By Murray Schneider While it will be some time before the 2008 Clean and Safe Neighborhood Parks Bond money is used for Glen Canyon trail improvements, San Francisco Recreation and Park’s Natural Areas employees didn’t let any dust collect beneath their feet on August 24th. Joe Grey and Jon Campo removed a step to a […]
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Middle Eastern Food Festival at Diamond Heights this weekend
It’s the annual St. Nicholas Middle Eastern Food Festival this weekend at the Orthodox church up by Safeway in Diamond Heights (5200 Diamond Heights Blvd.) It runs from 12:00 pm to 10:00 pm. Saturday and Sunday. They’ll have food, art, music, dancing, prizes and a raffle. You also get the chance to tour the church, […]
The Little Red Hen Community Garden
By Murray Schneider This Mother’s Day witnessed the groundbreaking of The Little Red Hen Community Garden on Police Academy property. Now, a little over three months later, a granite monument is mounted in front of it, witness that the Little Red Hen Community Garden not only could, but did. On August 17th, Betty Louis surveyed […]
Crime report, Aug 5 – 18, 2011
The following are Glen Park crimes from the Ingleside Station newsletter: Friday, August 5: Nothing in the report from Glen Park Saturday, August 6: Nothing in the report from Glen Park Sunday, August 7: Nothing in the report from Glen Park Monday, August 8: 12:15am Sussex/Diamond Aggravated Assault Officer Archilla was dispatched to the residence regarding an assault. The victim […]
PARK IMPROVEMENT PLAN: 2nd City Hall Hearing Today at 10 am
by Ashley Hathaway The Glen Canyon Park Improvement Plan continues to move forward and Karen Mauney-Brodek, Deputy Director, Park Planning for San Francisco Recreation and Parks will present the proposed plans at the second Recreation and Park Commission hearing. The hearing takes place at 10 am on Thursday August 18, City Hall, Room 416 and is open […]
Slashing back the ivy in Glen Canyon
Christopher Campbell pruning coyote brush in Glen Canyon. By Murray Schneider, Glen Canyon correspondent It was a good morning for day-trippers who walked the Glen Canyon trail, the one that begins below the Turquoise Way steps. It wasn’t such a great day for Algerian ivy that encroaches Medusa-like along the same trail, its tendrils prone to […]
Balloons for Tony Valerio, fallen Diamond Heights firefighter
By Murray Schneider More than 50 family, friends and fellow fire fighters released more than a hundred balloons above Fire Station 26 at noon on Sunday, August 14th to remember the 54th birthday of San Francisco firefighter and paramedic, Anthony Valerio. The red, yellow, blue and orange balloons sailed to the left of both the […]
Huge Sunnyside garage sale this Saturday
Come join us on August 13th for the > Sunnyside “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle” Garage Sale! > Do you love to find hidden treasures or gently used clothes, toys, furniture and household items at a fraction of their original cost? > Be green, find some new treasures, meet your neighbors, and have some fun! > 25+ […]
Sunnyside Conservatory concert Sunday Aug. 14
Please share with all the music lovers you know…. Live @ Sunnyside Conservatory, in a return concert Temescal String Quartet Sunday, August 14th @ 2 pm, Doors open at 1 $20 suggested donation at the door, but no one turned away Program: Prokofiev, String Quartet no. 1 Dvorak, American String Quartet More info: www.sunnysideconservatory.org If you’d like to […]
Crime Report July 29 to August 4
The following are crimes from the Ingleside Station newsletter Friday July 29 12:45pm Unit Blk Harper Theft Officer Gomez responded to the call of a theft. Victim advised that he had ordered a smartphone through the mail. When he arrived home he noticed the package on the floor in front of his home but the […]