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In a post yesterday, we reposted an article from 7×7 Magazine, discussing the City-designated ‘worst street in San Francisco.’ (posting reprinted below.) However then intrepid Glen Park News photographer Michael Waldstein went out to actually look at the street, and he found that  Roanoake Street at Arlington is actually a fine street, except for the […]

From the magazine 7×7 —– It’s no secret that parking in the city is a bitch. So we’ve enlisted local parking guru and author of  Finding the Sweet Spot, David LaBua, to dish out weekly tips on navigating the ins and outs of city parking. In San Francisco, Mayor Ed Lee has proposed a $248 million […]

From the Sunnyside News (the newsletter of Sunnyside Neighborhood Association) On July 17, we will have a block party to celebrate the completion of the major portion of work on the CIRCULAR AVENUE RIBBON GARDEN, that three-quarters-of-a-mile stretch of land that is on the freeway side of Circular Avenue. Those of you who have a […]

Captain Mahoney, the new Ingleside Captain, spoke about the muggings at the Ingleside Community Meeting last Tuesday. The plainclothes detectives are doing decoy operations and the bicycle police are spending more time in Glen Park. The muggers are very quick. I witnessed a mugging a few years ago, it was over before I knew what […]

The following are Glen Park crimes from the Ingleside Station Newsletter Thursday, June 23, 2011 11:21am, Unit Blk Lippard Ave, Theft Officers Martinez and Morgante responded to a report of a suspect breaking into a car. The victim dseveral items were taken from his car. Report 110504809 7:30am, 100 Blk Mateo St, Stolen/Recovered vehicle Friday, […]

In a couple of weeks, we’ve got Pakistani Sufi singer Sukhawat Ali Khan (7/10) and then pan-Arabic music from Faisal Zedan, Husain Resan and Younes El-Makboul (7/17). But you know we’re sweet on the literary stuff and America’s classical music, a.k.a., jazz… so here’s what we’ve got in the short-term (in case you’re not in […]

The muggers struck again at 8:28am! I posted 2 safety flyers from SFSafe in the file section, look to the left and click on “files” they are in a safety tips folder. Be extra careful and PLEASE DO NOT LISTEN TO YOUR IPOD ON THE STREET! The following are Glen Park crimes from the Ingleside […]

Tuesday, June 21:  Sel et Vin, and places nearby, vibrated with North African and other eclectic music by Reda Bouali (guitar), Anis (keyboard), and M.C. Rai (vocalist) , among others.  Manager of Sel et Vin, Julien Walck, was another one of the soulful vocalists.  Guests at the venue couldn’t help but start swaying.  Plans are […]

The following are Glen Park crimes from the Ingleside Station Newsletter Thursday, June 16th, 2011: No incidents reported in GP. Friday, June 17th, 2011 3:00pm, Unit Blk Monterey, Theft: Victim came to Ingleside Police Station to report that she had secured her bicycle in her garage which she shares with three other tenants.  She later returned to […]

Ryan Holms caught these great shots of the mama owl and one of the owlets before it fledged in April.

By Murray Schneider Nature lovers. Dog walkers. Rec and Park gardeners. Rock climbers. Tennis players. Children on swings. You’d expect to see any of them on any morning in Glen Canyon. But artists in aggregate? Such was the scene on June 22nd as 21 students enrolled in City College of San Francisco took a field […]

(From Eric’s email list at Bird & Beckett)   Drop what you’re doing if you have any interest in the key beat poets that San Francisco is rightfully famous for having harbored… Mel Clay will speak at the Glen Park Branch Library this evening, Wed., 6/22, from 6:30-7:30 pm, on the late poet Bob Kaufman. […]

Glen Park resident Steven Uchida  snapped these photographs of a mother Great Horn owl, perched on a canyon eucalyptus tree on June 15th, after a  three hour Friends of Glen Canyon work party. The owl sat on the tree limbs overlooking the west side of Islais Creek, only a few feet from the Recreation Center. […]

By Bonnee Waldstein   Final plans for improvements in the active recreation areas and trails of Glen Canyon Park were unveiled at a community meeting on Thursday, June 9.   By this time, residents who attended most or all of the nine community workshops and eight focus groups were almost chummy with the Rec and […]

Story and Photos by Murray Schneider With both the June 2nd deadly Berkeley Way fire and the approaching summer fire season fresh on their minds, San Francisco Recreation and Park Department officials began their annual summer fire abatement program on June 8th. “We have a fire-prone situation at the rim of the canyon,” said Lisa […]

  Here you see the children of our intrepid delivery coordinator, Grace Clark, sharing the back seat with this week’s printing of  the Glen Park News. Our quarterly paper has a print run of 3,600 issues.  We’re the only neighborhood newspaper in town that hand-delivers copies to as many houses as we have carriers for […]

