Leimert Park Beat2024-03-28T18:20:07ZKimberly Wadehttps://www.leimertparkbeat.com/profile/KimberlyWadehttps://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/88510348?profile=original&width=48&height=48&crop=1%3A1https://www.leimertparkbeat.com/forum/topic/listForContributor?user=09ti9mul7i5ip&feed=yes&xn_auth=noTransient housing on the agenda; Saturday Town hall at Crenshaw United Methodisttag:www.leimertparkbeat.com,2010-09-29:677129:Topic:246502010-09-29T17:20:50.000ZKimberly Wadehttps://www.leimertparkbeat.com/profile/KimberlyWade
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<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;">The proposed ordinance on transient housing and community care facilities will be the subject of a special town hall on Saturday, October 2, 2010 -
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9:30 - 11:30 a.m. at Crenshaw United Methodist Church<br />
Hall, 3740 Don Felipe Drive, near Stocker.<br></br><br></br>The deadline for written comments is October 7th and the public hearing
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<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;">The proposed ordinance on transient housing and community care facilities
will be the subject of a special town hall on Saturday, October 2, 2010 -<br />
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9:30 - 11:30 a.m. at Crenshaw United Methodist Church<br />
Hall, 3740 Don Felipe Drive, near Stocker.<br/><br/>The deadline for written comments is October 7th and the public hearing
is October 14th. <br/><br/>The Neighborhood Council for Arlington Park, Baldwin Hills, Baldwin Village, Baldwin
Vista, Cameo Woods, Crenshaw Manor, Leimert Park and Village<br />
Green will also be considering amending the composition of the neighborhood council.<br/><br/>The Empowerment Congress West Area Neighborhood Development Council may increase the number of At-Large representatives by
one or establish an official Youth Representative position.</div>
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<div style="text-align: left;">They will also continue to discuss the area-wide liquor standards, 2010-11 Community Beautification Workplace and CRA CAC governance.
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<br/><br/>Please review the attached PDFs.<br/><br/>Even more? (323) 295-5766 or office@ecwandc.org.<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://us.mc365.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=office@ecwandc.org"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1285779765_6"></span></a></div> Notable filmmakers envision a new Santa Barbara Plaza: Film fest and community meeting on Marlton Square Sept. 14tag:www.leimertparkbeat.com,2010-09-09:677129:Topic:242782010-09-09T01:19:13.000ZKimberly Wadehttps://www.leimertparkbeat.com/profile/KimberlyWade
<img alt="" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/88512034?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" style="float: left; width: 358px; height: 267px;" width="721"></img> First a vision of <span style="font-style: italic;">what could b</span><span style="font-style: italic;">e</span> on a 20 acre lot in the middle of South Los Angeles, brought to you by Ben Caldwaell, Julie Dash, Khary Jones and Regina Kimball and students who live in the area.<br></br><br></br>Then a call to action about what to do about Santa Barbara Plaza, nee Marlton Square, which has been in redevelopment limbo for 20 years.<br></br><br></br>It happens from 6 to 8 p.m. Sept. 14 at Dorsey High…
<img width="721" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/88512034?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" alt="" style="float: left; width: 358px; height: 267px;"/>First a vision of <span style="font-style: italic;">what could b</span><span style="font-style: italic;">e</span> on a 20 acre lot in the middle of South Los Angeles, brought to you by Ben Caldwaell, Julie Dash, Khary Jones and Regina Kimball and students who live in the area.<br/><br/>Then a call to action about what to do about Santa Barbara Plaza, nee Marlton Square, which has been in redevelopment limbo for 20 years.<br/><br/>It happens from 6 to 8 p.m. Sept. 14 at Dorsey High School Auditorium.<br/><br/>The short films have quite the names behind them: <br/>• Caldwell is from Kaos Network/Project Blowed; <br/>• Dash' Daughters of Dust," National Film Registry, her feature film joins a
select group of American films preserved as National Treasures;<br/>• Kimball did the documentary “My Nappy Roots: A Journey Through Black Hair-itage;”<br/>• And Jones was named by indieWire as one of the "10 Exciting New Voices in Black Cinema." <br/><br/>Youth leaders included
