THE
EAGLE ROCK ASSOCIATION
The
Best Investment You Can Make in Your Neighborhood
TERA
e.letter
February
14, 2005
HAPPY
VALENTINE’S DAY!
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TABLE OF CONTENTS:
1. PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE – HAPPY VALENTINES
DAY!
4. JOIN CHAIRMAN MICHAEL
THARP FOR TERA’S LAND USE COMMITTEE -- WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 16
5. COLORADO WINE COMPANY OPENS SOON, BUT
ITS OWNERS ARE ON TV NOW!
6. CENTER FOR THE ARTS, EAGLE ROCK GETS
“DRAWN AND QUARTERED” – JANUARY 23RD THROUGH FEBRUARY 19TH
7. CENTER FOR THE ARTS, EAGLE ROCK NEEDS
VOLUNTEERS!
8. WOMEN'S 20TH CENTURY
CLUB AND ROCK TEEN CENTER PRESENT “LIFE THROUGH MY EYES” – FEBRUARY 26TH
9. HISTORIC ECHO PARK TAKES YOU ON A WALKING TOUR OF THEIR LANDMARK
STAIRWAYS – FEBRUARY 26
10. OCCIDENTAL-CALTECH BAND TO PERFORM
FREE CONCERT -- FEBRUARY 26
11. DON’T MISS THIS
IMPORTANT MAYORAL DEBATE! – FEBRUARY 28TH!
12. CENTER
FOR THE ARTS, EAGLE ROCK HOSTS ANNUAL ROUTE 66 AUCTION, MARCH 12
13. SENATOR SCOTT
ANNOUNCES STUDENT ART CONTEST – DEADLINE MARCH 18TH
14. FREE ON SATURDAYS? LEARN MORE ABOUT EAGLE ROCK!
15. ROUTE 66 CELEBRATIONS, SEPTEMBER 2005! BE
PART OF IT!
16. LETTERS FROM OUR READERS
17. THE
FINAL WORD – LEO TOLSTOY
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1. PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE – MAKE SURE YOU GET YOUR MEMBERSHIP CARD!
HAPPY VALENTINE’S
DAY!
On behalf
of TERA’s board and its members, I hope you have a very enjoyable holiday. We really appreciate your membership and
your interest in our e.letter!
TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES
WITH THE E.LETTER
We
appreciate your patience with the technical difficulties we have experienced in
the last two months. All of our
e.letters are on our web site for your review, and we continue to try to get
the e.letter back into your mailboxes very very soon. We look forward to getting this out to you on a regular basis
once again!
MEMBERSHIP CARDS MAILED
OUT TO NEW MEMBERS – MAKE SURE YOU GET YOURS!
Our
membership card system is on track and we sent out a batch to our new
members. Please make sure that you have
an up-to-date card, so that you can receive a 15% discount at swork, a 10%
discount at the Coffee Table, and the first month free on an annual membership
to Curves.
TERA NEWSLETTER IS HERE!
Our first
newsletter of 2005 has been sent to all TERA members and will be located in
places around town. This issue is full
of pictures of the 2004 Eclectic Eagle Rock Home Tour and great stories of
interest to our community. Make sure to
pick up your copy, and join TERA to have a copy sent to your home!
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED – MAKE
A DIFFERENCE IN YOUR COMMUNITY!
Make a New
Year’s Resolution to serve your local community in 2005!
TERA has many
interesting volunteer opportunities
available from being a writer for our quarterly newsletter to researching land
use cases and surveying the area for a potential Historic Preservation Overlay
Zone. This is a great chance to learn more about Eagle Rock, learn a new skill,
and meet other great volunteers in our town. We can place you in a volunteer
position that fits the amount of time you can offer and the kind of service
you’re interested in doing.
TERA is
looking for a few good volunteers! Please contact Pauline Mauro, Volunteer
Coordinator, at (323) 550-1130 or pauline@mauro.com and make a positive
impact in Eagle Rock. We have the following opportunities available:
Land Use Volunteer: Research and review permits/land
use cases and obtain file copies at downtown LA City Hall. Volunteers will be
reimbursed by TERA for cost of parking and copies. 2-3 hours per research
request on as needed basis.
Land Use Volunteer: Review hearing notices and agendas
for Eagle Rock Land Use cases. This can be done on-line. Volunteer must have
computer and online access. About 15 - 20 min per week.
