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2012 Park Bond Community Meeting Schedule Please join us at one of our upcoming meetings to discuss the 2012 Parks Bond Program. After three months of community outreach with numerous stakeholders, we incorporated your feedback and developed the 2012 bond program. We will be discussing the proposed neighborhood parks for 2012 bond inclusion and our list […]

Friday March 23 8:03pm       2900 Blk Diamond St            Stolen Property Officers Hurwitz and Tam were on patrol in plainclothes when they spotted a suspect they knew was wanted for a possession of stolen property charge.  The officers were unable to stop in front of the residence where the suspect was standing with two other subjects.  […]

By Murray Schneider In mid-March, Bird and Beckett bookseller Eric Whittington stage-managed a four-day Indian film festival of Bengali movies at the Richmond District’s Balboa Theater. Whittington bookended “Indian Cinema – Beyond Bollywood,” with Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury “Aparajita Tumi,” a two-hour movie filmed last summer entirely on location in the Bay Area and “Nagmoti,” directed […]

March 2012 Newsletter Office Phone: 415-554-6968 Email:  scott.wiener@sfgov.org Website:  www.scottwiener.com For more regular updates, follow me on Facebook and Twitter:               My New Legislative Aide: Andres Power I want to extend a warm welcome to my new legislative aide, Andres Power. Andres is replacing Gillian Gillett, who has moved on to the Mayor’s Office. […]

The Diamond Heights Community Association has scheduled a Special Community Meeting for Diamond Heights and Glen Park residents to learn about the Park Bonds Measure on the November ballot.  The San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department will do a presentation on the measure.   The meeting will provide an opportunity for us to learn the […]

By Murray Schneider Admirers of the photography of Bruce Conner gathered together on March 3 for an evening reception at the Gallery Paule Anglim, which premiered 13 color photographs edited and transferred to digital color format by the Glen Park avant-garde artist before his death in 2008. The exhibit, “Mabuhay Gardens: Punk Photography & Collage,” […]

Please note that the Highland Street Bridge will be closed from March 9-16.  The Richland Street Bridge will be closed from March 16-23 for construction.   The following are Glen Park crimes from the Ingleside station newsletter.   Thursday March 1 Nothing in the report from Glen Park   Friday March 2 10:30am          Unit Blk […]

Beginning March 16th and running until March 20th, the Balboa Theater will program “Indian Cinema Beyond Bollywood,” a festival of Bengali movies from Tollywood. With the anticipated 2012 release of “Aparajita Tumi” from acclaimed director Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury, shot entirely on location last summer in the San Francisco Bay Area (with key scenes filmed in […]

Thursday February 16   2:15pm unit blk Chenery Theft Police Services Aide Flynn prepared a report regarding a theft. The victim came to the station and told the PSA that while in the restroom she left her phone in a stall and exited to wash her hands. While she was washing her hands a suspect […]

Martin Duggan caught this San Francisco  alligator lizard in Glen canyon on Tuesday sunning itself on a rock. The lizard is officially called Elgaria coerulea coerulea. They range from 2.75 to  5.87 inches in length from snout to vent. The subspecies lives in to California  from northern Sonoma County, south along the coast to northern Monterey […]

Story and photos by Murray Schneider Jeanne Halpern, who lives on a hill overlooking O’Shaughnessy Boulevard, acquired a green thumb in 2000 and a dozen years later her Valletta Court backyard, once rife with invasive weeds, now has a totally different look. Halpern’s backyard is perched on a slope that would challenge a sure-footed Billy […]

Thank you so much to those of you who responded to the survey about the Glen Park Festival. We’ve received many warm fuzzies and lots of helpful feedback, and we appreciate so many of you taking the time to respond. We’ve received 236 responses so far, 229 of whom feel positively or very positively about […]

To celebrate the Glen Park Association Website turning ten years old, we are reposting some of our favorite stories from the last ten years. Final word arrived Wednesday that the Cheese Boutique, a part of Glen Park for 19 years, will not close. Instead it will move next door, to 660 Chenery, into the space […]

From the Festival organizers: As most of you know, the Glen Park Festival is a one-day annual community event that brings our neighborhood together and raises money for schools and nonprofits in the Glen Park area. There are a few neighbors on Wilder Street who have signed a petition in protest of the festival. What they are asking […]

By Murray Schneider Later this year Diamond Heights resident, Richard Craib, steps down as president of the 130-member Friends of Glen Canyon Park, a position he has held for 15 years. Craib, 71, a native San Franciscan, was raised in the Sunset District and a 1958 graduate of Abraham Lincoln High School. He has lived […]

To the Glen Park community: The Glen Park community must make its voice heard to assure funding to complete the ambitious plans to improve and preserve Glen Canyon Park. Please join our effort to request that the Glen Park Recreation Center Improvement Plan be part of a planned November 2012 San Francisco recreation and park […]

