December

Mariscos El Faro in Highland Park has made the Los Angeles Times’ list of 101 Best Restaurants in L.A. for 2020. | Photo by T.A. Hendrickson / Boulevard Sentinel

Three local restaurants win high praise from the L.A. Times

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By T. A. Hendrickson

What the selection of Alex Padilla as U.S. senator means for NELA

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by T.A. Hendrickson
Gov. Gavin Newsom’s appointment of Alex Padilla to replace Vice President-elect Kamala Harris in the U.S. Senate is sure to resonate with many residents of Northeast Los Angeles.

Padilla is not directly connected to NELA. But as the state’s first ever Latino U.S. Senator, he reflects the majority in NELA.

Photo by Jae C. Hong / Associated Press

Hospitals near Northeast Los Angeles fill up as COVID cases surge

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by T.A. Hendrickson

This little bungalow in Highland Park recently sold for $482,000, significantly less than the Redfin estimate.

Here’s what you can get in NELA for under $600K

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The median sale price for a home in Northeast Los Angeles recently hit $920,000, with even small Highland Park bungalows like this one selling for over $800,000. But even amid rising prices, it’s possible — not easy, but possible — to find an affordable home. The following three homes are all fixer-uppers but none of […]

Christmas Eve meals for 70 local senior citizens are being prepared by Ghaz Bazrafshan at Dave's Chillin N Grillin | Photo by Margaret Irwin.

Delivering food and good will to local senior citizens

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By Eliot Brody

The Sentinel’s 5th annual charitable giving guide to local nonprofits

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Picks from the people who bring you the Boulevard Sentinel The charitable giving season launched on Tuesday, December 1 — “Giving Tuesday” – when nonprofits remind you to donate online at the holidays and spread the word by posting about your donation at #GivingTuesday. There is no shortage of worthy local nonprofits to choose from. […]

This photo by Leo Phillips of the Cortines School of Visual Arts took first place in the High Res photography competition. | Photo courtesy of CD 1.

Winners announced in high school photography contest to document local impact of COVID-19

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By Bill Hendrickson City Councilmember Gil Cedillo has announced the winners in “High Res 2020,” a photography competition that challenged local high school students to portray the impact of COVID-19 on their families, friends, classes and communities. Leo Phillips, a freshman at Cortines School of Visual and Performing Arts in downtown L.A., took first place. […]

The elf, center, is Natashka Jones, service coordinator at Tres Lomas Garden Apartments. Jones and volunteer helpers delivered meals and gifts, door-to-door, to 55 residents.| Photo by Eliot Brody

Holiday outreach provides food, gifts and fun to senior citizens in NELA

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By Eliot Brody

Eagle Rock seniors Liliana (at left, resident of Reflections) and Salome (Age 97, resident of Tres Lomas) taking home holiday treats from the ERNC's Committee on Aging Neighbors. | Photo by Margaret Irwin.

Biden’s choice of Xavier Becerra for a cabinet post is a plus for NELA

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by T.A. Hendrickson

Holiday shopping in NELA spreads cheer and boosts the local economy

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By Emily Jo Wharry

NELA Blue: The electoral map shows that in every precinct in Northeast L.A., the majority of voters went for Biden.

How NELA voted: Biden won big in every NELA precinct; local Democratic candidates clinch other races

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by T.A. Hendrickson

Wendy Carrillo, Assemblymember, AD51, Los Angeles

NELA State Assemblymember Wendy Carrillo says her trip to Maui was undertaken to help all Californians

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Carrillo Statement

One of these nine mural designs will be selected for the exterior wall of the new Planned Parenthood health center in Highland Park. | Image courtesy of Planned Parenthood Pasadena and San Gabriel Valley

Vote for Highland Park’s Next Mural

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By T. A. Hendrickson

Congressmember Jimmy Gomez, shown here on the campaign trail, has been re-elected to represent NELA | Photo by Joe Scarnici Getty Images

Jimmy Gomez, re-elected to Congress from NELA, may be tapped for a post in the Biden administration

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By Matthew Reagan and T. A. Hendrickson

Artwork by Boulevard Sentinel

Recent real estate sales in NELA

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Here is the latest sales data for single family home sales in NELA. See what sales have been doing near you.

