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From a reader:

I live in lakeside a few blocks from dumbarton and heard gunshots around 1:10am last night. i called the police and they said officers were already on the call looking to find where the shots were coming from. i believe i heard 4-5 shots. i was curious if anyone in the neighborhood heard these shots and/or knew anything else about the story.

Anyone heard anything?

Southside community blog Hills and Heights has a great post this morning on tree care during this recent weather:

Large trees are a defining factor in the character of the many neighborhoods and are the most valuable assets to our landscapes. Please help them survive. Most of us know that newly planted trees need regular watering. However, as the extreme heat drags on without any rain for weeks, the older and larger trees are starting to show signs of stress.

Read more to see what you can do to help keep our trees healthy.

Henrico’s only permanent Farmers’ Market is adding new venues to improve the market experience. Henrico County has approved a rezoning request and is now allowing local artists who produce their own hand made items to display their wares at the Market. In addition live musicians are now allowed to perform during the Market.

The Market is also now allowed to operate from April through December, and open up to 4 days a week during peak season May – August. Added Market times will only be instituted if there is ample supply fom the vendors and customer demand.

Lakeside Farmers’ Market is currently reviewing applications for Market vendors including artists. If you are a musician or no someone who would like to perform during the Market, or if you would like to receive a vendor application, contact Market owners Peter and Sharon Francisco by email at peter.francisco@verizon.net

Visit the Lakeside Farmers’ Market every Wednesday from 8 AM – noon and from 3 pm – 7 pm. Some vendors do stay for the day. The Market is also open every Saturday from 8 AM – noon. The Market is at 6110 Lakeside Avenue adjacent to the Lakeside Towne Center. Visit their web site by clicking here: www.lakesidefarmersmarket.net

The L.B.A. (Lakeside Business Association) Would like to welcome three new businesses to the Avenue!

Kids Grow is a “Mommy’s Special Store” specializing in gently loved children’s and maternity fashions, toys, and mommy-made crafts. Their store is at 2101 A Ginter Street beside Domino’s Pizza. Phone is 402-1627.

Arneda’s Thrift & Gifts has opened in the shop vacated Designs by Ron Florist at 6945 Lakeside Avenue. The shop is full of both new and gently used items with something for everyone! You can reach them at 262-5179.

Save Recess is scheduled to open in July in the Lakeside Towne Center at 6112 B Lakeside Avenue. The new toy shop will carry fun, eco-friendly toys and more that stir the imagination and encourage active play. Phone: 301-6553

For more information about these as well as all of the 125+ businesses on Lakeside Avenue, visit www.lakesideavenue.net

The L.B.A. (Lakeside Business Association is holding it’s bi-annual “Ladies’ Night Out” event Thursday, July 22 from 5 – 9 PM. Thirteen businesses will be open this evening offering special sales and offers, door prizes, refreshments and more (special events vary from store to store).

“This fun special event is offered as a special thank you to all of the ladies who frequent our shops and businesses throughout the year,” said Tony Turner president of the L.B.A. “It’s an opportunity for everyone to vist and shop many of the businesses that are normally closed in the evenings.”

Come stroll Lakeside Avenue and have a great evening “out with the girls!”

Participaing shops include Chocolate Cravings, Church Mouse Books, Dance Masters, Embellish, Feathernesters, Keep Good Compnay, King William Minatures, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, McAdoo’s Vintage Thrift, Pass It On! Consignments, Robin’s Nest Antiques, Umami, and Whispers of Time Consignments.

For more information, visit www.lakesideavenue.net

Citizens known as the “Friends of Northside Dog Park” solicited the support of the Department of Parks, Recreation and Community Facilities to develop a community dog park in Northside. The location of the future site is 4901 Old Brook Road, adjacent to the Pine Camp Cultural Arts Center. This beautiful wooded are will be fenced, shaded and ideal for socialization and interaction with fellow dogs and neighbors. The goal is to open the new park by August 2010.