The following are Glen Park crimes from the Ingleside Station Newsletter Wednesday, June 8, 2011 No incidents reported in GP.
 Thursday, June 9, 2011 No incidents reported in GP. Friday, June 10, 2011 No incidents reported in GP. 2:00pm, 2600 Blk Diamond St, Vandalism A victim reported the window on his vehicle had been smashed. […]

The following are Glen Park crimes from the Ingleside Station Newsletter Sunday, June 5, 2011 11:50am, Unit Blk Joost, Recovered vehicle Monday, June 6, 2011 12:30 pm, Unit blk Wilder, Stolen Auto Tuesday, June 7, 2011 No incidents reported in GP. ________________________________________________________ ___ To view the complete Ingleside Daily Newsletter, visit: http://www.inglesidepolicestation.com/

Scores of neighbors, fire fighters, police and others lined the bridges and streets along San Jose Ave. at 5;00 pm on Friday as the funeral procession for  fallen firemen Vincent A. Perez, 48, and Anthony M. Valerio, 53. Ric Lopez of Modern Past got these photos.  

Just a head’s up: SF Chronicle street closure notice here. After the funeral, a procession more than 200 fire trucks will travel south on Gough Street, then head west on Market Street, south on Valencia Street, west on 15th Street, south on Dolores Street and merge onto San Jose Avenue, police said. From San Jose […]

Shannon Weber’s art fence at the corner of Chenery and Diamond Streets. Feel free to stop by and add your thoughts. Photos by Michael Rice.

Please join us to for the final presentation for the Glen Canyon Park Improvement Plan on Thursday, June 9th, 6:30-8:30pm at the Glen Canyon Recreation Center. After nine community workshops, a guided trail walk, several focus groups, meetings with city agencies and departments, and countless email and mail feedback from the community, this phase of […]

By Murray Schneider It’s not the best kept secret that each spring a mother Great Horned owl returns to the eucalyptus tree situated yards from the Elk Street Glen Park Canyon entrance, perches among its burnished branches and nurtures her chicks in a nest that is visible to battalions of canyon visitors. But if one […]

Firefighter with black band on his badge. Photos of Monday’s BBQ and community gathering at Station 26 on Monday, June 6. All photos by Chris Hardy. By Murray Schneider The American flag flew from the roof of Firehouse 26 at somber half-mast on June 6, 2011. Behind it were eight San Jose off- duty firefighters […]

The following are Glen Park crimes from the Ingleside Station Newsletter Ingleside District has a new captain, Daniel J. Mahoney. Captain Mahoney’s email address: daniel.j.mahoney@sfgov.org. Read about thm here: http://www.inglesidepolicestation.com/ Meet him at the next community meeting, Tuesday June 21. Tuesday, May 24, 2011 8:00 am, 100 blk Lippard, Theft Officer Aslam was sent to […]

Station 26 has invited Glen Park to  a community gathering starting at Noon at the firehouse Monday  The San Jose Fire Department will be hosting a BBQ and the members of our local fire station would like to invite us in the community to come together during this very difficult time. Please feel free to […]

Photographer Chris Hardy, photo editor for the Glen Park News, was allowed in to  the firehouse at 80 Digby Street Saturday afternoon. Here are some of his moving photos from his visit.  

There will be a presentation by PG&E regarding their gas pipelines that run underground through our local neighborhoods and future gas pipeline work. This is the result of concerns raised by last September’s explosion in San Bruno: Tuesday, June 14, 2011, 6:30 PM @ Lick-Wilmerding High School, 765 Ocean Ave. Lick Wilmerding’s parking lot will […]

By Murray Schneider “Neither rain, nor snow, now sleet, nor hail shall keep the postmen from their appointed rounds,” said Friends of Glen Canyon Park volunteer, Mary Huizinga, while rain pelted down on City gardener Randy Zebell’s Rec and Parks truck as it eased its way along Alms Road. Huizinga had just completed her weekly […]

KiKi Yo, a long-time presence on Chenery St., will be closing its doors July 10 after seven years in Glen Park. In an email, owner Kirklan said “Change Can Be a Good Thing, If You Let it Be: Thank you     Thank you     Thank you. The loving feedback and kind wishes you’ve all offered these past […]

Capt. Louis Cassanego send a note out on Tuesday saying that he was being transferred to a new assignment as of Saturday and that  Captain Daniel Mahoney would take command of Ingleside Station. According to the Examiner, “Mahoney works out of the chief’s office, which handles some of the more public aspects of the job […]

What:   DHCA Community Meeting When:  Thursday, May 26th, 7pm Where: SF Police Academy Community Room &! nbsp; 350 Amber Drive, just off Duncan Street Dusson Yeung and Manito Velasco of SFMTA will present a traffic study on the main intersection at the Diamond Heights Shopping Center.  The study describes several options for improving pedestrian and […]

Michael Waldstein was there as life went on.

