Councilmember
Eric
Garcetti |
A Word From Eric
Dear
friends,
The
fight against graffiti is gathering steam! When I
declared my intention to cut graffiti in half in the
13th district, I was impressed by how badly CD13's
residents shared my desire to stop graffiti. Now
that we've begun, I am excited to see how much
energy you are willing to put into stopping it.
The UNTAG
strategy |
Our May
event was a great success. Fifty or so of you showed
up at the field office on Sunset Boulevard on a
Saturday and split up into graffiti-scouting teams.
The teams covered the entire district, from
Hollywood to Glassell Park. In less than 2 hours,
people collected lists of over 500 graffiti
locations, more than double the number of reports
our graffiti-abatement crews receive in an entire
week! We even kicked things off with a bucket of
paint, cleaning up a tagged wall.
UNTAGging a wall with
CCAC |
There are many
more walls to paint and tags to report, and I need
your help to do it. Please join me on Saturday, June
19th, from 12:00 to 2:00 p.m. at Micheltorena
Elementary School, 1151 Micheltorena Street (just
above Sunset). LAPD Chief William Bratton will
join us for the official launch of our
graffiti-stopping program, UNTAG: Uniting
Neighborhoods To Abolish Graffiti. We'll show how
combining your eyes, ears and grit with close police
attention and high technology will put the shine
back on our city streets.
The
UNTAG event follows the morning's Open Space
Technology session with neighborhood council
activists - more on that here.
Whether you're involved in your neighborhood council
(and you should be) or you've never come to a
community event, Saturday, June 19th is a great day
to get involved. Please e-mail my district
office or call (323) 913-4693 for more
information.
Going, going, going ...
gone!
Odds
and Ends
We've all seen star
maps. Some of us have even
seen the movie Star
Maps (featuring Lysa
Flores, whose exquisite
paintings just concluded an exhibit in my City
Hall office). But haven't we been waiting for Rock
Star Maps? Looking at
Hollywood
map #2, which is entirely within CD13, I learned
that Elvis Presley used to stay at the Knickerbocker
Hotel, which is now senior housing. Also: 300 web
icons, compiled and compared. My e-news
editor self-released an album of original
songs. Congratulations,
Josh. Forget what you've heard: I'm not cutting an
album of political roasts anytime soon....I did,
however, take the e-news one step further with my Slate
Diary. The webmagazine Slate.com invited
me to chronicle my entire week, which I did (and
developed enormous respect for anyone who really
keeps a daily diary. It's hard work). Read
the
whole
week.
StatShot:
Wastewater Collection
For many of us, water down the drain is out of
sight and out of mind. Not so for the city’s
Wastewater Systems Collection Division in the
Public Works Department, whose job it is to make
sure it stays out of your sight and returns to the
environment safely. Commissioner Cynthia Ruiz
helped compile this StatShot:
- The city’s wastewater collection system
receives sewage from a population of more than 4
million people, 27 contract agencies, and
100,000 businesses and industrial users located
in a 600 square mile service area.
In the 13th District:
- it serves more than a quarter million people
in 13.13 square miles.
- It includes 26 drainage basins out of 245
citywide.
- It has 6,148 pipe reaches totaling 1,337,619
feet (253 miles).
- It contains 6,156 maintenance holes and
structures.
- 1871 pipe locations are identified as
"hot-spots". 41% of those are Fat, Oil and
Grease-related (FOG). 42% are roots-related.
- The storm drain system includes 2,000 catch
basins, 143 low-flow structures, 129 culverts
and 1 channel to protect streets against risk of
floods.
- In the first three quarters of fiscal year
2003-04, the Wastewater Systems Collection
inspected 603,626 feet or 114 miles of sewers;
cleaned 572,270 feet or 108 miles of hot-spots;
performed 228,606 feet of inspections by
closed-circuit television; and responded to a
total of 37 odor complaints.
Nice
work!
I
joined representatives from The History Channel at
the Chinese-American Museum to applaud the
historical preservation work performed by a class
from Belmont High and to mark the arrival in Los
Angeles of the Save
Our History
program.
