July 03, 2009
The Village Voice, Issue 6 - Summer 2009
July 02, 2009
GARCETTI SWORN IN FOR THIRD TERM
Los Angeles City Council President Eric Garcetti (CD13) was sworn in for a third term this week. More than 300 community members attended the ceremony at Los Angeles City College in East Hollywood.
"In this start of my third term, I recommit to serving you with the drive and tenacity I see everyday in the Angelenos working to keep the American Dream alive for the next generation," said Council President Garcetti.
The ceremony included remarks from Los Angeles City College President Dr. Jamillah Moore, East Hollywood Neighborhood Council Boardmember Alfredo Hernandez, and Alliance for a Better Community Executive Director Veronica Melvin. It also included performances by American Idol Season 2 finalist Trenyce, Korean drummers, and the Belmont High School Jazz Band.June 29, 2009
ANOTHER ATWATER VILLAGE SMALL BUSINESS TO CLOSE ITS DOORS
From Amelia Fitzwater
Hello Friends of Amelia Fitzwater:
After four amazing years of running Amelia Fitzwater it is with a heavy heart that I announce the closing of the store. The decision was not an easy one to make however with the slow economy,loss of a partnership,low sales and now with the much anticiapted arrival of my first child,it seems like the time was right for a change.
I wanted to take this time to personally thank all you for all the support you have given Amelia Fitzwater as well as myself throughout the many years at both locations. I’ve enjoyed meeting all of you whether it was the first time shopper or the frequent shopper. You’ve all made my business possible and a positive experience . I and my family greatly apprecaite all of it. I look forward to continuing the friendships I've made through the store and the wonderful Atwater Community.
The doors will closing July 27th. So we’ll be having our Final Sale July 7th-26th. This will be a store wide sale. EVERYTHING in the shop from all merchandise to fixtures, tables and bookshelves , everything is for sale! 25%-50% off. Bring cash and you never know what extra deals might be made!
Please note: The store will be closed June 29-July 6th as we prepare for the closure and BIG sale! Hope to see you all there.
XOXO
Imara
Amelia Fitzwater
3129 1/2 Glendale Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90039
June 22, 2009
ATWATER VILLAGE NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH MEETING, JUNE 25TH!
On Thursday, June 25th at 7pm-8pm we are going to have a neighborhood watch meeting at the Church of Christ (3852 Edenhurst Ave.) Please join us as we launch "Community in Action" and meet our area captains.
We will also be giving a presentation for emergency preparedness.
We look forward to seeing you!!
Ginger
June 19, 2009
ATWATER VILLAGE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE SPECIAL EVENT - SAVE THE DATE!
Good afternoon Atwater Village.
On behalf of the Board of Directors of the Atwater Village Chamber of Commerce, I am happy to announce to you the first “Summer Nights on The Boulevard” event.
Slated for Thursday, July 23rd, this Summer Night is an opportunity for all restaurants, galleries, stores and boutiques to showcase what you’re all about to Atwater Village and beyond. We encourage all businesses to stay open until at least 9PM on July 23rd in order to give everyone the opportunity to wine, dine, and shop Atwater Village.
For those Atwater Village merchants not located on Glendale Boulevard, there will be a special area for you as well to set up tables to showcase what you’re all about.More in-depth details will follow shortly, but start spreading the word now to your fellow merchants, friends, family, your entire mailing list, and beyond.
NOW IS THE TIME for us to work together in a unified spirit to share our business. With the Los Angeles spotlight shining brightly on Atwater Village, your Chamber of Commerce is working to keep the business flowing in our Vibrant Village now and beyond.Best wishes,
Mark Newman-Kuzel
Chamber President
A Vibrant Village - Atwater Village Chamber of Commerce
Creating a positive and successful business environment in Atwater Village
P.O. Box 39754
Los Angeles, CA 90039
(323) 634-2535
mnkuzel@pacbell.net
June 18, 2009
Atwater Village Photo of the Month: "Cool Atwater Village Sign"
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Have a Happy 4th of July!