Land Use Volunteer: Attend Planning and Land Use
hearings downtown and at Ramona Hall, and when appropriate, present TERA
position on land use issues. This may require up to 3 hours time commitment per
hearing, plus preparation time on as needed basis, probably 12 hours per year
total.
E-Letter Reporter: Submit weekly brief reports on
events and news in the Northeast Community. Takes about ½ to one hour a week
for each article.
Newsletter Distributor: Distribute TERA Newsletters to
local businesses for about 1/2 day on a quarterly basis.
Please contact Pauline Mauro, TERA’s Volunteer Coordinator,
at pauline@mauro.com
or (323) 550-1130 if you’d like to volunteer.
CONGRATULATIONS TO SWORK
FOR ITS UPCOMING COVERAGE!
On
Wednesday, February 16th, Swork will be featured at 6:30 pm on
Channel 9’s “On the Town” segment. Be
sure and tune in!
-- Hilary Norton Orozco, TERA President
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2. ERHS ACADEMIC DECATHLON TEAM
SCORES BIG!
Congratulations to the Eagle Rock High School Academic Decathlon Team,
who at the prestigious Los Angeles Unified School District Awards Banquet at
the L.A. Convention Center on February 10 garnered the following awards:
Ian Turner (son of TERA President Emeritus Joanne Turner): Perfect Score
in Superquiz relay and top overall scorer for ERHS, winning a $100 savings bond
Monica Zoltany: Top Individual Award in Essay and Conference Award in
Essay
Audrey Tan: Conference Award for Essay
Ramon Martinez: First Place Award in Interview
Melissa Holmes: Second Place Award in Interview
Jessie Orozco: Second Place Award in Interview
Sarah Traiger: Third Place Award in Interview
David Manciati: Conference Award in Mathematics
Team Awards for Conference 6 in Essay, Music, Speech, Art, Language and
Literature, Mathematics, Social Studies, Interview and Speech: Third Place
Overall Team Award
Congratulations to a fine group of students, all of whom make Eagle Rock proud!
Fifty-two high schools in the LAUSD participated this year, and the
competition was tough. Students compete in the following categories:
"A" averages compete in Honors Category, "B" averages
compete in Scholastic Category, and "C" averages compete in the
Varsity Category. Students study materials from May until the competition
in January.
Students wishing to participate in the Academic Decathlon for next year can
contact Coach Glenn Laird for further information at (323) 254-6891.
Joanne Turner
<artburn@earthlink.net>
President Emeritus, The Eagle Rock Association (TERA)
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3. SMELLZGOOD
“PASSES THE CANDLE” – A WORD FROM NEW OWNERS CHERYL LEUTJEN
Dear
friends and supporters in Eagle Rock,
My
husband, David, and I would like to thank all of you who attended the “Pass the
Candle” event at our new store, Smellzgood, last Saturday. We had a great turnout, and we were honored
to have so many of you spend part of your Saturday evening with us. We know you’ll all miss seeing the store’s
creators, John and Ross (as will we!),
but we hope you’ll continue to support the store. We intend to keep the same great, friendly and relaxing
atmosphere, so lovingly created by John and Ross, and which is so rare in any
retail experience. For those of you who
know Pam, she’ll continue to work at the store, as well.
Rest
assured that we’ll continue to carry the
“Famous for Fragrance” Taronga candles (the Valentine’s candles are in!!), as well as most of the other
great gift items, including incense, jewelry, home and garden décor, cards, and
scarves. Over the next few months, we
will also be adding some new products, including all-natural soaps,
aromatherapy oils, feng shui “solutions,” and select books, music, and
videos. We will showcase, in
particular, works by local artists and authors (so marked by a “SOLA,” or
“Support our Local Artisans,” tags). We
will also feature works by indigenous people around the world who are
struggling to find creative and peaceful ways to support themselves and their
families. We would be happy to hear any
suggestions you might have for particular products or artists that we should
carry!
For our
first SOLA showcase, we have a few advance copies of a book, The Reluctant
Healer, authored by our own David Elliott of Eagle Rock. The Reluctant Healer is an inspiration for all
of us seeking to embrace our healing potential. In his own down-to-earth and humorous way, he chronicles his own
personal journey toward becoming a practicing healer. We are also carrying David Elliott’s own line of oils and incense
that he uses in his own work. David will be in the store for a book signing
next month (date yet to be determined).
