THE EAGLE ROCK ASSOCIATION
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TERA
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October 1, 2004
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This
week:
Jewels at Owl Talk Tonight (Item #2)
Eagle Rockdale Community Garden and Art Park Work Day
Tomorrow! (Item #3)
Golden Eagle Awards Tomorrow (Item #4)
Eagle Rock Music Festival Tomorrow and Sunday! (Item #5)
TABLE
OF CONTENTS:
1.
PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE – ROCKTOBER!
2.
HOO! HOO! -- OWL TALK CELEBRATES 10
YEARS WITH A JEWELRY SHOW TONIGHT!
3.
COMMUNITY GARDEN WORKDAY – CREATING A NEW RESOURCE FOR EAGLE ROCK! – OCTOBER 2nd
4.
THE COLLABORATIVE AND ERNC PRESENT GOLDEN EAGLE AWARDS – OCTOBER 2nd
5.
OPEN SPACE DISCUSSION WITH A COMMUNITY PERSPECTIVE – OCTOBER 2nd
6. CENTER
FOR THE ARTS, EAGLE ROCK PRESENTS SIXTH ANNUAL (FREE) EAGLE ROCK MUSIC FESTIVAL
PROUDLY FEATURING QUETZAL! – OCTOBER 2nd
and 3rd
7.
TERA’S ECLECTIC EAGLE ROCK HOME TOUR ROCKS! – OCTOBER 24th!
8.
HELP SELL HOME TOUR TICKETS -- OCTOBER 23rd
9.
BE A PERMANENT PART OF SOLHEIM LUTHERAN HOME!
10.
ERNC SUB-DISTRICT 6 MEETING – OCTOBER 12th
11.
UPTOWN GAY AND LESBIAN ALLIANCE CABARET 2004 – OCTOBER 16th
12.
OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE RECEIVES $500,000 KECK FOUNDATION GRANT TO CREATE
CENTER FOR INTERCULTURAL PARTNERSHIPS
13.
REACH OUR COMMUNITY KIDS (ROCK) IS ROCKING!
14.
WOMEN’S 20TH CENTURY CLUB SEEKS VENDORS FOR HOLIDAY CRAFT FAIR – NOVEMBER 6th
15.
WE’VE GOT MAIL
16.
THE FINAL WORD – LEWIS THOMAS
1. PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE – ROCKTOBER!
THE EAGLE ROCK LIGHTING WAS A
ROCKING SUCCESS!
Due to the wedding of a close
friend, I missed the Eagle Rock lighting, but I think I was the only person in
the region who did. From all accounts, there were over 800 people,
and a spectacular performance by Eagle Rock’s own Grant Greshon, musical
director of the Los Angeles Master Chorale, conducting an original composition by
David O and featuring choirs from northeast Los Angeles. Jenny
Krusoe and her fantastic board of directors has done yet another amazing
job. Congratulations!
OCTOBER 2nd – A DAY
OF BEAUTIFICATION AND MUSIC
I have not seen a more crowded day
of events. Wow! I hope that we can all put on our gardening
hats and work gloves to be part of the Eagle Rockdale Community Garden!
Since it is an all-day event, there are many opportunities to participate, so
please come be part of it before and after the Collaborative’s Golden Eagle
awards!
… AND SPEAKING OF BEAUTY …
I wanted to give recognition to
Unique Nails and Robin’s Beauty Studio for being two of the many fine
businesses who keep Eagle Rock’s residents looking hip and happy, and sometimes
even relaxed. Everyone at both of these establishments has worked hard to
grow and retain their business by being available even at the last minute and
at odd hours if that’s what people need. Thanks for working ‘round the
clock for us!
… A BEAUTIFUL HOME TOUR!
Have you all seen Corky Retson’s
beautiful Eclectic Eagle Rock Home Tour flyers? The beauty of this event
is a reflection on the many people who are volunteering every day to make this
incredible event a success. Come be part of this wonderful reflection of
Eagle Rock’s residential spectrum and community history.
