A fire that may have started in a carport and spread to the attic of a home at 2133 Yosemite Drive started around noontime on Wednesday January 4, 2012. There were no injuries, but about a dozen units responded because of the fire’s proximity to the neighboring apartment building to the rear of the property.
46 firefighters responded and the incident was knocked down in 27 minutes.
Photo by John Acevedo
Posted in Eagle Rock, NEWS
Like cities and states across the country, Los Angeles continues to face significant economic challenges. While the City has made progress in recent years towards cutting costs and operating more efficiently, additional steps must be taken to achieve long-term financial sustainability. The Mayor’s Office and the Neighborhood Council Budget Advocates believe that the input and participation of local communities and Neighborhood Councils in the budget development process is critical to the adoption of a spending plan that reflects the needs and priorities of Los Angeles’ diverse communities.
In each of the last six budget cycles, the Mayor’s Office, with help from the Budget Advocates, has facilitated a structured process for gathering budget input, primarily through an annual community budget survey. This year the budget survey will be released by January 15. In order to get input from all Angelinos and Neighborhood Councils. The Mayor’s Budget Survey will be available for input between January 15 – February 15. Survey hardcopies will also be available in English and Spanish. The deadline for submission of survey responses is February 22.
The Mayor’s Office would like to hear from as many stakeholders in our local communities as possible. Once the survey is released, please help share the opportunity to participate with your neighbors. The survey will be hosted on the city’s website at: LACity.org Look for the Mayor’s Budget Survey link.
A Budget Forum is also being planned for NELA on Monday, January 30th, 6pm, location to be determined.
If you have any questions or comments, please contact Joseph Hari, Neighborhood and Community Services, at joseph.hari@lacity.org, or Heinrich Keifer, Neighborhood Budget Advocate for the East Area at Hkeifer101@sbcglobal.net or call 323-385-4935.
President’s Message Hi, Fellow Northeast Democrats! I want to thank the club for reelecting me and the Board to another term. We are looking forward to a productive year as your team. The holiday party, food drive, and fundraiser were … Continue reading
WASHINGTON, D.C.— Today Representative Xavier Becerra (CA-31), Vice Chair of the House Democratic Caucus and Ranking Member of the Social Security Subcommittee, released the following statement after being appointed to serve on a bicameral conference committee to find bipartisan solutions on the middle class tax cuts, unemployment insurance, and the Medicare physician payment rate:
“I am honored that Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi has entrusted me with this great responsibility.
I look forward to the new year and working with my Democratic and Republican colleagues from both chambers on this important conference committee. The American people are counting on us to work openly and bipartisanly to strengthen our economy, create jobs and rebuild the middle class.”
Posted in Eagle Rock, ELECTED OFFICIALS, Glassell Park, Highland Park, NEWS
1. ERNC meeting attendance- 2. Agenda-Executive Comm. Mtg. 12-26-11 Dear Board members and other interested parties, 1. The underwhelming response to my email survey of board members appears statistically very insignificant and so, in the absence of any clear showing … Continue reading
Wednesday, January 4th
9:00 a.m. – 7:00 p.m.
2222 Laverna Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90041
GLAD, the Greater Los Angeles Agency on Deafness, is hosting a free electronic waste collection and recycling event. Unwanted electronic items are toxic to the environment if improperly disposed, and this event offers you an opportunity to safely recycle them instead and also give back to your community by supporting the vital services that GLAD provides to deaf and hard-of-hearing people in Southern California.
Items that are accepted include the following: monitors, TVs, LCD monitors, mice & keyboards, cables & cords, computers, printers, shredders, and fax machines. Household and kitchen appliances and fluorescent bulbs are NOT accepted. Full data security and data destruction services are provided.
For more information, please contact Global e-Recyclers, Inc. at 562-321-9313 or visit www.gladinc.org.
Posted in CD14, Eagle Rock, Events, NEWS
Protesters from Carpenters Local 944 put up their banner to protest the hiring of sub-contractor Temecula Valley Drywall, who they say does not meet area labor standards for all their carpentry craft workers. A call to Occidental College Communications seeking comment was not immediately returned, nor was a call to the local 944 seeking clarification
Posted in CD14, Eagle Rock, Education, Highland Park, NEWS
The National Science Foundation has awarded $1.16 million in grants to six Occidental College biology, chemistry, and physics professors to continue their research into the mysteries of dark matter and the building blocks of cell structure. Physics professor Daniel Snowden-Ifft … Continue reading
“Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.” -George Lois December 14, 2011 Dear Friend, At Center for the Arts Eagle Rock, we are always thinking of new ways we can … Continue reading
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Based on measures of academic quality and affordability, Kiplinger’s Personal Finance magazine has named Occidental College one of the country’s 50 best values among liberal arts colleges for the fifth year in a row. Occidental was ranked No. 49, one of just nine western colleges ranked in the top 50.
Some 78 percent of Occidental students receive some form of financial aid, which last year averaged $34,140 per student. Occidental enrolls more Pell Grant recipients (24 percent) than most other nationally ranked liberal arts colleges.
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Northeast Community Newsletter: Friday, December 16th, 2011 Update on Wind Storm Tree Debris and Cleanup Thanks to the continuing hard work of thousands of Los Angeles City workers from DWP, Bureau of Street Services, and Bureau of Sanitation and many … Continue reading
HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO ALL!