Let us know if you’re interested, and we’ll be sure to contact you when
the date is set.
Please come
see us, and let us know how we’re doing.
If you fill out our in-store
survey, you’ll receive 10% off your purchase.
Our store hours are 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday – Friday, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
on Saturday. We’re closed on Sundays,
but we’ll be hosting special events on those days in the near future. Stay tuned!
Cheryl
Leutjen
Smellzgood
Boutique
…everything
for The Blissful Soul…
4870 Eagle
Rock Boulevard
323-258-6900
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4. JOIN CHAIRMAN MICHAEL THARP FOR TERA’S
LAND USE COMMITTEE -- WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 16
AGENDA
TERA LAND USE COMMITTEE
February 16, 2005
EAGLE ROCK PUBLIC LIBRARY MEETING
ROOM
6:00 p.m. – 7:15 p.m.
1. Introductions 6:00 –
6:05 p.m.
2. Membership Renewals / Renewals 6:05 – 6:10 p.m.
3. Boarding Houses in the R-1 Zone –
Update 6:10 – 6:20 p.m.
4. Commercial Building Survey Status
Report 6:20 – 6:30 p.m.
5. Land Use and Preservation issues for
2005 6:30 – 7:00 p.m.
Specific Plan for Eagle Rock
HPOZ area(s)
6. Items not on the agenda 7:00
– 7:10 p.m.
7. Next Meeting Date: 3/16/05; Adjourn 7:10 – 7:15 p.m.
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5. COLORADO
WINE COMPANY OPENS SOON, BUT ITS OWNERS ARE ON TV NOW!
Thanks to John and
Jennifer Nugent, owners of the Colorado Wine Company, for this lovely message!
Just
a couple more hurdles over the next two weeks we’re ready to open for
business! We’ll be opening with hundreds of affordable wines from all
over the world and we can’t wait for you to taste them.
Thanks to all of you who have been writing in, checking on our progress.
We were blindsided by a couple issues over the last 8 months and knowing there
was a large group of people anxiously waiting for our business to open was
extremely helpful to say the least.
To all of you who get the Fine Living
Channel, the show Radical Sabbatical will be airing an episode on Colorado Wine
Company beginning this Sunday the 13th at 6pm PST and running throughout the week. They have been filming the
creation of our business and all the highs and lows since March of 2004.
Here’s a little blurb: http://www.fineliving.com/fine/radical_sabbatical/episode/0,1663,FINE_1413_36994,00.html
See you soon!
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6. CENTER FOR THE ARTS, EAGLE ROCK GETS
“DRAWN AND QUARTERED” – JANUARY 23RD THROUGH FEBRUARY 19TH
DRAWN AND
QUARTERED: Works on paper by Duvier Del Dago, Richard Louderback, Laurie
Steelink, and Chris Wilder
January 2005, Eagle Rock--The Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock is pleased to
present “Drawn and Quartered,”* a group exhibition of works on paper ranging
the figurative to the conceptual. The show features pieces by Duvier Del Dago, Richard Louderback, Laurie
Steelink, and Chris Wilder. The
exhibition runs from January 23, 2005 through February 19, 2005, with an
artist’s reception on Sunday, January 23 from 1 - 4 pm
Duvier Del Dago presents working
drawings for an installation project yet to be completed. These works can be
interpreted on many levels including being read as distorted memories, or as
structured realities that may, or may not exist. Living and working in Havana,
Cuba, he is currently preparing a piece for the Salon of Contemporary Cuban Art
in February, 2005. He also teaches drawing and painting at ISA (Instituto
Superior de Arte) in Havana, and is a regular contributor to art magazine, Arte
Cubano. His work has been exhibited internationally; and in the U.S., his work
will be included in an exhibition curated by Sandra Levinson, Director, Center
for Cuban Studies, New York.
