Seriously it will be hot this weekend. Many Rose Park residents do not have air conditioning. The cooling centers around the city such as the libraries and community centers are closed due to the holiday! Except it seems our Long Beach Senior Center at 1150 East 4th (Near Orange) which should be open on Saturday….
Placemaking signs are being produced and will be placed on light poles around Rose Park Historic District [Redondo to St. Louis/Cherry: E7th to E10th]. Forty signs in all. We have many to thank. First and foremost Dennis Herbert who took the idea and ran with it, the NPP staff, Jane at SavOn Signs, Aaron Jackson…
Last week more ‘tending’ along E7th. A truck load of mulch from Office of Sustainability was delivered (i.e. 12 brown trash cans worth) with 3 RPN Treekeepers on hand to place in tree wells between Walnut to Cherry. Just to note the E7th Trees are tended by all 4 adjacent neighborhoods – this just happened…
Thus far Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead Unfamiliar Fishes by Sarah Vowell What no quick mystery/suspense novels? Send in your reads!! info@rpna.org
Sometimes being ‘involved’ or engaged means leaving the sofa, traveling to downtown and sitting for a few hours. But if not done we’d never know if/how we made a difference. On Thursday Dennis Herbert, RPNA Vice-President did just that. He had comments prepared after reviewing the recommendations submitted in 2016 by E7th St. Collaboration regarding…
At the start of each new Board Year for Rose Park Neighborhood you’d think we’d start with a clean slate. Not so. In fact, very little would get done if we started from scratch each August. And that’s because it takes months and years to accomplish meaningful action. So on any given day it seems…