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Tuesday, May 1: May Day 2001  See also, the Origins and Traditions of May Day and Wiccan Sabbats Tuesday, May 1: The Augusta, Staunton and Waynesboro Democratic Committees are sponsoring a Meet and Greet reception for those running in the June 12th primary. The reception will be held in the foyer of Wilson Memorial High School at Fisherville from 7:30 until 8 p.m. There will then be a forum in the auditorium where candidates can speak and the audience can ask questions. Tuesday, May 1: Forest and Farmland Fragmentation Workshop: Impact on the Valley (Shenandoah) For: Foresters, farmers, local government officials, planners,
interested citizens. Continuing Education Credits Available for Foresters and Planners.
Tuesday, May 1: The Charlottesville Fathering Initiative is very pleased to announce the appearance of Daniel J. Andrews at First Presbyterian Church, 500 Park St. at 7:00 PM. Mr. Andrews is a seminar leader for the National Fatherhood Initiative, the largest and most influential organization in the fatherhood field. His presentation will address: ¨ Consequences of father absence on children, parents, and the community; There is a big push in Washington from both parties towards enlarging
the share of services directed towards fathers. The top two officers of
the Mr. Andrews is an entertaining and exciting presenter who will provide an inside look at how this increased emphasis on fatherhood programs at the national level will impact all areas of health and human services. Refreshments will be served.To RSVP or for more information, please call Josh Stewart-Silver at 296-7594 or email at stewsilvs@aol.com Tuesday, May 1 - Wednesday, May 2: 6th Annual Science Engineering Technology Congressional Visits Day Wednesday, May 2: Give Air A Break. Ride the CTS bus, JAUNT, carpool, vanpool, bike or walk to work and qualify for fabulous prizes.  10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Downtown Charlottesville's Central Place. Prizes, entertainment, commuter information, demonstrations, refreshments, special guests and more! Call 804-970-3794 to learn how you can participate. Thursday, May 3: National Day of Prayer. Friday, May 4: Friday's After 5 features eddie from ohio [folk/pop]. Be sure to look out for the Democratic table. If you would like to help staff a Democratic table at Friday's After Five, contact Lloyd Snook at 293-8185. Saturday, May 5: The Black Nurses Association of Charlottesville, Virginia hosts its third annual Men's and Women Health Forum at the UVa School of Nursing, 202 15th St. SW, Charlottesville, Virginia. Dr. Lawrence Rogers Burwell, cardiologist and professor of medicine at the University of Virginia will deliver the keynote address on 'Cardiovascular Disease in the Minority Population.' Free Health Screenings including blood sugar, clinical breast examination, body fat analysis, kidney early evaluation progream (KEEP), cholesterol, blood pressures and prostate cancer will be offered. Convenient parking will be available. To register: call (804) 980-4860 OR (804) 924-5504; e-mail des9k@virginia.edu Saturday, May 5: The Charlottesville Women's Choir will hold a concert at 7:30 pm at the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Unitarian Church. Part of the proceeds this year go to benefit the WomenBuild project of Habitat forHumanity. Tickets are available at the door. $7 suggested for adults, sliding scale $5.00-$20, or more as donation welcomed. The choir sings largely a capella music, some simply lovely, some a lot of fun, and some topical. Reception follows in the Community Hall of the church. Saturday, May 5: 127th running of the Kentucky Derby. Saturday, May 5: Cinco de Mayo, commemorating at Mexican victory over French invaders in 1862. Monday, May 7 - Sunday, May 13: Virginia Public Service Week.
Monday, May 7: Robert M. O'Neil, Director of the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression, will be speaking to Piedmont Mainstream Citizens at Thomas Jefferson Memorial Church at 7:30 p.m. The meeting is open to the public. Tuesday, May 8: There will be a ceremony at the Drewary Brown Bridge at 11 a.m. in Charlottesville, Virginia to honor the first "Community Bridge Builders" who have worked to better our community and to bridge differences between groups of people. No names are being released until the ceremony although people who made nominations have been notified. Free parking at the Amtrack Station. Friday, May 11: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Roger L. Gregory will address Piedmont Virginia Community College's graduate class of 2001 for their commencement.
