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A Festival A Stone’s Throw Away Tomorrow

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Tomorrow Stone Brewing is throwing a festival down at Brown’s Island.

From the Stone’s Throw Down festival web page:

Paying homage to the people of Richmond and the one year anniversary of our first local brew, this festival entwines independent craft beer with a full day lineup of artists as vibrant and distinctive as the region’s beers themselves.

We’re proud to support the Richmond community by donating 100% of the proceeds from this event and by promoting a culture of social responsibility, collaboration and involvement.

Doors open at 12:00pm and show starts at 1:00pm. Craft beer from Stone Brewing & friends will be available for purchase. Folding chairs are allowed.

As for music, besides headliners Lettuce, the bill includes Oregon Hill-based No BS! Brass Band as well as The London Souls and Pontiak.

This is the time of year in Richmond when the amount of festivals really picks up and there’s a lot going on. Don’t forget PrideFest at Brown’s Island on Sept. 23, and of course, the Richmond Folk Festival Oct 13-15.

Are You Ready? VCU Alarm Test Today At Noon

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From Times Dispatch article:

Outdoor sirens will sound, digital signs will light up and alerts will be sent to phones and computers when Virginia Commonwealth University conducts a test of its emergency communications and alerting systems.

The full test will be conducted Wednesday at noon. In addition to sirens, it will include text messages, mass emails, desktop alerts, and notifications through social media and VCU’s website.
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In addition to the semester test, monthly checks of the siren system are conducted at noon on the first Wednesday of each month.

Chinese Cooking As A Second Language

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From Main Street librarian Patty Parks:

Doing a stay-cation on Labor Day weekend? Join us as we travel, cook and eat with Xiamin Wu, our guest chef from China, for Cooking as a Second Language! Next Sunday, Sept. 3, 11-1. This is my favorite collaborative program of RPL and @richmondhostel. Xiaomin(Showme) was a student with the VCU Global Studies program when I met her 5 years ago, I’m thrilled to catch up with her again! Join us as we learn how to make dumplings and hear her stories about cooking, family recipes and culture! What a great way to meet and engage with our diverse community. Call the library for reservations, 647-7223, class size is limited to 24.

10 Years of OregonHill.net and A Salute To John Murden

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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.