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 […]
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Maintaining Our Street Trees and Park Trees
From Sup. Scott Wiener: Maintaining Our Street Trees and Park Trees We don’t devote nearly enough resources to maintenance of our City’s urban forest. As a result, our park trees are rarely inspected – which can create safety hazards – and the City is gradually turning over responsibility for street trees to adjacent property owners who may […]
Glen Park resident named Chair of the SF Bay Area Federal Executive Board
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – Glen Park resident Doug Betten, regional administrator for the Department of Labor’s Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration and Management, San Francisco region, has been appointed chair of the San Francisco Bay Area Federal Executive Board (FEB). The FEB appointment is for a one-year term. The FEBs were established in 1961 under President […]
Neighborhood updates and some history at the Glen Park Association Meeting
Glen Park said “Fie!” to term limits last Thursday, January 19, as the incumbent officers of the Glen Park Association were swept back into office by unanimous vote. For President Michael Rice, it will be his seventh term. No superpacs, debates or direct mail hit-pieces were to be found on this campaign trail either. The […]
Basketball at Glen Canyon: A social institution that may be going away
By Murray Schneider Several middle-aged athletes gathered one recent afternoon around the free-throw line at Glen Park Recreation Center’s basketball court, tuning up for the first of dozens of afternoon and evening half-court pick-ups games. “They’re our senior statesmen,” said Oskar Rosas, 46, recreation coordinator at the Depression-era Rec Center, which would remain open until […]
College Hill Neighborhood Assoc. cleans Bernal Cut on Monday
. Our growing College Hill Neighborhood Association (which serves both sides of the Bernal Cut, btw : ) is teaming up with DPW to do a major clean-up of the Bernal side of the Bernal Cut path, and since so many GP residents loop across our shared bridges to our Bernal side of the path, […]
Save the date – Next GPA meeting Jan. 19 with historic photo slide show
FYI the next GPA Meeting info January 19, 2012 7pm St. John School, 925 Chenery Street Program – Southern Pacific Railroad Line through the Mission and Glen Park: Slide Show with Richard Brandi, Architectural Historian ADJOURNMENT Social hour to follow
2011 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Syndey Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 32,000 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 12 sold-out performances for that many […]
Crime Report, Dec. 9 – 27, 2011
The following are Glen Park crimes from the Ingleside Station newsletter: Friday December 9 Nothing in the report from Glen Park Saturday December 10 1:09am 100 Blk Bemis St Recovered vehicle Sunday December 11 6:15am 200 Blk Chenery St Vandalism Sgt. Miller responded to a report of a suspect with a tire iron vandalizing vehicles. […]
Helping the Canyon thrive through judicious pruning
By Murray Schneider Willow Creek Trail isn’t named on any official map that San Francisco Rec and Park has shelved at McLaren Lodge. Nevertheless, the Glen Canyon path circles Glen Park’s Islais Creek. It begins near a boardwalk that leaves Silver Tree Day Camp in its wake, runs parallel to a seep that collects run-off […]