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GLEN PARK NEWSGLEN PARK NEWSOfficial Newspaper of the Glen Park Association

www.glenparkassociation.org

Published Quarterly

Spring 2008

Glen Park Association Meeting NoticeWednesday, April 9th, 2008, 7 p.m.

NEW DAY!!!

St. Johns School, 925 Chenery St.

Supervisor Dufty

Town Meeting

Volume 26, No. 1

Glen Park begins to stir before themorning sun even thinks of climbingabove the hills that embrace Sussex andSwiss streets.

Along Diamond Street, chairs sitatop tables in local eateries, resting

where they were placed the night before.A runner jogs past recycling dumpsters

anchored against black,green and blue containerson Kern Street. Aroundthe corner a man pumpsstationary bicycle pedals

at SOL GYM, while across the streeta truck driver carries crates of intra-library loan books into the branch.Along the east side of Cherney Street,

automobiles are apparitions, havingabandoned their parking spaces inanticipation of 7 oclock street clean-ing. On the next block, a crowded 44OShaughnessy idles next to Citibank,disgorging passengers who jaywalkacross Bosworth to BART. Othersjoin them, a few stopping long enoughto purchase a paper from a newsboy,cocooned in his newsstand, barricadedbehind a windbreak ofSan Francisco

Chronicles.Glen Park is awakening.Another low-riding hybrid 44

OShaughnessy moves up Bosworth,past the canyon where an owl insulatesitself in a eucalyptus tree, its morningchill allayed by a meadow of feathers.

As the early threads of daylight rollback the last blanket of night, whilemuch of Glen Park continues to sleep,Janet Tarlov ties her yeast-blemishedapron around her waist, steps in frontof her Canyon Market baking bench,and begins slinging around 50-poundbags of organic flour.

Baking is very physical work.Its like yoga practice, Janet says.It is hours before the first of her 50employees will report for work.

A petite woman of 41, the mother

of two boys aged 8 and 6, Janet and herhusband Rich first had the idea for theCanyon Market in 1998. After carefulpreparation, they saw their dream ofa family-owned and operated marketcome true two days before Thanksgiv-ing, 2006. Glen Park residents, espe-cially those who enjoy fresh baguettes,

Glen ParkWakes Up

Glen Park came out strong for Sen.

Barack Obama in the Feb. 5 Democraticprimary, handing him 2,196 votes. Sen.Hillary Clinton landed in second placewith 1,612 votes.

And while Obama could not claima blowout in Glen Park,the vote does reflect themomentum the Illinoissenator is riding nation-ally. It also showcases thesplit among the Demo-

cratic electorate.Clinton, the junior senator from

New York and former First Lady,trumped Obama in absentee votescast by Glen Park residents, 712 to660. But it was Obama who surged on

byRachelGordon

CONTINUED ON PAGE 18


Strong Turnout

in Primary Vote

byMurray

Schneider

Destination Bakery at 6 a.m. Photo by Michael Waldstein

whole wheat and multi-grain rye breads,ciabatta, freshly baked croissants andbear claws, are the beneficiaries ofJanets pre-dawn heavy lifting.

The environs around Wilder and

Diamond streets are still a bit desertedwhen Janet begins wrestling theunwieldy sacks of flour. She has com-pany, though. The humming of theChenery Park dishwashing machinesis comforting, she confides, as shesculpts a breakfast roll one morning.

Chenery CrimestoppersSee Page 15

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The mission of the Glen Park Association is to promote the collective

interests of all persons living in Glen Park, to inform and educate aboutneighborhood and citywide issues, to promote sociability and friend-ships and to support beneficial neighborhood projects.

GPA Board of Directors and Officers for 2007

President Michael Rice [email protected]

Vice-President Michael Ames [email protected]

Treasurer Dennis Mullen 239-8337

Recording Secretary Kim Watts 902-4767Corresponding Secretary Tiffany Farr 215-2320Membership Secretary Heather World

[email protected] & Environment Volunteer needed

[email protected] Improvement John Walmsley 452-0277

Glen Park News Elizabeth Weise [email protected]

Public Safety Volunteer needed

[email protected] & Park Richard Craib 648-0862Traffic, Parking & Transportation Volunteer needed

[email protected] & Planning D. Valentine

[email protected] Volunteer needed

Glen Park News2912 Diamond St. #407

San Francisco, CA 94131

(415) 908-6728

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Editor-in-Chief Elizabeth Weise

Deputy Editor Rachel Gordon

Photo Editor Liz Mangelsdorf

Design Editor Mary Mottola

Copy Editor Denis Wade

Advertising Nora Dowley

Reporters Gail Bensinger

Dolan Eargle

Jean Halprin

Ashley Hathaway

Andrea OLeary

Karen Peteros

Murray Schneider

Bonnee Waldstein

Columnists Vince Beaudet

Bevan Dufty

Susan Evans

Alma Hecht

Denise Sanderson

Michael Walsh

Photographers Elizabeth Mangelsdorf

Ellen Rosenthal

Michael Waldstein

Glen Park News

The Glen Park News is pub-lished quarterly by the GlenPark Association.

Signed articles are the opin-ions of the authors and notnecessarily those of the GlenPark Association.

To advertise in the GlenPark News call 908-6728or e-mail [email protected].

From the Editors

U.S. Rep. Tom Lantos, Glen Parksrepresentative in Congress, died Feb.

11 of esophageal cancer. He was 80years old.

Lantos, who was serving in his 14thterm, had announced in January that hewould not be seeking reelection. A Dem-ocrat and the lone Holocaust survivor inCongress, Lantos served as chairman ofthe Foreign Affairs Committee and wasa staunch human rights advocate.

While his legislative passionfocused on world affairs, he did not

ignore the bread-and-butter constitu-ent issues in his home district, whichincluded San Mateo County and part ofSan Francisco.

In 2005 he helped secure a $3.4 mil-lion federal Department of Transporta-tion grant aimed at pedestrian, transit,biking and traffic safety improvementsaround the Glen Park BART Station.Securing the grant was an essentialcomponent of the Glen Park Commu-

nity Plan. The congressmans effortslong will be appreciated by Glen Park

residents who are eager to see saferstreets in the heart of our village.

We hope that Lantos successorwill be diligent in helping Glen Parkimplement the plan. The front-runnerfor the job is former Democratic stateSen. Jackie Speier, who announced herintent to run for the Congressional seatprior to Lantos death, and received hisendorsement. Speier lives in Hillsbor-ough.

Four other candidates have filed torun: Former California Public UtilitiesCommission member Greg Conlonof Atherton; Mike Moloney, a retiredbusinessman from Foster City; SanFrancisco investor Barry Hermanson;and Dr. Michelle McMurry of SanFrancisco. Conlon and Moloney areRepublicans, Hermanson is a memberof the Green Party and McMurry is aDemocrat. Regardless of party affilia-

tion, all will appear on the same bal-lot.

A special primary election has beenset for April 8 to decide who will serveout the remainder of Lantos term,which ends in January. If no one can-didate receives a majority vote, the topvote-getters from each party will face

Join the

Glen Park AssociationOnly $10 per person.

PO Box 31292San Francisco, CA 94131

or online atwww.glenparkassociation.org

off in the June 3 election.Given the state of the nations

souring economy and the gridlock inWashington when it comes to findingsolutions to end the war in Iraq andto unravel the health care crisis, it isunderstandable that bread-and-butterneighborhood issues may not get thetop attention of our next representativein the House. But we want to makesure they wont be forgotten. Theresstill a lot of work to be donewith helpfrom federal, state and city officialsto

improve Glen Park. We are eager for theattention.

And the editors of the Glen ParkNews express our condolences to thefamily of Tom Lantos, and to offerthanks for his public service. n

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No Pilot Parking ProgramA pilot plan to install new, high-

tech parking meters in the village thatcan change their ratesdepending on demandand times has beenquashed by SupervisorBevan Dufty. The plan

was proposed by the Department ofParking and Traffic and supported bythe Glen Park Association at the January

GPA meeting.This pilot program would have

been a six-month test, to see if thesystems could be used around the city.While numerous questions were askedby residents at the GPA meeting, therewas strong neighborhood interest inbeing part of the experiment.

However, at its January meetingthe Glen Park Merchants Associationtold DPT staff that the organization was

strongly against the pilot program. Itasked DPT not to consider the pilotprogram. Supervisor Dufty, who alsoattended the meeting, said he would notsupport a parking pilot in District 8.

The San Francisco MunicipalTransportation Agency had beenexcited about the possibilities of newapproaches to parking management.But agency representatives said thatwithout the support of the merchants

and the district supervisor, it cannotpursue a parking pilot in Glen Park.Ric Lpez of the Merchants Asso-

ciation told GPA president Michael Ricethat the merchants were concerned thatextending meter hours to 8 p.m. mightcreate problems for residents and thathigher meter rates might discouragecustomers. The Merchants felt GlenPark should wait until parking ruleswere the same everywhere.

Tree DangerAnother issue that the GPA has

taken up is concern about the trees onElk Street by the park. During the bigJanuary storm, two cypress trees wereuprooted and fell within the park, oneof them crushing a portion of the fencearound the tennis court. Two years agoa eucalyptus tree between the tenniscourts and Elk fell across Elk Street,damaging a home and leaving part of

the neighborhood without power.At GPA meetings, residents have

expressed concerns about some of theolder and less healthy trees in the parkduring future major storms.