--
Hilary Norton Orozco, TERA
President
2. HOO! HOO! -- OWL
TALK CELEBRATES 10 YEARS IN EAGLE ROCK WITH A TRUNK SHOW
TERA congratulates Kathy Kroner for Owl Talk’s 10 years
in Eagle Rock. Located at 5060-B Eagle Rock Boulevard, between swork and
Twerps, Owl Talk is a fabulous vintage shop, full of quality clothing, jewelry,
handbags, etc, all at vintage prices. If you have not stopped in before,
Kathy Kroner gives us another reason to check out Owl Talk tonight:
We will be having a jewelry "Trunk Show" with
several of the artists that have shows at "Studio 51".
This show will be on Friday night October 1st 5:00 pm-9:00 pm.
It will give our customers a chance to "meet the artists" and enjoy
refreshments in the shop.
Congratulations again, Kathy, for a decade of sheer
delight!
3.
COMMUNITY GARDEN WORKDAY – CREATING A NEW RESOURCE FOR EAGLE ROCK!
Presented by The Eagle Rock
Association, LA Conservation Corps, LA Community Garden Council, Fresh Food
Access, LA City Council District 14…
Eagle
Rockdale Community Garden & Art Park
Inaugural
Work Day
Saturday,
October 2
8 a.m. – 5
p.m.
1103
Rockdale Avenue
Join us as we transform Open Space
into
Food for Our Families and a
Community Gathering Place!
Free Breakfast/Lunch for all
Volunteers;
Children Welcome
Bring gloves/tools w/your ID
attached
Sign up for your own Garden Plot
Information: 323/257-5886 mtokita@earthlink.net
(Location: Rockdale Ave. is one
block east of Figueroa, just across from Vons. Parking: available along La
Loma, Lanark, or at Lanark-Shelby Park.)
Please consider additional food
donations for the gardeners! We are hoping for a big turnout and well-fed
workers are happy workers! Thanks everyone!
4. THE
COLLABORATIVE AND ERNC PRESENT GOLDEN EAGLE AWARDS
Please join The Collaborative
Eagle Rock Beautiful for our Autumn 2004 meeting
on Saturday, October 2, 9am to
11am, at the Eagles, corner of Townsend and Yosemite Avenues.
Included in The Collaborative’s
agenda this meeting, The Collaborative will be partnering with the Eagle Rock
Neighborhood Council to honor the recipients of this year's Golden Eagle
Awards. These awards are presented to homes and businesses that best
exemplify an exceptional effort towards beautifying and improving the unique
ambiance of Eagle Rock.
A continental breakfast will be
served and as always, we never go overtime ...
For questions or further
information: Esther Monk, 323.255-9400 or pecos555@pacbell.net
5.
OPEN SPACE DISCUSSION FROM A COMMUNITY PERSPECTIVE
@ gardenlab
experiment
art center
wind tunnel
950 south
raymond,
pasadena,
california
Saturday,
October 2, 2004
3:00 p.m. to
4:30 p.m.
The meeting is a discussion on how community members are
defining, creating, maintaining and enhancing open space in their
communities.
This panel discussion will highlight case studies of
grassroots campaigns by Los Angeles residents to organize and mobilize
campaigns to preserve land for parks, open space and other community uses
including a jogging path, a community garden, an art tagging park, and civic
space. The discussions will focus on the community, open space needs and the
campaigns waged by residents. Below is list of community activists who
have been invited to discuss the following campaigns:
Belmont Art Park - Amy Mckenzie
Cornfields - Alicia Brown
Elephant Hill - Elva Yanez
Evergreen Cemetery Jogging Path - Nadine
Diaz
LA Civic Park - Paul Svendsen
La Culebra/Spiraling Orchard - Tricia Ward
Northeast LA Open Space Coalition - Clare Marter Kenyon
South Central Farmers - Rufina Juarez
Moderator: Carolyn Ramsay, Olive Branches
Questions:
1. Community description
2. Open space issues / community needs
3. Campaign overview - goals &
objectives, strategies & tactics, community involvement, opposition,
outcomes
6. CENTER
FOR THE ARTS, EAGLE ROCK PRESENTS SIXTH ANNUAL (FREE) EAGLE ROCK MUSIC FESTIVAL
PROUDLY FEATURING QUETZAL
Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock will host the Sixth Annual
Eagle Rock Music Festival, Saturday October 2nd at 6:00 –midnight and then
continue on Sunday, October 3rd, 11 am. –9m. The festival on Saturday is
free with the first concerts beginning at several locations on Colorado Blvd.
at 6pm. Festivalgoers will then walk up and down Colorado Boulevard to
hear a variety of musical performances.
