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On Tuesday, August 2, 2011 you are invited to come out and celebrate National Night Out with a neighborhood Ice Cream Social at Glenoaks Park.
Hang out with your neighbors and meet your Neighborhood Watch Block Captain and Officer Sue Shine.
Plus...Raffle Prizes! Crafts for Kids! and Giveaways!
Date: Tuesday, August 2, 2011
Time: 6:00-8:00pm
Where: Glenoaks Park
Click NNO Flier to check more information.
Magic Show for All Ages Saturday, July 9th at 2:30
Come one, come all for a little summertime magic right in the neighborhood. Kids and adults of all ages welcome. Thanks to the Chevy Chase Estates Association for sponsoring this fun event so all can enjoy it FREE of charge.
Valentine’s Traveling Nature Class Saturday, Aug. 20th at 3:30 Come see--or in some cases, pet and hold--reptiles, amphibians, insects and more! This fabulous and FREE show educates and entertains animal-lovers of all ages.
Also, don't forget to sign up for the summer reading program at Chevy Chase Library. You can pre-order your book selections from throughout the Glendale and Pasadena library systems online at http://catalog.glendalepubliclibrary.org and then ask that they be sent to the Chevy Chase branch. There's no quicker or greener way to keep up with your reading. Routing your books to Chevy Chase provides more accurate circulation numbers for our area than routing them to another branch or the Central Library for pickup. The library uses our branch's relatively low circulation numbers to suggest we're not using the system that much and that we don't need a library here. So please route your books to Chevy Chase!
The Chevy Chase branch is open to check out books on Wednesdays from 2-8 and Saturdays 12-5. You worked hard to keep it open. Now it's time to enjoy it!!
Come join Officer Sue Shine and your Glenoaks Canyon neighbors for a Neighborhood Watch training and burglary prevention meeting.
While the crime in our canyon is extremely low, the Glendale Police Department wants to help us institute a neighborhood watch program so we can keep our canyon safe for all of us.
The meeting will be held on June 29, 2011 at the Joe Bridges Clubhouse in Glenoaks Park.
Agenda:
5:30 - 6:00 Arrive early for introductions
6:00 - 7:00 Burglary prevention slideshow/Crime overview
7:00 - 7:30 What is Neighborhood Watch?
7:30 - 8:00 Meet neighbors and sign up
Click here to see the Flyer.
A Public Informational meeting regarding the Scholl Canyon Landfill will be held at Glenoaks Canyon Park on Monday, June 27, 2011 at 6pm. This meeting is in regards to a permit revision to incorporate additional perimeter monitoring gas probes located outside of the current permitted landfill boundary.
Click here for the Scholl PIM Notice 2011.
Come join Officer Sue Shine and your Glenoaks Canyon neighbors for a Neighborhood Watch training and burglary prevention meeting.
While the crime in our canyon is extremely low, the Glendale Police Department wants to help us institute a neighborhood watch program so we can keep our canyon safe for all of us.
The meeting will be held on June 29, 2011 at the Joe Bridges Clubhouse in Glenoaks Park.
Agenda:
5:30 - 6:00 Arrive early for introductions
6:00 - 7:00 Burglary prevention slideshow/Crime overview
7:00 - 7:30 What is Neighborhood Watch?
7:30 - 8:00 Meet neighbors and sign up
Click here to see the Flyer.
In response to the outpouring of emails, petitions signatures, and letters, the Glendale City Council has decided to keep the Chevy Chase Library open, and to not transfer it to the Dept. of Community Services and Parks!!! This is GREAT news and a powerful testament to what can be accomplished when we make our voices heard.
Many of the Library advocates are now shifting modes and instead of asking the City Council to "SAVE OUR LIBRARY" plan to express their thanks - both in letters and in person. The City Council often only hears protests, and we want them to hear the positive side of their decisions.
If you'd like, feel free to write to the Mayor and the City Council and thank them for preserving our library. At issue still, is Chevy Chase Library's dearth of books and library-sponsored programs. The Mayor and Council are working hard to find ways to fund this. Please thank them for their efforts and express your deep hope that this can happen!!
Mayor Laura Friedman lfriedman@ci.glendale.ca.us Council Member Frank Quintero fquintero@ci.glendale.ca.us Council Member Dave Weaver dweaver@ci.glendale.ca.us Council Member Rafi Manoukian rmanoukian@ci.glendale.ca.us Council Member Ara Najarian anajarian@ci.glendale.ca.us
If you had already planned to attend the City Council mtg on Tues, June 8th at 6:00pm, and would now like to express your thanks instead, you can join a handful of families who plan to present the kids' letters, and express their thanks and what the library means to them. If you have any questions or plan to go with a child, please let Pamela Tom know at Ptomfilm@yahoo.com. She would like to let the Mayor know how many kids plan to be there, so that they may make special accommodations.
Congratulations and thank you to all who signed a petition, wrote a letter, supported this effort, and made your voices heard.
The Chevy Chase Community Library may soon cease to exist. Despite promises to make improvements to our library and update its collection, a proposal to transfer it to the Community Services and Parks department and provide “minimal library services” is now being considered by the City Council. This will spell the end of our community library.
PLEASE ACT NOW.
You can make a difference by:
SIGNING the E-PETITION at http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/chevychaselib/
SENDING an EMAIL TO OUR CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS expressing why you feel it’s important to maintain a library in the canyon:
SENDING “LETTERS to the EDITOR” of 250 words or less to jason.wells@latimes.com
ATTENDING the June 7th City Council Meeting with your kids and LETTING YOUR VOICE BE HEARD
Below is a video that includes information about the proposal before City Council and what the city has already done to this vital and important community resource.
And here is a video of canyon resident Pamela Tom addressing City Council in opposition of the proposal.
Officer Sue Shine and GOCHA have decided to cancel Thursday evening's meeting due to the conflict with Glenoaks School's Open House. It will be rescheduled and we will let you know the new date as soon as it has been arranged. Sorry for the last minute notice but we want the kick off meeting to be as well attended as possible. Thank you for your interest in this new program. We will see you soon.
Officer Sue Shine from the Glendale Police Department will be at Joe Bridges Clubhouse at Glenoaks Park this coming Thursday, May 26th from 6-8 PM to help us set up a Neighborhood Watch Program here in the canyon. Hope you can join us for this important meeting.
Some of you may have seen in the Glendale News-Press on the 12th that Library Director Cindy Cleary is recommending that Parks and Recreation take over the Chevy Chase Library, with the idea that it would become a community center for classes and other activities. Its status as a library would be in question. Rest assured that both the Chevy Chase Library Volunteers and the Chevy Chase Estates Association are working on drafting responses to this proposal. For the time being, the Volunteers will continue to present programs, as always. See what's coming up this weekend and beyond:
Next week: EXPERIENCE KOREAN CULTURE AT THE CHEVY CHASE LIBRARY!
Celebrate Asian Pacific American Heritage Month with an exhibition of TaeKwonDo by the "U.S. Black Belt Center" team, Korean Traditional Dance by a local Glenoaks Elementary student, and a sampling of tasty Korean BBQ. You will receive a raffle ticket for each book checked out with a chance of winning 2 months of free TaeKwonDo lessons. Saturday, May 21, 3 p.m.
Next month: AUTHOR MARK SALZMAN AT OUR LOCAL LIBRARY!
Mark your calendars now: Saturday, June 11 at 2:00 p.m. Noted author of Iron & Silk will present: An Atheist in Freefall: A Partly Comic Performance