SILVER LAKE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE COMES TO ATWATER VILLAGE
at Jill's Paint
3534 Larga Avenue, LA, CA 90039
Off of Glendale Blvd in Atwater Village
Featuring “A Taste of Glendale Boulevard” by select local restaurants.
Canelé - Mediterranean
Tacos Villa Corona - Mexican
Viet Noodle Bar - Vietnamese
Baracoa - Cuban
Michelangelo Restorante - Italian
Sweets for the Soul - American
Please join us for food, refreshments and networking. Meet your fellow Silver Lake Chamber members and let us know what we can do to help your business prosper.
Plenty of parking available in the lot.
June 15, 2009
NOE CPAB Mtg.Mon.Jun 22 @ 6pm Eagle Rock
NORTHEAST COMMUNITY POLICE ADVISORY BOARD COMES TO YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD
The Monthly Community Police Advisory Board (CPAB) Meeting will be held on Monday June 22, 2009 from 6pm - 7:30pm at the Eagle Rock CITIY HALL/Council District !4 Field OfficE (Community Meeting Room) located at 2035 East Colorado Boulevard in the Community of Eagle Rock. Updates on Crime Stats, Crime Activity, and potential problem areas in the Northeast will be provided by the Captain with additional commentary from the Northeast LAPD Senior Lead Officers, the LA City Attorney's Office, Guest Speakers, and Community Members.
The Monthly Community Police Advisory Board (CPAB) Meeting will be held on Monday June 22, 2009 from 6pm - 7:30pm at the E (Community Meeting Room) located at 2035 East Colorado Boulevard in the Community of Eagle Rock. Updates on Crime Stats, Crime Activity, and potential problem areas in the Northeast will be provided by the Captain with additional commentary from the Northeast LAPD Senior Lead Officers, the LA City Attorney's Office, Guest Speakers, and Community Members.Please continue to attend the CPAB Meetings and make your voices heard on crime, graffiti, and community policing concerns in your Neighborhood to improve the overall "Quality of Life" in your area. Community Members, CBO's, Business Owners, and Guests are always welcome to attend. See you at 6:00pm on Monday January 22, 2009 from 6pm - 7:30pm at the Eagle Rock CITY HALL/Council District !4 Field OfficE (Community Meeting Room) located at 2035 East Colorado Boulevard in the Community of Eagle Rock. Special thanks goes to Councilmember Jose Huizar’s Office for making the field office available to the NOE CPAB Members & Guests.June 12, 2009
ATWATER’S HISTORIC OLD “LIBRARY BUILDING” GETS A MUCH NEEDED FACELIFT
Photo of Atwater Public Library, Circa 1950's
Photo of 3229 Glendale Blvd before renovations, photo by Atwater Village Newbie
The historic old “Library Building” at 3229 Glendale Blvd is getting a much needed facelift after many years of neglect. The building housed Atwater’s public library for 36 years from 1953 to 1989 until it relocated to a larger building at the corner of Glendale Boulevard and Revere. The most recent occupant of the original building was Thousand Fabrics, which also relocated about a year and a half ago. Since that time, the building has stood empty and had fallen into disrepair.
Jeff Gardner, above
The old “Library Building” was recently purchased by Amesbury Partners, LLC of which Jeff Gardner is a partner. Mr. Gardner currently serves on the Atwater Village Neighborhood Council as a business representative. He also owns another commercial property on Glendale Blvd, the Town Medical Center at 3161 Glendale Blvd.
June 11, 2009
LOW COST VET CARE SATURDAY, JUNE 13 AT WOOF DOG BOUTIQUE IN ATWATER
WOOF Dog Boutique
(ATWATER VILLAGE)
3172 Glendale Blvd, Los Angeles, CA., 90039
Saturday, JUNE 13th, 2009
Time: 12:30-2:30
location: WOOF Dog Boutique
LOW COST VET CARE
For additional information on services please clink on link below:
www.mobilepetcare.comPlease advise anyone that needs this affordable LOW COST VET CARE service. This service was provided in need of offering LOW COST VET Care to ensure difficult economic times parents of canines/felines family members may receive continual affordable health care. As a reminder, WOOF Dog Boutique will be turning profits made into useable credit to local rescues, and/or of families of need! Already built enough credit for Jean Marie Wisiewki Director of D.A.W.'s kittens receive half cost series vaccinations!