If you’re a Glen Canyon Park user living in Sunnyside or Miraloma, this message is for you:   Our supervisors are now considering which SF parks will be eligible for facility improvements in 2014. This Monday, Feb 27th D-7 residents will have an opportunity to influence which parks will be on the priority list. Here’s […]

The Glen Park Community Plan has finally been ADOPTED!  Last Tuesday, the Board of Supervisors unanimously voted to adopt the Glen Park Community Plan. The Plan will soon go to the Mayor for his signature and then become effective shortly thereafter. I want to sincerely thank everyone who participated in the planning process and helped […]

The following are crimes from the Ingleside station newsletter Wednesday February 1   Nothing in the report from Glen Park   Thursday February 2 11:30am     300 Blk Arbor St                    Battery Officer Coles was dispatched to a report of battery.  Officers Curry, Sanchez, Pai and Campion-Healy also responded.  The victim told the officers that the suspect, who lives […]

GLEN PARK VILLAGE FARMERS’ MARKET I want to give thanks once again to all the Groups,Associations and neighbors for their overwhelming support. Last year was a great success, and this year we have more events and activities planned! Sunday mornings in Glen Park will not only be the time to shop at the Village Farmers’ […]

From a Sunnyside email list: Coyote Sighting A large coyote was seen around 7:15am this morning wandering through the Sunnyside Rec Center. It entered via the steps at Melrose and was last seen behind the tennis courts. It did not appear to be afraid of humans.

CUP Cafe has kindly agreed to help Glen Park Elementary with our fundraiser. They will have 8 oz/ jars of Glen Park Honey for sale all week (or until supplies run out) for $12 per jar. It is local honey made right in Glen Park, from bees hived in the neighborhood. Proceeds will help fund […]

By Murray Schneider On January 29th, Jimmy Ryan and his Balboa Be Bop Band performed an encore to their earlier May 19, 2011 gig in the Richmond District’s Balboa Theater. Ryan, 72, and his Generation X jazz band mates warmed up the nearly capacity-filled theater with a rendition of Horace Silver’s “Blowin’ the Blues Away,” […]

  Neighborhood Parks Council and San Francisco Parks Trust are now one.   Dear Park Lover: SFPA is looking for San Francisco park activists, park lovers, and park supporters to join our Park Policy Committee (PPC).  This newly formed volunteer team of park enthusiasts will collaborate with SFPA’s Board and Staff to research policy issues, influence […]

Hi Neighbors This Friday, February 10, do some very unique shopping for Valentine’s Day while helping out your neighborhood school. Glen Park Elementary will be selling 8 oz. jars of delicious, local honey made right here in Glen Park, from bees hived in the neighborhood! In addition, there will be charming, home-made Valentine’s Day cards […]

See what the median price buys in secret gem neighborhoods locals prefer Share 20 When people pore over listings in the San Francisco Bay Area, where do they most often want to live? Pricey Pac Heights? The trendy Marina? Family-friendly Noe Valley? Certainly, out-of-state home buyers fall back most quickly on the more famous of our […]

Make memories of the S.F. that you’re living in today Carl Nolte, Chronicle Columnist Sunday, February 5, 2012   Those of us in the San Francisco column business get a lot of mail from old San Franciscans -and they all claim that somehow, some way, the city was a lot better years ago. It was […]

On Feb. 1, the  Capital Committee of the Recreation & Park Commission voted to move approval of the Twin Peaks Trail concept plan to the consent calendar of the full Commission meeting to be held on February 16 at 10am at City Hall in Room 416.  This is great news, not just for Twin Peaks, […]

Sunday January 15     Nothing in the report from Glen Park   Monday January 16 6:30pm       Whitney/Fairmount      Vandalism A victim responded to Ingleside station and told PSA Zabarte that she parked and secured her vehicle and when she returned found all sides of the vehicle with scratch marks.  The victim did not see anyone damage the vehicle […]

The Friends of Sunnyside Conservatory present: The Lawrence LaFlamme Ensemble

at the Sunnyside Conservatory March 9th, 2012 Doors open at 7 PM 

Music begins at 8 PM $20 suggested donation at the door Legendary Rock violinist David Flamme, from the iconic 1960’s San Francisco group ‘Its a Beautiful Day’ and vocalist Linda LaFlamme join mandolin virtuoso […]

sunnysideconservatory.org Our Next (free!) Event: Be My Valentine! Show your Sweetie(s) some Love. Returning Saturday afternoon, February 11, 2012.
*Note New Time this Year: 2-4 pm. Rain or Shine The Valentine Card Party – the first community event held in the restored
Conservatory – is now in its 3rd year.