Friday, May 11: Friday's After 5 features Big Ray and the Cool Kats [swing]. Friday, May 11: The Dave Matthews Band plays the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavillion in Houston's main suburb, the Woodlands. Sunday, May 13: Mother's Day. Monday, May 14: Last day to register to vote or notify the Registrar of a change of address before the June 12, 2001 Virginia Democratic Primary. Monday, May 14: Virginia State Senator John S. Edwards will be honored from 5 to 7 p.m. at Lanark Farm. John has received endorsements from over 500 elected officials and Democratic Party and community leaders, including U.S. Rep. Rick Boucher, former U.S. Rep. Jim Olin, State Sens. Dick Saslaw, Mary Margaret Whipple, Madison Marye and L. Louise Lucas and former Del. Richard S. 'Major' Reynolds; the United Steel Workers; the Virginia Partisans and Planned Parenthood Blue Ridge Action Fund. For more information about the event, please call Lindsay Dorrier at 804-286-2528. For more information about endorsements, see the John Edwards 2001 Web Site. Monday, May 14: The Charlottesville-Albemarle Metropolitan Planning Organization Board Meeting from 4 to 6:30 p.m. in the Totier Room (#235) in the Albemarle County Office Building includes a joint work session with the Charlottesville-Albemarle Regional Transportation Advisory Committee. Copies of the draft CHART 2021 update can be viewed on the MPO's website. A Public Hearing will be held at 5:30 p.m. during the meeting. Tuesday, May 15: Bob Gibson hosts a one-a-month Evening Edition show from 7:30-8:30 p.m. on WVTF-FM in Roanoke. His first "Evening Edition" show as a political call-in will feature the three Democratic candidates for lieutenant governor in the June 12 primary: Tim Kaine, Alan Diamonstein and Jerrauld Jones. Tuesday, May 15: The Charlottesville Democratic Party nominating convention for the City Constitutional officers will take place at the Charlottesville Circuit Court at 4th and High Streets at 7:00 PM. Please plan to attend to support our incumbent candidates (who have no known opposition). Tuesday, May 15: The League of Women Voters of Charlottesville/Albemarle County will host its annual meeting on at 5:00 p.m. at the Terrace Room of the Charlottesville Ice Park on the Downtown Mall. Guest speakers will be Delegate Paul Harris and Delegate Mitch Van Yahres who will answer questions about the recent general assembly, and Monticello High School student Burke Doherty, who recently attended the Presidential Classroom program in Washington, D.C. with the sponsorship of the League. The meeting is open to the public. Registration begins at 5:00 p.m.; the annual meeting is at 5:45; and dinner will be served at 6:15. The cost of dinner, provided by a local caterer, is $15 for members, $20 for non-members. Please R.S.V.P. to the League office, 970-1707 or lwv@avenue.org by Friday, May 11th. For more information, contact Jenny Mead at 295-8898 or ejm@stone.net. This is an excellent opportunity to learn more about your legislators, recent legislative issues such as redistricting, and the role of the League of Women Voters, a nonpartisan political organization, in encouraging the informed and active participation of citizens in government and influencing public policy through education and advocacy. Wednesday, May 16: Actress Hayden Saunier (earlier from Charlottesville, CHS & UVA) has a bit part near the beginning of the season's finale of the popular political TV show "West Wing" on NBC at 9 p.m. She is the woman in the group of four TV people briefed by the White House press secretary regarding the President's Illness. Wednesday, May 16: Execution of Timothy McVeigh: 7 a.m. Central Time, 8 a.m. Eastern Standard Time.
Wednesday, May 16: CUBA ON MY MIND - An evening of photographs of Cuba will unfold in Charlottesville to benefit PastorsForPeace. Pro photographers Bill Allard, Will Kerner, Jon Golden & Dan Grogan will offer slides & reflections of their separate shoots there last winter. The $8-10 donation will send medicine, school supplies and a bus from central Va. to the embargoed country in a national effort. The 7:30 slide show will be preceded by doorprizes and a burrito buffet at 6 pm at Thomas Jefferson Mem. Church UU, 717 Rugby Rd 3-4 blocks north of U.Va. Rotunda. info: grogand@cstone.net or Elena 296-2494 CLASC Charlottesville Latin Am. Solidarity Coalition. Thursday, May 17: The Shenandoah Group of Sierra Club Meeting will meet at 7 p.m. at Bridgewater College in the Boitnott Room of Rebecca Hall. For more information, contact Jonathan Atkins: jatkins@bridgewater.edu, cell (540) 480-4783
Friday, May 18: Presentation of the Hugh M. Hefner First Amendment Awards at the Waldorf Astoria. Friday, May 18: Friday's After 5 features #9 Dream [Beatles Tribute]. Saturday, May 19: The May 19th Albemarle/Charlottesville Democratic Breakfast will host Mary Bauer, who will talk about immigrant workers in Virginia.  The breakfast will be held at Jefferson Area Board for the Aging at 9:30 a.m. in Charlottesville and is open to the public. Mary Bauer is the Director of the Virginia Justice Center for Farm and Immigrant Workers.
