you have questions or want more info. on the dinner or about
SynerGeo, you can email me at
cowleskatie@yahoo.com
or visit www.synergeo.org
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Friends-
Im happy to announce that on Sunday, October 26th at 4 PM in
Monroe Park, The World Famous Bread and Puppet theatre will perform
for your pleasure. This company did a wonderful performance in the
same park last year and was a delight for young and old. The puppet
spectacle mixed with relevant social commentary made for a most
entertaining afternoon. There is no admission but donations are
gratefully accepted. Please mark your calendar and tell your friends.
Also, on Halloween (which is of course October 31), Lily
Lamberta’s All The Saints Theatre company will stage a wonderful
Halloween parade starting at 7 PM in Monroe Park and proceeding down
Laurel into Oregon Hill, coming back up Pine Street. This is also a
tradition not to be missed!
Todd.
Lecturer To Examine Civil Rights and Race Relations in Virginia Public Education
William Byrd Community House is pleased to announce the next lecture in its Hans S. Falck Lectureship on Social Responsibility, Civil Rights and Race Relations in Virginia Public Education: A Case Study in Social Change, for Thursday, October 23, 2008 from 7-9PM at St. Andrew’s School Auditorium (236 S Laurel St., Richmond, VA 23220). For additional information and directions call: 804-643-2717 or visit the WBCH website at: http://wbch.org.
Sunday Morning Messes
Flying Brick Library to reopen in 2009
The Flying Brick Library, Richmond’s Oregon Hill-based radical lending library, has announced plans to reopen in early 2009.
2nd Annual St. Andrew’s Community Fair, Sunday, Oct. 19
The 2nd Annual St. Andrew’s Community Fair in Oregon Hill; Sun., Oct. 19; noon to 3:00 p.m.; Oregon Hill at the Byrd House Market/Grace Arents Community Garden location; food, fun, activities, homemade foods and crafts; plus live music featuring The Thistle & Shamrock Dance Troupe; The Shalom Singers, a Kenyan vocal quintet singing traditional music; and Hoggify, an all-purpose rock and roll cover band. Sponsored by St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church. Admission free. 804-648-7980.
Flyer Reminder: Attention Artists!
SynerGeo is looking for artists to participate in neighborhood art show next month.
Another VCU Siren Test Tomorrow
Dear Monroe Park Campus Community Advisory Group:
Tomorrow, Wednesday, October 1, at noon, VCU will conduct our once-a-month emergency siren test on both the Monroe Park and MCV Campuses to ensure that the sirens are in proper working order. This test also serves to ensure that the siren batteries are fully charged. Unlike the test near the beginning of each semester which is a two-minute wail, the monthly tests consist of a one minute wail of the siren.
A reminder about text messaging and our VCU Alert Web site: text messaging is one of VCU’s primary channels for rapid communications and information. Text messages will be used for notifications about emergencies and closings and delays for inclement weather. There is no cost for enrolling. If you haven’t done so already, you may sign up for text messaging at www.vcu.edu/alert/notify. You can also subscribe on this same web page for email alerts. Emergency information also will be available on the VCU Alert Web site at www.vcu.edu/alert, which is also accessible off the VCU homepage at www.vcu.edu, and if you have signed up for them, you will receive an e-mail alert in a real emergency.
With this routine now well established, I will only e-mail the Community Advisory Group when there is any enhancement or change about which you would want to know. And please, do not hesitate to forward this email to your neighbors, to help spread the word about the siren test.
Sincerely,
SAM
Sue Ann Messmer
Chief of Staff, Office of the President
and Vice President for External Relations
phone: (804) 828-1200
fax: (804) 828-7532
e-mail: samessme@vcu.edu
today at the Byrd House Market…
Byrd House Market today from 3:30 to 7PM:
Fall produce definitely has that comfort food factor. The sweet potatoes have arrived and my goodness, they are delicious! We have squash in many intriguing shapes and colors (some use these for centerpieces but we suggest eating them.) Many varieties of apples are flying out of our vendors’ booths and one bite will make you proud to be a Virginian. While you are stocking up on root vegetables, enjoy the roots music of Needle in a Hempsack performing in the garden.




