News and opinion about the BCCA, parks and money, and a NEW advertiser (thanks!):
The BCCA holds elections Monday night...
The Buckingham Community Civic Association will hold its bi-monthly meeting Monday Nov. 16 at 7p.m. at the Arlington Oaks Community Center, 4490 N. Pershing Drive.- right across from Culpepper Garden.
The main topic of the night is the election of a president for the group. Rumor has it that Bernie Berne will step up to take the position to keep the group running. For the past few months, Buckinghamsters who follow this have known that Patrick Hope, the current president, would step down if he won the 47th seat in the Virginia House of Delegates, which he did in a landslide on Nov. 3. No one has shown an intense interest in the job of BCCA president.
I'm feeling a little irritated, and it is late as I type this, but I cannot help but think "typical Buckingham." For years I have watched people care, but not enough to get off the couch. I used to go to Buckingham Neighborhood Strategy Area meetings (the precourser to the BCCA), to find a room full of county staff, well-wishers from nearby communities, and at most three people (of the dozen or more in the room) from Buckingham.
Come on, people, step forward for the community; it needs you! Take the first step by showing up tonight.
Little has changed in the plans for the 4th Street park, except the deadline for completion...
In a previous HeraldTrib Today, I wrote about the county park that is being planned for N. 4th Street just west of N. George Mason Drive, near the four-storey Madison at Ballston Station apartments. A rumor had it that there was to be a dog park in it. Nothing but rumor there; in fact, little has changed since the park was first conceived a couple years ago.
See the photo at left.
Little has changed, that is, except the economy. There's no money to build the thing. It will not be completed next year, but maybe 2011, said Diane Probus, in the Department of Parks, Recreation and Cultural Resources.
Right now, it's a leveled dirt space on the extension of N. 4th St., just west of N. George Mason Drive. Let's hope this does not turn into another empty, leveled dirtsward in Buckingham. The neighborhood has one; we do not need another.
More on the budget when I get two minutes to dig around.
A shout-out to the media buyer at the Gates of Ballston Apartments...
I don't know who buys advertising for the Gates of Ballston, but I love him or her. You'll notice an ad for the Gates in the right-hand columns of this web site. If everyone would click about a zillion times on it, I'll get $1! They did it without my even asking them. That's so cool!
Seriously, this web site was never really about the money, at least not at any substantial level. I just appreciate that someone thinks the site is worthy of an ad buy. Plus, the company is a Buckingham business. It's exactly this sort of local, local, local (and not just local real estate agents) ads that I am hoping to win.
Thanks.
I am getting errors when I try to click on the ads.