THE EAGLE ROCK ASSOCIATION
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TERA
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June 3, 2004
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This week:
Councilmember Villaraigosa on safety (item #2)
The big red ball rolls your way (item
#3)
Where in the world is our newest high
school? (item #4)
Table of Contents:
1. PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE
2. COUNCILMEMBER VILLARAIGOSA TO HOST SAFETY FORUM — JUNE 5
3. CENTER FOR THE ARTS, EAGLE ROCK PRESENTS THE SECOND
ANNUAL BEAUX ARTS BALL — JUNE 5
4. FIND OUT WHERE THE LAUSD PLANS TO BUILD OUR NEW AREA
HIGH SCHOOL — JUNE 8
5. THE CITY ATTORNEY IS COMING TO EAGLE ROCK — JUNE 8
6. REWARD OUR TEENS — JUNE 11
7. EAGLE ROCK SIGHTINGS IN THE LA TIMES
8. OCCIDENTAL SUMMER INSTITUTE OF FUN TO TEACH THEATER
TECHNIQUES TO CHILDREN — THIS JULY AND AUGUST
9. THE LAST WORD — OSCAR WILDE
1. PRESIDENT’S
MESSAGE
There’s a lot going on this week in Eagle Rock, including a number of
late breaking issues that TERA’s hard at work on as this issue of our weekly
e.letter goes to press. Rather than delay the e.letter, we’ve decided to
send this week’s edition in two parts. In today’s issue, you’ll
find our calendar of upcoming events in Eagle Rock. Later this week,
watch your email box for a special edition e.letter that will bring you up to
date on the most pressing issues in our community, along with a description of
the progress that TERA is making on addressing them.
Thank you for your continued support and involvement in making Eagle Rock a
wonderful place to live!
-- Hilary Norton Orozco, TERA
President
2. COUNCILMEMBER VILLARAIGOSA TO HOST SAFETY FORUM — JUNE 5
From Eagle Rock’s City Council Field Deputy Michael Cathey comes this
invitation to Councilmember Villaraigosa’s Public Safety Forum on June 5:
Councilmember Villaraigosa presents
The focus of this forum will be crime prevention and neighborhood
watch organizing. The guest speaker will be Professor George Tita,
the author of "Operation Ceasefire," a gang violence prevention plan
based on the successful Boston model. Neighborhood watch groups and
other informational groups will be present to share stories and ideas about how
to better our crime prevention efforts, and there will be a breakout session
with LAPD officers from both the Northeast and Hollenbeck divisions.
For those folks who do not want to drive or are unable to do so, free bus service
to and from the event will be available. The bus pick folks up at Toland
Way Elementary (4545 Toland Way) at 8:50 a.m. and will leave for the site
at 9:15 a.m. sharp. The bus will return to Toland Way Elementary at
approximately 12:30 p.m. If you’d like to take advantage of the bus
service, please RSVP our office at (323) 254-5295 by May 28. Thanks and I look
forward to seeing you!
-- Michael Cathey, District 14 Office of Councilmember Antonio
Villaraigosa
3. CENTER FOR THE ARTS, EAGLE ROCK PRESENTS THE SECOND ANNUAL BEAUX
ARTS BALL — JUNE 5
On June 5th, 2004, The Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock, will present “The
Big Red Ball: the Second Annual Beaux Arts Ball.”
The Party of the Year will begin at 8:30 p.m., and a memorable evening
of revelry will ensue. The evening will feature the fabulous chanteuse Morganne
and the rocking rhythms of the John Brown Band. There will also be
a silent auction, raffle and midnight buffet. Costumes and festive attire
are encouraged, but not required. Admission is $20.00, and proceeds will
support the Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock.
The Center is pleased to be working with local artists to transform this Carnegie
library into a vision in red. The décor will feature multiple special
effects and designer lighting. The Center will glitter and glow, adding
steam to this red-hot night. Morganne, a globetrotting artist, most
recently gave a dazzling inaugural gala performance at L.A.’s landmark Walt
Disney Concert Hall. The chanteuse has also been heard at the House of
Blues, Montreal Jazz Festival, and opened for megastar Barbra Streisand at the
Kodak Theater, as well as for The Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood
Bowl.
Following Morganne’s concert will be the John Brown Band. The John Brown
Band has been performing in and around Los Angeles, the Valley and the South
Bay for over 20 years, and has played just about every venue in the area.
Joining lead singer, John Brown are Korey Mall, Bob Gross, Bobby Mostol,
and John Thomas. Their lively concert covers an impressive array of rock
and roll classics, plus a sprinkling of standards, and will have the crowd
rocking the night away.
Finally, a scrumptious “midnight” buffet will be served, hosted by The
Coffee Table. This magnificent spread will feature pastas and salads
galore plus a dessert of red devil cake. This event is sponsored by Adelphia
Communications, Capital Group Companies, Bank of America, Pagnone Realty and
Bob Taylor Properties. Come join us for this celebration of the
arts! As an added bonus you will be helping keep our Center open to serve
the northeast communities of Los Angeles.
The ERCCA 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 ERCCA also
hosts two free festivals yearly and numerous concerts and exhibitions.
For more information, call the Center at (323) 226-1617. For
Ball reservations, call (323) 226-1230. The Center is located near the
corner of Eagle Rock Boulevard and Colorado Boulevard at 2225 Colorado Blvd.
4. FIND OUT WHERE THE LAUSD PLANS TO BUILD OUR NEW AREA HIGH SCHOOL
— JUNE 8
Items 6 and 7 are a pair of dispatches we received from the Eagle Rock
Neighborhood Council’s busy bee, Jessica Wethington McLean. Both
sound like great events, but here’s Jessica to tell you more.
