On Saturday, May 2nd, from 9 to 3PM, PVCC will hold its Second Annual Construction Rodeo and Equipment Show. The Rodeo will be a total construction exposition where those in the industry can display and promote their products and skills.

The Rodeo Competition includes backhoe, skid steer and mini-excavator events where operators can demonstrate their skill (or lack thereof) in equipment safety, object placement and obstacle navigation. This year, there are two new events: a carpentry competition and masonry demonstration.

Amateurs are welcome, so have fun trying out a backhoe. Also, it’s FREE.

The events are put on by AGCVA’s Piedmont District Safety Alliance and PVCC’s Construction Academy and proceeds from food and drink sales will benefit Youth Learning Academy (YLA), a program focused on developing students’ academic skills through vocational training.

[for more info, click here]

On October 26th, 2008, the Boys and Girls Club will hold their annual cycling challenge event.  This is a major fundraiser for the Boys and Girls Club and we’re excited to have our own team this year.

We’re inviting all of you (who can ride the 31 miles at an easy pace) to join our team.  It costs $100 to signup, and all the money will go to charity.  We’re working on getting everyone on our team tshirts.  To signup, go here and make sure you select “cVillain/Spicy Bear Media” as your affiliation.

Read more about the Boys and Girls Club.

Thanks to everyone who made it out. Special thanks to Tuesday for planning everything! Extra special thanks to everyone at Escafe and big kudos for giving everyone a $10 dollar gift certificate who showed up!

I have all the pictures after the break, but Escafe wanted to ask you guys “what does it take to turn their place into a dancing joint?!”

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We had the pleasure of attending Taste This at Alumni Hall yesterday evening.  Most of Charlottesville’s finest restaurants showed up to strut their stuff, serve small dishes and give us a really good opportunity to choose some of the best food in the area.  While cooking under Alumni Hall conditions meant limited kitchens, eating while standing and, overall, madness; the event was nonetheless a success.   We pick our favorite dishes from the event and have a slideshow (it’s all after the break).

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CLAW V – Sparkles’ Revenge!

Virginia’s premier sports and entertainment league – Charlottesville Lady Arm Wresters or CLAW is back and ready for hot summer action. CLAW 5 brings the world’s first ever al fresco wratlin’ contest. That’s right we’ll be performing this Tuesday out of doors behind the Blue Moon Diner in a fancy army tent

We’ll be raising big bucks for Shelter for Help in Emergency [SHE]. Admission is always free but we have special ring side seats available for $5/ea. First-come first-served. So get there early! This month’s special celebrity judges: the members of Straight Punch to the Crotch. The tournament starts 8 pm sharp and lasts until we have just one woman standing (or someone breaks their arm, whichever comes first) After the tournament our celebrity judges will play us a little concert, so come early and stay late with CLAW and Straight Punch to the Crotch

WrasslersThe PunctuatorUlysses S. NopantsPurple HazeUnholy Betty RollerTommyknockerSparklesThe PitbullMohammed Sugar Ray Cato Bruce Lee Celebrity Judges: Straight Punch to the Crotch with Permanent Lifetime Judge Jim Waive

Mistress of Ceremonies: Rosie the Wrist-Twister

Nurse: Nurse Cheryl

Ref: The Ref

Umpire: The Empire

Stage Manager Extraordinaire: MoJo “the Underdog” Boudreaux

Money Honey: Trixie “The Vault” Mancini

Merch Table: Luchadora Herself

Audience: TBD

Photography Exhibit: Come see Billy Hunt’s exhibit: “CLAW!!!!!!” featuring portraits of CLAW wrastlers at Café Cubano.

Thor’s note.. I screwed the pooch on this one. I am sorry everyone.

We had over 2,200 votes in the Choose Your Charity nomination post. That’s amazing! Thank you for visiting our site and voting for your charity. Well, despite the disqualifications, the bickering and the insanity, we have our final contestants:

• Relay for Life, American Cancer Society (456 Votes)
• Computers4Kids (430 Votes)
• Boys & Girls Club (259 Votes)

Congratulations for making it to round #2! The winner of the final voting tally will receive all of the proceeds from the party. Hopefully we can raise more than $2,000 this time because we are partnered with 106.1 The Corner and Charlottesville Sports and Social Club.Now, here is how round two will work:

• You can vote online and the voting will be available on this post until Midnight before the final party on May 25th. If you buy a ticket (ticket purchase available soon and at the door) and come to the party, you will be allowed to vote again.
• We will count the votes with the following formula: 1x the online poll votes and 25x the party attendee vote.
• We will announce the winner at 10:00PM on May 25th.

