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1st Annual Crozet Health Fair and 1 Mile Family Fun Run/Walk

Bring your family and friends to the 1st Annual Crozet Health and Wellness Fair.

On Sunday, October 18th, the Crozet Business Networking Group is sponsoring the 1st Annual Crozet Health Fair from 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm. at Crozet Baptist Church on St. George Avenue (near Downtown Crozet). This free event is promoting healthy living for all ages, with over 20 Crozet health care professionals providing free health screenings, education, assessments and other services.

The event will also have a 1 Mile Family Fun Run/Walk starting at 2:00 at the church.

The Crozet Health Fair will feature free flu shots for children without insurance, cholesterol checks, child fingerprinting, massage, glaucoma tests, oral cancer screenings, body mass index (BMI) measurements, blood pressure screenings, audiogram, orthodontic screenings, energy field screenings, posture analysis, and sleep disorder screenings. There will be local food vendors and activities for children. Meet your local health care providers and find new resources right in Crozet.

Starting at 2:00 p.m., presentations and demonstrations on topics such as first-aid, stress management, and healthy cooking/nutrition, will take place every 30 minutes.
No appointments or pre-registration are needed; attendees will be seen on a first come, first served basis.
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Streetscape Concerns in Crozet

Perfection is the enemy of the good.
Gustave Flaubert
French realist novelist (1821 – 1880)

The Daily Progress has a good article about the stalling of the Streetscape project. Please read the whole thing.

“We don’t want the charm of downtown to die away,” Trigo said. “That’s why we have to keep the businesses alive and work together.”

The Albemarle County Board of Supervisors already has appropriated the money as part of its capital improvement plans, but Marshall said he and other CCAC members are worried the money will be spent on other county projects if property owners don’t get on board.

“Downtown needs this to happen and time is slipping away,” Marshall said. “This is a project that will benefit everybody, [but] the county needs to find a way to reassure [property owners] they are going to hold contractors to a schedule and stick to it.”

My question is this – if we don’t take advantage of this opportunity now, when will we? We’re not going to get a perfect plan – but we need to insist on getting this started and finished as soon as possible. What better time than the midst of a recession to prepare for the other side?

Secondly, I’m going to borrow tfjtolson’s comment from the Daily Progress in its entirety:

I want the business owners of Crozet to know that while they build it (the streetscape) we will keep coming. I want them to stay in business and I want Crozet to have the improvements.
Therefore, as a Crozet resident, I pledge to keep patronizing their stores during the construction.

Who will join me in this pledge?

Update: More at C-Ville.

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Brief Notes for 2009-09-13

  • @sajego the past two days walking the little one to school I carried an umbrella & was successful in warding off the threatening rain in reply to sajego #
  • If anyone wants to write a story for RealCrozetVa.com about tonight's Crozet Community Assoc mtg, I'll buy you a cup of coffee #
  • 9 vineyards, 3+ breweries, 20+ vendors, 51 bands – 3 days – Oct 2-4 – Crozet Music Festival. http://bit.ly/D7fIw #
  • Crozet Music Festival is going to be a Who's Who of Crozet businesses – vineyards, breweries, restaurants … 51 Bands! #fb #
  • Sitting at the Crozet Mudhouse discussing the Crozet Music Festival. It's going to be AWESOME. #
  • 3 posts in one day on RealCrozetVA. I think that's a record. #
  • Getting reading to walk to Crozet Elementary. Wish there were sidewalks the whole way. #
  • @gingergermani Working on it. Coming soon in reply to gingergermani #
  • RT @mastomillers: the hook: new eateries in crozet http://bit.ly/4lJde8 #

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Walking to School in Crozet

It’s really not that far from home to Crozet Elementary, and while I wish there were sidewalks the entire way, it’s a pretty good little walk. Better yet, my small one and I stopped at Mudhouse on the way back home …

Personally, I’m grateful to live in such a walkable place.

Do you walk your kids to school?

