This event has REALLY grown! Get ready to decorate bikes, strollers, and tricycles and to dress children in red, white and blue for the Westover Hills Fourth of July Children’s Parade. The parade will begin at 10 a.m. on Saturday, July 4, at the corner of Peterborough and Sylvan Roads. The 5000 and 5100 blocks of Sylvan Road will be closed from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. for the parade.

Children can march or ride along the parade route and may bring instruments to make music along the way. At the end of the parade route, children stop at 5021 Sylvan Road to enjoy some refreshments and snow cones and to play games in the Dysart’s backyard. Please feel free to proceed to the back yard!

Even if you don’t have kids participating in the parade, please do come out and watch the parade and cheer the children along the Sylvan Road parade route. This simple, fun event has been a big hit with Westover Hills families for the last eight years.

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The WHNA board will hold its next meeting on Thursday, July 9, at 7 p.m. at the Westover Hills United Methodist Church. The board meets regularly on the second Thursday of the month, and ALL Westover Hills neighbors are welcome to attend. We’ll see you there!

Fifty years ago, in July 1959, our community library moved to its permanent home on Westover Hills Boulevard. The Westover Hills Library Advisory Group (WHLAG) is sponsoring several events to mark the occasion:

The Celebration. A 50th Anniversary Celebration will be held at the library on July 10 from 7:30 to 10 p.m. Westover Hills neighbor Carol Covell and her jazz trio will perform. Food will be catered. Tickets are $25 per person or $50 for a couple.

The 50 for 50 Campaign. The $50 for 50 years campaign is designed to raise funds to improve the library. The advisory group is asking folks to consider donating $50 to help achieve goals such as:

• Wiring and mounting the new projector system
• Improving the sound system
• Buying new carpeting and a story time rug
• Landscaping
• Purchasing new furniture for the children’s area
• Making building improvements not covered by City of the Future funds
• Purchasing more books

We hope you have enjoyed having a branch library right in our community, and we very much appreciate gifts from the community to keep improving the facility.

The Raffle. Donate a dollar, get a ticket, you could win! Winning tickets will be selected at random on July 10 at the 50th Anniversary Celebration. You don’t have to be present to win! You can win fabulous prizes from supporting local vendors including O’Toole’s, Once upon a Vine South, Crittertown Bathhouse, Mongrel in Carytown, 43rd Street Gallery, Sue Morgan Tutoring, Sisters Too Alterations, CrossRoads Coffee, Crystal’s Treasure Chest, Silpada Jewelry, Positive Vibe Cafe, and Maldini’s. The grand prize from O’Toole’s is a backyard barbecue for 20 people, complete with food, plates, delivery (if local).

To participate in any of these events, you can stop by the WHLAG’s table at the South of the James Market any Saturday morning or stop by the library. For additional information, stop by the library or contact This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it .

All proceeds directly benefit the Westover Hills Library, the library’s patrons and the programs hosted by the Westover Hills Library Advisory Group.

The Westover Hills Library Advisory Group is a volunteer 501 (c) (3) organization of dedicated individuals that helps promote wider use of the library. This year WHLAG celebrates its tenth year. It hosts multiple yearly events that bring people to the library such as Yuri’s Night, Summer Reading Kickoff, Winterfest, and author’s nights.     The group participates in neighborhood events and organizes volunteer labor and donates supplies for library beautification efforts. It also raises funds to benefit the library and the library patrons.