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 Welcome to Beachwood Canyon Neighborhood Association - Lots to Hear, See, Do and to Know - Here goes: |
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Candlelight Vigil - This Saturday, December 12, 2009 
Hello friends,
This Saturday, December 12, from 5:30 to 6:30pm, we are organizing a
candlelight vigil at the Village Green at Beachwood and Belden Drives,
Hollywood, as part of an international day of action on climate change. Will
you join us?
Vigils will be held on Saturday all over the world to impress the world leaders
gathered in Copenhagen with the critical importance of climate negotiations
reaching a serious agreement to limit fossil fuels and change our priorities to
promote alternative energy. Instead of spending money waging war, we want our
leaders to invest in our future survival on the planet.
Come and join us for any amount of time between 5:30 and 6:30 PM! Bring a
candle and a sign if you want to, or we will have some there to
share.
If you can't make it to ours, check out this map showing events across the
world.
http://www.avaaz.org/real_deal_map
See you there!
Cynthia Cannady and Kris Sullivan
(Beachwood Canyon residents)
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Los Angeles Jazz Institute Benefit Party - This Sunday Dec 13, 2009
11:00am-11:00pm
Los Angeles Airport Marriott Hotel
5855 W. Century Blvd.
The Los
Angeles Jazz Institute is moving to a new location and throwing a big day-long
jazz party to help raise the needed funds. The Institute is an important
organization with the centerpiece being a huge jazz archive that includes
130,000 records, thousands of CDs, books, tapes, magazines, music, films and
numerous musician collections. Moving all of this is a huge undertaking and
will cost thousands of dollars.
16 bands will
be performing continuously on two stages.
There are two
specific donation levels to attend this special event:
The $150 Platinum level includes priority seating
The $75 Gold Circle level provides open seating.
Both ticket levels provide full access to all venues.
The L.A. Jazz Institute is a non-profit organization and
your donation is tax deductible.
Check out their flyer. Go to http://beachwoodcanyon.org/LA_Jazz_Inst_benefit.pdf
To reserve
your seats or make a donation please call (562)985-7065
For more
details lajazzinstitute.org
Or write to kurtjazz1@yahoo.com
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Hollywoodland Homeowners Event and Food Drive - This Sunday in the Village
From 3 - 6 p.m.HHA board members and volunteers will be collecting food.
Hope-Net's Food Link supplies food to their pantries in our area. Bring food and your neighbors. Be ready for fun and
entertainment. For info on this charity, go to:
HopeNet@sbcglobal.net
www.hope-net.info
213-389-9946
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Hollywood Police Report 
Hollywood Area Police Station
Holiday Crime Alert
THE LOS ANGELES POLICE DEPARTMENT
WOULD LIKE TO GIVE YOU A FEW SAFETY-TIPS TO HELP PREVENT YOUR VEHICLE FROM
BEING STOLEN OR BURGLARIZED.
Secure your vehicle by locking all doors, windows,
including the sunroof. As a further safety measure, equip your vehicle
with a loud vehicle alarm and/or a kill switch.
Avoid leaving spare keys and remote garage openers in
your vehicle.
Do NOT leave valuables in your vehicle,
especially in plain view. This includes such items as:
Purses, Wallets, Briefcases
Loose change
Laptop Computers, Cellular Phones,
iPods, CD's Cameras
Shopping bags, packages, gifts
Park your vehicle in areas where there is a high
concentration of pedestrian traffic. At night, park in well-lit areas.
If you witness suspicious activity,
call for immediate police assistance. Be prepared to provide the suspect(s)
physical description: clothing, height, weight, as well as suspect(s) vehicle
description: make/model, color, and license plate number.
Emergency Calls 9-1-1
Non-Emergency Calls 877-ASK-LAPD
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Jazz for the Holidays 
Upstairs
at Vitello's
Tuesday,
December 15 , 2009, 8-11 p.m.
Jim Cox-piano, Jeff D'Angelo-bass, Ralph Penland-drums
and special guests
$15 Cover plus
2 drink or $13 food minimum.
Wine tasting
from 7 to 8 p.m.
Reservations
are a must at this popular new jazz room!