CITY HALL
UPDATE
Public
Safety
News of the consent decree has suggested that
the city is getting closer to compliance, but still
needs to take strong actions to fully implement
reform at LAPD. While I offer my congratulations to
the LAPD for its hard work in getting the progress
that has been make, we're not done yet. We need to
fully fund the requirements of the consent decree in
order to forcefully move into a new era with the
LAPD, and we need to take the consent decree
seriously, especially the long-overdue
implementation of a software tracking system of
problem officers. I have fought for more public
safety resources in our communities since day one,
and I know that an effective police force must count
its progress both in declining crime statistics and
in rising community trust.
Budget
The FY 2004-2005 budget passed by the City
Council has been signed by the Mayor and is on time
and balanced. I am proud of the work that we did
with the community to protect our environment, the
arts, and youth programs in the city. We continue to
do more with less in Los Angeles in a way that is
returning value to the taxpayer while also tackling
our most important issues of the day. Some initial
indicators show the beginning of an economic
recovery locally, but we have insured the city
against a sudden economic downturn by maintaining
the high level of our FY03-04 Reserve Fund into this
year.
Meanwhile, the city's proposed purchase of
the Transamerica Building has been in the news
lately. As rhetoric began to overtake analysis, I
called for an independent report to get the real
numbers. It's clear that the city needs to make some
big real estate investments to support its
workforce; it's also clear that it needs to make our
investments with good information, and as far away
from political concerns as possible. Controller
Laura Chick has contracted with real estate
consulting firm KPMG to get us the real information,
and our first look at the numbers should be
presented to the Information Technology and General
Services committee on which I sit later this month.
Housing
As a rich discussion on the need to house our
famillies and our neighbors continues throughout the
city, the City Council joined with community groups
and builders to extend the discussion on
inclusionary zoning (IZ) for 90 more days. I believe
this will give us the time we need to shape a policy
that addresses the needs of developers, protects the
quality of our neighborhoods, and makes real steps
towards solving our housing crisis. The "smart
growth" element of the plan concentrates new
developments by transit corridors and hubs,
preserving the character of individual communities
while increasing housing opportunities for working
families.
Protesting Section 8
"reforms". |
One of
the most successful programs at alieviating poverty
and taking people off the streets is Section 8,
which provides housing vouchers from the federal
government for those in need. Recent changes
proposed by the Bush Administration to the Section 8
program may result in upheaval and homelessness for
as many as 15,000 families in Los Angeles. Although
Republicans and Democrats alike in Congress fully
funded the program, the Administration decided to
reduce funding to the program and proposed a minimum
rent payment, which would defeat the point of the
program. The most recent reports have the
Administration restoring some funds to the Housing
Authority of Los Angeles, softening the blow. But
the cuts would still affect millions nationwide, and
must be reversed.
I was delighted to receive
the "Community Leader Award" from People Assisting
the Homeless. PATH also recognized actress Tyne
Daly, who in an impromptu bit of fund-raising began
auctioning off old costumes and, to sweeten the
deal, threw in a walk-on on Judging Amy, the shoes
she wore to the luncheon, and co-honoree and
anchorwoman Kelly Lang's wristwatch. What can I say?
I liked Cagney and Lacey, I like auctions,
and it was going to a good cause...I bought the
lot.
Economic Development
I traveled to North Hollywood to stand with
the Mayor as he announced his support for the
Garcetti-Greuel proposal to accelerate the pace of
business tax reform. Under our proposal, small
businesses with gross receipts lower than $100,000
could potentially pay no tax whatsoever. If adopted
along with the
other comprehensive reforms that
Councilmember Greuel and I have pushed, the proposal
will go a long way towards sending the message that
Los Angeles welcomes its entrepreneurs and wants
them to succeed.
On June 24th, the Planning
Commission will hear Councilmember Ed Reyes' and my
Supercenters Ordinance. As it stands, the ordinance
would require developers bringing big-box grocery
stores to demonstrate that their stores would not
have a negative economic impact. Studies have shown
that big-box groceries (for example, SuperWalMarts)
cost communities two jobs for every one they create.
If big-box grocers want to debut a model in Los
Angeles that raises standards instead of lowering
them, they will have this city's support. But they
shouldn't come to us asking for our help taking away
family-wage jobs from the communities that need them
most.
Open Space and the
Environment
The Department of Water and Power's Solar
Program, initiated in 2000, supports 1,300 jobs in
energy technology in the Los Angeles area, and has
created more than 50 jobs in its own right. DWP's
incentive-based support for solar power drives
economic development and helps wean our region from
its petroleum habit. If you've been to the gas
station lately, you know what I'm talking about. I
am pushing for the full funding of this program,
which gives incentives to local homeowners,
landlords, and business owners to install clean and
green sources of electricity right on our rooftops.