The GPA has been calling and writ-ing to the Recreation and Park Depart-ment about the condition of the trees.On Feb. 18, GPA President MichaelRice sent a formal letter to YomiAgunbiade, general manager of Rec

and Park, asking for the following:1. A survey by a professional arborist

of the condition of trees in the grove, todetermine their health and risk of falling,

2. Based on that survey, pruning and,if necessary, removal, of unhealthy trees,

3. A replanting program.Rec & Park had not responded by

our press time.

Elections

In elections, the board of the GlenPark Association was reelected atthe January 2008 meeting. Currentlyserving are Michael Rice, president;Michael Ames, vice president; DennisMullen, treasurer; Kim Watts, recordingsecretary; and Heather World, member-ship secretary. Longtime vice presidentJeff Britt stepped down and the GPAthanks him for many years of dedicatedservice to the neighborhood. n

byElizabeth

Weise

Glen Park Association NewsHigh-Tech Parking Program Nixed,Dangerous Trees Evaluation Sought

Richard Craib, founder and longtime booster of Friends of Glen Canyon Park, builthis family home on the rim of the canyon in the 1960s. As this photo illustrates,Glen Park is never far from his thoughts, no matter where he and his wife Sanditravel. The 125-foot-tall statue of Christ the Redeemer atop Mt. Corcovado in Riode Janeiro, Brazil, may be spectacular, but Rich made sure to bring his favorite

reading material along just in case. Photo by Sandi Craib

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byAshley

Hathaway

Glen Park is now officially part ofthe worldwide sushi phenomenon!

Sangha, at 678 Chenery

St., opened its doors tolocal diners on Dec. 21and since has been busydeveloping signature

sushi rolls and other tasty bites for itscustomers.

Sangha is a Sanskrit word thatmeans community, and the elementsof a community are very important toowner Ric Lpez, who also owns therestaurant Le Ptit Laurent across the

street. Being of Mexican heritage, aLatin influence in the food served atSangha is also very important to Lpez.Asked, Why Latin-Japanese fusion?he answers, Why not!

Sanghas chef Gerardo Torres isoriginally from Mexico City. After briefstints at sushi restaurants in Santa Cruz,he helped create menus for SOMAsBlowfish Sushi and Bernal HeightsMaki Sushi. Torres plans to continue

creating new rolls and dinner plates atSangha for quite some time.

Lpez adds that the Latin commu-nity he connects with here, as well aswhat is happening in Japan, was influ-

ential in creating the sushi restaurant forGlen Parkall part of the sushi waverolling over every continent around the

globe.In the culinary world of Japan, sushi

means vinegared riceusually servedwith a topping such as raw or cookedfish, egg or vegetables. Sliced raw fishserved alone is called sashimi, and sushirolled up in nori (dried pressed seaweedcalled laver in English) is called maki.On a typical sushi restaurant menu, youwill see these items listed respectivelyas Nigirisashimiand Maki, or sim-

ply Rolls.Not surprisingly, the birthplace of

sushi as we know it was indeed Tokyo,Japan, in the 19th century Edo era,although it can be argued that it datesback as far back as the 7th centurywhen Southeast Asians discovered thetechnique of pickling. The Japanesesoon took the skill one step further bypacking fish with rice. The fish wouldthen start fermenting and subsequently

the rice produced lactic acid that causedthe pickling of the pressed fish.

In any case, it was simply a basicgrab-and-go snack centuries ago, butover time soon morphed out of the

Sangha Finally Gets Rolling


Sangha has opened on Chenery Street. Photo by Ashley Hathaway

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Glen Parks Showbiz Duo

byGail

Bensinger

Twenty-seven actors crowded onto thestage of the Shotgun Players theater one

rainy evening in Janu-

ary for the curtain callof Salvage, the finalplay in Tom Stoppardstrilogy about love and

politics in 19th century Europe.Standing in a far corner behind

the audience was a small woman withmagenta streaks in her short dark hair.Behind the nearby window of the soundbooth was a burly blond man moonlight-ing from his day job making animated

films. The two of themdirectorSusannah Martin and temporary sounddesigner Torbin Bullockare GlenParks own show-biz couple.

Their careers have been intertwinedever since Susannah made her debutdirecting the senior-year musical inhigh school; Torbin was in the cast. Theclassmates were friends then, but didntbecome a couple for another decade.Now theyre the sort of couple who feed

straight lines to each other. Susannahsays theyre both 36, nearly 37. Torbin:Im 18 days older. Susannah: Everyyear he tells me on his birthday all thethings he knows that I wont know foranother 18 days.

Shes originally from Boston,while hes a native San Franciscan.Shes always known that she wanteda life in the theater. He lucked into ajob and a career he loves. After high

schoolwhere, Torbin says, Susannahwas a classic 80s punk girl, with aMohawk and all that jazzshe wentto the Tisch School of the Arts at NewYork University, then spent six monthsin London, and another year in NewYork, doing odd jobs in the theater thatnever brought in enough money to be

able to get her own apartment. So shecame back to San Francisco.

In 94 you could actually afford

to be a renter here, she recalls. Sheintended to stay for only a year or two.Here I am, 14 years later.

She has worked theatrical odd jobshere, too, but shes making a name forherself in local theater circles. In 1999,she co-founded a theater troupe calledPaducah Mining Co., which survivedfor five years. Then she went off to UCDavis for a masters degree.

Directing the conclusion to Stop-

pards The Coast of Utopia trilogy wasan exercise in instant theater. The threeplays follow the personal lives and evolv-ing philosophies of the men and womenpresent at the creation of the great politi-cal upheavals of the 19th century, only towatch the movements they brought intobeing pass them by. Shotgun presented theplays as staged readings on three succes-sive Wednesday nights.

Torbin grew up living all over San

Franciscothe Haight, Ingleside, OuterRichmond, Fillmore, Cow Hollow. Hisfather started out as an actor, and spent twoyears in the San Francisco cast of Hair.When Tom Bullock ended up as a post-production guy in movies, his son workedwith him during summer months and pickedup the rudiments of film editing.

Torbin took occasional productionjobs, but he never intended to work infilm, sound and music editing. After a

couple of years at City College, he founda short-term production job at an obscurecompany in Point Richmond. The com-pany was Pixar, and the film was ToyStory.

It took me a good three or four weeksto figure out what was really going on, andwhat I found was that they were really mak-ing something new and amazing, he says.He and Susannah were roommates then,living on 24th Street in Noe Valley aboveHopwells restaurant, now Le Zinc.

Torbin has worked since then on asuccession of hitsA Bugs Life,Monsters, Inc. Cars. Now hesworking on Pixars as-yet-unnamed2011 release, about which he will sayonly that its cool.

Post-Stoppard, Susannah directed

a fully-realized production of GeorgeBernard Shaws Mrs. Warrens Profes-sion for Shotgun Players. Even she isa little dazzled by back-to-back playsfrom two such heavyweight authors.

The couple, who married in 2006,happened upon their Glen Park homeon their way to brunch at Pomelo onChurch Street: Weve lived here forfive years and we love it, Susannahsays. You dont feel like youre in thecity anymore. You feel like youre in

this little European village.Although Torbin works in

Emeryville, while Susannahs vari-ous jobs take her all over the BayArea, they tolerate their commutes.As she puts it, When are we evergoing to live in a neighborhood with

a community like this, so why wouldwe want to leave? Torbin knows astraight line when he hears one: Espe-cially now, with Eggettes, he says.

Mrs. Warrens Profession, directed

by Susannah Martin, is on view at

Shotgun Players Theater, 1901 Ashby

Ave., Berkeley, from March 19 April

20. Take BART to the Ashby station;

the theater is across the street from the

stations parking lot. n

Susannah Martin and Torbin Bullock in their home in Glen Park.Photo by Liz Mangelsdorf

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Redone Sunnyside Park

A Real Swinging Hot SpotSunnyside Playground and Park finally

has a childrens playground afterdecades of wishing andplanning. Since a formalopening in mid-November2007, the sound of laugh-ter from both children and

adults alike has not stopped. Neighbors,whose feet keep turning toward andwalking them into their new neighbor-hood gem, are particularly pleased tosee many groupings of old friends, now

scattered to the many corners of SanFrancisco, rendezvous in Sunnyside tocatch-up, visit and meet new babies.

More than a decade ago, residentsand park advocates, spearheaded bySunnyside Park Families & Neighbors([email protected]), relentlesslypressed for funding that would bringrenovations to facilities residents hadrepeatedly prioritized. The park is sur-rounded by several distinct neighbor-

hoods that do not have a park down thestreet, and Sunnyside is considered theirneighborhood park.

Families had to drive across townto find recreational facilities. SPFNmembers created and displayed a boardtitled Imagine then RE-Imagine YourPark to solicit input from residents,and to draw attention from any money-controlling agency possible. After beingincluded onthen removed fromlists

where funding was allocated, successwas eventually achieved; setting inmotion a $3.7 million upgrade of oneof San Franciscos most unique multi-level hillside public spaces, which offersmany surprises and fabulous views.

When imagining the ideal park,residents clearly wanted an open andmulti-aged kids playground next tothe grass field, to allow children to runfrom play equipment onto clean grass

and back. To promote active exercise,

volunteers have collected colorful tennisrackets for anyone happening by to givea ball a bounce over the net of the newlysurfaced tennis court. Long hoped forand consistently at the top of the wishlist was a place where adults or childrencan have a party.

