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Some corrections and clarifications were made to the item on beekeeping in the Notes posted below. They are in bold type.

 Photos by Bonnee Waldstein The quarterly meeting of the Glen Park Association, on April 6 at St. John School, focused on updating the community on two major ongoing projects, as well as a presentation on the proposed rate increase by Recology — plus a surprise ending. New Glen Park Association President Scott Stawicki presiding GREENWAY […]

Essay and photos by Jemison Beshears One of the joys of walking through the streets of Glen Park is seeing all the houses in their wild variety and wondering what stories they might disclose if you only had a guide to tell them. Here, Jemison Beshears, a 32-year resident of Melrose Avenue, which runs just a few short […]

A two alarm fire broke out on the 100 block of Randall Street Thursday morning. All the humans and pets got out and thankfully no one was seriously injured, but there was heavy smoke and fire billowing from the upstairs window as fire trucks arrived, said neighbor Jan Bender. Fire fighters quickly put out the […]

Crime in Glen Park reported in the Ingleside Newsletter   Monday, March 13, 2017 06:00pm           200 Blk Baden        Stolen Vehicle   Sunday, March 12, 2017 04:51pm           100 Blk Laidley          Burglary   Saturday, March 11, 2017 12:44am     600 Blk. Chenery         Malicious Mischief Vandalism A […]

Forwarded from Friends of the Urban Forest: We’ve been doing some canvassing and email blasts to previous tree planters in the neighborhood but need your help to wrangle up more applications so that we can plant the trees this May. If you can help, please contact me at 415-268-0773 or email jasmine@fuf.net today.   The […]

District 8 Supervisor Jeff Sheehy will hold neighborhood office hours on Friday, March 24, at Higher Grounds coffee house, 691 Chenery St., 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Come meet with our neighborhood supervisor to discuss ideas and concerns.

District 8 Supervisor Jeff Sheehy will hold neighborhood office hours on Friday, March 24, at Higher Grounds coffee house, 691 Chenery St., 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Come meet with our neighborhood supervisor to discuss ideas and concerns.

By Murray Schneider Catherine Symon and her daughter, Natalie, experienced a unique event on January 24, as they left Glen Canyon’s Glenridge Nursery School. After school was dismissed, Symon accompanied four-year old Natalie along a path paralleling Alms Road, a path they’ve taken eight times a week for two years. “I heard a rustling of […]

Saturday, March 18, 2017 10:00am to 12:30pm Join California Academy of Sciences arachnologist Darrell Ubick for a springtime trip in search of spiders. They are abundant in Glen Canyon Park—probably hundreds of thousands of individuals representing hundreds of species. We are sure to see a variety since Darrell knows where to look and how to […]

Free Book Reading Saturday, March 4, 3 pm at St. Aidan’s, 101 Gold Mine Drive Glen Park Author Louise Nayer talks about her book, Burned: A Memoir A creative writing instructor for more than 40 years and the author of four books, Louise Nayer will talk about the art of creating a memoir and read excerpts from Burned. […]

Friends of the Urban Forest (FUF) is organizing a tree planting in Glen Park on May 13. Apply by March 29. Planting costs a minimum of $135 and includes: A free site-inspection Tree species selection Concrete removal Tree and volunteers for tree planting 5 years of tree visits Interested? Contact FUF’s community outreach manager, Jasmine […]

By Murray Schneider A huge chunk of Franciscan chert rock plummeted from the eastern slopes of Glen Canyon to Alms Road sometime between February 15 and February 22. The ominous-looking boulder greeted a group of volunteers from Friends of Glen Canyon Park as they made their way along the fire road, destined for thickets of […]

Marion Dalere, of Dalere’s Beauty Salon at 660 Chenery Street, caught this photo of a rainbow over Glen Park during her lunch break on Tuesday.

By Murray Schneider As we walk through our neighborhood, the inordinate amount of work necessary to keep our streets and bits of greenery as lovely as they are isn’t always apparent. Take, for example, the Greenway that runs parallel to Bosworth Street. Casual strollers don’t see the many hours of work, both physical labor as […]

by Bonnee Waldstein With the uptick in vehicular crime in Glen Park, particularly breakins, many concerned residents are gathering together to brainstorm the issues and solutions.  Captain McFadden of the Ingleside Station holds regular monthly community meetings that alternate between the Ingleside police station near Balboa Park, and neighborhoods within its jurisdiction. There are about […]

A Glen Park neighbor caught this on their camera this past week. It shows a thief calmly walking past all the cars on the block and using a flashlight to see if anything was visible to steal. This occurred at 3:33 am. One of the cars in the block got broken by the thief, though it happens […]

Recology has applied to raise the rates for trash/recycling/compost pick-up. There will be a “Technical Hearing” February 28, from 4 to 6 p.m., Room 421 at City Hall, at which they will explain why they want to raise the fees, followed by a number of public hearings to receive feedback. Public hearing dates are listed below in […]

Forwarded from GP NERT: Glen Park NERT (Neighborhood Emergency Response Team) is having its first quarterly meeting of 2017 on Wednesday, January 25 at 6:30 p.m. in the Glen Park library. Please join us for a discussion about our mapping project and to participate in an emergency preparedness table top exercise. Date: Wed, January 25, […]

Friday, January 20, 2017 Harvey Steiman was talking through Glen Canyon Park on Friday when he saw this in the ball field facing Elk St. When he asked one of the workers what was going on, he was told “they had discovered a leak in ‘the sewer.’” Further questioning revealed that the culvert that Islais […]

According to the Department of Public Works, crews reopened O’Shaughnessy Boulevard shortly after 10 p.m Thursday after completing a “rockslide mitigation safety project” to shore up the crumbling hillside. They will finish tidying up today. A rock slide closed the road Wednesday.  

