From Richmond Public Schools press release:
Beersheba Pointer, a senior at Richmond’s Open High School, has been named the Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Richmond’s 2011 Youth of the Year.
Pointer, who plans to attend the College of William and Mary and major in business administration next fall, received her award and a $15,000 scholarship at the organization’s 10th Annual Distinguished Leadership Awards Dinner held last month.
Congratulations, Beersheba!
Yes, Oregon Hill still has younger children residing here.
This is a reminder to parents here and elsewhere to register for kindergarten on April 7.
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Coming up on their Spring 2011 schedule is “Sacred Spaces in Oregon Hill” (click any preceding text for website):
Wednesdays, April 27 to May 25
9 to 11 a.m.
Oregon Hill Historic District is a fine 19th- and early-20th-century working-class neighborhood with architecture and streetscapes that illustrate how industrial workers lived. Access to the James River and Kanawha Canal and the industries that were growing along these waterways furthered and expanded the growth of the population in the area. Through lectures and walking tours, we will look at the history of this Richmond neighborhood and examine such landmarks as Hollywood Cemetery, St. Andrews and Pine Street churches and the Virginia War Memorial.
Instructor: Edwin Slipek Jr., an architectural historian and architecture critic for Style Weekly, teaches at VCU and Maggie L. Walker Governor’s School for Government and International Studies.
I don’t know if if this class is full yet, but for more information, you can call (804) 828-3635 or e-mail psworley at vcu.edu.
Does anyone know if VCU will be testing their siren/campus alarm today?
Qatar is an Arab Middle Eastern emerite that has a VCU satellite campus.
I am not sure if it is really open to non-students, but it will “involve students from Qatar hosting a series of activities on the Plaza for Richmond VCU students to experience. There will be food, a live camel, henna tattoos among other fun and exciting activities.”
Hopefully this is a good precursor to the VCU Intercultural Festival. Regardless, they picked a beautiful day for it. Don’t spook the camel.
From announcement:
The VCU Students for a Democratic Society and VCU Students for
International Social Justice will have a free film screening of “Rethink
Afghanistan” on February 27th at 5PM in the VCU student commons theater.
There will also be a discussion of what an anti-war movement in VA should look like.
The Virginia Commonwealth Times is featuring an editorial on Trani’s plan to create a VCU campus in Martinsville.
Here is an excerpt that I think the neighborhood can relate to:
For all the opportunity this offer holds for VCU, the university would be wise to turn it down. While it does offer a chance to cover more students in the state of Virginia and truly move toward becoming a state-wide university, with the degree of expansion and work on the MCV and the Monroe Park campuses, it would be unwise for VCU to shift attention away from its core in Richmond.
This is particularly true in light of VCU’s financial issues, which include Gov. McDonnell’s plan to withhold $17 million in state funds from VCU in fiscal 2012 that he announced earlier during this year’s General Assembly session.
No matter where the blame lies, the fact is that VCU is strapped for cash. The partnership with NCI currently works well for VCU, chiefly because VCU faculty teach from afar while holding none of the financial responsibility of the institute. If possible, it would seem that this is the relationship VCU should strive to maintain with NCI.It appears that VCU is constantly focused on growth. Every day around campus we hear the bulldozers and construction workers outside VCU’s next dormitory or parking garage. The VCU Monroe Park and MCV campuses educate more than 30,000 students. While a Martinsville branch would be a great opportunity to spread the VCU brand, the additional 400 students’ tuitions it would supply to VCU is almost certainly not worth the financial responsibility it would require.
From the website:
Lovers of great works of Southern literature and classic films are in for a treat. Starting Friday, February 25 the Second Annual VCU Southern Film Festival Presents “Screening Southern Literature” at the Grace Street Theater in Richmond. Established to explore how the distinctiveness of the South has been depicted on screen, the Festival features a diverse lineup of films based on classic works by Southern writers. Ranging from quirky and melodramatic to serious and exploitative, the films offer something for everyone.
Schedule
All films will be screened at the Grace Street Theater at 934 West Grace Street in the heart of VCU. All events are free and open to the public.Thursday, February 24
6pm: Book Reading and Signing with Charles Shields
Fountain Book Store, 1312 East Cary Street, Historic Shockoe SlipFriday, February 25
4 pm: Wise Blood (1979)
7 pm: In This Our Life (1942)Saturday, February 26
10 am: The Story of Temple Drake (1933)
1 pm: The Color Purple (1985)
4 pm: A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)4:30-5:30 pm: Book Signing by Charles Shields
VCU Barnes and Noble, 1111 West Broad Street7 pm: To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Got a minute or two? Got some ideas on how to recycle plastic bags?
That’s all it takes, and it could be worth up to $1,000 in a video-making contest going on now through March 1, 2011.
Anyone enrolled in a Virginia high school can enter. Create a 60-second to 2-minute video showing ways to reuse and recycle the free plastic bags like you find in a grocery store. Then go to www.abagslife.com/va and submit your video. Contest rules are also on the site.
There’s a prize for First ($1000), Second ($500) and Third ($300) place in two categories — Reuse and Recycle.
For more details and how to apply click on the link below: