Welcome to Fall!  I hope this message finds you enjoying the cooler weather.  This has been a busy time of year for the City and SHA. Here are a few things I want to bring to your attention. Our SHA Board meeting will be Thursday, October 8th.  It will be a virtual meeting, as will our meetings through 2020 at least. Here is the information to get into the meeting if you wish to listen in or participate. Topic: SHA Board Meeting Zoom Meeting Time: Oct 8, 2020, 7:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) Join ...Continue Reading

I try not to fill your email boxes with too many emails, but as we predicted, the City is moving full speed ahead with several important meetings and events on a short timeline that I would like to bring to your attention so you can participate if you wish. The first series of events will be 3 lectures sponsored by ACPS in conjunction with the plan to rename TC Williams High School. Dr. Douglas Reed, the author of the very informative book, "Building the Federal Schoolhouse", which contains a large amount of ...Continue Reading

It is hard to believe that this strange summer has officially ended! I hope all of you enjoyed the beautiful Labor Day weekend.  As I reported earlier, it has been a busy summer for SHA, and the board has been working hard on a number of issues that surfaced and will be before the Council in the coming weeks. Our September board meeting will be held virtually this Thursday, September 10th at 7:30 pm via Zoom.  As usual, all are welcome to participate. The information to "attend" the meeting is: To ...Continue Reading

There are a couple of time-sensitive meetings that are coming up to which I want to quickly draw your attention.  The first of these meetings is tonight, Monday, August 17th, from 6-7 pm. It is a virtual Zoom meeting regarding the Parker-Gray Stadium project.  ACPS just released the Zoom information to access the meeting an hour ago, so I couldn't send out the information before now.  Here is the link to the meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83127109924?pwd=czFyMFJvZlprUWxOdU96c0t4VUtrQT09 Passcode: 53 ...Continue Reading

I hope this message finds all of you staying safe and relatively cool during this terrible heatwave. I want to update you on a couple of things that your Seminary Hill Association board has been doing in the past month, and alert you to a couple of city surveys in which you might want to participate. SHA held its first virtual board meeting last month. I think it went well, and it seems likely that will be our platform for upcoming meetings once we resume our monthly meetings in September. We will keep you informed as ...Continue Reading

Seminary Hill Association will hold a virtual board meeting on Thursday, June 18th at 7:30 p.m. We will use the Zoom platform for the meeting. The meeting ID number is 899 0791 4761.  The password is Seminary20. You can paste the following link in your browser if you prefer: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89907914761?pwd=Z0lQdVloczJLcjV5aElSd3M1Q1hOQT09.   Our agenda includes a presentation by Rod Simmons, Alexandria's Natural Resouces Manager.  He will speak on the natural resources in our Seminary Hill are ...Continue Reading

I hope this message finds you staying healthy during this pandemic, given the physical, economic, and mental health toll it is taking on so many, including those in our Seminary Hill community who have battled the virus. Now the terrible strife across our country as a result of the tragic death of George Floyd during his arrest by Minneapolis police officers has added yet more heaviness to our hearts. This is a very upsetting time for all of us. Both our Sheriff, Dana Lawhorne, and our Chief of Police, Michael Brown, h ...Continue Reading

I hope this message finds everyone doing well during this stressful time. I know we have lost at least one member of our SHA community to the virus, and I am certain that others have been sickened, though, for obvious privacy reasons, we are not able to learn any information about such cases. This has been a very difficult time for all of us, and I hope that we will be able to start the recovery process before long. But it is sobering to realize that Alexandria has now been declared an official “hot spot” for the virus ...Continue Reading

I hope this message finds all of you well, even if a bit stir crazy. Based on reports, we are doing a good job of staying in and doing what we can to flatten the curve. I wanted to update you on a few things that have been happening in the city. I want to assure you that even though our board has not been able to hold our monthly meetings, we are remaining actively and publicly engaged in matters of importance to the Seminary Hill area. Before I highlight a couple of current issues, I want to let you know that startin ...Continue Reading

I hope this message finds all of you safe and healthy. This is certainly an unsettling time for our families and our community. In addition to trying to keep ourselves and family members healthy, I know many of you are dealing with job and business reversals, and the closure of our schools, which creates educational and child care challenges for parents. All of us are dealing with the impact of social isolation and the disruption of our daily lives on so many levels. Civic association business must take a back seat to ...Continue Reading