"Eagle Rock: Where land use and
planning is a contact sport"
THE EAGLE ROCK
ASSOCIATION
TERA
-- e.letter --
In this issue:
1. WALGREENS PROPOSAL -- YOUR INPUT IS STILL
NEEDED!
2. WALGREENS COMMUNITY MEETING -- NOVEMBER 28
3. SAN PASCUAL STAIRS - ART TILES "GLUE 'N
GROUT" EXTRAVAGANZA! -- NOVEMBER 17 AND 18
4. LA CONSERVANCY MODERN COMMITTEE PHOTOGRAPHY
EVENT -- NOVEMBER 29
5. OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE'S
"RE-ENVISIONING" OF THE LOS ANGELES RIVER NETS NATIONAL AWARD
6. EAGLE ROCK ELEMENTARY PARENTS: SIGN YOUR
CHILD UP FOR CATALINA FIELD TRIP!
7. CHRISTMAS SHOW TO SUPPORT TOY DRIVE FOR
CHILDREN AFFECTED BY AIDS -- DECEMBER 12
8. LETTERS AND E.MAILS
9. QUOTE OF THE WEEK
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1. WALGREENS PROPOSAL -- YOUR INPUT IS STILL
NEEDED!
Thanks
again to all who have responded to our Walgreens survey. We've had a wonderful response from a wide
variety of community members. Please
read what others have to say about the current proposal by visiting our Web
site at http://www.tera90041.org/walgreens-survey.htm.
For
those of you who wonder what the original Shopping Bag building (currently One
Day Paint & Body, threatened with demolition) looked like when it debuted
in our community, please see the attachment below labeled ARchrender.JPG.
If
you haven't yet participated, there is still an opportunity to let our Council
member, Walgreens, and the developers know how you feel about the current
proposal. Please view the present site
plan attached and answer the four questions below. Keep in mind that the gray areas on the site plan represent
asphalt, the light brown areas are other hardscape (no greenery), and the
purple box is the proposed Walgreens store.
1. Do you
believe that Eagle Rock needs the addition of a large drugstore at this
location?
2. Do
you have any concerns about the addition of Walgreens and other tenants to this
area? To this block?
3. Is there another tenant that you would like
to see instead of Walgreens?
4. If you support the proposed project, what if
any changes would you like to suggest as improvements to the project such as
more extensive landscaping, pedestrian walkways, linkages with other businesses
or maintaining the historical facade?
Send
us your survey answers and any other comments you might have as soon as
possible by e.mailing them to artburn@earthlink.net. (Or just press "reply" -- DO NOT press "reply
all.") Your comments will be
personally delivered to Council member Nick Pacheco, to Walgreens, and to the
developers of this project. They need
to hear from YOU, since you are the ones who would have to live with this
project in our town far into the future.
DEALINE FOR SURVEY REPONSES: 12 NOON ON NOVEMBER
27. WE WILL BE POSTING THE RESULTS OF
OUR SURVEY IN OUR NOVEMBER 29 E.LETTER.
IMPORTANT: SEE MEETING NOTICE BELOW.
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2. WALGREENS COMMUNITY MEETING -- NOVEMBER
28
There will be
another meeting regarding the Walgreens proposal on Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2001,
at St. Dominic's Church Parish Hall, 2002 Merton Ave., Eagle Rock, 90041. The developers will present new renderings
at 6:00 p.m., and the meeting will be from 6:30 to 8:00 p.m. We have no idea what these new renderings
will show, but we do know that they were developed because of the many concerns
expressed by the community at the meeting on October 30. For further information, please call the
Council office @ 323/254-5295.
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3. SAN PASCUAL STAIRS - ART TILES "GLUE
'N GROUT" EXTRAVAGANZA! -- NOVEMBER 17 AND 18
IT'S FINALLY TIME!
THE SAN PASCUAL STAIRS WILL SOON BE A PIECE OF ART!
More
than 1,000 local children & volunteers have made TILES to install on the
stairs between San Pascual Elementary School and Avenue 66. HERE'S HOW YOU CAN
HELP!!
WHEN:
Adult volunteers will install the mosaic at our GLUE 'N GROUT EXTRAVAGANZA!
Sat.,
November 17 & Sun. November 18!
Corner
of Avenue 66 and Meridian, or San Pascual Ave & Hough Street!
DAY
ONE: Glue the tiles in place on the stairs!
SATURDAY,
November 17, 8:30 am - 12 noon, OR 12:30 pm - 5 pm
Sign
up for a 4-hour shift (or more) and we'll train teams to glue each tile in
place on 125 stairs! This is hard, dirty work, so adults only, please! If you
have them, please bring such items as hats, gloves, knee-pads, buckets,
trowels, caulking guns, etc. Lunch & refreshment provided.
DAY
TWO: Fill in the gaps with grout!
SUNDAY,
November 18, 8:30 am - 12 noon, OR 12:30 PM - 5 PM
After the glue has had time to dry, we'll train
volunteers doing 4-hour shifts (or more) to use grout fill in the gaps between
tiles and secure them forever. Adults only, please! If you have them, please
bring sponges, floats, putty knives, buckets, hats, gloves & knee-pads.
