July 4th Preparation - Volunteers Needed
Tourists have been flooding the area recently. This is expected to increase as we enter the summer season. The July 4th weekend will be a very active time in Beachwood Canyon/Hollywoodland!
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Hollywoodland Homeowners Association and Beachwood Canyon Neighborhood Association are listening to the deep and valid concerns expressed by the neighbors at the top of Beachwood. Their concerns are public safety related and if not addressed, might impact the ability for emergency response resources to gain access to our community. Check points may be set up by the City for this holiday weekend only! One check point will probably be located in the Village intersection and one up at Hollyridge and Beachwood. Details related to the checkpoints are being ironed out right now. You can travel through the checkpoints easier if you have a pass like the one below. Please download and print this pass out and place it on your dashboard.  | | Click on the image to download pdf for your dashboard! |
Tourists will be guided to the Observatory for hiking and picture-taking and Hollywood/Highland for a view of the Hollywood Sign. Here's what we can and should do: Extend courtesy to the City employees. If you happen to be baking, gift them with a basket of cookies, fudge, and other munchies. If you have extra water bottles, find a way to share. Make this a family support event. There's no better way to say "Thank you" than to have a child share a piece of fruit and a bottle of water to the hard-working helpers in our neighborhood!  HHA and BCNA will be working on basic solutions to this tourist problem but in the meantime, let's try to be patient and show our best, kindest neighborhood faces to all who enter our community.
6-27-13 A big truck took out posts, signs causing a power line to go down. The result was a brush fire before 6 am!
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Beachwood Canyon Neighborhood Association's Summer Meeting - July 8th at 7 p.m!
Representatives from Congressman Adam Schiff's office will give an update on the helicopter noise issue and answer questions from neighbors. Representatives from Assemblymember Mike Gatto's office will also be here to give us an update and to hear from you! Please bring your neighbors and your concerns. We are inviting representatives from our Councilmember's office and our senior lead officers. If you have issues on your block, feel free to bring them up during their reports or take them aside after the meeting. We may have our senior lead officer and traffic enforcement reps at this meeting. They are there to hear from you.
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Millennium Update!
The City Council's Planning and Land Use Management (PLUM) Committee approved the Millennium project and forwarded it to the full City Council for hearing and vote on July 24, 2013. Our attorney, Robert Silverstein, is working diligently to prepare a presentation for City Council.
The fight must continue! Fundraising needs to continue and be redoubled. Make your first or additional donation now at StopTheMillenniumHollywood.org!
Without your political and financial support, there will be no reason to call Hollywood home any longer.
Communities United for Reasonable Development are saying, "Stop The Millennium Hollywood Project". Hollywood is not set up to accommodate 19,000 car trips a day! And, since when do we build 39 and 35 story buildings of 1.1+ million square feet of office, commercial, and living space directly on top of an ACTIVE fault line?
Check out what Los Feliz Ledger says about this issue: http://www.losfelizledger.com/2013/06/millennium-developers-agree-to-reduce-project-heights/
Here's what City Watch says about this: http://www.citywatchla.com/8br-hidden/5302-hollywood-residents-get-the-millennium-shaftAfter hearing our presentation of the damning evidence from the US Geological Survey, California Geological Survey and the two peer-reviewed geological studies showing that the southern strand of the Hollywood Fault is directly under the Millennium Project site, Councilman Englander had this to say: "Regardless of the underlying geological and soil conditions, in fact, these faults and thresholds whether active or inactive in fact pose a significant risk to the entire city of Los Angeles." "But you're pointing to this one particular area. I just wanted to show fault in your study that yeah, there's a true threat but it is everywhere in Los Angeles." Councilman Englander's comments demonstrate a fundamental lack of understanding of the distinction between building to withstand strong ground motions in an earthquake (all buildings in southern California must account for this to varying degrees) vs. building a structure for human occupancy across the trace of an active fault that may be subject to surface displacements of several meters, which of course cannot be allowed. This project is not something that can be allowed to proceed without a much more thorough review of the potential for active faulting at the site. 
Donate now for Hollywood's future! Click the image above to go straight to our website.
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The Cheremoya Movement. It's Open Enrollment Time!
What you're looking for in an elementary school is at the bottom of your hill!
Attention Prospective Parents, Friends, Community Members and CF Supporters:
ACT SOON - OPEN ENROLLMENT IS FILLING UP.
In this day and age of constant transition and many choices in Hollywood's elementary school options, The Cheremoya Movement has achieved stability and excellence. It's all happening in your own backyard!
From DAY ONE (Cheremoya Foundation, founded 2009) we have had the ongoing commitment of a unified student body, parent organization, teachers, staff, principal - all the way up through the District to our Board Member Steve Zimmer - Cheremoya is 100% in position to be a school of excellence.
HERE ARE SOME THINGS THAT YOU MUST KNOW ABOUT CHEREMOYA:
- Average teacher tenure = 18 years. Our school is beloved by the teachers. Ours stay-put because they know Cheremoya is on an upward move and is dear to their hearts.
- Parents are enrolling from all over the Hollywood area, including pulling students out of private schools and petitioning to come to Cheremoya
- Principal Michelle Gorsuch (extensive background, including Japan) - hired by extremely cooperative and well-rounded committee, is there to lead into the future, with youth and passion
- Momentum - Undeniably, Cheremoya and its entire community will not stop until it reaches API 900+ with complete and ACCURATE area reputation and representation. Current API 844 and rising!
- PRECEDENCE - THIS IS HOW EVERY HIGH ACHIEVING PUBLIC SCHOOL IN OUR AREA ACCOMPLISHED THE FEAT - with Area Partnerships - Cheremoya Foundation has ushered in a new era of programs and quality community involvement by associating with only the best:
- Hollywood/Wilshire YMCA - provides phys ed to all grades
- Hollywood Arts Council - provides dramatic and visual arts at grade appropriate levels
- Enrich LA - state of the art garden and outdoor prep kitchen for all grades and after school program
- Parker Anderson - after school programs at their best, including marine biology, young detectives, chess, languages, etc
- Apple & Steve Zimmer - in cooperation with CF, providing iPads and training to teachers and students in advance of Common Core Standards
- HUNC, CD4, LAUSD - open dialogue and funding sources including arts, capital improvements, traffic officers, music, dance, performances, festivals
- Parent Volunteers - daily, in each classroom
- Beachwood Canyon Neighborhood Association (BCNA) supports Cheremoya by providing arts and classroom supplies.
We welcome you to the family.
We welcome you to join The Movement
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to reach out.
All enrollment information is available at http://cheremoya.net!
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