Inspired by circus sideshows freaks, the occult, extreme lighting, and goth
culture, Laurie Steelink creates for
this exhibition a large-scale drawing. Juxtaposing humor with horror, and dream
with nightmare, her work displays psychic disarray in its expression of fear, disgust,
pain, and glory. Not only are the spirits of the innocently evil children
depicted in horror flicks like The Omen, The Exorcist, and The Children of the
Corn channeled through this piece; it also evokes the lingering nightmare that
invades our collective psyche on a daily basis during times of war, and also
serves as a reminder of the violence and abuse experienced by young people
world wide. Steelink graduated with a BFA at San Francisco Art Institute, and
with a MFA from the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University. She
has exhibited her work both locally and internationally. She currently lives
and works in Venice, California.
Using source images from his recent island travels, Chris Wilder takes drawing and photography to a conceptual level.
Through altering his photographs with drawing, Wilder’s “Quartered” series
invites the viewer to experience a waking state of simulated hallucination.
Wilder graduated with a BFA and MFA from California Institute of Arts. Some of
his work is currently traveling in the museum exhibitions, “100 Artists See
God,”(curated by John Baldessari and Meg Cranston), and “Surf
Culture,”(originated at the Laguna Beach Museum of Art). His video
collaboration with Richard Louderback, “Colour Flight/Music for Len Lye,” an
exhibition and performance curated by David Pestorius, opened at the Sydney
Opera House in 2004 in conjunction with the Sydney Biennale. It has since been
screened at Art Forum Berlin, Foundation Cartier in Paris, among other venues,
and is currently touring. Wilder lives and works in Santa Monica, California.
Richard Louderback culls
unauthorized historical documents to create contemporary socio-political
dialogue. Comical and at times shocking, his work is a commentary on “history
at present,” as it addresses power relationships. Louderback recently exhibited
his paintings in London provoking a press frenzy with the style and content of
his constructed realities. Louderback graduated with a BFA in illustration from
Pasadena Art Center College of Design. He currently lives and works in Los
Angeles, and has exhibited his work both locally and internationally. He
recently collaborated with Chris Wilder on the video project, “Colour
Flight/Music for Len Lye.”
*To be drawn and quartered was a torture reserved for heretics, traitors, and
deviants. It was also preceded by hanging. All art work described above is
stoner friendly. This exhibition was curated by Cindy Ojeda with love and
admiration for the artists.
The Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock is a non-profit organization, supported
solely by grants and donations, providing low cost art, music, dance, and
computer classes to children and adults of surrounding areas and communities.
The Center also sponsors concerts, exhibitions and festivals. The Center’s
federal tax identification number is 95-4689576.
For more information, call Jenny Krusoe
or Lui Sanchez at the Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock (323) 226-1617. The
Center is located just west of the corner of Eagle Rock Boulevard and Colorado
Boulevard at 2225 Colorado Boulevard.
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7. CENTER FOR THE
ARTS, EAGLE ROCK NEEDS VOLUNTEERS!
Who: VOLUNTEERS wanted/needed for the
event of the year
What: The
3rd Annual Route 66 Art Auction
Where: Center
for the Arts, Eagle Rock 2225 Colorado Boulevard Eagle Rock,
CA
When: March 12, 2005
volunteer check in 6pm
Why: All non-profits exist with
the help of volunteers. Be a part of a memorable evening!
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8. WOMEN'S
20TH CENTURY CLUB AND ROCK TEEN CENTER PRESENT “LIFE THROUGH MY EYES” – FEBRUARY
26TH
The Women’s 20th Century Club and
ROCK Teen Center
will present “Life Through My Eyes,” a tantalizing poetry and spicy spoken word
extravaganza, directed and hosted by two-time grant recipient and City of Los
Angeles Artist in Residence Lisa Marie Sandoval. “Life Through My Eyes” will
feature Northeast L.A. youth, ages 12-20, performing original works about life
in today’s world, side by side Sandoval as she presents her powerfully poignant
slices of life from “The Yowling &
Other Sounds from Highland Park” on Saturday, February 26 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
The Women’s 20th Century Club is located at 5105 Hermosa in Eagle Rock, on
the corner of Colorado Boulevard in Council District 14, represented by
Councilmember Antonio Villaraigosa, whose council office will be in attendance.
For those interested in what the next generation has to say, this is the event
to attend. Sandoval began her search and development of young talent by
conducting poetry workshops tied to California state academic standards and
curriculum for almost 600 students at Eagle Rock and Franklin High Schools.
“For over 100 years the Women’s 20th Century Club has supported arts
in this community. We are excited to celebrate our founder’s month by hosting
such an innovative performance by young local talent,” says Donna Robey-Sullivan, WTCC board member and
ROCK Executive Director.
