The Glen Park Association Grant Program: At the Glen Park Association’s holiday party on Saturday, December 14, I had the pleasure to announce the Association’s grant funding program. The GPA is in a healthy financial condition, mainly because we are able to supplement our annual membership dues with income earned from advertising in the Glen […]
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Another owl found dead in the area
Dear Neighbors, We have found another dead owl, this time a barn owl, and we want to find out if the cause of death was rodenticide poisons again, as it was for the last owl found dead in our area. We have taken the owl to WildCare for coordination of a necropsy and toxicology report. […]
Free wreath-making at Sunnyside Conservatory Dec. 22
Greetings, and Happy Holidays to All! The Friends of Sunnyside Conservatory would like to invite you to our annual, free wreath making event. Date: Sunday, December 22nd Time: 11:30 AM to 2:30 PM. We will have the usual assortment of greens, including some with berries and some variegated white and green foliage. We have wire […]
Is it too dark on your street? Tell PG&E!
From Sup. Wiener’s office: We will be having a hearing this coming Monday December 9 at 1:30pm in City Hall room 263 on the topic of streetlights – what’s working, what’s not – and plans for improvement. Both PGE and PUC will be presenting. Please come if you’d like to provide public comment. Any help in advertising […]
Le P’tit Laurent lights up for the holidays
Photo and story by Murray Schneider Laurent Legendre put down his French recipes that have greeted his Le P’tit Laurent Glen Park restaurant since 2007 and hefted a ladder, better to place Christmas lights strewn along his building that corners Chenery and Wilder Streets. The festive lights will remain up through the holidays, drawing diners […]
Santa’s coming to Glen Park Dec. 3rd
Our Glen Park library figures in a noire-ish tale
NOVEMBER 17, 2013, 11:00 AM 18 Comments Disruptions: A Digital Underworld Cloaked in Anonymity By NICK BILTON Nick Bilton/The New York TimesThe public library in the Glen Park section of San Francisco, where Ross Ulbricht, a 29-year-old software engineer, was arrested by federal agents. He is accused of running Silk Road, an Internet black market, under the […]
Recreation Center preview at GP Library this Wednesday
Thanks so much to those of you who were able to attend the community meetings we held to discuss the renovation of the Glen Canyon Park recreation center on June 13th and July 13th of this year. The information and feedback from those meetings is available on the Glen Canyon 2012 Bond Project Page http://sfrecpark.org/project/glen-canyon-park-2012-bond/. As […]
Glen Park trails work continues
Photos and story by Murray Schneider On Tuesday, October 29, 2013 work commenced on the first portion of the 15- month Glen Park Trails Project when workers from Yerba Buena Engineering and Construction felled a eucalyptus tree that both leaned dangerously over the canyon’s main fire road and impeded the flow of creek water. Using […]
Oh, those quirky Episcopalians
St. Aidan’s wacky play about St. Dymphna’s Parish this weekend. St. Aidan’s, up on Diamond Heights, does a lot of nice things in the neighborhood, including running a Food Bank, monthly senior lunches and an after school program, as well as being the emergency preparedness center for Diamond Heights. This is a nice chance to support them.