27. March 2010 by admin.

The LAPD Wilshire Community Police Station presents its Spring Carnival - Easter Weekend April 2nd, 3rd, and 4th right in front of the Wilshire Community Police Station, 4861 Venice Boulevard. Carnival hours are Friday 5pm-11pm, Saturday and Sunday, 11am-4pm. Admission is Free and Free parking will be available.  Please help get the word out on this event as it’s the only scheduled fundraiser for our Wilshire Cadets. Download the flyer here: Wilshire Carnival Flyer

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27. March 2010 by admin.

From our friends at NECA…

You are VERY welcome to join this Saturday’s meeting of NECA — the North East Central Alliance of Neighborhood Councils. Free to attend, it’s  Saturday, March 27 from 10:30am-12:30pm, at the Glassell Park Community Center, 3750 N. Verdugo, Los Angeles, CA 90065. The special speakers are L.A. City Council President Eric Garcetti, Board of Neighborhood Commissioners Vice President Albert Abrams, and Jack Humphreville, president of the DWP Advocacy Committee.  They will appear one after the other. We’ll hear about and discuss such crucial topics as the city’s budget crisis, the status of DONE, and the controversial proposed “ECAF” rate hikes associated with DWP.  There will be Q&A, of course.

NECA meetings are open to the officers and other board members of the many Neighborhood Councils in the Central and East areas, and to stakeholders and other guests from throughout the city.  Alliances such as NECA are NOT governed by the Brown Act, in part because generally, alliances do not solicit or attract that level of representation from any one NC.  But we always urge appropriate sensitivity, common sense and responsibility regarding such matters, in particular when any individual NC has many members present.  Motions can be made as part of a NECA meeting, though none are presently scheduled for this Saturday.

An Alliance is a great way of building a shared voice and common purpose.  NECA is NOT about conquering territory — it’s about developing relationships and helping each other in local and civic causes. In our brief history, we’ve enjoyed meetings that have been provocative, informative and hopefully transformative, but we’ve also sought to be supportive, or at least respectful, and not belittling toward each other and our guests. To this meeting, we’re inviting current board members, but also newly elected ones who are not yet in office, and even some whose status may be in doubt:  a later NECA meeting, but not this one, will be focused on ways to examine and improve NC elections.

I hope you’ll contact me with any questions or comments, and an RSVP is especially useful.  Our meeting is scheduled to start at 10:30 and end at 12:30 but might last a bit later, in part to accommodate some folks who may try to attend other meetings, but also because we expect some great discussion.

Thanks again - Paul Michael Neuman (also, co-chair of Silver Lake NC) / pmneuman@yahoo.com

Download the agenda here:  NECA AGENDA 032710

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17. March 2010 by admin.

The weekly Wellington Square Farmers Market opens this Sunday, March 21 9am-1pm 4394 W. Washington Boulevard in the Smyrna Church parking lot. A California Certified Farmers Market. Fresh fruits and vegetables grown using no pesticides, picked ripe and brought directly to you. Download the flyer: farmers-market.pdf

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17. March 2010 by admin.

INVITE Your Friends and Neighbors - PROCEEDS WILL BENEFIT LA HIGH SCHOOL

This SATURDAY, MARCH 20, 2010, 10am - 2pm

Safely dispose of your E-Waste items
Residential and Business E-Waste accepted

E- WASTE COLLECTION AT LA HIGH SCHOOL
4650 W Olympic Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90019
PH:  323 900 2700

FREE Recycling, Disposal of televisions, computer monitors, computers, printers, circuit boards, computer peripherals, copiers, faxes, Tape/DVD/CD players, telephones, cell phones, audio-visual equipment, rechargeable batteries - working or not!

NO broken glass, fluorescent devices, large household appliances, hazardous-toxic materials or substances.

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15. March 2010 by admin.

Please join the BONC Commissioners at their next meeting, on Monday, March 15, 2010 at 11:30 a.m. at the 10th Floor Conference Center of City Hall, Room 1060. Invited guests at this meeting include the representatives from the City Clerk’s Office who will provide an update of the March 2, 2010 NC Elections, as well as staff from the City Attorney’s Office, Public Integrity Division and the Ethics Commission who will address the issue of possible disclosure and reporting requirements relating to NC candidate fundraising. The Commission will also begin discussions on a policy to require bylaws language detailing selection processes for Neighborhood Council Boards of newly forming Neighborhood Councils who are not yet certified and therefore are unable to take part in the City Clerk-managed 2010 elections.

Download agenda here: BONC AGENDAdnl

Commission Meeting Schedule

Monday, March 15, 2010 11:30 a.m
City Hall 10th Floor Conference Center
Room 1060, 200 North Spring Street
Los Angeles, CA  90012

Tuesday, April 6 ,2010 6:00 p.m.
107th Street Elementary School - auditorium
147 East 107th Street
Los Angeles, CA  90003

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