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this week’s calendar

Recycling week, Townhall Meeting with Mayor Wilder, CHA meeting, Mayor’s 7th District Roundtable, Vacant Building Workshop, New Visions Fundraiser Yardsale, Tricycle Gardens’s Grow your own PARTY!, and MORE…

This is recycling week.

Tue Oct 16 10:30AM – Beginning Computer Classes for Adults

Have computer questions and don’t know where to begin? Come by the library and we’ll help you get started.
East End Library (2414 R Street, (804) 646-4474)

Tue Oct 16 6PM – Townhall Meeting with Mayor Wilder

@ Main Street Station

Tue Oct 16 7PM – Church Hill Association meeting

on the 3rd Tuesday of the month

Tue Oct 16 8:30PM – open mic @ Poe’s Pub

acoustic open mic at Poe’s Pub on East Main, hosted by Jim Daab. Sign up is at 8:30, music starts at 9, goes until closing @2AM 2607 East Main Street

Wed Oct 17 10AM – Preschool Story Time

Wednesday 10 a.m. (for 3-5 years) Thursday 10 a.m. (for 2-4 years) East End Library (2414 R Street, (804) 646-4474)

Wed Oct 17 7PM – Mayor’s 7th District Roundtable

@ EDI (25th & M Streets … On the agenda are the City of Richmond’s Five-Year Consolidated Plan (which has to do with the city’s CDBG funding from the federal government) and the opening of a Montessori School at 323 North 20th Street.

Wed Oct 17 7PM – Union Hill Civic Association

We’ll be making plans for activities for the next few months, discussing some long-range planning, and celebrating some recent accomplishments in the neighborhood. Hope to see you there! Cedar Street Baptist Church Fellowship Hall … N. 23rd and Cedar Streets (N. 23rd Street entrance)

Thu Oct 18 8:30AM – Growers’ Market

Farm fresh and homegrown straight from the region’s farms to your home. Homemade and handcrafted. @17th Street Farmer’s Market

Thu Oct 18 10AM – Preschool Story Time

Wednesday 10 a.m. (for 3-5 years) Thursday 10 a.m. (for 2-4 years) East End Library (2414 R Street, (804) 646-4474)

Fri Oct 19 9AM – 1st Annual Richmond Vacant Building Workshop

Hickory Hill Community Center (3000 East Belt Blvd)
This free one-day workshop is designed to inform citizens, realtors, owners, buyers, contractors, neighbors, architects, engineers, and developers regarding the requirements of and issues relating to vacant building ownership.

Sat Oct 20 8AM – New Visions Yardsale

Fundraiser for the New Visions Civic League.
@ the intersection of 25th, Fairmount, and Nine Mile Road.

Sat Oct 20 8:30 – Saturday Market

Farm fresh and homegrown straight from the region’s farms to your home. Homemade and handcrafted. @17th Street Farmer’s Market

Sat Oct 20 4PM – Church Hill Creative Homemakers Society

Lower floor of Leigh Street Church (517 North 25th Street)

Sat Oct 20 7PM – Grow your own PARTY!

Tricycle Gardens, a non-profit organization that promotes community gardening, holds a “Grow Your Own” celebration at the Eric Schindler Gallery, 2305 E. Broad St. Anyone interested in starting a community garden is invited to attend. Admission, which includes music and food, is $25. RSVP by Oct. 12 to 231-7767.