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EHNC's Next Meeting, Monday August 18!
The next monthly meeting of the East Hollywood Neighborhood Council will be on Monday, August 18, 6:30 p.m. at Kingsley Manor, 1055 N. Kingsley Drive, corner Santa Monica Blvd. (pictured above). The meeting will take place in the 4th floor Council Room.
We will also have a reports from Council President Eric Garcetti's CD13 office, as well as our LAPD Senior Lead Officers, plus a meeting of the EHNC's Governing Board, where important decisions regarding our neighborhood will be made. Community stakeholders will also have the chance to make announcements on upcoming events or voice their opinions on important issues in the neighborhood.
Visit our EHNC Monthly Meeting Website to download the agenda and for more information on the meeting.
Watch Free Shakespeare in Barnsdall Park with the EHNC!
Join the EHNC this Friday, August 15 as we watch Independent Shakespeare Company's production of Henry IV as part of their summer-long Free Shakespeare in Barnsdall Park festival.
The East Hollywood Neighborhood Council is one of the festival's sponsors, and having contributed $5,001, comprised the largest sponsorship amount from a neighborhood council.
The EHNC's Governing Board and committee members will promote the EHNC's upcoming meeting this Monday and the neighborhood council as a whole.
A number of spaces have been reserved for the EHNC and its community stakeholders so if you would like to come see Friday night's performance, please email ehnc@easthollywood.net with the number of people in your party to reserve space. You are also welcome to bring a picnic food and blankets. The performances are free, and are open to all ages.
The performance begins at 7:30 p.m. but early arrival is strongly encouraged. Free parking is available at Barnsdall Park or take the Metro Red Line to the Vermont/Sunset Station and enter the park from the Barnsdall Ave. entrance. For those of you who wish to get there on bicycle, a group bike ride to Barnsdall Park will assemble in front of the Bicycle Kitchen on Heliotrope and Melrose and depart by 6:15 p.m. Please e-mail your reservations before joining the ride.
LAPD Substation Coming To East Hollywood; New Northeast SLO Announced!
A new Los Angeles Police Department community police substation is coming to East Hollywood, according to LAPD Rampart Senior Lead Officer Matt Zeigler at the EHNC's July 21 meeting.
Mariposa Place Apartments, a 58-unit affordable family housing complex (pictured above) currently under construction by Hollywood Community Housing Corporation located at the site of the former County office building on Santa Monica Blvd. and Maripose Avenue, will be the site of the new police substation, otherwise known as a "Drop-In Center." It will allow LAPD officers to stop in during their beats, meet with community members and do some of their paperwork. The LAPD substation and housing complex are expected to open by Spring, 2009.
Zeigler also confirmed that the new LAPD substation will be shared by officers from the Rampart, Northeast and Hollywood divisions, the three police stations that serve East Hollywood, and whose boundaries all converge nearby at Santa Monica and Normandie.
The new housing development will also house HCHC's new offices, a laundromat and a community meeting space.
LAPD Northeast Division officer Gina Chovan also reported at the July meeting that the new Northeast Division Senior Lead Officer serving East Hollywood is Ofc. Lenny Davis, who succeeds longtime SLO Sam Salazar, who retired from the force in March. Officer Davis may be contacted at: 213.793.0762.
News From Around the Neighborhood!
Little Armenia: The Los Angeles Independent newspaper reported last week that Armenian American newspaper Asbarez and cable channel Horizon are moving from Glendale to the former Armenian Center of Hollywood building on Vermont and Lexington in September. Also, an Armenian Youth Center recently broke ground near Hollywood and Alexandria.
Thai Town: The Los Angeles Times did a whole story on Thai Town's recent designation as a Preserve America community, first reported by East Hollywood Neighborhood News in July.
Hel-Mel: Metblogs Los Angeles reported on Hel-Mel denizens up in arms about a recently defaced mural.
EHNC Media Watch: EHNC Neighborhood District 4 representative and Outreach COmmittee co-chair Israel Stepanian was featured on KABC's Eyewitness News on Tuesday, August 5 as part of their coverage of the National Night Out anti-crime events. EHNC Student Representative and Arts & Culture Committee co-chair Jennifer Moran was quoted in a Los Angeles Times article on illegal trash dumping in June and was also intierviewed on KPCC 89.3 FM's Patt Morrison show on the same subject.
EHNC Health & Public Safety Committee to Meet August 14!
Are you interested in preventing crime, working with the police department and neighborhood watch groups? Would you like to see the EHNC address fire safety and disaster preparedness issues? Or how about using the resources of our three major medical centers and other local health providers to promote better health for all in our community?
Health and public safety go hand in hand, and the EHNC's new Health and Public Safety committee will discuss those topics. The first meeting of the HPS committee will be on Thursday, August 14 at 7:30 p.m. at the Hollywood Youth and Family Center, 607 N. Vermont Avenue (at Clinton St.). After then, the HPS committee will meet on the second Tuesday of every other month.
For more information on the EHNC's Health & Public Safety Committee, call HPS Committee co-chair Eduardo Magos at 213.359.0025 or email eduardo@easthollywood.net.
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