Friday, June 2nd: Ballots for The Best of Charlottesville 2000 must be received by C-Ville Weekly in order to be valid.

Friday, June 2nd: Senator Emily Couric will be hosting a hospitality suite Friday evening at the State Democratic Convention in Norfolk, Virginia and welcomes any hometown friends to stop by (Mary Broz, Legislative Aide, electronic mail, May 17, 2000).

If you are going to the State Convention but haven't made room reservations....NORFOLK HOTEL ROOMS STILL AVAILABLE. The deadline for making hotel reservations through the Convention and Visitors Bureau has been extended until next Wednesday!

Please contact the Bureau at (757) 664-6620 to make your reservations now! (Will Harvey, electronic mail, May 19, 2000).

Friday, June 2nd: Applications for the Charlottesville School Board are due. City Council is looking for more people to apply. Please encourage anyone you know who would be a strong candidate to submit an application.

Saturday, June 3nd: Tandem Friends School's High School Graduation at 1 p.m.

Sunday, June 4, 1800: James Callender was charged with seditious libel based on his pamphlet, The Prospect Before Us.

Sunday, June 4th: The Central Virginia International Folk Dance Club will meet at Crossroads Waldorf School in Crozet. Instruction in beginning dances begins at 4:00, a catered dinner will be provided by the Crozet Natural Foods Co-Op at 5:30. Dancing resumes after dinner to live music by Allodola, ending at 8 p.m.

For more information call 244-0374 or (540) 456-8175.

Monday, June 5th: Charlottesville City Council Public Hearing on Hemings Street Proposal. Council will also take up a resolution on living wages and ways to make the process for appointing school board members more public and open.

Thursday, June 8th: The League of Women Voters will be sponsoring a forum to allow the public to question the School Board candidates at 7 pm in City Council chambers. This is likely to be held in cooperation with the PTO Council and PHAR.

Please plan to attend this forum with questions for the applicants. Council is treating this as a test and will consider making a forum a regular feature of the School Board application process if it is successful. This is an opportunity to ask questions of the applicants before they are appointed, one which has not been possible until now.

It will also allow the public to learn about the applicants an allow the public to make informed statements about the applicants before the open mike segment of the City Council meeting on the 19th of June.

Thursday, June 8th: The Charlottesville Republican Party will meet to hear Arlington GOP Chairman Mike Lane speak on "Building the Republican Party and Winning Elections in a Democrat-Dominated Area".

For more information, contact Michael Crafaik at 961-8560 (email: mcrafaik@mindspring.com).

Thursday, June 8th and Friday, June 9th: The UVa Center for Governmental Studies presents the National Direct Democracy Conference, a two-day conference addressing the use of state ballot initiatives across the country. Featured speakers include David Broder, author of Democracy Derailed: Initiative Campaigns and the Power of Money.

For more information, call (804) 243-8468 or see www.virginia.edu/govstudies.

Saturday, June 10th: This year the Rivanna Trails Foundation will celebrate National Trails Day by building a spectacular bridge in Quarry Park across Moore’s Creek to forestlands which are part of the old Blue Ridge Hospital tract.

This bridge lies nearly on a line between the Downtown Mall and Monticello. Thomas Jefferson’s exact route to town and the University is not known today, but he had to cross somewhere in the vicinity of the new trails.

The bridge will give access to a new three-mile section of trail between Avon Street and the Rivanna River. It is a rugged stretch with substantial grade changes. There is a stunning mix of pure nature and isolation set against clues of Charlottesville’s commercial history in the old quarry, original sewer lines, the livestock yard and the modern waste water treatment plant.

For more information, call John Conover at 293-5622 or checking their web site at monticello.avenue.org/rivanna.

Saturday, June 10th: OutYouth Facilitator training begins.

Out Youth of the Blue Ridge, providing services for Central Virginias Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Questioning Youth, is looking for volunteers to work with youth as Youth Facilitators.

To find out how you can become a Youth Facilitator or to find out more about OutYouth of the Blue Ridge call 984-OYBR.

Saturday, June 10th: You are cordially invited to a reception -- in honor of Rev. Alvin Edwards (former mayor and current chair of the Charlottesville Democratic party) receiving his Ph.D. -- at the Ice Palace on the Downtown Mall at 5:30 PM.

