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Learn three great new ways to use your Virginia Beach Public Library (VBPL) card without leaving the comfort of home. Get Help With Homework: It’s 6 p.m. on a Sunday night. Your kid needs help with his homework. You sit down to review the assignment and suddenly realize you are not smarter than a fifth grader. Where can you turn for help on researching the properties of subatomic particles at this hour on a weekend? VBPL has you covered. “Homework Help” is accessible online 24/7 through the Library’s website, VBgov.com/libraries. Homework help features credible information sources on a wide variety of subjects for students in elementary through high shool. Borrow E-Books and Audiobooks: Amazon recently announced that it now sells more Kindle books than hardcover and paperback combined. Keeping up with this change in reading trends, VBPL customers can borrow digital books. Your library has more than 11,000 e-book titles that can be read on multiple devices including the Nook, iPad and as of Sept. 21, the Kindle as well. The library also offers nearly 5,000 downloadable audio books, also available for a variety of devices. Both popular and classic titles are free to library card holders via VBPL’seBooks and audiobooks page. Download free tunes: Current “Billboard” toppers, 80s pop hits, classical, jazz, country – VBPL has them all available for download from VBgov.com/libraries. Select up to three digital songs per week. They don’t expire and are yours to keep, free of charge. The songs can be played on your computer or transferred to an MP3 player. Visit the library’s music page for more information. All you need is your Virginia Beach library card! Need a library card? Stop by any library location with a valid ID and proof of Virginia Beach address to get your free card. For more information visit VBgov.com/libraries. |
Ocean Park Fall Festival – Nov 11th
For more info on the Fall festival, click the link below:
City plans some paving on Shore Drive -see schedule
City of Virginia Beach
Department of Public Works
2405 Courthouse Drive Room 332
Virginia Beach, VA 23456
(757) 385-8062 (Office)
(757) 385-5783 (Fax)
NEWS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MEDIA CONTACT:
October 12, 2011 Drew Lankford, (757) 385-8062
(757) 409-4353
dlankfor@vbgov.com
Virginia Beach Public Works Schedules Weekend Paving Operations
Virginia Beach Public Works – Operations has scheduled weekend paving operations
for various intersections throughout Virginia Beach beginning Saturday, October 15.
Crews will begin working at 7 am until 5 pm (weekend only), and Monday through
Friday 9 am until 3pm – weather permitting.
Work will include milling, paving, asphalt replacement, crosswalk installation and
striping.
The work schedule is as follows:
First Colonial Road at Virginia Beach Boulevard: Oct 15 – 16
Shore Drive at Pleasure House Road Oct 15 – 18
General Booth Boulevard at Birdneck Road Oct 16 – 21
Advanced warning signs will be clearly posted advising motorists of lane closures.
Citizens are urged to use alternate traffic routes when possible. Any changes in
schedule due to weather or other circumstances will be announced by Public Works.
Asphalt Roads and Materials Co., Inc. is the contractor performing the work.
For additional information, please contact
Dan Kiley or Bob Bidlack with Public Works
Operations at
757-385-1470, or Drew Lankford at 757-385-8062.
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News Release:
VBgov.com/Info
Public Input Meeting – Permanent Dredge Spoils Transfer Stations
Maple Street (Marina Shores)
and
Crab Creek (Lynnhaven Boat Ramp)
Permanent Dredge Spoils Transfer Stations
Public Input Meeting
Thursday October 13th at 7:00pm
Great Neck Recreation Center
Dear Shore Drive Residents,
This may be the only chance you have to express your opinions regarding the City’s plan to build permanent dredge spoils transfer stations at the Maple Street and Crab Creek locations. Both of these locations are shown on the City’s Neighborhood Dredge Plan.
Identify,
- All the possible impacts to your neighborhood: Noise. Safety. Traffic. Smell. Decrease in home values.
Demand,
- That the Shore Drive sites be removed from the neighborhood dredging plan.
