Oregon Hill’s state senator, John Watkins, withdrew his bill for uranium mining, but he is still pushing nuclear power.
Please call or email his office to let him know you oppose SB1138.
“We don’t need a nuclear think tank, we need to move away from dangerous nuclear energy and towards safe renewables!”
John Watkins (804) 698-7510
Emails ~
district10 at senate.virginia.gov
From press release:
Councilman Parker C. Agelasto to hold a Richmond Government Budget Planning Session in the Central 5th Voter District: Public Input needed
All Central 5th Voter District residents invited and encouraged to attend
WHAT (Richmond, Virginia U.S.A.) — The Honorable Parker C. Agelasto, Councilman, Richmond City Council, Central 5th Voter District will hold a Richmond Government Budget Planning Session meeting in the Central 5th Voter District. The meeting will include Byron C. Marshall, Richmond Chief Administrative Officer. The meeting is free and open to the public and all Central 5th Voter District residents are invited and encouraged to attend.
This will be an interactive meeting to receive public input on budget priorities in creating the upcoming Fiscal Year 2014/2015 Richmond Government Budget, which will be established by Richmond City Council in May of 2013. During this meeting, participants will be provided hand-held devices to vote on issues that are important to them.
This Richmond Government Budget Planning Session meeting is very important in helping to identify which Richmond Government programs and services are important to Central 5th Voter District residents for their neighborhoods, and the city as a whole. The current 2013 Fiscal Year Richmond Government Budget is $1,429,628,466.
The meeting will include presentations, discussions and input regarding the following areas:
Operation Service Priorities
· Streets and sidewalks in your Neighborhood
· Public Transportation
· Recycling Opportunities
Police and Safety Priorities
· Police Protection in your Neighborhood
· Quality of Animal Care and Control
Human Service Priorities
· Parks and Recreation Programs and Facilities in your neighborhood
· Social Services
· Public Health Services
· Public Education
Economic Development
· Employment Opportunities in your neighborhood
· New Businesses
WHEN Wednesday, February 6, 2013
6:00-8:00 p.m.
WHERE Virginia War Memorial
621 South Belvidere Street
Richmond, Virginia 23220
WHO The Honorable Parker C. Agelasto, Councilman
Richmond City Council, Central 5th Voter District
Byron C. Marshall, Richmond Chief Administrative OfficerCONTACT For more information, please contact Councilman Parker C. Agelasto, Richmond City Council, Central 5th Voter District, at 804.646.6050 (tel), or parker.agelasto at richmondgov.com (email)
From Virginia Canals and Navigations Society:
a nice video online of someone jogging from downtown Richmond up to Maymont Park (and back). The video is a little choppy but it’s worth taking a look at. Enjoy.
From Times Dispatch article:
After a brief, final flaring of tension between a neighborhood group and a developer, the City Council also unanimously approved a special-use permit that will allow the transformation of the former Victory Carpet Cleaning building at 407 S. Cherry St. into a dozen apartments.
The overhaul of the 123-year-old, three-story brick building by developer Guy Blundon was the subject of a “long, arduous set of negotiations” with neighbors, Blundon told the council Monday night.
“We have made a lot of concessions, and I think we will have a wonderful project,” Blundon said, adding that he was “dumbfounded” by last-minute criticism from Todd Woodson, executive director of the Oregon Hill Home Improvement Council and treasurer of the Oregon Hill Neighborhood Association.
Residents were successful in getting Blundon to reduce the number of proposed units by half and agree to not rent to Virginia Commonwealth University students, except married couples or military veterans.
However, Woodson said he only got the final wording of the agreement Sunday, which will allow VCU students who are older than 25 to be tenants. He considered that a breach of the “gentlemen’s agreement” between Blundon and the neighborhood. Blundon said he arrived at the final language after talks with his lawyer about discrimination concerns.
Woodson said the neighborhood association was supporting the special-use permit request with “extreme reservation.”
“Like the James River hawk that graces our environs, we will be watching every move,” Woodson said.
100 block of S.Cherry Street closed for brick sidewalk repair.
(Glad to see #7 getting the attention it deserves!)
From 821 Cafe’s FaceBook post:
Is cooking cinnamon roll pancakes, Mac n cheese omelet with bacon, tomato and spinach and southern fried tofu biscuits and gravy ! Lets get WEIRD
As the repair crew worked on the China Street water pipe issues yesterday, Richmond’s old trolley tracks became visible once again.
This reminds me, I am hoping to hear more soon about the new City Council plans for GRTC.
Storefront sign near corner of Belvidere and Cary:
Thankfully, Public Works is on the scene.
For many years Berry was the Director of the Oregon Hill Baptist Center.
A neighbor wrote of Mr. Berry: “He was loved by so many on OH .
He was a cultivator of flowers and friends – he tended to us all . A good apple pie maker. A gentle man that loved the Lord ”
Excerpt from his obituary:
BERRY, Willie “Bill” A. Jr., died peacefully Monday, January 21, 2013 at the age of 94 in his home at Westminster Canterbury. He is survived by his loving wife of 59 years, Evelyn Phillips Berry; children, Bill Berry III (Kathy) of Richmond, Va., and Ellen Looper (Marshall) of Aiken, S.C.; grandchildren, Micah (Mary-Catherine) and Amber Berry, Sarah and Matthew Looper; sisters, Lucille Whitt and Gertrude Stanfield; and many nieces, nephews, cousins and friends. Bill was born on September 28, 1918 in Person County, N.C., where he grew up with his nine brothers and sisiters, and his parents, Willie A. Berry Sr. and Fannie Hall Berry. He was a WWII veteran and attended Wake Forest University and Southwestern Seminary. His ministry career in Richmond included serving the staffs of Tabernacle and Pine Street Baptist Churches, and as Director of the Oregon Hill Baptist Center.