Mark your calendars for the following volunteer opportunities: Saturday, January 11th and Saturday,February 15th 9am-11:30am Meet at the at the end of the Everson cul-de-sac between 2 Everson and Amatista Lane. Volunteer Task: planting Tools and gloves will be provided. Attire: Please wear close toed shoes, long pants and appropriate rain gear. Refreshments: Light snacks […]
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Laurent hosts soiree to bid Glen Park adieu
Detroit Street step-a-thon raises money to beautify Sunnyside
by Murray Schneider “Won’t you be my neighbor?” Children and parents, sans Tom Hanks in red cardigan and sneakers, gathered at 10 a.m. on Nov.24 at the foot of the neighborhood’s lower Detroit Street steps to kick off the inaugural step-a-thon run, a fundraiser to beautify a Sunnyside neighborhood landmark. An early fall chill had […]
Holiday Wreath Making at Sunnyside Conservatory!
On Sunday, December 15th, we will have Holiday Wreath Making inside the Conservatory! IT IS FREE. We start at Noon and will finish at 4:00 PM. We will have lots of greenery and greens with red berries. My cotoneaster is revived, and it is full of bright red berries at this point. The holly is […]
Breaking News:
Oil spill on Elk Street
Traffic in Glen Park was snarled this morning due to an oil spill on Elk Street between Bosworth and Sussex Streets. A Recology truck traveling uphill from Bosworth dropped a load of hydraulic fluid as it made its way up Elk Street. The hydraulic fluid is needed to operate the lifts that dump trash from […]
The Glen Park email lists have a new home
The Glen Park Parents list is dead. Long live the Glen Park Parents list! Fifteen years ago, I launched an email group for parents in Glen Park. The idea was to help connect people and give a stronger sense of community. It worked. Today the group has 2,277 members. That first email was a notice […]
SFMTA looks to speed up J-Church Muni line (Bay Area Reporter)
The inefficiency and unreliability of the J-Church has commuters up in arms. Supervisor Mandelman has been working with SFMTA and the community –Upper Noe Neighbors had an open house November 18 — to work out solutions to the problem-riddled Muni line. Read about it here.
Next Greenway work party, Saturday, December 7
Hello Friends and Supporters of the Glen Park Greenway. Our next work party will be on Saturday December 7! Please put in in your calendar. I hope that you’ll be able to join us. Please email me to tell me if you will be there: greenway@glenparkassociation.org. We’ll start at 9:00 – there’ll be coffee waiting […]
Glen Park featured in New York Times travel section
The secret is out. Glen Park has just had its profile raised to national heights. “A 17-Mile Hike to Unite San Francisco,” by Nellie Bowles, is the story of the Crosstown Trail, and Robert Siegel, its champion over many years.The official designation of the trail dates back to 2014. Glen Park is one of seven […]
Useful emergency preparedness brochures
Resilient Diamond Heights (RDH) has developed five brochures to train its volunteers and the public on how households can prepare for a wide variety of emergencies. This was undertaken when we found that very little of information scattered over the Internet is in a format that is easily understood. Some is written for the […]