At one of several Thanksgiving meal locations in NELA, senior citizens wave for the camera as they await their turn. | Photo by Natashka Jones

Community effort provides Thanksgiving meals to Eagle Rock’s senior citizens

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By Eliot Brody

Julie Jesseph-Balaa and a customer at the Highland Park Farmers Market discussing Peurvian mint. |Photo by Christopher Nyerges

Lessons from a backyard farmer

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By Christopher Nyerges

The pals, Lani, Ava and Celeste stroll on the campus of the Lewis and Clark college in Portland, Oregon. | Photo by Lauren Arriola

Lani Says: On the road again

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By Lani Tunzi

Carrillo: Verbatim

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Carrillo Statement

Creating Extraordinary Realities with Carolyn Caswell, MFT, M. Msc. – December 2020

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By Carolyn Caswell, MFT, M. Msc.

Alan Cisneros, Eagle Rock senior, gets his award for excellence from Jackie Goldberg, VP LAUSD | Photo for the Boulevard Sentinel by Bill Hendrickson

KCAL9/CBS chooses Eagle Rock High for Student and Teacher of the Month

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KCAL9/CBS2 chose an Eagle Rock High Senior and the Eagle Rock High physics teacher to honor this month for their outstanding achievements. Read about it here.

Pet Rescue Event Draws Thousands

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Thousands took in the Eagle Rock Bark this year. They had fun and did good. A great combination. Read about it here.

Photo by T. A. Henrickson

Call for Volunteers to Count the Homeless

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It’s time once again to count the homeless. You can volunteer. Read about it here.

St. Barnabas Re-Opens

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The property was going to house the homeless but City red tape took too long and reviving the congregation presented itself. There’s more. Read about it here.

Gang Convictions Have Made Northeast L.A. Safer, Says Justice Department

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Two more defendants were sentenced to prison in November in a major federal case against three street gangs in Northeast Los Angeles. There’s more. Read it here.

Services for the homeless coming to ER Rec Center aux parking lot? Photo | Bill Hendrickson

City to Evaluate Parking Lot on Figueroa for Homeless Services

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By T. A. Hendrickson An effort in Eagle Rock to create safer, more sanitary conditions for the homeless advanced on November 15, when the Los Angeles City Council told city agencies to study the use of the parking lot at 7541 Figueroa Street as a homeless-services staging area. Among the potential uses: Installing mobile showers […]

Sarah Marchain | Photo courtesy of Lisita Marchain

Living and Dying under the 2 Freeway – Sarah’s Story

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Deceased’s sister speaks out. Read story here.

Metro facilitators guided design exercises at a workshop on the proposed bus rapid transit route in Eagle Rock | Photo by Matthew Reagan

Controversy Over Metro Route in Eagle Rock Continues

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Colorado Boulevard Is Focus of Metro Workshops – 134 Freeway Option is nowhere in sight. Read more here.

Tracy A Stone, Architect | Photo by Allen Anderson

Doing Well, Doing Good

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Tracy A. Stone, an architect in Elysian Valley and president of the nonprofit Elysian Valley Arts Collective, has been named one of the “Best Green Architects” in Los Angeles by L.A. Architects magazine. There’s more.

When you donate to local nonprofits, you make a difference in NELA.

Give to the Non-profits of Northeast Los Angeles

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When you donate to local nonprofits, your contributions stay in the area. Great places to Give to! Check them out here.

Rock Lobster

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When it comes to holiday traditions, the most important ones in my family center around food, Italian food. What about your family?

Coach of the Year Tim Bergeron guiding the Eagle Rock High Girls Volleyball team.

NELA Sports: Fall Season, 2019: Playoffs and Championships

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Victories for Eagle Rock and Franklin Highlight the Fall Season Playoffs and Championships. We cover those here. Read on.

Oscar Duardo in front of amaranth plants in the Milagro Allegro Community Garden in Highland Park. Photo by Christopher Nyerges

The Miracle Garden of Oscar Duardo

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The Milagro Allegro Community Garden in Highland Park is indeed a happy place. Will it stay happy after Oscar Duarto moves on? Here’s the story. . . . .

A Voice in the NELA Wilderness: Flamenco-Fusion Out of Highland Park

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I’ve observed what happens when David Holguin, 27, starts to play his guitar. People stop and listen – and then they stay, waiting for another song. “That’s the kind of music we need more of,” said one man who recently stopped to listen to Holguin at the Old L.A. Farmers Market in Highland Park. Holguin, […]

Lani Says: On the Street Where I Live

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A new family has moved onto the street in Eagle Rock where I have always lived, into the Simmons’ house. It’s the same house, but with a new family who will create their own experiences and memories just like Melvin and Joyce Simmons did for 50 years before moving recently to Glendora to be closer […]

