Hollywood Cemetery management wants to let neighbors know that there will be a ceremony at the Pickett gravesite in Hollywood on Saturday, January 23 from 11 a.m. until noon. There will be volleys fired at this ceremony. Thank you for your assistance in getting this information out to the neighborhood.

Paraphrasing a recent announcement from the Flying Brick Library:

The Flying Brick Library would like to announce that the first volunteer interest meeting will
be at 5pm on Friday Jan. 22nd! @ 506 South Pine Street (The Flying Brick!)

This meeting will be more of a discussion and presentation about the
library and its history. Folks will also share stories and talk about
their goals for the space. There will be food and tea and hopefully a lot
of good discussion. This is a great opportunity to check out the space if
you haven’t had the chance to come by yet! We hope people will leave
feeling excited about the project and thinking about ways they want to
contribute.

After this initial meeting there will be another meeting on Tuesday Feb.
2nd at 7pm. This meeting will be a little more organized and for folks who
are pretty positive that they are interested in volunteering. At this
meeting we hope to start plugging people into working groups, and just
helping folks get a better idea of exactly the kind of work they want to
be doing with the library.

From Ana Edwards, the Byrd House Market Manager:

Part 1)
I hear it’s going to be a balmy 60 degrees Fahrenheit this week. So you know where you need to be on Tuesday! (BHM at 3-5:30 pm, right? Right!) Follow the thoughtfulness of the observance of the birth and life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. with the determination to do good works in your neighborhood and for your family – get some good food at the market and get it into your stomach – Your body will thank you! Your brain will thank you! I invite all of you – staffs and bosses, employers and contract workers, swing shifters and indoor table tennis champions, CEOs and graphic artists – to join us at the Byrd House Renegade Market! Make us your regular good food stop-on-the-way-home.

Part 2)
If you are a Renegade vendor now, were a vendor during the 2009 season or would like to apply to be a vendor during the 2010 Byrd House Market season, it is time to send in your application. This week we will post the application packet on our blog site: www.byrdhousemarket.blogspot.com just above a link to the 2010 Online Vendor Application Form.

In addition we will be holding the annual Byrd House Market Vendor Information Meeting to discuss the application, plans for the season and to get your input. This meeting will take place on Tuesday, Feb. 16 at 1:30pm in the Grace Arents Library of William Byrd Community House and will give me a chance to meet many more of our current and prospective vendors for the upcoming season.