Radiothon to feature 5-year-ol
Radiothon to feature 5-year-old cancer patient
Five-year-old Jillian Jeske of Portsmouth, a leukemia patient at Children’s Hospital of The King’s Daughters, will be featured in the Wave Goodbye to Kids Cancer Radiothon to benefit the Childhood Cancer program at the medical center.
FM station 92.9 The Wave will broadcast live from the hospital lobby on Thursday and Friday .
Jillian is the daughter of Sara Jeske.
– The Virginian-Pilot
welcome mat rolling out for bicyclists
Soon you’ll see 30 bike racks on High Street in Olde Towne as part of the city’s ongoing transportation plan. The racks will be from Water Street to Effingham Street.
The first rack was installed last week at Water and High streets next to Starboards Coffee Kiosk. Each u-shaped rack can hold two bicycles. Other locations will include the Visitors Center, ferry landings and near the Courthouse Galleries.
Adam Krom, an associate with the Philadelphia-based urban design firm Wallace Roberts & Todd was project director for the transportation plan.
– David Cartier. Read his full blog, A New Day in Olde Towne, at
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Housing Authority recognized for programs
The Portsmouth Redevelopment and Housing Authority received three national awards for a new safety program, its Phoebus Square project and the Westbury community.
The three awards of merit came from the National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials.
In the safety program, the housing authority is trying to decrease crime through resident outreach, a formal trespass policy, street privatization and environmental changes such as better lighting and tree removal. The authority has seen a decrease in loitering and criminal activity in the Dale Homes and Lincoln Park communities since the program fully started in June 2009, said Kathy Warren, the authority’s deputy executive director.
Phoebus Square offers 122 units for the elderly in downtown and was part of the authority’s 2005 HOPE VI Revitalization Program. Westbury offers affordable homes to first-time home buyers with incomes at or below 80 percent of the area median level.
The housing authority is now in the running for a more competitive distinction – an Award of Excellence – for those projects later this year, Warren said.
– Dave Forster
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