Yesterday the first of two days of filming took place for Dave Matthews Band‘s “Everyday” video. Actor Judah Friedlander wandered from the pink warehouse on South Street down First Street to SNL, providing hugs to extras and strangers alike as he went, all the while being record by a film crew. Afterwards the crew moved down to a home named “Breasthaven” on 14th Street (where else?) before finishing up for the evening. Today they intend to film at the band’s studio out of town, off Route 20, before Dave leaves tonight for his Thursday show in London. The story is in today’s Progress and the Cav. Daily.
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Inter-Fraternity Counsel Vice President Kevin Dixon was arrested in the wee hours of the morning on Sunday on charges of threatening fellow students with a shotgun. Dixon held up several students out front of his home on University Circle for reasons unknown. The Cav. Daily has the story.
The Charlottesville School Superintendent is going to retire in June. Bill Symons has run the school system for the past five years, and is being praised for his renovations to buildings, increased teacher salaries, and improved SOL scores. The articles is in today’s Progress.
Senator Emily Couric succumbed to pancreatic cancer this morning, surrounded by friends and family. She was 54.
The free bicycle program is underway. Yesterday the yellow bike racks were placed at a half-dozen locations along Main Street, from City Hall to Elliewood on the Corner. Anybody is welcome to use any of the bright yellow bicycles on those racks, and return them to any other yellow rack when finished with them. The program received $4,500 in funding from Dave Matthews Band in early September, which enabled it to get off the ground. Thanks to Kevin Cox for the tip. To see the announcement to the CHABA mailing list from Stephen Bach, read on. Update: Turns out that the program hasn’t actually begun — there may be yellow bikes and yellow bike racks scattered about, but they’re chained up for now. Oops.
From: Stephen Bach
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 10:39:54 -0400 (EDT)
To: Charlottesville Area Bicycling Alliance
Subject: chaba: Yellow bikes racks debut!
Hi Folks:
Yesterday the City, in consultation with Mr. Huja and me, installed yellow bike racks in six locations:
In front of the downtown post office in line with the other bike rack there; on Water St. just west of the skating rink; on the northeast side of the bridge on West Main, across from the bus stop; at the bus stop at 11th and West Main; in front of the Red Roof Inn near 13th St. NW; and in front of Starbucks at Eliewood and University.
Then later, Bruce Dembling and I moved four bikes to the rack near the downtown post office in preparation for a meeting with a reporter from the Richmond Times-Dispatch today at 1:00.
The racks look very nice. The bikes in the racks look nice too.
Stephen
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