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Tuesday, April 23rd, 2013 1:45pm Unit Blk Roanoke Recovered Vehicle Wednesday, April 24th, 2013 3:37pm 200 Blk Miguel Recovered Vehicle Thursday, April 25th, 2013 4:19pm Unit Blk Chenery Harassing Phone Calls 9:30pm 200 Blk Bemis Vandalism to Property Friday, April 26th, 2013 Nothing to report from Glen Park. Saturday, April 27th, 2013 Nothing to report […]

By Murray Schneider After 28 years working as a horticulturist for San Francisco’s Recreation and Park Department, Gloria Koch simply couldn’t walk away from work she loved. So the 20-year Diamond Street resident, after retiring six months ago, began volunteering with Friends of Glen Canyon Park. Gloria Koch ready for a day volunteering along Glen […]

A warning about poison oak in the Canyon I was emailing with Murray Schneider, who writes about the Canyon on the Glen Park News blog, and he warned me that there’s a lot of poison oak out right now. In fact his exact words where “Where isn’t there poison oak?” He suggests staying on the […]

Tuesday, April 16th, 2013 7:30am           Diamond/Chenery                     Threats 11:13am           Brompton/Joost                        Recovered Vehicle 12:30pm           200 Blk Randall                        Theft from Building 10:27pm           Congo/Stillings                         Traffic Collision Wednesday, April 17th, 2013 2:58am           Unit Blk Monterey                    Burglary Thursday, April 18th, 2013 3:06pm           Oshaughnessy/Bosworth           Traffic Collision Friday, April 19th, 2013 9:51pm       2800 Blk Diamond                 Theft Officers Lustenberger and Chew were patrolling the […]

Last fall the male Great Horned Owl that  lived in Glen Canyon was found dead. A necropsy revealed that he had eaten a poisoned mouse or rat.  With his demise  many all been concerned about the mating prospects this year. No nesting activity had been observed. But today Evelyn Rose of the Tramps of San […]

By Jeanne Halpern T. S. Eliot notwithstanding, April is not the cruelest month.  In Glen Park, in fact, it may be the kindest month for the senses, when native plants in public and private gardens seem to have no goal other than to delight.  Walk the trails in Glen Canyon Park and, at the boardwalk, savor […]

Story and photos by Murray Schneider Alison Draper came to Glen Canyon to pull mustard and returned a month later to get married. On March 9 she and her partner Neil Mitchell stood above the canyon floor next to the angelica rocks. That’s what the Friends of Glen Canyon Park call them, because the wildflower […]

Monday afternoon’s high winds blew over a tree in the 800 block of Chenery Street, crushing a car windshield and sheering off a mirror. Branches flew over 20 feet away. The roots of the tree had been bricked in to a small space, unclear if that affected the tree’s stability.

CHAMBER WORKS FOR STRINGS Ravel Duo for Violin and Cello and Beethoven’s String Quartet, Op. 127 in Eb major SYMPHONY MUSICIANS: CHEN ZHAO, MARIKO SMILEY KELLY LEON-PEARCE,  GINA FEINAUER, AND MARGARET TAIT DATE                  SUNDAY   APRIL 14, 2013 TIME                   Doors opens at 615 PM –  performance starts at 7 PM VENUE      ST. AIDAN’S CHURCH  […]