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July 2016
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Each and every day, unsung and under-appreciated neighbors work hard to make
our neighborhoods great places to live, work and enjoy. In this Summer special
section newsletter, Mike has selected one "neighborhood hero" from each
neighborhood on the Westside. Find out who Mike decided to recognize as a
Neighborhood Hero and read a personal message about each honoree from Mike
below.
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Mar Vista: Lorraine Wells
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Melissa Aczon of @DelReyNeighbor is one of my
CD11 Neighborhood Heroes. Working for
@ChildrensLA, volunteering for Summer Night
Lights, Del Rey Cup & Resource Fair, Del Rey
Health Day, organizing the Del Rey Spelling Bee,
& promoting STEAM education for young women
& girls.
Throughout the past decade, the Mar Vista Farmers Market has been an
unparalleled catalyst for revitalization of downtown Mar Vista, and neighbors
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have compassionate and dedicated leaders like Lorraine Wells to thank.
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This month, the Mar Vista Farmers Market celebrates its 10th anniversary, and as
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it does, I thought it fitting to recognize the incredible achievements and ways
that Lorraine Wells has made Mar Vista a better place to live, work and enjoy. Embed View on Twitter
Lorraine first moved to Mar Vista in 1994, and working with a group of her
neighbors, she helped form the Farmers Market Organizing Committee. Soon,
local and regional vendors were offering neighbors tasty, homegrown treats
every weekend. A decade later, the Farmers Market is an anchor for the
neighborhood, a hub for community involvement and still a terrific place to pick
up delicious fresh fruit, vegetables and a myriad of other treats. The Farmers
Market's success is one of the reasons Mayor Garcetti and I choose Venice
Boulevard as the Westside's "Great Street," and Mar Vistans will soon have even
more to look forward to from the shops and street amenities along Venice
Boulevard, from Beethoven to Grand View.
In addition to her work helping the Farmers Market grow and thrive, Lorraine has
volunteered her time to help the Mar Vista Community Council, North Westdale
Neighborhood Association and served as a personal shopper for Neighborhood
Youth Program's after school snack program.
"I love Mar Vista because we are a very community and business oriented
neighborhood," said Lorraine. "The popularity of the market has encouraged
more retail and restaurant businesses to open in Mar Vista."
Gregorio has been in the field of software development since 1999. He has been
the CTO and co-founder of online real estate listing sites, a Director of
Development, and even a lead developer.
Most recently, he has been the co-founder, head instructor, and CTO of the
website and coding company Sabio . Sabio teaches non-traditional tech industry
employees, such as people of color and women, how to code. Sabio has also
partnered with Antioch University for a tech boot camp.
Sabio’s motto is “Learn to code and change the world,” and that is exactly what
Gregorio Rojas is teaching those around him to do; not only to learn to code, but
to change the world.
With a warm smile, a big heart and tireless dedication to her community, Jackie
Raymond is a godmother of sorts to Brentwood. She has left her mark on
countless projects and organizations serving Brentwood neighborhoods.
Jackie has served the community of Brentwood as the president of the South
Brentwood Homeowners Association and the Brentwood Community Federation ,
as a member of the Brentwood Community Council from 1998-2011, but most
importantly, as the founder and perennial president of the Brentwood Green, a
group that has been dedicated to improving the Brentwood Science Magnet
School .
"I love Brentwood because the people seem to all care about one another and
everyone is anxious to do things for Brentwood and each other," said Jackie. "I
just love the low key attitude that everyone carries around here."
Giant Robot has become a staple in Asian American alternative pop culture and
Eric’s contributions to making the Sawtelle Japantown and West LA
neighborhoods better places to live and enjoy continue.
The artistic community in Venice is one of the things that makes the
neighborhood a legendarily funky and world-renowned destination, and Sunny
Bak is an incredible advocate for celebrating artists.
Though Sunny Bak is not a Venice Beach native, that hasn’t stopped her from
making Venice Beach her home. At the age of 12, Sunny started shooting photos
in Manhattan when her father let her borrow his Nikon Rangefinder. Sunny has
been a Broadway groupie, a fashion photographer, a music photographer, a
student at the prestigious School of Visual Arts, and at The New School with
Philippe Halsman.
If you ask people in Venice, however, Sunny's greatest achievement has been her
unwavering and incredible work to promote artists in the neighborhood. Sunny
is heavily involved in the Venice Art Crawl , a volunteer run nonprofit that mixes
community and art, and inspires collaboration. Local artists have credited Sunny
with saving the Art Crawl, saying that Sunny "single handedly kept the Venice
Art Crawl afloat for the last couple of years."
Nestled south of Mar Vista and north of Playa Vista, Del Rey is an incredible
community that is made great by the work of dedicated neighbors like Marlene
Savage.
Marlene has been a volunteer with the Del Rey Neighborhood Council for the past
decade and has been an unwavering supporter of the board, as well as the
Neighborhood Council’s homeless initiatives. She has made keeping Del Rey a
safe and well maintained community her priority, and has engaged with the
Neighborhood Council and my office to help put neighborhoods first in Del Rey.
On the Board of the Del Rey Neighborhood Council, she has been happy to become
close with neighbors and listen to their concerns so she can find a way to best
help them. Marlene wants every person - no matter their age - to be as involved in
the community as possible, so that everyone may feel that same sense of
community she loves.
"I love to see all the new families moving to our community to see the new
generation who will take our place in the future,” Marlene said.
To Kaylie, helping her community is more than fulfilling and rewarding, not only
because she and her volunteers get to help keep their neighborhood beautiful,
but because she loves showing her community members that they are valuable
members of the neighborhood and the city around them.
David Peterson represents what makes the Pacific Palisades great - an incredibly
involved Palisades resident who works everyday to make his neighborhood a
better place.
