Hello Ingleside People! Thank you for taking the time to read our newsletter. As you scroll through, you will see important safety tips on a variety of topics. The newest being, information on how to protect yourself and your loved ones from scams that target the elderly in our community. Take a moment to review […]
March 2024 SFPD Ingleside Station Newsletter
Winter Quarterly Meeting || Jan. 25, 2024
Glen Park Association Winter Quarterly Meeting Thursday, January 25, 2024 6:30 to 8 p.m. St. John Catholic School 925 Chenery StreetI Agenda GPA Board Officer Elections Active Communities Plan, Overview of the Active Communities Plan project from SFMTA. Captain Amy Hurwitz, New Ingleside Police Captain Glen Park Merchants Association Update
Winter Quarterly Meeting || Jan. 25, 2024
Join or Renew Your 2024 Membership Today! Join us for the Glen Park Association Winter Quarterly Meeting Thursday, January 25, 2024 6:30 to 8 p.m. at St. John Catholic School 925 Chenery Street PROGRAM GPA Board Officer Elections* Active Communities Plan Captain Amy Hurwitz, new Ingleside Police Captain Glen Park Merchant Update *In order to […]
Give Joy! 2023 Urban Angels Kicks Off SF Holiday Gift Campaign
The 2023 Urban Angels SF Holiday Gift Program: Give Joy! starts November 1st and continues through December 12th. UASF is committing to serving 1,000 children: 800 in shelters and 200 in our predominantly Latina Friday Moms group. We are seeking to raise $50 per child for a wonderful gift x 1,000 children = $50,000. Starting […]
Glen Park Association Fall Meeting
Join us for the Glen Park Association Fall meeting Oct 12, 2023, 7:00 PM via Zoom Agenda: District 8 Supervisor Rafael Mandelman SF Animal Care and Control Information on urban wildlife including feral cats and dog adoptions Register in advance for this meeting: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMvf-6tqDssGtIx_9b2EhPZvVGaF_qVsjN2
Glen Park Greenway News
Hello Friends and Supporters of the Greenway, We are making plans for our February Work Party. It’ll be on Saturday February 4; a few days after Imbolc. Imbolc is probably the Holiday that you never heard of, but it’s all about the sudden speed-up of the rate that days lengthen after we pass the mid-point […]
Glen Park Association Winter Meeting Agenda
Please join us Thursday January 19, 2023 at the Glen Park Association Winter Meeting. January 19, 2023 6:30 pm 6pm for snacks and socializing Glen Canyon Park Rec. Center Agenda: 2023 Glen Park Association Officer Elections Meet the new owners of Canyon Market SF Department of Public Health Rodent Abatement Presentation from QuitCarbon Activities at the Glen […]
St. John School Community Halloween Carnival
Please join us for the third annual St. John School Community Halloween carnival. We will have booths, games, food, and lots of community. BUY TICKETS HERE About this event St. John School Halloween Carnival: 2022 Join us for a family friendly event. Come learn more about our TK-8th grade program from our volunteers and current […]
Real Estate Recap: August 2022
The much-awaited fall market is upon us! As anticipated, our inventory is increasing, and buyers are coming back out. This is typical for this time of year as people are returning from summer vacations and looking to get settled before the holidays. The fall market is fast paced, and by the end of the first […]
Fall Quarterly Meeting: Thursday, October 6, 2022
The Glen Park Association Board is thrilled to invite you to our fall quarterly membership meeting – our first in-person meeting since January 2020! Learn About Local Ballot Measures! The Glen Park Association Fall Quarterly Meeting Thursday, October 6, 2022 6 – 8 p.m. Glen Park Recreation Center Agenda 6:00-6:30: Meet & greet your neighbors. Light refreshments […]
GLEN PARK REAL ESTATE — June Recap
With the 4th of July in the rearview mirror, we are now deep into summer and have a better idea of what this summer market is shaping up to look like. You’ll see some large overbids and great sales prices in the June numbers, and as always, there is still limited inventory in San Francisco. […]
Check It Out at the Library: Summer Stride Starting Soon
Summer Stride is an opportunity to challenge yourself and others to read, learn and listen with the Library this summer! The program begins June 1st and runs until August 31st. 20 hours of participation earns you a coveted finishing prize: the 2022 Summer Stride Library book tote, featuring art by picture book author Minnie Phan. […]
Neighborhood Party at Bird & Beckett
Thursday March 24, Bird & Beckett kicks off a regular bash that’ll take place in the bookshop every third month for the sole purpose of celebrating Glen Park, toasting a merchant or community member with music, chatter and libations. This time out, Soo Emens is in the spotlight, serenaded by her friends in the droll […]
Glen Park Crime Incident Map January 2022
Time Intersection Description 2022/01/02 21:54 Gold Mine Dr \ Diamond Heights Blvd Theft, Shoplifting, $200-$950 19:00 Topaz Way \ Gold Mine Dr Vehicle, Stolen, Auto 2022/01/04 11:56 Diamond Heights Blvd \ Diamond St Vehicle, Stolen, Auto 2022/01/05 16:45 Surrey St \ Chenery St \ Mizpah St License Plate or Tab, Theft of 2022/01/07 13:13 Natick […]
St. John’s 2022 Crab & Go and optional Trivia Night After Party!