Lunch and refreshments provided.
Celebrate
your work! Congratulate your friends
and neighbors on a job well done!
You'll be invited to the upcoming STAIRWELL GRAND OPENING!
To
volunteer, contact Nancy Blaine at (323) 257-9600 x208 or nancyblaine@hotmail.com.
A
project of the Garvanza Improvement Association, funded by the Neighborhood
Matching Fund, City of L.A. Department of Public Works. In partnership with
Eagle Rock Community Cultural Association, National Audubon Society, Highland
Park Heritage Trust, Hathaway Family Resource Center, LA Bridges After-school
Program, Occidental College Community Outreach Partnership Center, and a
coalition of community volunteers.
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4. LA CONSERVANCY MODERN COMMITTEE
PHOTOGRAPHY EVENT -- NOVEMBER 29
3-D
LA: Modernism in Three Dimensions
The
Stereo Photography of Jack Laxer, 1953-1965
Order
tickets today! This event will sell out early.
Print
out this form:
http://www.laconservancy.org/events/laxerform.html
and
mail or fax to the LAC office.
Details:
Thursday,
November 29 @ 7:30 PM
IMAX,
California ScienCenter, Downtown
LAC
Event hotline: 213-430-4219
On
Thursday, November 29, The Los Angeles Conservancy's Modern Committee and the
California Science Center are hosting an evening with legendary 3D photographer
Jack Laxer. Since his arrival in Los Angeles in 1950, Laxer has experimented
with the latest in photo technology from 3-D to micrography to his recent
multimedia travel presentations.
This
narrated slide show includes never-before-seen images of Southern California's
commercial landscape from 1953-1965 -- a lost world of coffee shops, period
interiors and sleek office buildings -- all in stunning full color 3-D! You'll
see such Armet & Davis Googie masterpieces as The Wich Stand, Pann's,
Norms, Penguin and early Denny's. Also featured are the original 1962
Hanna-Barbera Studios and several 'special guest star' Palm Springs locations
by architects Paul Williams and William Cody.
Projectionists
for the evening will be David Starkman and Susan Pinsky who will use a
retrofitted 1950s Stereo Realist projector. They are past presidents of the Los
Angeles Stereoscopy society -- established in 1955.
This virtual reality journey through Modern
Southern California takes place on Thursday, November 29 at 7:30 PM at the
California Science Center IMAX theater in historic Exposition Park. Special
Polarized glasses will be distributed and the 3-D images will be projected on
the theater's silver screen (although not at full IMAX size). The program will
last about an hour, with an informal question and answer session afterwards.
Tickets are $10 for Conservancy members and $15 for non-members and at the
door. Parking is $5 in the Science Center parking lot (free street parking also
available).
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5. OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE'S
"RE-ENVISIONING" OF THE LOS ANGELES RIVER NETS NATIONAL AWARD
Occidental
College's "Re-Envisioning the Los Angeles River" project has brought
top honors to the California Council for the Humanities (CCH), which funded the
project as part of its recent three-year Community Heritage initiative. CCH was awarded the distinguished Schwartz
Prize on November 3 during the National Humanities Conference in Indianapolis. The prize, given by the Federation, is one of two awards for
excellence in public programming awarded annually in the United States and its
territories.
"The
project was a stellar example of how cultural programming can create increased
understanding and dynamic changes within communities," said CCH Executive
Director Jim Quay. "CCH, which in 1999 gave a $48,000 grant to
Occidental's Urban and Environmental Policy Institute, nominated the L.A. River
project for the honor because it enabled Californians to hear, see, feel and
think through the realities of other people, times and places."
The
project spurred public exploration into the past, present and future of the
often-derided and long-ignored 53-mile waterway. Occidental, together with Friends of the Los Angeles River and
more than four dozen co-sponsors, hosted 40 public humanities programs that
explored the history, literature, linguistic and cultural geography related to
the L.A. River and its place in Los Angeles. The river runs past 14 cities and
through working-class communities of largely Asian American, African American
and Latino residents.
"I
am delighted that our work has won such a prestigious award," said Robert
Gottlieb, Henry R. Luce Professor of Urban Environmental Studies. "This
underlines the value of our effort to produce new ways of looking at critical
community and environmental issues and the importance of building a wide range
of community and campus partnerships."
"This
reaffirms the value of our efforts to use the humanities in a public way to
strengthen communities," added Quay. "The competition for the
Schwartz prize is always keen, and it's a real honor to be recognized." The CCH is the only organization in
California that creates, sponsors and promotes humanities programs for the
general public in every region of the state. Since its formation in 1975, the
non-profit CCH has sponsored programs that seek to enrich California's cultural
life and strengthen its communities by promoting the public's involvement in
the humanities. Some of these programs
have included museum exhibits, public forums, live performance and
award-winning films. Additional
information on the California Council for the Humanities and its programs may
be found at http://www.calhum.org.
