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Tulips and other flowers were blooming the afternoon of April 23 in this Preston Avenue median, with a recently renovated Wendy’s fast-foodery in the background.
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New ped button
Chilling in Sugar Hollow
Median fleurs
Ivy Bonfire
Python on the Mall
Garden Week in Crozet
Walkers, including blind ones (thanks to braille printing and an audible indicator), now have a new button to press to get a white light to cross McIntire Road and Preston Avenue, in what appears to be part of a new City push to add pedestrian improvements. (0)
Longtime Live Arts artistic director John Gibson will leave the building at the end of 2009 after 18 years at the community theater. Besides overseeing 200 shows and 50 special events, Gibson also led the construction and move to the theater’s current digs on Water Street. Next up? “I have no idea what I’m doing,” he says. “I’m leaping into the unknown.” One thing spurred Gibson, who’s approaching 44. “The saddest thing I can imagine is me at age 64 on a ladder wiring together another Gala chandelier.” –PHOTO BY JACK LOONEY (0)
Planned Parenthood Health Systems is closing its Lynchburg health center on June 30 “due to the weakened economy and its effects on our operating budget,” according to a release from the nonprofit’s vice president, David Nova. The nonprofit dedicated to women’s health care is controversial for one of the services it provides, although much of its mission focuses on education and preventative health care. According to the release, Lynchburg patients– men, women and teens– will now have to travel to Planned Parenthood’s health centers in Roanoke and Charlottesville. Educational outreach will continue in Lynchburg. (1)
After some speculation that he might join his former Virginia Cavaliers teammate Chris Long with the St. Louis Rams, UVA fourth-year offensive tackle Eugene Monroe was the eighth overall pick in this year’s NFL Draft, selected by the Jacksonville Jaguars. Monroe’s selection marks the fourth time in five years that a player from UVA has been drafted in the first round. Three other Wahoos heard their names called over the weekend: linebacker Clint Sintim was selected in the second round by the New York Giants, and running back Cedric Peerman became a Baltimore Raven in the sixth round, and tight end John Phillips went to the Dallas Cowboys, also in the sixth round.
–photo courtesy UVA Athletics (0)
The north fork of the Moormans River in Shenandoah National Park provided a cool way to deal with the weekend’s blistering temps, which reached 91 Saturday and 89 Sunday, the day this image was captured. Temps will remain hot until Wednesday. (2)
Nothing like flowers to brighten one’s day. An anonymous donor gave money for flowers to grace City streets a few years back. What a wonderful gift and one I hope will not be diverted for other purposes now that money is tight.