RealCrozetVA

Via email:

Western is currently running a food drive in support of WAHS Senior, Nicole Muller’s national food drive initiative, Neighbors-4-Neighbors.  Our local food bank aids 30,000 of our community members ( 40% of them children) each month who are in need of food assistance.

Please send in non-perishable food with your student on Monday, January 3 or Tuesday, January 4, 2011.

The food drive will end next week and it would great to show our community the giving spirit that is so much a part of our school.  If every student contributes just one can of food (more would be great), the food bank will receive over 1000 cans of food from the WAHS student body.  That will help tremendously at a time when donations are low, yet the need for the food assistance provided by the Blue Ridge Area Food Bank remains high.

Let’s begin the new year right with helping out those neighbors less fortunate than us.

More on Nicole Muller’s efforts:

– Newsplex – October 2009
– Daily Progress – December 2009

Just wondering.

Update: No.

Thanks to Lee Catlin at Albemarle County for the response, to Tim and Jim for asking.

Lee Catlin of Albemarle County confirmed via email to me this morning that this sign and “Peach Street” name are NOT official for the street. She said county welcomes community input on the possible name. The CCAC will be working with county on submitting name recommendation per their procedures.?So I urge you to vote for your favorite name at😕

From the Crozet Community Advisory Council:

Crozet had its Main Street –now called Crozet Avenue– for decades. The name was changed as part of the implementation of the 911 system. Meanwhile, when the Crozet Master Plan called for a street to be built that would parallel Rt. 240 on the south side of the tracks, planners dubbed the dotted line on the maps as “main street” and Crozetians, whose memories found  that name jarring,  called it “new main street.”

When the street’s construction was actually begun, the Crozet Gazette called for citizens to nominate a different name for it.  Three names were proposed by more than one person: Library Street, Barnes Street and Lumber Street. Another half dozen names were suggested by one person, among them Owen, Conley, Ellison, Decamp, Peach, Cider and Carroll. At the Crozet Community Association meeting Nov. 11, the candidate names were discussed and a short list was referred to the county for cross-checking against existing names.

Four names survived as viable: Library, Barnes, Lumber and Decamp. At the Crozet Community Advisory Council meeting Nov. 18, councilors eliminated Decamp on the grounds that explaining its Crozet connection–it was Claudius Crozet’s wife’s maiden name–was too obscure and would not be understood by the public. The CCAC asked RealCrozetVa website to post the possibilities to gather community opinion about which is the most suitable before making a formal recommendation to the county. Which would you prefer?

Jim’s note: I’m happy to help in any way that I can. For a brief history and comments on the names, see this post from October.

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