Phone -
818.769.0905
Online - www.VitellosRestaurant.com
Upstairs
at Vitello's
4349 Tujunga
Avenue / Studio City, CA 91604
NOTE: Kurt's new CD "With a Song in My Heart" will be
available ONLY at Kurt's shows and from websites that import Japanese CDs!
Contact
Information:
Email:
kurtjazz1@yahoo.com
Phone:
323-850-0323
Website:
www.myspace.com/kurtreichenbach
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LA Brass Concert - December 20th - Great Cause  This is a free concert but free-will donations will benefit Hearts of Music Fund, a charity to provide needed assistance to professional musicians in medical crisis. For more info, write HeartsOfMusicOrg@aol.com Return to Top |
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Beachwood Power Project Update
There are a couple of LADWP projects going on at once in Beachwood
Canyon. It all started when the higher ups in the city noticed that
Beachwood Canyon's power usage was going off the charts. They noticed
this years ago and planned to add an additional current or circuit to
our neighborhood but it took this long to get it designed, etc. The new
circuit is being added to the poles up Gower to Temple Hill and
branching in two directions from there. One is up Gower past Temple
Hill to Graciosa. The other one is over on Temple Hill to Beachwood.
From these two points (Graciosa and also Beachwood at Temple Hill), I'm
not certain how far this will reach. They intend on taking the heat off
of the existing circuit home by home connecting them to the new
circuit.
The other part of this is the clean up. Beachwood poles have old
cables that fed the historic lights in the past. This cable has been
abandoned long ago and replaced by upgraded wires. But, for some
reason, the old cable was never removed. Since the LADWP planned to
place a new circuit on these poles, they felt the need to remove the
old abandoned wires to make more room to do their work and clean up the
place a bit. The State Utilities Commission has a new ordinance that
dictates that wires must be a certain distance from one another. This
is especially true for brush areas like ours. So they need all the
space they can get in order to do their work and leave the wires spaced
properly.
I'm their point gal right now and have had to intercede regarding
the project as it affected neighbors on Gower (their views were
threatened). The plan was dramatically adjusted and things seem to be
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Highlight on Neighbors
Bill Frenzer:
Neighbor, entertainer and friend, Bill Frenzer has been busy
making his new album (released on Oglio Records and available through
Amazon.com) and a video "I'm Happy Now". Want a sneak peek? Go to:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apiMQK
For more info, go to www.billfrenzer.com
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Mars Berman:  Beachwood Children's House and Saturday Art Garage
Neighbor Mars Berman has been busy. A former Montessori
primary and toddler teacher, she is offering Parent & Me Toddler Classes
and opening a Licensed Preschool for children from 18 months to five years of
age right here in our neighborhood!
Art Garage: Make good art, bad art, and everything in
between! Fully equipped are area ready for you and your child to mess it up!
Saturdays 10 a.m. to noon. She is now waiving her original $25 fee. Just bring
your old magazines, boxes, cardboard tubes and egg crates! See you at 3014 N.
Beachwood Dr.
Read Mars' articles on preschool issues at
www.MomStyleNews.com
For more info or to get a brochure, call
323-465-1842 or write to mars@beachwoodchildrenshouse.com Return to Top
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DASH Bus Update
Message from Bruce Gillman, LADOT:
As a former Beachwood Canyon resident (lived on Belden) I am
very familiar with our DASH route there. Rest assured we are reaching out
to all our stakeholders by soliciting comments for our Line
By Line analysis of all transit services we currently provide: Downtown
DASH; Community DASH; Commuter Express; CitYride and Charter Buses. The
Line BY Line analysis looks at efficiency, level of outside subsidies received
and duplication of services.
We are encouraging our riders to provide inputs via a public website.
Please share the web site with fellow association members, neighbors and
friends: http://ladotlbl.tmdinc.net
In the weeks to come, we will be listing the various sites and dates around the
City for public hearings regarding our proposed recommendations. The
exact time frames will be listed on the site and advertised in a variety of
ways.
Sincerely,
Bruce L. Gillman
Public Information Director
Department of Transportation
City of Los Angeles
"Bruce Gillman"
<Bruce.Gillman@lacity.org
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