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Your daily moment of Zen – A beautiful Glen Park sunrise

January 12, 2021 by Elizabeth Weise

As photographer Marian Dalere of Dalaere’s Beauty Salon put it, “so pretty … for garbage day.”

Filed Under: Featured

All politics begin locally: A tutorial

January 4, 2021 by Glen Park News staff

How does California actually get candidates who run for elections and who, when elected, will affect our daily lives in profound ways? It’s both a democratic and a sausage-making process. But there’s a way we can impact the election process at the local level. Here is an example of how both major parties, Democrats and […]

Filed Under: elections, Featured, Political, Uncategorized

Follow up on murder of Leo Hainzl

December 22, 2020 by Bonnee Waldstein

As 2020 draws to a close, and none too soon, you will remember another horrible event of the year–the murder of 94-year old Glen Park resident, Leo Hainzl, as he walked his dog outside Glen Canyon Park on Memorial Day morning. The alleged perpetrator is Peter Rocha, a homeless man who frequented the neighborhood and […]

Filed Under: Crime, Featured, Glen Park people, Uncategorized

Picture this: The Detroit Street steps with amazing tile work

December 20, 2020 by Murray Schneider

The Detroit Steps Project continues making giant strides. Launched on November 3, 2018, the multi-year and multi-phase community-led beautification project, with an objective of fashioning 186 stairs with either mosaic or colored tiles, has taken another significant step towards its goal with the inauguration of the “2020 Drawing Contest.” “The contest is to derive imaginative […]

Filed Under: Featured, Sunnyside

Update: SF Assessor announces resources on Prop. 19

December 14, 2020 by Bonnee Waldstein

Today the SF Assessor’s office held a virtual informational session to inform San Franciscans about resources to help in understanding the implications of California Prop. 19, commonly known as the “Realtor’s Measure.” Prop. 19 will replace and bring changes to two statewide property tax saving programs: the parent-child transfer exclusion (effective February 16, 2021) and […]

Filed Under: Featured, Meeting announcement, Meeting Summaries, Uncategorized Tagged With: Editor's Pick

Assessor Carmen Chu to announce Prop. 19 outreach effort

December 11, 2020 by SF Assessor’s Office

    Launching one-stop shop resource page and webinar series to help families be prepared (multilingual resources available)   WHAT:              In November, California voters passed Proposition 19 which makes changes to property tax benefits for families, seniors, severely disabled persons, and victims of natural disaster in our state.  In response, the San Francisco Assessor’s […]

Filed Under: Events, Featured, Meeting announcement, Uncategorized

Drive-by shooting at Sussex and Diamond leaves one man with non-life-threatening injuries

December 6, 2020 by Elizabeth Weise

A mid-afternoon drive-by shooting on Sunday in Glen Park left a man with non-life-threatening injuries and Diamond street blocked for several hours as police investigated. Officers arrived on the scene and found an adult male victim suffering from a gunshot wound, police said. The victim was transported to a local hospital for non-life-threatening injuries. No […]

Filed Under: Crime, Featured

Glen Park artist’s work chosen for de Young exhibit

December 4, 2020 by Elizabeth Weise

You’ve seen his work if you’ve read the Glen Park News, or perhaps strolling down Chenery Street. In the coming months you will be able to see it at the de Young museum. Glen Park resident Michael Waldstein’s piece “Red” is one of numerous Bay Area artists whose work was chosen to be part of […]

Filed Under: Featured

Hoodline: Alemany Farmers’ Market has become free COVID-19 testing site

November 17, 2020 by Joe Kukura

Editor’s note: With the spike in COVID-19 cases in San Francisco and California statewide, and a rollback to more restrictive public health measures, it’s welcome news for Glen Park that, as of today, we have free coronavirus testing nearby. Read the details here.