The owner of the wildly popular breakfast restaurants Toast (in Noe Valley and on Polk St.) plans to open a coffee bar at 6 Monterey in June. “It’s the first building on Monterey just after it turns at the end of Diamonsays owner Kamal Naser. “It’s right next to Glen Park Chiropractic.” The coffee place […]

The following are Glen Park crimes from the Ingleside Station Newsletter Saturday, May 14, 2011 6:30am, 400 Blk Congo St, Stolen vehicle Sunday, May 15, 2011 4:00pm, 400 Blk Arlington, Theft Officer Gomez responded to the call of a vehicle theft. Victim advised he parked and secured his vehicle and when he returned found the […]

Long-time Glen Park resident and new San Francisco mayor Edwin Lee became a member of the Glen Park Association on Sunday, May 15th. The occasion was the much-anticipated opening of the Glen Park Farmers’ Market. The real question is how  Lee and his wife Anita managed to evade GPA’s vigilant Membership Secretaries for all these […]

By Murray Schneider No ‘reading, ‘riting and ‘rithmatic for 21 Miraloma Elementary school children today as they played hooky from their textbooks and devoted their morning to weeding around natives plants they had planted west of Glen Canyon’s Islais Creek last January. Under the supervision of Zoe Burton, an AmeriCorp environmental specialist, and Kay Kirman, […]

by Ashley Hathaway Despite Old Man Winter delivering unseasonal chill and rain just hours before, the first-ever Glen Park Farmers’ Market offically opened at 10am Sunday May 15th in the Glen Park BART parking lot at Bosworth and Diamond Streets.  Market goers quickly warmed up to the unique shopping experience a local Farmers’ Market brings, […]

The following are Glen Park crimes from the Ingleside Station Newsletter Monday, May 9 2011 10:00am, 300 Blk Monterey, Vandalism Officers Androvich and Khan were dispatched to a call of a vandalism. Victim advised that someone had been vandalizing his mailbox causing damage so that it could not be opened. Victim advised that the mailbox […]

At the Glen Park library, May 18, 6:30 – 7:30.

They were headed towards St. John the Evangelist School, which is holding a Police Appreciation Day.

THURSDAY, MAY 12, 2011, 6:30 – 8:30AM SFRPD and Project Coyote present this special FREE educational event “Living with Coyotes” with Gina Farr of Project Coyotes http://www.projectcoyote.org/index.html County Fair Building 9th Avenue and Martin Luther King Junior Drive, San Francisco, California Accessible, On Site Parking, Restrooms Discover: Coyote behavior, biology, and the beneficial role coyotes […]

“WALL BALL/throw yourself in” A site specific dance for flying hula hoops, balls and jump rope propelling public school activism WHERE: Sunnyside Elementary School Yard Wall, 250 Foerster St (one block south of Monterey Blvd; 7 blocks from Glen Park BART) San Francisco WHEN: May 21-26, 2011 at various times Saturday, May 21 @ 11 […]

By Murray Schneider, Glen Park News On a cold and grey May 11th morning, two Friends of Glen Canyon Park volunteers angled up and then along a canyon slope high above Alms Road, their eyes peeled for elusive purple needle grass. Integrated among California broom and meadow barley, the perennial grass, which looks like a […]

GLEN PARK VILLAGE FARMERS’ MARKET OPENING SUNDAY MAY 15 BART Parking Lot 10:00 am – 2:00 pm GLEN PARK VILLAGE FARMERS’ MARKET CEREMONIAL RIBBON CUTTING will commence at 10:30 am on May 15 Guest and Speakers The Honorable Mayor Edwin M. Lee Supervisor Scott Wiener District 8 Ric Lopez President of GPMA John Silveira Director […]

By Bonnee Waldstein, Glen Park News When was the last time anyone heard someone sing the lyric “When the moon hits your eye like a bigga pizza pie — that’s amore!” ?? Those who came to the Sunnyside Conservatory on Friday evening can lay claim to hearing that bit of musical nostalgia, and to taking […]

The following are Glen Park crimes from the Ingleside Station Newsletter Friday, May 6, 2011 9:00am, 200 Blk Whitney St, Vandalism A victim reported that she left her vehicle parked and unattended. Upon her return, she discovered that there were several key marks on both the driver and passenger side of the vehicle. Report 116055860 […]

The following are Glen Park crimes from the Ingleside Station Newsletter Tuesday, May 3, 2011 Nothing in the report from GP Wednesday, May 4, 2011 11:55am, 00 Arlington St, Robbery Officer Preston responded to a report of a robbery. The victim was approached by four suspects who forcibly made him walk several blocks before they […]