To celebrate the Glen Park Association Website turning ten years old, we are reposting some of our favorite stories from the last ten years. Hank Greenwald sat at Destination Bakery, nursing a cup of hot chocolate, reminiscing about a broadcast career that witnessed him announce 2,798 consecutive San Francisco Giants games before he retired in […]

The SF Municipal Transportation Agency will not be asking neighbors to vote on alternatives presented at aNov. 30 community meeting. Instead, the agency decided to proceed with a modified version of proposal A, seen about halfway through this slide presentation. SFMTA has promised to publicize the final proposal and the date for a public hearing.

Forwarded from SF DBI: As of January 1, 2017, new applicable Building, Existing Building, Historical Building, Plumbing, Mechanical, Electrical, Green Building and Energy Codes are in effect. Every three years, DBI updates its building code standards to follow California State Building Code standards. Through this process, DBI ensures the safe construction and alteration of San Francisco’s more than 200,000 […]

Forwarded from GP NERT: Glen Park NERT (Neighborhood Emergency Response Team) is having its first quarterly meeting of 2017 on Wednesday, January 25 at 6:30 p.m. in the Glen Park library. Please join us for a discussion about our mapping project and to participate in an emergency preparedness table top exercise. Date: Wed, January 25, […]

Word on the street is that this afternoon Mayor Lee will announce HIV/AIDS activist Jeff Sheehy to be our District 8 supervisor, vacated by Scott Wiener who has moved on to the state Senate. Sheehy, a Glen Park resident and public school parent, is the director of communications for the UCSF AIDS Research Institute. He […]

The Greenway between Lippard and Chilton,  9 am to 12 pm. Meet on the Greenway between Lippard and Chilton streets (last time, we did the stretch between Brompton and Lippard). We’ll celebrate and get to know each other over a lunch time community potluck. You should bring: * A salad, dessert, casserole or finger food […]

Dec. 12, 2016. By Gail Bensinger After several weeks of cleaning, building and rearranging, Glen Park Hardware is once again open for business. New owner Aaron Esquivel and his hard-working crew are holding a “soft” opening as they wait for new stocks to arrive. They have opened up the back room, used as a storeroom by […]

Story and photos by Murray Schneider Want to know if the winter will be mild or severe, or if the December rains will continue into April. You need go no farther then Glen Canyon’s boardwalk, which transverses a natural seep only a few yards north of Glenridge Nursery School. That’s what four Friends of Glen […]

Reminder from the Glen Park Neighborhoods History Project:   Ho, Ho, Ho, Neighborhood Historians! Don’t let the prediction of rain keep you at home this Saturday! Join the Glen Park Neighborhoods History Project for a Special Holiday Meeting at the Sunnyside Conservatory on Saturday, December 10, 3pm to 5pm, followed by a holiday social and raffle until 6:15pm to kick the season off! We’ll learn about the […]

Saturday night’s rainstorm appears to have snapped the trunk of a tree on Bosworth between Chilton & Burnside, on the right going toward the canyon. Neighbor Susan Sutton got these photos.

From Paul Matalucci, steward of the Diamond Heights Boulevard Median Project: Hello supporters of the Diamond Heights Blvd. Median Project, The October skies brought rain, and the timing could not have been better. Our 14 new Canary Island pines—carefully planted in September by more than 30 awesome volunteers under the expert supervision of Friends of […]

Sunday, November 13th – 11 a.m.Kids’ Book & Craft Event! Bring your kids to Bird & Beckett for a wolf-themed craft and story time. Emma Bland Smith (author of San Francisco’s Glen Park and Diamond Heights, Arcadia Publishing, 2007) will read her new picture book, Journey: Based on the True Story of OR7, the Most Famous Wolf in the […]

Story and photo by Gail Bensinger Aaron and Simar Esquivel, the new owners of the Glen Park Hardware Store, hope to get the shop reopened in time for Christmas. Aaron, who grew up in Pacifica and Stockton, and Simar, originally from India, met when they were both studying at Humphreys College in Stockton. They are […]

  Help Us Spread the Word! Cleaner energy is coming to your neighborhood. CleanPowerSF is the City’s new Community Choice Aggregation program run by the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission and provides cleaner electricity generation for San Francisco customers at competitive rates. Want to learn more? Join us at one of our upcoming Welcome Events […]