Filed Under: Coronavirus, COVID-19, Featured, Uncategorized

Get out of your COVID rut — Go on a tree tour of Glen Park

November 15, 2020 by Murray Schneider & Kay Estey

Glen Park neighbors have long experienced California wildflower walks through Glen Canyon Park along with spider walks, and then of course Glen Park Neighborhoods History Project history walks. But they have never encountered anything like what greeted them on Sunday morning, October 25, 2020. Chalked on the sidewalk in front Bird & Beckett’s Books and […]

Filed Under: Featured

Detroit Steps Project virtual art competition and fundraiser

November 13, 2020 by Suna Mullins, DSP steering committee

Change Will Happen One Drawing and Step At A Time! The Detroit steps are a two-block stairway comprising 186 steps in total that run south from Detroit Street to Hearst Avenue and north from Detroit Street to Joost Avenue, bisected by Monterey Boulevard. The Detroit Steps Project (DSP)  is a multi-phased community-led beautification project to […]

Filed Under: Featured, Sunnyside, Uncategorized

Twin Peaks for all

October 29, 2020 by Bonnee Waldstein

With the election of a lifetime looming, this survey might not be top of mind when the deadline for submission, as announced today in the SF Park and Rec newsletter, is November 3.  However, you might want to take the time to respond to SF Park and Rec’s survey on access to Twin Peaks. There […]

Filed Under: Featured, Rec and Park, Twin Peaks, Uncategorized

Scary times: COVID stops Halloween this year, but we’ll be back in 2021!

October 6, 2020 by Elizabeth Weise

Note: Several readers have asked for a downloadable version of the lovely poster created by GPA webmaster and designer Mary Szczepanik. You can click the link below to get a printable copy.  GPA Halloween 2020 PDF Halloween has always been a joyous time in Glen Park. Chenery and many side streets are awash in trick-or-treaters. […]

Filed Under: Editor's Pick, Featured, Halloween

Local gym ready to open — but when will it?

August 3, 2020 by Bonnee Waldstein

In a pandemic, when it comes to working out in a gym to stay fit or practicing yoga in a studio, we’re on our own. Glen Park has been lucky to have had several options close by. For example, there’s Synced Pilates on Chenery Street; Sunrise Health and Fitness, also on Chenery Street; and Sol […]

Filed Under: Businesses, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Editor's Pick, Featured, Uncategorized Tagged With: Editor's Pick

Bus-only lanes coming to Glen Park

July 3, 2020 by Bonnee Waldstein

Filed Under: Coronavirus, COVID-19, Featured, SFMTA, Transit, Uncategorized

Shots fired in Glen Park village on Thursday night

June 26, 2020 by Lt. Kevin Knoble, Ingleside Station

Thursday evening at 6:15 p.m.,  San Francisco police officers responded to the area of Wilder and Diamond on a report of shots being fired. As a result of their investigation, they determined two males had an altercation that eventually led to gunfire. No one was struck or injured by the bullets but several cars and […]

Filed Under: Crime, Featured, SFPD, Uncategorized

A man and his dog, lifelong residents of Glen Park

June 25, 2020 by Bonnee Waldstein

With an average life span of 83.7 years and the most centenarians per capita on the planet, Okinawans are touted and envied for their longevity. Not only for humans, but maybe even dogs, as evidenced by 18-year old, aptly named Okie. She’s the equivalent of 88 human years, according to WebMD. That would undoubtedly make […]

Filed Under: dogs, Editor's Pick, Featured, Glen Canyon Park, pets, Uncategorized Tagged With: Editor's Pick

Could there be turkeys on Turquoise?

June 5, 2020 by Murray Schneider

Watch a video from May 20 by Roz Romney here: IMG_9554 On May 23, Glen Park Association president Scott Stawicki was walking his dog on Amber Street near the top of Glen Canyon Park when he encountered something he’d never expected to see in San Francisco — a wild turkey. “We saw it walking from […]

Filed Under: Featured, Uncategorized

Homicide in Glen Canyon Park this morning, May 25

May 26, 2020 by Bonnee Waldstein

We’ve received confirmation from Captain Woon of Ingleside Station of a homicide in the park this morning.  Here is the press release — note the appeal to contact the tip line if you have any information. On Monday, May 25, 2020 at approximately 8:15 AM, San Francisco Police officers from Ingleside Station responded to the unit block […]

Filed Under: Crime, Featured, Glen Canyon Park, SFPD

Where’s Glen Park Elementary? That’s easy

May 14, 2020 by Bonnee Waldstein

Like many San Franciscans, I’ve been taking the *golden opportunity* presented by the pandemic to do some exploring close to home. A good place to start was Bernal Heights park, which is nearby and which I’d surprisingly never visited before. Armed with a map and walking tour directions (details below), my husband and I made […]

