🍊 Monday Gazette: November 11, 2024

Monday Gazette: November 11, 2024

Hello Riverside, and Happy Veterans’s Day!

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COMMUNITY

Riverside Veterans Benefit from Habitat for Humanity's "A Brush With Kindness" Initiative

Bank of America volunteers and grant support no-cost exterior home improvements for those in need.

Local volunteers from Habitat for Humanity of Riverside and Bank of America are teaming up to paint a mobile home for a low-income veteran and his wife in Riverside.

This project is part of Habitat's "A Brush With Kindness" home repair program. It offers free minor exterior repairs, clean-up, and painting to low-income homeowners who can't do the work themselves.

David Hahn, Executive Director of Habitat Riverside, says, "Our 'A Brush With Kindness' program really helps Riverside's low-to-moderate income homeowners. It's a big part of our goal to provide safe and secure homes."

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GOVERNMENT

This Week in City Hall: November 11, 2024

City Council does not meet this week. Potentially stricter rules for industrial development near neighborhoods and a review of the City’s homelessness outreach and cleanup spending are on committee and commission agendas this week.

Welcome to our weekly digest on public meetings and agenda items worthy of your attention in the coming week. This guide is part of our mission to provide everyday Riversiders like you with the information to speak up on the issues you care about.

Land Use Committee

The Land Use Committee (Councilmembers Mill, Falcone, and Cervantes) meets on Tuesday, November 12, at 9:00 a.m. to review two potentially significant policy changes: stricter rules for industrial development near neighborhoods and new ways to handle unpermitted home additions while ensuring safety standards.

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ART & ENTERTAINMENT

Michael J. Elderman: Covid Portraits

The RCAA Gallery exhibit highlights the resilience of people during trying times.

I visited the RCAA gallery during the November Artswalk. Michael J. Elderman is showing a limited selection from a series of portraits taken during the COVID lockdown. The collection focuses on local artists and business people coping with the isolation and economic shock we all experienced during the pandemic.

Michael has been documenting Riverside culture for half a century. He started as a young man doing street photography. His annual calendar has become a holiday tradition for many of us in town. Michael has earned, through the trust he has built, unique access to the people and places of Riverside that is necessary to document the city as “the Eyes of Riverside.” He has also created a repertoire of excellent output and a reputation for showing the best in people, which comforts even the camera-shy.

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What's Happening in Riverside

Today

• Board of Library Trustees at Riverside City Hall
• Bridge Card Game at Calvary Presbyterian Church
• Taize Interfaith Worship at All Saints Episcopal Church

Tomorrow

• Assistance League Riverside Holiday Boutique Opening! at Assistance League Riverside
• CBU Men's Basketball vs UCR Crosstown Showdown at California Baptist University Dale E. and Sarah Ann Fowler Events Center
• Free Homework Help at My Learning Studio
• Inland Empire Chorus Rehearsal at Temple Beth El Synagogue Social Hall
• Land Use Committee at Riverside City Hall
• Thrice & Manchester Orchestra: Cope and Beggars 2024 Tour at Riverside Municipal Auditorium
• Trivia Night at The Stable (at The Barn)
• Tuesday Karaoke at The Hideaway
• UC Riverside Highlanders at California Baptist Lancers Mens Basketball at Fowler Events Center

Save The Date

• November 15: Movies on the Lawn - Strait-Jacket (1964) at Heritage House
• November 16: Platica (Artist Talk and Q&A) with Yreina D. Cervántez at The Cheech Center
• November 23: 32nd Festival of Lights Switch-On Ceremony at The Mission Inn Hotel & Spa
• Dec 12: Museum of Riverside's 100th Anniversary Gala at Riverside Municipal Auditorium

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