Kyle Guy, Eric<br/>
Brooks, Aja<br/>
Dawson, Krystle<br/>
GardnerMatthew<br/>
Hill, Ryan<br/>
Jade, Montel<br/>
Jones, Kandance Redd, Ahkim<br/>
Shockley, Christopher<br/>
Tyeson, Isaiah<br/>
Wheeler and Deron<br/>
Williams. <br/><br/><p class="yiv1753909054MsoNormal"><span style="display: none;"> </span></p>
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<div class="yiv1753909054WordSection1"><span style="font-family: 'sans-serif'; color: black;">For Information, call Community Build at <span style="border-bottom: 2px dotted rgb(54, 99, 136); background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; cursor: pointer; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1283972498_0">(323)290-6560.</span></span> <span style="font-family: 'sans-serif'; color: black;">Sustainable Communities is sponsored by <span style="border-bottom: 2px dotted rgb(54, 99, 136); cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1283972498_1">Los Angeles</span> LISC.<br/><br/>In case you haven't seen it, here's is a video LeimertParkBeat.com produced about Santa Barbara Plaza:<br/></span></div>
<object height="405" width="660"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/0ZYg7KPHO2o?fs=1&hl=en_US&rel=0&color1=0xe1600f&color2=0xfebd01&border=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="false"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="never"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/0ZYg7KPHO2o?fs=1&hl=en_US&rel=0&color1=0xe1600f&color2=0xfebd01&border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="never" allowfullscreen="false" height="405" width="660"></embed> </object> Redevelopment Hell: One of these things don’t belong - blighted Marlton Square shopping center sits in middle of vibrant neighborhoodstag:www.leimertparkbeat.com,2010-09-07:677129:Topic:242402010-09-07T07:54:55.000ZKimberly Wadehttps://www.leimertparkbeat.com/profile/KimberlyWade
<div>By Eddie North-Hager of LeimertParkBeat.com and Emily Henry of Intersections South LA Report<br></br><p><br></br> Santa Barbara Plaza wasn’t always a mess. (Read the main story: <a href="http://www.leimertparkbeat.com/profiles/blogs/redevelopment-hell-how-a-prime-1">Redevelopment Hell</a>)<br></br> <br></br>
“Thirty years ago the parking lot would fill up every day,” said Harry Newsome. “There were businesses and beauty shops all throughout the plaza. There was work for everybody and everybody had their…</p>
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<div>By Eddie North-Hager of LeimertParkBeat.com and Emily Henry of Intersections South LA Report<br/><p><br/> Santa Barbara Plaza wasn’t always a mess. (Read the main story: <a href="http://www.leimertparkbeat.com/profiles/blogs/redevelopment-hell-how-a-prime-1">Redevelopment Hell</a>)<br/>
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“Thirty years ago the parking lot would fill up every day,” said Harry Newsome. “There were businesses and beauty shops all throughout the plaza. There was work for everybody and everybody had their own little business.” <br/>
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For Newsome the good ol’ days meant he took care of the parking lot and ran his own shoe shine parlor in the Santa Barbara Plaza. Now there’s only one beauty salon left where he mops the floor.<br/>
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The Los Angeles shopping center has been a mess so long, it is hard to find someone with a genuinely good memory. For two decades the property has been in a state of flux, never moving forward, slowly dying, taking with it such places as the Boulevard Cafe, a meeting place for the movers and shakers of the city.<br/>
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Once home to 230 locally serving businesses, many owned by locals, the <a href="http://mall-hall-of-fame.blogspot.com/2010/01/broadway-crenshaw-center-crenshaw-and.html">center rose in</a> the ’<a href="http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=3186">40s and ’50s</a> and thrived for decades with its sister center, the Crenshaw Center. <br/>
They’ve been hailed as one of the oldest regional shopping center in the country, anchored by Broadway, May Co., Vons, Woolworth’s, Boy’s SuperMarket, Lerner’s, Barker Brothers.<br/>
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Eventually major improvements were needed for both centers. <br/>
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The city was able to save the Crenshaw Center and fostered a $150 million makeover, turning it into the enclosed and newly renamed Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza in 1988, one of the best performing malls in the country. Four years ago 20 companies vied to buy the malls and Capri Capital of Chicago took the prize for $136 million.<br/>
