Atwater Village is for Lovers

Volunteer Opportunity and MOVIE NIGHT!

The Friends of Atwater Village are hosting the USC Volunteer Corps on Saturday, August 22nd to help clean up the Red Car River Park. Volunteers are needed! Wear your gettin' dirty clothes and help make our community shiny and clean.

Saturday, August 22nd at 9AM
Red Car River Park

Also, the Atwater Village Neighborhood Council and Open Air Productions, along with our fabulous sponsors from our local businesses, are once again hosting Movie Night at the Par 3 Los Feliz Golf Course in beautiful Atwater Village. Come early to grab a good spot!

Summer Nights on the Blvd. August 27th

After a terrific first run, The Atwater Village Chamber of Commerce will once again host Summer Nights on the Blvd on Thursday, August 27th. We will have music (including my husband's band and Zachariah and the Lobos Riders), art, dance, our merchants will stay open late, refreshments, and general ballyhoo.

The Atwater Village Chamber of Commerce is proud to announce that once again Glendale Boulevard (Atwater Village’s “Main Street”) will come alive with Fashion, Food, & Fun. Live music, dancers, and more will be entertaining late into the evening (well, at least until 10PM) up and down the entire stretch of Glendale Boulevard.

Summer Nights on the Boulevard is about to happen on Thursday, August 27th, 2009 from 6-10PM.

Stores will be open late. Restaurants will offer sidewalk dining. And there will be much more! Yes, once again the Los Angeles spotlight will be shining brightly on our wonderful Village of Atwater.

As you all know, this exciting evening doesn’t just happen on its own. It takes a Village and that’s where you come in. Please spread the word, send out e-mails, make phone calls, tell your neighbors. Tell your buds in Los Feliz and Silverlake to cross the bridge and see for themselves why everyone keeps talking about Atwater Village and why we’re so hot!

www.atwaterchamber.org

 

Come enjoy our gorgeous little Village and all we have to offer!

I promise I'll be better

I have been woefully remiss in keeping up this blog. I apologize to the three of you who've checked it over the last six months. I promise I'll be better.

To wit:

Friends of Glenfeliz Elementary is having an auction to raise money for their newly founded booster club!

Kuma Sushi: Um, YEAH.

As reported by Newbz, Asia Restaurant has become Kuma Sushi. We went last night to try it out, and I am here to tell the three of you that read this blog, I LOVED it. The original sushi chefs have apparently bought the restaurant, and they are doing a fabu job. 

We had the salmon sushi, the yellowtail sushi, the spicy tuna roll and the "Kuma" roll. The fish was fresh as can be and the service was wonderful.

And it looks like they are finally opening up the patio! 

Catching up

 I have been very lazy when it comes to this blog, but very busy in every other area of my life (eighty one days til I get married!!).

First, a quick round-up of what your friendly neighborhood Neighborhood Council has been up to:

Among many other things:

- This week, the AVNC voted to endorse the Cyclists Bill of Rights, which simply restates, clearly, the inherent rights that cyclists should already have.

- We voted to supplement the funding for Inside Out Community Arts and Kidding Around the Kitchen. Both of these programs help our Atwater kids in very unique ways, and I'm proud of the council for supporting them.

- We are getting closer to a relaunch of the website! Huzzah!

- We helped the Friends of Atwater Village clean up our Atwater Village murals, including the Vince's Market mural, the train car park mural, and the Fletcher Dr. mural. They've been cleaned, re-painted, and graffiti coated.

- As always, we continue to support our Farmers' Market and the Director of Animal Welfare Services.

In other news, Newbie reports that Asia Restaurant on Los Feliz, which had undergone a "small plate" makeover, much to the chagrin of AV sushi lovers, has been rehabbed once again. The sushi is back!

ARTWATER, APRIL 26TH

Artwater is back, and will be better than ever. The council has been working closely with Sonic Muze to sponsor this event, and I hope it's an enormous success.

Atwater Village Neighborhood Council, City Council Districts 13 & 4 in conjunction with Sonic Muze and Importante Gifts present ARTWATER 'A Celebration of Music and Arts' Festival on Saturday, April 26th from 2-10pm along Glendale Blvd. in the Atwater Village.

ARTWATER is an interactive music and arts festival featuring local Artisan vendors, chalk artists, two stages with musical and dance performances and various creative areas with activities for festival attendees to enjoy.

You can create your own succulent garden, rock paint and have your picture taking in some funky fun outfits with your friends!

The two stages will be filling the air with eclectic sounds from our local hot LA bands from various genres. Circe Link will entertain you with her cowboy and Omar Torrez will funk you out! Many other fantastically creative and exciting bands to be announced!

For your thirst quenching, there will be all natural Reeds Inc. ginger and rootbeers and Function Drinks. For the over 21, you can tantalize your taste buds with New Belgium Beer and wine from 55 Degrees.

