Presentation on Fulton housing tonight
The VCU School of Urban Planning will presenting the results of a Housing Inventory of the Greater Fulton tonight at 7:30PM at the Neighborhood Resource Center on Williamsburg Road.
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8,000 slides from the Richmond Planning Department
Via taber: Scans of over 8,000 slides from the Richmond Planning Department, new from VCU Libraries.
Union Hill clean-up set for November 13
MCV Green Unity invites one and all to join them for a clean-up in Union Hill on November 13: Show some love for the Richmond community by coming to our first Union Hill neighborhood clean-up! We are adopting the 1800 block of O St. (through Richmond City Adopt-a-Block), so help us beautify it and the [...]
VCU/MCV Health Fair at Armstrong
The 3rd Annual VCU/MCV Campus Community Health Fair will be held on Saturday, March 6th, at Armstrong High School from 10AM to 3PM. Free Screenings will be offered for: Blood Pressure, Cholesterol, Diabetes, Dental screening, HIV / Syphilis screenings, and H1N1 Shots. Free lunch for the first 400 people. Games and moon bounce for kids.
Free dental services for children on Give Kids a Smile Day
The VCU Pediatric Dental Clinic will be seeing any child that needs dental services for free on Friday, February 5, from 7:30AM-1PM: This day we will be providing exams, cleanings, xrays, fillings, and extractions. Give Kids a Smile Day is committed to helping children that may be unable to receive dental care. This day is [...]
A word of caution to VCU students
It is not in your best interest to catch the campus connector from the Monroe Campus to the MCV Campus and then walk across the MLK Bridge and up Venable Street to the ABC store at 8:30PM. If I see you again, next time I’ll rob your dumbass myself.
Peep This gets youth behind the camera
VCU and the Family Resource Center are working together to inspire young men through documentary film-making opportunities in the neighborhood: Richmond’s East End is a long way from Hollywood, but visitors and residents of the community may come face to face with teenage film crews this fall as part of “Peep This,” a VCU program [...]
Crupi report cites “Europeanization” of urban living
Consultant James A. Crupi today presented “Putting The Future Together”, a report on the current state of Richmond and a look forward, at a public meeting at VCU’s Siegel Center. The RTD has an overview, and you can check out the report in its entirety (2.2MB PDF).
this is only a test…
Tomorrow VCU will conduct a test of emergency sirens on both the Monroe Park and MCV Campuses. The sirens will begin at 12:00 noon and will sound for one minute and then sound a 30 second “all clear” even tone as part of a full test of VCU’s multi-level emergency communications system. [via]
