Crime Log

From CommunityCrimeMap.com:

SIMPLE ASSAULT
X N LAUREL ST
Oct 1, 2018 at 10:00 pm
Data provided by Richmond Police Department

DESTRUCTION PROPERTY/PRIVATE PROPERTY
8XX SPRING ST
Oct 1, 2018 at 10:00 pm
Data provided by Richmond Police Department

SIMPLE ASSAULT
1XX S BELVIDERE ST
Oct 1, 2018 at 5:45 pm
Data provided by Richmond Police Department

SIMPLE ASSAULT, DOMESTIC
3XX S LAUREL ST
Sep 30, 2018 at 9:00 am
Data provided by Richmond Police Department

HIT AND RUN
7XX CUMBERLAND ST S LAUREL ST
Sep 29, 2018 at 3:10 pm
Data provided by Richmond Police Department

Question For Wilder Symposium (Wednesday)

From VCU press release:

The 2018 Wilder Symposium at Virginia Commonwealth University will explore the challenges and opportunities facing urban communities as they seek to improve in the areas of housing, education and public policy.

The L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs will host the symposium, “By the People: The Role of Urban Communities in Improving Housing, Education and Public Policy,” from 6 to 8 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 3, at the W.E. Singleton Center for the Performing Arts, 922 Park Ave. The event will be free and open to the public.

Submitted question to symposium:

Is it not strange that VCU has a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the distant country of Cuba, but VCU has refused to have a MOU with its next door neighbors in Oregon Hill?

Agelasto On MSNBC

A MSNBC camera crew followed around the Real Local RVA Urban Farm Tour today. At one point, they interviewed Mayor Stoney and Councilperson Parker Agelasto at the Tricycle Urban AG over in the Manchester neighborhood. We MIGHT see part of this on television on MSNBC network on a Sunday in a few weeks, but here is raw footage (sorry for all the background noise):

IMG_4524 from Scott Burger on Vimeo.

Trash/Recycling Pickup Tomorrow

This Wednesday is a “Red Wednesday”, which means trash and recycling pickup. Ideally, rolling recycling containers are stored and deployed in the back alleys along with trash cans. Please make sure you pick up containers after pickup tomorrow night.

If you have not done so already, don’t forget to sign up for your Recycling Perks.
In order to take your recycling to the next level, read this: 10 ways to improve your recycling.

In recycling news, Sonoco’s paper mill operations in Hartsville, South Carolina, have been shut down temporarily As a result of flooding from Hurricane Florence. Certain operations remain flooded and have experienced damage that could require those operations to be down for several weeks, according to a news release from the company, which is headquartered in Hartsville. Several other company operations in Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina closed as the storm passed through the region but have reopened. However these locations are not accepting water-logged material from municipalities.