To vote online, click continue reading…

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Do you recall the Alien Space Ship invasion from April 20th? In the name of cVillain, I offered myself to the aliens and have recently returned to earth. While they couldn’t probe me because of my thunder and lightning powers, we did sit down to plan the next party.

I explained that cVillains and 106.1 The Corner had OFFICIALLY raised over $2,100 for the HIV/AIDS Services Group! They decided they wanted to be involved in our next party. While the ideas for an “Illegal Alien” party on Cinco de Maio were quickly shot down due to fears of the Feds and their fallen Area 51 comrades (and some earthly, political correctness issues), we decided we wanted to throw a party in which all aliens were invited.

The details require top secret government clearance, but will soon be released to the public. We are leaking the date of the party: May 25th! Trust us, the party is going to be amazing.

This time, we will let YOU pick the charity and will give all event proceeds to that charity! Initial submissions start now and end on Saturday, May 3rd at Noon. We hope to raise more than $2,100 for the charity of choice.

FOR THE FINALISTS, GO HERE!

Rules…

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It seems like almost every year the police make a huge deal about how this year is going to be different, about how Foxfield will ruin your career if you break the law.  Well, unless I have been living blind, in a shelter, veiled in secrecy, a huge number of people break the law at Foxfield.

Of the 24,000 people who visit Foxfield each spring, only 85 people were arrested.  If anyone does the math on that means that less than 0.4% of the people out there were caught breaking the law.  84 of those people were in the student section.  So, let’s figure this one out.

Let’s say half of the 24,000 are in the Foxfield section, and about half of those are underage.  That means about 6,000 people will be illegally drinking at Foxfield.  If 84 of 6,000 arrests were made,  that means about 1.5% of those breaking the law were caught. This doesn’t include people who are DUIing or people who are doing public intoxication type things.

Hmmmmm….seriously?!

So, if you get arrested, please note: you are REALLY unlucky.   Breakdown of those trying to arrest you:

81 Albemarle County Police

31 ABC Agents

17 Officers from the Sheriff Department

3 Bicycle Offices

110 RMC Private Security Officials

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Grand Total: 242 People Trying to Get You

On another note, don’t resist arrest like this guy!  People, the bottomline is this:  We know you are going to break the law, but don’t drink and drive, don’t act like an asshole and you will be alright.  Remember to read our great Foxfield preview!

[via InRich. Pic.]

DISCLAIMER: We don’t encourage or support any illegal activities during Foxfield. 

Overall, our pub crawl was an amazing success. We had well over 100 paid attendees and various others join our crawl. Things got a little disorganized at times, but overall, we’re pretty sure things went well. Between free t-shirts, way too many car bombs and smiling faces, we couldn’t have been more proud. Thanks for everyone for coming out. We have some sweet plans for a Cinco de Maio party!

We don’t have our final count yet on the amount of money raised, but it looks like we are going to raise close to $2,000 for AIDS/HIV Services Group. YOU GUYS ARE FREAKING AMAZING.

Thanks to Zinc, Oxo, Mono Loco, Zo Ca Lo and X-Lounge for hosting us. Next time (and you bars know who you are) when we tell you we’re bringing 100+ people to your bar, you better be prepared! I think you lost us for future pub crawls, but we will certainly be back to those who treated us well!

Wahooptie.. YOU ROCK! 

Special thanks to 106.1 The Corner, D/R and everyone (Tad, Kyle, Amy, Amanda, and others) that got the party off the ground.

Additionally, special thanks to Silmo, La Ren, and others who stepped up in a time in need to take care of much needed name tags and wrist bands. Many more pictures after the break….

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Charlottesville community scholarship program will host a dinner at Shebeen on Tuesday, February 26th to help raise funds for future scholarship grants.

STL Working Mom challenges pretty much all the local bloggers to show up in full force. I did hear that Shebeen serves beer. cVillains should attend.

STLWM explains:

If you’re not in the mood for The Shebeen and don’t care about meeting me or other bloggers, head out to one of the other four participating restaurants Tuesday night. You can choose from C & O, Fellini’s #9, Zinc and ZydeCo. All five restaurants will be contributing a percentage of the night’s take to the Program.

[via STL Working Mom]