A vote is expected in the next month on the overall
amount of the subsidy, but we hope to continue this
critical program to the tune of about $16 million.
Healthy for Eric, Tom and
the environment |
Tom
LaBonge and I met riders from the L.A. Bike
Coalition and others from the neighborhood at the
corner of Echo Park and Sunset for Bike to Work Day.
The MTA gave free rides to bicyclists, and Tom and I
got some good exercise.
Neighborhood Empowerment
I introduced a motion with Councilmember
Janice Hahn that would permit Neighborhood Councils
to carry over more of their funds from this fiscal
year to the next. The councils are just beginning to
find their footing as organizations, and there's no
reason that they should be punished for not spending
down to zero this year. The added flexibility will
allow them to focus on their communities and not
have to make hurried decisions about how to spend
their money.
The same morning as the UNTAG
launch, from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. on June
19th, I will be convening neighborhood leaders from
across the District for a Neighborhood Council
Summit. Here's the catch: I'm not writing an
agenda. You are! Using a technique called "Open
Space Technology", we will shape the morning's
discussions around the topics neighborhood leaders
want to talk about. All participants can volunteer
topics to discuss. It will be inventive, creative,
productive and full of surprises. I hope this
organic format will lead to an even more cooperative
relationship between my office and CD13's many
neighborhood councils. Please come to the summit,
and stick around for UNTAG in the
afternoon.
Cable
Tasty on the
set |
This is just a
teaser, but you'll soon hear more about Flavors of
L.A., a show on Channel 35 that will travel through
Los Angeles, sampling the cuisines of restaurants in
the myriad neighborhoods of Los Angeles. Yours truly
hosts the show; our first episode features Janice
Hahn and tasty items from around the communities of
Wilmington, San Pedro and Watts. Look for an air
date in August. More soon!
Human
Rights
Because
of inequalities in our immigration laws, gay men and
lesbians in committed relationships are separated
and treated as second-class citizens. That's why I
was proud to introduce legislation in support of the
Permanent Partners Immigration Act, introduced in
the House of Representatives by New York's Jerrold
Nadler, which would amend the Immigration and
Naturalization Act to extend immigration benefits to
US citizens and permanent US residents in committed
same-sex relationships who seek to sponsor their
foreign-born partners. Los Angeles has passed
numerous laws protecting the rights of same-sex
partners and legally recognizing their unions in the
form of domestic partnerships. But these protections
are meaningless for couples who are torn apart by
current immigration laws.
I also
introduced a motion in support of SB 1160, State
Senator Gil Cedillo's driver's license bill. The
legislation would allow undocumented immigrants to
obtain drivers' licenses, and has the support of
many law enforcement agencies because of the help it
would give them in policing our streets and
highways. The bill also includes important security
checks that have been outlined by Governor
Schwarzenegger. The city has gone on record in
support of such legislation in the last two Assembly
sessions. If a compromise can be reached with
Governor Schwarzenegger, then we are sure to see
more of the drivers in our neighborhoods safely
licensed and insured soon.
Bishop Jon Bruno of the Episcopal Church came
to City Council to urge the Council to oppose human
rights abuses overseas. Under the Bishop's
leadership, the Episcopal Diocese has partnered with
CD13 on multiple occasions.
Friends of Atwater Village is now online.
Check out their site and send them a note .
The traffic light on Glendale
Boulevard at Madera Street has been installed. I
thank Kevin Walters for his effective lobbying
efforts. I hope we will be able to turn it on soon;
in the meantime, drive safely.
The 4th Annual Atwater Village Street
Festival is this weekend, Sunday June 13th!
I'm pleased to announce the results of
the special election for the proposed lighting
district in North Atwater Village. By a 2 to 1
margin, voting property owners assessed themselves
for the upkeep and maintenance of 17 streetlights to
be installed on Acresite, Ferncroft, and Greensward.
Most impressively, we had turnout of more than 95%,
with 60 out of 64 eligible voters
participating.
Welcome, India Sweets
& Spices |
India
Sweets and Spices has opened up a branch on Los
Feliz Boulevard. I've already been there twice,
including for the grand opening where I took part in
the festive celebration of all things Indian. Not
only does it serve delicious food (soft enough that
LA Weekly critic Jonathan Gold recommended it to a
writer who'd been in an interesting situation),
but it also has all the Bollywood musicals you could
ever wish for on DVD.