What makes this Saturday night music festival so unique are
the 24 local venues, including restaurants, coffee houses, a floral shop,
beauty salon, auto garage, real estate office, gas station and several other
storefronts along Colorado Boulevard hosting performances. A free shuttle
service will be available throughout the evening until 10:00 pm. The
evening will conclude with a final concert by local favorite Quetzal at the
intersection of Caspar and Merton, ending at midnight.
Scheduled to appear on the October 2th are Taiko
drummers, Korean drummers, Jumpin’ Joz Swing Band, Bonne Musique
Zydeco, Morganne, Daniel Glass Jazz Ensemble, Café Fuego,
Randy Kovitz with Lies Like Truth and more. The Center is proud to
be presenting the world renowned Quetzal as the grand finale.
On October 3rd beginning at 11 am, the Center for the Arts
will host a brunch followed by a concert of classical music programmed by the
Renaissance Arts Academy. The afternoon continues with the Paul Bailey
ensemble performing contemporary classical music at 1:30 pm. At 3pm the
exciting CalArts Percussion Ensemble will take the stage. The festival
will close with a 7:30 pm concert with Open Gate Theater’s Eclectic Jazz.
All events are free of charge.
The festival is presented with the generous support of
Council Member Antonio Villaraigosa, the Los Angeles Department of Cultural
Affairs, the Los Angeles County Arts Commission, the Recording Industries’
Music Performance Trust Funds through the Professional Musicians Union 47, and
the community of Eagle Rock.
The Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock is a non-profit
organization, supported solely by grants and donations, providing arts
programming in the form of low cost classes, concerts, exhibitions, and
festivals to the surrounding areas and communities.
For more information call Roxanna or Jenny at the Center for
the Arts, Eagle Rock, 323.226.1617. The Center is located near the corner
of Eagle Rock Boulevard and Colorado Boulevard at 2225 Colorado Blvd. The
ERCCA’s federal tax identification number is 95-4689576.
The Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock would like to thank the
following sponsors. Also, the Center would love other members of the
community to support this fabulous festival. For information, call
323.226.1617 or email us.
The Sponsors of the Sixth Annual Eagle Rock Music Festival
October 2nd and 3rd, 2004
Platinum
Bank of America
Bell-Warren Trust (In Memory of Eric Redifer Hood)
Home Life/Five-City Realty
Los Angeles County Arts Commission
The Orozco Family
The Recording Industries’ Music Performance Trust Funds
Ron Piller
Gold
Christian Assembly Church
Frank and Kirsten Ellsworth
Bob Taylor Properties,Inc.
Colorado Terrace
The Eagle Rock Association
Art Mattox
Silver
Perla S. Bantolo
Colombo’s
Comfort Inn, Eagle Rock
Maggie Edmondson
Fatty's
Jeff Ferguson and Christy Meisenhelder
Linda Herbert
Marsha and Allen Nikora
Uptown Gay and Lesbian Alliance
The Welcome Inn
Copper
Casa Bianca
Dorothy and Ralph Boyd
Brain Center
Michele De Rosa and Mark Strunin
Mark Malecha & Paul Vandeventer
Pauline and Peter Mauro
Mold Masters
Dorothy Shepherd
Lucy and Dean Spurgeon
Jackie and William Stutz
Pat Topping
Angels of the Three Festivals:
The Eagle Rock Chamber of Commerce
The Eagle Rock Neighborhood Council
Jordinelli & Associates
Tracy King
Occidental College
Pagnone Realty
Pasadena Weekly
Edna Shelton
Sir Michael’s Limousine and Rentals
Leno and Paul Sislin, LLC
20th Century Women’s Club
Washington Mutual
THANKS TO YOU ALL FROM THE STAFF AND BOARD OF THE CENTER FOR
THE ARTS, EAGLE
ROCK!!!!!
7. ECLECTIC
EAGLE ROCK HOME TOUR ROCKS!!
Join Us for TERA's Fifth
Annual
Eclectic
Eagle Rock Home Tour 2004
Sunday,
October 24, 2004
10:00 a.m.
to 4:00 p.m.
