Los Feliz Ledger [greetings from tom]
Griffith Park Adult Community Center Set for a January Opening By Los Angeles City Councilmember Tom LaBonge The New Year will bring a great improvement to our community with the new Griffith Park Adult Community Center that is set to open in January. We’ve waited a long time for this new gathering place for residents of Los Feliz, Silver Lake, Atwater Village, the Franklin Hills and Greater Griffith Park. And if you didn’t notice, it’s not called a “senior” center but an adult center. The difference is that we are beginning to address the expanding baby boom population of 50 years and over—I’m in this group too!—which in a few short years will be the largest segment of our population. The new center will improve and build upon the programs currently being held at the under-sized Silver Lake Recreation Center, which will continue to have programs exclusively for seniors who wish to stay locally in the Silver Lake area. For thoseGoodBestAd.4.0.qxp who wish to try 07-GSH-002 the new center, the director is
Mark Wilson and he’s devised a great line-up of activities for participants including arts and crafts, classes by LAUSD instructors, guest lectures, computer training, exercise class and, because Mark’s an amateur magician, even magic classes too! Two great activists, Stephanie Vendig and Bea Gold, have been instrumental in helping Wilson and the Dept. of Recreation and Parks to come up with potentially-popular and fun things to do. Already, the pre-planning meetings have at-
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tracted as many as 100 people to take input from them about what they’d think would attract the greatest number of participants. The hours are still not set but the intention is to be open five days a week, morning to late afternoon. It’ll be a very happy day when we cut the ribbon. I’ve looked forward to this occasion for nearly two years since we first suggested the idea of repurposing the Griffith Observatory Satellite trailers for this use. I thank many of you for your support and involvement, as well as my Council colleague Eric Garcetti, Dept. of Recreation and Parks general manager Jon Kirk Mukri and his staff. Let’s continue to enjoy and love the great City of Los Angeles!
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Are You Spiritual and Sociable? By Charley M. Mims, President Greater Griffith Park Neighborhood Council The GGPNC is looking for a few good candidates who have a spiritual or religious connection to the community and who are willing to devote time to reaching out to our diverse religious communities to share their view point with the council. We have an opening on our GGPNC Board of Directors for a designated (appointed) Board member. The deadline to apply for this position is Feb. 4th with the application to be received by that date at our post office box at: GGPNC, P. O. Box 27003, Los Angeles, CA 90027-0003. The Rules & Elections Committee will meet the week of Feb. 11th to sort the applications and make a recommendation to the Executive Committee and to the full Board, which will make the appointment at their meeting on the evening of Feb. 19th. If you are interested in serving your neighborhood by
agreeing to attend GGPNC Board meetings and share the results of your outreach with the Board before it makes decisions which may affect our stakeholders in the religious communities in the Greater Griffith Park neighborhoods, WE NEED YOU! For more information, visit the GGPNC website at www.ggpnc.org. Do you want to help your community? Who we really want is a person who is willing to devote a little time each month to outreach to the religious community in our area and then who can share their collective point of view with the GGPNC Board before we make decisions which may impact those parts of our neighborhood. Give it a chance! Do some good for your community. To keep on top of these and other issues go to the web site of your neighborhood council at www.ggpnc.org frequently.
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