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Healthy live oak cut down on Shore Drive & Kleen Street
Any one know why the Official City Tree, the live oak, was cut down?
Update:
Tim, it had a big vertical fissure in the trunk and rot inside. Susan said that pedestrians were in potential danger.
“Police arrested a man for breaking into cars in a Virginia Beach neighborhood, and it was a 10 On Your Side report that helped bring him to justice.”
There was a reason why Browne wanted to show 10 On Your Side his home surveillance video from late October.
McLean Contracting fact sheet for #LESNBERBRIDGE
Very informative.
View the 22 page PDF at McLean Contracting website.
Download the 22 page PDF Fact Sheet here.
Zoomed in photo from December 2 2014 at 1130a
“Complete Streets are streets for everyone. They are designed and operated to enable safe access for all users, including pedestrians, bicyclists, motorists and transit riders of all ages and abilities. Complete Streets make it easy to cross the street, walk to shops, and bicycle to work. They allow buses to run on time and make it safe for people to walk to and from train stations.”
Virginia Beach Adopts Complete Streets Policy
Woo hoo!
The purpose of the Complete Streets Policy is to improve the Virginia Beach transportation system by providing safe, attractive travel for all users through a system of connected transportation choices designed in harmony with adjacent land uses.
View Press Release at VBGov.com.
Learn more about Complete Streets Policy at VBGov.com.
“Later, a group of six or so great egrets flew in a graceful dance over the water, sparkling in the sunlight. Four of the beauties settled in a treetop as if to give the photographers a chance for shots. Since 2012, 144 species of birds have been reported at Pleasure House Point. More than 20 species were seen at last week’s bird walk, including the great big rare Brock Center species.”
Read all of Mary Reid Barrow’s article here.
The bird walk was one of several scheduled through the year by Lynnhaven River Now and led by Steve Coari, an expert birder from the Virginia Beach Audubon Society.
More about Lynnhaven River NOW at LRNow.org.
Visit Virginia Beach Audubon Society page for Pleasure House Point to learn more about bird sightings at PHP.
Photo Credit: Tim Solanic on a different trip.
“LRNow is turning mere peasants into royalty this holiday season!”
For All of Our
Oyster Kings and QueensLRNow is turning mere peasants into royalty this holiday season!
Gift your loved ones with an Oyster Castle at the Laskin Gateway Project, to be constructed spring 2015. We need 420 castle blocks to build our oyster kingdom, and they are available for purchase at $10 per block or $250 for a whole castle.You will receive an acknowledgement card to give to the recipient and all donors and recipients will be listed in our quarterly newsletter. To purchase a castle for your king or queen click here, call us at 757-962-5398, or stop by our office.
“The city is moving forward on a long-awaited sand replenishment project for Chic’s Beach, starting with collecting “public beach” releases from the neighborhood’s waterfront property owners.”
View article at Pilotonline.com.
The release states that a property owner agrees the portion of the land between the dune or the bulkhead line and the water is a public beach. The owner gives the city permission to dump sand on it and agrees not to impede public access.
City officials met with Chic’s Beach residents about the project and the release form last month. They’ll need consent from the owners of roughly 140 properties stretching about a mile from Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek to Joyce Avenue.
Chic’s Beach resident Taylor Sharpe and his dog Sandy walk the beach there at high tide on Aug. 28, 2011, after the departure of Hurricane Irene. Waves from the Chesapeake Bay lap at the pilings of the waterfront homes on Ocean View Avenue in this section of Virginia Beach. (Vicki Cronis-Nohe | The Virginian-Pilot)
“Your $150 contribution will support the Brock Environmental Center and CBF’s work in Hampton Roads. This is your opportunity to have your name included on the special “Raise the Roof” wall inside the Brock Environmental Center’s conference room.”
“Join us at Adaptive Planning for Flooding and Coastal Change in Virginia: Next Steps for the Commonwealth, where the dialogue will move forward by sharing the resolutions made to date”
Learn more at VA Coastal Policy Clinic at W&M Law School event page.
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Friday, December 5th 2014
8:30am – 5pm
Miller Hall (Mason School of Business)
101 Ukrop Way
Williamsburg, VA 23185
“Residents of adjoining neighborhoods, especially on Broad Bay Island, were worried about the proposal at first, said Kal Kassir, a member of the Broad Bay Island Civic League. They didn’t want an industrial enterprise – envisioned as ugly, noisy and smelly – plunked down in the middle of their quiet neighborhood. They changed their minds after meeting with Lynnhaven River Now.”