Glassell Park
With the aid of a city grant, Glassell Park
is the new home for 52 new trees out of 300 planted
citywide. 30 were planted at Washington Irving
Middle School. Other trees were planted around
Drew/Estara, at Glassell Park Elementary School, and
around Division Street. Magy Perez and Alonzo
Caldero from the Glassell Park Improvement
Association, Miriam Escobar and Board Chair (and
GPIA member) Helene Schpak from the Neighborhood
Council and Adelle Vera were key in getting and
planting the trees.
Members of the Neighborhood Council
successfully advocated for a new Los Angeles Unified
high school to be located in Taylor Yards. This week
a sneak preview is available of the early site
concept. Contact
Field Deputy Mitch O'Farrell for more
information.
Organizer and educator Marsha
Cifarelli has developed "See My River", a kids'
mural project to be located along San Fernando Road.
Sí TV, Applied Graphics and Andrita Studios provided
financial assistance for the project. We couldn't
have done it without our business partners, and
certainly not without Marsha. Thank you.
Echo Park
and Elysian
Valley
Working with the Elysian Valley Neighborhood
Council, we expect to implement a major lighting
project in the neighborhood soon. Locals know well
how dark the area gets at night. I was able to
allocate $1.2 million to increase lighting there
last year. This money will pay for the design of the
project and for construction of lights in half the
neighborhood, and I am hard at work searching for
the additional money needed to install lighting in
the other half! Together, my staff, neighborhood
council leaders, and engineers from the Bureau of
Street Lighting will select light post fixtures to
enhance the aesthetic of the neighborhood and
increase public safety. Once the the design is
finished, the Bureau of Street Lighting will
initiate the state-mandated Proposition 218
requirements, which require us to conduct an
election process to assess maintenance fees on
property owners for the new lights. If the majority
of the property owners in Elysian Valley support the
assessment, they will pay, on average, $50 annually
to help maintain the lights. If you want to help win
lights in Elysian Valley, drop by the EVNC
meetings!
Neighborhood Matching Fund grants have been
won to build an information kiosk in Echo Park.
Matthew Dubois and Suzi Rogers were instrumental in
winning the money on behalf of the Greater Echo Park
Elysian Neighborhood Council.
The lights are back on at Jensen's. The Echo Park
Historical Society worked its magic, and the new
management consented to turn the roof light back on.
Historical Society president Jesus Sanchez deserves
special credit for re-illuminating the neon bowlers
of yesteryear.
The encampment of drug addicts near KBLA
towers on Alvarado has been cleaned up with outreach
from LAHSA, and
KBLA stepped up to fence off the derelict property.
On Saturday, June 5th, the Greater Echo Park
Elysian Neighborhood Council's Districts 2 and 4
held another cleanup starting at Sunset and
Quintero. Twenty people showed up, including
children from the Echo Park Recreation Center. All
received free Dodgers hats and tickets. Go
Dodgers!
Historic Filipinotown
We have received several banner proposals.
The proposals will be judged by the end of June, so
if you can't wait to find out what designs will hang
above Temple Street, drop Field
Deputy Joseph Bernardo a line and he'll let you
know.
The Filipino Workers' Center
received $10,000 from the Neighborhood Matching Fund
to paint a mural on their building at 153 Glendale
Boulevard. Look for art rising there
soon.
New schools keep coming! Come to a
meeting on Thursday, June 24th at 6 pm at Rosemont
Elementary School, 421 N. Rosemont Avenue, to hear
about prospects for the project now known only as
Central LA Elementary School #14. For more info,
call Lily Quiroa at (213) 633 8979.
Silver Lake
I officiated at the planting of the first 10
trees of 40 planned for Mayberry Elementary School.
The organization Tree People instructed the students
in the care and planting of the trees, and community
member Pilar Reynaldo and Mayberry parent Joe
Lightfoot helped organize the planting.
The triangle park where Griffith Park
Boulevard meets Sunset keeps getting attention. On
June 27th, my office will host a design charette.
Urban designer Kathy Cerra and Tom Blanchard from
the Silver Lake Neighborhood Council's
Beautification Committee helped put the event
together.