In "re-envisioning" projects that lasted
through fall 2000, Occidental and its co-sponsors used traditional and
innovative formats to engage the public in the humanities. There were walks,
bike rides and historical and public policy discussions concerning such issues
as the proposed Cornfield warehouse development adjacent to Chinatown. The
ensuing media attention and political debate helped facilitate an "alternative
greening" - and community-oriented - plan to be developed for one of the
last open spaces in downtown Los Angeles.
The re-envisioning
project also commissioned river-related poetry, sponsored art installations,
and produced a film documentary based on how Hollywood films have used the L.A.
River for landscape and thematic purposes. The final project report is posted
at http://www.lariver.oxy.edu/publications/index.htm#finalreport. A second
phase of the Re-Envisioning the L.A. River program has now been launched,
focusing on the Arroyo Seco corridor between Pasadena and downtown Los Angeles.
Similar to the re-envisioning program, this project, entitled
"Arroyofest," will also bring together community, government,
business, and academic partners to identify a new vision of the Arroyo and its
transportation, watershed, and community issues.
A statement issued by a panel of Schwartz Prize
judges said the Occidental/CCH Re-Envisioning the L.A. River project was
singled out because of its "genuine policy impact, its nontraditional use
of humanities formats and ideas, and its involvement of a large and varied
group of participants."
The
statement continued: "The judges were deeply affected by the way the
project was able to incorporate the humanities into the discourse about a
divisive public policy issue, with the results (being) that public officials,
private citizens, developers, the media, environmental activists and residents
of frequently unheard and overlooked communities were able to see and talk
about the issues in a new way."
The
Schwartz Prize is made possible by former Federation of State Humanities
Councils board member Martin Schwartz and his wife, Helen. The couple
established an endowment fund in 1981.
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6. EAGLE ROCK ELEMENTARY PARENTS: SIGN YOUR
CHILD UP FOR CATALINA FIELD TRIP!
There
is still space left (approximately nine slots) for kids at Eagle Rock
Elementary School to participate in the Catalina Island Marine Institute (CIMI)
field trip coming up in the beginning months of 2002! I attended with my older son earlier this
year, and it was a terrific program.
It costs $180 for the three-day field trip, with a $20 down
payment. Please contact teacher Joyce
Jerome at Eagle Rock Elementary to find out more. We'll have more information later.
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7. CHRISTMAS SHOW TO SUPPORT TOY DRIVE FOR
CHILDREN AFFECTED BY AIDS -- DECEMBER 12
A
message from Craig Richey, musician and friend of friends:
This
is the 5th year I have been presenting this Christmas show. The set list
features ten original songs which focus on the theme of mother and child, the
heart of the Christmas story which can be celebrated by those of all faiths:
the divinity of birth, of every child. In keeping with that theme, we
have used the event to support different organizations which help women and
children. This year we will be collecting toys for children affected by AIDS.
The toys will be donated to the AIDS Project Los Angeles Toy Drive.
I
promise an evening full of spirit and sincerely hope you will be
able to join us. Invite friends. Many
friends! Forward this on to others.
Thanks.
Please
make a reservation at the # below or rsvp to craigetty@aol.com as seating is
limited. Be sure to leave your full
name and the number of people in your party.
A second show may be added.
MOTHER&CHILD
'
...the writing so pure....no words.'
(Sheeba recording artist Jane Siberry
in response to Craig's work.)
Wednesday
December 12
7:30
pm
Sacred
Fools Theater
660
N. Heliotrope
(Several
blocks west of Vermont, half a block south of Melrose.)
$10
at door plus a toy for a child: infant-16 years old.
With
Ned Farr, Christine Mourad, Jon Ossman, Craig Richey, Dreya Weber, Denny Weston
Jr, Jamie Weston.
RESERVATIONS:
323-669-2815 or rsvp to: craigetty@aol.com
mary
had a dream, saw a baby meek and mild
mary
heard a voice, 'will you carry this little child?'
then
she heard herself give an answer
'soon
i will be...mother and child...
mother
and child...mother and child.'
craig
richey
peace.
Craig
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8. LETTERS AND E.MAILS
"I
really appreciate all the work you guys do. I wouldn't have known about the
[October 30 Walgreens] meeting unless you guys had sent me the e-mail. I regret that I didn't make the Shopping Bag
meeting on the morning it was scheduled; I was working.
Keep
up the good work. You all have a vision that makes and shall make all the
difference.
Thanks
--"
-- C.
Flores, Eagle Rock resident and TERA member
"Keep
up the good work!"
--
Ursula El-Tawansy, Eagle Rock resident and TERA member
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9. QUOTE OF THE WEEK
"The
minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled
for."
--
Maureen Dowd
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We
welcome your comments. Please include
your name.
Please
encourage interested friends to send their Email addresses to us at artburn@earthlink.net
so we can keep them informed, too.
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Joanne
Turner <artburn@earthlink.net>
President, The Eagle Rock Association (TERA)