Sandoval selected only the cream of the crop youth poets to develop their
written technique and performance style more intensely at classes specifically
designed for them at ROCK Teen Center. Jenny Krusoe, former Poetry Editor of
the Santa Monica Review and Executive
Director of Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock—last year’s venue for “Life Through
My Eyes”—says she and the Center were “proud to be the host venue for such a
talented and cutting-edge poet. Her performance style is unique.” Last year’s
event attracted over 120 people.
The
event is also sponsored in part by a City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs grant
awarded to Sandoval for 2004 -2005 purposed to bring art into local
communities. “My aim is to bring healing and hope and to show people, youth in
particular, that they can make beautiful art from the brokenness of real life,”
said the nationally published poet and Cultural Affairs grant recipient. “My poetry
is a song I wrote, because I heard it resonating from the hearts of the people
in my neighborhood.” Sandoval's unique style of contemporary drama and dance in
her poetic performance intimately brings to life the immigrant experience,
welfare mothers, homelessness, gangs, and families with poverty-stricken
dreams.
Sandoval’s work has been published in The Southern California Anthology, The Christian Century, Borderlands:
Texas Poetry Review, Blue Collar Review, Brújula/Compass: Latino Poets in Los
Angeles, among others. Most
recently, she performed at “The Time at the Rock” and was selected as
host/organizer/featured performer for the 2004 Sylvan Amphitheater Festival of
the Arts’ “Evening of Spoken Word,” sponsored by Councilman Antonio
Villaraigosa, Center for the Arts (Eagle Rock), the City of L.A.’s Department
of Recreation and Parks and Cultural Affairs Department, and The Eagle Rock
Neighborhood Council. Sandoval is a member of the Arroyo Arts Collective and
holds a master’s degree in Professional Writing from USC and a bachelor’s
degree from Occidental College.
Admission
to the show is free. Music and refreshments will be served. For more
information, please call (323) 257-6102 or e-mail poetryarts@truevine.net.
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9. HISTORIC ECHO PARK TAKES YOU ON A WALKING
TOUR OF THEIR LANDMARK STAIRWAYS – FEBRUARY 26
The heart-pounding public stairways
and scenic hillsides neighborhoods of Echo Park and Elysian Heights will be
featured on a morning walking tour of the area on Saturday, February 26.
The two-long hour tour organized by
the Echo Park Historical Society will include one of the city’s tallest public
stairways—the 240-step Baxter Stairs—and insights into a neighborhood rich in
history and architecture. In addition to the Baxter Stairs, tour highlights
include Fellowship Park and the house designed by modernist pioneer Harwell
Harris (building interiors are not included).
The
tour begins at 10 AM at the entrance of Elysian Heights Elementary School, 1562
Baxter St. at Echo Park Avenue. The tour group is limited to 20 people. A $3
donation is requested for adults. There is no charge for children under 12 or historical society
members. For tour information and reservations please call (323) 860-8874 or
visit or web site at www.HistoricEchoPark.org.
The tour is part of the Historic
Echo Park Walking Tours program organized by the Echo Park Historical Society.
The tours are held on the fourth Saturday of every month and rotate among three
different routes: Elysian Park, Echo Park stairways and the downtown Echo Park
and the lake.
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10. OCCIDENTAL-CALTECH BAND TO
PERFORM FREE CONCERT -- FEBRUARY 26
The Occidental-Caltech Concert Band will present a free concert at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 26 at Occidental’s Thorne Hall. The performance will include Erik Satie’s “Rag-Time Parade,” Franz Schubert’s “Ave Maria,” and “Pineapple Poll” by Gilbert and Sullivan.
The program also will include “Musical Adventure No. 1” by Nicholas Lawrence and “Lord of the Rings” by Johan de Meij. William Bing, director of bands at Caltech, will conduct.
Occidental College is located at 1600 Campus Road in Eagle Rock. Parking is free. For directions to the college, go to http://www.oxy.edu/MapsDirections.xml.
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11. DON’T MISS THIS
IMPORTANT MAYORAL DEBATE! – FEBRUARY 28TH!
Citywide
Alliance of Neighborhood Councils in association with KCBS Channel 2, KCAL
Channel 9 and City Watch will present two televised mayoral debates in
February. The debate on Monday February 28 from 6:30-8pm will be on the
subject of "LA Tomorrow".