Filed Under: Coronavirus, COVID-19, Editor's Pick, Featured, Glen Park School, Neighborhood, Uncategorized Tagged With: Editor's Pick

Update: Glen Park is open for essential business – April 19, 2020

April 19, 2020 by Bonnee Waldstein

(Photos: Bonnee Waldstein) Today’s Alert SF: Covering your face with a cloth or mask is now required while in essential businesses & public spaces in SF: www.sf.gov Since our last post on local business hours, there’s been a mandatory tightening of hours of operation for groceries. Some other businesses that remain open have opted to reduce […]

Filed Under: Businesses, Coronavirus, Featured, Uncategorized

Complete your 9-question census today

April 17, 2020 by SFcounts-2020census

San Francisco, it’s time to do the 2020 Census! The census is a count of every person living in the United States and its overseas territories that happens once every 10 years. EVERYONE should get counted, including the very young and the very old, the housed and the unhoused, and citizens and non-citizens.  The census […]

Filed Under: Featured, Uncategorized

Pet Daycare and Boarding Facility Offers FREE Day of Doggie Daycare

April 15, 2020 by pet camp/glen park news staff

“Let’s not go out and play,” said no dog ever. The closure of San Francisco dog parks means many of dog’s favorite activities have become impossible and as much as an on-leash walk is fun, there is no way it makes up for a romp in the park. In an effort to help stir crazy dogs—and their […]

Filed Under: Coronavirus, Featured, pets, Recreation and sports

Stop and smell the wildflowers of Malta — Malta and O’Shaughnessy, that is

April 9, 2020 by Murray Schneider

The next time you catch the 44 O’Shaughnessy — which is one of only 16 buses still operating in San Francisco during the coronavirus crisis — at Malta Drive you might want to stop and smell the flowers along the way. Denise Louie — who resides only a hop-skip-and-a-jump from the boulevard that serpentines from […]

Filed Under: Editor's Pick, Featured, Gardening, Glen Canyon Park Tagged With: Editor's Pick

Close to home: The new normal of food shopping

March 31, 2020 by Bonnee Waldstein

Photos by Bonnee Waldstein Food shopping, along with the rest of life, is beginning to change from a surreal experience, to the new normal.  Shoppers are smiling at each other and the Canyon Market staff, not sure if their expressions can be read beyond their face masks. Janet Tarlov keeps the traffic moving safely Everyone […]

Filed Under: Featured, Uncategorized

We’re all in this together — a message from Sen. Wiener

March 28, 2020 by State Senator Scott Wiener

Senator Wiener has some reflections and helpful advice on taking care of your mental health during this time of social distancing. Read the newsletter here

Filed Under: Coronavirus, Featured, Scott Wiener, Uncategorized

D8 Newsletter – COVID 19 Update (March 26)

March 27, 2020 by RAFAEL MANDELMAN

Here’s the latest update from Supervisor Mandelman. Read the newsletter here.

Filed Under: Coronavirus, Featured, Mandelman, Uncategorized

Close to home: Glen Canyon Park

March 25, 2020 by Harvey Steiman

(Editor’s note: Are you a photographer, poet, or essayist — or have you become one in the last couple of weeks? Our neighborhood website would like to provide a creative outlet for you! Send submissions to news@glenparkassociation.org. We will publish your photos and observations about life in the age of Coronavirus, subject to editorial review. This […]

Filed Under: Coronavirus, Featured, Glen Canyon Park

Glen Park is open for (essential) business

March 23, 2020 by Bonnee Waldstein

Glen Park looks deserted these days.  Still, many essential services are available.  Best to stay as close to home as possible, avoid the crowds, and support our local merchants. Below is a list of businesses in Glen Park that are open and their current hours of operation.  Will be updated as we get new information. […]

Filed Under: Businesses, Coronavirus, Featured

Saturday night life takes a hit in Glen Park

March 14, 2020 by Bonnee Waldstein

Photos by Bonnee Waldstein The usual weekend hustle and bustle of folks enjoying a Saturday night in the neighborhood was nowhere to be seen tonight.  The village was eerily quiet.  The only establishment that seemed to be thriving was Canyon Market, which experienced a surge of shoppers all day and into the evening. The obvious […]

