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Feed the homeless

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It started with one person, Echo Park resident Barry Walker, who cooked and delivered Turkey Day meals to the homeless in his neighborhood… and now a group of friends in Echo Park have shown up to help cook and deliver meals for the past 10 years – the first year, 28 homeless were fed! The next year more showed up and over fifty meals went out. The following year, we reached the 100 mark and last year we were able to feed over 1,500 homeless in our neighborhood and leave them with t-shirts, beanies, shoes, sweaters, and tooth brush kits. Gobble Gobble Give is a community event and has become an incredible example of what a community can do to make change.

Gobble Gobble Give is looking for volunteers on every level who can give food, money, or clothing and those who can donate their time this upcoming Thanksgiving day (Nov 26th) by cooking, warming, packaging and delivering food to the homeless in Echo Park and Downtown LA. Every little bit helps
those in need, so show some love and give a friend a reason to be thankful.

Click here to donate money to Gobble Gobble Give for supplies and food.

Click here to donate your time on Thanksgiving Day.

GGG is also taking DONATIONS IN ADVANCE of clothing (specifically, gently used sweaters, jackets, shirts, socks, and hats for men, women, children), blankets, and supplies for toiletry kits toothbrush/toothpaste, soap and shampoo. All clothing, supplies and toiletries can dropped off in advance this Saturday, Nov 21st and Sunday, Nov. 22nd from 1-4 PM at Raven Spa (2910 Rowena Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90039-2042 / ph: 323-644-0240).

Here’s the rundown on how THANKSGIVING DAY will work:
Everyone arrives at 10 a.m. SHARP Thanksgiving morning at The Echo night club in Echo Park. The address is 1822 Sunset Bl. 90026.

Everyone is asked to bring the following:
1. A DISH. “ALREADY HEATED” This is a potluck event. It can be as little as a side of vegetables or it can be three large bowls of your grandma’s famous “cranberry walnut stuffing”. We can always use Turkeys and main course items. Side dishes are great as well. Veggies, Veggies, Veggies. Mashed potatoes, yams, vegetables, greens, etc. Of course desserts are always awesome. If you are bringing a main dish like an entire turkey or ham etc. please email us at turkeycrew@gobblegobblegive.org and let us know so we can tabulate what we need as we get closer to the big day.

2. FIVE (5) SMALL TOILETRY KITS. that include a: toothbrush/toothpaste, soap and shampoo. You can get these items very inexpensively at $0.99 stores.

3. CLOTHING AND BLANKETS. Please bring any used blankets and/or gently used sweaters, jackets, shirts, socks, shoes, beanies/hats for men, women,
children.

At 10:15 we begin a large “conveyor Belt” of food and with the help of everyone we put the meals together. We box them up together with care packages of tooth brushes, soap, clothes, etc..

At around 11: 00 a.m. the first vehicles begin to roll out. For those of you who have a car and want to drive you will be known as drivers. We will put a few people in your car with you and you will go out in two or three car teams. We hit the riverbeds, the alleys, the freeway overpasses. sometimes we discover small villages of people in dirt fields and empty lots. The vehicles return after delivering all the meals. We are always done by 1:00 p.m..

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GEPENC New Offices Clean-Up

From GEPENC:

Volunteers Needed for GEPENC Community Center Clean-Up

Saturday, November 21

12:00 noon – 6:00 pm

New Greater Echo Park Elysian Neighborhood Council offices and community center

1160 Echo Park Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90026

Behind the Bank of America (formerly the LAPD Drop In Center)

DETAILS – Approx 4,000 sq ft of space to clean including (3) meeting areas, 1 – bathroom, storage area, office “bull pen” and outdoor patio. Items need to be carried into A dumpster placed directly in front on Echo Park Avenue. Once cleared, the walls need to be washed and prepped for future painting. There is a large conference room carpet that needs to be removed along with bulky items like sofas, refrigerator, desks and old bank items that are no longer used.

ITEMS NEEDED – Cleaning supplies, rags, paper towels, brooms, trash bags, shovels, gloves, water hoses, scrub brushes, buckets and anything else you can think that would help clean.

For information please contact Lisa Baca, CIO GEPENC bacasigala@earthlink.net

323 660-7234

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Wednesday: Meeting on SR2 Freeway Terminus Project

From: Echo Park Community Action Committee

Date:  November 17, 2009

Subject:  SR2 Freeway Terminus Project

Meeting, Metro’s Planning and Programming Committee

Wed., Nov. 18, 2009, 1:00 p.m., 3rd Floor Boardroom

One Gateway Plaza, Los Angeles, Ca 90012

On Wednesday, November 18, the members of Metro’s Planning and Programming Committee will consider an agenda item (Number #10) to:

A. To receive and file the Draft Initial Study/Environmental Assessment Report (DIS/EA)

B. To Adopt the Hybrid as the Local Preferred Alternative

C. To authorize additional funds to prepare an environmental analysis  and preliminary engineering of the hybrid

D. To authorize Metro’s CEO to recommend the LPA to Caltrans.

The Echo Park Community Action Committee has notified the P&P Committee of our objections to items A, B and D.  For item C, we do support provide additional funds to complete the environmental analysis and for preliminary studies of the hybrid, which we think should rightfully be called Alternative F.

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2nd Annual Los Angeles as a Character

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How is Los Angeles defined? Is it a city, a state of mind or an identity? Hollywood backdrop? What makes it unique? Or is the answer something altogether different? Los Angeles as a Character is a screening that will showcase narrative, experimental and documentary short films and videos with the city of Los Angeles as a peripheral or central, theme, backdrop or character. FILMMAKERS AND CURATOR CHARLES DORAN IN ATTENDANCE!

