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Archives for October 2011

Pumpkin spiders in the park for Halloween!

October 31, 2011 by Elizabeth Weise

By Murray Schneider On October 19th, two Friends of Glen Canyon Park volunteers, Mary Huizinga and Jean Conner, watched a pumpkin spider lying at the center of its geometrically designed web. It looked as if it hadn’t skipped a meal in at least an hour, suspended from a silken guy-wire, rigged taut between willow branches […]

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Glen Park Plan vote Nov. 10, 2011

October 27, 2011 by Elizabeth Weise

Greetings Glen Park Neighbors, We’re about to reach a major milestone for Glen Park.  The Planning Commission will consider adoption of the Glen Park Community Plan in two weeks! After years of community planning, we’re almost there.  Thank you for your continued participation and involvement.  We’re happy to report the Plan is enjoying broad support […]

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Crime Report Oct 12 – 21, 2011

October 26, 2011 by Elizabeth Weise

The following are Glen Park crimes from the Ingleside Station newsletter: Wednesday October 12 10:00am     200 blk Fairmont                   Theft/Trick Officer Lee prepared a report regarding a theft by trick. The victim was contacted by phone and told that the caller was a representative of her bank. The caller told her that they were watching […]

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For the literarily-minded: Haruki Murakami’s magnum opus 1Q84 at Bird & Beckett

October 24, 2011 by Elizabeth Weise

Tomorrow, Tuesday, is the day! We open at the ungodly early hour of 11 a.m. so that you can be the second on your block to have your own copy of the English translation of Haruki Murakami’s magnum opus, entitled 1Q84. (If you can’t wait ’til then, some bookshops are putting them on sale 11 hours earlier, at midnight.) […]

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Bikes & Beats: A Call to Localize

October 20, 2011 by Elizabeth Weise

By Ashley Hathaway UPDATE: Glen Park band Cradle Duende will play at The Red Poppy Arthouse at 2698 Folsom this Saturday at 8:00. Musicians Morgan Nilsen and Justin Ancheta live in Glen Park and created a sustainable movement they coined “A Call To Localize.” The motivation for its creation grew from a desire they both […]

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Yerba Buena Native Plant Sale

October 19, 2011 by Elizabeth Weise

The Native Plant Sale is a chance to find local plant species that aren’t readily available at garden centers. Our focus and offerings, as always, will be native plants local to San Francisco and northern San Mateo County. These species are adapted to the local climate, soils, and habitats–and are also important to local fauna. This […]

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Dist. 8 newsletter for October

October 19, 2011 by Elizabeth Weise

October 2011 Newsletter Office Phone: 415-554-6968 Email:  scott.wiener@sfgov.org Website:  www.scottwiener.com For more regular updates, follow me on Facebook and Twitter:                  My Policy Work   Dogwalker Legislation This week, I introduced legislation to regulate and create a permitting system for commercial dogwalkers who use city property, including parks. The legislation would require commercial dogwalkers […]

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Pumpkin Carving @ Sunnyside Conservatory

October 19, 2011 by Elizabeth Weise

Our beloved annual tradition is back! Saturday, October 29, 2011. 12 pm-3 pm, FREE, Rain or Shine! Sunnyside Conservatory  236 Monterey Blvd between Baden and Congo Bring-Your-Own-Pumpkin. Pumpkin carving kits and tools, including tools for older children, will be provided.  Parents must supervise and accept responsibility for pumpkin carving with children. Co-sponsored by Friends of Sunnyside […]

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Sunnyside conservatory gets citywide recognition

October 18, 2011 by Elizabeth Weise

By Bonnee Waldstein San Francisco Beautiful is an organization in its 64th year of working “to assure that the city retains and enhances its unique and memorable sense of place, balance and diversity as a beautiful, livable, green and vibrant urban center.” This year, in a gala masquerade soiree at the Palace Hotel, San Francisco Beautiful […]

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Black Crown Stringband at Bird and Beckett

