 The E-News of the East Hollywood Neighborhood Council • April 2008 |
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THIS MONTH: • Hollywood Freeway Park Meeting, April 12 • Little Armenia To Observe Genocide, April 24 • Help Clean Up Our Community, April 26! • EHNC, Volunteers Plant New Trees on Edgemont St. • EHNC Suuports Bicycle-Friendliness |
EHNC's Next Meeting, Monday April 21
The next monthly meeting of the East Hollywood Neighborhood Council will be on Monday, April 21 at 6:30 p.m.
at the Hollyview Apartments' 3rd Floor Community Room, 5411 Hollywood Blvd, between Western and Serrano (pictured above).
Hollywood Freeway Central Park Meeting, April 12
Members of the Hollywood community interested in learning more about the proposed 24-acre park slated to be built over a section of the Hollywood Freeway are encouraged to attend the second community-wide meeting for the Hollywood Freeway Central Park, Saturday, April 12th from 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Joseph LeConte Middle School's Auditorium, 1316 N. Bronson Ave (at Fountain). Breakfast and lunch will be served. Scheduled to attend are Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, City Council President Eric Garcetti, Councilmember Tom Labonge, To attend, please RSVP with Aida Alvarado, Council District 13 at 323.957.4500 or aida.alvardo@lacity.org.
Celebrate Thai New Year, April 13
The festival will be larger than ever this year, stretching from Western Ave. to Normandie. The event also features a 5k benefit run, a parade along Hollywood Blvd to the festival site from Barnsdall Park, Muay Thai boxing and marial arts demonstrations, community information kiosks, the L.A. Curry Festival and of course an immense selection of Thai food booths. Thousands of people from all overSouthern California will join in the festivities. The East Hollywood Neighborhood Council will have its outreach booth there to promote its activities and hear community concerns. So stop on by this Sunday!
Little Armenia To Observe Genocide, April 24
Help Clean Up Our Community, April 26! Join the EHNC as we help make our streets a little bit tidier in our first Spring Clean-Up activity on Saturday, April 26. Meet at the Hollywood Youth and Family Center, 607 N. Vermont Ave. where tools will be provided by Hollywood Beautification Team and Clean & Green. A free BBQ lunch courtesy of the EHNC and the Youth and Family Center will be served to all volunteers following the cleanup. To volunteer, or for more information, please contact EHNC Vice President and Clean-Up Day organizer Alfredo A. Hernandez at raven@easthollywood.net.
EHNC, Volunteers Plant New Trees on Edgemont St. Over 40 community volunteers joined the EHNC and TreePeople in a tree planting event on March 22 as nine new trees were planted along Edgemont Street between Fountain Avenue and Sunset Boulevard. The activity was initiated and organized by neighborhood resident Cassandra Pruett who coordinated with TreePeople and the neighborhood council, the latter of which sponsored the treeplanting expenses for its first-ever tree planting activity. Members of the EHNC's Governing Board and Planning & Beautification and Outreach commitees also helped with the volunteer effort. The event, which concluded with a free Thai food lunch (also sponsored by the EHNC) at the nearby Kairos Los Angeles Church for all volunteers, was also covered in an article by the Hollywood Independent newspaper.
EHNC Supports Bicycle-Friendliness In this age of worsening traffic, rising gasoline prices and heightened eco-awareness, bicycling, in addition to being a recreational activity, has become an increasingly popular mode of transportation in Los Angeles. The EHNC is proud to be at the forefront of making this city an easier and safer place to ride a bicycle. At its March meeting, the EHNC Governing Board unanimously voted to endorse the Cyclist's Bill of Rights - the first-ever neighborhood council (and governmental body)in the City of Los Angeles to do so (Click on the YouTube video above to watch the EHNC's vote). The Bill - a grassroots-conceived document penned by a local bicycle activists group called The Bike Writers' Collective, was created to promote increased safety and awareness of bicyclists on the road, particularly their right to use the streets as detailed by the California Vehicle Code. The EHNC's vote was quickly recognized by several local Internet blogs, such as LAist.com, Metblogs Los Angeles, Streetsblog Los Angeles, Westside Bikeside, as well as a number of personal blogs, who all praised the neighborhood council for leading the way towards bike-friendliness in this city. In addition. the EHNC also voted unanimously to endorse several recommendations to the Los Angeles City Bicycle Master Plan, which include bike lanes, more bicycle parking facilities and a community meeting in East Hollywood for local bike riders to provide their input to the Bicycle Master Plan. The organizers of the plan had been criticized recently for doing poor outreach for its community input meetings. East Hollywood is best known as the home of the bike-friendly "Hel-Mel" corner at Heliotrope Drive and Melrose Ave., which features the Bicycle Kitchen and the Orange 20 Bikes shop. Hundreds of cyclists from across the city visit the corner every week.
EHNC Shares Its Transportation, Planning Vision The EHNC shared its visiton for transportation and planning in a high-tech way at a town hall meeting organized by the Hollywood Coalition of Neighborhood Councils, which are made up of the six NCs that share the Hollywood area. In addition to various neighborhood council members, the meeting was also attended by Council President Eric Garcetti and 4th District Councilman Tom LaBonge, as well as interested members of the community. The EHNC's presentation, entitled, "East Hollywood on the Move," was shown in the form of a 5-minute video which outlined the comminity's transportation and planning issues, needs and solutions. The video also won praise from the local Internet blogging community, having been featured on sites like LAist.com, MetroRiderLA, and Streetsblog Los Angeles. Click on the YouTube video above to watch the presentation.
On April 19, 2007 the East Hollywood Neighborhood Council was certified by the Los Angeles City Board of Neighborhood Commissioners at a public hearing at Los Angeles City College. After a long five-year formation process of reaching out to its community, and a lot of hard work, the EHNC finally became the 89th official neighborhood council in the city. Click on the YouTube video above to watch highlights of our Certification Hearing. In the span of just one year, the EHNC has already become recognized in the city as a unique and forward-thinking neighborhood council through its creative and innovative methods of engaging and empoweing its community -- "bringing neighborhood councils into the 21st century," as some have said.
Committee Calendar Tue 5/6: Outreach Committee |
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On Sunday, April 13, Hollywood Blvd. will be closed as East Hollywood's Thai Town celebrates Songkran, or Thai New Year, with an all-day festival, the 
Businesses in Little Armenia will close their doors on Thursday, April 24 in observance of the 93rd anniversary of