From Richmond Police:
4th Precinct
THEFT FROM MOTOR VEHICLE
9/16/12 1:00 a.m. – 5:30 a.m.
700 block of South Pine Street
An unknown person(s) entered the unlocked vehicle and stole three backpacks and a firearm.
From the flyer:
Richmond School Board Candidate Forum
This November, elections will decide who will represent you. Don’t miss this opportunity to hear the candidate’s vision for education.
September 20th 7:00 PM
VCU Student Commons Theater 907 Floyd Ave
(Between Main and Floyd at Cherry)
moderator Dr. Kim AllenSponsored By
L Douglas Wilder School of Government in partnership with
A Philip Randolph Institute – Richmond Alliance for Progressive Values – Coalition to Stop Gun Violence – People of Faith for Equality – RePHRAME – Richmond NOW – Sierra Club – Fall of the James Southerner on New Ground S.O.N.G. – Unite Women-Va – Virginia Organizing – Virginia New Majority – Central Virginia ChapterFor more information roland.winston@gmail.com
Another fundraising contest.
From the St. Andrew’s School FaceBook page:
Help turn $50 into $20,000 for St. Andrew’s School! The Amazing Raise is a 36-hour online give-a-thon that will take place from 6:00 a.m. Wednesday, September 19, 2012 until 6:00 p.m., Thursday, September 20, 2012. Your donation of $50 or more through giverichmond.org during this time will enter St. Andrew’s School into grand prize drawings for bonus incentives of up to $20,000 from The Community Foundation! The more unique donors who give a gift of $50 or more to our School, the greater the chance of us winning a grand prize of $20,000.
When Venture Richmond’s Jack Berry did his presentation to OHNA, he said that there had never been a study to connect the canals.
Yet here one is:
Click here for Richmond Canals pdf.
I guess Berry just did not know, but then he’s been around Richmond for a long time. It’s certainly not the first time that plans for RIchmond have been buried, only to be dug up by citizens later.
From email:
Dear Mr. Berry,
Thank you for taking time out of your schedule to visit the Oregon Hill Neighborhood Association (OHNA) on August 28, 2012 to make a presentation on the proposed amphitheater located near the Oregon Hill neighborhood. In your presentation, you discussed the changes Venture Richmond wished to make to the site, including a proposal to trim the south bank of the historic James River and Kanawha Canal in order to improve the sight lines for the amphitheater, which you envision accommodating 10,000 people.
At the same meeting, OHNA voted to oppose any damage to the historic James River and Kanawha Canal and, specifically, removing any portion of the south bank of the canal. The Oregon Hill neighborhood has important historic connections to the canal. The surviving home at 601 Spring Street belonged to Samuel P. Parsons, the canal Superintendent responsible for the canal’s expansion to Lynchburg. These connections also include the surviving home at 619 W. Cary Street that belonged to the Messler family, who owned a canal boat building business in Penitentiary Basin, just east of the proposed amphitheater.
While we deeply appreciate the worthwhile efforts of Venture Richmond in bringing the Folk Festival to Richmond, we believe that this can be accomplished without damaging the irreplaceable historic canal. This is an original portion of the canal that was built when George Washington was the first president of the canal. The city is going to considerable expense to protect the canal in the construction of the 2nd Street connector, so it would be unacceptable to damage the canal just to the west of this connector.
Suggestions made by members of OHNA include: covering the canal with a temporary protective structure during the folk festival, encouraging Venture Richmond to consider a smaller venue at the location of the amphitheater that would not require damage to the historic canal, moving the adjacent Children’s Stage to another location and using the new open space as a part of the proposed amphitheater, or placing an impermeable liner inside the canal, filling it with soil and flowers and building bridges to cross the canal.
OHNA is also asking that Venture Richmond limit the number of performances at the amphitheater to 15 days per year and to limit the times of the performances to 10:00 pm on weeknights and to 11:00 pm on weekends.
Again, we appreciate Venture Richmond’s presentation to our organization, and we hope that you will keep us informed regarding developments of the proposed amphitheater.
Sincerely,
Jennifer Hancock
Oregon Hill Neighborhood Association, President
For more background on this, please click here and here and here.
From Craigslist ad:
Yard Sale on Sat., Sept. 15, from 8 am to 1 pm at 612 S. Laurel Street, Richmond, VA 23220 in Oregon Hill
NO EARLY BIRDS!
Books
DVD’s
CD’s
Records
Comics
Tools
DVD players
Light fixtures
Toaster Oven
Vintage toaster
Mid-century items
Household electronics
Camping gear
Furniture
Art/decorative items
Vintage toys
Cartoon character drinking glasses from the 70’s/80’s
Jewelry
Etc, Etc.There’s a lot going on downtown this Saturday, including 43rd St. Festival, River City Sheds Music Festival, etc. Make some time to swing through this yard sale!
Excerpt:
Three days after City Council agreed to give $14 million in tax dollars to renovate the Landmark Theater, the group managing the work scaled back part of the project, citing an “unanticipated reduction” in funding.
In a June 1 filing with the Virginia Department of Historic Resources, the Richmond Performing Arts Center indicated it was cutting back the first two phases of the project, which began in July, by $7.6 million. In order to obtain federal and state historic tax credits, construction plans first must be approved by the state and National Park Service.
Two months earlier, those first two phases involved $11.4 million in renovation work, according to state filings. That included a new roof and improvements to the restrooms, concession areas, sidewalks, lounge spaces, loading docks and the theater’s internal offices.
The amended filings in June scaled back the plans to include facade work, minor roof repairs, exit path lighting and prep work for a new box office and other building upgrades, a total of $3.75 million.
So as not to disrupt Landmark’s fall season, some work likely had to be scaled back because of the delays, says John Winter, chief capital projects manager for the city. “There had to be documents approved by council in order for the project to move forward,” he says. “I think that had a lot to do with the shortening of the window of available time.”
It’s unclear if the initial reduction in funds will affect the overall project. Altria Group agreed to pay $10 million for the naming rights to the Landmark in July, but that money is being provided while the work progresses during the next two years.
2012 Levis Reading Prize Winner Katherine Larson will be at the Grace Street Theater on Thursday, September 20 at 8 pm.
Katherine Larson’s Radial Symmetry (Yale University Press, 2011) was also selected by Louise Glück as the winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets. Larsen’s work has appeared in AGNI, Boulevard, The Kenyon Review, The Massachusetts Review, Poetry, and Poetry Northwest, among other publications. She is the recipient of a Ruth Lilly Fellowship, the Union League Civic and Arts Foundation Poetry Prize and the Kate Tufts Discovery Award. In addition to her literary career, Larson has worked as a molecular biologist and field ecologist. She lives in Arizona with her husband and daughter.
The Open High school PTA is putting on fundraiser through the new Sweet Frog that just opened here. It’s this Friday the 14th from 4:00 to 10:00. A flyer is necessary for the fundraiser so print one out by clicking here.
From Richmond Police report:
4th Precinct
THEFT FROM MOTOR VEHICLE
9/10/121 2:00 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.
100 block of South Cherry Street
An unknown(s) person broke in to a vehicle and stole an IPod Touch, cash and the vehicle’s stereo.