My thanks to Michelle Yahn for hosting a
house coffee at the beginning of June. About 25 of
Michelle's neighbors joined us at her house on
Maltman to talk about speed humps, parking problems,
a proposed development on Maltman, and the UNTAG
program. Michelle hosts "rants" at M-Bar in
Hollywood. Show up and let it all out for Michelle
and special guest Bob Koherr, the creator of
Plump Fiction.
The nuisance walkway from the 900 block of
Sanborn to Manzanita that the Sanborn-Venango
Community Group alerted me about has been closed. We
couldn't have got it done without the help of Maria
Sheets from the Nuisance Walkway program in
Operation Clean Sweep, headed by Delphia Jones. Our
Senior Lead Officer Dawn Lewis and our Neighborhood
Prosecutor Arturo Martinez also helped clean up the
walkway.
The Silver Lake
Neighborhood Council has won $10,000 for trash
cans from the Neighborhood Matching Fund. See what
other
communities
are doing with NMF grants.
Silver Lake deserves a library. The Library
Department has proposed a new, 12,500 sq. ft.
facility, but some shortsighted city analysts have
challenged our ability to fund it. No one takes our
budget problems more seriously than me, but I am
prepared to fight for the facilities that our
community needs. If you want to help, please send a
note to Green
Deputy Glen Dake.
Despite the tug of war over the purse
strings, planning for the library proceeds. Please
come to a meeting to discuss potential sites. We'll
be at the Micheltorena Street Elementary School
Auditorium at 1551 Micheltorena Street on Tuesday,
June 15, 2004 at 7:00 p.m.
Get free trees when Trees
for a Green LA comes to the Silver Lake
Recreation Center on June 17, 2004 from 6:30PM to
8:30PM. DWP customers (that means you) become
eligible to receive up to 7 free shade trees by
attending a nearby 2-hour workshop on the planning,
planting and protecting of shade trees. Participants
are delivered their trees once they mail their tree
order in. Please RSVP for the event to Pui
Burmahln, 213-367-1535.
Thinking about running for the Silver Lake
Neighborhood Council's Governing Board this
September? Candidate forums are coming up between
July 17 and September 18. If you are interested in
hosting one, let Jason
Lyon know about it before
the Election Committee meets on June 12.
Tomato plants grow where beer
bottles used to lie, so come to a fundraiser for the
Manzanita
Street Community Garden. The MSCG will hold its
first annual garden party from 4:00-7:00 pm on
Sunday, June 27 at Libby's Vintage Home and Garden
located at 3815-1/2 Sunset Boulevard in Silver Lake.
E-mail Joshua
Buck for more
information.
East Hollywood
Speaking at LeConte Middle School to more
than 100 students, my deputies reported that there
were many excited avid students of politics in the
audience. "Who's the mayor?" they asked. "Arnold!"
they answered. At that age, it's good just to have
an interest....
The Virgil Town Hall was a terrific meeting.
Captain Beck and the gang unit at Rampart responded
to questions about graffiti and gang activity and we
spoke about youth programs in the community. One
area of strong concern was "Crack Alley" behind the
101 Freeway at Melrose, and we were able to swiftly
shut it down.
The Melrose
Hill Neighborhood Association won a Neighborhood
Matching Funds Grant to plant trees on Melrose Hill.
Special thanks go to Ed Hunt, Jim Camp, and Kevin
Hallibrook, who were instrumental in lobbying for
this much-anticipated
beautification.
Hollywood
Taking the stage at the
Hollywood Entertainment Museum
fundraiser
The Olympic Torch
is headed through Hollywood. Radio personality Pepe
Barreto will hoist the torch on its way past
Hollywood and Vine on June 16th at 1 pm. This
Just In: Ellen DeGeneres will take the torch,
too. I will be running behind her. Come out and see
us in front of Grauman's Chinese!
I am very proud to be honored at the annual
fundraising dinner for the Hollywood Beautification
Team, this June 15th at the Globe at Universal
Studios. Please join us to help raise funds for this
invaluable resource for Hollywood and all of Los
Angeles. HBT cleans graffiti, runs programs at
schools, directs public art programs and works with
at-risk youth. For tickets to the dinner, call the
Hollywood Beautification Team at (323)
962-2163.
The resurfacing of Sunset Boulevard has been
completed. Street resurfacing has been cut back
because of our budget difficulties, but Sunset
emerged as a priority and we focused on getting it
done. Please know that the section of Sunset near
Vermont remains a bit bumpy. The logistics of Kaiser
Permanente's construction activities prevent us from
smoothing out this part of the street until their
massive construction overhaul is completed. On the
rest of the boulevard, enjoy the smooth
ride!