Making this a WIN WIN!! Affordable health care ensuring a HEALTHY LIFE FOR OUR CANINE/FELINES FAMILY MEMBERS and aiding with the LOCAL RESCUES, and Families of need!
HAVE A DOG DAY !
Diane Serafino
Owner: WOOF Dog Boutique
323.661.7722
June 10, 2009
ATWATER VILLAGE RESIDENT LOOKING FOR THE POBLANO FAMILY
I am looking for the Poblano family, formerly of 3852-3854 Valleybrink Rd. in Atwater Village, who grew up in the duplex next to Nick Zemstev. I am the current owner of the home who met Lillian Poblano and her sister in October of 2006. I have a piece of cement with the names of the family that Lillian expressed a great interest in retrieving someday. I have tried unsuccessfully to contact her and the family for two years. If you know the family or if you are a member of the family, please contact me as soon as possible as I would like to give you this family heirloom, along with something else that may belong to you. My name is Monica Haynes-Nino and I can be reached through this site or by calling me at 323-397-5551. This is the photo of the piece of cement.
June 09, 2009
L.A. CITY COUNCIL DENIES HARDSHIP EXEMPTION APPLICATIONS FOR ATWATER VILLAGE MEDICAL MARIJUANA DISPENSARIES
The L.A. City Council voted to deny the hardship exemption applications for three (3) Atwater Village marijuana dispensaries. The marijuana dispensaries that got their applications denied include L.A. Collective (3401 Glendale Boulevard - CF 05-0872-S215), Friendly Collective (3405 Glendale Boulevard - CF 05-0872-S170) and Global Meds Collective (3425 Glendale Boulevard - CF 05-0872-S282).
The remaining two (2) marijuana dispensaries, A.A.C.C (3106 Glendale Boulevard - CF 05-0872-S435) and Accurate Services Medical Dispensary (3429 Glendale Boulevard - CF 05-0872-S462), withdrew their hardship exemption applications prior to the City Council vote.
With their hardship applications either denied or withdrawn the Department of Building & Safety will now refer all five cases to the City Attorney's office for prosecution to force their closure.
June 06, 2009
A MESSAGE FROM THE VAN DE KAMPS COALITION
As the buildings finally rise on the site of the former Van de Kamps (VdK) bakery, we are asking how the almost $71 million dollars of tax payer funding to build a Los Angeles Community College (LACC) North East Satellite Campus turned into 2/3rds of a campus, and a collection of tenants, among them a possible charter school, but without accredited college level classes.
With Prop AA, we specifically voted for an adult education facility. What we are getting is a charter school with a fence decorated with symbols of baked goods, in the words of LACCD “the baking heritage of the community”. Or, as Coalition to Save Van de Kamp’s co founder Netty Carr put it, “it looks like now all we’re getting for $70 million in taxpayer dollars are the cupcake fence and the crumbs.” Mighty pricey crumbs.
The original pre-bond plans included a third building being built through a $20 million dollar fund raising drive. With the Prop AA Bond funded project, we were promised a third building – a multipurpose auditorium that would have facilitated large lectures, movies, and theatrical uses to the benefit of both campus students and the local community.
The two building campus we now have was originally budgeted without the need of ANY bond funding. Who is standing to be accountable for $20 million dollars of value squandered?
The “team” of LACCD players now making the rounds are saying that it’s only the bad economy and budget cuts are to blame. The real story is not so simple and not so innocent. Some members of that team are far from innocent players who deliberately set out to stall the campus into what it is now buildings being leased out by the district to obtain funds from a collection of tenants – not an LACC satellite campus.
Our campus has fallen prey to infighting and politics at the city, LACC, LACCD and the Board of Trustees. Had it been completed at any of the promised completion dates from 2005, 2006 or late 2007 we would have a functioning LACC satellite campus. Period.