St. John’s Crab Feed will be a Crab & Go with the option to attend the Trivia Night After Party Buy Tickets Here. St. John’s 2022 Crab & Go and optional Trivia Night After Party! St. John’s Annual Crab Feed is our most beloved social and fundraising event, selling out year after year and famous […]
Greenway Flag Garden? Not exactly …
It may look like a garden of colored flags but in fact it’s a meadow-in-the-making. On Saturday, January 15, about 20 volunteers planted more than 400 native grass plants on the Glen Park Greenway between Brompton and Lippard Avenues. These are the backbone of what will grow to become Glen Park’s Native Meadow. We built […]
GLEN PARK REAL ESTATE
2021 Recap
I’m excited to be ringing in the new year with my first Glen Park Real Estate blog post! For those who don’t know me, my name is Amanda Martin, and I am a real estate agent with BarbCo Real Estate Group (aka Barbagelata, circa 1952). I started working with buyers and sellers in 2014, and […]
COMING SOON: Hearst Slow Street
SFMTA will implement a Slow Street in your neighborhood next week– Hearst Avenue between Ridgewood Avenue and Baden Street was approved by the SFMTA Board to become a Slow Street back in Spring 2021. Due to a material shortage, the implementation of Lyon Street as a Slow Street had to be delayed until now. […]
Ramaytush Ohlone Land Acknowledgment Resolution
(Glen Park News staff note: See the Spring issue of the Glen Park News for the story of the neighborhood mural honoring the Ohlone people, here.) This past month, the San Francisco Recreation and Park Commission passed a Ramaytush Ohlone Land Acknowledgment Resolution honoring and recognizing the Ramaytush Ohlone people as the original inhabitants of […]
Glen Park Association Quarterly Meeting: Transit Focus
Come learn more about upcoming transportation issues in SF and Glen Park. 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 Have questions for our transit […]
Celebrate May Day at the Glen Park Greenway Work Party
Please join us at our next Glen Park Greenway Work Party on Saturday May 1 from 9:00am to 12:00pm. We’ll also have a short Zoom meetings at 7 p.m. on Tuesday April 27 to answer any questions that you have about the work that we plan to do on May Day. If you’re planning to come […]
Tulip and Daffodil Bulb Planting
Please join Friends of The Glen Park Greenway for a tulip and daffodil bulb planting. Masks and social distancing will be required for planting volunteers. All ages welcome! Saturday March 20 10am – 2pm Sunday March 21 10am – 2pm Glen Park Greenway (Behind St. John’s School)
Eco SF Farm — Flora and fauna in a peaceful place nearby
This YouTube video was created by Serge Preobrazhensky, a student at CCSF. He filmed it at the farm located at the grounds of Academy High/Ruth Asawa School of the Arts. Glen Park Association member, Glen Park News reporter, and frequent visitor to the Eco SF Farm, Murray Schneider, has forwarded the video from Serge. Think […]
St. John’s 2021 Crab & Go
St. John’s 2021 Crab & Go and optional Trivia Night After Party! Introducing Crab & Go! Join us March 6th for take-out extraordinaire and savor your crab feast in the comfort of your own home! Order your dinner today and reserve a pickup time between 4:30 and 7:30pm for your March 6th simple drive-through pickup […]
Winter 2020 Glen Park News Online
The Winter 2020 edition of the Glen Park News is ready for your digital reading pleasure! Log-on for your socially distanced, COVID-safe reading on: Bus-only lanes coming to Glen Park The latest news on the Detroit Street Steps and mural project, and Updates from Supervisor Rafael Mandelman and the Glen Park School PTO As with […]
GPA Quarterly Mtg Jan 28
Glen Park Association Winter Meeting January 28, 2021, 7 to 9 p.m. Location: Zoom Meeting ID: 842 4961 2175 Passcode: 843562 Proposed Agenda: Officer elections (slate to come in January meeting reminder — please renew to vote!) Update from District 8 Supervisor Rafael Mandelman Department of Public Health to discuss vaccine rollout in SF (unconfirmed) […]
Join in the Hunt for Acorns!
