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October 2011 Newsletter Office Phone: 415-554-6968 Email:  scott.wiener@sfgov.org Website:  www.scottwiener.com For more regular updates, follow me on Facebook and Twitter:                  My Policy Work   Dogwalker Legislation This week, I introduced legislation to regulate and create a permitting system for commercial dogwalkers who use city property, including parks. The legislation would require commercial dogwalkers […]

Our beloved annual tradition is back! Saturday, October 29, 2011. 12 pm-3 pm, FREE, Rain or Shine! Sunnyside Conservatory  236 Monterey Blvd between Baden and Congo Bring-Your-Own-Pumpkin. Pumpkin carving kits and tools, including tools for older children, will be provided.  Parents must supervise and accept responsibility for pumpkin carving with children. Co-sponsored by Friends of Sunnyside […]

By Bonnee Waldstein San Francisco Beautiful is an organization in its 64th year of working “to assure that the city retains and enhances its unique and memorable sense of place, balance and diversity as a beautiful, livable, green and vibrant urban center.” This year, in a gala masquerade soiree at the Palace Hotel, San Francisco Beautiful […]

By Murray Schneider Last week world class strummers had laid down their fiddles on the Banjo Stage at the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival in Golden Gate Park. But you’d hardly know it from the foot stomping and side slapping that accompanied the Black Crown Stringband at Bird and Beckett Books and Records on Sunday, October […]

The condos that languished so long at Bosworth and Rousseau are finally finished and for sale. As their website says, they are Village Terrace Townhomes Offering a wide variety of floor plans, Village Terrace is a new contemporary enclave of 12 stylish townhomes designed and located to satisfy any urban lifestyle. Select a smaller one-bedroom […]

By Murray Schneider, Glen Canyon correspondent As the summer ended on August 24th, the Feds moved on Glen Canyon at 9 A.M. in the morning. Eight volunteers from the Environmental Protection Agency, wielding loppers and hand saws and camouflaged in work clothes, began combating willow encroaching above a seep adjacent to a boardwalk on the […]

By Murray Schneider Lori B. peered from Bird and Beckett’s stage on September 11th, looking a lot like Raggedy Ann. Dressed in a patch-worked-quilt of jerry rigged-patterned layers of squares and polka dots, she ran several fingers through a mop of red hair, which looked as if it were coiffed while fleeing a hurricane. Not […]

The following are Glen Park crimes from the Ingleside Station Newsletter Monday, October 3, 2011: Nothing in the report from GP Tuesday, October 4, 2011 6:08pm 100 blk Bosworth Battery Officers Dilag and Abucay were sent to investigate a call of two subjects holding down a third person. The officers separated all parties and were […]

The Glen Park Association invites you to our quarterly meeting. We have a packed agenda. Thursday, October 13 7 pm Glen Park Recreation Center Elk and Chenery Streets (past the tennis courts) The agenda will include speakers from: • Props C & D, Pension Reform • Glen Park Plan update from the planning department • […]