I’ve never really heard much about the Crozet Lions, but I’m happy to help them publicize their event. The 72nd annual Crozet Lions Club variety show features musical performances by Pete Vigour & Friends, Maia Oden, Bobby Graves, Alex 141 and Blue Country Band. Other highlights include Ballet dance performed by Rebecca Richardson and Laura Ewell, as well as, Modern dance performed by The Kawasaki Sisters. … Tickets are available at the door – $8 for adults and $4 for children 12 and under.
Crozet’s First Welcome Sign is Installed!
The Crozet Gazette has the story and picture (and Tim Tolson’s comment is spot-on as well) .
CTC Update – This is a Busy Crew!
The Crozet Community Advisory Council (CCAC) met last night and we have decided that the April CCAC meeting (Thursday, April 21st) will be dedicated to the topic of walking and biking to the local schools. This will be a great meeting to attend if you have any interest in the topic. … If you live in Grayrock and are interested in helping (or know someone who would like to help), please let me know. … I’ve tried to work the bureaucracy to encourage walking to school but have been stymied by the bureaucracy, the fear, the fear of liability and the lack of sufficiency.
Crozet Gets another Music Festival – Campout East
Join us this summer for the first annual east coast Campout, hosted by Cracker, Sons of Bill and Camper Van Beethoven. The festival will take place June 17 and 18 at Misty Mountain Camp Resort in Crozet, Virginia, in the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains. … Tickets are on sale now . ( find them on facebook, too ) It seems that campouteast is following in the path cleared by the Crozet Music Festival ; here’s hoping to another successful event. They’re drawing people from Virginia, Colorado?!, Tennessee, Ilinois, Maryland, Florida and Michigan to name a few states .
Fundraiser for the Crozet Pool Dome – 23 March
More than 50 swimmers from the Piedmont Family YMCA’s CYAC Swim Team will swim laps Wednesday, March 23, at the team’s “Splash for Cash” to raise funds for the Crozet Park’s Aquatic and Recreation Center (P.A.R.C.) Let’s help Crozet Pool raise the last $50k!
Gardening Talk in Old Trail Today (19 March)
The Old Trail Village Garden Committee is hosting a talk on Organic Gardening in our area/climate today, Saturday, March 19th, at 11am. The presentation by local landscape architect Janet Miller will be at the Old Trail Golf Club Pavilion (in the Clubhouse). Come learn about organic gardening and have your gardening questions answered by an expert.
Road to Somewhere in Crozet
In coming years, Library Avenue will extend to Park Ridge Court, the plans entails, and provide a connection to Three Notch’d Road. Cory Farm Road will be extended into a proposed Eastern Avenue , under the Master Plan , ultimately running from Rockfish Gap Turnpike to Three Notch’d Road. … “Ultimately, it’s designed to help provide better and easier access to downtown to revitalize that area and help improve the economic vitality,” said Elaine Echols, senior planner with Albemarle County. … This sign is from the Cory Farm neighborhood indicating where the Eastern Avenue ( not the Eastern Connector , another road in Albemarle that may be built by the time my grandkids are driving flying cars) will go.
Notes from the Crozet Community Association Meeting – 8 March 2011
The Architectual Review Board meeting on Monday, March 21 at 1:00 PM in Room 241 of the County Office Building also has the Re-Store’N Station on their agenda. … I’ve enclosed one picture from the 3D rendering to entice you to go to their website. —– Also this week, Ann Mallek has her last Town Hall meeting, Wednesday, 3/16 at 7:00 PM at Broadus Wood Elementary. As with the two last week, our new policy chief, Steve Sellers will be with her. —– And the Crozet Community Advisory Council (CCAC) meets this coming Thursday, 3/17 at 7:00 PM at the Meadows. … We need your help to plan and put on the festivities in the park after the parade, and for another fun swing dance with the Salute-to-Swing band at the Park on Friday night and the parade.
Race to Nowhere Screening at Crozet Baptist
I am attempting to reach out to our community, in hopes of engaging our school administrators, teachers and parents in the discussion of what is, and is not, working for our youth today. … Here is a brief description of the film: A concerned mother turned filmmaker aims her camera at the high-stakes, high-pressure culture that has invaded our schools and our children’s lives, creating unhealthy, disengaged, unprepared and stressed-out youth. Featuring the heartbreaking stories of young people in all types of communities who have been pushed to the brink, educators who are burned out and worried that students aren’t developing the skills they need, and parents who are trying to do what’s best for their kids, Race to Nowhere points to the silent epidemic in our schools: cheating has become commonplace; students are disengaged; stress-related illness and depression are rampant; and many young people arrive at college and the workplace unprepared and uninspired. More information can be found at www.racetonowhere.com Our specific site is http://www.racetonowhere.com/epostcard/4551 To go directly to ticket purchases http://rtncrozetbaptist.eventbrite.com/
Henley Student Moves on to National Spelling Bee
Bolshevik.
” For his first-place victory, Xu will receive a paid trip to the national bee June 1-2, $240 in savings bond and gift cards, a copy of Webster’s Third New International Dictionary and a one-year subscription to Encyclopedia Britannica Online. ” Very cool.