Trash/Recycling Pickup Tomorrow

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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, A.I. trash can sorts your trash from your recycling while many localities, including ones in Virginia, are re-examing their recycling options. With China balking at bringing in more American recycled materials, will we see a new emphasis on banning wasteful plastic packaging altogether. (Will the City of Richmond’s Green Commission do anything?)

Yard Sale Tomorrow

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There will be a yard sale this Saturday (tomorrow) at 407 S. Laurel Street (the red brick house connected to Pleasants Park). There will be a lot of furniture items like a desk, bar stools, accent chairs, office chairs, wine rack and more.

“Fata Morgana” At Main Library Monday

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“Everyday, hundreds of people set off in boats from the coast of Libya bound for Europe in search of a better life. Escaping war, poverty and famine, the people hope they arrive in a land that can offer safety and better opportunities. Many die in the journey while others are rescued at sea and taken to ports in southern European countries where they begin their new lives as refugees. “Fata Morgana” explores the circumstances the refugees left behind and the situations they encounter on a new continent. The documentary also discusses the rise of right-wing, xenophobic politicians in Italy who are capitalizing off the crisis by scapegoating refugees for the country’s economic problems.

“Fata Morgana” is a documentary co-produced by local videographer Jen Lawhorne and Ebrima and Toumani, two African refugees trying to establish themselves in the Sicilian City of Messina. The documentary shifts the cinematic gaze over to the eyes of the refugees who filmed more than half of the documentary’s footage that explores the circumstances the refugees left behind and the situations they encounter on a new continent.”

Monday, July 23rd at 5:30 pm

Richmond Public Library

Smoky Scare/Afternoon Excitement

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All is well now, but earlier, shortly after 2pm this afternoon, “a bit of a smoke scare” beckoned fire and police to 200 block S. Cherry Street.

Also, about 2:45 pm, police were in pursuit of a person on Idlewood in the Randolph neighborhood on foot and by car. Or as the kids described it “the man was dippin’ the police.”