Tour begins
at the historic
GLAD (Greater
Los Angeles Agency on Deafness) Building
2235 Norwalk
Avenue, Eagle Rock
We invite you to volunteer to
be a docent at our upcoming Eclectic Eagle Rock Home Tour, taking place on
Sunday, October 24, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Docents volunteer for one of two
three-hour shifts, either morning (10 to 1) or afternoon (1 to 4). What do you
receive in return?
ALL for just three hours of your volunteer
time. Make a difference. Be a docent!
To volunteer, call Docent Coordinator Kathleen Goldstein at (818) 662-2154 or
e.mail her at goldleroux@aol.com. Many thanks, and we'll see you at the
tour!
Home Tour Tickets Sold
Throughout Eagle Rock!
Tickets:
$17 in advance
$15 for TERA members in advance
$20 at the door
Ticket sale locations:
Auntie Em's, 4616 Eagle Rock
Boulevard, Eagle Rock
The Coffee Table, 1958 Colorado
Boulevard
Eagle Rock Juice Exchange, 2152
Colorado Boulevard, Eagle Rock
Online at: www.TERA90041.org
By mail: TERA, P. O. Box 41453, Eagle Rock CA 90041
8. VOLUNTEERS
TO SELL HOME TOUR TICKETS NEEDED!
This just in from Home Tour volunteer coordinator Teri
Aranguren:
Volunteers are needed for a few remaining slots. They
are all for Saturday, October 23rd:
Location - Juice
Exchange 10-12 Two volunteers
Auntie
Em’s
10-12 One volunteer; 12-2 pm Two volunteers
(The addresses of these restaurants are in the Home Tour
item above)
Please contact me if you can help out. Thank you!
Teri Aranguren, P.O. Box 41-1044, Los Angeles, CA 90041
Office: (323)344-0150 Fax:(323)344-0374
9. BE
A PERMANENT PART OF SOLHEIM LUTHERAN HOME!
All TERA members and e.letter readers are cordially invited
to join the residents, staff and board of Solheim Lutheran Home at the FALL
FESTIVAL and ANNUAL MEETING, Sunday, October 10, 2004, featuring food,
entertainment and fun from 2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. The annual meeting
of the corporation will be held at 2:30 p.m. in the Residential Dining Room.
Area artists and artist wanabees are invited to take part in
that day's fundraiser - Paint a Piece of the Wall. Using a paint-by-numbers
system, $25 donors can paint a 2' X2' canvas "block:" which will
ultimately be part of the 255 foot mural on the wall bordering Solheim's
western property line. All donor names will be recorded on a plaque that will
hang in the Skilled Nursing Unit. Mural Environments, designers and
installers of the mural, will be on hand that day to guide painters. Paint,
brushes and protective covering will be provided!
Please come and join the fun!
Nancy Ackerman, AIM
Director of Development, Solheim Lutheran Home
323-257-7518 voice 323-255-3544 fax
10.
ERNC SUB-DISTRICT 6 MEETING
The next meeting of the
stakeholders of Sub-District 6 of the Eagle Rock Neighborhood Council will be
held on Tuesday, October 12 from 6:30-8:00 p.m. at the Solheim
Lutheran Home at 2236 Merton (between Eagle Rock Blvd. and Ellenwood, one block
south of Colorado). We'll meet in the M&M room, and (because the name
of the room just makes me hungry) light refreshments will be provided.
YES, THERE WILL BE FOOD! So come for the food, or come to meet your neighbors, or
come to discuss the concerns for our area, but just COME!
If you have questions about the
meeting, location or boundaries of Sub-District 6, email me at ernc-district6@pacbell.net or
call 323-256-5733.
Cheryl Leutjen
ERNC Sub-District 6 Director
11.
UPTOWN GAY AND LESBIAN ALLIANCE CABARET 2004
The Uptown Gay and Lesbian Alliance
(UGLA) will hold its 14th annual fund raiser, Cabaret 2004, in Eagle
Rock, at the Womens 20th Century Club on Saturday, October 16th. Funds
raised by Cabaret 2004 will go to support UGLA's community charitable,
educational and visibility programs. For more information about UGLA,
visit http://www.ugla.org.
