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With Hurricane Michael’s Remnants Gone, Weekend Folk Festival Is A Go

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After slamming the Richmond area with a lot of rain and wind yesterday, what’s left of Hurricane Michael has moved off the coast. City of Richmond schools will open with a two hour delay, but the rest of the weekend weather should be dry and cool.

This is a relief to many, but especially the Richmond Folk Festival, which takes place just down the hill, and kicks off at 6 pm this evening.

Because of the massive crowds expected, visitors are encouraged to use shuttles and other options instead of parking in Oregon Hill. But hopefully, everyone can enjoy this great festival.

Agelasto On MSNBC

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A MSNBC camera crew followed around the Real Local RVA Urban Farm Tour today. At one point, they interviewed Mayor Stoney and Councilperson Parker Agelasto at the Tricycle Urban AG over in the Manchester neighborhood. We MIGHT see part of this on television on MSNBC network on a Sunday in a few weeks, but here is raw footage (sorry for all the background noise):

IMG_4524 from Scott Burger on Vimeo.

Richmond’s 13th Annual Halloween Parade Scheduled

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The Richmond Halloween Parade, it goes without saying, has become a real tradition for Oregon Hill.

Graciously hosted and organized by the All The Saints Theater Company, the event continues to grow and evolve.

There have been many YouTube videos and photo postings devoted to past years’ parades.

From the new FaceBook event page:

* PLEASE HELP US GET THE WORD OUT!
* RSVP TO THE EVENT PAGE
* SHARE THE EVENT IN YOUR FEED
* INVITE YOUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY!

Richmond’s 13th Annual Halloween Parade presented by ALL THE SAINTS THEATER COMPANY and friends is right around the corner! Join us on October 31st!

Guys and gals and all non binary conforming pals, join us in this all inclusive Richmond tradition!

Dress up in a costume, make your own giant puppets or flags, and/or volunteer to assist withour giant puppets, flags, props and more!

We are so excited to continue this yearly Richmond Halloween tradition! Join us as we take the streets in celebratation of our 12th year with costumes, live music, dancing, creativity, puppetry, and comraderie!

*The 13th Annual Halloween Parade is a “Funeral March for Patriarchy”!

A Celebration of the Divine Feminine! We return the number 13 to the Matriarch and dismantle patriarchy to remove flying monkeys ICE & the NRA with their King NoOne to save humanity.

We return to grandma society with Grandma Elder on her Tiger, day of the dead 2 person 15 ft “families belong together” Madonna skeleton puppets, queen Harriet, trans remembrance, Black Lives Matter, Matriarch & Mother Red with Goddess of Tree sits fighting the patriarchy of pipelines against Mother Earth.

The All the Saints Hawk (the resistance) and Black Snake (pipeline) featured at the ICA will also March with us! We look at the fierceness it takes to organize, and the gentleness it takes to be fierce together.

Wednesday Oct 31st
No later than 7pm
meet at Monroe Park!

Support includes: cardboard, fabric, bike tubes, brown paper!

Open Letter In Regard To ONE VCU Master Plan Draft Open Houses

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In Regard To ONE VCU Master Plan Draft Open Houses, the following was recently sent to VCU officials, local media, local government, neighbors, and ‘community partners’:

Dear Dr. Weiss,

Oregon Hill Neighborhood Association representatives have met with you repeatedly, and have repeatedly respectfully requested two things:
1) A commitment that VCU will not encroach further south of West Cary Street into the Oregon Hill Historic District.
2) A commitment that VCU will limit the height of buildings on the north side of West Cary Street to 3 or four stories out of respect for the Oregon Hill Historic District across the street.

Unfortunately, to my knowledge the neighborhood has yet to receive any commitment to these two issues.

Oregon Hill residents have pointed out that since VCU has a Memorandum of Understanding with the distant country of Cuba, it is perplexing why VCU cannot engage with a Memorandum of Understanding on these two points of neighborhood concern with VCU’s adjacent neighbor, Oregon Hill.

As you are finalizing the draft of the VCU Master Plan, please consider these valid concerns of your neighbors in Oregon Hill.

Sincerely,

Scott Burger
(served as President of the Oregon Hill Neighborhood Association, 2003 to 2010, and as OHNA VCU liaison)

Storm Parking Prep Offer From VCU

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From email announcement:

Dear Neighbors

Oregon Hill has been hit in the past by Hurricanes. Our soil is now saturated from the Summer’s record rainfall. If you live and park near a big tree or drive a ragtop or have a motorbike, you might consider taking VCU up on their offer.

VCU Parking and Transportation will provide free parking for the Richmond community in several of its Monroe Park Campus parking decks in preparation for Hurricane Florence.

Members of the community who need a sheltered parking option for their vehicles may use one of the following VCU parking locations on a first-come, first-served basis, from Thursday, Sept. 13 at 7 a.m. until Monday, Sept. 17 at 7 a.m.:

Henry Street Deck – East
201 N. Henry Street

Henry Street Deck – West
200 N. Henry Street

Jefferson Street Deck
100 S. Jefferson Street

Laurel Street Deck
805 W. Grace Street

West Cary Street Deck
1201 W. Cary Street

West Main Street Deck
801 W. Main Street

Trash/Recycling Pickup Tomorrow and… Recycling Event Postponed

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This Wednesday is a “Red Wednesday”, which means trash and recycling pickup. Ideally, rolling recycling containers are stored and deployed in the back alleys along with trash cans. Please make sure you pick up containers after pickup tomorrow night- this may be more important than usual, depending on the hurricane.

If you have not done so already, don’t forget to sign up for your Recycling Perks.
In order to take your recycling to the next level, read this: 10 ways to improve your recycling.

And…

The RVA Clean City Commission E-Cycle Day Event scheduled for Saturday, September 15 at 6807
Midlothian Turnpike has been postponed due to the storm.