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“The thing that saved Baldwin Hills is when, somewhere I believe in the ’80s, the city of L.A. and (Mayor) Tom Bradley put in in a tremendous amount of money into it,” Councilman Bernard Parks said. “It didn’t go across the street to Marlton because the variety of needs that people were looking for weren’t there. The stores had become second and third class. A health clinic, a center for disadvantaged youth. All of these things there were more service oriented when they used to be stores.” <br/>
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Los Angeles officials considered doing something about the neighboring 20-acre shopping center around the time Ruth Galanter first took her seat on the <a href="http://cityclerk.lacity.org/lacityclerkconnect/index.cfm?fa=ccfi.viewrecord&cfnumber=87-1735">Los Angeles City Council in 1988</a>. She worked to get something done on the site for 10 years without success. Santa Barbara, already in need of repair, languished. Uunlike Crenshaw Plaza, each building had a different owner and the owners couldn’t come to a consensus, Galanter said.</p>
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<p><br/> “They were very worried about what the mall development was going to do to their business and they were right to be worried,” Galanter recalled. “They wanted the redevelopment effort to help their businesses. The problem was, it was all privately owned but the parking lot was under complicated series of covenants.<br/>
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“Each property around the edge had rights in the parking lot but did not own a specific piece. There was a similar problem in Westchester. It must have been in fashion in the ‘30 and ‘40s.” After the riots in 1992 the city again focused on resuscitating Santa Barbara Plaza, deeming it a redevelopment area, opening up <a href="https://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B9Oa6iLGSBH2Njg2MTJlYzQtMTRjOS00ZTVlLTg1MjUtMmEwMDc4YjA2Nzc3&hl=en">opportunities to raise more tax money</a>. It was clear that there was going to be wholesale changes. Buildings were going to be torn down and <a href="https://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B9Oa6iLGSBH2MjJhNGY4YTYtNTcxNC00MGE1LWJlNzktNzVmMjk2MzgxYmU2&hl=en">ownership would change</a>.<br/>
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Maybe there would be an Ikea furniture store, or a Walmart. Maybe basketball star Magic Johnson, or maybe football star Keyshawn Johnson, would be the key players <br/>
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Instead it was the relatively unknown Chris Hammond, <a href="http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-79460911.html">who broke ground in 2003</a> flanked by Mayor Jim Hahn and Keyshawn Johnson.<br/>
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Hammond changed the name to Marlton Square and proposed a $123 million mixed-use plan (at the upper end the estimated value was $169 million). The Council responded with a <a href="http://www.allbusiness.com/government/government-bodies-offices-regional/5961091-1.html">public investment package of about $40 million</a>.<br/>
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It was a grand plan with a 140,000-square-foot lifestyle community-serving retail center, 140 single-family homes, 180 units of <a href="http://www.allbusiness.com/trade-development/economic-development-urban/5980607-1.html">affordable senior apartments and park space</a>.<br/>
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The finanicial aid package could have included loans against future sales taxes and property taxes, federal Housing and Urban Development grants and loans, and local public grants. The development team was supposed to have supplied $35.0 million and find a loan for the remaining $45 million.<br/>
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Hammond took over and got the city’s blessing in 2001. He didn’t go bankrupt until 2008. <br/>
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Over the decades since the fiasco started, Leimert Park developed a national reputation as the African American cultural center of the city. Baldwin Hills became the subject of a popular BET reality show about wealthy blacks. The Village Green was named by Los Angeles Magazine one of the best neighborhoods in the city. And across the street from <br/>
crumbling Santa Barbara Plaza, the <a href="http://www.bedfordparcpromenade.com/">Bedford Parc Promenade condos</a> rose just a couple of years ago, a much smaller Redvelopment Agency project.<br/>