Your appetite will be pleased with Flavors With Love barbecue cuisine and the local restaurants.

Local Atwater and surrounding area Artisans and John Marshall High students will have their art up for purchase. As well as, gallery openings and receptions at the local art galleries.

Paintings by Atwater Ave. Elementary School students will be displayed throughout the festival.

A presentation of paintings by Atwater Ave. and GlenFeliz to Councilman Eric Garcetti.

Chalk Artists will be creating portraits on the street and sidewalk for the chalk art competition.

ARTWATER raffle with many prizes already in place such as Miropoulsky painting valued at $1,500, Santa Ynez Inn mid-week stay with two complementary massages, Chocolate Sun gift certificate, and many more!

ARTWATER will benefit Sonic Muze raising funds for musical instruments and art supplies in the Atwater Village, Los Feliz, Glassel Park and Silver Lake area schools.

COME EXPERIENCE ARTWATER AND ATWATER VILLAGES' SHOPS, ART GALLERIES, RESTAURANTS AND OTHER LOCAL MERCHANTS!

AVNC Meetings This Week

TONIGHT!

AVNC Budget & Finance Committee Meeting, Tuesday April 8, 7PM

Atwater Village Neighborhood Council Budget & Finance Committee Meeting
Leonora Gershman- Committee Chair
Tuesday April 8, 2008 7:00pm-8:00pm
Pat and Oscars Restaurant
2921 Los Feliz Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90039

Click here for the agenda. Fascinating!

Then! THURSDAY!

AVNC Board Meeting - Thursday April 10, 7PM

Meeting of the Board of Governors
7:00 PM Thursday April 10, 2008
Christ’s Church at Griffith Park - Community Room, 3852 Edenhurst Ave.
Los Angeles, California 90039

Click here for the agenda. Daunting!

Shootings in the area

Anyone else notice the swarm of helicopters over our corner of LA on Thursday? They were all watching this go down.

From the LA Times article:

The violence began around noon when a 37-year-old man police described as a bystander was shot more than a dozen times by suspected gang members as he held the hand of a 2-year-old girl. He later died. The toddler, apparently picked up by a passerby and carried to safety, was not wounded. As the gunmen drove off, witnesses told police, several pedestrians who apparently knew the victim opened fire on the car.

My God.

Then this.

From the LA Times report:

Steve Garcia, 26, a Latino man, was shot and killed while sitting inside his car at 2791 Carillon St. in Atwater Village at about 2:43 a.m. Friday, Feb. 15. According to police, Garcia and a woman were sitting inside the car when a suspect or suspects approached the vehicle and fired several shots. Garcia was hit multiple times and the woman was hit in the arm, said Officer Richard French of LAPD's media relations office. Garcia was pronounced dead at the scene. The woman was hospitalized and in stable condition, French said. The suspect or suspects may have fled in a Toyota Corolla, police said.

The Things We See in Beautiful Atwater Village

Today on our morning walk through North Atwater we saw the most magnificent thing.

We were walking along the river with Molly Malone, the wee Scottish Terrier who runs this house, and on the other side of the chain link fence, we saw a neighbor walking about seven dogs of varying breeds.

And one white goat.

One goat and a gaggle of dogs.

Apparently the neighbor noticed that goat seemed attention starved, so he got to go on their walk with them.

Tell me where else in Los Angeles is that going to happen? Only in beautiful Atwater Village.

Atwater Village Neighborhood Council Needs YOU!

Fill a Vacancy Position on the AVNC Board!!

The Atwater Village Neighborhood Council Needs You!!

Fill a Vacancy Position on the AVNC Board!!

Sign Up! Help Out! Get Involved! You Can Make a Difference!

New Board Members will serve until the next official election to take place Oct., 2009.
The following 4 positions are available:

1 Business Representative
3 Special Interest Representatives

The Deadline to Apply is Thursday, December 6th, 2007 at 5:00 PM.
To apply, follow these 3 easy steps:

Complete a one-page application stating who you are and what your Stakeholder status is (resident, business owner or employee, churchgoer, park user, community group member, etc.). Write up to 100 words telling why you want to serve on the AVNC Board. Use the application at www.atwatervillage.org or at the Atwater Village Public Library, 3379 Glendale Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90039 and follow the delivery instructions noted here.
Mail or hand deliver your application and statement to 3371 Glendale Blvd Unit 105, Los Angeles Ca. 90039. (323) 634 AVNC Applications must be received at the post box no later than 5:00 PM. Thursday Dec 6, 2007
Come to the Dec 13, 2007 Board Meeting and speak for up to 2 minutes about why you want to serve. You will be notified of the location.

Application available here: http://www.atwatervillage.org/pdf/12-07candFileW-100word.pdf