The big wooden table near theplayground is a favorite with young-sters, but adults want a place to gatheraway from squealing kids where they

can listen to a jazz trio. Groups andorganizations want alternatives to dullrooms to hold an outdoor meeting orto conduct a fund-raiser. Early morn-ing neighbors seek places to practicemartial arts movements. The place forall these activities is The Plaza, whichis bringing people together just as pla-zas do throughout the world. Free TaiChi classes are held there every Sat-urday morning at 9:30, and everyone

of any age or physical capability iswelcome, no experience necessary.

While many park capital renova-tions throughout the city have hadbudget overruns, Sunnyside aston-ished everyone with a surplus. Thatsurplus will be spent on renovationsto the recreation center clubhouse.Americans With Disabilities Act(ADA) barrier removal is the focusof the expenditure, with bathrooms

and the kitchen undergoing the mostchanges. The rest of the main roomwill be one large space with few doorsand fewer walls to make use of everyinch possible. Bathrooms off ThePlaza also will be refurbished. Thiswork is expected to be completed inFall 2008.

Sunnyside Park welcomes neigh-bors from Glen Park to come for a visitand come often. n

byAndreaOLeary

Balboa Playground Revamp:Community Effort Pays OffAfter long years of fundraising andeffort, Balboa Parks playground hasfinally been renovated.

A group of neighbors and parentsworked hard to replace outdated play-ground equipment with new, safe play

items. Together with the NeighborhoodParks Council and San Francisco Rec-reation and Park Department, they wereable to get a grant from Kaboom andthe American Academy of OrthopedicSurgeons to build a new playground.

The grant covered the cost ofnew playground equipment but didnot include installation. To make thathappen, more than 500 communityvolunteers descended on the park onMarch 4 to construct the new equip-

ment.The playground Park is on San

Jose Avenue at Sergeant John V. YoungStreet (the road that leads to InglesidePolice Station, between HavelockStreet and Ocean Avenue). n

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As I walked down College Avenue inOakland, I thought about stopping at

one of the tempting cafes for lunch butdecided no, Id rather takeBART back to Glen Parkand eat a spinach pasty atCafe Bello. As I watched the East

Bay hills drift by, I realized Id done thesame thing the day before, in downtownSan Francisco, when I was about to stopfor lunch at Kuletos Caffe, and the daybefore that in West Portal. Instead of

going anywhere, it seemed, my choicewas always a spinach pasty at CafeBello. Even when Im home, I some-times create an erranddropping off apair of slacks at Clean N Save Clean-ers, buying fresh veggies for dinner atCanyon Market, picking up a book atthe library or Bird & Beckett. I walkdown the hill, through the park, alongthe trail behind St. John School, acrossthe empty lot, and then I cross Diamond

Street to the cafe. Odd, I thought onthe train, for a person who loves newplaces, people, and food. Very odd. Is it the ease of not having to makea decision? Hold on to your habits andlive a stress-free life? Maybe. Is it thatIve trained the folks at Cafe Bello toheat the pasty just sotwo minutes inthe microwave and then two or three inthe toaster oven till its crispy brown?That way, I can cut it into a dozen

small pieces, noting the spinach greenand carrot orange before bringing eachsteaming bite to my lipsmmmmm.And to be able to read at the sametime. Sip lychee tea. Maybe its justmy hedonistic pleasure in the wholeexperience, that crunch just before myteeth close over the crust and my tongueexplores the feta and pepper.

These are all possibilities, of course.But Ive concluded that the real reason

for the BART rides home and the mile-and-a-half walks down the hill and thenback up is that pasties bring me back toa very happy summer in my life, to thefirst and only time I had a steady dietof pasties, 48 years ago.

My first summer as a marriedwomana newly pregnant one, atthatwe spent at Northern MichiganUniversity on the shores of Lake Supe-rior, in Michigans Upper Peninsula.

It was Sputnik time and the U.S. wastrying to catch up with the U.S.S.R.by beefing up the math and sciencecurriculum throughout the country.My husband, an assistant professor ofmathematics, was on a National Sci-ence Foundation grant to teach whatwas then called New Math to highschool teachers. Then they could teachit to their students as part of the grandeffort to land men on the moon within a

decade, a true mission accomplishedstory. While he taught, I took coursestoward my masters degree.

The Upper Peninsula (UP) touchesthree of the Great Lakes. In the mid-19th century, huge deposits of copperand iron ore were discovered there, andthe UP actually produced more mineralwealth than the California gold rush.

Miners by the thousands crossedthe Atlantic and northeastern North

America, mainly from Cornwall, Eng-land, and also from Finland and otherEuropean countries. The Cornish wivesknew how to cook what miners neededfor those long days underground. Theymixed potatoes and onions and what-ever vegetables and meats were avail-able into a stew thicker than chicken

The Allure of Comfort Food

A Palatable Draw to Glen Park

byJeanneHalpern

Cafe Bello owner Greg Jensen. Photo by Ellen Rosenthal


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From my deck overlooking some ofDiamond Valley, I realized I could spot

as many as five newlyinstalled solar panels.Becoming taken withthe notion of find-ing more of those bigrectangles, I climbed

higher and higher to see how many I

could spot. Eventually ending up on awooden platform above Poppy Lane atthe edge of the projects in DiamondView on Moffitt, I spotted five more.

In fact, after heavy pressure onPG&E by this reporter, the total numberof solar installations tied into the electricgrid in the 94131 zip code (which isalmost exactly the boundaries of GlenPark) was revealed. Its an astounding76 for our edge-of-the-fog belt neigh-

borhood.That puts us high in the rankings

for solar power in San Francisco. Theleader is 94110, Mission/Bernal, with99. We are tied with 94114, Noe Valley/Castro/Corona Hgts./ Duboce. Note allthree are contiguous. City total is 676.

Once we looked at the pavementand what is under it. Then we lookedat the nice homes, admiring their place-ment, views, architecture and ornamen-

tation. The only time we looked up wasto see who had satellite dishes. Keeplooking for our birds but also let thechic electrique panels catch your eye.

One maximum installation is onChenery Street, where the ownershave hooked their large system to thegridthey produce power all day fortheir own use, feeding into the grid anyexcess as the meter runs backward, thentake advantage of the grid on eveningsand days of low light when needed.

Of course, some homes in GlenPark unfortunately face north, or aretoo shaded at times of maximum sun;nevertheless, there are quite a fewchances to take advantage of the faceof the sun. And not all of these solararrays are producing electricitysomeare water heaters (thermal solar), usu-ally those of just two or four panels.

So what started me on this particu-lar odyssey? Cruising down Folsom

the other day around 17th Street I wasstartled to see half a square-block park-ing lot full of cars completely shadedfrom the sun by solar panels. Id onceseen something like this in the San

Fernando Valley. For Los Angeles thatmeant cooler cars and free power. ForSan Francisco I wondered about thefog. Not to worry, they still produce,although less under clouds than underfull sun, says PG&E.

Thats good news for us. Folsomand 17th is only about two miles fromGlen Park, so about anything in the

way of electricity that happens thereprobably affects us in Glen Park onehundred-thousandth of a second later.

Such a momentous new array isimportant; I counted 576 panes at 17thand Folsom. But oddly, given all thehype around solar power, PG&E hassaid almost nothing about it. I set outto find out more. The totally unmarkedsquare block has its doors all sealed. Theparking lot has rolling gates operated

by electronic cards. Back in my officeI called the PG&E media number. Apleasant lady said shed have someonecall me right back. After more calls andseveral weeks, PG&Es media man JoeMolica came through.

The 17th and Folsom project beganas an experiment. Its not a major devel-oping program, he told me. The systemis just feeding into the grid. While fairlyefficient, its not as good under clouds

as full sun and PG&E doesnt yet havedata on the whole system available forthe press.

So does solar make sense? Judgingfrom the costs and results given in theweb sites below, with the proper con-siderations for siting and installation, itcould take less than 10 years for a solarsystem to pay for itself. After that yourpowers free.

To see another big solar project,look around next time you find your-self hopping onto SFOs AirTrain aftera quick BART trip to the airport. Thepassageways from the International Ter-minal to the older terminals are coveredwith so many flat panels that it lookslike a pond. Its a project of the ownerof SFO, the City.Useful References:

The Resources section of GPAsweb site, glenparkassociation.org, has

lots of useful information.SolarCity.com provides data on how

to form a group for rebates (the moremembers, the less cost). For instance,$700$3,000 each for 520 participants.

Also gives estimates on the total rebate

per participant. The Glen Park Associa-tion is forming a group right now.

Findsolar.com provides estimatedcost, price and benefits, and savings onvarious providers. n

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Solar Power a Hot Success inOur Sun-Friendly VillageOne of a series of interesting things

about the Glen Park neighborhood

byDolanEargle

Coming our way: $4 million in bondmoney to refurbish Glen Canyon Park.But when will we see it? Good ques-tion.

On Super Tuesday, San Franciscovoters agreed to let the City sell the

next round of bonds tofinance the open-spaceplan that was approvedin a 2000 referendum.

Our park didnt makethe first round of funding back then,but it did make the most recent one.