Even better, I had my camera with me and took a few shots along the way:

** If you take pictures in or of Crozet, upload them to flickr and tag them with “crozet” – then they will be displayed in the slideshow on the homepage of RealCrozetVA.**


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Crozet Community Association Meeting Thursday 10 September

At the Old School House this Thursday from 7:30 pm to 9 pm. Anyone who wants to write a story for RealCrozetVA will be thanked loudly, roundly and I’ll buy you a cup of coffee from one of the three local coffee shops.

One suggestion – if we really want to and intend to invite Old Trail into Crozet, we (really the CCA) should put signs at the entrances to Old Trail as well as at the intersections of Crozet Avenue and 240 (and Jarman’s Gap Road).

Photowalking between Crozet Elementary and home

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Crozet Business Networking Forum – Tuesday 15 September

If you have a Crozet business, you will be interested in the Crozet Business Networking Group, which meets monthly at various locations around Crozet.

The next meeting of the Crozet Business Networking Group is Tuesday, September 15th at 12:30 PM at the Old Trail Clubhouse.

Bag lunches will be available for $8.50 and will include a sandwich, chips, cookie, and fountain drink. RSVPs are not required. As always, feel free to invite anyone with a Crozet business.

We will also discuss sponsorship opportunities for the Crozet Health Fair.

Our speakers will be:

Danielle Fitz-Hugh Charlottesville-Albemarle Chamber of Commerce

– Discuss the possibility of beginning a Crozet business Chamber-sponsored group

Juan Wade ([email protected]) Transportation planner for Albemarle County

– Discuss a pedestrian improvement project for Crozet Avenue; Looking for letters of support to help acquire VDOT funding

Update 10 September 2009: If you have a Facebook account, RSVP here.

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Blue Ridge Cohousing in Crozet

If you haven’t taken the time to learn about the Blue Ridge Cohousing neighborhood (now a bad link), listen to this interview on WVTF with some of the folks who will be living there. Interview here (yet another bad link). Or here, on a new test site I’m working on.

Cohousing combines private homes with the security and interconnection of an old-fashioned village. Benefits include:
• deeper connections with neighbors
• sustainable, environmentally friendly homes
• pedestrian-friendly pathways, and
• a healthy balance of social interaction and privacy.

You can learn more about cohousing at cohousing.org.

Update: WCAV has a story as well: this link disappeared somehow. Good lord.

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Brief Notes for 2009-09-06

  • RT @JimDuncan Blue Ridge Cohousing on WVTF http://post.ly/49lX #
  • RT @CommunitiesIntl: @tfjtolson Is the the Blue Ridge cohousing piece that you were asking @realcrozetva about? http://bit.ly/Vg3SE [thanks! #
  • RT @crozetmusicfest: Count down is on for the Crozet Music Festival! invite your friends and get your tickets soon. http://bit.ly/4AyzMP #
  • Anytime Fitness is surprisingly busy tonight. 4 people. 🙂 #
  • Apparently there is a police sting on Jarman's Gap and Crozet Avenue. Glad all other crime has been stopped. #
  • One lane road on 240 between Tabor and The Meadows. Be aware. #
  • @ancym Got it. Will try to get to it this evening in reply to ancym #
  • @tfjtolson Blue Ridge cohousing piece was by Sandy Hausman on WVTF. I can't find it anywhere on their site though in reply to tfjtolson #
  • RT @bakermonkey: The Moth is coming to Crozet.Anyone interested in going? http://www.whatsgood.com/event/6248 [9/10 at 7pm at Mudhouse] #
  • Blue Ridge CoHousing on NPR right now #
  • Albemarle County schools sent home something discussing the "Pandemic Flu" rather than "Swine Flu" – Why? #fb #
  • RT @MaryBethBowen: @CNN gives props to Charlottesville's wineries. Crozet Pizza got a mention, too. Go C'ville! http://bit.ly/wwQaO #
  • @ancym anyone who wants to write a story or send pictures for/to RealCrozetVa would be thanked loudly. 🙂 in reply to ancym #
  • We need a good bakery/patisserie in Crozet #

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