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Small Richmond is the city’s best local independent news all in one place
OregonHill.net and seven other sites are today launching Small Richmond, a new site featuring local independent news in the city.
The eight participating sites cover core Richmond geography and
areas of interest. We are stoked to partner with Church Hill People’s News, Brookland Park Post, Dogtown Dish, Randolph RVA, Richmond Outside, Springhill RVA, and VCU Ram Nation to connect Richmond readers and publishers.
Contact John Murden at murden@gmail.com or (804)564-1360 to suggest a site for inclusion, if you would like to set up a community blog for your area, or for more information.
Oregon Hill On The Tourist Map
Tourist maps are always fun for their distortions as well as their inclusions and exclusions.
The photo below is an excerpt from “The Character of Richmond”, circa 1990, made by Atlantic Graphics. It seems more oriented towards Fan businesses and notably left out all of the Southside. I got it from former Oregon Hill neighbor Greg Wells, who has a booth or two at Mixie’s in Mechanicsville. He has more copies of this map for sale, along with a lot of other cool memorabilia, Richmond and otherwise.
I have seen more recent ones around town that leave Oregon Hill out, showing just the Virginia War Memorial right next to Hollywood Cemetery.
Anyway, this post also gives a little foreshadowing to an announcement coming this Thursday.
After The Storm…
A severe thunderstorm last night brought down some tree branches and many area residents lost power, but with a tornado warning and VCU sirens blaring, neighbors know it could have been much worse.
New Barbershop Helps Sponsor Voter Registration Drive
Localore’s “UnMonumental” Radio Show Interviews Neighbor
Pine Street neighbor Cristina Ramirez was recently interviewed for a segment about the area’s growing diversity.
From Times Dispatch article about the Radio IQ radio show “UnMonumental”:
Libby records voice-overs for “UnMonumental” inside her bedroom closet. She recently moved an angular, yellow story booth into the main branch of the Richmond Public Library, where interviews are recorded.
Cristina Ramirez was a library manager at the public library when she met Libby. For her segment, Ramirez talked about an encounter she had at the library with a mother and young girl, who, after realizing Ramirez spoke Spanish, said, “Wow, you’re like me.”
Ramirez said Libby is an engaging interviewer and stressed the importance of having a radio segment that showcases the city’s diversity.
Piano Lifting
The figures for this past Saturday’s cleanup are in — 4.27 tons (8,540 lbs.)!
Thanks to all the volunteers (including VCU staff and City workers)!
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Belle Isle Bicycle Skills Area Grand Re-Opening On Saturday
From one of the FaceBook event pages set up for this:
We are celebrating the re-opening of Belle Isle Skills Park. There are new features there both advanced and beginner freindly. Bring kids we will cook bugers and hot dogs at 12:00
Finest Hours in Oregon Hill On Friday
From announcement:
Community Movie Night
Friday, Jun 10 at dusk
Pleasants Park behind Pine Street Baptist Church
Free refreshments: hot dogs, sides and dessert
Times Dispatch Reports Folk Festival Line Up
From Times Dispatch article:
“Our local programming committee has outdone themselves, once again,” said festival director Lisa Sims in a statement. “Dancers from Sri Lanka, zydeco players from Louisiana, virtuosic musicians from Afghanistan, gospel singers from Tennessee and dozens of others will all offer free performances within a half-mile of each other. There’s really nothing else like it in the Virginia.”
Last year, a record-breaking 200,000-plus people attended the festival, up 50,000 from a rainy 2014.
Quick editorial: Hopefully Venture Richmond can become a better neighbor and we can all enjoy it this year as in years past. Still waiting for more agreement to neighborhood’s reasonable requests.
There are also still outstanding questions about how this important, historic area of the riverfront will be recognized and preserved in the future.
https://www.oregonhill.net/2015/10/12/folk-festival-and-a-deliberately-missed-opportunity/