Elizabeth Weise

By Kevin Janssen   There are many wonderful qualities that make Glen Park a very desirable neighborhood in San Francisco.  Our rare and beautiful Canyon is certainly at the top of any list along with the expanding number of destination restaurants in the Village and easy access to public transportation.  Despite this plethora of urban amenities, […]

See the photos below this message. And note the survey form at the end. === At the January 15, 2014 Glen Park Association meeting, SFMTA, Planning, and Department Public Works landscape architects presented initial plans for streetscape amenities at the widened sidewalks now approved for the Diamond / Bosworth intersection. The concept plans include a […]

    The dead Barn Owl we found and took to WildCare for rodenticide testing, Patient #1754, was found, indeed, to have died of rat poisoning.    Many people don’t know that when a hawk or owl or other predator eats a poisoned rodent, that animal gets poisoned too. Please STOP using rat poisons (rodenticides)! […]

By Elizabeth Weise The operating  permit of All Season Restaurant at 5238 Diamond Heights Blvd., in the shopping center that also holds Safeway and Walgreens has been revoked and the restaurant closed. The San Francisco Department of Environmental Health held a hearing on Jan 8 on the issue and subsequently revoked the permit on the restaurant, […]

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 […]

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 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

NOVEMBER 17, 2013, 11:00 AM 18 Comments Disruptions: A Digital Underworld Cloaked in Anonymity By NICK BILTON Nick Bilton/The New York TimesThe public library in the Glen Park section of San Francisco, where Ross Ulbricht, a 29-year-old software engineer, was arrested by federal agents. He is accused of running Silk Road, an Internet black market, under the […]

Thanks so much to those of you who were able to attend the community meetings we held to discuss the renovation of the Glen Canyon Park recreation center on June 13th and July 13th of this year. The information and feedback from those meetings is available on the Glen Canyon 2012 Bond Project Page http://sfrecpark.org/project/glen-canyon-park-2012-bond/. As […]

Photos and story by Murray Schneider On Tuesday, October 29, 2013 work commenced on the first portion of the 15- month Glen Park Trails Project when workers from Yerba Buena Engineering and Construction felled a eucalyptus tree that both leaned dangerously over the canyon’s main fire road and impeded the flow of creek water. Using […]

St. Aidan’s wacky play about St. Dymphna’s Parish this weekend. St. Aidan’s, up on Diamond Heights, does a lot of nice things in the neighborhood, including running a Food Bank, monthly senior lunches and an after school program, as well as being the emergency preparedness center for Diamond Heights. This is a nice chance to support them.

Story and photos by Murray Schneider What if you gave a party and everyone came? Eric Whittington found himself in this enviable situation on October 26 when dozens of professional musicians flocked to Bird & Beckett, a venue that has supported them for 14 years. On a sunny Glen Park Saturday, Bird and Beckett’s owner […]

Hi Everyone – Thanks so much to those of you who were able to attend the community meetings we held to discuss the renovation of the Glen Canyon Park recreation center on June 13th and July 13th of this year.  The information and feedback from those meetings is available on the Glen Canyon 2012 Bond Project Page. As […]

Sunday, October 6th, 2013 2:00pm 300 Blk Addison Burglary Monday, October 7th, 2013 7:37pm 400 Blk Arlington Stolen Vehicle Tuesday, October 8th, 2013 10:00pm Unit Blk Circular Recovered Vehicle Wednesday, October 9th, 2013 Nothing to report from Glen Park. Thursday, October 10th, 2013 Nothing to report from Glen Park. Friday, October 11th, 2013 9:30am Unit […]

Hi All This email is to confirm that SFMTA will be having a public outreach  meeting to the neighbors of Diamond St. on Wednesday November 13th at the Glen Park Library meeting room from 6:30 – 7:30 PM.   Sean Kennedy with the SFMTA will be presenting Muni’s TEP Project ( Transit Effectiveness Project) with an […]

Chef Sharon Ardiana standing next to a photo of her grandparents, William and Gialina Ardiana.   If you’ve eaten at Gialina’s, you’ve had dinner with them. But do you know who they are? The they here, of course, are the people in the amazing black and white photos that grace the walls of Gialina’s, the […]

Tuesday, September 10th, 2013 11:29pm Chenery/Charles Drugs Officers Colby and Officer Morse were on patrol and driving along Randall Street, when they both noticed a Black Dodge Magnum commit a traffic violation. The officers conducted a traffic enforcement stop and asked the driver for his California driver’s license Officer Colby did a computer record check […]

Photos by Jeff Vidal

By Murray Schneider Long-time Glen Park resident, Jean Conner, will have several of her collages displayed at Gallery Paule Anglim from October 9 – November 9, 2013. Collected under the banner “Sight Vision The Urban Milieu,” Conner’s works will be hung next to her husband Bruce Conner’s ink on paper art. The exhibit also features […]

By Zachary Clark If it seemed last weekend that Glen Park had been taken over by a horde of roustabouts straight out of a 1930s WPA movie, it was in fact something along those lines. Over the course of three days Camp Silver Tree became base camp for dozens of V-o-Cal volunteers working to clear […]

