Near West End

The University of Richmond’s Chapel Guild will conduct its biennial Christmas House Tour Dec. 6. Five homes along Kanawha, Bandy, Cary, Three Chopt and Cherokee roads will be open.

Tickets, limited to 500 people, are $30 and include lunch at the university’s Jepson Alumni Center. To purchase tickets, call (804) 288-2118 or the Chaplaincy Office at (804) 289-8500.

The Chapel Guild supports Cannon Memorial Chapel and the Office of the Chaplaincy at the university, including sponsorship of a choral production of “Messiah” every four years. In addition, the guild supplies Bibles and hymnals and decorates the chapel for major holidays. The house tour has been held every two years since 1983.

St. Christopher’s and the Collegiate School square off tomorrow at St. Christopher’s football field tomorrow (Saturday, November 3rd) for the popular long-standing game between the two rivals.

In addition, the two schools are working together to raise food for the Central Virginia Foodback. Spectators are encouraged to bring canned items to fill the 220 brown paper bags at the game.

“We just thought this would be a good cause and something we could easily collaborate on,” said Pierre Molster, president of St. Christopher’s Student Council.

“We do a lot of canned-food drives at Collegiate, but we thought this would be a good way to bring a lot more cans in,” said Melissa Trask, co-leader of the Collegiate Community Council.

The Times-Dispatch reports:

Fans from both private schools will pile canned goods into containers placed in front of the bleachers. Each school was supplied with 500 commemorative brown paper bags, donated by the Bank of Goochland, with the fleur-de-lis and paw print logos of the Saints and the Cougars.

North Richmond News has the info regarding Richmond’s Department of Public Utilities upcoming community meetings. These meetings will discuss efforts to establish a Stormwater Utility Program to prevent neighborhood flooding in the future. More info via the city’s press release.

The meeting for our area will be held Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2007, from 7:00 until 9:00 p.m. at Mary Munford Elementary School Auditorium, 211 Westmoreland Street.

“There is a tremendous need to create a dedicated funding source to address the flooding and drainage issues that are prevalent throughout our community,” said the Mayor. “This revised proposal for a stormwater utility provides a reasonable solution to help prevent those issues in the future.”

The reductions in the water and wastewater rates will virtually offset the cost of the stormwater utility fee for one- and two-person households with an average monthly utility usage, while the rate reductions will help to minimize the cost of the stormwater utility program for larger households.

“We need to bring about equity among the customers of our public utilities so that individuals are only paying their fair share of the expenses, not subsidizing the cost for non-residential customers,” said the Mayor.

DPU Director Chris Beschler will lead the meetings, which will be held in each part of the City and are open to all citizens. Below is the date for the North Richmond meeting, and five other meetings scheduled around town

Looks like another excellent, busy week in the NWEN area. If you have any NWEN-related events, activities, etc. you’d like to let us know about, please do!

• Monday - 10:00am: Storytime at Barnes & Noble at Libbie Place; 8:00pm: 21st Annual Weinstein-Rosenthal Lecture at UR
• Tuesday - 10:30am: Computer basics for seniors at West End Library; 4:00pm: UR hosts Domestic Violence Month programming; 6:30pm: PURE Belly Dancing
• Thursday - 10:00am: Infant to PreK at Barnes & Noble, Libbie Place; 4:30pm: UR hosts panel discussion titled “Fifty Years Later: The Legacies of Little Rock”
• Saturday- 9:00am: Richmond City Town Hall Meeting; 11:00: Brunswick Stew Festival

There’s a lot going on this week in the NWEN area including lots of Halloween activities on Saturday:

• Monday & Tuesday - Richmond Regional Summit on Preventing Infant Deaths at the Downtown Marriott
• Monday - Storytime at Barnes & Noble
• Tuesday - Computer Basics for Seniors at the West End Library
• Thursday - Storytime for PreK & Infants at Barnes & Noble
• Friday - Henrico County Surplus Sale
• Saturday - UR’s Trick or Treat Street, Boo at the Barn at Maymont and Mary Munford’s Spooky Saturday

Amy-Jill Levine, a leading scholar in the Jewish-Christian relationship and elimination of anti-Jewish, sexist and homophobic thought, returns to the University of Richmond Oct. 29 to give the 21st Annual Weinstein-Rosenthal Lecture on “Hearing the Parables through Jewish Ears: The Good Samaritan, The Unfortunate Lawyer and The Jewish Teacher.”

A self-described “Yankee Jewish feminist who teaches in a predominantly Protestant divinity school in the buckle of the Bible Belt,” Levine is professor of New Testament studies and director of the Carpenter Program in Religion, Gender and Sexuality at Vanderbilt University’s divinity school and graduate department of religion.

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