Please donate and recycle your used consumer electronics: Cell Phones, Ink Jet Printer Cartridges, Laptop Computers, Apple iPods, Digital Cameras, Digital Video Cameras. SynerGeo (on the corner of Laurel and Albermarle at 349 South Laurel St.) is collecting used recyclables. Please drop off any of the above items or call (804)648-2287.
Richmond.com is following up on this story.
Just as the Flying Brick household is making changes, so is the Circle School/Earthlings Organic Food Coop. The truck from United Natural Foods used to make a stop in the eastern cul de sac of China St., but is now instead dropping Earthlings orders at Paradise Fruit in Glen Allen.
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This concerned me greatly because I joined the coop in part to have food delivered within walking distance. But today, while I picked up fresh produce from the South of the James Market, Ken Lyle from growingcommunity.net and the new principle of the Earthlings coop, told to me to spread the word that he will make sure that the growingcommunity.net CSA and Earthlings offerings will be present at the Byrd House Market. So with any luck, I will be able to pick up my CSA and coop food at the same place and time, as well as coordinate purchases with other vendors who are there. This gives me more food security, and I urge others to take part in closing the circle as well by considering joining local coops and/or CSAs.
P.S. Keep practicing the 2nd Edict. My personal shelf beds are failures but my raised ground beds are doing ok.
P.P.S. I heard a rumor that Mojo’s will soon change up their menu to reflect increasing prices.
P.P.P.S. while I see interior deconstruction and some renovation going on, no word yet on when the new eatery at the former Chuck Wagon/Hollywood Grill will open.
P.P.P.P.S. More news on 611 China Street is forthcoming.
Roughly in the tradition of Grace Arents, who started the first free library in Richmond (now the William Byrd Community House), Greg Wells and friends started the Flying Brick Library in their house on Pine Street. Now that household is dissolving, and the Flying Brick Library is changing hands. Style Magazine has an article.
The Richmond Times Dispatch has an article about St. Andrew’s School students painting a mural in honor of the late Jonny Z.
“ART 180 enlisted the help of students at St. Andrew’s to come up with ideas for the mural. Zanin’s friends told the students about Jonny Z — about his love of art and music, community, coffee and pizza — and they went from there. The mural, running the length of a back building connected to Joe’s Inn, 205 N. Shields Ave., in the alley between Shields and Rowland Street, contains a little bit of everything, or “kind of random, fun and colorful,” said Lauren Healy, another project coordinator.”
This Monday, June 16th, SynerGeo will have our Oregon Hill Community Dinner at 6pm. The dinners are held every 3rd Monday of
the month(except August due to our volunteering trip to Seattle. Our
doors will be open with lots of food to share! I plan to pass out
little flyers at the movie friday night in pleasants park, hopefully
we can spread the word and get more neighbors to join us!!!
Also at this month’s dinner we are going to be asking people to
help us out with one of our projects for this summer’s art camp, so
come prepared with a nice quote or a happy message!!
Please help us by telling your neighbors and friends about this, I
really want this to be known as something positive for everyone to
join in for Oregon Hill!
Hope to see you all on Monday!
Katie Cowles
Volunteer Coordinator
cowleskatie@yahoo.com
www.synergeo.org
RICHMOND, VA May 30, 2008. Six Burner Restaurant will host a benefit for the Byrd House Market on Wednesday, June 18th from 5:30 to 9:30 pm. Diners will receive a delicious three course dinner for their donation of $35 to benefit the Byrd House Market, a program of William Byrd Community House.
The William Byrd Community House provides services to children, teens, parents, and seniors in the Richmond community. The Byrd House Market’s goal is to promote the health and welfare of its community while supporting local farmers, food producers, and artisans.
Six Burner restaurant is generously supporting BHM by offering customers a pre-fixe menu featuring fresh foods from BHM’s vendors for one night only on June 18th. The proceeds from this event will go to supporting the Byrd House Market. Call now for reservations as seats will fill up fast!
Six Burner Restaurant
1627 West Main St
(804) 353-4060
There will be another litter pickup this Saturday (6/7) @ 9AM. Like usual, we will meet at the gazebo (Pine St. & Oregon Hill Pkwy). Please bring gloves, garbage bags will be provided.
One of the few good things about the VCU rec center project is that VCU will finally properly renovate the historic City Auditorium building. Right now you can really see and appreciate this magnificent architecture of the original structure
, though sans its supporting stables. It was the ‘white elephant’ arts center project of its day, and went through a couple of uses, including a farmer’s market as well as concert hall. It hosted a number of famous speakers, including Presidents.
See it while you can, because it is supposed to be enveloped by the construction of the massive, 100,000 sq. ft. rec center.
Who saw the bear this morning?
If you do see it in the future, don’t approach or even gawk, just call 911 so Animal Control can be alerted. They are hoping it will find its way back to more wilderness.
This reminded me of a few years ago when the deer came into the neighborhood and was clattering his hooves along the cobblestone alleys.
My neighbor on China Street, Larry, told me about growing up in Oregon Hill back in the 50’s, when there was ponies behind the Parsons House and you could go furtively hunting on the James River with a .22.
Anyone have any good wildlife (nonhuman, please) stories in Oregon Hill?