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EHNC's Next Meeting, February 22!
Neighborhood Council Meets Again At LACC
The next monthly meeting of the East Hollywood Neighborhood Council will be on Monday, February 22, 6:30 p.m. at Los Angeles City College, 855 N. Vermont Avenue (Click here for map of location).
The meeting will be at the Faculty and Staff Center, located towards the southern end of the campus, by Monroe Street.
We will have reports from our LAPD Senior Lead Officers, as well as our representative from Council President Eric Garcetti's district office, plus a meeting of the EHNC's
Governing Board, where important decisions regarding our neighborhood
will be made. Community stakeholders will also have the chance to make
announcements on upcoming events or voice their opinions on important
issues in the neighborhood.
Next month, the EHNC returns to meeting on the third Monday of each month, convening on March 15.
Visit our EHNC Monthly Meeting Website to get more information on the meeting.
DOWNLOAD THIS MONTH'S MEETING AGENDA
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Candidates Set For EHNC Election
Ballot, Write-In Candidates Vie for March 20 vote
 Twenty two candidates will be running for the East Hollywood Neighborhood Council's Governing Board for the upcoming March 20, 2010 election.
With the February 18 deadline to file as a Write-In candidate having passed, the field of candidates are now set.
There will be 18 seats up for grabs - 11 of them representing neighborhood districts in our community, six seats representing stakeholder categories (tenant, property owner, business, student, community services and youth) and one at-large seat.
According to the Office of the Los Angeles City Clerk, the names are as follows:
Neighborhood District 1: Thai Town North
Jennifer Tell
Gary S. Slossberg
Neighborhood District 2: Thai Town South
Alexander Holsheimer (Write-In)
Neighborhood District 3: Little Armenia West
Douglas A. Haines
Edgar Makhshikyan
Neighborhood District 4: Kingsley Vista
None
Neighborhood District 5: Barnsdall
Maria F. Drews
Cassandra Pruett (Write-In)
Neighborhood District 6: Little Armenia East
Kristean Dragon
Shahan Suzmeyan
Neighborhood District 7: College
Eric J. Moore
Lucy Varpetian
Neighborhood District 8: Northeast
John P. Harris
Neighborhood District 9: Virgil Village North
Noel R. Lingad
Neighborhood District 10: Virgil Village South
None
Neighborhood District 11: Four Streets/Dayton Heights
Alfredo A. Hernandez
At-Large Representative
David L. Bell
Business Representative
Sam Kbushyan
Community Services Representative
Brian M. Curran
Caleb M. Larson
Property Owner Representative
Jennifer E. Moran
Student Representative
Frank Elaridi
Tenant Representative
Arthur C. Basa
Julia E. Griswold
Youth Representative
None
The EHNC election will take place on Saturday, March 20 at the Facutly and Staff Center at Los Angeles City College between 2:00 and 8:00 p.m. Anyone 16 years or older who is a stakeholder of East Hollywood (lives, works, owns property, attends school, is a member of a faith-based organization (church, synagogue, temple, ministry group), is a staff or board member of a non-profit organization serving East Hollywood or has a vested interest in the community) is eligible to vote in the election.
For more information on the March 20 EHNC election, please attend the EHNC January meeting at L.A. City College on February 22, visit the EHNC Election Website or call the Los Angeles City Clerk's office at 213.978.0444.
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Crime Wave Breaks Out in Southern End of East Hollywood
Rampart Senior Lead Officer Reports Auto Thefts, Street Robberies
 Senior Lead Officer Matt Zeigler, from the LAPD Rampart Division who patrols the section of East Hollywood south of Santa Monica Blvd and east of Normandie Avenue has issued a crime alert for his section of the community:
"We have seen an increase in stolen cars in the area's along the Vermont corridor
and surrounding streets between Santa Monica and Beverly. Toyotas and Hondas
are still the car of choice, with a mix of others. We had 11 stolen between January 10 and February 8 -- That's very high for this area.
We also have seen an
increase in street robberies between the areas of Melrose to Santa Monica and
Hoover to Normandie. We had 13 during this same period. Most of them are
occurring between 6 p.m. and 12 a.m.
Please let everyone know to be careful when
walking at night and only do so if absolutely necessary. Most of the Victims
are walking by themselves and the property taken is generally iPods, backpacks,
and cell phones. The suspects have all been male Hispanics, between 16-20 yrs
old.
Please email me at 34208@lapd.lacity.org or call 213.793.0771 if you have any questions." |
Vote For L.A. Commons in The Pepsi Refresh Project!
Local Arts/Culture Nonprofit In The Running For $50,000 Grant
 The Pepsi Refresh Project has been making waves across America, offering $1.3 million in grants each month to deserving organizations and "good ideas" nationwide that seek to make a difference.
For the month of February, L.A. Commons, a Los Angeles-based nonprofit that seeks to highlight the cultures of East Hollywood and other communities in the city through arts, culture and food, is seeking your vote!
If L.A. Commons is becomes one of the top 10 organizations in its funding category receiving votes through its Pepsi Refresh website this month, it will receive $50,000 in grant money from the soft drink corporation.
With the grant money, the organization seeks to "create public art to tell the stories of
L.A.'s diverse neighborhoods."
Certainly no other L.A. neighborhood exemplifies diversity more than East Hollywood does!
L.A. Commons is no stranger to East Hollywood, as they have been doing projects in our community since 2007.
In 2008, the East Hollywood Neighborhood Council co-sponsored L.A. Commons' Utility Box Mural Art Project, which had East Hollywood teens collaborate and transform AT&T switching boxes on local street corners into colorful monuments highlighting our community's unrivaled diversity. They can still be seen along Hollywood Boulevard and on Vermont Avenue.
The nonprofit has also conducted food and art tours of East Hollywood's Thai Town and Little Armenia, partnering with local schools, churches, community organizations and businesses. Elsewhere in Los Angeles, L.A. Commons has done tours and projects in Highland Park, Leimert Park, MacArthur Park, Chinatown and Koreatown. You can vote for L.A. Commons in the Pepsi Refresh Project by visiting their Pepsi Refresh website at http://www.refresheverything.com/lacommons. You may vote for up to 10 different organizations every day until the end of February. |
Hollywood Family SourceCenter Opens
Office at Hollywood and Western to Provide Resources For Local Low-Income Families
 The Hollywood Family SourceCenter opened on February 11 with a ceremony that included Council President Eric Garcetti, LAUSD Board Member Steve Zimmer and local community leaders.
The center, run by the Youth Policy Institute (YPI) and the Los Angeles City Community Development Department, is located at 5500 Hollywood Blvd in the 2nd Floor of the historic Mayer Building. It provides adult and youth supports, referrals, program linkages and job training to low-income families in the Hollywood area. Community partners in the Hollywood FamilySource Center include Hollygrove, the UCLA Community-Based Learning Program, Los Angeles Valley College Foundation, the Salvadoran American Leadership and Educational Fund (SALEF), Bet Tzedek, and Thai Community Development Center.
The building also houses the 13th District field office of Council President Eric Garcetti (4th Floor), the newly-opened Hollywood Census 2010 Office (3rd Floor) and a CVS Pharmacy opening soon on the ground floor.
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