First the city tried to hand off the site to developers but the VdK Coalition, and then State Senator Richard Polanco stopped that. Polanco found $3 million in seed money and got the campus construction funded through $61 million in Prop AA bonds that we voted for.
Then the internal LACC and LACCD politics started, resulting in fatal stalling through studies of the already completed studies, and revisions of revisions. The internal foes of this project held it up in every way possible, stalling with make work, expensive studies of studies and endless pointless plan revisions. They know the system well and they knew how to use it, they ran the clock out while building costs escalated and operating funds diminished. They knew full well what they were doing; they knew that every day of delay diminished the chances of the satellite campus ever opening.
Now we are in the final rounds. The Coalition has asked for a complete accounting of all money spent on the project. We’ve been told that will be coming in 2 weeks. Public record act requests are being prepared to get to the bottom of this. LACCD officials are racing to sign contracts with paying tenants and the community is struggling for the promised higher education that is much needed. The VDK Coalition remains fully committed that a viable adult community college with adult educational components goes into that site. We are currently working on a web site that will have a full account of names, timeline, and materials collected over the past 10 years. To be place on our email list, sign up for actions alerts, or to let us hear your thoughts, please email us at vdkcoalition@gmail.com
June 04, 2009
Atwater Village Farmers' Market June 2009 Calendar
June 02, 2009
ATWATER VILLAGE NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL GETS THREE NEW BOARD MEMBERS
The Atwater Village Neighborhood Council gets three newly appointed board members. The new board members were appointed to their position on May 14, 2009.
Alex Ventura - North Atwater Village Representative
"Hello, my name is Alex Ventura. I have a BA from California State University of Northridge in anthropology and run my own business as a licensed residential mason.My wife and I recently purchased our first home here in North Atwater Village in January this year. While I had heard good things about Atwater, I was surprised to encounter a real sense of community here from the very start. I grew up in the San Fernando Valley and never knew the sense of community that I feel here. In fact, after attending a town hall meeting out of curiosity, I found myself wanting to participate in the betterment of our community and learned there was a position open on the Atwater Village Neighborhood Council.
As a representative, my hope is that Atwater Village can become a safer place with strong community bonds, where diversity, creativity and happiness prosper. I have no background in community organizing -- just a belief that participation is the key ingredient to prosperity and human welfare. I see this neighborhood as I see the home I bought: It is classic Los Angeles -- beautiful, charming, and in need of TLC. I hope I can encourage others in North Atwater to participate in improving this unique neighborhood."Alex can be reached at: alexalejandro@sbcglobal.net
Lara Pranger - Non-Profit Representative
"I am Lara Pranger and I have lived with my family in Atwater Village for just over a year and have joined the Atwater Village Neighborhood Council to actively participate in our local community. I am a co-founder of the recently-organized Friends of Atwater Elementary which is working together with the school administration to support and enhance the educational opportunities of all children attending Atwater Avenue Elementary School. I really love this community and what it has to offer and plan on doing what I can do to make Atwater Village more of what we all envision it to be."
Lara can be reached at: laralov@yahoo.com
Robert Smith - Central Atwater Village Representative
"Hello neighbors in Atwater Village. My name is Robert Smith, and I am a fairly recent homeowner in the Central Atwater neighborhood. I am a digital media/entertainment professional, having moved from Detroit in 1994 to work in film visual effects and quickly jumped on the Internet bandwagon. I'm currently head of post production for Live Nation Studios. In my past, I have been on the board of non-profits as well as having been part of several business startups.
Once I made Atwater Village my home, I knew I had to get involved locally to do my part to help make the neighborhood better. I was inspired by the passion of current co-chair Leonora Pitts-Gershman and others on the board and felt I should start here and see what I could do to help."
