Protest the on-going wars 10/28

Art Goldberg (of Working People's Law Center and the Echo Park Progressive Alliance) has sent out an email notice, inviting residents of Echo Park, Silver Lake, and surrounding communities to join a march to downtown on Friday, Nov. 4, at 4:00 p.m., to Occupy LA "to join with the hundreds of other people fighting to end ... the rest of the wars ... and bring about a more equal society." Art has been protesting all the wars every Friday for more than 10 years at the corner of Echo Park Blvd and Sunset Blvd. Let's ally, rally, and progress.

(Learn more about the nascent Echo Park Progressive Alliance by visiting their FB page (https://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Echo-Park-Progressive-Alliance/269556199738580?sk=info ) and by attending a “kickoff mixer,” Thursday, Nov. 3, 6:30-8:30, The Echo back patio, Sunset Blvd. near Lemoyne.)

Welcome the Solar Powered Trash Compactor to Echo Park

You are invited to welcome Solar BigBelly, the solar powered compactor trash can that holds about four times as much trash as a regular wire mesh trash can. It has been used successfully in many US cities, also by park and forest service agencies, academic institutions, and business districts.

Date: Wednesday, September 14, 2011.

Time:  3:30 PM - 4:30 PM with ribbon cutting.

Place:   N E corner of Sunset and Echo Park Avenue. 1571 Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles 90026

Parking:  Municipal Parking Lot just south of Sunset and Echo Park Avenue.
                  Less than a quarter block from event site.
                  Please do not park at Walgreens as you could be towed.

Note: Dress for weather, Bring hat. Use sunscreen. Site is exposed to full sun.

Please let others know and come prepared to photograph and Tweet the event.
This is a celebration to mark yet another step in trash abatement in an effort to keep
trash out of storm drains and Echo Lake.

Clean up in Echo Park this Saturday

The Greater Echo Park Elysian Neighborhood Council will be sponsoring a clean up on Saturday, October 23rd at the corner of Alessandro and Glendale (near the 2 Freeway Terminus) from 9:00 am to 12:00 pm.

We will be joined by local neighbors and parents and volunteers from Clifford Street Elementary School. The neighborhood council will be providing the refreshments, tools and cleaning supplies.

I hope you can join us for this clean up.

Echo Park Time Bank members can earn time dollars for participating.

Park(ing) Day Fun!

Park(ing) Day was really fun this year! Lots of people came out to visit our park on Echo Park Ave and Delta. Orchid and Aaron set up a lovely tea house and served locally grown tea foraged from several L.A. Parks. We celebrated Alicia's birthday with a colorful cake and enjoyed a performance by Fort King and Michael Rochlin. We also collected over fifty signatures from Echo Park residents who would love to see the vacant lot turned into a public park. Many ideas were discussed about what could be done with the land instead of abandoned condos such as... a band shell, murals, community garden, playground and much more. Overall it was a very inspiring day and we thank everyone who participated. Check out this article on Next American City.

Oppose The Avalon Sub-division

Time Bank member, Marcia Schmitz owns a house two doors down from these proposed high rise lofts. It is an inappropriate project for this lot. Please help us oppose the Avalon sub-division...

- URGENT - ACTION NEEDED by September 1, 2010

Dear Friends,

Residents in Echo Park were recently informed that a real estate developer has applied for a permit to build massive lofts on a small vacant lot in our residential neighborhood.

The project is totally out of scale with the historic nature and character of this Echo Park neighborhood.

We have a small window of time to block the City from issuing the permit, and we will be successful if Echo Park residents make a quick call to Councilman Garcetti and the City of L.A.

The Developer is asking the City of LA to sub-divide a commercially zoned lot at the corner of Avalon St. and Echo Park Ave. to shoe-horn in 8 single-family “work/live lofts”.

Towering over the rest of the neighborhood, the lofts will be built to the maximum allowable height – 4+ STORIES (45 feet) taking up the entire lots of 1910 N. Echo Park Ave. and 1615 W. Avalon St., leaving no open space.

Plans show that 8 new garages (with stack parking) will line Avalon St., requiring drivers to back out into the street, crossing over the sidewalk, while looking out for traffic coming in three directions, right at the busy corner of Echo Park Ave.

Avalon Street is used as a thoroughfare for residents of surrounding streets, and families with children walking to our many neighboring schools and day care centers. This proposed development is unsafe as currently planned.

ACT NOW – by SEPTEMBER 1st the City will be making their decision on whether to issue change the zoning of this lot.

OPPOSE THE AVALON SUB-DIVISION
(CASE #VTT-70653-SL)

Send comments to Sarah Molina-Pearson at City of L.A.
sarah.molina-pearson@lacity.org (email preferred) or call 213-473-9983
And contact Councilman Eric Garcetti (323-957-4500)

There are more reasons to oppose this project. Please see email avalon.echopark@gmail.com

Residents surrounding the vacant lot are not against development, just the large inappropriate development currently proposed. Please help protect the character and safety of our Echo Park neighborhood. A quick call can make a big difference!

Fun Fundraiser!

A good time was had by all at the Echo Park Time Bank fundraiser at 1642 Beer and Wine Bar on Saturday. We raised Nine hundred dollars! Thanks to everyone who came out to show their support and to all the local business who donated gift certificates for the raffle (Fix, Skylight, Delilah, Stories, Earthflow Design Works, Masa, Flounce, Blue Collar, We are The World). A special thanks to the wonderful musicians who played, Karen Ramos, Angie Correa, Les Shelleys and Leslie and the Badgers. Big Thanks to all the time bankers who offered to help with bartending, selling raffle tickets and working the door, Suzy Florez, Ashley Atkinson, Nyenye MK, Liz Ernst, Monica Howe, Alicia Beach and to Tomas Staub for screen printing T-Shirts and Sarah MacGowen for announcing the raffle winners. And the biggest thanks of all goes to Liz Fischbach for offering to host the whole thing at her fabulous bar 1642.

July Sunset Magazine

The Echo Park Time Bank is mentioned in July's Sunset Magazine Page 14.
There is also an article in the same issue about Echo Park that mentions Stories, Echo Curio and The Echo Park Film Center.