The Greater Fulton Hill Civic Association will conduct its June General Meeting June 10 at 7:00 PM at the Neighborhood Resource Center 1519 Williamsburg Road.

In the contest for the 7th district council seat, it will be Clarence Kenney vs incumbent Delores L. McQuinn. Five candidates will vie for the school board seat: Ronald L. Bond, Harry H. Bradley Jr., Donald L. Coleman, Torey J. Edmonds, and Carletta Wilson. [via]

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Are you interested in starting a community garden in your neighborhood? Tricycle Gardens is hosting several workshops on how to jump start a community garden (Wed. June 25th, July 9th, July 30th, and Aug.13th). All workshops are free, and are from 6:30-9PM at the Tricycle Gardens office @ 211 W. 7th Street in old Manchester. More information is available at lisa@tricyclegardens.org or (804)231-7767. [via]

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1519 Williamsburg Road
Friday, June 27th, 5:30pm-7pm

Support Greater Fulton youth as they celebrate the completion of their first homespun CD (recorded in the Neighborhood Resource Center

The RTD is reporting that a man was shot in the abdomen at around 11PM in the 5200 block of Salem Street.

Tricycle Gardens has an update on the gardens at the NRC:

After lots of planning, building gardens, seed starting, planting and enthusiastic support, the Neighborhood Resource Center garden has started to produce vegetables, herbs, and flowers for all to enjoy! Children came to the NRC after school and were involved throughout the process of getting the gardening season underway. Some of the children in the after school program were able to attend a field trip to Victory Farms in Hanover to see how vegetables are grown on a larger scale. Now that summer has officially begun and school is out, we are continuing what was started during the spring season.

Last night I was driving down Laburnum Ave and noticed that now there is a Best Buy going up beside the Ukrops! I am excited about all of the new stores being built that will soon make a trip to the West End a thing of the past. Here is the website to the Shops at White Oak Villages.We will be getting great stores such as Target, Petsmart, Sam’s Club and even a Red Lobster (which apparently was the number 1 most requested restaurant when they built Short Pump, and we are getting it!) It is nice to see all the growth in our area. Article in RTD

Monday night, June 23^rd around 11pm, I felt what it must be like to live in Iraq. Automatic weapon fire was going off, round after round, after round