Submitted by V. Pochoda
Found in Echo Park / Elysian Heights:
2 Female Dogs, clearly bonded.
1 large shepherd / lab mix with red collar.
1 mini pinscher.
Both look healthy with nice coats and teeth.
* Update: The owners have claimed their pets,
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A group of Elysian Heights Elementary concerned about a proposal to share the campus with a charter school have organized a community meeting for next week. Elysian Heights Elementary is one of the many L.A. Unified schools – including Micheltorena Street School in Silver Lake and King Middle School in Los Feliz – that might end up having to share classrooms and facilities with charters school operators as required by law under Prop. 39. Becky Mazel with the Friends of Elysian, a school support group, said that parents and residents have been left out of the loop about district proposals to share space that could prove disruptive to the schools and neighborhoods.
“The community is so ill informed,” said Mazel, whose group will hold a Monday morning town hall on co-location, the term used to described schools shared by different operators. “There has been no opportunity … for public comment.”
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A city planning commission on Wednesday let stand a decision that would allow Fix Coffee in Elysian Heights to serve beer and wine and host live entertainment, according to residents. The East Los Angeles Area Planning Commission voted 4-0 against an appeal filed by Susan Borden, one of the residents who has opposed an effort by Fix Coffee to obtain the necessary city and state permits.
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The supporters of Elysian Heights Elementary have organized a Saturday morning campus clean up following this week’s windstorm. They could use as much help as possible, according to The Friends of Elysian Heights Elementary:
Elysian Heights Elementary will be opened on Saturday (Dec 3) morning for a community clean-up after the big winds. The school doors will open at 7 am … and Friends of Elysian working along-side him. We’re also going to bundle the loose twigs and sticks for kindling to sell at our next garden day. Bring your coffee and kids in this massive clean-up effort!
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Fix Coffee has been granted a city permit to serve beer and wine and to host live entertainment despite opposition from some Elysian Heights residents as well as councilman Eric Garcetti and school board president Monica Garcia. Opponents said they were concerned about the proximity of beer and wine being served across the street from Elysian Heights Elementary school in addition to a shortage of street parking, noise and other issues.
However, beer and wine sales have been allowed near other schools in the Echo Park and Silver Lake area, said Associate Zoning Administrator Maya Zaitzevsky in a decision granting a permit with a long list of conditions. “The proximity to these uses is not reason enough to deny the request,” Zaitzevsky said.
The conditional-use permit, however, can be appealed and Fix still needs to obtain a state-issued alcohol license.
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The LAPD today released a composite drawing of a man suspected of sexually assaulting a woman as she finished an afternoon hike in Elysian Park on Oct. 31. The LAPD provided the following description of the suspect:
The suspect is described as a male, Hispanic with black hair and brown eyes. He stands about 5 feet 8 inches to 5 feet10 inches, weighs approximately 210 pounds and is in his early to mid 30s. He was wearing a white T-shirt and light blue basketball shorts, with white tennis shoes.
The woman had notified her Twitter followers that she was in the park before the attack. It’s not clear if the victim’s Twitter post made her a target but police are investigating it as a possibility, said officer G. Juarez with the Northeast Division. Undercover officers have been in the park since the attack to try and find the suspect, who the woman recognized from a previous visit
Anyone with information is urged to contact Northeast Area Sex Crimes Detectives at 213-847-5454.
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Police are asking for the public’s help in finding a man who sexually assaulted a woman as she was finishing an afternoon walk through Elysian Park. The woman had notified her Twitter followers that she was in the park before the Oct. 31 attack. Police are not saying the victim’s Twitter post made her a target but they are investigating it as a possibility, said officer G. Juarez with the Northeast Division.
Undercover officers have been in the park since the attack to try and find the suspect, who the woman recognized from a previous visit. “But nothing has proved to be fruitful,” Juarez said of the investigation.
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View Loma Vista-Cove Passage in a larger map |
The Loma Vista Passage is what David Kimbrough calls the public stairways that make up much of Loma Vista Place as it courses up and down the steep hills of Silver Lake and the Elysian Heights section of Echo Park. The stairway and nearby streets form a hidden and almost off-road route (mapped out in in blue) between the two neighborhoods. If you don’t have the time and energy to climb and walk this route, Kimbrough, who grew up in Echo Park, put together a video montage of photos of the Loma Vista stairway as it runs underneath a canopy of trees and between bungalows. Kimbrough, who now lives in San Gabriel, said he has vivid memories of the stairs and pathways of his old neighborhood:
I grew up on Curran Street which has steps on the back side down to Valentine. It seemed that there were steps everywhere, public, private, and unknown. Sometime even today, at age 52, I dream about stairs climbing, twisting up to the sky … We ran up and down them as kids. I would walk to school along them all the time. Some of course are private and unpaved, hidden among the Arundo donax or cut into little goat paths. At the time of course I thought nothing of them, it was as natural as the blue of the sky to walk along public stairs.
The Loma Vista Passage ends about a half block west of Glendale Boulevard. But a short walk south on Glendale Boulevard quickly leads to Cove Avenue and a stairway (mapped out in red) that extends the Echo Park-Silver Lake passage up and over a hill to the Silver Lake Reservoir.
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Silver Lake blogger Diane Edwardson snapped images of dark clouds (top photo) skimming over the Semi Tropic Spiritualist Tract in Elysian Heights this morning ahead of this afternoon’s showers. A few hours later, Martha Benedict of Montecito Heights captured an image (bottom photo) of Elysian Heights and Echo Park getting doused with a later afternoon donwnpour.
Photo by Martha Benedict
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Woman ticketed earlier this year for off-leash violation.
Several officers were out in Elysian Park this morning issuing tickets to dog owners had violated leash laws. A man named Robert spotted four police officers and park rangers – in and out of uniform – issuing tickets on the trail north of Academy Drive and near the Grace E. Simons parking lot.
Many dog owners were ticketed earlier this year in Elysian Park for walking their animals off-leash, including one person who was temporarily handcuffed and later released.
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