Filed Under: Bird and Beckett, Businesses, Coronavirus, Editor's Pick, Entertainment, Featured, Uncategorized Tagged With: Editor's Pick

Did you miss Tuesday’s amazing sunset? Here’s a reprise

February 5, 2020 by Elizabeth Weise

Courtesy of Marian Dalere

Filed Under: Featured, Uncategorized

Notes on the winter meeting of the Glen Park Association

February 3, 2020 by Bonnee Waldstein

Photos by Michael Waldstein The quarterly meeting had a great turnout – folks were anxious to hear from several local leaders who came to give updates and hear about neighborhood concerns. First up– Introducing Ingleside Captain Christopher Woon: Captain Chris Woon made his first appearance since assuming his position at the Ingleside Station. Born and […]

Filed Under: Diamond/Bosworth, Featured, Glen Park Association, Mandelman, Safety, Scott Wiener, SFMTA, SFPD, SFPW, Transit, Uncategorized

Planting woodland strawberries with the City’s “Most Empowering Employee”

January 25, 2020 by Murray Schneider

On January 8, five members of Friends of Glen Canyon Park worked in Glen Canyon planting varieties of California native plants. Supervised by Dylan Hayes, a Recreation and Park’s Natural Resource Division natural resource specialist, the volunteers placed woodland strawberry, Douglas iris and pink flowering currant on either side of a split rail fence bordering […]

Filed Under: Featured, Glen Canyon Park, Rec and Park

For the first time ever, a Summer Tanager appears in Glen Park, attracting flocks of bird watchers

January 22, 2020 by Murray Schneider

Glen Canyon was aflutter early Wednesday morning, January 22nd. A flock of bird watchers descended on the 70-acre natural area, armed with cameras boasting the latest high-powered lenses. They stood, even sat, beneath the eucalyptus tree that houses Great horned owls each year, trained their cameras on another gum tree rooted on the bank of […]

Filed Under: Birds, Editor's Pick, Featured, Glen Canyon Park Tagged With: Editor's Pick

A trip to Cambodia, less than a mile away!

January 21, 2020 by Bonnee Waldstein

Thanks to Nextdoor we’ve been apprised that a wonderful local restaurant is struggling and needs your patronage and support.  It’s Angkor Borei, at 3471 Mission near Cortland, a short hop across the Bernal Cut for us Glen Parkers. Rather than reiterate its virtues as a modest eatery with great fresh cuisine, served by the most […]

Filed Under: Businesses, Featured, Restaurants, Uncategorized

SF Assessor-Recorders Office announces workshops on property taxes

January 15, 2020 by Bonnee Waldstein

From Assessor Carmen Chu’s January 2020 Community Newsletter: “Providing financial education for all families will continue to be one of my top priorities. In addition to our annual signature event, the Family Wealth Forum, in May, we have partnered with the San Francisco Public Library to conduct a series of neighborhood workshops to help bring valuable information […]

Filed Under: Featured, Meeting announcement, Uncategorized

Farewell letter from Facility Coordinator of Glen Park Rec Center

January 10, 2020 by Oskar A. Rosas

Dear Glen Park Community, As of Jan 24th, I am being reassigned from Glen Park Recreation Center to Richmond Recreation Center. I would like to take this opportunity to thank you all for the past 10 years that I have been stationed at Glen Park Recreation Center and been part of this amazing community. Working […]

Filed Under: Featured, Glen Canyon Park, Rec and Park, Recreation and sports, Uncategorized

The new P’tit Laurent, same as the old

January 6, 2020 by Bonnee Waldstein

Photos: Bonnee Waldstein It was a soft grand opening of Le P’tit Laurent, under the new ownership of local restauranteur Manhal Jweinat.  It was a low key affair. Despite the plan to reopen the restaurant tonight, as of this afternoon, there was no sign in the window and the shades were tightly shut. But those […]

Filed Under: Businesses, Editor's Pick, Featured, Restaurants Tagged With: Editor's Pick

Fairmount Plaza volunteer planting events coming soon

December 28, 2019 by Christopher Campbell

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 […]