The group’s goal is to raise $2000 by August 1, 2010. The first donations of $200 or more will be recognized on the park welcome sign. Donations can be made online by visiting www.enrichmond.org and locating the Friends of Northside Dog Park Parnter page, or by checks made out to the Enrichmond Foundation with “Northside Dog Park” written on the memo line. Mail your checks to Richard Sebastion at 1240 Westminster Avenue, Richmond, VA 23227. All donations are tax-deductible.

For more information e mail the group at NorthsideDogPark@gmail.com

The Tricycle Gardens’ Edible Revolution Garden Tour, which highlights 13 urban, kitchen gardens is just over a week away on July 17th. Tickets are $20 per carload or group of four bicycles. The price includes a map, access to some of the most creative food-producing backyards from 1-5PM AND a cookout at our Jefferson Avenue garden from 5-8PM. Highlights include the joint Strawberry Street Vineyard/Belmont Butcher garden, executive director Lisa Taranto’s backyard and the community garden at Holton Elementary School.

Tickets can be purchased online, at the 9th and Bainbridge Urban Farm, or by emailing will@tricyclegardens.org.

Go get yours and make somewhere beautiful:

Free perennial plant to everyone who shows up. Saturday, July 10 from 8 am to 12 noon. Daylily Dan 5512 Hawthorne Ave

Camden Gold Dollar is a continuous blooming yellow I have too much of. A bare root double fan of it is free, or if you want it in its soil to keep blooming this year, it is $1

I have many reject hybrid seedlings that are free. These are late model genetics that produce a great plant, but not great enough to move the species to the next level. These are not named yet, so you can name it after someone and plant it in your yard or theirs as a memorial or tribute.

I also have many daylilies for sale, from $1 to $15. Buy $10 in daylilies and get 3 more free seedlings. Show up to get 2 free plants per person. (I have 75 to give away!)

If you just want to come, get your free plant and enjoy the garden, please do. These plants will go in the compost if you do not take them.

Below is Camden Gold Dollar, the 3.5 inch rebloomer that is free or $1 with soil. On its right is Spacecoast Hot Topic is a 5″ red with gold tones, very nice plant. Free bare root; $1 with soil intact.

At bottom are two pictures similar to the seedlings that are either free or for sale for $2. Come on by & splurge! spend $10 and go home with 10 plants to beautify your yard for years to come.

Where else can you get a free joy bringer that will deliver year after year and over the years can be passed around the neighborhood and given to children and you still keep yours!!!

Craigslist has details on Buddy, a red basenji mix missing in the Highland Park area, and Gloria, a collie missing in Ginter Park.

Gloria, a collie missing in Ginter Park…

Please help us find our dog! She has been gone for several days and we miss her terribly! Gloria is a sweet collie mix who was startled by fourth of July fireworks. She is mostly black with tan legs and chest. There is a $100 award. Janelle 822-0172

Buddy, a red Basenji Mix missing in the Highland Park area…

Buddy is a red Basenji Mix….at first glance most would probably say he is a Chihuahua on steroids. Buddy got out on the Fourth of July. Buddy is 10 yrs old, has long pointed ears, a tail that curls upwards and a very pronounced cyst on his stomach. Buddy likes to run, He kinda prances when he walks. Buddy likes to curl up under blankets, towels, sheets or a pile of clothes.

Buddy got out in the 2900 block of 3rd Ave in Highland Park sometime between 6:30 and 11:30 pm while we were out watching fireworks.

If seen please contact Mark Coleman @ 804-687-0307 or Eric @ 434-566-9366.

This might be the coolest thing for sale in Ginter Park today:

Skull & Bones lunch box – $10 – Retro Skull and Bones lunch box. Very cool looking if you’re into collecting the metal lunch boxes from years ago. Please call Lori at (804) 432-3652. Thanks!

Craigslist has word on a found dog:

Found a large female black lab at 5:15 on Bellevue and MacArthur. She Has a purple collar with no tags. If she is yours please call me at (804) 241-8400 or (804) 399-6454.

