Wards Corner Civic League

On July 9, 2024, Governor Glenn Youngkin issued Executive Order 33 to help bring cell phone-free education to Virginia schools.

Starting on January 1, 2025, all Norfolk Public Schools will be cell phone-free “from bell-to-bell.”

Learn more about the executive order and what it means for Virginia Schools on the Virginia Department of Education’s website.

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Come play and sing with us to unite our commUNITY through music.

Pick up your instrument, bring your voice and join the Virginia Symphony Orchestra in a celebration of peace, inclusion, and unity. This inspiring annual event embraces our community’s cultural richness and diversity, uniting people of all ages, faiths, and backgrounds through participation in music, dance and spoken word.

Music will be available for any instrument and voice at any level, so come play and sing with us! Or just come as you are and enjoy the musical talents of your neighbors.

 Rehearsal Information

Rehearsals for all participants:

• Friday, January 24, 7:00pm – 9:30pm Taste-n-See at Murray Center
• Sunday, February 2, 2:30pm – 4:00pm Echols Arena at NSU (Shuttles will be available this year!)

Rehearsal for Chorus:

• Tuesday, January 21, 7:30pm – 10:00pm Norfolk Christian High School

Visit https://virginiasymphony.org/community/ for more information and to register!

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Public is invited to tour the center and learn about opportunities for the community

The City of Norfolk’s former Visitors Center in Ocean View has been transformed into learning and community meeting space designed to encourage the public to discover more about the history of the Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnels and the nearly $4 billion dollar expansion project currently underway.

Working with the U.S. Navy which owns the property, and the City of Norfolk which holds a lease for the property, the Virginia Department of Transportation with 92% of project funding provided by the Hampton Roads Transportation Accountability Commission (HRTAC) will operate the center as an educational and learning center for the expansion project.

VDOT spent nearly a year rehabilitating the site and two-story building, which houses a ten-foot model of Mary The Tunnel Boring Machine, model of the project’s slurry treatment plant, artifacts uncovered during project excavations, historic pictures of the tunnels-past and present- and conference room.

Also showcased are tributes to NASA pioneers Mary Jackson and Katharine Johnson for whom the TBM and slurry plant are named. One wall describes the contributions of HRTAC as the funding arm for HRBT Expansion and other regional projects currently underway throughout the VDOT Hampton Roads District totaling more than $5 billion of infrastructure funding, and video screens display a variety of tunneling stories and detail local roadway projects.

Media and the public are invited to an open house for the HRBT Welcome Center on December 4, 2024, from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m.

WHAT: HRBT Expansion Project Open House

WHEN: December 4, 2024, 9am – 3pm

WHERE: 9401 4th View Street, Norfolk, VA 23503

Project staff will be on hand to answer questions, the newly created, staff-designed LOVEworks sign is anchored at the center for photo opportunities, and citizens can learn how to reserve space for future meetings and events.

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