Little High Neighborhood News

The neighborhood association is helping our neighbors at the Mews create a few small gardens in various spots around that property. So far these small neighborhood gardens have morning glories, zinnias, irises, cosmos, marigolds, nasturtiums, and sunflowers. Herbs include lavender, lemon verbena, Corsican mint, Greek basil and oregano, sage, rosemary, thyme, western wood sorrel, and Thai basil. There are also two climbing bean plants, tomatoes of 3 varieties, peppers, and  squash and they would like to add blueberry shrubs and fruit trees like apple, fig, etc. Everything is landscaped and decorated creatively — except for the climbing vines which need work!

The Mews gardens have several specific needs at the moment:

• a picnic table
• fire pit and grill
• a wheelbarrow or wagon or cart
• 5 gallon buckets
• a rainbarrel
• an internal composter with a way to turn it over
• a super small shed for storing tools
• native fill dirt, sand, pebbles, and bamboo, compost, growing medium for container gardening
• another vegetable bed that would be planted with seasonal produce
• and volunteers/donors to create signs and flyers as well as work on beds weeding, watering, etc…

The Mews gardeners would also like shade trees in back to replace several elms lost to disease or because of damage they caused to roofing.

Contact Rita Fravel at ooo.ritaf@gmail.com if you can help or have items to donate.

 

 

What Happened

On April 5, one of our neighbors died while walking her beloved dog, Juno. Boyd Zenner, 70, lived on 12th Street for over 30 years. She was recently retired from her career as an aquisitions editor at the University of Virginia Press. Since there have been questions in the neighborhood about the details of her accident, we are posting this explanation followed by an obituary describing Boyd.

Boyd was walking her dog early on April 4the on East Jefferson Street. A nice man was walking toward them with his dog when Juno leapt eagerly to greet them pulling Boyd off her feet in such a way that she landed on the back of her head. There was a witness named Linda running by who took both dogs from the man so that he could administer help to Boyd until the ambulance arrived. Unfortunately, she sustained an injury to her brain she would not be able to recover from. She had many, many close friends including her best friend Ros who lives around the corner. Many thanks to Linda who took care of her dog and to the man who cared for her until the medics took over. [Read more…]