Read entire article at Pilotonline.com.
Oysters are good at cleaning sediment and bacteria out of waterways, which makes them great a cleaning rivers. The goal of the Lynnhaven Aquaculture Center – rendering of the property at left – is to introduce new oysters to the Lynnhaven River to clean it and meet state and federal water-quality standards.
The Lynnhaven Aquaculture Center is on the agenda tonight for City Council meeting.
Timelapse video of Brock Environmental Center construction
“Browne’s camera captured a man going into several cars along Beech Street.”
“We had the opportunity to push the envelope on innovative and creative methods,” said Chris Brandt, executive vice president of Hourigan Construction. “There were so many certification levels that needed to be met that it was a job in itself to keep track of them all.”
View entire article at PRWeb.com.
The Center is on track to be the first commercial-scale building in the continental U.S. to earn net-zero water status. A rainwater collection system will store rainwater in tanks under the building and then filter it for hand-washing and drinking through a state-of-the-art water filtration system licensed by the State of Virginia’s Office of Drinking Water. The Center features waterless, composting toilets, and all grey water (wastewater generated from sinks and showers) will be channeled through a wetland constructed of native plants where natural processes will clean and return it to the underground aquifer.
Photo: November 20th 2013
An amazing day for the Shore Drive community
Thank you to all who worked so hard to make this spectacular facilty possible.
See you here Sunday!
For you commuters: “Beginning today, Burton Station Road will be closed so crews can install water and sewer lines.”
For about 6 months!
More at Pilotonline.com.
News Release at VBGov.com.
The following detours will be in effect:
– Eastbound traffic on Burton Station Road will be detoured down Miller Store Road to Bayside Road to Diamond Springs Road to Northampton Boulevard.
– Westbound traffic on Burton Station Road will be detoured down Northampton Boulevard to Diamond Springs Road to Bayside Road to Miller Store Road.
“What Will You Do? Our Veterans put everything on the line to protect our freedom. We may never be able to repay them for their sacrifice, but we can show them just how much we appreciate all that they’ve done. Everyone can do something to show Veterans know how much we appreciate their service. What will you do?”
Please, choose to donate blood
Click to start registration
Hello all,
Virginia Beach Resort and Conference Center and the American Red Cross are hosting an upcoming blood drive.
Please join our lifesaving mission and schedule an appointment today!
Drive Details:
Site: Virginia Beach Resort and Conference Center
Address: 2800 Shore Drive, Virginia Beach, VA, 23451
Room Name: Cape Henry Room
Date: Wed Nov 12, 2014
Time: 1:00: PM – 6:00: PM
Coordinator Name: Stacy Day
Coordinator Phone Number: 7574819000
Click here to make an appointment
Virginia Beach Resort Hotel and Conference Center would like to invite you to our Blood Drive on Wednesday, November 12, 2014. The blood drive will be held on the 1st floor in the Chesapeake Ballroom from 1:00 P.M. until 6:00 P.M. You can make an appointment or walk in at your convenience. To make an appointment please visit the American Red Cross Website and select the November 12th, Blood Drive at Virginia Beach Resort Hotel and Conference Center or call Stacy Day, Director of HR at 757-481-9000. We hope to see all of our regular donors and meet some new donors as well. Please join us in “Giving the Gift of Life”. Thank you!
The need for blood is constant and only volunteer donors can fulfill that need for patients in our community. Nationwide, someone needs a unit of blood every 2 to 3 seconds and most of us will need blood in our lifetime.
Thank you for supporting the American Red Cross blood program!
“Old beach chairs, a section of a wood deck and, of course, beer bottles were among the detritus suspended in a 15-foot wall of sand left behind by the weekend nor’easter.”
The pillars on a boardwalk at the Cape Henry beach in Virginia Beach are exposed Monday, Nov. 3, 2014, after recent storms that washed away about 15 feet of dune. (Thé N. Pham | The Virginian-Pilot)
A city beach replenishment last shored up the dune in 2010, said Mike Mundy, a city water resources engineer. The area is scheduled to get more sand in 2016.
A wall of sand on the Jefferson-Raleigh Beach Path in Ocean Park. Photo swiped from Linda from OP Facebook Group page.
#WeLoveShoreDrive 