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In addition to the Crenshaw Plaza with its Macy’s and Sears, a Fresh and Easy is planned just a mile south, and Target is moving in just few miles north.<br/>
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Granted South Los Angeles has more than its share of vacant lots and abandoned buildings, but Santa Barbara Plaza is larger than the <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/1999/jan/16/business/fi-63981">Century Mall</a>, the size of 20 football fields. <br/>
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Though the mid-century design with googiesque signs and graphics was recently slathered in white paint, it somehow still evokes the bygone era of a bustling center. <br/>
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“I like walking through here. It feels nostalgic,” said Charles Garcia. “I can feel the old vibrations. You see a lot of the old people that were young, 60, 70 years old, that were here in the heyday.”</p>
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<p><br/> When Garcia cuts through the parking lot to catch the bus by his house, he passes by Best TV repair, which sits inside in one of the most neglected areas of the center – one storefront has been torched, a pile of wood sits outside and pot holes fill the parking lot.<br/>
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“It has been like this 10 to 15 years,” Garcia said. “There’s a few shops, places to do your hair and a restaurant. Everything else is crack heads and bums.”<br/>
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Like Garcia, many nearby residents today use the Santa Barbara Plaza as little more than a short cut. They are not sure what’s going on anymore. They’ve stopped trying to keep up. But often their speculation is <br/>
pretty accurate.<br/>
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“Redevelopers came in to redevelop the project and it never happened,” said Newsome, while on break from mopping the floors of Ubora salon. “They say something happened to the money that the redeveloper had. So it never came to no further than the way it is right now. They put the one little building down there on Buckingham and nothing else happened. That’s as far as they made it.”</p>
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</p> Rodeo Ralphs to be Redeveloped!tag:www.leimertparkbeat.com,2010-06-22:677129:Topic:213932010-06-22T00:08:22.000ZKimberly Wadehttps://www.leimertparkbeat.com/profile/KimberlyWade
<p class="Default"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Plans are underway to redevelop the Ralphs shopping center on the southeast corner of Crenshaw and Rodeo. <br></br></span></p>
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<p class="Default" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Meeting TUESDAY, JUNE 22, 2:30 pm at the…</span></p>
<p class="Default"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Plans are underway to redevelop the Ralphs shopping center on the southeast corner of Crenshaw and Rodeo. <br/></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: left;" class="Default"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Meeting TUESDAY, JUNE 22, 2:30 pm at the Public Works Edward R. Roybal Hearing Room 350, 200 North Spring St.</span></p>
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<p class="Default"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The project requires an exemption to the current height of buildings and the sale of alcohol. <br/></span></p>
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<p class="Default"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">ECWANDC, which alerted me of the meeting today, says: "The development promises to bring in a much needed improved grocery store, new retail outlets and sit down restaurants. "</span></p>
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<p class="Default"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The developer is proposing a new 2-story, 45 foot high, and nearly 300,000 square-feet of retail space. <br/></span></p>
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<span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 11pt;">To rsvp call Kinya Claiforne at <span style="border-bottom: 2px dotted rgb(54, 99, 136); cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1277163878_3">310-333-1846</span> or <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://us.mc365.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=kinyac@mckissackmw.com"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1277163878_4">kinyac@mckissackmw.com</span></a>. For more<br/>
