Grades: Pre-K -5th
Come and read a Dr. Seuss book to our scholars. Come dress as Dr. Seuss or one of his many characters.
We need 29 volunteers……For more information contact Mrs. Dalmida 531-3118
The February 2013 edition of The Suburban is here…
Join us at our monthly Suburban Acres Civic League meeting Monday evening February 11th at Suburban Park Elementary School.
Doors open at 6 pm for refreshments; the meeting starts at 6:30.
The program this month includes Dr. Jay Taylor of Save Talbot Hall, a group of citizens trying to save Talbot Hall from commercial development. The Lafayette River property consists of 6.5 acres with a house that was built in the early 1800s. The Episcopal Diocese of eastern Virginia has placed the property for sale. Dr. Taylor will share his group’s efforts to date.
and…
Mr. Scott Kennedy, headmaster of Norfolk Collegiate School. Mr. Kennedy will tell us about the planned grand opening and other planned events for Norfolk Collegiate’s new center for the arts, and discuss traffic and parking plans.
Roland Park Overpass Bridge on Tidewater Drive will undergo repairs in the coming months. The City of Norfolk Department of Public Works, Design Division is hosting an informational meeting to discuss the project and resulting traffic impacts. The meeting will be held:
Tuesday, January 29, 2013 at 6:30 P.M.
Suburban Park Elementary School, Multi-Purpose Room
310 Thole Street, Norfolk, VA 23505
The meeting agenda will include a project overview, information about lane closures and detours, and anticipated construction schedule. Design engineers and City representatives will be available to answer questions about the project, which will include steel superstructure painting, bearing replacement, concrete repairs, and ramp widening.
A public hearing is being held Wednesday, January 23, 2013, 4−7 p.m. at Granby High School, 7101 Granby Street
The Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) and the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) are conducting a study of the I-64 Hampton Roads Bridge Tunnel (HRBT) corridor from I-664 in Hampton to I-564 in Norfolk (approximately 11 miles) to develop alternative solutions addressing insufficient capacity and to correct roadway, bridge and tunnel deficiencies in the corridor.
A draft environmental impact statement on various alternatives was released on December 21.
The public hearing is an opportunity to provide input and comment on the study, and draft environmental impact statement.
Citizens may also provide written comments electronically on VDOT’s Web site (link here), via traditional mail, or to hrbtcomments@vaprojects.com.
City officials were tight-lipped about the proposed Wards Corner deals, but Martin Thomas Jr., vice president of the Wards Corner Civic League and a member of the city’s planning commission, said residents have been pushing the city to focus on the 300 block of East Little Creek Road and the so-called “Texas streets” behind it.
Visit www.wardscornernow.com for the information and link to the Virginian Pilot article…
The City of Norfolk’s Storm Water Division is conducting an engineering study to evaluate solutions to the some of the long-term flooding problems along the creek that runs from Thole Street (by Suburban Park Elementary School) up to Virginian Drive. This creek, called the “Parkdale Stream” or Parkdale Channel” is part of the Lafayette River’s headwaters.
In honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. community leaders from various backgrounds will come together to discuss Dr. King’s dream, its relevancy in contemporary culture and if the dream is a tangible reality. Panelists include: 
Dr. Carlos Campo, Regent University President; Wanda Cooper, Founder/CEO of Cooper Law; Helen Sommer, Executive Director of Habitat for Humanity South Hampton Roads; Wil Laveist, Award Winning Journalist; Vivian Page, Local Political Analyst & Blogger, Marsha Lockard, Vice President, Suburban Acres Civic League
Here’s the first issue of The Suburban, newsletter of the Suburban Acres Civic League, for 2012.A special THANK YOU to the Norfolk Christian High School Ambassadors Jazz Ensemble and director Doug Earlenbaugh for the great entertainment at our Christmas party in December.
Our January meeting is Monday evening January 14th; doors open with refreshments at 6 pm and the meeting starts at 6:30.
Our guest speaker is Chief Deputy Commonwealths Attorney Brent Johnson (rescheduled from earlier this year). Brent will speak about programs and work done by the Commonwealths Attorney’s Office, and the new satellite office/community collaberation center that opened in November at the Workforce Development Center at Wards Corner. Join us!
The Suburban Acres Civic League Web site had about 2300 individual views in 2012 through December 9th, according to Word Press, our site host. WordPress.com is a free, easy-to-use, blog-style site; the civic league pays a modest site hosting fee each year.
Many visitors were referred from internet search engines (searching on our civic league or neighborhood name).
We intend to keep adding to and improving the web site.
Our blog-style web site is not conducive to posting and allowing browsing among multiple pictures. SACL at one time had photos posted in slide shows (Microsoft PowerPoint format) on a site called slide.com; unfortunately that site has closed its doors.
We are now posting photos of our events and activities on www.slideshare.net/suburbanacres. We started posting on slideshare with pictures from the annual 4th of July parade and picnic, and since have posted pictures from Halloween in the neighborhood, and flooding and damage from Hurricane Sandy.
In our first year of posting on slideshare.net we received more than 1400 views! 1179 of those visits were to the slide show of hurricane flooding.
So stand by for more posts and pictures. If you take great pictures of the neighborhood that you would like to share, please send them to suburbanacres@gmail.com
In full 
anticipation of our holiday party,
We must apologize since the newsletter is tardy!
Lots going on in December, but we hope you can make it out to the holiday meeting of the Suburban Acres Civic League Monday night December 10. Doors open at 6 for refreshments and music; year -end civic league review is at 6:30. Our musical guests are, back by popular demand, the Nrfolk Christian High School Jazz Ensemble, playing your holiday and big band favorites.
Have a great December!
Suburban Acres Civic League 