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VCU Students Organize Cleanup

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I was glad to see this, because I don’t want to live in a trashy neighborhood :

Let’s paint the town GREEN!

Join the VCU SGA’s trash clean-up initiative!!!

When: January 31, 1:00-3:00
Where: Oregon Hill Neighborhood in Richmond
*Meet at SGA office between 12:30-1:00
Why: Because really, who likes living in a trashy neighborhood??

~ This is a great opportunity to give back to our surrounding communities and to show our support for the cleanliness of our city.
To ge invoved, e-mail Leah Fremouw: fremouwla@vcu.edu with contact info.

VCU Takes Away Parking

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VCU has closed ALL parking on the 00 block of S Pine (Just South of Main). This is a hardship to businesses on the Cary business corridor. It has been like this for too long. I don’t understand how the City allows indefinite closures like this at the expense of taxpaying citizens. They could easily move the construction fence over. Makes you wonder.

Wouldnt it be great if VCU and City worked together to help each other instead of them continually knifing us in the back?

Concern Expressed About Student Disconnect

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Published with permission from OH email discussion, another take on the changing relationship between VCU students and the neighborhood:

My observation is that there is an increasing trend for students living in our neighborhood and others surrounding VCU to be ever more and more oblivious to certain aspects of urban living and coexistence, including having loud disturbing parties, putting trash on the sidewalk and even not getting towed during street cleanings. Where is the disconnect here? Are families not preparing their kids for independent college life?

Read the entire email for more…

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5th District School Coffee & Tea on Monday

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According to email below, Richmond Public Schools Interim Superintendent Dr. Brandon will be hosting four coffee sessions Monday, Dec. 8, (tomorrow!) to discuss the proposed budget and to get as much public feedback as possible. Click on coffee sessions PFD link below to see when and where.

My quick thought:
ADA-compliant, historically-sensitive elevator addition for Open High, along with energy audit, window treatments, and roof solar panels .

Thanks,
Scott

Begin forwarded message:

From: Betsy Carr
Date: December 6, 2008 10:37:33 AM EST
To: Fifth District Schools Advisory Group , Fifth District Schools
Subject: Coffee & tea

Dear Fifth District Residents:
If you have thoughts about priorities for the proposed budget for the school system, please consider attending one of these sessions or let Dr. Brandon hear from you.
Betsy

—
Betsy B. Carr
School Board Representative, Fifth District
City of Richmond
804-355-6852

—— Forwarded Message
From: Alfonzo Mathis
Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2008 16:06:57 -0500

Subject: coffee & tea

Board Members,

Interim Superintendent Dr. Brandon will be hosting four coffee sessions to discuss the proposed budget and to get as much public feedback as possible.
I am attaching a flyer detailing the session locations and times. Please distribute this flyer through your constituent email lists to ensure a good cross section of opinions.
Thank you for your assistance.
coffeesessions

—— End of Forwarded Message

Lecturer To Examine Civil Rights and Race Relations in Virginia Public Education

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William Byrd Community House is pleased to announce the next lecture in its Hans S. Falck Lectureship on Social Responsibility, Civil Rights and Race Relations in Virginia Public Education: A Case Study in Social Change, for Thursday, October 23, 2008 from 7-9PM at St. Andrew’s School Auditorium (236 S Laurel St., Richmond, VA 23220). For additional information and directions call: 804-643-2717 or visit the WBCH website at: http://wbch.org.

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