Under Rec and Park ground rulesfor the upgrades, the timing of the nextphase depends on how quickly the first-round jobs get finished. Projects onwhich work is still being done includethe Upper Noe Recreation Center at30th and Sanchez streets. Other reccenters, pools and playgrounds are still

getting their finishing touches.Rose Marie Dennis, public affairs

director for Rec and Park, explainedthat no date has been set for the newbond sales. The City is on a strict bondschedule, she said. After the new bondsget a go-ahead, she estimates, then theplanning process begins again for thenext 12 projects. Glen Canyon Park isNo. 10 on that list.

Thus the uncertainty over timing.

Dennis wouldnt be pinned down, butshe predicted the sales are probably acouple of years off.

Among the projects that may beundertaken with the $4 million arerenovations for the recreation center,the playground, the day camp, sportsfacilities and pathways. Lighting, irri-gation, improved access and upgradedlandscaping also may be part of theplan.

Regardless of when the work actu-ally starts, it is supposed to be finishedby 2013, when voters will be asked topony up for the next round of improve-ments elsewhere.

Its been a half-century since GlenCanyon Park has received so muchattention. Well have to be patient fora few more years. n

Park BondsWill Pay Off,

Some Day

byGail

Bensinger

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Spring 2008 Page 9 Glen Park NewsPage 9

Imagining Mr. Chenery...

Considering that Chenery Street is theMain Street of Glen Park, surprisinglylittle is known about its early days. For

instance, how did it get itsname? The first referenceto Chenery Street is asthe site of the FairmountSchool in 1864. However,it would seem that the

school was actually on thefuture CheneryStreet, as the street hadnt yet been offi-cially named. The street name Cheneryfirst appeared in the San Francisco CityDirectory, in 1868.

The directory, far more than an address(or later, telephone) book, was financedby advertisers, and was something of anannual almanac of San Francisco. Resi-dents were listed with their occupation aswell as their address. The directory listedstreets and their boundaries, pictured thecity map of the moment, showed who waswho in society andmost ambitiouslyupdated The Progress of the City, whichdescribed growth in population (138,950

in 1868), public works achievements, rail-roads and other indicators of the ascensionof San Francisco as a growing, dynamicmetropolis.

The boom and bust of real estate mar-kets familiar to San Franciscans is nothingnew. In 1868, according to the directory,the city was digging itself out of a 10-year-long depression, which had followed thewild volatility of the Gold Rush days. Realestate prices were on the rise.

In 1868, San Francisco was expand-ing in every practical direction, mostlytoward the south and west, includ-ing the citys outside lands, whichincluded present-day Glen Park. Thatyear, according to historian Mae Silver,people living in the area were carriagemakers, stablers, bakers, civil serviceworkers, painters, and men working inthe building trades.

The Fairmount Tract, a triangleformed by Castro Street, 30th Streetand San Jose Avenue, encompassedChenery Street. It was developed inthe 1860s, Chenery Street appears onthe 1871 map of the Fairmount Tract.From then until 1895, Chenery Streetwas listed in the City Directory asextending Ss Thirtieth St. to Randall,thence to Castro.

In those very early days, devel-opment along the street was sparse;the Joost brothers San Francisco and

San Mateo line would not be barrelingdown Chenery Street until 1892. Thecity map of 1873 showed the plot of theoriginal Fairmount School, which wasestablished at its current site on Chenerybetween 30th and Randall streets. Emma

Bland Smith in her book, San Francis-cos Glen Park and Diamond Heights,notes that the school had 137 students

in 1870, in a small wooden building.Nearby on that block, todays 51-

59 Chenery, was the French Laundrybuilding, circa 1873. Albert Bracht,owner of the building for the past fiveyears, relates that the working classpeople of the area were far from need-ing the services of a French laundry.Rather, the building was an officebuilding for the laundry. It wasnt aretail operation, but serviced the hos-

pitals and downtown hotels of the day.The property next to the building, No.47, and the land behind it where RobertPritikins Chenery House is now, wasthe location of the hot-water vats anddrying fields for the laundry.

Further uptown, at the northwestcorner of Chenery and Fairmount streets,the 1873 map shows a triangular prop-erty that today resemblesa corner market, which

perhaps dates back to thattime. At the far end,657 Chenery at Castro,sits the Tietz house, theoldest residence in GlenPark, built in 1872.

In 1897, CheneryStreet became Fair-mount Tract, from 30thnear Church, S and SW.It wasnt until 1922 that

Chenery Street was listed, as we knowit today, Fairmount Tract, 30th nearChurch S & SW to Elk.

The Chenery name originated inEngland, apparently as a regional name,the earliest reference being 1393, refer-ring to John Chenery at Barton Mills,Suffolk. It might be extracted fromchesne which translates to oak tree.So how did this name end up on a streetin Glen Park?

Richard Chenery, son of NathanChenery, was born in Montague,Massachusetts on June 20, 1817.According to an account of families ofEastern Massachusetts, He may justlybe regarded as one of the builders andmakers of the state of California andthe city of San Francisco.

Though seemingly largely forgottenin our city, Chenery was an extraordi-nary example of ambition, achievementand civic involvement in the burgeoning

days of California and San Francisco.He moved to New York City at

age 18, working at an uncles store;farmed in Wisconsin for seven years;returned to Massachusetts to the drygoods business; and came to Califor-

byBonnee

Waldstein

nia in August, 1849. He first went tothe mines but shortly thereafter went toSacramento, where he opened the GlobeHotel and was also a broker for productscoming from back east. With a couple ofpartners he went into the steam boatingbusiness, and prospered until the greatfire of 1852 that left Sacramento inruins, including his properties. He

remained involved withsteam boats and various

other commercial proj-ects. Having amassedthe then-considerablefortune of $240,000, hetraded his belongings forgold dust and slugs, andset out on a steamer forPanama.

In 1856, Chenery wasone of the organizers ofthe military Vigilance

Committee in San Francisco, waselected its chief officer and awarded thetitle of Colonel. In 1857 he representedSan Francisco County in the CaliforniaState Assembly as a Republican. Thesame year he formed a constructioncompany, which later (in 1866) built aroad from Marysville to Oroville. Heattended the inauguration of PresidentLincoln as one of the mounted guards.Under the Lincoln administration,Chenery was appointed Navy agent atSan Francisco, disbursing millions ofdollars for the government until afterthe end of the Civil War.

Between 1869 and 1875 he wasan importer and wholesale jobber ofliquors, a thriving industry in San Fran-cisco. The firm was named Chenery,Souther, and Co. The business disap-pears from public records after 1875,and for the next few years Chenerysoccupation was listed as mining.

Richard Chenery was first listed inthe San Francisco City Directory in 1868.His name appeared with the first of hisseveral occupations, real estate.

This is the strongest evidence thatChenery Street was named for this man,

although actual records of a real estatetransaction involving purchase of theland where Chenery Street is locatedcould not be found. Did Chenery pur-chase the land and name it after himself,or did one of his illustrious associatesbuy the land and name the street inhonor of Chenery?

Richard Chenery married twice andhad five children. He went back east in1879 to Belfast, Maine, where he helped

establish the waterworks system. Hedied on July 27, 1890 at age 73.

The personal qualities of RichardChenery were extolled in a tributerecorded in the Memorial Book (No.14) in the Society of California Pioneers(courtesy of librarian Pat Keats):

In person he was of commandingfigure and his picture shows a remarkablyhandsome man. In later life his uniformand flowing white beard made him a man

to be observed in the multitude. He wasliberal to a fault; cheerful in disposition;genial and pleasant and always andeverywhere a gentlemanhe movedon his course untouched by the sins andweaknesses incident to the frontier lifeof new states.

A grandson, Leonard E. Chenery,born in 1869, is the one who carried onthe Chenery name in San Francisco until1940. Leonard was variously listed asa clerk, bookkeeper, and vice presi-dent with the firm of Allen and Louis,which moved all over the city and MarinCounty between 1892 and 1940.

For many years Leonard lived at1869 California St. He too probablyrose in the ranks of San Francisco soci-ety, as he is mentioned in the societycolumn following the 1906 earthquake:The Leonard Chenerys were burnedout and lost all of their effects, whichwere valuable. They are with friends

on Pacific avenue, near Buchananstreet.

So: Was Chenery Street namedafter Richard Chenery? If it was, June20, his birthday, should be CheneryDay in Glen Park. n

French Laundry building on Chenery Street. Photo by Michael Waldstein

Did Chenerypurchase the

land and

name it after

himself?

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New Park On Martha Hill. TheJanuary 1979 Glen Park Perspec-

tive, the monthly tab-loid I pull out of theGlen Park Associationarchives, headlinesa story on the Citysacquisition of two

acres at the top of the hill south ofBosworth Street.

The site was purchased throughthe 1974 Park Renovation and Acqui-sition Fund, and apparently saved thehilltop from residential development.A side article covered the naming ofthe new park for Dorothy Erskine,a longtime open-space activist whopromoted the Park Renovation andAcquisition Fund. Its clear the

neighborhood worked hard to savethis hilltop.I follow the story of Glen

Parks open space through the dustyarchives, with an article in April1979, on the history of festivities inthe canyon. I know we see many goodphotographs of the canyon in earlydays, but did we know that JimmyScarface Williams performed bal-loon ascensions there?

That 1979 story covered the annualMay weekend of the Pickle Family Cir-cus days in the park. That grew into theyears of Memorial Day weekends withthe Pickles and the San Francisco co-op nursery schools fair bringing happycrowds from all over the city. The happynoise, laughter and cheers carried forblocks. The Pickles moved on, and thefair and the circus disbanded by theearly1990s.