Want to collect acorns in real life and not just on Animal Crossing? Join Glen Park neighbors in gathering acorns to be sown in the Glen Park Greenway later this year. Some details: Most of the oak trees grow on rough ground – sometimes steeply sloping which makes this is a job for people […]
Glen Park Greenway Meeting Video
Hello Friends and Supporters of the Glen Park Greenway. Many thanks to those of you who joined our virtual meeting yesterday evening to discuss the Trail Improvement Project. Here is a link to the recording of the meeting. I will delete this recording in about one month: https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/share/2s1uC7XgzEdORKf892HDB6w8HZn8T6a80yQZr6Ffn0hpBCScSiH2mMahQuahN7F0 Password: k$4@M3.i Unfortunately I forgot to start the recording […]
Glen Park News Online
For the second issue in a row, the Glen Park News appears on-line only, due to the coronavirus. With many of our drop-off points (including the library) closed or open for take-out only, and out of concern for the volunteer delivery squad who usually leave copies on residents’ doorsteps, we decided to forego the paper […]
A Long Time to Kneel: Neighborhood Vigil for George Floyd
On June 8, two weeks after the murder of George Floyd, we met at the park, and at 5:30 we all knelt for 8 minutes and 46 seconds. It’s a long time to kneel. It’s not a natural, comfortable thing to do. To kneel for that long you must make a conscious effort. To kneel […]
Silent Vigil for George Floyd
Please join Glen Park neighbors at a silent vigil this Monday, June 8 from 5 – 6pm in the ballpark of Glen Canyon (Elk Street & Chenery). Monday marks the two week anniversary of George Floyd’s murder. We will gather at 5pm, standing six feet apart; at 5:30pm we will kneel and hold silence for […]
Shopping in the Age of a Public Health Emergency
The morning chill was still upon Glen Park on the morning of March 24, when the line started forming outside of Canyon Market. By 6:50 a.m. shoppers over age 65 began queueing up outside, in the second week of the market’s 7–8 a.m. senior citizen shopping hour. Wearing a French beret, a puffy coat and […]
Glen Park Responds to COVID Crisis
Dear Readers, This story is from the front page of the Spring 2020 Glen Park News. Due to COVID-19, there will not be a printed edition of the Spring 2020 News. We will be highlighting articles from the paper over the coming weeks, and you can read the full paper online here. -Glen Park News Editors […]
From the Editors of the Print Edition of the Glen Park News
Unprecedented. We hear that word a lot in this era of the COVID-19 pandemic. The unprecedented shutdown of businesses. The unprecedented closure of schools. The unprecedented forced distancing of neighbors, co-workers, friends, family members and other loved ones. The unprecedented quick spike in unemployment and free-fall of the stock market. The unprecedented run on toilet […]
Glen Park Festival Postponed
Dear Glen Park Community, Thank you for your steadfast support and excitement for the Glen Park Festival, previously scheduled for Sunday, April 26, 2020. We have decided to postpone this April’s festival in the best interest of our community, attendees, supporters, and general public health. We do hope to still host a 2020 festival later […]
Join Local Glen Park Tergis Family in a Night of Music
Tergis Circus Presents Welcome to Tergistan Four San Francisco Native Siblings with their Four Bands for One Night Friday, February 28th, 2020 Verdi Club, 8pm 2424 Mariposa Street, San Francisco Tickets: $25 All Ages Link to Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/tergis-circus-presents-welcome-to-tergistan-tickets-87245187705 We’ve written about the storied Tergis family several times in the Glen Park News in our stories […]
Greenway Update Winter 2020
We had a very productive and entertaining morning at the last Greenway work day. The weather turned out to be ideal for us. Many thanks to the wonderfully enthusiastic gardeners who were able to join us. A special shout out to Canyon Market for providing such delicious coffee to get us started in the morning. […]
Holiday Wreath Making at Sunnyside Conservatory!
