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 Beachwood Canyon Neighborhood Association Newsletter
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BCNA Spring Neighborhood Meeting - This Thursday, April 16, 2009
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Hosted by the Beachwood Canyon Neighborhood AssociationThursday, April 16, 2009 at 7:30 p.m.
Village Coffee Shop (at Beachwood & Belden Drives)
We'll discuss crime trends, mail theft, self-defense, traffic/pedestrian safety, and development and just about anything that you want to address. We'll have the Senior Lead Officers Shea and Sevdahlian as well as Shawn from the Department of Transportation on hand to answer questions and share their perspectives. Bring your concerns, neighbors, and a sense of humor and be prepared to share in a relaxed and friendly environment. Light refreshments will be served. Return to top
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23rd Annual Charlie Awards - Sunday, April 19, 2009
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23rd Annual Charlie Awards
"A Night in Hollywood"
Sunday, April 19, 2009
6:00pm
The Hollywood Palladium 
Awards will be presented by celebrity presenters for Preservation, Theatre,
Music, Comedy, Architecture, Public Art and
Community.
KABC TV's George Pennachio Master of Ceremonies
For ticket prices and more information
please call
(323)
871-2787 www.hollywoodartscouncil.org
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HHA's Annual Easter Egg Hunt - This Saturday, April 11th at 11 a.m.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Don't Forget!
The HHA's Annual Easter
Egg Hunt is being held this
Saturday, April 11th, starting at 11AM in the Village.
Click
here for our latest flyer: http://www.hollywoodland.org/events
There
will be treats and prizes, egg decorating and, of
course,
the EASTER BUNNY in person!!!
The event is free, brought to you by your
Hollywoodland Homeowner's Association, and we can't wait to see you
there.
Happy Easter Egg Hunting!
Your HHA Special Events CommitteeInfo@Hollywoodland.org
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Monastery of the Angels Could Use Some Support
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Will the Monastery of the Angels be sold to developers?
Their donations are down. This just appeared in the L.A. Times today - Thanks
Bob Pool!:
Nuns' Pumpkin Bread Could be a Savior
An economic slump that is jeopardizing the Monastery of
the Angels in the Hollywood
Hills could be a recipe for the destruction of a Hollywood tradition, say
devotees of the convent's pumpkin bread...read more at the LA Times Blog, L.A. Now
Buy some Pumpkin Bread on your way through the
neighborhood. Every little bit helps!
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Citizen's Detective Bureau Police Academy II
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Citizen Detective Bureau Police Academy II
On April 30, 2009, Detective Support
Division, along with Vice Division will be hosting a Citizen Detective Bureau
Police Academy for all community members.
The six-week course will be held at the
Olympic Police Station located at 1130 South Vermont, Los Angeles, 90006. The class will
meet each Thursday evening between 6:00 pm and 9:00 pm. The course will
conclude with a graduation ceremony on June 4,
2009.
Each community member must meet the
following criteria:
* Must be 18 years or older;
* Live or work in Operations-West Bureau;
* No prior felony convictions;
* No outstanding warrants;
* No pending criminal cases;
* Must have completed the basic community
police academy; and
* Must be approved by an Area Commanding
Officer.
Interested
Hollywood Citizens please contact the Hollywood
Community relations office at (213)485-4316. If
you would like an application e-mailed to you please either leave us your
e-mail when you call or e-mail 32080@lapd.lacity.org with
your e-mail address.
For
any additional questions in regards to the class, please contact Officer Jose
Rodriquez at (213)972-2500
Important Telephone Numbers |
EMERGENCY CALL 911
CITY-WIDE DIRECTORY 311 | NON EMERGENCY 1-877-ASKLAPD
for additional Crime
Prevention information, Log on: www.lapdonline.org
Support the LA Police
Foundation: www.lapolicefoundation.org
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Hillside Kickoff Meeting Results - Now In!
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Hillside Kickoff Meeting Results
This just in from Erick, our City Planner:
Greetings Interested Parties:
In February 2009 the City of Los
Angeles Department of City Planning conducted five public meetings
throughout the City in order to hear public comments, and discuss issues
related to development in Los Angeles hillside
neighborhoods. Here's a document that will provide a summary of the comments
presented to and received from the general public regarding hillside
development.
