New ACAC Fitness Center offering hard-hat tours

Citizen Staff Reports

07/04/12

Construction of the new ACAC Fitness & Wellness Center at the corner of Old Brick Road and Gathering Place in West Broad Village is underway and the community is invited to attend hard hat tours of the new facility on Saturday, July 7 and Saturday, July 21 from 12 p.m. to 3 p.m. Stop in at the Express Club & Membership Center at 2225 Old Brick Road (next to 3 Sports) to take a tour.

The new club will encompass almost 62,000 square feet on four levels, including a rooftop pool and sundeck. Other amenities will include locker rooms, two-story child care, three squash courts, two rooftop platform tennis courts, three pools, four group fitness studios and a wide array of the latest strength and cardiovascular equipment.

For updates about the club, visit http://acac.com/ShortPump or the facility’s Facebook page at http://facebook.com/acacShortPump To co.ntact the Express Club & Membership Center, call 464-0990.

Community

Short Pump Ruritan Club donates $50k to Virginia War Memorial

Citizen Staff Reports 06/13/2013

The Short Pump Ruritan/Civic Association Foundation, Inc. recently presented a check for $50,000 to the Virginia War Memorial Educational Foundation. The donation will be used to finance the production of a new film about the Vietnam War as part of the War Memorial’s award-winning Virginians at War film series. > Read more.

Vintage Home Market set for June 15-16

Citizen Staff Reports 06/09/2013

A longtime Lakeside business owner and his partner are bringing "The Vintage Home Market" to the Richmond International Raceway Complex June 15-16.

Tony Turner has operated a business on Lakeside Avenue for nearly 20 years, beginning with Huckleberries Home & Garden for 10 years in The Hub Shopping Center and followed by Feathernesters across the street in the Lakeside Town Center. > Read more.

Fan Care offers heat relief to seniors

Citizen Staff Reports 06/06/2013

Qualifying senior citizens can receive free relief from summer heat through the 23rd annual Fan Care program, which provides fans and cooling assistance to seniors 60 and older in need.

The program is an initiative of Senior Connections, The Capital Area Agency on Aging for seniors who meet income eligibility requirements and have a situation that threatens their health. > Read more.

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Entertainment

A community ‘Kaffeehaus’ in Henrico’s Far West End

06/17/2013

Born and raised in good old Europe, I am quite familiar with the traditional Austro-Hungarian tradition of the Kaffeehaus, an institution that represents a lifestyle of relaxing and thinking in a familiar environment with coffee, pastry, news, good service, marble tables, subdued sounds like the click-clack of the coffee machine, mugs and plates, conversations among patrons and with staff and a bit of low volume Johann Strauss music.

And so it was a thrill to find a modern version of a Kaffeehaus right here in Henrico County: The Daily Grind, near Short Pump Town Center. > Read more.

Oklahoma tornado victims to benefit from Innsbrook concert

06/15/2013

The Innsbrook Foundation will present a special concert June 19 at the Innsbrook Snagajob Pavilion to raise funds benefiting the victims of the Moore and Shawnee communities of Oklahoma.

The Innsbrook After Hours RVA Cares event will feature five bands and a family festival in recognition of the many families devastated by the Oklahoma tornadoes on May 20, which killed 23 people, injured 377 others, and left destroyed and damaged homes affecting 33,000 residents. > Read more.

Food trucks arrive in the West End

06/10/2013

West End residents no longer have to pick between fighting the summer mall crowds for a quick bite or breaking the bank to eat at a fine-dining spot because one Richmond group is bringing both to them.

RVA Street Foodies, the organization behind the outdoor food truck courts at the Virginia Historical Society and Hardywood Brewery, debuted its new Henrico food truck court at All Saints Episcopal Church on River Road May 22. > Read more.

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