Click here for more information on films being shown.

Echo Park Film Center

1200 N. Alvarado (at Sunset)

Saturday, November 14, 2009

8:00 pm

$5.00 at the door

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Hang the DJ’s Friday the 13th Party

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Them Atelier & Endovanera Art Opening

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Them Atelier and Endovanera will be hosting an opening for artist, Daniel Hipolito on Friday, November 13th. Drinks will be served at 9:00 pm. They will also be having a sale during the day starting at 12:00 pm.

1154 Glendale Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90026

(213) 413-6666

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Shop for a Cause at Warwick

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You Shop. Warwick donates!

50% of all proceeds when you shop at Warwick this Sunday will benefit TNT & The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. You can also donate online here.

For more information on The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society please click here.

Special Event at Warwick
 1461 ½ W Sunset Boulevard (between Little Joy and The Short Stop)
Sunday, November 15 @ 1:00pm – 7:00pm

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At EP Cycles: Taking Our Bikes Back!

Taking Our Bikes Back

Tonight at Echo Park Cycles, join the conversation on the problems of bike theft, solutions, and resistance 101.

Tonight (November 10) at 7:00 pm.


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2010 LA Marathon from the Stadium to the Sea

Echo Park residents beware! The LA Marathon will start at Dodger Stadium next year on March 10 and run through Echo Park and Silver Lake. Plan ahead (and hope parking near your home won’t be an issue)! Check out the map here (mile markers haven’t been added yet):


View 2010 LA Marathon Course in a larger map

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The Search for Art in Echo Park

Photo via LAist

Photo via LAist

Brooklyn-based artist Dan Witz has put up pieces of his artwork throughout Echo Park, Silver Lake, Hollywood and West Hollywood.

Seth Carmichael, co-owner of Carmichael Gallery of Contemporary Art where Witz’s art show is currently running, told LAist, “For him, it’s about not being seen by everybody except for those people who deserve to see it, and those who are the people he cares about.” 

Check out the full LAist article and more photos of his work here.

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College Battle of the Bands at Bedrock, the Echoplex

On November 7, 2009, from 1:30 pm to 4:30 pm, Bedrock (sponsored by AVID) is hosting the College Battle of the Bands LA Regional Finale.

The top bands will battle at Bedrock Studios from 1:30 – 4:30, and then move on to the Echoplex for the evening, with the winner opening up for special guest The Crystal Method.

RSVP here.

Check out more online at the College Battle of the Bands website and the Bedrock website.

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“Meet the Author” at Echo Park Branch Library

When: Saturday, November 7 at 2:00 pm

Meet Boze Hadleigh

Writer of 18 books and featured on T.V. shows as Entertainment Tonight, Larry King Live, will culminate our celebration of “Dia de los Muertos”

“Celebrities, Chocolate, Chihuahuas, Etc.—What Mexico Has Given the U.S.”

Interesting “unknown” facts:

Why is there a worm in a tequila bottle?
What are Mexican jumping beans?
What is Cinco de Mayo?

Learn about famous Latino celebrities and other facts on Latino Culture!

Echo Park Branch
1410 W. Temple Street
Los Angeles, CA 90026
(213) 250-7808

Refreshments will be served.

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Machine Project Benefit this Weekend

Machine Project invites you to our first-ever benefit event on Saturday Nov 7th at a special location – Mister Jalopy’s secret lair, accessible only through a hidden entrance behind Coco’s Variety Store at 2427 Riverside Drive. With over 20 participating artists, technologists and musicians, the 2009 Benefit packs months worth of events into a single intimate evening. What to expect? Opportunities to steal art from a laser-protected, action movie-style perimeter, wager on microscopic slime mold races, try your hand at gold panning to prospect for real gold nuggets, stay late to huddle around the firepit to make ’smores, partake from the amply stocked wine and beer bar, have a wood-fired pizza from an on-site brick pizza oven, enjoy music from four different acts, replace your old Getty Museum fake ID, participate in head-to-head speed soldering contests and eat noodles supplied by Kwong Dynasty Noodle Cart.

There will be free food and drinks.

$75 for members

$100 for General Admission

$250 for “extra magical benefactor” tickets

Purchase tickets here.

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Community Meeting on 2 Freeway Terminus Redesign

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Photo: Diane Edwardson, July 1, 2009, via redcarproperty.blogspot.com

According to a posting on redcarproperty.blogspot.com, “Despite a 17 year process redesigning the 2 Freeway Terminus at Glendale Blvd. leading to overwhelming support from the community for Alternative D (which maximized public park space), The Powers That Be created a bastardized version they’ll present at a Community Open House on Nov. 4.

“The bastardized version, or as Metro calls it, the ‘Hybrid Alternative,’ completely ignores one of the main purposes of the Terminus redesign: removing vehicle traffic from the southbound flyover ramp at the Terminus. Years ago, I remember then City Councilmember and later, Assemblymember Jackie Goldberg as well as County Supervisor Gloria Molina insisting this was a primary goal because the traffic coming off the flyover ramp was unsafe for vehicles, bicyclists and pedestrians.“

The meeting on the 2 Freeway Terminus Redesign takes place takes place on Wed., November 4, 2009 from 6:00-8:00 pm.

Mayberry Elementary School, Multi Purpose Room

2414 Mayberry St., Los Angeles, CA 90026

Click here for the full Red Car Property article.

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Cute Little Chihuahua Mix Needs a Home!

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There have been a quite few dogs needing good homes posted on the Echo Park / Elysian Neighborhood Councils Forum as of late. This little guy may end up in the pound if the woman who found him can’t find a new home or at least temporary foster care (due to her landlord’s request to get rid of the dog somehow).He is not fixed or chipped, but is healthy.

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