Tune in to learn more about where LA is headed!
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12. CENTER
FOR THE ARTS, EAGLE ROCK HOSTS ANNUAL ROUTE 66 AUCTION, MARCH 12
THIRD
ANNUAL ROUTE 66 ART AUCTION
MARCH
12, 2005
6:00
pm Members Preview
7:00
pm General Public
March 12th, 2004, 7:00 pm Los
Angeles: The Third Annual Route 66 Art
Auction on Saturday, March 12, a benefit for the Center for the Arts, Eagle
Rock, is the public’s opportunity to buy affordable art while people watching,
enjoying eclectic music and gourmet food, and viewing art from some of the best
contemporary artists in Los Angeles and beyond.
Festivities will be held at the
center, an historic Carnegie Library, at 2225 Colorado Blvd., the former Route
66 Highway, in Los Angeles. Admission is $15.
More than 150 artists have
contributed works to the benefit, which will support the center’s innovative
and multicultural programming. A members preview and the famous multicolored
martini bar begin at 6pm, and the public is invited to purchase memberships
that evening. General admission begins
at 7 pm with bidding on silent auction items. The live auction begins at 9:30
pm, and this year features works by Alice Fellows, Caio Fonseca, Salomon
Huerta, Martin Kersels and Jim Shaw.
Among the artworks being contributed
are paintings by Mika Cho, Roberto Gil de Montes, Patricia Gonzalez, Julie
McManus, Miguel Angel Reyes, Liz Young and Alexandra Wiesenfeld. Prints, drawings, and photographs have been
donated by such artists as Bill Beccio, Benjamin Weissman, Christopher Wilder
and Michael Woodcock. The work of David
Bunn, Ellen Cline, David Hatcher, Michael McCall, Tom Recchio, Wayne
Shimabukuro, and many more will also be in the silent auction.
Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock,
presents innovative and multicultural arts programming to the communities of
northeast Los Angeles, including classes, performances, festivals and outdoor public
art. The center produces the annual Eagle Rock Music Festival, now in its
eighth year.
For more
information on Center for the Arts or The Third Annual Route 66 Art Auction,
call (323) 226-1617 or visit the center’s website at www.centerartseaglerock.org. The Center is located near the corner of
Eagle Rock and Colorado boulevards.
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13. SENATOR SCOTT ANNOUNCES STUDENT ART CONTEST – DEADLINE MARCH 18TH
For
artists in grades 6 - 7 - 8 in the 21st State Senate District
SACRAMENTO
- Aspiring student artists - this announcement is for you! It's time for
the annual California Student Arts Contest in which the winning artist will
travel to Sacramento to see his or her artwork displayed in the state capitol.
State
Senator Jack Scott, chair of the Joint Committee on the Arts, is calling on
middle school students to submit their work for consideration. The
deadline for submission is March 18, 2005. The theme for this year's
contest is “People Helping People” and is a way for artists to commemorate the
spirit of compassion - the ways in which we help our neighbors, friends and
families.
Eligibility: Middle school students
(grades 6, 7, 8) in the 21st Senate District.
(Altadena, Burbank, Eagle Rock, Glendale, Highland Park, La Canada
Flintridge, San Gabriel, Temple City, and parts of Los Angeles )
Medium: Painting, sculpture or
small wall art - maximum size 4 x 5 feet.
Deadline: March 18, 2005
Prizes:
1st place: Artist will travel to Sacramento for installation of
artwork to be part of the Senate's collection for one year.
2nd place: Art to hang in Capitol office in Sacramento for one
year.
3rd place: Art will hang in Pasadena district office for one year.
Entries may be delivered or mailed to the district office at 215 N. Marengo
Ave., Suite 185, Pasadena 91101 by March 18, 2005. For further
information call: 626. 683.0282.
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14. FREE ON
SATURDAYS? LEARN MORE ABOUT EAGLE ROCK!
Eagle Rock Valley Historical Society
Archive is open! Come research, rediscover, or add to Eagle
Rock’s History! Visit us every Saturday morning from 10 am to noon in the
basement of the Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock at 2225 Colorado Blvd.
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15. ROUTE 66
CELEBRATION SEPTEMBER 2005! BE PART OF
IT!
