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Thanks, Charlottesville Tomorrow for the reporting!
Albemarle Supervisors have approved a permit for Crozet Music Festival at Misty Mountain Camp Resort on October 2-4 http://bit.ly/cfZlr
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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.**
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).
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.
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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I thought Crozetians might be interested in this email I just received from the principal of Western Albemarle High School:
On Tuesday, September 8th at 12:00 noon, President Barack Obama will deliver a speech to our nation’s schoolchildren about the importance of education, working hard, setting educational goals and persisting to overcome challenges. It will be webcast from www.whitehouse.gov and broadcast on C-SPAN. The purpose of the speech is to help set the tone for the 2009-10 school year and to challenge students to do well. He will also announce a nationwide video contest called “I am What I Learn” that students may choose to participate in this fall. The full text of his speech will be posted online prior to the broadcast at the White House web site.
Viewing the President’s address is not mandatory in any way. President Obama’s address to students will be available for students who, with their families, decide they would like to see it. As an address by the nation’s chief executive, it carries historical significance and is relevant to our citizenship, character education and lifelong learning curricular objectives.
Teachers also have the responsibility, in accordance with our School Board policy KF, to remain non-partisan in their views expressed in the classroom, and not to use their position to advance any political cause. Teachers may choose to use some, all or none of the US Dept. of Education classroom activities and as with any curricular activity, if a parent objects to the lesson, they may opt out without penalty and be given an alternate assignment that meets the same curricular goals.
The webcast was discussed at the Department Chair meeting yesterday afternoon and it was decided that the best way to proceed is to modify the schedule, starting lunch at 11:55. The speech will be shown on classroom TVs (Channel 40) and in the auditorium. Students may choose to stay in the room to watch the webcast, take their lunch and watch in the auditorium, or opt not to watch and go to lunch. It will not be shown in the cafeteria, or library media center.
Dave Francis
Principal
Update 7 September 2009: The text of the prepared remarks at whitehouse.gov.
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Courtesy of King Family Vineyards’ Facebook Page:
King Family Vineyards Polo for TODAY, August 30 is on! Today is a full six chukker polo match so will last until about 3:30.
If you haven’t seen a Polo match in Crozet, why not? It’s good fun.
Tuesday, September 1st at 1:00 pm
at Old Crozet School Arts
(located in the right rear of the Old Crozet School).
Program begins at 1:00 pm and will conclude with a brief tour of OCSA’s space — currently a work-in-progress transforming classrooms into studios for dance, theatre, music, visual arts and more, all under one roof!
Speakers include
Ann Mallek, Supervisor, White Hall District
and Mike Marshall, CCAC.
For more information about OCSA (including class listings) please visit, www.oldcrozetschoolarts.org
Questions? Contact: [email protected]
Old Crozet School Arts is a Virginia Non-Stock Corporation.