Story and photos by Murray Schneider After taking off two weeks for Christmas and the New Year, nine members of Friends of Glen Canyon Park resumed volunteering on January 8. They were working along a trail high on the canyon wall that leads to Turquoise Way. Working under the supervision of Dylan Hayes, a Recreation […]
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Rehabilitated One-Eyed Owl Returned to the Canyon!
A Glen Park printer makes her Christmas cards
Story and photos by Murray Schneider Mary Huizinga can add her name to a growing list. Glen Park has had its share of artists over the years. Sussex Street’s Bruce and Jean Conner’s work has appeared at Bird & Beckett and hung in neighborhood coffee shops; Michael Waldstein’s photos have graced the walls of a […]
Diamond/Bosworth intersection meeting Dec. 27 at 10:00 a.m.
Diamond/Bosworth Improvements Moving Ahead in 2014 This week, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) posted notices in Glen Park that the Diamond/Bosworth intersection improvements proposed since adoption of the Glen Park Community Plan in February 2012 will be considered at an SFMTA Engineering Public Hearing on December 27, 2013, starting at 10:00 am. The […]
Jesse James is dead
Story and photos by Murray Schneider Jesse James had a really sore toe! Tori Jacobs, an Ecology Center of San Francisco co-founder and volunteer, sat at Higher Grounds on a recent December afternoon. She nursed a Chenery Street latte and explained. “Jesse picked up a stone in August and it lodged in the crevice of […]
Glen Park Association grant program launches
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 […]
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 […]