L.A. Teachers Set a Strike Date

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Public school teachers in Los Angeles will go on strike starting Thursday, Jan. 10, unless an unforeseen breakthrough occurs before then. The teachers union – United Teachers of Los Angeles (UTLA) – announced the strike date on Dec. 19. The announcement followed the release of a report by a fact-finding panel made up of a […]

NELA’s Year in Crime

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As 2018 draws to a close, I asked the LAPD for updates on some of the higher profile crimes that occurred this year in Northeast L.A. Here’s a rundown as of Nov. 16: No suspects were identified in the attempted kidnapping on Jan. 22 at Campus Road and Escarpa Drive, near Eagle Rock High School. […]

Countdown to a Teacher Strike

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On Nov. 14, the labor dispute between the L.A. school district and the L.A. teachers union entered the fact-finding stage. Over the next 30 days or so, the claims by each side will be analyzed and a report issued by a panel headed by the Public Employment Relations Board (PERB), the state agency that oversees […]

Picking Up the Trash Is the Easy Part. Paying for Trash Pickup Is Hard.

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For the most part, businesses and landlords in Northeast Los Angeles and the rest of the city have had no choice but to accept the higher costs and new procedures imposed by RecycLA, the city’s commercial trash-hauling system in effect since July 2017. But at a recent meeting of the committee on Energy, Climate Change […]

Violet Rivers Sings On

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Violet Rivers, a third grader at Eagle Rock Elementary, will sing next month at a student showcase in Washington, D.C., sponsored by the National Parent Teacher Association and the U.S. Department of Education. Violet will perform her original song, Transformation, which won a 2018 National Award of Excellence in Music Composition last May in an […]

Remembering: Eileen Harmon

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Eileen Harmon, a longtime resident of Highland Park, died in her sleep of natural causes on Oct. 26, just a few days shy of her 97th birthday. Eileen was born in Ohio to Frances and Harley McGlone, both of whom were born and raised in neighboring Kentucky. Along with her siblings, Normajean, Hazel and Marvin, […]

Remembering Merritt Tritch 1930-2018

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Merritt George Tritch, co-owner of Tritch Hardware in Eagle Rock, has died. His passing, on Nov. 14 at age 88, is one of those events that give a community pause. His long life was well lived in loving service to family, friends, community and country. It was also so deeply rooted in one place, Eagle […]

Burning of Methane at Scholl Canyon Raises Questions Anew

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The methane gas from decaying trash at the Scholl Canyon landfill in the hills above Eagle Rock is being “flared,” or burned off, the Boulevard Sentinel has learned. Contrary to common belief, the methane is no longer being used to make electricity at the Grayson Power Plant in Glendale. From an environmental point of view, […]

Do Huizar’s Problems Leave Him Any Time to Do His Job?

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NELA’s City Councilmember, José Huizar, engulfed in legal problems, has all but disappeared from public view. In September and October, Mr. Huizar was named in a personnel complaint and two lawsuits by former employees alleging various violations, including workplace discrimination, harassment and retaliation. On Nov. 7, his home, City Hall office and field office in […]

Get to Know: Grant Gershon

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The program for the Los Angeles Master Chorale on Sunday, Nov. 17 was a conversational double bilI, conducted by Grant Gershon. It opened with Bach’s luminous Magnificat, which Gershon led with an agile bearing, bright but relaxed. Then there was the contemporary selection – the West Coast premiere of Reena Esmail’s, This Love Between Us: […]

What to do with Kids while School’s Out

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Fun for Kids During Winter Break. Winter Day Camps: The Eagle Rock Recreation Center, Glassell Park Recreation Center and Highland Park Recreation Center, offer winter day camp for kids ages 5 to 12, with one session from Dec. 17 to Dec. 21 and another session from Dec. 31 to Jan. 4, 2019. (Highland Park will […]

Editor’s Notebook: HOLIDAY EDITION, 2019

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This Editor’s Notebook contains fun things to do, important things to know, ways to get involved and events to put on your calendar.

Noteworthy in NELA – December 2018

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Fun things to do, important things to know, ways to get involved and events to put on your calendar. Kudos Veterans Honored: Every year, each Los Angeles City Councilmember selects a “Veteran of the Year” from his or her district. This year, Regina A. Scott is the honoree from NELA’s Council District 1 and Marcos […]

Letter from the Publisher

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First of all, Happy Holidays. No matter how you celebrate or what you celebrate, I wish you all a joyful, healthy holiday season, where we put the old year behind us and look forward to the new one. Second, thank you to all of the merchants and shoppers that helped to make Shop Small Eagle […]