Early Review for EAT Oregon Hill

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A neighbor had this to say about the new restaurant which has replaced Pescados China Street:

I just got back from dinner and drinks here. The change is very welcome! The food is cheaper and more diverse and the new menu is awesome. They have 2 excellent house-made sodas and house-made ice cream/sorbet. They have a drink named after each of the Oregon Hill streets, the Cherry St was most excellent. The brunch menus appears to be solid still, my friends who came to visit rave about the chicken and waffle at Pescados all the time, so I was happy to see that still there. I’d highly recommend it!

Tuesday at Byrd House Market

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From email announcement:

Vending this week…
Shakambari Garden rejoins the market this week with organic bagged and loose teas, medicinal plants, a tea sample and a full noggin of ‘nowledge about the teas, their blends and origins, and their potential medicinal or health benefits. Sustenance has a conflict for the rest of the season so we bid them a final farewell (for the season) and welcome the family as shoppers and visitors. Caramont and Thinking of You Creations are off this week. But this glorious weather should ensure Chocolate Cravings is with us, don’t you think? Not too hot, not too cold – in fact a little crispiness to the air is a wonderous thing for produce, chocolate, breads and cookies, eggs and chutneys, viandes and sausages, fruits and flowers alike, eh, eh, eh?

Did you Vote? RichmondUnite.org
The deadline to garner at least 1,000 votes is Saturday, September 15th! Sign up, log in, and vote everyday til midnight Saturday!!! You can sign up with each of your many email addresses (we know you have them) and vote from each of them! Thanks!

The Library
The Grace Arents Library is undergoing a gradual and steady organizational and beautification overhaul. And its library manager would love to have the helping hands of those who love books, quiet and thoughtful tasks, sewing, old books and book restoration, and at least one or two who have real librarian training for some specific projects. I plan to schedule 2 clean-up days over the next month on Friday afternoon that will need 5-10 volunteers 4 hours on each occasion. After that, there will be ongoing need for those who’d like to spend 1-2 hours per week. Great for service learning and community service! If you are interested please reply to Ana at byrdhousemarket at gmail.com!
Thanks!

More at ByrdHouseMarket.blogspot.com

More still at WBCH.org

Join us!

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Ana Edwards, Manager
Byrd House Market & Library Programs
Grace Arents Library & Education Center
William Byrd Community House
www.wbch.org / 804.643.2717 ext.306

City’s Bicycle and Trails Coordinator To Speak Wednesday at Sierra Club Meeting

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If you would like to hear about the Mayor’s Bike and Ped program as well as current and future pedestrian/bicycling projects in Richmond and the region (including the 2015 World Cycling event), Jakob Helmboldt, AICP, Pedestrian, Bicycle and Trails Coordinator from the City’s Chief Administrative Office will be speaking at the Sierra Club Falls of the James general meeting on Wednesday evening, Sept. 12, at 7 pm at the Science Museum of Virginia (2500 West Broad Street). SCFOJ general meetings are free and open to public.

Also, speaking of the Sierra Club, the group is sponsoring a contest for Richmond Area Elementary and Secondary Schools. The goal is to foster greater recycling participation throughout the Richmond metropolitan area. First prize is $1,000! For more information, please click here.

Spring and S.Laurel Accident

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From the City’s Current Traffic Information webpage:

SPRING ST/S LAUREL ST ACCIDENT, PROPERTY DAMAGE On Scene 8:14 AM 2 VEHS NO INJS…MAR NISSAN/DRK GRN TOYT…ATF/NUA…Duplicate Event:Location = S LAUREL ST/SPRING ST RICH, Cross Street 1 = S LAUREL

If I recall, the Oregon Hill Neighborhood Association has requested a four way stop for this intersection more than once. See Issue #10.

195 Ramp Closing Temporarily

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According to signs, the 195 on-ramp from Cumberland will be closed for a month starting tomorrow while there is more work on the toll plaza.

From WRIC Channel 8’s website:

Richmond, VA—The Downtown Expressway Cumberland Street on-ramp will be closed to traffic for thirty days beginning Monday, September 10.

The on-ramp will be closed through early October, for the final phase of the Downtown Expressway Open Road Tolling project.

Motorists wishing to enter the roadway in this area are encouraged to use a detour to the westbound Belvidere/2nd Street on-ramp.

City Council Candidate Forum

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From the flyer:

Richmond City Council Candidate Forum

This November, elections will decide who will represent you. Don’t miss this opportunity to hear where candidates stand on critical issues facing our communities such as health, equality, education, and urban planning.
September 13th 8:00 PM
VCU 500 Academic Center 500 N Harrison (former Ukrops)
moderator: Dr. Kim Allen

Sponsored 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 Falls of the James – Southerner on New Ground S.O.N.G. – Unite Women-Va – Virginia Organizing – Virginia New Majority-Central Va Chapter

for more information: roland.winston@gmail.com

Note: All three Council candidates from the 5th District have indicated they will attend.

“Oregon Hill” in Bon Air

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From James River Writers website:

Oregon Hill Program
Tuesday, September 11 at 7:00 PM: Howard Owen presents a program on his latest mystery Oregon Hill. At Bon Air Library, 9103 Rattlesnake Rd.

You can read some previous coverage of “Oregon Hill” by clicking here and here.

Also, Owen recently wrote a tribute to the James River Writers group.
Here is an excerpt:

The first few years, Karen and I hosted the pre-conference party for the presenters in our sixth-floor condominium in the Prestwould. We made a lot of the food ourselves, hired a bartender, and had a blast. We still think — this being Richmond — there should be a historical marker beside the door to unit 6B, noting that Tom Robbins, Richard Price, Mark Bowden and others drank there.

The Richmond writing community has thrived and grown more prolific, and we like to think JRW played some small part of that. We take pride that our city’s literary toilers were able to turn out the well-received Richmond Noir anthology, in a city much smaller than the others in that detective-noir series. We beam every time another Richmond writer gets published.

We live an hour away now, so I don’t get back for JRW events very often. But my heart is with you. It is one of my proudest achievements to have had a part in the founding of such a worthy and successful enterprise.

Richmond is a writers’ city, and JRW helped make it so. Who wouldn’t be proud of that?