EAST HOLLYWOOD NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS

The E-News of the East Hollywood Neighborhood Council • January 2008

This Month:
• EHNC's Next Meeting, Monday January 28

• EHNC Votes to Preserve Bukowski House

• Planning & Beautification Committee To Meet January 12

• Outreach Committee To Meet January 15

• Want Better Parks, More Parks In Your Community? Let The City Know!

• Free ESL, Citizenship, Basic Skills and Vocational Classes from LACC

•Post-Holiday Thanks!

EHNC's Next Meeting, Monday Jan. 28

The next monthly meeting of the East Hollywood Neighborhood Council will be on Monday, January 28 at 6:30 p.m. at the Saban Research Institute Auditorium at Children's Hospital Los Angeles, 4650 Sunset Blvd, at Vermont (pictured above).

A video presentation of the EHNC's highlights in 2007 will be screened via the Saban Auditorium's state-of-the-art audio-visual system.

We will also have reports from from Helen Leung of Council President Eric Garcetti's CD13 office, as well as our LAPD Senior Lead Officers, plus our Planning & Beautification and Outreach committee reports and a meeting of the EHNC's Governing Board. Community stakeholders will also have the chance to make announcements on upcoming events or voice their opinions on important issues in the neighborhood.

Though the EHNC normally meets on the third Monday of each month, this month's meeting was moved to the fourth Monday due to the Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday on January 21.

Visit our EHNC Monthly Meeting Website for more information on the meeting.

EHNC Votes to Preserve Charles Bukowski House

The EHNC's Governing Board voted 13-1-1 to recommend the preservation of writer Charles Bukowski's former East Hollywood residence on 5124 De Longpre Avenue as a Cultural Landmark at its December 17 meeting.

The late writer lived at the bungalow, currently vacant and intended to be demolished by its current owner, from the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s and was known to have produced most of his popular works while living there. EHNC's Governing Board members cited various reasons to support the preservation, from preserving Hollywood's bungalow court architecture to proposing ideas to make the site a community museum or library.

The Los Angeles City Council will vote whether to preserve it in an upcoming meeting.

Planning & Beautification Committee To Meet January 12

The first meeting of the EHNC's Planning & Beautification Committee will convene at 10 a.m. on Saturday, January 12 at the Hollywood Youth and Family Center, 607 N. Vermont Ave (between Melrose and Clinton).

The committee will discuss two tree-planting projects in the community as well as the committee's membership and structure.

The EHNC's Planning & Beautification Committee is the functioning body of the neighborhood council that deals with planning/land use management, beautification, environmental and multi-modal transportation issues. Anyone who has an interest in those topics are welcome to attend.

The meeting's agenda is available for download here.

For more information please contact the EHNC's Planning & Beautification Committee.co-chairs Gunnar Hand or Alfredo A. Hernandez.

Outreach Committee To Meet January 15

The first formal meeting of the EHNC's Outreach Committee will be at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, January 15 at the Hollywood Youth and Family Center, 607 N. Vermont Ave (between Melrose and Clinton).

The EHNC's Outreach Committee is the functioning body of the neighborhood council that deals with promoting, publicizing and marketing the EHNC to its diverse community stakeholders and planning and participating in events which promote involvement and awareness of the EHNC in our community. Anyone who has an interest in the EHNC's outreach functions and activities is welcome to attend.

The meeting's agenda will be available for download soon at the bottom section of our EHNC Meetings website.

For more information please contact the EHNC's Planning & Beautification Committee.co-chairs JR Woodward or Israel Stepanian.

Want Better Parks, More Parks In Your Community? Let The City Know!

The City of Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks is currently conducting Citywide Community Needs Assessment workshops in order to improve and expand our city's 15,000 acres of parkland.

The workshops are taking place through February in each city council district. The session for Council District 13 will be on Saturday, January 19 from 12:00 – 2:00 p.m. at the Glassell Park Recreation Center, 3650 Verdugo Rd (near Eagle Rock Blvd) in Glassell Park

If you would like to see more parks in East Hollywood, in Council District 13 or anywhere else in the City, please attend and make sure your voice gets heard!

For more information, please call 213.928.9136 or visit losangeles.prosconsulting.com .

Free ESL, Citizenship, Basic Skills and Vocational Classes from LACC

Are you looking for, or know someone who would like to take ESL/English Literacy, Citizenship, Civics, Computer Skills or Vocational Education classes? Los Angeles City College's new Workforce Readiness Academy is offering them free to the community!

The classes take place weekdays from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Hollywood Youth and Family Center, 607 N. Vermont Ave, just two blocks south of the LACC campus.

For more information or to register, please call Nelines at 323.953.4000 ext. 2230.

Post-Holiday Thanks!

The EHNC would like to thank those who attended our meeting last month at the Hollywood Youth and Family Center and donated toys for the HYFC's annual Holiday Toy Giveaway on December 21. Lines formed around the block as some 450 families received toys and reading books, donated by the EHNC, L. A. Bridges' Aztecs Rising and FilAmARTS. No one left empty-handed. Volunteers from the City of Los Angeles and Los Angeles City College were on hand to help distribute the toys and goodies.

Happy New Year from the EHNC!

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