Monday, June 12th: Debbie Cohen turns in petition (objecting to Standards of Learning) to the Albemarle County School Board.

Comment from Betty Gross (electronic mail, May 30, 2000): "The SOL's Should Be Flushed!"

Tuesday, June 13th: GOP 7th District Primary.

Thursday, June 15th: Next deadline for financial filings for the Charlottesville City Council election.

Friday through Sunday, June 16th - 18th: The Senior Center Inc. and Act I will present a 1940s musical revue, "We'll Meet Again" at the Charlottesville Performing Arts Center" on Friday and Saturday, June 16 and 17 at 8 pm and Sunday, June 18 at 2 pm.

The show, directed by Jimmy Locke, will feature an intergenerational cast and a 17-piece orchestra, with lots of singing and dancing, songs you love to hear.

During December l999, Act I did a USO show which sold out every performance and had a wait list of 800 people. Don't miss this chance to hear these great performers.

Tickets are: $10 for veterans and $12 for the general public, available at the Senior Center, Inc., Greenberry's at Barracks Road and Main Street Travel on the Downtown Mall. All seats are reserved.

For more information: Call Tina Rees, 974-7756.

Saturday, June 17th: The Charlottesville/Albemarle Democratic Breakfast will occur at 9:30 a.m. at Jefferson Area Board for the Aging. Political Commentator and Past Virginia State Democratic Party Chair Paul Goldman will speak on "Why I believe we need a primary in 2001 and what legal action I am going to take to get one if the Party High Command refuses."

Bagels and coffee provided.

Saturday, June 17th - Monday, June 19th:WASHINGTON JUNETEENTH 2000 NATIONAL HOLIDAY OBSERVANCE, on the National Mall, Lincoln Memorial and U.S. Capital Grounds, scheduled for Saturday June 17, 2000, from 8:00am till 5:00pm.

The Saturday celebration will be followed by a Sunday evening Juneteenth Fathers Day Benefit Concert honoring African-American Fathers, and a Monday, June 19, 2000 noon rally in support of National Juneteenth Independence Day holiday legislation and a series of evening Juneteenth Prayer and Praise Worship Services in churches and houses of worship throughout the Washington, DC area and the country.

If you attend the Washington Juneteenth 2000 National Holiday Observance and have observations and/or pictures which you would like share, please send them to george@loper.org and they will be posted with full attribution.

Sunday, June 18th: Father's Day.

Sunday, June 18th: Fathers from across the country will participate in a Father's Day Celebration/March for Fathers Rights, gathering at the Ellipse(behind the White House) and marching down Constitution Ave. to the west Steps of the US Capitol building.

For more information contact: FathersDay2000 National Office, 1730 K. St. N.W. Suite 304, Washington, DC 20006, 321-783-6383, FathersDay@aol.com.

If you participate in the Father's Day Celebration from the Charlottesville area and have observations and/or pictures which you would like share, please send them to george@loper.org and they will be posted with full attribution.

Monday, June 19th: Possible vote by the Charlottesville City Council on the Hemings Street Proposal.

Monday, June 19th: From its Galveston, Texas origin in 1865, the observance of June 19th as the African American Emancipation Day has spread across the United States and beyond.

Friday, June 23rd: The Ian Gilliam Trio, a blues-rock band, will be playing at Friday's After Five on the Downtown Mall in Charlottesville, Virginia. Go visit members of Planned Parenthood at the beer truck or drop by their table for general information about services here in Charlottesville.

Sunday, June 25th: At its 212th General Assembly in Long Beach, California, June 24-July 1, the 2.5 million member Presbyterian Church U.S.A will debate (once again) the role of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered Christians in their churches. Their current discriminatory policies exclude sexual and gender minorities from ordination, marriage, and ministry.

Civil Disobedience Is Planned for Presbyterian Assembly. Join Soulforce Direct Action in Long Beach. Volunteers Needed for Arrest and Non-Arrest Tasks. Sign-Up for Direct Action.

If you attend the Presbyterian General Assembly and have observations and/or pictures which you would like share, please send them to george@loper.org and they will be posted with full attribution.

Friday, June 30th: Selection of new school board members and possible vote on Hemings Street proposal by Charlottesville's City Council.