This
just in from the Arroyo Seco Neighborhood Council and Scott Piotrowski of Route
66 Productions:
In September 2005, the Stater Brothers Route 66 Rendezvous in San Bernardino
will also be hosting the National Historic Route 66 Federation's annual
Steinbeck Awards Ceremony. This
will bring Route 66 Ambassadors from around the world to the event in San
Bernardino.
The Steinbeck Awards are
traditionally held in a different city every year. The intent of the Federation is that the city hosting the event holds
a related International Route 66 Festival in conjunction with the Awards in
order to raise awareness of Route 66 in the local community and raise awareness
of the local community within Route 66 enthusiasts.
The dates for next year's event are
officially September 15 – 18. However, the various California Route 66
organizations and museums are coming together to host a variety of events throughout
the week leading up to and including the Rendezvous. Those organizations include the California Historic Route 66 Association, the California
Route
66 Museum (Victorville), the California Route 66 Preservation Foundation, the
Route 66 "Mother Road" Museum (Barstow), and 66 Productions, of which I am the director.
The events being discussed include,
but are not limited to, the following ideas.
There are definite plans for two Route 66 Bus Tours, one eastbound and
one westbound, both originating and ending in San Bernardino. The westbound tour will make it as far as
the original terminus of Route 66 at 7th and Broadway in Downtown Los
Angeles. (I am co-hosting both
tours.) There will be a preservation
seminar hosted in part by the National
Park Service's Route 66 Corridor Management Program, based out of Santa Fe, NM. This is currently scheduled for two days at
the Aztec Hotel in Monrovia. There are
also plans afoot for a reception which will bring together Route 66 Ambassadors,
local business owners, and local preservation enthusiasts. The date and location for that are still
TBA. I am currently the chairperson of
that committee, so if anyone has any suggestions, or is willing to assist on
that committee, please let me know!
Other events include the John
Steinbeck Awards Luncheon (Friday, September 16), a Route 66 egroup breakfast
(Sunday, September 18), a Route 66 Authors / Artists exhibition (all weekend),
and many other events, all in addition to the usual Stater Brothers Route 66 Rendezvous
events.
If anyone is interested in receiving
more information about any of the events, or perhaps is interesting in providing
more ideas or serving on any of the organizing committees, please contact me
off-list at rt66prods@yahoo.com.
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16. LETTERS FROM OUR READERS
Dear TERA:
Has anyone mentioned the LADWP's great Free Shade Trees program in the e.letter lately? If not, it
may be time to once again give this worthy program a plug. As many longtime
e.letter readers know, the Free Shade Trees program, administered by the DWP's
GreenLA branch, will deliver as many as seven young, healthy shade trees to
your home or apartment building just for the asking. The program is designed to
encourage DWP customers to cut back on electricity consumption by cooling their
homes with natural shade trees instead of power hungry air conditioners. Other
obvious benefits of planting shade trees include improved water runoff control
and better air quality, not to mention the increased quality of life that is a
natural byproduct of sharing our neighborhoods with native or native-friendly
shade trees.
The program is open to all DWP
customers, including renters who can obtain permission to plant from their
property's legal owner. To qualify for your free trees, all you have to do is
agree to plant and care for your trees once they're delivered. Participants are
also required to take a tree care workshop, either at one of GreenLA's local
workshop sites, or online at the GreenLA website.
Like a lot of people, I was
skeptical about this program when I first heard about it a few years back, but
I went down to the tree planting workshop anyway, on a lark. Not quite three
years later, our family's Eagle Rock yard is lush with thriving young trees
that are already providing welcome shade to our formerly sun-bleached property.
If I sound like a shade tree convert -- it's because I am! And I'd like nothing
better than to see every home in Northeast LA nestled in the cool shade and
tranquil beauty of trees provided through the courtesy of our local power
utility.
For
more information on the DWP GreenLA Free Shade Trees Program, call
1-800-GREENLA (800 473-3652), or log on to http://www.ladwp.com/trees .
-- Vince Waldron, TERA
member, Eagle Rock
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17. THE FINAL WORD –
LEO TOLSTOY
“Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand
only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love.
Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a
particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.”
-- Leo
Tolstoy (1828–1910), Russian novelist, philosopher. Prince Andrew, in War
and Peace, bk. 12, ch. 4 (1868-1869).
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