5th District Meeting This Thursday
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Blessing Of The Animals At St. Andrew’s On Tuesday
From announcement:
On Tuesday, October 4, the Feast Day of St. Francis, we will be out on the steps of St. Andrew’s Church for the blessing of the animals. Stop by anytime between 5:30 pm and 6:30 pm with your beloved pet companions for a blessing. Treats for everyone!
Wyn Price
Sad news this week was Wyn Price’s passing. Wyn was one of the guys from the City’s park employees who helped take care of Oregon Hill’s parks. He will be greatly missed.
Click here for the full Times Dispatch obituary.
North Bank Trail This Morning
Discussion On Poverty At St. Andrew’s Church On Wednesday
See flyer.
Dr. Moeser has done a lot of presentations on poverty in Richmond over the years. Here’s a post on one of them from 2011-
https://www.oregonhill.net/2011/03/19/oregon-hill-has-gained-in-poverty-since-last-census/
Lost Cat
Vice Presidential Candidate To Visit VCU On Monday
From FaceBook event page:
On October 3, 2016 Green Party Nominee for Vice President, Ajamu Baraka, will speak at Virginia Commonwealth University. The talk will take place in Grace E. Harris Hall room 101. You can enter the classroom through the front doors of the bulding directly in front of the commons and the ram horns.
It’s Nowhere Near St. Paddy’s Day…
…so why has this portion of the James River and Kananwha Canal turned green?
China Street circa 1990
Photo courtesy of Bill Altice.
‘Dream Delivery’ Service
Times Dispatch had a recent article on this unique, growing business.
Here’s the first portion of the article, click above for the whole thing.
If you see a guy on a bicycle riding around Richmond in the middle of the night, dropping off dreams on people’s doorsteps, don’t be alarmed.
It’s just a dream delivery service.
And Mathias Svalina is the dream deliveryman.
Svalina is a poet who’s returning to Richmond to deliver dreams by hand in the middle of the night. The dreams are surrealist, prose poems that cover everything from drinking a beer with actor Tom Skerritt to knitting a complicated sweater.
“I try to write a unique dream for everybody every day,” Svalina said from his temporary digs in Oregon Hill. “On a good day, I can write up to 40 dreams a day. Then I deliver them from 2 a.m. to 6 a.m.”