Tuesday, August 20th, 2013 1:20pm       600 Blk Chenery           BurglaryA Pilates instructor and her student were in the middle of a privatesession when three suspects and their three infant children walkedinto the Pilates studio located along the 600 Block of Chenery Street.The instructor politely asked the suspects that she was in the middleof a private session […]

Glen Park Association Quarterly Meeting   October 9, 2013 at 7:00 PM St. John’s School   Agenda   700 PM: Call to Order   Committee / Treasurer Reports   Neighborhood Updates: Sup. Scott Wiener comments and Q&A SFPD Ingleside Station report Status of Bosworth/Diamond intersection and other downtown Glen Park traffic improvement plans   Program: […]

October 1, 2013 — Who knew that quiet Glen Park village would become the epicenter of a major international drug and crime story drama ?  On a sunny afternoon, I was thinking about renewing two books at Glen Park Library, and trying to remember what hours the library opened.  Walking up to the library front doors, […]

You can read the full story in the Chron here. Here’s the Glen Park scoop, which I got from speaking with the staff at GP library and then the library spokeswoman. Ross Ulbricht was arrested on Tuesday sitting in the science fiction section of a San Francisco public library branch. The FBI had between six and […]

Check out their video below, really a wonderful job of using basic video to really show a problem to officials. ==== Crosswalk coming to Richland at the Bernal Cut Path Last Friday, CHNA Treasurer Robert Lane and three mamas with kiddos attended an MTA hearing at City Hall about the long-desired “midblock” crosswalk for where […]

Many in Glen Park have followed the Muni proposal to re-route the 35-Eureka bus line so it serves village and BART directly, but with questions about a route using Wilder Street. The Glen Park Association board of directors sent the attached letter of comment on the Transit Effectiveness Project EIR, supporting the overall connection, but […]

Stories and photos by Murray Schneider Moses may have done well with bulrushes, but our creek does not. It’s not over fond of Cape ivy and Himalayan blackberry either. Which is why on two recent Wednesdays Friends of Glen Canyon Park volunteers dove in along the east side of Islais Creek. Steve Uchida, a retired […]

The Glen Park Association would like you to know that they have received the following information: BART has announced a meeting on the Glen Park BART Parking Lot, and BART wants to hear from you. The BART Property Development Department invites you to a visioning meeting to discuss the development of the Glen Park BART Parking Lot. […]

Stories and photos Murray Schneider Richard Linder came face-to-face with a cement wall, which he didn’t cotton to, so he transformed it into a fantastical alchemy of glass, marble, copper and clay. You can see the results with your own eyes on the first block of Miguel Street, where you’ll find his ceramic relief sculpture, […]

Just received from BART 08.26.2013 Daily parking fee to begin at Glen Park Station A $2 daily fee parking charge will begin in the Glen Park BART station parking lot on Monday, September 30, 2013. The daily fee of $2 will be in effect on weekdays for all parkers, including those with a disabled person […]

It’s not quite the iconic “The War Is Over!” headline, but it looks like they may be done working on our village intersection Dan Harrington sent in these photos from Wednesday, August 21, 2013. They were taken at about  1pm on Diamond at and near Chenery. Dan reports that the  workers from Synergy were really […]

What would it be like to walk from Portola Drive to Elk Street, using only Glen Canyon Park trails? We’re about to find out – this month the Department of Recreation and Park rolls out its “Creeks to Peaks” Trails Project, which means, among other things, pedestrians will eventually be able to avoid O’Shaughnessy Boulevard […]

And it clearly isn’t over yet. The corner of Chenery and Diamond is re-opened by our city workers on Friday morning. [Correction: The photo was taken by Michael Waldstein, the original photo credit was incorrect.]

I’ve got to say, I’m loving St. Aidan’s…    

Wednesday, July 17th, 2013 Nothing to report from Glen Park. Thursday, July 18th, 2013 10:00am   Bosworth/Oshaughnessy   Theft from Vehicle Friday, July 19th, 2013 Nothing to report from Glen Park. Saturday, July 20th, 2013 3:00pm   Unit Blk Addison   Restraining Order Violation Sunday, July 21st, 2013 Nothing to report from Glen Park. Monday, […]

To celebrate the Glen Park Association Website turning ten years old, we are reposting some of our favorite stories from the last ten years. As Silver Tree Day Camp prepares to conclude its seventy-third summer in Glen Canyon, visitors over the past few years have noticed that many things have changed . . .and yet […]

Story and Photos by Murray Schneider On June 26, five Friends of Glen Canyon Park volunteers played hooky and took a field trip. They put aside their familiar canyon tools and headed for Golden Gate Park. Welcomed to the Recreation and Park’s nursery on Martin Luther King Drive by Licia De Meo, a Rec and […]

By Murray Schneider On July 13, District 7 Supervisor Norman Yee put aside his legislative pen and picked up a pair work gloves and assisted 20 Sunnyside volunteers collecting litter and pulling weeds along Monterey Boulevard’s thirteen street medians. “The idea is to let my interns experience first hand a successful City and neighborhood project,” […]

Tuesday, July 16th, 2013 Nothing to report from Glen Park. Monday, July 15th, 2013 10:10am     Unit Blk Lippard                    Suspicious device San Francisco Sheriffs Deputies Padilla and Raleta were driving through the Glen Park area when they were approached by a concerned citizen who advised them that there was a suspicious package on Lippard Street. The […]