Robert can be reached at: fixer@vigilante.net
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AVNC FULL Board as of May 14, 2009 (17)North Atwater Representatives (2)
Alex Ventura - alexalejandro@sbcglobal.net
Fernando Dejo-Grundy - grundyferndejo@gmail.com
Central Atwater Representatives (2)
Jenn Hoffman, Events Chair - jhoffman@atwatervillage.org
Robert Smith, Government Relations, CERT - fixer@vigilante.net
South Atwater Representatives (2)
Leonora Gershman-Pitts, Co-Chair, Web Site Chair - leonoramargaret@mac.com
Nancy Mejia - nmejia82@hotmail.com
Arts & Education Representative (1)
Ginger Damon, CPAB – Ginspired1@gmail.com
Business (2)
Spencer Collins, Atwater Village Voice Chair - recneps@mac.com
Jeff Gardner, Business Rep - JGardner@AtwaterVillage.org
Bruce Fleenor, Treasurer - coachfleenor@sbcglobal.net
Lenore Solis - LenoreSolis@gmail.com
Community Non-Profits (2)
Luis Lopez, ELU Chair - luis@lopezautomotive.com
Lara Pranger - laralov@yahoo.com
Special Interest (3)
Lance Sandman - elwolfgang1@yahoo.com
Caroline Netzorg - cnetzorg@sbcglobal.net
Amador Solis, Youth - amalord@gmail.com
Parks & Recreation (1)
Roberta Javier, Co-Chair, Interim Secretary - huevas@aol.com
June 01, 2009
ATTEMPTED MURDER IN ATWATER VILLAGE
On Saturday, May 30th, 2009 at about 6:00 pm in the 3200 block of Casitas Avenue a man, who was sitting in his car, was approached by gang members demanding to know where he was from. Before the victim could reply, the gang members shot him in the head. Fortunately the bullet was of low caliber and did not penetrate the victim’s skull. The suspects fled in a green Toyota Camry.
LAPD Police Officers who were in the area observed a vehicle matching the description and attempted to stop the suspects and a short pursuit ensued. The suspects, observing the Police vehicle driving in the opposite direction, then attempted to drive their vehicle into the Police vehicle while driving in from the opposite direction The suspects jumped out of their vehicle before it collide with Police vehicle. One suspect was taken into custody for “Assault with Deadly Weapon” against the Police Officer and one suspect is outstanding. The officer in the police vehicle sustained no injuries.
May 30, 2009
ATWATER'S FLETCHER DRIVE INCLUDED IN CITYWIDE BICYCLE NETWORK PLAN
Fletcher Drive, in Atwater Village, has been included in a preliminary citywide bicycle network plan. The proposed plan calls for the installation of a dedicated bicycle lane on Fletcher Drive that would link San Fernando Road to the L.A. River Bike path and other existing bicycle routes.
For more information or to comment on the proposed plan contact:
Jordann Turner
200 N. Spring St. Rm. 721
Los Angeles, CA 90012
Phone: 213.978.1379
jordann.turner@lacity.org
or visit www.labikeplan.org
May 25, 2009
5TH MARIJUANA DISPENSARY TO OPEN IN ATWATER VILLAGE
Another medical marijuana dispensary intends to open in Atwater Village despite a city wide moratorium on new dispensaries. Accurate Services Medical Dispensary (ASMD) intends to open in mid June 2009 at 3429 Glendale Blvd with the purpose of dispensing medical marijuana.
ASMD would become the 5th medical marijuana dispensary to open in Atwater Village and the 4th located within a one block radius. The 3400 block of Glendale Blvd already has three operating marijuana dispensaries.
ASMD has applied for a hardship exemption in accordance with Medical Marijuana Interim Control Ordinance (ICO). The ICO hardship exemption process allows marijuana dispensaries to operate without any City regulation or oversight until the City Council either approves or denies their application. To date the City Council has not acted on a single hardship exemption application.
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Already open Medical Marijuana Dispensaries in Atwater Village
L.A Collective, 3401 Glendale Blvd Unit B
Friendly Collective, 3405 Glendale Blvd
Global Meds Collective, 3425 Glendale Blvd
AACC, 3106 Glendale Blvd
Soon to be open Medical Marijuana Dispensaries in Atwater Village
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- GARCETTI SWORN IN FOR THIRD TERM
- ANOTHER ATWATER VILLAGE SMALL BUSINESS TO CLOSE ITS DOORS
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- Atwater Village Photo of the Month: "Cool Atwater Village Sign"
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