"It has been a wonderful community to be involved with," said David. "And it is
only going to keep getting better."
Jeanne, a 50-year resident of Playa del Rey, does this through her annual Jungle
Clean Up, which she founded and has organized every year for the past four
decades. In an area that is mostly multi-family housing, Jeanne and a few of her
neighbors decided to get together to pick up trash in the neighborhood one day in
the late 1970s. Jeanne has organized this great community clean up that gathers
all of her neighbors together every summer to keep their neighborhood tidy and
beautiful. This is the final year that Jeanne is organizing the Jungle Cleanup and I
am so happy to recognize the amazing contributions she has made to her
neighborhood.
"I've been here for over 50 years and I think I love it so much because it's such a
close knit community and everyone here looks out for each other," Jeanne said.
Mike Celebrates New Westchester Farmers Market Location with Access 11 Pop
Up Office Hours
For years, the Westchester Farmers Market has been an excellent community
event held every Wednesday at Westchester Park. Earlier this month, the Farmers
Market opened a second weekly location, expanding to the Westchester Triangle
every Sunday. Mike joined neighbors at the first Triangle Farmers Market on July
17, hosting “Pop Up Office Hours.” Neighbors stopped by Mike’s booth at the
Farmers Market to talk about the work happening in their communities to
improve traffic and public safety and to discuss ways they can work to help Mike
put neighborhoods first in Westchester. Thank you to everyone who stopped by!
Mike Works with Moms in Playa Vista to Get Violent Movie Trailer Removed
from Community Square
Mike and his staff worked with neighbors in July to address concerns about a
violent movie trailer playing in a public area of Playa Vista. After receiving a
message from a concerned mother about frightening images depicted in a movie
trailer playing on a digital billboard near the Cinemark theater on Jefferson
Boulevard, Mike’s staff reached out to the theater management and billboard
owners to ask that they work with neighbors to ensure the trailer was not playing
while children were likely to be present. The theater and billboard executives
agreed to postpone showing the trailer until later in the evening, happily
resolving the issue in a way that let neighbors know they could turn to Mike to
help put neighborhoods first.
Penmar Park in Venice is getting a new water recycling system that will save as
much as 108,000 gallons a day and will prevent harmful pollution from reaching
our beaches and ocean. The new water recycling system, which will collect, treat,
store and then reuse water at the park, is funded through Proposition O and is a
great example of how voter investment in a ballot measure can make things
better in our neighborhoods.
Mike joined Mayor Garcetti and members of the Board of Public Works and
Bureau of Sanitation at Penmar last month to celebrate the groundbreaking for
the new water recycling system and the great neighborhood benefits it will
provide.
Trees are essential parts of what make neighborhoods great. Not only do
neighborhood trees offer shade, beauty and essential environmental benefits
(such as taking carbon out of the air and producing oxygen), but they are
important parts of each distinct neighborhood’s unique character. On July 16,
Mike and Supervisor Sheila Kuehl's offices partnered with Metro and City Plants
to host an event where 100 fruit trees and 50 shade trees were given away to
neighbors in Brentwood. The tree give-away event was a great example of how
putting neighborhoods first means helping grow the urban forest on the
Westside.
60 Years ago, Ralph Primo was driving down Sawtelle Boulevard with his family
when his three-year old son saw a donut shop and asked his dad to pull over. At
the time, Ralph was a student who was looking for work, so after ordering, he
asked the shopkeeper if he needed any help. He was told that there wasn’t a job
available, and that after six-months of trying, the shopkeeper was giving up and
selling the store. Ralph made a deal on the spot and six decades later, Primo’s is
one of the few independent, family-owned donut shops left in Los Angeles.
Primo’s celebrates its 60th anniversary in July, and Mike’s West LA and Mar Vista
Field Deputy, Len Nguyen, was on-hand to present a certificate of
congratulations from Mike. Congratulations to the entire Primo family and the
employees who have made this great mom and pop shop a neighborhood
institution for the better part of a century!
Each parade was special for Mike - in Westchester he got to ride the parade route
with John Ruhlen, a great neighbor who has made Westchester a better place
through his work with a number of community groups, like the Westchester
Town Center BID, Westchester Vitalization Corporation, Neighborhood Council of
Westchester/Playa and many more. In the Palisades, Mike rode the route on top
of Engine 69 - the fire engine he fought to have returned to the neighborhood to
protect public safety in the hillside areas and surrounding communities.
Thank you to everyone who worked so hard to make sure both Westchester and
the Palisades neighborhoods had memorable and exceptional Fourth of July
celebrations!
Help Protect the LAX El Segundo Dunes Preserve in Playa del Rey
In early July, Mike joined Conan Nolan on KNBC's News Conference to talk about
the $1.2 billion bond measure the City Council placed on the November ballot. The
bond measure will help build the housing that will get people off the street and
help make the city’s comprehensive homelessness strategy real.
On July 25, the City took a step toward identifying qualified developers to work
with communities to create plans for housing at eight sites throughout Los
Angeles, including four on the Westside. Once selected, the city will match
developers with potential housing sites and the developers will then work closely
with neighborhoods to create plans and proposals that will fit well in
communities.
Since these new rules were first proposed, Mike heard from a number of
residents in the Pacific Palisades who expressed concerns that the proposed rules
do not take the characteristics of the some Palisades neighborhoods into
consideration, and instead proposed to regulate development in a way that is
consistent with what residents want to see. Mike stepped up to make sure the
Palisadian’s concerns were heard, asking for the Planning Department to work
closely with his office and the Palisades community to identify development
standards that will allow the neighborhoods of the Palisades to continue
developing in the manner they expect and desire. Mike’s action means that
neighborhoods will be able to choose their own path forward.
Let Mike know what you think about the City's proposed mansionization rules
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