To celebrate the Glen Park Association Website turning ten years old, we are reposting some of our favorite stories from the last ten years. Final word arrived Wednesday that the Cheese Boutique, a part of Glen Park for 19 years, will not close. Instead it will move next door, to 660 Chenery, into the space […]
Archives for February 2012
Glen Park Festival in trouble: You can help
From the Festival organizers: As most of you know, the Glen Park Festival is a one-day annual community event that brings our neighborhood together and raises money for schools and nonprofits in the Glen Park area. There are a few neighbors on Wilder Street who have signed a petition in protest of the festival. What they are asking […]
Rich Craib: 50 years in the Canyon
By Murray Schneider Later this year Diamond Heights resident, Richard Craib, steps down as president of the 130-member Friends of Glen Canyon Park, a position he has held for 15 years. Craib, 71, a native San Franciscan, was raised in the Sunset District and a 1958 graduate of Abraham Lincoln High School. He has lived […]
More on the park
To the Glen Park community: The Glen Park community must make its voice heard to assure funding to complete the ambitious plans to improve and preserve Glen Canyon Park. Please join our effort to request that the Glen Park Recreation Center Improvement Plan be part of a planned November 2012 San Francisco recreation and park […]
Will Glen Park get spiffed up this round? You can help decide
If you’re a Glen Canyon Park user living in Sunnyside or Miraloma, this message is for you: Our supervisors are now considering which SF parks will be eligible for facility improvements in 2014. This Monday, Feb 27th D-7 residents will have an opportunity to influence which parks will be on the priority list. Here’s […]
Glen Park Community Plan ADOPTED!
The Glen Park Community Plan has finally been ADOPTED! Last Tuesday, the Board of Supervisors unanimously voted to adopt the Glen Park Community Plan. The Plan will soon go to the Mayor for his signature and then become effective shortly thereafter. I want to sincerely thank everyone who participated in the planning process and helped […]
A moment in time: Glen Park Gym, Feb. 19, 2012
Crime Report Feb. 1 – 15, 2012
The following are crimes from the Ingleside station newsletter Wednesday February 1 Nothing in the report from Glen Park Thursday February 2 11:30am 300 Blk Arbor St Battery Officer Coles was dispatched to a report of battery. Officers Curry, Sanchez, Pai and Campion-Healy also responded. The victim told the officers that the suspect, who lives […]
Glen Park Farmers Market Spring opening April 1
GLEN PARK VILLAGE FARMERS’ MARKET I want to give thanks once again to all the Groups,Associations and neighbors for their overwhelming support. Last year was a great success, and this year we have more events and activities planned! Sunday mornings in Glen Park will not only be the time to shop at the Village Farmers’ […]
Coyote sighting in Sunnyside
From a Sunnyside email list: Coyote Sighting A large coyote was seen around 7:15am this morning wandering through the Sunnyside Rec Center. It entered via the steps at Melrose and was last seen behind the tennis courts. It did not appear to be afraid of humans.
CUP will be selling honey all week to benefit recess at Glen Park Elementary
CUP Cafe has kindly agreed to help Glen Park Elementary with our fundraiser. They will have 8 oz/ jars of Glen Park Honey for sale all week (or until supplies run out) for $12 per jar. It is local honey made right in Glen Park, from bees hived in the neighborhood. Proceeds will help fund […]
Our own Great Day, here in San Francisco
By Murray Schneider On January 29th, Jimmy Ryan and his Balboa Be Bop Band performed an encore to their earlier May 19, 2011 gig in the Richmond District’s Balboa Theater. Ryan, 72, and his Generation X jazz band mates warmed up the nearly capacity-filled theater with a rendition of Horace Silver’s “Blowin’ the Blues Away,” […]
Join the Park Policy Committee
Neighborhood Parks Council and San Francisco Parks Trust are now one. Dear Park Lover: SFPA is looking for San Francisco park activists, park lovers, and park supporters to join our Park Policy Committee (PPC). This newly formed volunteer team of park enthusiasts will collaborate with SFPA’s Board and Staff to research policy issues, influence […]
FRIDAY: Buy local honey, kid-made Valentine’s card at CUP and support Glen Park Elementary
Hi Neighbors This Friday, February 10, do some very unique shopping for Valentine’s Day while helping out your neighborhood school. Glen Park Elementary will be selling 8 oz. jars of delicious, local honey made right here in Glen Park, from bees hived in the neighborhood! In addition, there will be charming, home-made Valentine’s Day cards […]
Glen Park second on list of SF ‘hidden gem’ neighborhoods
See what the median price buys in secret gem neighborhoods locals prefer Share 20 When people pore over listings in the San Francisco Bay Area, where do they most often want to live? Pricey Pac Heights? The trendy Marina? Family-friendly Noe Valley? Certainly, out-of-state home buyers fall back most quickly on the more famous of our […]
The Chron’s Carl Nolte tells us to Be Here Now – and check out Bird and Beckett while we’re at it
Make memories of the S.F. that you’re living in today Carl Nolte, Chronicle Columnist Sunday, February 5, 2012 Those of us in the San Francisco column business get a lot of mail from old San Franciscans -and they all claim that somehow, some way, the city was a lot better years ago. It was […]
Twin Peaks Trail approved as a concept
On Feb. 1, the Capital Committee of the Recreation & Park Commission voted to move approval of the Twin Peaks Trail concept plan to the consent calendar of the full Commission meeting to be held on February 16 at 10am at City Hall in Room 416. This is great news, not just for Twin Peaks, […]
Crime report: Jan 15 – 30, 2012
Sunday January 15 Nothing in the report from Glen Park Monday January 16 6:30pm Whitney/Fairmount Vandalism A victim responded to Ingleside station and told PSA Zabarte that she parked and secured her vehicle and when she returned found all sides of the vehicle with scratch marks. The victim did not see anyone damage the vehicle […]
The Lawrence LaFlamme Ensemble at the Sunnyside Conservatory March 9
The Friends of Sunnyside Conservatory present: The Lawrence LaFlamme Ensemble at the Sunnyside Conservatory March 9th, 2012 Doors open at 7 PM Music begins at 8 PM $20 suggested donation at the door Legendary Rock violinist David Flamme, from the iconic 1960’s San Francisco group ‘Its a Beautiful Day’ and vocalist Linda LaFlamme join mandolin virtuoso […]
Make your own Valentines at Sunnyside Conservatory Feb. 11
sunnysideconservatory.org Our Next (free!) Event: Be My Valentine! Show your Sweetie(s) some Love. Returning Saturday afternoon, February 11, 2012. *Note New Time this Year: 2-4 pm. Rain or Shine The Valentine Card Party – the first community event held in the restored Conservatory – is now in its 3rd year. We will have lots of examples and inspirations […]