The YWCA of Richmond will observe the 12th annual Remember My Name Memorial at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 25 at Monument Heights Baptist Church. This nondenominational service commemorates those in the Greater Richmond and surrounding areas, who have lost their lives due to domestic violence in the past year. During the ceremony, families, friends and community leaders will have the opportunity to speak on behalf of the victims or give testimonies about how domestic violence has affected their lives.

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We have a lot happening at Munford! Please take time to look over the following announcements:

PLAYGROUND CLEAN UP DAY & EXTERIOR BEAUTIFICATION
Join us Saturday, October 6th from 8:00-noon for PLAYGROUND CLEAN UP DAY. If you’ve got an hour (or more) this Saturday morning, you can really help improve the school’s appearance for the remainder of the year. Please contact Robert and Katie Baughan at flyingsquirrel1@verizon.net if you have any questions.

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SnagAJob.com Party Stops announced for spectators: Local roads to be affected

With 500 of the world’s top run-bike athletes coming to Richmond for the 2007 McDonald’s Duathlon Long Course World Championships on Sunday, October 21st, preparations are underway to create an exciting event for spectators and athletes alike.

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Style Weekly highlights Seymour and Audrey Topping, keynote speakers for the China-America Festival of Film & Culture.

Though both of the Toppings are well over the age of retirement — Seymour is 85, Audrey 79 — neither of them seems to be slowing down. Seymour, the author of historical novels set in China and Vietnam, is hard at work on a historical memoir. Audrey is the author of six books and regularly exhibits her photographs from the exotic locations she’s visited over the years.

Audrey and Seymour Topping will speak at the China-America Festival of Film and Culture Friday, Oct. 5, at 7:30 p.m. at The Oates Theater at Collegiate School. The festival runs through Oct. 7. The Full festival schedule is available at www.therosegroup.org.

Caitlin Sasser of the University of Richmond passed along this info:

The University of Richmond is hosting a free e-waste recycling event on Oct 11-13 from 9am to 3pm. Visit our website for details: http://is.richmond.edu/ewaste/

We’re hoping to help keep potentially hazardous electronic waste out of Virginia landfills. Thanks!

Should you have any questions, please feel free to contact Caitlin Sasser at 804-289-8467 or Wendy Burchard at 804-289-8785.

The Richmond College Dean’s Office, Department of History and Center for Civic Engagement will host a panel discussion, “Fifty Years Later: The Legacies of Little Rock,” at the University of Richmond’s Tyler Haynes Commons Nov.1 at 4:30 p.m. [via]

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The Bernard Osher Foundation has given $1 million to endow the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the University of Richmond, plus $50,000 to support its operating expenses until earnings from the endowment become available.

Richmond’s Osher Institute links adult learners to the broad range of educational opportunities on the University’s campus, providing those age 50 and older with non-credit courses, lectures and travel, and a variety of special programs. The institute is one of more than 100 that the San Francisco-based foundation has helped establish at college campuses around the country, and it is the first in Virginia to be permanently endowed. [via]

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The University of Richmond will host a series of panel discussions about domestic violence during October. The month has been designated Domestic Violence Awareness month.

Co-sponsored by the University of Richmond School of Law, University Police and the Center for Civic Engagement, the discussions will be held on Tuesdays from 4 to 5 p.m., in the Brown-Alley Room, Weinstein Hall. They are free and open to the public. A light reception will follow each discussion.

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Tim Robbins is one of my favorite actors who’s moved from a role of acting into a role of producing with his theater performance of “1984″ based on the popular novel by George Orwell. The Times-Dispatch had the opportunity to interview Mr. Robbins.

“Big Brother was allowed to arrest you without charge . . . [and] torture you,” the actor says. He also observes that Oceania is locked in an epic military conflict with a rationale that is never defined.

It’s “quite an accurate read of a society that is bogged down in a perpetual war with an enemy who’s perpetually unseen,” Robbins says. When asked if he’s referring to controversial clauses in the Patriot Act, and to the Bush administration’s championing of a war against terrorism, he does not demur.

The Actors’ Gang will perform the show at University of Richmond’s Modlin Center Tuesday and Thursday at 7:30pm. Tickets are $16 to $31. Call 804-289-8980 for more info.

I’m so happy that the City of Richmond School Board is considering Universal Preschool for all city residents. Basically, it sounds like they would extend the Virginia Preschool Initiative program to all the kids who parents want them to attend. That means free preschool from 9 a.m. - 3 p.m. Monday through Friday in a public school setting for tons of children who aren’t getting preschool at all. What that also means is kids OUT of daycare. Kids away from the T.V. and kids learning how to learn, before they enter Kindergarten and HAVE to learn.

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