I will attend the next meeting of the
Community Police Advisory Board on June 29th. Led by
Gary Minzer, the CPAB provides invaluable assistance
to the Hollywood Division of the Los Angeles Police
Department, building relationships between the
community and the police force. Contact Field Deputy
Baydsar Thomasian for more information.
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Chief Bratton and City
Attorney Delgadillo announce Holly'wood's drop
in crime.
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At the
CPAB, I will be offering my appreciation to the
department for the sharp reduction in crime. The
statistics are great. At the beginning of the year,
we saw a sharp reduction in violent crime, but a
slight uptick in crimes against property; now we're
seeing across-the-board reductions. Crimes against
property are down 20% from last year, and all
arrests are up 17.7%.
While Downtown gets most of the attention for
development under the Adaptive Reuse Ordinance, many
buildings in Hollywood are getting their second acts
too! Jerry Schneiderman is adapting 48 units of
live-work creative lofts on Cosmo Street from the
husk of an old moving and storage building built
between 1896 and 1908. The lofts will have exposed
concrete and high ceilings, and you can see them
at www.creativenvironments.net.
The Hollywood Entertainment District and the
Hollywood Chamber have launched www.explorehollywood.com. Not only is it a one-stop guide to
Hollywood for tourists and tourist professionals
alike, it's also a really well-designed flash site.
A terrific team at
work |
Bill Harris,
the indefatigable executive director of the
Hollywood Community Housing Corporation, writes in
to say that at the Views at 270 project at Sunset
and Western, "We're on schedule and within budget
... fortunately we've assembled a terrific
team." He sends pictures too. I keep mentioning this
project but I never explained the name: the project
is at Western, and West is at 270 degrees on the
compass. See?
Bet Tzedek is hosting "The Justice Ball VIII"
on Saturday, July 10 at the Hollywood Palladium.
Organizer Sean Burton writes, "Join more than 3,000
young professionals for the 8th annual edition of
The Justice Ball(r)—a phenomenal evening of music,
dance and hot summer fun that has grown to become
THE premier event of the summer. Top-line musical
entertainment has performed in front of SOLD OUT
crowds since the event's inception in 1997." Get
your tickets now. http://www.bettzedek.org/jb.html
Tickets are on sale now for the Los Angeles
Film Festival (June 17-26). Check out 195
films, including 83 features, representing more than
30 countries; coffee talks with Anne V. Coates,
Danny Elfman, Thomas Newman, Alexander Payne, and
David O. Russell, among others; a sing-along of the
Beatles' Yellow Submarine in the Festival Courtyard;
an under-the-stars presentation of Zhang Yimou's
Hero at the Ford Amphitheatre; evenings dedicated to
blaxploitation, film art in L.A., and the
cinematographer of E.T.; and much more! To purchase
tickets and passes, call 1-866-FilmFest or visit http://www.lafilmfest.com/.
This Saturday, June 12th is the LA Festival
of Fitness for Seniors and Families in Exposition
Park. Where else are you going to get to dance with
both Mayor Hahn and the "Zumba con Kellogg's
dancers"? Michael Canlas in the Department of Aging
has more information. mailto:mcanlas@mailbox.lacity.org
Please join City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo in
celebrating LA's neighborhoods at the Neighborhood
Bike Ride on Saturday, June 12, 2004 in the harbor
area. Enjoy the 20-mile ride along the coast with a
refreshment break half way at Point Fermin Park. The
ride will commence at Los Angeles Harbor College at
7:45 a.m., and travel through many of our City's
beautiful neighborhoods. All Angelenos, ages 9 - 99
are encouraged to participate and show their
community spirit
GARAGE-A-RAMA! On Saturday,
June 19th from From 8 am to 12 pm on
Clinton Street between Beachwood and Gower, come to
a 60-family tag sale fundraiser for Larchmont
Charter School. Items can be dropped off on Sunday,
June 13th from 12-5 pm at 591 N.
Beachwood Drive.
The art venues in and around Los Feliz and
Silver Lake participate in a monthly Art
Walk,
where all spaces open together on the first Friday
evening of each
month. A list of the
participating galleries and a map of the area can be
found at:
http://www.laluzdejesus.com/artwalk.html.
