From email announcement:
Good morning all
OHNA will be meeting tomorrow, Tuesday, August 22nd at St Andrew’s Parish House at 7 pm.
Michelle Mosby, Candidate for Treasurer, will be attending to briefly discuss her candidacy.
Thanks
Jennifer
The Cathedral of the Sacred Heart is planning its 5th annual Mega Yard Sale on August 26th. The sale will be a part of VCU’s Welcome Back Week, and vendor tables are still available.
10 years ago on this date, John Murden created the first post for this website, a mention of a YouTube profile of Pine Street resident, Nathan Motley.
Murden started OregonHill.net because he saw the potential of community news sites after doing his Church Hill People’s News site for a while and wanted to help create more sites for more neighborhoods. In turn, this also played into the aggregation of these sites for RVAnews.com and today, SmallRichmond.com
At the time, as President of the Oregon Hill Neighborhood Association, I was very interested in this because I was dealing with a very public controversy regarding VCU’s plans to encroach further into Oregon Hill. While the neighborhood had its own email discussion list (still going, by the way) and a rudimentary website for the neighborhood association, the new OregonHill.net allowed the neighborhood to have its own voice and respond to some of VCU-slanted media coverage. My own first post on this site was August 18, 2007 about Oregon Hill Home Improvement Council volunteers.
Anyway, part of the reason to mention all this is that John Murden has announced that he is planning to step down as editor of the Church Hill People’s News site at the end of the year. Of course, we wish him the best and salute him for all he has done for Church Hill and Richmond in general.
As for the future of OregonHill.net, we shall see. After writing over 4,000 posts, I would welcome new contributors or even assistant editors for the website. I have had a few in the past, but as Murden knows, not everyone sticks with it. More community advertising support would also be welcome.
This photo looks down the alley between the 600 block of S. Laurel and S.Cherry.
Trash and recycling trucks already went through on Wednesday. This photo was from after that.
Dear landlords and tenants,
The citizens of Richmond need you to take more responsibility for your refuse. I know some of you think that taxes are only good for two things, fire protection and refuse collection, but the truth is that OUR taxes also pay for things like police, schools, parks, etc. When the City spends all of its money picking up at the end of your leases, it can take away from other priorities.
While I appreciate efforts to improve the City’s services, you have a personal responsibility to make a point of either taking your excess to the dump, or, at the very least, scheduling a ‘bulk refuse’ pickup with the City. Just leaving it out in the alley, no matter how neatly, is not the neighborly thing to do. Let’s do better.
http://www.richmondgov.com/PublicWorks/RefuseCollection.aspx
Looks like we are going to get some much needed rain this weekend.
Here are some ‘Rain Ready’ videos from one of my favorite nonprofits, The Center For Neighborhood Technology:
Preventing Floods In Your Home from CNT on Vimeo.
Finding Water in the Home from CNT on Vimeo.
Installing Rain Barrels with RainReady from CNT on Vimeo.
Water Systems in a Home from CNT on Vimeo.
From email announcement:
Good afternoon
OHNA will be meeting tomorrow, Tuesday, July 25th, at 7 pm.
I’m still waiting to find out if we are in the Parish House or the Little Chapel. I’ll add an update when I hear from St. Andrew’s.
Thanks
Jennifer
From EventBrite event page:
Live in Richmond and want to go solar? Now’s your chance! Neighbors across the greater Richmond area have formed a co-op with the help of VA SUN to make it easier to save money on the purchase of solar panels, while building a community of local solar supporters. Join us for a happy hour information session at the Three Notch’d Brewing Company to learn about solar energy, as well as how the Greater Richmond Solar Co-op simplifies the process of going solar while providing a discount through its bulk purchasing power.
Thursday, July 20, 2017
5:30 PM – 8:00 PM EDT
Three Notch’d Brewing Company
2930 W Broad St
Editor’s note: I know of at least two neighbors that are part of the Co-op. Looking forward to more solar in the neighborhood!
The American Civil War Museum at Tredegar is hosting a talk on Thursday at 6 pm entitled “Refugees From Slavery” as part of their ‘Foundry Series’.
From the FaceBook event page:
What do Dadaab, Kenya and Zatari, Jordan have in common with the U.S. Civil War? Present-day refugee camps share important similarities with Civil War contraband camps. Discover how men, women, and children who fled from slavery to contraband camps influenced emancipation, the progress of the war, and the redefinition of U.S. citizenship.
Featuring:
Chandra Manning, Ph.D., Georgetown University.
Dr. Manning’s most recent book, Troubled Refuge: Struggling for Freedom in the Civil War, about Civil War contraband camps, won the Museum’s 2016 Jefferson Davis Award.Program Partners:
ReEstablish Richmond
CWS Richmond Refugee Resettlement
Artist Alfonso Perez Acosta
For more info and tickets, click here.
From their FaceBook page:
St. Andrew’s School received summer rejuvenation! HandsOn Greater Richmond and Genworth had over 15 associates volunteer their time and energy on various projects that spruced up SAS. Flower boxes were filled, Legos sorted, shelves stained, and the playground world mural was repainted. Thank you for making a difference!
Miles in his Shoes is a new video series produced by University Student Commons and Activities (USC&A) in order to showcase many of the premiere locations in Richmond, VA. The series is hosted by Miles Hopkins, marketing assistant for USC&A and a creative and strategic advertising senior. This series will give new students a chance to explore the city vicariously through Hopkins, a Richmond native.