There is a big gap in the Glen ParkAssociation newspapers after about1980 to the early 1990s. The archivespick up again about 1992, as a quar-terly newsletter. In December 1992, weread about the Glen Park Panhandle,the strip of green space north of Bos-worth.

Again, the neighborhood saved thisfrom being sold off as surplus Cityproperty (left mostly from the wideningof Bosworth Street). This panhandle

is still an intermittent trail from Lip-pard almost to the canyon: weeds androcks in one block, a real paved path inanother, now waiting for the 2003 draftCommunity Plan to upgrade this con-nection.

Saved Newspapers in the Glen Park Association

byMichael

Rice

Trees became part of the Nameplate adorning the Glen Park Perspectivein the 1970s. Image courtesy of Michael Rice

GPA President Michael Rice, seeking background information about the

back-issues that reveal whats been going on in Glen Park, including bits

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The December 1995 Glen ParkNews reports on a Master Plan forGlen Canyon process, looking atuser groups, automobile access, andnatural resources. Its a shock tonote this master plan, now part of acitywide recreation and park NaturalAreas Plan, is still under way. Wecan recall, though, that those effortsin the 90s resulted in limiting parentsdriving their children up the canyonto Glenridge Nursery School duringthe school year, and to Silvertree DayCamp in the summer. A new drop-offat Diamond Heights Boulevard andSussex Street helps keep the cars

out.With regular publication of the

News for the past 10 years, we knowthe Friends of Glen Canyon Parkorganizes volunteers for clean-ups,bird walks and native plant care. Cityfunds and a large anonymous donationcreated the boardwalk past Silvertreeand the cutting back of invasive plantsin Islais Creek. Stories in theNews tellus about the hawks, owls and coyotes.

We read that the landscaping and therecreation building dont get the main-tenance we expect and need.

Catching up to 2008, we votedoverwhelmingly last month for Prop-osition A, the $185 million Clean

and Safe Neighborhoods Bond. SanFrancisco voters approved the ballotmeasure on Feb. 5 with 72 percent infavor.

Prop A is part of the Citys new10-year capital plan to upgrade SanFranciscos recreation and park facili-ties. Glen Canyon Park is designatedin the bond measure for repairand/or renovation of the recreationcenter, the childrens play area, daycamp, courts and field; restoration ofroads and pathways; upgrades to theinfrastructure including lighting andirrigation, modifications to improveaccessibility, and overall recondition-

ing of the park landscape.Its a bit daunting to see the

30-plus years of steady efforts tokeep our parks as one of the greatresources of San Franciscoand theneighborhood. I recognize many ofthe names of the neighbors who spentmany hours and days in the park andat City Hall supporting these plans. Iknow there will be new names to carrythis on, and more good stories in the

Glen Park News. n

Michael Rice is president of the Glen

Park Association

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Pages from the archives illuminate the history and events of the neighborhood. Images courtesy of Michael Rice

Archives Give Glimpses of Neighborhood Historyorganization he heads, gets down and dusty with the contents of boxes of

of history from long before these neighborhood papers were published

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Election Day, taking 1,496 to Clintons900.

Former Sen. John Edwards ofNorth Carolina, who dropped out ofthe race prior to the primary elec-tion, drew 85 votes, 65 of which werecast absentee. Five other Democraticcontenders, who like Edwards left thefield before Election Day, togethergrabbed 22 votes.

The Glen Park News analyzedelection results from the ballots castat eight precincts in Glen Park, or inprecincts immediately adjacent to theneighborhoods traditional boundar-ies. In all of these eight precincts,

How we Voted

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Obama came out ahead of Clinton.

At some precincts, such as 80 Digbyand 151 Lippard, the race was close.At others, such as 345 Chenery and395 Addison, Obamas lead was for-midable.

Citywide, San Franciscans backedObama over Clinton 52 percent to 44percent.

Far fewer Glen Park voterscast ballots for Republican presidentialhopefuls. Of those who did, 147 went

for Sen. John McCain, followed by 57for former Massachusetts Gov. MittRomney, 28 for former New York CityMayor Rudy Giuliani and 13 for formerArkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee. McCainalso won the citywide GOP vote. n

After a period of delay, the Glen ParkNeighborhood Plan is springing forwardin 2008, with the first of a series of com-

munity meetings to define the specificprojects for implementation.

With the help of the late U.S. Con-gressman Tom Lantos, we were able

to secure $3.4 millionin funding to completea full environmentalanalysis of the project, asrequired under Californialaw.

Currently, the 2003 Glen Park

Community Plan serves as the primarydocument detailing the neighborhoodplanning framework. It was collec-tively designed to guide future planningproposals and to preserve the uniquecharacter of the Glen Park Village.The Community Plan will now serveas a tool for the implementation of pro-posed neighborhood changes, throughthe creation of a Glen Park Area Planand the introduction of local revisions

to the Planning Code.The next step in the planning processis to develop the Area Plan, consistentwith a vision for the neighborhood andbased on community input and many ofthe objectives and policies establishedin the Community Plan. This step willinclude the organization of three to fourcommunity meetings, in which: Participants will be updated on theearlier community process and the cur-rent status of the project, i.e., the nextsteps toward establishing an Area Planand implementing projects; Key elements of the Area Plan (trans-portation, land use, urban design) willbe outlined; Results of the transportation studies(carried out by the consultant) will beshared, providing the opportunity for

informed community feedback; Potential zoning controls for imple-menting desired land use changes will

be discussed with the community; Community consensus will be reachedfor specific components of the draftArea Plan and Code revisions.

Once the meetings are set, we willprovide mailings and other notices. Weanticipate returning to the Glen ParkElementary School, where the originalmeetings were held.

While I am disappointed that prog-ress lagged over the past two years, we

have secured steady increments of thefederal grant and many positive changeshave come to Glen Park with the Mar-ketplaces completion, new restaurantsand businesses, and closer managementof parking spaces, among others.

Should you have any questionsabout the Glen Park Area Plan, pleasedont hesitate to contact Charles Rivas-plata of the Planning Department (558-6255 or [email protected]) or

Boe Hayward of my office (554-6968or [email protected]).In closing I want to remember

Congressman Lantos. Tom was a greatfriend and he was very proud of secur-ing a federal earmark to guide andprotect the future of Glen Park.

Over the coming months, your inputwill guide improvements to mitigatetraffic congestion, improve pedestriansafety and keep the character and charmthat makes Glen Park so wonderful andunique. n

Bevan Dufty serves on the San Fran-

cisco Board of Supervisors, represent-

ing Glen Parkand surrounding neigh-borhoods in District 8.

View from City Hall

bySupervisorBevanDufty

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They Know the Drill

Glen Park Neighborhood Emergency Response Team (NERT)

volunteers huddle during a citywide drill last October. With NERT

teams from other neighborhoods covered by our fire battalion,

they planned drill operations in Holly Park. They organizedteams, set up a disaster staging area and assessed damage

in the neighborhood. Glen Park NERT welcomes new members

anytime. Anyone can become a certified NERT member by takingthe S.F. Fire Department instruction, which includes earthquake

preparedness, personal and family preparedness, disaster skills,

disaster medicine, light search and rescues, team organization,and skills practice. For more information, and to sign up for

NERT classes, visit www.sfgov.org/sffdnert.

Over the past year, most have heard

of the honeybee affliction calledColony CollapseDisorder. CCD hascertainly been oneof the worstand,strangely, one of the

bestthings to happen to honeybeesin many years.

As a result of the media attentiongiven to CCD, more people than everare aware of the importance of hon-

eybees and native pollinators. And,as the only insect to produce a foodconsumed by humans as far back as2,000 B.C., more people than ever areinterested in keeping honeybees.

While new people are lookingto learn more about honeybees andabout possibly becoming a beekeeper,existing beekeepers are looking fornew ideas (and to old ideas) of howwe can help keep our bees healthy.

At the National Beekeeping Con-ference in Sacramento in January,and at the first national conferenceof organic beekeepers in Arizonathis February, preserving and per-petuating locally adapted survivorcolonies of honeybees was empha-sized as an important strategy to helphoneybees regain overall health as aspecies.

I have been thinking about this a lotand how everyone, including those of usin Glen Park, can play a role in helpingto perpetuate locally adapted survivorhoneybee colonies.

Beginning in March and into sum-mer, honeybee colonies that have beenable to survive the winter and stayhealthy will be sending out swarms toestablish new colonies. The sad newsis that only about one in six swarms willlocate an appropriate nesting site, buildcomb and put up enough honey and pol-

len store to survive its first winter.

For urban and suburban honeybees,the news is even sadder because the bestnesting sites are within the walls andattics of houses, garages and sheds.Unless the nest is readily accessible,most people will choose to exterminatea honeybee colony rather than have abeekeeper open a wall and remove thecolony, then still have the chore of mak-ing the repair or hiring someone to doit.

If you see a swarm this spring orsummer dont be afraid, because thebees in a swarm are gentle. They haveno brood or honey stores to protect,and they are only interested in findinga new home. And please, do not reachfor the nearest can of pesticide! Instead,pick-up your phone and call me, or sendme an e-mail. Introduce yourself, giveme your phone number and a descrip-tion of the location where you saw the

honeybee swarm. Either I or one of mybeekeeping colleagues will do our bestto capture the swarm before it has thechance to move into someones wall orattic, or build its nest in a location thatwill be its doom during the comingwinter.