Below is the documents that Erick sent - posted on our
BeachwoodCanyon.org website:
[http://beachwoodcanyon.org/baselinehillsideproj.htm]
We are leaving the early comment period open until
Thursday, April 30, 2009. If you feel that
something has been left off, or if you would like to propose additional
issues/comments please send an email to erick.lopez@lacity.org (email
preferred), or a letter to:
Erick Lopez
Department of City Planning
200 N. Spring St., Room 621
Los Angeles, CA 90012
If you did not get a chance to attend any of the five
Kick-Off Meetings, this is your opportunity to review what was presented and
submit early input.
Please keep in mind that there will be other opportunities
to submit comments in the near future in the subsequent Public Workshop phase
and Public Hearing/Approval Process. Also, if you cannot get your written
comments in by the current deadline, we will still accept them; they may not be
a part of the early input, but will still be considered.
Our team would like to thank you for your time and
attention to this project, and looks forward to working with you again in
the months to come.
Sincerely,
Erick Lopez
City Planner
Department of City Planning
Community Planning Bureau - West Coastal Division
200 N. Spring St., Room 621
Los Angeles, CA 90012
(213) 978-1243
(213) 978-1226 - fax
erick.lopez@lacity.org
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Author-Comedian-Neighbor, Betsy Salkind's NEW BOOK!
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Betsy's Sunday School Bible Classics
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Lily Needs a Home
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Lily is an amazing pup that I
have been fostering for a few weeks now. She was rescued from a shelter by the
animal rescue organization Tails of the City. She is part Beagle, Dachshund,
and Chihuahua. Age is around 1 year and she weights 10lbs. She is so smart, sweet and
playful. Amazing around people and especially kids.
She's a gem an d loves to play
at Runyon Canyon and dog parks. She is great with other dogs and
people.
Loves to cuddle too.
She is a magical dog.
For more details on adoption,
please contact either:
Maryann Lagana at Tails of
the City
(323) 388-6541
or Jeff Bass (foster dad) (310)
430-8098
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Tips for Handling Telemarketers and Junk Mail
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Tips for Handling Telemarketers
Three
Little Words That Work!!
(1) The three little words are: 'Hold On, Please...'
Saying this, while putting down your phone and walking off (instead of
hanging-up immediately) would make each telemarketing call so much more
time-consuming that boiler room sales would grind to a halt.
Then when you eventually hear the phone company's 'beep-beep-beep' tone, you
know it's time to go back and hang up your handset, which has efficiently
completed its task.
These three little words will help eliminate telephone soliciting.
(2) Do you ever get those annoying phone calls with no one on the other end?
This is a telemarketing technique where a machine makes phone calls and records
the time of day when a person answers the phone.
This technique is used to determine the best time of day for a 'real' sales
person to call back and get someone at home.
What you can do after answering, if you notice there is no one there, is to
immediately start hitting your # button on the phone, 6 or 7 times, as quickly
as possible. This confuses the machine that dialed the call and it kicks your
number out of their system. Gosh, what a shame not to have your name in their
system any longer!!!
(3) Junk Mail Help: When you get 'ads' enclosed with your phone or utility bill, return these 'ads'
with your payment. Let the sending companies throw their own junk mail away.
When you get those 'pre-approved' letters in the mail for everything from
credit cards to 2nd mortgages and similar type junk, do not throw away the
return envelope.
Most of these come with postage-paid ?return envelopes, right? It costs them
more than the regular 50 cents postage 'IF' and when they receive them back.
It costs them nothing if you throw them away! The postage was around 50 cents
before the last increase and it is according to the weight. In that case, why
not get rid of some of your other junk mail and put it in these cool little,
postage-paid return envelopes.
One
of Andy Rooney's (60 minutes) ideas
 Send an ad for your local chimney cleaner to American Express. Send a pizza
coupon to Citibank. If you didn't get anything else that day, then just send
them their blank application back! If you want to remain anonymous, just make
sure your name isn't on anything you send them.
You can even send the envelope back empty if you want to just to keep them
guessing! It still costs them 43 cents.
The banks and credit card companies are currently getting a lot of their own
junk back in the mail, but folks, we need to OVERWHELM them. Let's let them
know what it's like to get lots of junk mail, and best of all, they're paying
for it-Twice!
Let's help keep our postal service busy since they are saying that e-mail is
cutting into their business profits, and that's why they need to increase
postage costs again. You get the idea!
If enough people follow these tips, it will work - I have been doing this for
years, and I get very little junk mail anymore.
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Brief Update - Cat Reunited with Family!
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UPDATE: The golden cat that went missing last week was found by
neighbors, scanned at the vet and the chip helped reunite him with his
family! Don't you just love good news?
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Contact Information
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phone: 323-462-1514
Website
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