New signs to be unveiled honoring former VUU football coaches
3/24/2022, 6 p.m.
A foundation that helps keep the Virginia Union University campus litter-free will use its work to honor four former VUU football coaches on new Richmond Clean City Commission signs recognizing the pickup work.
The new Adopt-a-Street signs honoring Coaches Willard Bailey, the late Jesse Chavis, the late “Tricky Tom” Harris and Joe Taylor at the corner of Lombardy and Admiral streets will be unveiled on the campus at 10 a.m. Saturday, March 26, according to the Burning Sands Alumni Football Foundation and the Richmond Department of Public Works. The ceremony will include a walk to Lombardy and Brook Road.
Members of the foundation, which was created more than 10 years ago, qualified the foundation for the signs by holding regular litter pickups in the 1200 block of Admiral Street, the 1500 block of Lombardy Street and the 2000 block of Brook Road.
The litter initiative is one project of the nonprofit foundation, which raises money for scholarships and to support VUU’s athletic programs.