If we can capture the swarm, we willtake it away and give it a good home ina new hive box. Who knows, we maybe able to capture a swarm within ourown neighborhood which, as a survivorof the fittest, could become the parentcolony of a Glen Park stock of honey-bees that will stay healthy and produc-tive in our very own neighborhood andin other neighborhoods throughout SanFrancisco. n

Karen Peteros can be reached by

telephone at 290-2582 or by e-mail at

[email protected]

If You See Bees Swarming,Call a Beekeeper for Help

byKaren

Peteros

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We had a wonderful Opening Daycelebration for the GlenPark Library on Oct. 13,2007 which was very wellattended and for which wehad perfect weather. Since

opening, the library hasbecome a hub of activity.

It seems a week doesn t go by with-out someone who has never before beento the branch applying for a library card.Many of our new patrons had never beento the old location (now the expandedsite of Bird & Beckett Books), so theydon t know the new branch is six timeslarger or that it is in a new location.Many of the patrons have been com-

menting on our new library smell.With our larger space comesexpanded programming. Be sure to callfor exact times and dates. Our program-ming now includes:

Infant/ Toddler lapsit for ages birthto 3 years on Tuesdays at 10:30 a.m. Pre-school story time for ages 3 to5years on Tuesdays at 11:15 a.m. Family story time occurs monthly7 p.m. on a Wednesday.

Pre-school video program occursmonthly on a Tuesday at 11:15 a.m.

For adults, we have a monthlyBook Club on the third Wednesday ofthe month at 6:30 p.m. Call for the latestselection. We also have started basic,hands-on computer-training classes.This spring, we have author visits andart programs going on, as well.

For teens, we have just hired ateen services librarian who will be atthe branch two days a week so we are

hoping to start doing some special teenprograms.

With all these goings-on, youmight wonder how to keep track ofit all. The library now has an onlineweb log or blog, which lists all the

upcoming programs, library news andspotlights on books. The address is http://glenparklibrarysfpl.blogspot.com. Thegeneral library website also has eventlistings: http://sfpl.org

At the branch, we have flyers for allour programs and the monthly newspa-perAt the Library, which includes newsand events of all the libraries in the SanFrancisco Public Library system.

Upcoming programs: Saturday,

April 5 from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. is ourFamily Open House. Kids crafts pro-vided by Simla Akyol from It's a Pieceof Cake, and music performed by theFamilia Pena-Govea. Light refreshmentswill be served and a raffle will be held.

On Tuesday, May 6 at 10:30 a.m. isOut and About with Kids: From GettingAcross Town to Traveling Around theWorld. The presenter will give a pre-sentation followed by discussion. Thisprogram is co-sponsored by the Friendsof the San Francisco Public Library andthe branch.

If you havent been to new libraryyet, please come on down for a programor to peruse our expanded collections orperhaps take in our new library smell!

Glen Park Branch

2825 Diamond StreetSan Francisco, CA 94131

355-2858

Check It Out at the Library!

byDenise

Sanderson

The Glen Park Library Campaign has

proudly raised almost $200,000 of theestimated $500,000that Friends of theSan Francisco PublicLibrary committedto provide all thefurniture, fixtures

and equipment in the new Glen Parkbranch!

These privately raised dollars wereused to pay for all those thingstables,

chairs, desks, computers, and muchmorethat make the Glen Park Librarya real neighborhood home, and that pub-lic bonds (overwhelmingly approvedby voters for branch construction andrelated costs) could not be used to pur-chase.

Almost 200 individuals, familiesand businesses have contributed tothe Glen Park Library Campaign, inamounts ranging from spare change

dropped in jars at local shops to$50,000 gifts, and everything inbetween!

Andthere is still time to makeyour contribution to support the Glen

Park Library Campaign, and to be rec-

ognized foryour generosity.All gifts of $1,000 and above

which can be paid over a period ofthree yearsentitle you, the donor,to recognition on a handsomeplaque prominently displayed in thebranch.

You can engrave your name or thename of someone you wish to honoror remember. The current donorplaque in the Glen Park Library is a

paper facismile of the final engravedversion that will be created in abouta year.

In addition, a few naming oppor-tunities still remain for individualstack end plaques and room-areaplaques. n

For more information about how you

can support the Glen Park Library

Campaign, please call or e-mail Mar-ian Chatfield-Taylor at Friends of the

San Francisco Public Library, 626-

7512 x103, or marian.ctaylor@friend

ssfpl.org.

Glen Park Library CampaignNeeds More Cash Donations

byMarian

Chatfield-Taylor

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Whether foggy or sunny, a walk in GlenCanyon shows wildlife and plants cel-ebrating spring.

At the Levi site, north of thefield behind the rec center, where

overgrown Eucalyptuswere culled in 2005 toallow native florasreturn and Islaiscreeks improved flow,

the season is in full swing, putting onits annual show.

The once-intrusive restorationmarkers disappear amidst the new

greenery. Chandeliered red flower-ing currants attract hummingbirds anddwindling populations of native bees.Coyote brushes host other indigenousinsects which, in turn, provide healthymeals to hungry birds and butterflies.Coffeeberries young leaves in brightemerald green surround clustersof inconspicuous greenish-yellowstar-like flowers. By summer, theywill turn into purplish-black ber-

ries resembling coffee beans. Stickymonkey flowers with bright orangetrumpets herald attention.

Long ago, when the creek flowedfreely, Native Americans mixedsticky monkey flowers young stemsand leaves into their salads. Also, theflowers and roots with their antisep-tic qualities were applied to expeditehealing minor scrapes and burns.

Before the Eucalyptus trees wereplanted, the broom and ivy invaded,and the Himalayan blackberry choked,the banks of Islais Creek supported athriving village culture.

Perhaps the canyon was a sea-sonal settlement, but certainly withprotection from westerly winds, anabundance of fish, rabbits, deer, wildvegetables, and rushes for construct-ing baskets, it could have been a year-round home.

Next time you come to chuck the

ball for your dog or munch a sandwichwhile walking past the Levi site, imag-ine the creek flowing beyond whereit now disappears underground andcontinuing far beyond the rec cen-ter all the way to the Bay. Pictureyour sandwich garnished with brightmonkey flowers leaves instead ofromaine. And as you walk up thepath, rather than being annoyed byseeing identifying markers, stretch

your imagination and visualize therecently cleared patch continuing thelush and colorful display of the Levisite.

Now temporarily free of the exoticinvasives choke-holds, it has the chance

to return to a biodiverse landscape.We hope you will enjoy the transi-tion, as well as the spring show of

established plants, butterflies, beesand birds.

Eco-Notes

Things you can do to be a Friend ofGlen Canyon without actually work-ing in the field or writing checks, arein your own gardens. Those prolificyellow flowering Scotch and Frenchbroom plantsCytisus spparescourges. Eradication efforts cost

taxpayers millions of dollars annu-ally. Though once readily available tobuy, they are now illegal to sell. Sodig them out or cut them down beforewinds carry more of their seeds intonearby woods and rocky hillsides.Appropriate substitutes could includethe above-mentioned coyote brush,as well as goldenrods and Oregongrapes. Read on for an introductionto these plants now available at local

nurseries.Coyote brush Baccharis pilu-larisgrows in clay soil, half tofull sun. They are drought and windtolerant. The many flowering headsin clusters are what attract butter-flies; the insects they support arenot harmful to other plants and arebeneficial food for birds. Typicallyround shaped, coyote brushes cangrow to 10 feet high.

GoldenrodsSolidago califor-nicabloom around the same timeas ragweed and are often falselyaccused of causing hay fever. Thatsa shame, because they are wonderfuladditions to end-of-summer/early-fallgardens, lighting up the space in bril-liant yellow spires several feet high.Enjoyed by butterflies and bees, theygo mostly dormant in winter, whichis a good time to cut them back tothe ground. Goldenrods accept full

sun or light shade, and benefit fromoccasional summer drinks. Spiders and Birds will be thesubjects of two walking tours in thecanyon this April and May, and itsalmost time for Pancakes in the Park,too. Details and dates are in the Com-munity Calendar on Page 20. n

Alma Hecht is a neighbor and Friend of

Glen Canyon. She owns Second NatureDesign, an award-winning sustainable

landscape design concern. Alma would

be happy to awaken your garden design

dreams. Contact her at 586-6578 or

www.secondnature.bz.

In Glen Canyon Park

byAlmaHecht

Digging the Dirt:News from the Garden Club

Winter has been the time to learn about

plant groups that work for Glen Park.There are three specific plant groups thatyou may want to consider: orchids, palmsand succulents.

Orchids are so wonderful, and whata great thing that we can grow some

outdoors in Glen Park.Our cool, misty weatheris good for them. Plantsshould be in bright shadeand be bought from an

ethical dealer, who buys from an ethicalwholesaler. If youre not sure, try PlantIt Earth on Market Street.

Try Masdevallias in pots, never let-ting them dry out completely. The manyblooms are simple but bright in orange,white, red or yellow. In our neighborhood,one orchid that can grow big is maroonflowering Cymbidium Dorothy Stockstill.The Sobralia has lavender flowers withbamboo-like leaves, making it a great

alternative to invasive, real bamboo.Palms are also good for Glen Park.These are monocots, not trees, and arerelated to orchids. They transplant easilyand need well-drained soil. They providemovement and visual interest. Palms can begood for our small gardens because they cangrow tall but shade very few other plants.

