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Follow up on murder of Leo Hainzl

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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 […]

Picture this: The Detroit Street steps with amazing tile work

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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 […]

Update: SF Assessor announces resources on Prop. 19

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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 […]

Assessor Carmen Chu to announce Prop. 19 outreach effort

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    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 […]

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

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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 […]

Glen Park artist’s work chosen for de Young exhibit

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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 […]

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

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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 […]

Detroit Steps Project virtual art competition and fundraiser

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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 […]

Twin Peaks for all

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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 […]

A man and his dog, lifelong residents of Glen Park

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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 […]

Could there be turkeys on Turquoise?

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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 […]

Where’s Glen Park Elementary? That’s easy

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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 […]

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

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(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 […]

Complete your 9-question census today

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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 […]

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

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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 […]

Close to home: The new normal of food shopping

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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 […]

Close to home: Glen Canyon Park

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(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 […]

Glen Park is open for (essential) business

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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. […]

Saturday night life takes a hit in Glen Park

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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 […]

Notes on the winter meeting of the Glen Park Association

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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 […]

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

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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 […]

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

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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 […]

SF Assessor-Recorders Office announces workshops on property taxes

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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 […]

Farewell letter from Facility Coordinator of Glen Park Rec Center

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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 […]

Fairmount Plaza volunteer planting events coming soon

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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 […]

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

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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 […]

The Glen Park email lists have a new home

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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 […]

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

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“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 […]

We’re swimming in change in San Francisco

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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 […]

Dogs of Glen Park: Meet Bruce Bochy

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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 […]

Destination Bakery’s Deb Lunsford Delights

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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. […]

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

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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 […]