information see attachment</span><br/>
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<p class="Default"><b><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 14pt;"> <br/></span></b></p> Neighborhood council elections SATURDAY – JUNE 26tag:www.leimertparkbeat.com,2010-06-22:677129:Topic:213912010-06-22T00:05:15.000ZKimberly Wadehttps://www.leimertparkbeat.com/profile/KimberlyWade
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'sans-serif'; color: black; font-size: 10pt;">The Empowerment Congress West Area Neighborhood Development Council provides a vehicle for residents to help shape the city policies and decisions which affect their lives. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'sans-serif'; color: black; font-size: 10pt;">Board members…</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'sans-serif'; color: black; font-size: 10pt;">The Empowerment Congress West Area Neighborhood Development Council provides a vehicle for residents to help shape the city
policies and decisions which affect their lives. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'sans-serif'; color: black; font-size: 10pt;">Board members serve as your representative and are accountable to you. Anyone who is 16 years of age and older and lives, works who live,
work, or own property in the neighborhood and also to those who declare a stake<br />
in the neighborhood are eligible to vote in the NC election. Voting is simple<br />
and quick. You may be asked to show proof of residency, business or other<br />
stakeholder interest in the area. <br/></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-family: 'sans-serif'; color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> Vote </span> Saturday – June 26th, 2010
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9 am –<br />
3 pm<br />
at the <br />
Department of Water<br />
and Power<br />
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Community<br />
Room<br />
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4030 Crenshaw<br />
Blvd </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Helvetica-Bold; color: black; font-size: 10pt;">You are asked to vote for your area representatives (2) and each officer position. You can
only vote for the area representative for the neighborhood you live in, work or<br />
own property. </span></b><span style="font-family: Helvetica-Bold; color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><br/></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Helvetica-Bold; color: black; font-size: 10pt;">T</span>he candidates <br/></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Area 1
Representatives (Baldwin<br />
Village, Baldwin Hills and Crenshaw) <br />
- MARY JONES-DARKS <br/></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Area 2 Representatives (Village
Green/Baldwin Vista, Cameo<br />
Woods) - <br />
DAVID M. CARSON, JESSE<br />
H. MATHUS <br/></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Area 3 Representatives (Leimert
Park) <br />
- <br />
JAMES LEE WALKER<br />
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LARK<br />
E. GALLOWAY-GILLIAM<br />
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SYLVIA<br />
JONES <br/></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Chair DAVID LEE WINSTON Co-Chair <br/></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">DAMIEN
W.C. GOODMON <br/></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Recording Secretary
KEVIN<br />
M. FRIDLINGTON <br />
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<br/>Thanks ECWANDC!<br/> MTA Workshop on Crenshaw Blvd Landscape June 30thtag:www.leimertparkbeat.com,2010-06-22:677129:Topic:213892010-06-22T00:01:18.000ZKimberly Wadehttps://www.leimertparkbeat.com/profile/KimberlyWade
<span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 11pt;">The MTA will<br />
be holding a workshop to share ideas and get community input on the streetscape,<br />
landscape and design for two sections of Crenshaw Blvd. The first workshop will<br />
focus on the Park Mesa Heights segment of the corridor between 48<sup>th</sup><br />
and 59<sup>th</sup> Street. The second workshop will focus on the<br />
section between exposition Blvd and 39<sup>th</sup> Street. <br></br><br></br>Please
attend:…</span>
<span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 11pt;">The MTA will<br />
be holding a workshop to share ideas and get community input on the streetscape,<br />
landscape and design for two sections of Crenshaw Blvd. The first workshop will<br />
focus on the Park Mesa Heights segment of the corridor between 48<sup>th</sup><br />
and 59<sup>th</sup> Street. The second workshop will focus on the<br />
