It’s beginning to look a lot like a holiday break with Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, and festive fixtures in the Barclays Premiership. Until then, there’s still some business to attend to such as a sonic recap of stories from last week in this podcast edition of Charlottesville Community Engagement. I’m Sean Tubbs, always interested in finding new ways to get the information out.

On this penultimate edition for 2024:

* Governor Glenn Youngkin recommends $1.1 billion fund to cover car tax credit as part of his suggested amendments to Virginia’s budget (learn more)

* Charlottesville City Council is briefed on increasing costs for public safety and transit (learn more)

* Charlottesville Planning Commission seeks more funding for affordable housing, planning for schools (learn more

* The City of Charlottesville has completed a section of sidewalk on Monticello Avenue (learn more)

* Sanders addresses low-barrier shelter before Council approves $3 million for other Salvation Army project (learn more)

* UVA’s non-voting member of the city Planning Commission gives an update on capital projects for Charlottesville Planning Commission (learn more)

* UVA Health Children’s and Sentara Martha Jefferson have opened a new clinic for children behavioral and mental health (learn more)

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First shout-out: Celebrating the community’s other information organizations!

In today’s second shout-out in the form of a house ad, I want to make sure everyone knows that every edition of the regular newsletter (not the podcast ones) ends with a section called Reading Material. Charlottesville Community Engagement is just one offering in a landscape that includes the Charlottesville Daily Progress, C-Ville Weekly, Charlottesville Tomorrow, and Cville Right Now, I curate links from these sources because I believe a truly informed community needs multiple perspectives.

There’s also the Cavalier Daily, Vinegar Hill Magazine, the Fluvanna Review, the Crozet Gazette, NBC29, CBS19, and other sources. But if you look every day, you’ll find links to articles in national publications, all linked to give you more perspectives on some of the issues of our times.

Second shout-out: Cvillepedia!

Cvillepedia is an online encyclopedia that anyone can edit, and this second shout-out today is to provide a little bit about what I know. I helped create the website back in the late 2000’s as a way of keeping track of all of the stories being written for the nonprofit news organization I worked for at the time.

Now Cvillepedia is hosted by the Jefferson-Madison Regional Library under the stewardship of the Albemarle Charlottesville Historical Society. There are over 6,500 articles and we need volunteers to help keep it up to date and to capture more of this community’s history, present, and future.

If you want to learn how to do research, learn how to explore historical documents, and want some experience writing, consider becoming a volunteer. As a little teaser, here’s some of what’s listed for December 23 throughout the years:

Events

* 1914 – Fire breaks out at Albemarle Hardware Company on East Main Street and takes seven hours to extinguish [1]

* 2062 – A time capsule buried in 2012 will be unearthed to celebrate Charlottesville's 300th Anniversary.[2]

Births

* 1895 – Alfred Washington is born to Gus and Martha Washington in Charlottesville. A resident of Chestnut Grove and a farmhand, he was called up for service in World War I and had his portrait photograph included within the Holsinger Studio Collection.

References

* ↑ Web. Business Block Nearly Consumed, Staff Reports, Daily Progress Digitized Microfilm, Lindsay family, December 24, 1914, retrieved December 25, 2016 from University of Virginia Library. Print. December 24, 1914 page 1.

* ↑ Web. Time capsule causes disappointment in Charlottesville in 2012, News Article, Daily Progress, May 27, 2017, retrieved May 24, 2024.

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Podcast for December 23, 2024: Youngkin's economic enthusiasm, three stories about Charlottesville's budget, a new sidewalk, and a new health care clinic

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