If interested, please call Carl Matthes at (323) 254-2726 or Joan Potter at
(323) 258-2555. Or e-mail UGLA at UptownGLA@aol.com.
12. OCCIDENTAL
COLLEGE RECEIVES $500,000 KECK FOUNDATION GRANT TO CREATE CENTER FOR
INTERCULTURAL PARTNERSHIPS
Occidental College has received a $500,000 grant from the
Keck Foundation to create a Center for Intercultural Partnerships that will
allow students to practice their foreign language skills in a state-of-the-art
teaching facility. The opening is tentatively slated for fall 2005.
The center, which will be housed in 90-year-old Johnson
Hall, will include a video and Internet conferencing room, a computer lab with
audio-visual capabilities and new language software, conversational spaces for
meetings and foreign language practice and discussion, and two small
administrative offices. Keck funding is payable over three years.
"Using this center to immerse themselves more
completely in other cultures will allow students to prepare for an increasingly
interdependent and pluralistic world," said Kenyon Chan, vice president of
academic affairs and dean of the college. "It is now possible to harness
new technologies such as digital video, interactive multimedia and the web to
approximate an immersive environment and facilitate the students' experience as
they learn about new cultures and languages."
13.
REACH OUR COMMUNITY KIDS (ROCK) IS ROCKING!
Check out the amazing
programming of ROCK this fall!
Visit the (Reach Our Community
Kids) ROCK Teen Center at 1597 Yosemite Drive, on the northeast corner of
Yosemite & Townsend Avenue.
This fall ROCK has a full schedule
of afternoon programming. Regardless of the student’s needs or interests, we’re
there to help. We specialize in coaching students to achieve their full
potential. Our homework coaches are available from 3 pm to 6 pm, Monday through
Thursday.
However, ROCK is not just about
academic achievement. We also want to see our students grow physically,
emotionally, and socially. If you are between 12 and 18, check out our:
Donna Robey-Sullivan
Executive Director
Reach Our Community
Kids The ROCK Teen Center
4808 Townsend Ave
1597 Yosemite Drive
Los Angeles, CA
90041
Los Angeles, CA 90041
323-547-1913
(cell)
323-257-6102 (ROCK)
14.
WOMEN’S 20TH CENTURY CLUB SEEKS VENDORS FOR HOLIDAY CRAFT FAIR
The Women's 20th Century Club of Eagle Rock is in the planning stages of their upcoming
Holiday Boutique & Craft Fair, which will be held on November 6.
If you are interested in a vendor spot at the Club on that day, please contact
Roe Muzingo (323) 255-4438, or email her at Roemuz@webtv.net.
15.
WE’VE GOT MAIL
Eagle Rock friends,
Once again, thank you for your notes on the content and
civility of the debate for building seats at the Ambassador 24 acre site, while
preserving history and architecture of significance. The site can be
compatible for both objectives of school seats and preservation, but not in the
current EIR plan and not in Superintendent Romer's and board member, Jose
Huizar's current compromise.
There are two main ingredients in the 3 school site that
cause the demolition of the historic hotel when in fact there are 11 acres in
back of the hotel and much of 6 acres in front that can house kids while using
the hotel and convention site in ways that are economical and thoughtful.
Please come to the meetings in the near future as well as call and email my
colleagues.
Sincerely,
-- David Tokofsky, LAUSD Board Member, History
Teacher, Eagle Rock resident
* * *
Hello TERA,
I bought my first house in eagle rock in 1987 when I
was 26 years old and have lived in this corner of the world ever since, I love
it!! Anyway, I would like to offer my services to any band that may be
lacking a drummer for this years music fest....
DRUMMER AVAILABLE FOR MUSIC
FEST! ROCK GENRE, NEW AGE, POP, THE WAVE. If any of the bands
in these categories lack a drummer this year forward my info to them. I
have 25 years experience. Please call Vic 323 258 5898.....
Thanks,
-- Vic M,
Eagle Rock
* * *
15. THE FINAL WORD – LEWIS THOMAS
In honor of the Music Festival …
“We are a spectacular, splendid
manifestation of life. We have language…We have affection. We have
genes for usefulness, and usefulness is about as close to a “common goal” of
nature as I can guess at. And finally, best of all, we have music.”
--
Lewis Thomas (1913 - ), US Physician, Educator
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