There’s still time to get a copy of our New Christmas Song to include in your Holiday Music Collection
“I’m Gonna Unwrap My Baby for Christmas” by the Eric Ekstrand Ensemble
You’re familiar with “Rap” music – Check out our “Unwrap” music!
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Posted in Eagle Rock, LOCAL BUSINESSES, PEOPLE
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by Tom Topping The weather is something I rarely report on because a very local focus is something I constantly strive for. The weather is a regional issue, so I let the regional news outlets like the daily papers and … Continue reading
Hi,
My husband & I have lived in the Eagle Rock area our whole lives and moved to Azusa when we became married. Our parents still own homes in Eagle Rock and Highland Park.
On 11/6/11 we left for a Disney cruise and left our dogs in the care of my in laws on Toland Way and they lost them on 11/8/11.
I have been contacted by a woman in HLP/ER that says she may have my little Black & White Shi Tzu. She bought her in Highland Park over the weekend for $100 from a man off the street. She gave me a fake name and number but I know she saw my flyers I have been posting throughout the city and felt the need to call.
I have received several calls from Eagle Rock residents that saw my dogs around the Avenue 42, Delevan Drive near Fletcher Drive Elementary and I just need to get the word out that these dogs were sold in the streets and have a family that loves them.
They are expensive Shi Tzus and we are offering a reward for their safe return. I’d like to have your viewership see this story and possibly get some information about River & Libby.
We have created a website and were featured on KCAL ( news, here is our link. www.findriverandlibby.com
Please email, call or text to : 626-215-4323.
Thank you,
Natalie Tomlinson
Posted in Eagle Rock, PEOPLE
Mexican man undergoing dialysis let back into U.S. Dec. 7, 2011 | KPCC & wires U.S. Customs have allowed a Mexican man undergoing dialysis back into the country on humanitarian grounds. Immigration and Customs Enforcement granted parole to Francisco Cortez … Continue reading
by Tom Topping Eagle Rock Boulevard shop owners banded together last month to promote themselves on Small Business Saturday, the Saturday right after the over hyped “Black Friday.” Leanna Lin Fong, of Leanna Lin’s Wonderland had been planning a sale … Continue reading
by Brenda Rees
Men in black ties and shiny shoes with ladies in hats and gorgeous gowns were welcomed at Hill Drive’s famed and historic Chateau Emmanuel on November 19 to celebrate the close of Eagle Rock’s Centennial year. Robert Kvassay and family opened the doors of their three-acre Tudor-style manor on an evening that only threatened rain but set a nice cozy mood to the festivities.
More than 150 party goers joined in the fun, with many arriving early for cocktails and hors oeuvres by the swimming pool where nearby the Eagle Rock Senior High School Jazz Band entertained. Before the sit down dinner and dancing later to the Jack Lantz Band, guests mingled around the beautiful grounds as they reminisced and thought about the future of Eagle Rock’s next one hundred years.
“I remember hours spent in Yosemite Pool, the Eagle Theatre and our favorite restaurant, Bob’s Big Boy,” says Chris Spear who now lives in nearby Pasadena with wife Suzanne. “I loved hanging out at the mini-golf course – now a strip mall – and I also remember the good days at my elementary school, St. Dominic’s.”
The Snyder sisters grew up on Townsend Avenue and recall walking the streets after school to go to friends’ houses. “Everything was within walking distance,” says Katherine. “I remember going to the little variety store, five and dime, and spending all my money of stuff there.” Liz says that “knowing all the people on my street, where to pick kumquats along the way to school, and the laid-back feeling is what Eagle Rock means to me.”
“There is such a terrific selection of pre-WWII homes here and the ambiance is that of a little suburb,” says Kathleen Abraman who has lived in the area with husband Dean for more than 40 years. She also confesses that her love of “being a block away from Trader Joe’s is also a plus! No, really, it’s a wonderful sense of community and people that make Eagle Rock shine.”
Echoing Abraman’s sentiment is Patricia Perez and Frank Medina who have lived in Eagle Rock for 13 years. “Eagle Rock has that small town feel where you get to know your neighbors,” and offers modest living as well as the “a chateau right down the street! 
Where else can you find that?”
Still, others were talking about the way the community has evolved in the past 100 years – from the construction of the 134 freeway to the ongoing redevelopment.
“The biggest change I’ve seen in Eagle Rock is watching Colorado Boulevard develop,” says Pat Miller who has been in Eagle Rock for more than 40 years. “Watching how the shops, restaurants and other businesses come into the area – and they are all original and unique and not big chains – has really been something to see.”
All in all, guests at the celebration seemed more interested in talking up the good points of Eagle Rock which, ultimately, brought them to the celebration this evening.
“I think we are also appealing to many because we are centrally located. It’s easy to get to other parts of the town from here,” says Hilde Albers who, together with husband Horace, has been in the area since 1968. “The movie industry loves us and there seems to be filming here all the time. Well, it’s so beautiful here. It’s really the best place to live.”
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Attendees at the TBTB community meeting, held at the Women’s 20th Century Club, said they wanted their boulevard back from speeding traffic. Back so that they could cross Colorado Boulevard safely, patronize local merchants and live along a community-centric boulevard. … Continue reading