The indestructible palm here is theMediterranean fan palm, because it with-stands our heavy winds. It will grow moregraceful if in bright shade, but it thrivesin our sun. If you have heavy shade, theChamadorea Metallica can be grown ina pot and will grow to four feet in height.If you have sun, try Chamaedorea Radi-calisit looks like bamboo.

A very tall but slow grower is the

Chilean Wine Palm. You grow this onefor the generations to come. To see its fullbeauty, go to Sunnyside Conservatory onMonterey Boulevard, which was createdmore than a century ago.

Our information came from JasonDewees, a palm specialist at Flora GrubbGardens.

Some succulents are native to GlenPark, and are a great way to save on yourwater bill. A succulent is any plant that

stores water in its stems or leaves. If youwant to grow them, cut off a side stem andlet it form a callous over the cut part for afew days by leaving it outside in the shade.Then just stick that stem into the soil. Therecommended medium is granite gravel,and sand with some potting soil. This willprotect the plant from rot, for which theseplants are quite susceptible to. Give themlots of afternoon, west sun.

One succulent we have is Sedum

Spathein. It has a bright little yellow flowerand would be good for a rock garden or apot. It is best on a north-facing slope andnear serpentine rock common to our neigh-borhood. Glen Park also has Dudleya Fari-nosa, better known as hen-and-chicks.

Get these plants at Strybing Arbo-retum during the native plant sale. Thespring sale is May 5, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. atthe County Fair Building in Golden GatePark near the Ninth Avenue entrance.

Its time to plant, so get digging! n

Susan Evans is a member of the

Glen Park Garden Club, which wel-

comes new members. E-mail her at

[email protected].

bySusanEvans

Armed robbers held up Glen Park

Association presidentMichael Rice at gunpointon March 12 at 8:40 p.m.at Chenery and Surreystreets. The two suspectswent through his pockets

and took his wallet and book bag.In previous armed robberies in the

neighborhood, the culprits dumpedempty wallets and purses along Cort-land Avenue. Inglesides Lt. Daniel

Gardner immediately sent two plain-clothes officers into Bernal Heights withan unmarked patrol car as backup.

Twenty minutes later, at Eugenia Ave-nue and Wool Street, Officer AngeliqueMarin was approached by two suspects

with Officer Anthony Ravano nearby.

When Ravano identified himself, one ofthe suspects ran. Marin gave pursuit whileRavano detained the second man. OfficerRobert Toomey apprehended the first mannear Holly Park.

Along the route the young man hadtaken, the officers found a loaded handgunand the book bag taken in the Glen Parkrobbery. The suspects, teenagers fromthe Hunters Point neighborhood, werearrested and charged with robbery.

In February, a 39-year-old woman wasrobbed on the 300 block of Chenery , thethird in a string of robberies. A suspect inthat crime was also quickly apprehended. For more details, see theGlenparkassociation.org website.

Two Evening GunpointRobberies: Walk Alertly

byElizabeth

Weise

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Comfort FoodCONTINUED FROM PAGE 7

pot pie, and spoon portions onto hardydough. After rolling or pinching thedough so it became a sealed container,

the wives baked the pasties until theybecame firm, crusty hand pies, perhapseight inches long. Into her husbandsmetal lunch pail, a wife would pourstrong, steaming tea, close an insidelid over the tea, place the pasty on topto keep it warm and lock the pail. Withit firmly in hand, the miner would walkout into the cold, dark UP mornings andinto the darker mines.

Pasties (pronounced PASS-tees)

were still popular in the UP long aftermost of the mines had closed. Betweena class in statistics and one in modernAmerican poetry, I bit into my first onein the university cafeteria, where theywere a staple. Like Lake Superior whitefish, you could find them anywhere inthe UP, and you probably still can. But

those pasties, however delicious I mayhave found them in 1959, contained toomuch potato and meat for my taste now.And they were messy.

When I discovered the new San

Francisco versionsmall, healthyand tidyI was delighted. After try-ing them at several cafes, I got veryparticular about how they should tasteand feel to the tongue. The only placethat makes me happy every time I eatthem now is Cafe Bello.

On my BART ride home fromOakland, I decided the reason Ididnt eat on College Avenue thatday, or downtown the day before,

or in West Portal was simple: pas-ties are my comfort food. They dateback to a delightful, romantic time inmy lifenew bride, mother-to-be,masters-degree-to-be, easy hairdo,lots of reading and walking, nary anache or pain. One could do worse thanbe a lover of pasties. n

Sushi and SanghaCONTINUED FROM PAGE 4

fast-food snack realm and into aglobal delicacy. Sushi as we know ittoday is now a multibil-lion-dollar industry.

One might ask, wheredoes the world get all thefish to satisfy the sushidemand?

Well, the Tsukijifish market in Tokyois one place, for sure.Its the worlds largestmarketplace for seafood,and much of what endsup on our sushi menusoriginates there. It isenormous, chaotic and complexbookshave been written about itand I cantell you from personal experience it is asight to see! There are edible sea crea-tures on display at Tsukiji (pronouncedSKEE-jee) that would boggle anyones

mind, and the average American has apalate for only a small fraction of whatis available there. However, that palateis responsible for the growing popular-ity of sushi.

Here in Glen Park, some of thesignature maki served at Sangha arethe Nooshi roll, which has shrimp tem-pura, avocado, cucumber and mango;the Ecstasy roll, with maguro, bincho,avocado, jalapeno and green onion, and

the Ric roll, made up of Cajun shrimp,avocado, tomato, cilantro, snow crab,jalapeno, red onion and lemon zest.

Small plates are some of Sanghasother delectable offerings and includecilantro salmon, soy-glazed chicken,

grilled asparagus, and a jalapeno corn

fritter, just to name a few. There is anice selection of premium cold sake(you wont get the warmed-up version

here!), red and whitewines, two kinds ofJapanese beer and aMexican cola.

The interior ofSangha is understatedand simple, includinga somewhat spec-tacular wall sculpturemade of stainlesssteel, bronze and cop-per by artist GrantIrish and anothermetal sculpture by

Irish that serves as a windbreak justinside the front door. Awnings nowgrace the exterior.

Lpez says the colorless interiorwas all part of the plan. He wants thefood and the people inside to stand out,

not the walls around them. n

Sangha is open for lunch and dinner

Tuesday Sunday. Reservations are

accepted for parties of six or more.

Phone 333-0101.

On Patrol

Officer Mike Walshs popular col-umn for this issue was the victim ofa computer disaster, and On Patrolwill return in the summer issue.

At Sangha,

the food and

customers are

meant to stand

out, not the walls

around them.

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Glen Park Wakes UpCONTINUED FROM PAGE 1

Once when she accidentally lockedherself out of the store early one morn-ing, Caf Bello baristas came to her

rescue, lending her a cell phone so shecould call home. In appreciation, Janetbrought her coffee-making saviors aloaf of piping-hot bread fresh from theCanyon ovens.

Janet doesnt believe such neigh-borliness is an anomaly. In fact, one ofher four bakers, Jaime Brilhante, is onloan from Destination Bakery. Janet andRich believe there is enough businessfor everyone here.

Destination Bakery makes themost awesome Danish, Janet enthuses.We have a symbiotic relationship herein Glen Parkwe patronize their bak-ery, they shop in our market. Nestledagainst Castro Streets last block, threequarters of Destinations floor spaceis devoted to preparation tables and aproof box that owner Joe Schuver, anavuncular baker habitually given towearing rumpled hoodies, uses as away station for his sticky buns, sconesand cinnamon rolls.

Heated to high temperatures,Joes ovens are radiant, and whenhis morning neighborhood regularsbegin trickling in at the crack ofdawn, each is greeted by the wealthy

aroma of Joes freshly baked Frenchbread and the warm chords of aMozart piano concerto.

I wanted to create a destinationplace, Joe says. A place so good,people will walk and drive hereto sample our pastries. Joe, 53,worked for neighborhood fixturesJudy and Charlie Creighton for oneyear before buying the shop. Butnot Judys recipes; Joe brought his

own.Destination is modeled afterEuropean bakeries, trading quan-tity for quality. It takes patience toexplain to some of our customersthat we bake just enough to run outby closing time. We never begin theday with day-old rolls and buns,Joe says.

With years of experience as aHunters Point wholesale commis-sary baker, Joe offers camaraderie asmuch as he serves croissants. Com-

fortably intimate, Destination morphsinto Joes Place, offering its earlymorning habitus a highly accessibleand informal meeting place to discussthe latest Ruth Rendell mystery pulled

from a Glen Park Branch library shelfor to take a straw poll predicting whichDemocrat will win the California Pri-mary.

We came together accidentallyfour years ago because Joes tablesare so cramped, says Blanche Bebb,a 73-year-old retired Kaiser hospitalX-ray technician, who, along withretired City College of San Franciscodepartment head Zoanne Nordstrom,

is one of the anchors at Joes Place.We solve, or say we do, the worldsproblems, Blanche nods.

Blanche has lived in Glen Parkfor 16 years. When she is not help-ing out behind the counter at Bird &Beckett Books & Records on Chenery,she enjoys an evening bowl of Frenchonion soup at Le Petit Laurent. Firstarriving in San Francisco in 1967 toattend a Vietnam peace march, Blanchequickly became envious of friends wholived in Glen Park. Everything here is

so cute, so nice, particularly the can-yon, Blanche says.

