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Wednesday, June 8, 2011
5:30 to 8:00 PM
J.T. Henley Middle School, Crozet
Free — everybody welcome.
Proceeds from the Peace by Piece Auction of student-made crafts: quilts, furniture, bird houses, floorcloths, jewelry, and more (plus friends- and family-made crafts) will go to locally based organizations to:
–Build 3 elementary school classrooms in Grissom-Garde, Haiti
–Purchase 3 chlorinators for water systems in the Limpopo region of South Africa
Don’t forget to register tomorrow at 1 for the Crozet Library Summer Reading Club!
I’m going to try to post updates every Friday. This needs to be a community effort to ensure that the fireworks happen this year, next year, the year after …
Raised so far: $2,520*
We/they need $6,500 to pay for the fireworks and about $5,000 to pay for the rest of the Fourth of July expenses.
If you can donate, please do so:
The Downtown Crozet Association, Inc., c/o The Crozet Gazette, P.O. Box 863, Crozet, Virginia 22932
* as of 1 June, 2011
Update: The Crozet Gazette has two relevant stories today:
– Fourth of July Parade and Celebration Set for July 2
– To the Editor: Crozet Independence Day
From Jessica Mauzy and the Crozet Trails Crew:
1. Grayrock workday this Saturday 8:30-11am. Bring gloves and water, the County will supply the tools and materials. If we have enough people, we can finish this project on Saturday!
2. Monthly Meeting next Thursday, June 9th, Trailside Coffee 6-8pm. We’ll be talking about the July 2nd parade, Crozet Trails Day, the Greenway, and designing hats. Anything else?
3. Crozet trails Day will take place on October 15th and will begin with a 5k trail run (based at Crozet Park) followed by a kids run and some town-wide adventure activities. Want to help plan it? Let me know. We need helpers!
4. June 11th (Saturday)- Trail activities at Preddy Creek Park, the brand new County park. More details on the website (www.crozettrailscrew.org)
5. June 18th (Saturday)- CTC workday at Byrom Park- New County park north of White Hall- perfect for Crozet and White Hall residents. We will be building trails! More info to come.
Hope to see you all soon– come on out and earn yourself a Connect Crozet CTC T-shirt!
Check out this vacation mowing service in Crozet, courtesy of Sean Connolly, a graduating senior at WAHS.
Sean contacted me and he strikes me as a quality, enterprising young man who has something that many people – young or not – lack: a work ethic and a willingness to do something that is seemingly anathema to so many: WORK.
So, if you need some vacation mowing or work done around the house, give him a call. I did (and I’m not even going on vacation).
Yes, this is sort of an ad, but no, I’m not getting paid to run it.
Related book that I’m reading: The Great Stagnation: How America Ate All the Low-Hanging Fruit of Modern History, Got Sick, and Will(Eventually) Feel Better
However, it’s coming up with the remainder of the nearly $7 million price tag that’s put construction of the library on hold. The Crozet Library Steering Committee was informed last year that the project could be postponed until 2015 if the money cannot be raised.
Of course, if you’d been paying attention last month, you would have known this. 🙂
(full post here from the CCAC meeting)
** If anyone out there is interested in live-tweeting any Crozet meetings, please let me know. I’ll happily help.
Watching polo in Crozet is fun.
Roseland Polo Season Begins
This Sunday, May 29
Match starts at 1:30 p.m.
Make the most of the long weekend by spending a lazy afternoon by the polo field. Park your car on the far side of the field, bring some shade, and cool off with a bottle of your favorite King Family wine.
The tasting room opens at 11:00 a.m., and the golf cart will return for its second season of circling the field with cold wine ready to buy. Cash and credit cards are accepted on the field. Please note that ABC regulations dictate that King Family Vineyards wine is the only alcohol that may be consumed on our property.
We’re glad to be introducing some new additions that will make the Roseland Polo experience even more fun. Our new score board just went up this week! We have a feeling you’ll also be glad to find out that two brand new portable toilets will live behind the score board to save you from the long trek back to the tasting room.
As always, polo matches are weather permitting. Call the winery in the morning at (434) 823-7800 and press the option for “Polo Update” or visit roselandpolo.com.
Did you know we have a tech company based in Crozet? What follows is both a job listing and a positive economic sign: job growth based in Crozet. I like showing “good things” happening in Crozet, and he’s donating to the fireworks fund.
The Crozet area is a fantastic place to live and to work. It is home to artisans, educators, entrepreneurs, farmers, laborers, and professionals. It is home to award-winning wines, beer, fantastic coffee, and a leading entertainment/e-commerce business.
Along this line, we’re an up-and-coming high-tech business in the network analysis and visibility market. We’re probably the first and only high-tech business in the area. We also share a heritage with Claudius Crozet, a pioneer and engineer, who led the construction of the Blue Ridge tunnels among other achievements.
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