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No Drain on Your Time

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What takes ten minutes and potentially saves you and your neighbors thousands of dollars? Adopt a Drain, San Francisco’s program that charges volunteers with clearing storm drains so they won’t clog and flood! Perks beyond earning the good will of your neighbors: you get to name your drain, and the name shows up on the […]

Future of Islais Creek

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San Francisco* is undertaking a study to deliver flood resilience and quality-of-life benefits to San Franciscans in the Upper Islais Creek Watershed. Quality-of-life benefits could include pedestrian and bicyclist safety, neighborhood connectivity, urban greening, and other environmental benefits. Increasing flood resilience may involve strategies to (1) adapt streets and the public realm to manage larger […]

Reminder: GPA Quarterly Meeting July 21

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Summer 2022 Quarterly Meeting Keeping Glen Park Beautiful The Glen Park Association Summer Quarterly Meeting Thursday, July 21, 2022 7 p.m. Register via Zoom here Agenda Vincent Yuen, RefuseRefuse: trash pickups in Glen Park Daniel Homsey, Neighborhood Empowerment Network: Neighborfest Representative from DPW: Streets and Sanitation to discuss everything clean streets, plus Q&A PLUS Representative from […]

GPA Mtg 7/21

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Summer 2022 Quarterly Meeting Keeping Glen Park Beautiful The Glen Park Association Summer Quarterly Meeting Thursday, July 21, 2022 7 p.m. Register via Zoom here Agenda Vincent Yuen, RefuseRefuse: trash pickups in Glen Park Daniel Homsey, Neighborhood Empowerment Network: Neighborfest Representative from DPW: Streets and Sanitation to discuss everything clean streets, plus Q&A Representative from District […]

Bird & Beckett Bash Celebrates Tony 6/16!

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This month’s Neighborhood Bash honors Tony from Critter Fritters! The ongoing third Thursday celebration is free and open to all. Great tunes provided by the Larry Vann Trio, with groove merchant Larry Van on drums, Michael Warren on bass and Tim Landis on guitar. No cover charge, though donations for the band always gladly accepted. […]

Clean with Pride 6/25

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Start Pride weekend with a local bang by joining the Glen Park Association, the Glen Park Merchants and Refuse Refuse for our monthly neighborhood cleaning, June 25, 10 a.m. to noon. We’re meeting again at Critter Fritters, 670 Chenery Street, where we’ll grab bags and get picking! All cleaning supplies supplied. Just bring your neighborhood […]

Refuse Refuse in GP 5/15

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Refuse Refuse in Glen Park   Let’s keep the green alive! Join the Glen Park Association and the Glen Park Merchants Association to refuse refuse in Glen Park. Sunday May 15, 2022 10am to 12pm Meet at Critter Fritters (670 Chenery) Post cleanup refreshments at Critter Fritter Sign Up Here Teams will fan out to […]

GPA Mtg 4/21

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Spring 2022 Quarterly Meeting Meet Our New Ingleside Police Captain and Hear from Supervisor Mandelman The Glen Park Association Spring Quarterly Meeting Thursday, April 21, 2022 7 p.m. Register via Zoom here (but we have hope for an in-person meeting this summer!) Agenda Announcement of 2022 GPA Grant recipients Michael Rice to speak in memory […]

DHB Median Cleanup 2/12

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The Canary Island pines on the Blvd. have been trimmed thanks to Paul Matalucci and Tom Osborne who volunteered on the medians during their recent vacation from their apple farm in Oregon. Paul created the Diamond Heights Blvd. Median Project in 2014 in order to improve the appearance of our neighborhood. Thank you to all […]

Arlington Path Workday 1/15

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Join your cross-cut neighbors Saturday, January 15, from 10 a.m. for the first monthly work party of 2022! Where: Roanoke and Arlington by the bike station, with a focus on the green areas on the block between Roanoke and Natick When: Saturday, January 15, 10 a.m. What: garbage pick up, graffiti removal, weeding and pruning especially adjacent to […]

AD17 Candidates 1/13

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  Meet the candidates vying to replace David Chiu to represent Assembly District 17 on Thursday, January 13, 2022, at a virtual meeting hosted by the Diamond Heights Community Association, the Glen Park Association and Upper Noe Neighbors. At 7:15 p.m. you’ll meet: David Campos, chief of staff for District Attorney Chesa Boudin, former SF […]