Deborah Barr, another Destina-tion morning regular, echoes Blanche,volunteering that Joes culinary talents

extend far beyond those enjoyed bypatrons of the two-legged variety: Joegives all the dogs in the neighborhoodbiscuits.

Like Canyons Janet Tarlov, Joeemploys a corps of bakers. Victor Tano,47, arrives an hour or two before Des-tination opens at 6:30 a.m. A graduateof the California Culinary Institute,Victor, formerly a printer, enjoys thesolitude of Chenery Street early in the

morning.Smiling, Victor says that baking atDestination offers familial as well asprofessional compensations: I usedto come home smelling of machinistoil. Now I come home and I smell likecinnamon. My kids love it!

So does the neighborhood. n

Murray Schneider is a retired Daly

City high school principal and long-

time Glen Park resident.

Glen Park E-mail ListsThe Glen Park Association hosts a free electronic mail list open to all GlenPark residents. It is moderated by membership coordinator Heather Worldand consists of a weekly calendar and news update, with very occasionallate-breaking news stories and police updates. To subscribe, send e-mail [email protected]. Also, dont forget the all-

new Glen Park Association website at www.glenparkassociation.com

Other neighborhood lists include:

Ingleside Police Station Crime Report

To receive a copy of the Ingleside Station Newsletter please send an e-mail to:[email protected]

Glen Park ParentsOver 550 families in Glen Park and environs. Includes groups for new parentsand parents-to-be. Moderated and spam-free.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/glenparkparents/

Glen Park Expectant Parents groupE-mail [email protected] for information.

Gay Glen ParkA low-traffic list for gay and lesbian residents, their friends and families.Moderated and spam-free.http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gayglenpark/

Glen Park Dog Owners

[email protected]

Glen Park-Fairmount Heights Neighbors [email protected]

by

VinceBeaudet

Real Estate in Glen ParkThe housing market in Glen Park is still strong.And theres good news for buyers and sellers: mortgage relief is com-

ing. The government has increased conforming loan limits forhigh-cost areas, including San Francisco. This allows FannieMae and Freddie Mac to purchase or guarantee loans with a

cap placed at roughly $730,000. This will allow more buyers toqualify for lower-cost mortgages. FHA loan limits also have beenincreased.

The 13 properties sold in Glen Park from Nov. 13, 2007 through Feb. 18,2008 accounted for eight fewer than the 21 homes sold in the same period lastyear. However, selling prices in Glen Park are firm, with more than half of thehomes sold during this timeframe meeting or exceeding the asking price.

Following are the 13 properties sold:

Address List Price Sold Price

142 Burnside $699,000 $733,000151 Burnside $769,000 $790,000631 Congo $599,000 $585,000150 Everson $739,000 $775,000168 Everson $829,000 $800,000203 Fairmont $1,803,000 $1,803,000525 Laidley $1,295,000 $1,340,000212 Miguel $1,150,00 $1,005,00018 Natick $695,000 $655,000208 Surrey $849,000 $849,000326 Surrey $949,000 $1,025,000

24 Sussex $1,059,000 $1,030,000291 Sussex $1,580,000 $1,530,000

Realtor Vince Beaudet works for Herth Real Estate. He can be reached at 861-

5222 x333 or [email protected].


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Community Calendar

Glen Park AssociationQuarterly meetings are held in January,April, July and October. Everyone is

welcome, members and non-membersalike. Annual membership dues of just$10 support the Associations importantwork on behalf of the neighborhood.. Next meeting: Wednesday, April 9,7 pm, St. Johns School, 925 ChenerySt. Note the new day.

Friends of Glen Canyon ParkMeetings and Plant Restoration

Work Parties: Third Saturday of each

month, 9 amnoon. Next dates: April19, May 17, June 21. Meet behind the

Recreation Center. Tools, gloves and

instruction provided. Learn about botany

and ecology, exercise your green thumb,

enjoy entertaining camaraderie or exam-

ine public-lands management issues.

Weekly Work Parties: Every

Wednesday, 9 amnoon. For the current

weeks meeting place contact Richard

Craib, 648-0862.

To join Friends of Glen Canyon

Park or learn more about their activi-

ties, contact Richard Craib at 648-0862

or Jean Conner at 584-8576.

Special Community Events:

Sunday, April 6, 10am: Spiders of

Glen Canyon Walk, cosponsored by

Friends of Glen Canyon Park & CNPS,

Leader Darrell Ubick.

Sunday, May 11, 9am, Glen

Canyons Birds, a walk led by David

Armstrong.

Sunday, May 11, 10:30 am follow-ing the Bird Walk: Pancakes in the

Park. Enjoy pancakes & syrup, sausage,

coffee and orange juice, $5 donation.

Glen Park Branch LibraryThe new library on Diamond Street

has become a hub of activity. With more

space has come expanded programs. For

specific dates and times, call the library

at 355-2858.

Childrens Programs:Infant/Toddler lapsit, ages new-

born3, Tuesdays, 10:30 am.

Preschool Storytime, ages 35,

Tuesdays, 11:15 am.

Family Storytime, monthly on a

Wednesday, 7 pm.

Preschool Video Program, monthly

on a Tuesday, 11:15 am.

Adult Programs:

Monthly Book Club, third Wednes-

day of each month, 6:30 pm; call for themonths selection.

Computer Training Classes, basic

and hands-on; upcoming classes include

Internet 101 and E-mail. Check the

library for dates and times.

Author Visits and Art Programs are

scheduled for spring 2008; get details

from the library.

Teen Programs: A new Teen Ser-vices Librarian will be at the branch

two days a week; check for upcoming

special Teen programs.

For More Information: A new

online blog lists all upcoming pro-

grams, library news and spotlights on

books. Visit http://glenparklibrarysfp

l.blogspot.com/. The general library

web site also has event listings, at http:

//sfpl.org. The Glen Park Branch has

flyers for all its programs, as well asthe monthly newspaperAt the Library,

which includes news and events of all

the libraries in the San Francisco Public

Library system.

Spring Special Events:

Saturday, April 5, 24 pm: Family

Open House. Kids crafts provided by

Simla Akyol from Its a Piece of Cake

and music performed by the Familia Pena-

Govea. Light refreshments and a raffle.

Tuesday, May 6, 10:30 am: Out and

About with Kids: From Getting Across

Town to Traveling Around the World.

Presentation, followed by discussion. Co-

sponsored by Friends of the San Francisco

Public Library and the branch.

SFPD Community ForumsThird Tuesday of each month, 7

pm, Ingleside Police Station, John

Young Way off San Jose Avenue.

All residents are encouraged to par-

ticipate in the informative monthlyCommunity Relations Forum hosted

by Capt. Denis OLeary. Drop in and

get acquainted with the dedicated

people who keep our neighborhood

safe. Meetings are subject to avail-

ability of the captain; to check, call

the station at 404-4000.

Next dates: April 15, May 20, June

17.

Kiki-Yo SessionsThe Kiki-Yo fitness studio, 605

Chenery St. near Castro, offers a vari-ety of physical wellness courses. Visittheir web site, kiki-yo.com, or call 587-5454. Community Hatha Yoga Classes:Fridays, noon1:15 pm, taught by Jen-nifer Chein. Suggested donation $10 butno one is turned away, and 50 percentof the donation goes to City Youth Now,

which supports children in the juvenilecourt system (www.cityyouthnow.org/home.php).

Meditation Makes Sense: A three-

week course beginning Thursday, March

20, 67:30 pm. Suggested donation $10.

Bird & Beckett EventsBird & Beckett Books & Records

continues to present a variety of liter-

ary and musical events in its spaciousnew location at 653 Chenery St. (the

former Glen Park library site). For

latest information, check the web

site, www.bird-beckett.com, or call

proprietor Eric Whittington at 586-

3733. Unless noted, all events in

the bookshop are free; donations are

always appreciated for the performers

and participants.

Coming Events:

Jazz in the Bookshop: Every Fri-day, 5:308 pm. March 21, April 4,

April 18 Don Prells SeaBop Ensem-

ble. March 28 & April 25 The Henry

Irvin Quartet with vocalist Dorothy

Lefkovits, alto player Bishop Norman

Williams and drummer Jimmy Ryan.

April 11 The Jimmy Ryan Quintet

with Joel Ryan, Rick Elmore, Scott

Foster and Bishu Chatterjee.

Poetry with Open Mic: 1st

& 3rd Thursdays, 79 pm: March 20

Poets Carlos Suarez and Jerry Fer-

raz. April 3 Poets Marv Hiemstra and

Paula Hackett. April 17 Poets Kath-

erine Hastings, Jack Foley and Adele

Foley. May 15 Poet David Meltzer

joins forces with Los Angeles jazz pia-

nist Theo Saunders.

& Three book groups meet

monthly at 7 pm; everyone is invited.

Note that some days of the month have

changed.

Bird &Beckett Book Club: 1stWednesdays. A book is discussed

each month; participants choose the

next months selection. April 2 book is

Puccinis Ghostby Morag Joss.

Political Book Discussion Group:

2nd Thursdays. Current issues. April 10

call for the title.

Eminent Authors Birthdays: 4th

Thursdays. For these open readings,

bring a short piece from the works of

a favorite writer born during the monthto read aloud.

Literary Talks: Last Sundays.

March 30, 4:306 pm Walker Brents

III discusses Coyote, the Native Ameri-

can trickster figure.

Childrens Story Time: Every Fri-

day, 11 am. Ru

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