- That the three transfer stations located in commercial areas along Virginia Beach Boulevard and Laskin Road be the main sites to support the projected dredging demand.
Support,
- Other Civic Leagues that have taken official opposition positions: Cape Story, Cape Henry, Broad Bay Island, Ocean Park, Lesner Cove, Shore Drive Community Coalition.
- Your neighbors that will be directly impacted.
Note: Meeting format will be – Individual Speakers may speak for 3 minutes, Speakers for groups get 10 minutes. Questions to be answered by Commission Members or City Staff may be submitted on index cards. Speakers must sign up ahead of time, so plan on getting there a little early.
Ocean Park Art Show – Oct 8th, 2011
Reminder…Mark Your Calendar!!
The 1st Annual Ocean Park Art Show
Next Saturday – October 8th*
3829 Shore Drive at Browning’s Marine!
10:00 am to 5:00 PM
Free and Open to the Public
Local Artists, many from Ocean Park, will display and sell Jewelry, Paintings and Photographs, Ocean Park Ornaments, Mermaids & Funky Art and more. Several artists will display art that features the Ocean Park area! There are a few artists spaces still available – Call Maryanne at 470-6202 for more info
*Rain date is Sunday Oct 9th
OPCL 2011 Budget – updated 8/29/2011
Click the link below for a PDF copy of the 2011 budget:
Dredge Spoils Site – hearing w/City Council 9/7/2011
Everyone,
This Wednesday, Sept 7 at 2 PM in Virginia Beach City Council Chambers (Second Floor Bldg 1), the Board of Zoning Appeals (BZA) will hear public comment on whether the Maple Street transfer site should become a permanent transfer site for non-beach grade dredged spoils. As you know, this site has been used in the past when the Corps of Engineers was dredging the channel to keep it open for navigation. This was a hydraulic dredge process that would occur for a couple of weeks every couple of years. This dredging produced beach quality sand which was spread on our beaches along Cape Henry. What the city is proposing now is to dredge residential tidal areas that have filled in with street silt and make them “deep water access”. These tidal areas will be dredged mechanically, have the spoils placed on a 20-40 cubic yard floating hopper, barge and then transported to one of two sites as of now (Maple St. and Thalia/VB Blvd). The city has proposed other sites for mechanical transfer, but as of now, only Maple St and Thalia are being established as transfer sites. This mechanical operation is beyond the current permit for Maple St, because this is not beach quality sand and the spoils can not be deposited at Maple Street, Crab Creek (Lesner Bridge area) without a lot more permitting and approvals. This is key to this BZA meeting this Wednesday. The city would like to say it is within CURRENT zoning limitations for the site, while we firmly believe that it exceeds R7.5 zoning (Residential) as it is presently zoned. This meeting will determine whether residential zoning laws prevail, or the city changes it to a permanent industrial transfer site. This is big. If the city has their way, it could forever change Long Creek. Will the city control and enforce safety rules for barge traffic on Long Creek? Look how well the city enforces current OSHA safety rules concerning harnesses worn by workers doing second story roofing. Just my point. We need your support in this meeting.
Email me if you have questions. It is just our neighborhood way of life and safety that is in hazard.
The SDCC Position Statement Letter can be viewed on at this link http://www.sdcc.info/ee/images/uploads/SDCC_Position_Statement_Letter_for_Dredge_Spoils_Transfer_Sites_2011.pdf
Your neighbor,
David Williams
SDCC President
PLEASE CHECK www.LongCreekWetlands.com for documented discussions on this major issue that will impact us. We need your support in City Council Chambers 7 Sept at 2 PM. This is really important.
Shore Drive Community Coalition2260 First Landing Lane
Virginia Beach Virginia 23451
United States
Public Meeting – Dredging Issues
Click the link below for information on a meeting regarding Lynnhaven River dredging.
Pet Adopt-A-Thon July 30, 2011
Click the link below for more information and a printable version of the flier.
Ocean Park Civic League 