DHB Median Cleanup 12/11

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Diamond Heights Blvd. Median Project Workday Saturday, December 11, 9-12 noon Please join us for even an hour or two! The median islands look lovely with the new green grass. Unfortunately many weeds are growing as well. The Median Project approach is to keep the block in front of the shopping center and the median […]

FUF Zoom 12/7

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FUF COMING TO DISTRICT 8 FOR SIDEWALK GARDENS + EXPANDED TREE BASINS Friends of the Urban Forest has confirmed a Zoom meeting on Tuesday December 7, 6:30-7:30pm to answer your questions about adding a sidewalk garden. If you haven’t already, sign up here or email your information. (FUF will send the Zoom link) There are […]

Arlington Path/Bernal Cut Planting 11/13

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Join the Arlington/Bernal Cut gang to plant and clean this weekend! GREENING DAY along the San Jose Avenue Cut ~ SATURDAY: NOVEMBER 13 from 10am-12pm Meet up at the corner of St Mary’s Ave and San Jose Ave next Saturday for the Bernal Cut planting day. Start the morning with a quick meeting at 10am […]

UNN Mtg 10/20

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Dear Neighbors, Save the date: UNN virtual community meeting: October 20 at 7 pm Do you have concerns about neighborhood issues? Are you curious about what’s going on and how you can become involved and learn more? UNN committees will fill us in on their progress and the latest news about the J-streetcar line, Slow […]

Phoenix Day 10/17!

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One City. One Day. Rising Together. October 17th, 2021 will mark the return of San Francisco’s beloved Sunday Streets with a bigger than ever program taking place across the City, featuring historic routes and pop-ups, The Cross City Connector Bike Ride, and dozens of neighbor-hosted block parties citywide. LOCAL BLOCK PARTIES on SUNDAY, OCT 17 […]

GPA Quarterly Mtg 10/21

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Join the Glen Park Association for our fall quarterly meeting Thursday, October 21, 7pm on Zoom (registration details below) Agenda Fire Safety The San Francisco Fire Marshal will talk about fire safety, both in Glen Canyon and in the home. Neighborhood Beautification From murals to greenways, featuring Bernal Glen’s own Sophie Constantinou, whose tireless work […]

Arlington Path/BC Cleanup 9/19

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SAVE THE DATES September 19th: 10-12pm the Clean-Up Spectacular: Arlington Path & Bernal Cut October 17th: 12-5pm Phoenix Day Street Parties November 13th: 10-12pm CA Native Planting extravaganza SUNDAY, SEPT 19TH 10-12PM Join RefuseRefuseSF, Shine On and TogetherSF for a friendly neighborhood cleanup! Sign Up Here. We will meet at New College Hill Market (3798 […]

GP Loses A Great: Janice Mirikitani, 1941-2021

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The city lost a great leader July 29: Glen Park’s very own Janice Mirikitani, co-founder of Glide Memorial Church and the city’s poet laureate from 2000 to 2002. Mirikatani and her husband the Rev. Cecil Williams built Glide Memorial Church into the soul of San Francisco. There’s a wonderful tribute video here, and you can […]

D8 Boundaries to Change?

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I’m a volunteer with the League of Women Voters of San Francisco, a nonpartisan nonprofit. You or one of your colleagues might have heard from another LWVSF volunteer a few months ago about local redistristricting. I’d like to invite you to LWVSF’s next event on Thursday, August 19 at 6:00 pm. It’s about what a community of […]

UNN Meeting 8/18

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Dear Neighbors, UNN virtual community meeting: August 18 at 7 pm Email info@uppernoeneighbors.com for the Zoom link for this meeting. The link will be sent to members on the morning of the meeting. On the agenda: 1. What’s the latest on the J-streetcar line? Did you know that the J stops at Market Street and you must transfer to get […]

Natick Triangle Clean-up

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Sometime in the middle of shelter-in-place the small triangle along San Jose Ave  – where Arlington meets Wilder and Natick Street – began to transform.  Shopping carts and tires became orderly piles. Great big mounds of cut fennel and diced ivy vines replaced the garbage. Our roadside eyesore started to have order and then mulch. Now it looks like a […]

(Hi)stories of Our Neighborhoods

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The intersection of Diamond and Chenery Streets today is in the very heart of Glen Park. While it may seem no different than most intersections throughout San Francisco, if we peel back the years, we can discover its fascinating history. Before European, Russian, and possibly Asian explorers landed at San Francisco Bay, the prehistory of […]