On Sunday, December 15th, we will have Holiday Wreath Making inside the Conservatory! IT IS FREE. We start at Noon and will finish at 4:00 PM. We will have lots of greenery and greens with red berries. My cotoneaster is revived, and it is full of bright red berries at this point. The holly is […]
Calling all Wranglers of Witches and Connoisseurs of Candy — The Glen Park Association Needs Your Help!
Please sign up for a quick volunteer shift for Halloween night. Exact volunteer needs are still being ironed out, but volunteer activities would include helping lead neighbors returning home by car through closed streets, staffing a street closure location, and other duties as assigned at the direction of SFPD. Sign up to volunteer here! Map […]
The Glen Park News website is 10 years old!
The first online edition of the Glen Park News appeared in August 2009. The staff of the website is marking the occasion with a special trip down the memory lane of our archives. We’ve chosen some stories to have an encore here. We’ll be posting them for the next few months. Look for the cheery […]
Editors Picks
Greenway Updates Spring 2019
We had a very productive and entertaining morning on the Greenway on Saturday May 4, 2019. The weather turned out to be ideal for our outdoor activity. Many thanks to the wonderfully enthusiastic gardeners who were able to join us, especially the first-timers in our group: Kiera, Elinor, Dave and Brook Ray. It was great […]
Spring Activities at the Glen Park Rec. Center
Registration for Spring classes at the Glen Park Recreation center opens March 2, 2019. Take a look at the offerings and see if you want to take Hatha Yoga or sign your children up for Karate or Petite Bakers! The complete class list and registration information can be found here: Glen Park Spring Recreation Listings
Celebrate 16 Years of Music at Bird & Beckett
Tonight, February 15th, join the Scott Foster Quartet from 5:30-8:00pm at Bird & Beckett, featuring four superb players encountering each other for the first time as a unit, though they’ve all crossed paths in the past. It’s the nature of most jazz gigs, and one of the things that makes this music so exciting. Scott, Rob, […]
DETROIT STEPS PROJECT KICKOFF PARTY
Time to Step It Up and Have Some Neighborhood Fun! Join us on February 23, 2019 from 12 noon until 2 pm to celebrate the kick-off event for two approved proposals that will be on the the District 7 Participatory Budget ballot for 2019: Lighting Sunnyside’s Detroit Steps for Safety and Visibility Preparing Sunnyside’s Detroit Steps […]
(HI)STORIES OF OUR NEIGHBORHOODS
This article was previously published in the Fall 2018 print edition of the Glen Park News. The year 2018 marks the 110th anniversary of the Glen Park Branch of the San Francisco Public Library. Established through the advocacy of Glen Park suffragists, the branch stands today as a testament to determined community activism and an […]
A Nuthatch Family Makes A New Home
Richard Craib raised his family on Turquoise Way, his backyard abutting the upper reaches of Glen Canyon. This summer he oversaw a family of white-breasted nuthatches at the house he built and has lived in since 1962. Craib recently sat in his living room, which overlooks a mini-forest of pines, cypresses and redwoods. A barn […]
Glen Park Association Newspaper Editorial
Housing may be the hottest topic in Glen Park. Whether it’s sky-high sale prices, displacement of dear neighbors, a basketball court on Everson or the future of the BART lot, the Glen Park Association hears about nothing quite so much as housing. Opinions vary—and strongly—from one person to the next, but there is at least […]
Local Author on Sheep, Wool and Life
Glen Park resident Stephany Wilkes, vice president of the Glen Park Association, has managed to pull off a coup: taking a niche, arcane subject and writing a page-turner of a book about it. Wilkes, now 41, is one of those people who end up doing things that weren’t on their original life trajectory. She didn’t […]