Richmond City Councilwoman Ellen F. Robertson, Gateway 6th District, will host her monthly Gateway 6th District this Saturday, 10 July 2010, from 10AM-noon at the Bank of America Building, 18th floor (12th & Main Streets). On the agenda: 2010-2011 City of Richmond Government Contracts; Procedures for securing Richmond Economic Development projects; Small, minority and Section 3 Richmond Government Contract opportunities

For more information, please contact Lynne Lancaster, Council Liaison, Richmond City Council, Gateway 6th District, at 804.646.7964 (office) or lynne.lancaster@richmondgov.com; www.ellenroberton.com (website)

Richmond police are looking for a man involved in a robbery and an attempted robbery yesterday in Bellevue:

Richmond police Capt. David L. Martin said the attempted robbery occurred at 6:41 a.m. in the 1200 block of Warren Avenue when the SUV pulled up next to a man and the suspect got out and demanded money. When the victim told the suspect he didn’t have any money, the suspect got back in the SUV and drove away, Martin said.

Nineteen minutes later, in the 3900 block of MacArthur Avenue, the suspect pulled up to a man, motioned him over to the vehicle as if to ask for directions, then pulled a handgun on the victim and demanded money, Martin said. After the victim turned over his wallet, the robber drove off.

We got a reader request yesterday to find this house:

The house is a Sears Alhambra kit house, sold between 1915 and 1920 from the Sears Modern Home mail order catalogue. About.com has the original sales sheet wich is super interesting and worth a read. Some of the highlights of the original home:

• Eight rooms
• A large brick mantel with a bookcase on each side
• Two stairways
• Separat closets for hats!

Lakeside Farmers’ Market is open 8AM til 7PM, regardless of the weather conditions. Vendors wishing to locate inside Lakeside Towne Center, beside the Pavilion, where it is air conditioned, will be allowed, since the prediction is 105 degrees for Wed. The last time it was this hot, the preferred location was still the pavilion, under the ceiling fans; but will leave the options open, and either way, there will be plenty of identification.

A ten year old dog missing on 3rd Avenue since the 4th:

BUDDY COLEMAN —- 10 YRS OLD

(RED BASENJI MIX, HIS TAIL CURLS UPWARDS, VERY LONG PONTED EARS, HIS STOMACH IS DARK AND HAS A NOTICEABLE CYST ON IT, LOVES TO CURL UP UNDER A BLANKET)

MISSING SINCE 07/04/2010
ADDRESS: 2901 3RD AVE, RICHMOND , VA 23222
CONTACT # 804-687-0307 (MARK) OR 434-566-9366 (ERIC)

Three men sitting on a porch on the 3100 block of Griffin Avenue were robbed last last night and then took matters into their own hands:

One of the victims told police he thought he recognized the voice of one of the robbers, so the victims decided to go looking for the suspects near Fourth Avenue and Spruce Street. When they say what they believed was the suspects’ vehicle, the victims began shooting at it, and their gunfire was returned, Kiniry said.

Craigslist has word on a lost dog in Ginter Park:

Our dog Gloria ran away tonight. Gloria is black with white and brown features. She is mid-sized, with medium length hair about 40-50 lbs she is wearing a collar with a tag on it. She may be a little timid but is very friendly. She never runs off but we think that she may have been frightened by fireworks. [...] If you see her, please call 513.5659 (cell) or 228.1508 (home).

The 2010 Tri-City Summer League kicks off at John Marshall High School on Tuesday, July 6 and goes through July 29. The FREE games are Tues-Thurs at 6, 7 & 8PM:

The Tri-City Summer League is one of the top summer leagues on the east coast, and boast top talent from the NBA, overseas, NCAA, and top High School players in the country. The League Features Ed Davis, Ben Wallace, Reggie Williams, Chris Moss, Chris Moore, Wayne Wallace, Luqman Jaaber, Tyrese Rice, Tyree Evans, Karon Johnson, Shawn Taggart, Bambale Osby, Brad Byerson, Avis Wyatt, and more…

Books on Wheels will be making a return visit to the area and providing free books & free bicycle repair at the Northside Reunion.

The mulch has been picked up.

Craigslist has this offer of free mulch in Ginter Park:

We ordered more mulch than we needed and have about a pickup truck load left over. It’s double shredded hardwood from Pete Rose. Bring a truck and a pitchfork and it’s yours. All I ask is that you leave my tarps.