We will have lots of examples and inspirations […]

From Sup. Scott Wiener: Maintaining Our Street Trees and Park Trees We don’t devote nearly enough resources to maintenance of our City’s urban forest. As a result, our park trees are rarely inspected – which can create safety hazards – and the City is gradually turning over responsibility for street trees to adjacent property owners who may […]

SAN FRANCISCO, CA –  Glen Park resident Doug Betten, regional administrator for the Department of Labor’s  Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration and Management, San Francisco region, has been appointed chair of the San Francisco Bay Area Federal Executive Board (FEB).  The FEB appointment is for a one-year term. The FEBs were established in 1961 under President […]

Glen Park said “Fie!” to term limits last Thursday, January 19, as the incumbent officers of the Glen Park Association were swept back into office by unanimous vote.  For President Michael Rice, it will be his seventh term.  No superpacs, debates or direct mail hit-pieces were to be found on this campaign trail either. The […]

By Murray Schneider Several middle-aged athletes gathered one recent afternoon around the free-throw line at Glen Park Recreation Center’s basketball court, tuning up for the first of dozens of afternoon and evening half-court pick-ups games. “They’re our senior statesmen,” said Oskar Rosas, 46, recreation coordinator at the Depression-era Rec Center, which would remain open until […]

. Our growing College Hill Neighborhood Association (which serves both sides of the Bernal Cut, btw : ) is teaming up with DPW to do a major clean-up of the Bernal side of the Bernal Cut path, and since so many GP residents loop across our shared bridges to our Bernal side of the path, […]

FYI the next GPA Meeting info January 19, 2012 7pm St. John School, 925 Chenery Street Program – Southern Pacific Railroad Line through the Mission and Glen Park: Slide Show with Richard Brandi, Architectural Historian ADJOURNMENT Social hour to follow

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Syndey Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 32,000 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 12 sold-out performances for that many […]

The following are Glen Park crimes from the Ingleside Station newsletter: Friday December 9                        Nothing in the report from Glen Park Saturday December 10 1:09am         100 Blk Bemis St                     Recovered vehicle   Sunday December 11 6:15am                 200 Blk Chenery St                Vandalism Sgt. Miller responded to a report of a suspect with a tire iron vandalizing vehicles.  […]

By Murray Schneider Willow Creek Trail isn’t named on any official map that San Francisco Rec and Park has shelved at McLaren Lodge. Nevertheless, the Glen Canyon path circles Glen Park’s Islais Creek. It begins near a boardwalk that leaves Silver Tree Day Camp in its wake, runs parallel to a seep that collects run-off […]

We are now accepting applications for 2012 Glen Park Festival which will be held on April 29, 2012.  Please follow the link below to find out more information about becoming a vendor. http://glenparkfestival.com/become-a-vendor.shtml You can link to the vendor application from the page above or find it here: http://glenparkfestival.com/vendor-application.shtml Please do not hesitate to contact […]

By Murray Schneider The Canyon Market turned five years old on November 21st, so owners Janet and Richard Tarlov threw a birthday party for their village grocery on December 10th. “We wanted to show our appreciation to the community,” said Janet Tarlov, sitting in her postage-sized office, which she shares with her bookkeeper. In the […]

A  collapsed sewer on Diamond street just past Chenery clogged evening traffic (and distracted from the opening of the new Italian restaurant Manzoni) Monday night. City workers told Ric Lopez of the Glen Park Merchants Association. “it was an emergency spot repair so the street would not cave in.” The workers say we can expect some […]

After several years of waiting, Glen Park’s Italian restaurant, Manzoni, finally opened Monday night. We’ll post a full review Tuesday, but it’s open until 10:00 tonight if you want to head to 2788 Diamond Street at Chenery.

By Bonnee Waldstein Photos by Bonnee Waldstein The new playground in Glen Canyon Park, slated for completion in winter 2013-14, will feature the newest, most up-to-date play structures for Glen Park’s youngsters to run around and frolic in. Yet, the burning issue in the new design couldn’t be more low-tech:  Sand or no sand?  Most […]

Please Plan to join us for our 1st quarterly meeting of 2012. It will be held at 7:00 P.M. on Thursday, January 19th, at St. John’s School, 925 Chenery Street. Meeting Agenda:     700 PM Call to Order, followed by Committee and Treasurer Reports     715 PM  Glen Park Association Annual Officer Elections  ***     745 PM  Program: “The Southern Pacific Rail […]

By Gail Bensinger Got a yen for sushi? Tataki Canyon, Glen Park’s newest restaurant opened Tuesday, Dec. 13, at 678 Chenery St., the space most recently occupied by Sel & Vin. Hours are 5-10 p.m. Monday through Thursday; 5-10:30 Friday and Saturday; and 5-9:30 p.m. Sunday. During a happy hour from 5 to 7 each […]

by Ashley Hathaway On Sunday December 11th the Glen Park Association held its first-ever holiday event at the Pritikin Museum, the home of Mr. Bob Pritikin. The mansion is also known as “Chenery House.” After several weeks of planning and coordination, the party-of-all-neighborhood-parties was a huge success.  An invitation was sent to all current Glen […]