SATURDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2009
10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
The Echo & The Echoplex
1822 W Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles
$2
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From Green LA Girl:
Recycle your old holiday LED lights by packing them up along with your name and email address to:
HolidayLEDs.com
Attn: Recycling Program
118 Rosehill Dr., Suite 1
Jackson, MI 49202
According to the HolidatLEDs.com website, the recycling process goes as follows:
When we receive your lights for recycling we will remove them from the package and recycle the box. The lights will be processed and any material that cannot be recycled (i.e. loose bulbs)is discarded. Once we have collected a substantial number of sets we take them to a 3rd party recycling facility located in Jackson, MI. The recycling company puts the lights through a commercial shredder, which chops the lights up into little pieces. The pieces are then further processed and sorted into the various components that make up the lights (pvc, glass, copper.) The materials are separated and transported to a region center for further processing.
Click here to learn more about how to package up your old lights.
From Christine Peters on the Echo Elysian Neighborhood Council Forum:
Council member Huizar Convinces Department of Transportation (DOT) to Lower Rates during Holidays
After hearing concerns from constituents, business owners and the Eagle Rock and Highland Park Chambers of Commerce regarding increased rates at City Parking lots, Councilmember Huizar was successful in getting the City’s Department of Transportation to lower rates at two key locations for the holiday season.
Starting in November, parking rates were reduced from $1 per hour to 50 cents per hour and all-day parking rate were reduced from $4 to $2.50 in the following lots:
Lot #668 at 5058 Meridian St.
Lot #686 at 5063 Caspar Ave.
Enjoy breakfast with Santa at the Echo Park Recreation Center on Saturday, December 19, 2009
9am-11:30am at the Echo Park Recreation Center (1632 Bellevue Ave.)
Breakfast will include pancakes, scrambled eggs, bacon, and your choice of OJ or coffee. Tickets are $3 for youth and $5 for adults. The first 100 kids will receive a FREE stocking with goodies!
There will also be a toy give-away. Tickets for the toy give-away will be given first come, first served to kids who are under 15 years-old and have a Breakfast with Santa ticket.
For more information contact the Echo Park Recreation Center at (213) 250-3578 or (213) 250-8946.
Nance Klehm is leading a “wild medicine foraging expedition” in Echo Park on Wednesday, December 9. The expedition focuses on identifying common wild plants that can be used in herbal remedies.
The Machine Project is sponsoring the event, which takes place from 7-8:30 pm on Wednesday. The cost is only $15!
Here’s Nancy’s bio from the Machine Project website:
Nance Klehm is a radical ecologist, designer, urban forager, grower and teacher. Her solo and collaborative work focuses on creating participatory social ecologies in response to a direct experience of a place. She grows and forages much of her own food in a densely urban area. She actively composts food, landscape and human waste. She only uses a flush toilet when no other option is available. She designed and currently manages a large scale, closed-loop vermicompost project at a downtown homeless shelter where cafeteria food waste becomes 4 tons of worm castings a year which in turn is used as the soil that grows food to return to the cafeteria.
More information on Nance can be found at her website, here: http://www.spontaneousvegetation.net/
Nothing to do Friday afternoon? Get in your car and visit your neighbors to the north for the annual tree lighting. Stores will be celebrating on Glendale Blvd. all evening.
The Rodeo Grill on Sunset has begun serving beer and wine.
Echo Park Chamber of Commerce is doing a Toy Drive for the ages of 9 to 18 years old.
All toys will be donated to Central City Action Committee on December 17, 2009.
The Toys need to be unwrapped, and one particular wish item that the teenagers had was a skateboard, but any presents are always welcome.
Toy Drive starts on November 30 and runs to December 17, 2009
Silverwood Properties has graciously offered to allow their premises to be used as a drop-off site for this season’s toy drive. So, if it makes it easier for you to take advantage of this location then go ahead and drop off unwrapped toys at Silverwood Properties anytime Mon through Friday from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm.
You can often drop stuff by on Saturday’s too, but call ahead if you want to make a Saturday delivery to make sure someone is in the office to receive it.
Silverwood Properties is located at 1545 Echo Park Ave, 90026, and phone number is 213-250-4404, ask for Ken.
Visit Tavin’s website for more info.