3010 Estara Avenue
As you may recall from previous ERNC board and land use discussions, the LAUSD
will be building a new high school to relieve overcrowding at Franklin High School
and Eagle Rock High School. On Tuesday, June 8, 2004, LAUSD staff will
hold a community meeting to announce the preferred site for Central Region High
School #13.
-- Jessica Wethington McLean, Co-Chair, Land Use & Planning
Committee, Eagle Rock Neighborhood Council
5. THE CITY ATTORNEY IS COMING TO EAGLE ROCK — JUNE 8
Meet Our City Attorney, Rocky Delgadillo
6:30 p.m Tuesday, June 8
5027 Caspar Avenue
The Eagle Rock Neighborhood Council invites you to meet City Attorney Rocky
Delgadillo this Tuesday! Come meet your local City Attorney and hear
about the exciting programs he is implementing city wide. Join us for a
special Eagle Rock Neighborhood Council Full Board Meeting this Tuesday, June 8
at the Eagle Rock Library.
-- Anita Hultman, President, Eagle Rock Neighborhood Council
6. REWARD OUR
TEENS — JUNE 11
The Eagle Rock Neighborhood Council will sponsor a reward party, pool
tournament and open house for area teens at the ROCK (Reach Our
Community
Kids) Teen Center on Friday June 11, 2004. There’ll be pizza, games
and prizes for teens and attendees!
The ROCK Teen Center is a non-profit organization which offers local teens a
place to come after school to socialize, get tutoring, use the computer lab,
play games and take part in programs geared toward channeling energies to
positive endeavors. The teens also organize to do community service
throughout the year, and have been active in community clean-ups and other
service projects. It is in recognition of these activities that the
reward party was designed.
Playing pool is a popular pastime for teens at the ROCK, but the worn and
tattered pool table leaves a lot to be desired. At the party, the ERNC
will unveil a newly covered, perfectly playable pool table surface and sponsor
an inaugural pool table tournament with great prizes to the top three teen
winners!
The ROCK Teen Center, under Director Donna Robey-Sullivan, is the recent
recipient of grant funds which covered the cost of new flooring, updated
outdoor lighting and security, as well as ceramic tile mosaics on its fixed
outside seating area. Please join the Eagle Rock Neighborhood Council in
celebrating all of the ROCK’s accomplishments and encourage the teens in our
community to keep up the good work!
-- Jessica Wethington McLean, ERNC, Director, Sub-district 2
7. EAGLE ROCK SIGHTINGS IN THE LA TIMES
Perhaps you saw this letter from TERA President Emeritus (and frequent e.letter
contributor) Joanne Turner in the Real Estate section of Sunday’s Los Angeles
Times. If not, here in its entirety is Joanne’s letter, written in
response to an earlier piece in the paper’s real estate section that made the
casual (if dubious) observation that because Eagle Rock schools happen to be
part of the LA Unified School District, they must somehow be inferior to those
in neighboring Pasadena. Of course, as anyone who reads the e.letter
knows, our Eagle Rock schools have been publicly lauded a number of times in
the past year--so frequently, in fact, that we find it hard to believe that our
city’s paper of record allowed such a disparaging statement to run
unquestioned. But, then, that’s what Letters to the Editor are for, as
Joanne here demonstrates.
Honors for Eagle Rock
I must take issue with the woman who passed over Eagle Rock as a place
to buy a home in which to raise her children because it's part of the Los
Angeles Unified School District ["Factoring in Schools,"
May 16]. She obviously didn't do her homework. Although the LAUSD
overall has a less-than-stellar reputation, there are pockets of very good
schools located within it, and Eagle Rock is one of them.
I'm raising my kids in Eagle Rock and am happily putting them in local schools,
which have excellent highly gifted, gifted and high-ability magnet schools on
our campuses, as well as on-site gifted programs. Our junior high and
high school also offer very good honors and advanced placement courses. Parents
are very involved.
On the other hand, Pasadena's schools have suffered remarkably since busing
began in the 1970s, although things are beginning to turn around. The
woman who decided to overlook Eagle Rock and buy in Pasadena, in which real
estate is even more expensive, will likely be spending even more money sending
her children to private schools.
-- Joanne Turner, Eagle Rock
http://www.latimes.com/classified/realestate/printedition/la-re-letters30.1may30,1,3566749.story
8. OCCIDENTAL SUMMER INSTITUTE OF FUN TO TEACH THEATER TECHNIQUES
TO CHILDREN — THIS JULY AND AUGUST
The Occidental College Children's Theater is inviting applications for
its Summer Institute of Fun, weeklong workshops in July and August that
will teach children techniques in physical theater, group improvisation,
tumbling and movement. Participants must be between 7 and 12 years old.
Enrollment is extremely limited, so sign up as soon as possible.
Children's Theater actors will offer individual attention in a positive and fun
learning environment. All children will receive a T-shirt, and each week
concludes with an informal folktale performance.
Sessions, which will cover different material each
week, are scheduled for 1:00 – 4:00 p.m. Monday through Friday. The schedule is
as follows:
Session 1: July 19-23
Session 2: July 26-30
Session 3: Aug. 2-6
Session 4: Aug. 9-13
Fees are as follows:
$150 for one session
$280 for two sessions
$410 for three sessions
$520 for four sessions
(There is a 10 percent discount for each additional
sibling.)
For more information, or to have an enrollment form
sent to you, call (323) 259-2771.
9.
THE LAST WORD — OSCAR WILDE
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America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs for ever
and ever.”
-- Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)
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