GPA Quarterly Mtg July 22

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Please Join us at the (Virtual) Glen Park Association Summer Meeting July 22, 2021, 7pm Agenda Introduction, update on Glen Park, Q&A Captain Nicole Jones of Ingleside Station Report from City Hall, Q&A District 8 Supervisor Rafael Mandelman Got questions for the speakers? Send them to us at info@glenparkassociation.org Register in advance for this meeting: […]

UNN Mtg June 16

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UNN virtual community meeting: June 16 at 7 pm Email info@uppernoeneighbors.com for the Zoom link for this meeting. The link will be sent to members on the morning of the meeting. On the agenda: * Supervisor Mandelman on the budget, mental health services, and small business recovery * Local merchant status report * Slow Sanchez […]

Greenway Trail Work Starts June 14

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Delayed for two months due to supply chain issues, work on the Glen Park Greenway trail is finally scheduled to begin Monday, June 14. The trail will be improved between Brompton and Chilton avenues, which means the Greenway for those two blocks will be closed for approximately 4 to 6 weeks. Trail access from Burnside Avenue […]

Bernal Cut Cleanup May 15

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SATURDAY May 15 WORKDAY May 15th 10am-12pm Bernal Cut Workday West Side Meetup at Natick and Arlington East Side Meetup at Mission and Park with Ross leading the clean up DPW has a new Covid workday policy asking volunteers to sign waivers: At least 1 volunteer per household must fill out the Event Waiver here. THE […]

Greenway Closure Delayed to May

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Edit on May 16, 2021: The project to improve the surface of the Glen Park Greenway trail has been delayed pending delivery of required materials. Read more about that work here. Originally scheduled to start in April, the Glen Park Greenway trail improvements are now scheduled to start around May 1. During construction, the first […]

UNN Mtg April 21

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UNN virtual community meeting: April 21 at 7 pm  Email info@uppernoeneighbors.com for the Zoom link. The link will be sent to members on the morning of the meeting. On the agenda: * Slow Sanchez design input and program updates * A proposed housing development in the open space at Diamond Street and Diamond Heights Blvd * Upper Noe Neighbors […]

GPA Mtg April 29

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Join the Glen Park Association Spring 2021 Quarterly Meeting Thursday, April 29, 7 p.m. ZOOM LINK HERE.   Agenda Q&A with Jeffrey Tumlin, Executive Director, San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency   San Francisco County Transportation Agency to discuss Downtown Congestion Pricing   Send your questions to info@glenparkassociation.org  

Bernal Cut Cleanup April 17

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CLEAN UP | GREEN UP DAY: SATURDAY APRIL 17, 2021 Get an early start celebrating Earth Day by joining the Bernal Cut Restoration Project’s monthly Saturday cleanup, 10 a.m. to noon! Materials and enthusiasm supplied by Sophie C. at Richland and the east side of the path. Remember that the Richland Bridge is closed, so […]

Greenway Trail Work & Info Mtg

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The Glen Park Greenway has received funding to improve the segments of trail between Brompton Avenue and Chilton Avenue and has retained a contractor to begin work in early May. Construction on a small segment of the trail between Chilton Avenue and Burnside Avenue might also occur. This work will result in closure of the […]

Clean the Cut 3/20

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THIRD SATURDAY: CLEAN UP | GREEN UP DAY: MARCH 20, 2021 Grab your gloves (or get some from Public Works) and join your neighbors for our monthly Bernal Cut cleanup! Organized by the College Hill Neighborhood Association, the Bernal Cut Cleanup spans both paths above San Jose Avenue. They organize the bags, the gloves, the pickers, […]

Slow Street Survey

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Over the next month, the SFMTA wants to hear from residents and community members about their thoughts on the Slow Streets, what’s working, what’s not working, and to provide input on their future. Interested community members can access the surveys via the links below: Access the Chenery Street Survey SFMTA.com/SlowArlingtonSurvey   The surveys will be […]

Richland Bridge To Close

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The Richland Avenue Bridge is scheduled to close from March to November for railing repair, paving the way for a mural on its crossbeams and reinforced fencing below. Working under the management of San Francisco Public Works, the contractors with Gordon N. Ball, Inc. will demolish the bridge’s crumbling railing and patch its substructure. According […]

Amos Goldbaum Mural in GP

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One of San Francisco muralist Amos Goldbaum’s signature line drawings may soon grace the exterior of Pebbles Cafe, thanks to the efforts of Bernal Glen resident Amanda Martin. “This is a project that I have been dreaming about for a very long time,” Martin said. “After many false starts, it looks like we have a […]