October 17, 2011 by Elizabeth Weise

By Murray Schneider Last week world class strummers had laid down their fiddles on the Banjo Stage at the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival in Golden Gate Park. But you’d hardly know it from the foot stomping and side slapping that accompanied the Black Crown Stringband at Bird and Beckett Books and Records on Sunday, October […]

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From derelict duds to cosmopolitan condos – Village Terrace goes on sale

October 8, 2011 by Elizabeth Weise

The condos that languished so long at Bosworth and Rousseau are finally finished and for sale. As their website says, they are Village Terrace Townhomes Offering a wide variety of floor plans, Village Terrace is a new contemporary enclave of 12 stylish townhomes designed and located to satisfy any urban lifestyle. Select a smaller one-bedroom […]

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Local Girl Makes Good

October 8, 2011 by Elizabeth Weise

By Murray Schneider, Glen Canyon correspondent As the summer ended on August 24th, the Feds moved on Glen Canyon at 9 A.M. in the morning. Eight volunteers from the Environmental Protection Agency, wielding loppers and hand saws and camouflaged in work clothes, began combating willow encroaching above a seep adjacent to a boardwalk on the […]

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Lori B. at B & B

October 8, 2011 by Elizabeth Weise

By Murray Schneider Lori B. peered from Bird and Beckett’s stage on September 11th, looking a lot like Raggedy Ann. Dressed in a patch-worked-quilt of jerry rigged-patterned layers of squares and polka dots, she ran several fingers through a mop of red hair, which looked as if it were coiffed while fleeing a hurricane. Not […]

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Crime Report Oct 3 – 5, 2011

October 7, 2011 by Elizabeth Weise

The following are Glen Park crimes from the Ingleside Station Newsletter Monday, October 3, 2011: Nothing in the report from GP Tuesday, October 4, 2011 6:08pm 100 blk Bosworth Battery Officers Dilag and Abucay were sent to investigate a call of two subjects holding down a third person. The officers separated all parties and were […]

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GPA Meeting Thursday, Oct. 13, 7:00

October 6, 2011 by Elizabeth Weise

The Glen Park Association invites you to our quarterly meeting. We have a packed agenda. Thursday, October 13 7 pm Glen Park Recreation Center Elk and Chenery Streets (past the tennis courts) The agenda will include speakers from: • Props C & D, Pension Reform • Glen Park Plan update from the planning department • […]

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10th Anniversary Retrospective: Battling the Fennel Forest in Glen Park

October 3, 2011 by BONNEE WALDSTEIN

To celebrate the Glen Park Association Website turning ten years old, we are reposting some of our favorite stories from the last ten years. The green space that straddles St. John’s Elementary School at Bosworth Street between Chilton and Burnside Streets is known mostly to dog walkers and the rare, brave idle stroller; and possibly […]

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Glen Park Crimes Sept 26 – 30, 2011

October 3, 2011 by Elizabeth Weise

The following are Glen Park crimes from the Ingleside Station Newsletter Monday, September 26, 2011: Nothing in the report from Glen Park Tuesday, September 27, 2011: Nothing in the report from Glen Park Wednesday, September 28, 2011: Nothing in the report from Glen Park Thursday, September 29, 2011 9:00pm San Jose & Randall D.U.I. Officer […]

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The Glen Park Night Market brought the community together not only on Kern Street but into the Glen Park businesses as well!!
A big thank you to all for supporting local artists and the local small businesses in Glen Park!

Our next Glen Park Night Market is July 19th, Saturday 4PM- 8:30PM

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The Glen Park Night Market brought the community together not only on Kern Street but into the Glen Park businesses as well!! 
 A big thank you to all for supporting local artists and the local small businesses in Glen Park!

Our next Glen Park Night Market is July 19th, Saturday 4PM- 8:30PM

📷: Photos courtesy of Bonnee Waldstein 

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Just all kinds of activities and trucks on Diamond Street for the paving project….

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Just all kinds of activities and trucks on Diamond Street for the paving project….

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