Filed Under: Fairmount Plaza, Featured, SF Recreation and Parks Department, Uncategorized, Volunteer

Detroit Street step-a-thon raises money to beautify Sunnyside

December 15, 2019 by Murray Schneider

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 […]

Filed Under: Featured

Breaking News:
Oil spill on Elk Street

December 4, 2019 by Bonnee Waldstein

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 […]

Filed Under: Anniversary NO, Emergency preparedness, Featured, Road work, Uncategorized

The Glen Park email lists have a new home

November 25, 2019 by Elizabeth Weise

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 […]

Filed Under: Anniversary NO, Featured

SFMTA looks to speed up J-Church Muni line (Bay Area Reporter)

November 21, 2019 by matthew s. bajko

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.

Filed Under: Anniversary NO, Featured, Muni

Deb Lunsford’s rent party at Bird and Beckett — What goes ’round, comes ’round

September 4, 2019 by Murray Schneider

“Dollars for Deb” Eric Whittington billed the fund-raiser. Whittington, proprietor of Bird & Beckett, has thrown rent parties with live jazz before, to help keep his independent bookstore open for another month. But over the summer, he threw a rent party for Destination Bakery’s Deb Lunsford, a neighborhood favorite who’s recovering from surgery. Bakery regulars […]

Filed Under: Anniversary NO, Bird and Beckett, Editor's Pick, Featured Tagged With: Editor's Pick

We’re swimming in change in San Francisco

August 11, 2019 by Murray Schneider

San Francisco is constantly reinventing itself. Gold Rush seekers giving way to Comstock silver barons. Merchantman brigs surrendering to coal powered steamships, then complemented by coal-powered railroads. The latter engineered by entrepreneurs with names such as Stanford, Huntington, Hopkins and Crocker. Which got me thinking about how, less than a century later, the outer Sunset […]

Filed Under: Featured, Uncategorized

Sunnyside’s Detroit Street steps got spruced up on June 8

May 31, 2019 by Murray Schneider

The Detroit Street steps in Sunnyside are getting a spruce up and local residents can take part on June 8, when Sunnyside volunteers are scheduling a “Cleanup and Celebration Day.” During the event, neighbors will have an opportunity to work alongside DPW’s Green and Clean Team, weeding the upper and lower steps. It’s the start […]

Filed Under: Featured, Sunnyside, Uncategorized

Dogs of Glen Park: Meet Bruce Bochy

May 19, 2019 by Murray Schneider

San Francisco Giants Bruce Bochy is taking victory laps around National League ball parks as he finishes a storied major league career as a big-league catcher and manager. There’s another Bruce Bochy, the Chenery Street Bochy, and he’s caught a few pitches himself. The Glen Park Bochy is in mid-career, takes his own laps and […]

Filed Under: Featured, Uncategorized

Destination Bakery’s Deb Lunsford Delights

May 1, 2019 by Murray Schneider

Deb has a destination. For 16 years Deb Lunsford has mounted her Raleigh bicycle and peddled to Destination Bakery from her Bernal Heights home. She crosses Mission Street, picks up Arlington Street, takes a right on Natick, then a left on Chenery and arrives at Destination five days a week before the sun comes up. […]

Filed Under: Businesses, Featured

10th Anniversary Retrospective: Scenes from the Glen Park Festival, April 28, 2019

April 29, 2019 by Bonnee Waldstein

To celebrate the Glen Park Association Website turning ten years old, we are reposting some of our favorite stories from the last ten years. Photos by Bonnee Waldstein The Glen Park Association meets, greets, and signs up lots of new members! Shameless plug! Join or renew your Glen Park Association membership here. The Glen Park […]

Filed Under: Anniversary, Events, Featured, Glen Park Association, Glen Park Festival, Mandelman, Neighborhood, Uncategorized

After three years away, the owls are back in Glen Park

April 10, 2019 by Murray Schneider

The missing great horned owls have returned! A eucalyptus tree only yards from the Recreation Center has once again become a wooded refuge to a great horned owl family. Their return comes three years after Glen Canyon’s resident owls disappeared. On March 16, 2016 a distant relative was found dead on a trail just west […]

Filed Under: Birds, Featured, Glen Canyon Park

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