Allston Yacht Club owners Bill DiDonna and Charles Kelly
have started writing a restaurant and food-related blog on the Huffington Post. The first installment, “Adventures in the Restaurant Business,” was posted on September 29, 2009, and can be found here. Good luck and we’ll keep following the blog!
The Echo Park Branch Library (on Temple Street) is holding an Introduction to Web Design computer class on Thursday, October 8, 2009. You can, “Learn about HTML codes to create a simple web page. Computer keyboard experience is mandatory.”
Date: 10/08/09
Time: 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM (please arrive 10 minutes early)
Branch:
Echo Park
1410 W. Temple St.
Los Angeles, CA 90026
(213) 250-7808
No word on whether or not it’s free, but we’re assuming it is.
RSVP required. For more info and to RSVP, call 213-250-7808.
From Andrew on the Echo Elysian NC Forum:
Last night just before dusk, a guest of mine went out with one of my dogs up Park Drive to the Marion Harlow garden. A man followed her from Park Drive into the park and then went into hiding in the bushes. By the sound of it, he was acting suspiciously and did not have good intentions. She described him as about 5′ 9″, medium build, tan complexion, brown or black hair. He was wearing a dark navy or black track suit and a white knit beanie cap.
Please be aware.
This sounds a lot like the lurker who was doing this a couple years ago and was later arrested. If it is the same person, what was effective was that when he was spotted, that people yelled at him loudly and let him know that he has been spotted.
We called the Rangers and Office of Public Safety (Park Police) when she got back and she filed a report.
If you see any suspicious activity, please call:
Park Rangers: (323) 644-6661
Office of Public Safety: (213) 978-4670
Not sure what this beauty is, but it was a pleasant surprise as I huffed and puffed my way up Parmer Avenue in Echo Park. Measuring about 3-4 inches in diameter, it decorates a basic fence along someone’s yard.
This will help work of the Friday night pizza and beer: a full moon bicycle ride around LA!
Where: Meet at the Echo Park Boat House on the lake
When: meet at 8:30 pm, ride starts are 9:45 pm
Extras: Noisemakers encouraged
Destinations: Echo Park, Hollywood, West Hollywood, Beverly Hills and Westwood, with stops along the way. Some parts of the route pass by areas where cars have hit cyclists and ran (hit and runs), some of them killed.
Check out the route map here.
For more info, call (213) 622-0554 or email courier@braydon.com, the Midnight Ridazz also have a website where you can find info.
If your Saturday dinner plans involve eating out at the Allston Yacht Club on Echo Park Blvd., 20% of your check can be donated to 826LA if you mention it to your server.
826LA is a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting students ages 6 to 18 with their creative and expository writing skills, and to helping teachers inspire their students to write. They offer tutoring for the kids Monday through Thursday from 2:30 pm to 5:30 pm.
Allston Yacht Club is located here.
You can learn more about 826LA on their website.
Starting a 8:00 pm tonight, the Northeast Division will be conducting a sobriety and driver’s license checkpoint at the intersection of Echo Park Avenue and Sunset Blvd. The Division’s news release cites “80 driving under the influence-related and 792 hit and run traffic collisions” so far this year in the Northeast area of Los Angeles.
Heavy traffic this evening surrounding Dodger Stadium for the Dodgers’ last home series should make the checkpoint very interesting, and will likely slow down the flow of traffic leaving the stadium later on.
Drive safe everyone!
An alert to people living in northeast Echo Park: my roommates laptop was stolen out of his room yesterday. It probably happened sometime in the early afternoon while me and another one of my roommates were at home. However, we didn’t hear anything as we live two floors above him.
He accidentally left his window unlocked which is street-level and is just a few steps away from the sidewalk. We’re assuming that the thief just opened up his window and grabbed whatever he could find close by which would have been his laptop (oh, and a jar of change). It was most likely someone looking to make some quick cash or just wanting to have a little “fun.”
Learn from our mistake, and don’t forget to lock your windows as well as your doors. And beware of anyone loitering or snooping around. And, of course, the non-emergency police phone number for Echo Park is 1-877-275-5273
Fallen Fruit Map
The folks at Fallen Fruit want us to know that you don’t always have to pay for your produce. There is a bevy of edible goodies just waiting to be harvested right here in Echo Park. So here is the deal: fruit from trees that are on public land or on branches that hang over public spaces are fair game! Home owners generally seem pretty happy to share as one tree can produce way too much fruit for one home. This way you eat fruit that may have otherwise have gone bad and save yourself a little coin. After all, times are tough. You have to make that lemonade with something.
Here is what their website says about the project:
“Public Fruit” is the concept behind the Fallen Fruit, an activist art project which started as a mapping of all the public fruit in our neighborhood. We ask all of you to contribute your maps so they expand to cover the United States and then the world. We encourage everyone to harvest, plant and sample public fruit, which is what we call all fruit on or overhanging public spaces such as sidewalks, streets or parking lots.
We believe fruit is a resource that should be commonly shared, like shells from the beach or mushrooms from the forest. Fallen Fruit has moved from mapping to planning fruit parks in under-utilized areas. Our goal is to get people thinking about the life and vitality of our neighborhoods and to consider how we can change the dynamic of our cities and common values.
-Fallen Fruit is David Burns, Matias Viegener, and Austin Young
Visit Fallen Fruit for more info and fruit maps.
UPDATE:
We have also created an interactive fruit map based on the above image, click here to view!