Archives for August 2011

It’s the annual St. Nicholas Middle Eastern Food Festival this weekend at the Orthodox church up by Safeway in Diamond Heights (5200 Diamond Heights Blvd.) It runs from 12:00 pm to 10:00 pm. Saturday and Sunday. They’ll have food, art, music, dancing, prizes and a raffle. You also get the chance to tour the church, […]

By Murray Schneider This Mother’s Day witnessed the groundbreaking of The Little Red Hen Community Garden on Police Academy property. Now, a little over three months later, a granite monument is mounted in front of it, witness that the Little Red Hen Community Garden not only could, but did. On August 17th, Betty Louis surveyed […]

The following are Glen Park crimes from the Ingleside Station newsletter: Friday, August 5: Nothing in the report from Glen Park Saturday, August 6: Nothing in the report from Glen Park Sunday, August 7: Nothing in the report from Glen Park Monday, August 8: 12:15am    Sussex/Diamond      Aggravated Assault                        Officer Archilla was dispatched to the residence regarding an assault.  The victim […]

by Ashley Hathaway The Glen Canyon Park Improvement Plan continues to move forward and Karen Mauney-Brodek,
Deputy Director, Park
Planning for San Francisco Recreation and Parks will present the proposed plans at the second Recreation and  Park Commission hearing.  The hearing takes place at 10 am on Thursday August 18, City Hall, Room 416 and is open […]

Christopher Campbell pruning coyote brush in Glen Canyon. By Murray Schneider, Glen Canyon correspondent It was a good morning for day-trippers who walked the Glen Canyon trail, the one that begins below the Turquoise Way steps. It wasn’t such a great day for Algerian ivy that encroaches Medusa-like along the same trail, its tendrils prone to […]

By Murray Schneider More than 50 family, friends and fellow fire fighters released more than a hundred balloons above Fire Station 26 at noon on Sunday, August 14th to remember the 54th birthday of San Francisco firefighter and paramedic, Anthony Valerio. The red, yellow, blue and orange balloons sailed to the left of both the […]

Come join us on August 13th for the > Sunnyside “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle” Garage Sale! > Do you love to find hidden treasures or gently used clothes, toys, furniture and household items at a fraction of their original cost? > Be green, find some new treasures, meet your neighbors, and have some fun! > 25+ […]

Please share with all the music lovers you know…. Live @ Sunnyside Conservatory, in a return concert Temescal String Quartet Sunday, August 14th @ 2 pm, Doors open at 1 $20 suggested donation at the door, but no one turned away Program: Prokofiev, String Quartet no. 1 Dvorak, American String Quartet More info: www.sunnysideconservatory.org If you’d like to […]

The following are crimes from the Ingleside Station newsletter Friday July 29 12:45pm             Unit Blk Harper           Theft Officer Gomez responded to the call of a theft.  Victim advised that he had ordered a smartphone through the mail.  When he arrived home he noticed the package on the floor in front of his home but the […]

Greetings! There is a lot going on that is new and alive.  First of all, the new Friends of Sunnyside Conservatory website just went live!  Check it out at: www.sunnysideconservatory.org  Then, mark your calendar to join us Sunday, August 14th, at 2 pm in the Conservatory for a live performance by Temescal String Quartet.  Details and […]

By Murray Schneider “She’s having a big milking tantrum,” said Heidi Kooy, as she milked Lucy, her two-year old, 65-pound goat, at the inaugural Root to Fruits event billed as San Francisco’s “First Fruit Tasting and Urban Orchard Cultural Fair.” The School of the Arts’ School Farm on Portola Avenue, which partners with the Ecology […]