For more information, call George Loper at 804-971-8082 or e-mail him at george@loper.org Saturday, May 19: The Seventh Congressional District Democratic Convention will occur at 12:00 noon - Pocahontas Middle School, 12000 Three Chopt Rd., Short Pump (Henrico), Virginia. Saturday, May 19: Preakness Stakes, Pimlico Race Course, Baltimore, Maryland (410) 542-9400. Saturday, May 19: Anniversary of the birth of Malcolm X. Sunday, May 20: Dolley Madison's Birthday, at the Madison estate, Montpelier Station, Virginia (540) 672-0027. Monday, May 21: The Rockingham and Harrisonburg Democratic Committees will sponsor a Meet & Greet for the Lt. Governor and Attorney General Candidates at 7 p.m. at the Massanutten Regional Library in Harrisonburg, VA The candidates will speak and there will be a time for questions. Refreshments will be served. For additional information contact: Linda Shuler, 540.298.9865 Wednesday, May 23: Jerrauld Jones will be in Charlottesville at 2:30 p.m. to receive endorsements for his campaign to become the Democratic nominee for Lieutenant Governor. Mayor Blake Caravati and others will be endorsing Jerrauld. This will take place at the Albemarle County Courthouse on East Jefferson. Wednesday, May 23: The Coalition for a Responsible School Board will hold a CANDIDATE'S INFORMATION MEETING at 7 pm in the Albemarle High School library. The meeting will explore the legal requirements of candidacy, the responsibilities and work load of school board members, and the role of the Coalition in the election process. The meeting will feature the County Registrar who will discuss the legal requirements of candidacy. Also, sitting board members Chuck Ward and Steve Koleszar and former School Board Chair John Baker will discuss public campaigning and the demands of the job. Coalition Chair Allen Freeman will explain what the Coalition can and can not do for candidates. This is not a media event (although open to the press), but an event where possible candidates (who don't have to identify themselves) and other interested individuals may come and learn about the demands of the job. All citizens are invited. Contact Allen Freeman at 823-4221 (night) or by email at acf8v@virginia.edu for more information. Wednesday, May 23: The CHART advisory Committee Work Session will occur between 7 and 8:30 p.m. in the McIntire Room at the Jefferson Madison Regional Library in Charlottesville, Virginia. Members of the public are invited to attend and offer comments to the Committee. Thursday, May 24: MPO Policy Board Meeting between 4 and 6:30 p.m. in the Totier Room (#235) in the Albemarle County Office Building. A second Public Hearing will be held at 7 p.m. during this meeting. The MPO is lsated to adopt the CHART 2021 at this meeting. Thursday, May 24 - Sunday, June 10: Peter, Paul & Mary will be one of the groups performing at the thirtieth anniversary celebration of the Kerrville [Texas] Folk Festival.  Thursday, May 24: Bob Dylan's birthday (1941). Friday, May 25: Sylvia Clute, candidate for the Democratic nomination for Attorney General, will be at Quest Bookshop at 3 p.m. in Charlottesville, Virginia for a meet and greet. Friday, May 25: Charlottesville Meet-and-Greet for Sylvia Clute at 7:00 p.m. at the Wesley Foundation, United Methodist Church, 1908 Lewis Mountain Road. Food courtesy of Lorelei Caterers. For more information or to RSVP, contact Pattie Alexander at (804) 232-4505. Friday, May 25: Friday's After 5 features the Hogwaller Ramblers [Americana]. Friday, May 25: Ralph Waldo Emerson's birthday (1803). Miles Davis birthday (1926). Saturday, May 26: The Virginia Organizing Project (VOP) which has graciously given Virginians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty office space is having a spring clean-up Day at its offices on 703 Concord Ave. in Ch'ville this Saturday May 26 from 9-11 AM. They are asking for groups who use their facilities to help out. If you can volunteer 2 hours or any portion, please contact Michele at 984-4655 or mattioli@virginia-organizing.org Saturday, May 26: CLASC will host it's Cuba bus painting on Sat. May 26 at the Living Ed. Center parking lot behind their E. Market Street address. Bring donations as listed in brochure or donate some $$$. Begins at 10:00 a.m. Saturday, May 26: The 5th District Democratic Convention will be held at 4:00 PM, followed by their Jefferson-Jackson Dinner at 6:00 PM., featuring Emily Couric. The purpose of the Convention is to choose 20 at large members of the Democratic State Central Committee. Sunday, May 27: Indianapolis 500, Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Monday, May 28: Memorial Day.
Tuesday, May 29: John F. Kennedy's birthday (1917). Thursday, May 31: Walt Whitman's
birthday (1819).
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