section between exposition Blvd and 39<sup>th</sup> Street. <br/><br/>Please
attend:</span><br />
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<p style="text-align: left;" class="Default">Thanks ECWANDC!<br/></p> Break free of the recession: Leimert Park Village teams up with poet Kamau Da'oodtag:www.leimertparkbeat.com,2010-05-18:677129:Topic:205972010-05-18T06:22:59.000ZKimberly Wadehttps://www.leimertparkbeat.com/profile/KimberlyWade
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</table> EARTHQUAKE comes to Baldwin Hillstag:www.leimertparkbeat.com,2010-05-15:677129:Topic:205872010-05-15T15:51:31.000ZKimberly Wadehttps://www.leimertparkbeat.com/profile/KimberlyWade
I keep telling people Leimert Park the new hot spot in the city. Well this a.m. proved it, even <a href="%20http://laist.com/2010/05/15/small_quake_centered_in_baldwin_hil.php">earthquakes are coming here</a>.<br/><br/>The LAist reports a 3.0 magnitude temblor, centered in Baldwin Hills, struck at 4:33 this morning.<br/><br/>I felt it - one strong jolt.<br/>
I keep telling people Leimert Park the new hot spot in the city. Well this a.m. proved it, even <a href="%20http://laist.com/2010/05/15/small_quake_centered_in_baldwin_hil.php">earthquakes are coming here</a>.<br/><br/>The LAist reports a 3.0 magnitude temblor, centered in Baldwin Hills, struck at 4:33 this morning.<br/><br/>I felt it - one strong jolt.<br/> Leimert Park and EsoWon remember Lena Hornetag:www.leimertparkbeat.com,2010-05-11:677129:Topic:205392010-05-11T04:37:10.000ZKimberly Wadehttps://www.leimertparkbeat.com/profile/KimberlyWade
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</div> Leimert Park Football Camp Starts May 23 - it's FREE so sign up nowtag:www.leimertparkbeat.com,2010-05-06:677129:Topic:204812010-05-06T19:05:09.000ZKimberly Wadehttps://www.leimertparkbeat.com/profile/KimberlyWade
There's quite a buzz about the <a href="http://www.leimertparkbeat.com/profile/LeimertParkChargerFootball?xg_source=activity">Leimert Park Chargers</a> as demonstrated in this great story about the success of our very own hometown football team by Ron Guild, <a href="http://www.wavenewspapers.com/sports/91759714.html">sports editor of the Los Angeles Wave</a>.<div class="storybody"><p><br></br></p>
<p>Now in their third year, the Chargers now have a permanent home, Rancho Cienega Park’s Jackie…</p>
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There's quite a buzz about the <a href="http://www.leimertparkbeat.com/profile/LeimertParkChargerFootball?xg_source=activity">Leimert Park Chargers</a> as demonstrated in this great story about the success of our very own hometown football team by Ron Guild, <a href="http://www.wavenewspapers.com/sports/91759714.html">sports editor of the Los Angeles Wave</a>.<div class="storybody"><p><br/></p>
<p>Now in their third year, the Chargers now have a permanent home, Rancho Cienega Park’s Jackie Robinson Stadium (where Dorsey High School plays) with more than 200
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<br/>There is a free eight-week camp beginning May 23, there are after-school programs and sponsorships for kids unable to
afford the entrance fee.<p><br/></p>
<p>“We just want people to know we are out there,” said founder Mark Binns, whose son, Armon, is an All-American wide
receiver at the University of Cincinnati.</p>
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<p>For info, visit the <a href="http://lpchargers.ning.com/">Chargers' website</a> of give Mark a ring (323) 928-8356.</p>
<br/>The <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704240504574586153027145052.html">Wall Street Journal gave the Snoop Youth Football League</a> much of the credit for the resurgence of the mighty <a href="http://www.leimertparkbeat.com/profiles/blogs/677129:BlogPost:2541">Crenshaw High School Cougars</a>.<br/><br/><p>"Many of its players are among the first graduates of a youth-football league with inner-city teams founded five years ago—and
personally funded and overseen—by rap artist Calvin Broadus, who is<br />
better known by his stage name, Snoop Dogg," Hannah Karp reported. "Before Mr. Broadus, there wasn't much organized youth football in<br />
the Crenshaw district."</p>
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<p>So after coaching a few seasons in an O.C. league with high fees and strict rules, Snoop "invested $1 million to launch his own youth conference that charged about $200 less per player than most Pop Warner
teams, offered discounts for siblings and allowed parents with criminal<br />
records to volunteer. Mr. Broadus invests an additional $50,000 each<br />
year to sustain the program."</p>
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