National Food Day Thursday

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On Thursday, October 24, National Food Day will be celebrated at the Byrd House farmlet beginning at 3:30 pm. National Food Day serves to promote safer, healthier diets; support sustainable and organic farms; reduce hunger; reform factory farms to protect the environment and farm animals; support fair working conditions for food and farm workers.

The event will feature games, a Pop-Up photography exhibition, and family-style dinner tables hosted by Slow Food RVA, Tricycle Gardens, Farmers Market @ St. Stephens Church, Renew Richmond, Faces of Hope, Shalom Farms with Greater Richmond Coalition for Healthy Children, Open High School, Sub Rosa Breads and William Byrd Community House.

Each organization will provide the framework for conversation for their table and be responsible for recording the issues, solutions, plans and actions discussed. The insights from all the groups will be compiled, distributed to all attendees and made available to the public. While the event is not open to the public, media is invited to attend and engage in conversations with each of the parties.

For more information about this Food Day event, please contact Ana Edwards, Manager, Byrd House Market, 804/517-4049, byrdhousemarket at gmail.com.

Byrd House Market Tuesday: Support For Halloween Parade

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The Byrd House Market will be open Tuesday from 3:30 to 7:00 pm. Be sure to stop by the booth for St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church and support the All Saints Theater Company 8th Annual Oregon Hill Halloween Parade.

On the second and fourth Tuesdays, St. Andrew’s has a table selling its preserves (Bread and Butter Pickles, Peach Marmalade, Fig Preserves and Marinara – all with 2/3 to 100% local ingredients from market vendors). Tuesday, October 22 is our last market of the regular season, and on that day will be donating 100% of our market proceeds to support The All Saint’s Theatre Company’s 8th Annual Halloween Parade through Oregon Hill. Come by our table, pick up some of our delicious preserves and support a new neighborhood tradition.

Letter On Proposed Tax Abatement Ordinance

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October 16, 2013

The Honorable City Council
City of Richmond
900 E. Broad St., Suite 200
Richmond, VA 23219 USA

Re: Proposed Ordinance No. 2013-219 – Tax Abatements

Dear Honorable Members of City Council,

The proposed tax abatement ordinance seems unlawful.

The Constitution of Virginia allows a tax abatement when a building has undergone rehabilitation because of age and use. (1)

The ordinance seems to allow a tax abatement for a building in excellent condition.

Shouldn’t a tax abatement be limited to a building needing rehabilitation?

Sincerely yours,

C. Wayne Taylor

(1) The General Assembly may by general law authorize the governing body of any county, city, town, or regional government to provide for a partial exemption from local real property taxation, within such restrictions and upon such conditions as may be prescribed, (i) of real estate whose improvements, by virtue of age and use, have undergone substantial renovation, rehabilitation or replacement or (ii) of real estate with new structures and improvements in conservation, redevelopment, or rehabilitation areas. Constitution of Virginia, ARTICLE X, Section 6 (h).

Copy:
Jean Capel, City Clerk
Lou Ali, Council Chief of Staff
Better Government Richmond
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Where’s Hops the Frog?

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Mark Holmberg had a piece on Channel 6 last night about a memorial statue that has gone missing from Hollywood Cemetery.

Excerpt:

And yet, someone took Hops sometime in the past four or five weeks, pulling up the long spikes that held him in place.
Brown wonders if it wasn’t just some alcohol-fueled prank, that Hops is cooling his heels in a dorm room somewhere.
He asks anyone with information to give him a call at (804) 920-6214.
“If somebody has the frog, I wish they would hop back with it,” Brown said. “Let bygones be bygones.”