From a neighbor:
I just want to give a big shout-out to Sara Sitkiewicz, Erik Kelly, the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity and other students, and sundry neighbors who made a great turn-out for Saturday’s clean-up. They did a fantastic job, not just raking out the sand but painting the shed and cleaning the toilets.
Special thanks to Sara for keeping this whole initiative going.
Several VCU student organizations are banding together to hold a large yard sale fundraiser in Monroe Park this Saturday.
Also, please do not forget the Holly Street playground cleanup that is scheduled for Saturday as well.
Friday, September 10 at 7:30 P.M.
Pleasants Park behind Pine Street Baptist
Join the fun of an outdoor movie
Refreshments served: hot dogs, chips, beverage
With the Fall season coming soon, neighborhood groups are thankfully recognizing the need to clean up the neighborhood.
SynerGeo will be hosting a work day on Saturday, Sept. 11th at 10am. They will be having about 18 adults. They will split into two teams and one will pick up trash in Oregon Hill, and the other in Holly Street playground. Please get in touch with Bonnie Hofmeyer for more information, at bonniehofmeyer at synergeo.org or 804 648 2287.
The Oregon Hill Neighborhood Association‘s Holly Street playground committee has a volunteer workday scheduled for the Holly Street Playground on Saturday, September 18th from 10am to 1pm. They are looking for volunteers to help clear brush, pick up trash and just make the playground look better.
Along with the need of volunteers they need equipment. If you have shovels, rakes, brooms, garden shears, or anything you feel could be helpful to their efforts and that you wouldn’t mind loaning for the day it would be greatly appreciated. All equipment will be marked and returned to the owner.
NBC12 has a story on the $6 million in renovation/upgrade plans for Monroe Park, thanks to the hard work of the Monroe Park Advisory Council.
There will also be a story in Style Magazine published tomorrow.
From the press release:
‘CarnivOil’ Comes to Richmond, Celebrating the Greatest Addiction on Earth
Big Oil: Keeping America dependent on oil for 150 years and celebrating
victory over
Virginia’s clean energy futureRichmond, Va. – The U.S. Senate’s failure to pass a clean energy and
climate bill this summer, coupled with the continued push to block new
clean air standards, is reason to celebrate if you profit from America’s
oil addiction. Highlighting Big Oil’s stranglehold on Washington, we
present “CarnivOil”: the Greatest Addiction on Earth – a celebration of
America’s addiction to oil with an outdoor midway-style carnival
complete with games, concessions, and some Big Oil-style celebrating.
Step right up! Don’t be afraid. See the world’s biggest polluters – by
looking behind the curtain.Games will include the Petroleum Wheel of Doom, Oil Executive Boxing and
the Big Oil version of the famous Hammer game. The event highlights Big
Oil’s success in pocketing Congress, while blocking progress toward a
clean energy future and threatening to kill American jobs and worsen
public health with the Dirty Air Act.WHAT: CarnivOil: The Greatest Addiction on Earth: complete with games to
celebrate Big Oil’s successWHEN: Tuesday, August 31, 2010
TIME: 11 am – 1 pm ET
WHERE: Monroe Park, 620 W. Main St., Richmond, Va. 23220
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For more information, contact:
Sarah Driscoll, sdriscoll@environmentvirginia.org
Phone: (603) 236-2097
The Oregon Hill Neighborhood Association will be holding its monthly (every fourth Tuesday) meeting at the William Byrd Community House at 7 pm.
The agenda includes discussion of Holly Street Playground plans.
National Night Out
Tuesday, August 3
Community Movie and Cookout
Location: Pleasants Park
Time: 8:45 P.M.
Come out and enjoy a great movie.
Richmond Police will stop by during the movie to show their support for Oregon Hill.
A summary of the current status for a new canal bridge from City of Richmond’s Parks & Recreation Department:
The plans for the Northbank Trail Bridge have been approved by the Planning Commission and CAR. Work, after final approval by VDOT to proceed (which is a requirement) is hoped to commence later this summer.
However, before we can begin we will have to solve an issue with ADA accessibility. The bridge itself is accessible. However, most of the trails leading to and from it are not.
We have met with VDOT and DPW and are working to correct this. Once we get final approval on this from VDOT, we will bid the work out and begin construction.
Regarding questions that have posed about the funding, we are not in any danger of losing it. We have been assured by VDOT of this. In fact, we have been encouraged to seek additional funding for the downside portion of the trail to Tredegar Street by VDOT. This yet to be determined, but informally they are supportive of this work.
The Richmond Times Dispatch has a report about a drowning that took place earlier this evening.
Rescuers were unable to resuscitate a woman whose body was pulled out of the James River this evening near the American Civil War Center at Historic Tredegar.
Richmond Police Capt. David L. Martin confirmed that the woman, who he said appeared to be in her mid-40s, did not survive after being pulled from the river.
He said an emergency call came in at 6:57 p.m., rescuers recovered her body at 7:27 p.m. and then tried unsuccessfully to resuscitate her.
Witness Logan Bryan, 16, said she saw the woman in distress next to an island offshore. Bryan said she saw the woman’s hands waving then drop below the surface of the water and not reappear.