For all those anxious about what to get for the holidays, Playgroup and RoBG have worked together to make it easy, convenient and fast.

As part of a fundraiser for Playgroup, they sell gift cards to all sorts of merchants and receive a percentage of gift cards sold.  For everyday purchases such as Starbucks, Whole Foods, California Pizza Kitchen to holiday time purchases such as American Airlines, Hilton and Marriott.

Best part, it doesn’t cost you anything more than what you purchase in gift cards.  If you buy $25 Starbucks card, you get $25 worth of stuff at Starbucks (that is at least one day of coffee :-).  The merchant (Starbucks) then donates 9% to Playgroup (or $2.25), for doing nothing more than purchasing a gift card to use for everyday purchases.  Each merchant’s donation is different but you get every dollar you purchase in gift cards at the merchant/store, costs you nothing more to help Playgroup.

As a long time and important part of our community, Playgroup is a unique asset and like any non-profit, struggles to provide high quality education and reasonable prices.  Fundraising like this is a key part of ensuring it can purchase new books, chairs and other items to help our children develop and grow.

There are lots and lots of choices, for just about any purchase you do, you can get a gift card.  Playgroup will be at the Holiday Party on Sunday, they will have the following gift cards on hand:

• Starbucks,
• Whole Foods,
• Gap,
• Shutterfly,
• Jamba Juice,
• Restoration Hardware,
• Ruth’s Chris

Additionally, Playgroup can take orders from any of the following merchants and deliver them to you by December 13th, in plenty of time for the holidays.

Playgroup Gift Card Merchant List

For those who want to search online, you can visit the website by clicking here:

Online Merchant List

Only takes a few minutes, think of any gifts, everyday purchases or even special purchases, by using your purchasing power for everything you spend money on, you can help Playgroup raise money.

 Glen Holiday Party for the whole Family
Glen Kids are preparing special fun with music, games and prizes for the GLEN Party on Sunday December 5 @ 5pm at the Les and Dorothy River Community Center @ 14409 Scenario LN.
A Gathering for young and old. –
The adults can enjoy Glen comradery with homemade Chilies, and other delicious Glen foods (Glen cooks or shoppers, please come forward) and desserts as well as wines. Please contact your host, Elke, if you can bring something for the buffet! We still have openings!
Come chat with your neighbors, old and new, enjoy your wonderful community – we might even drum up a Jingle Bells! If you can contribute anything, a quiche or a pie, fingerfoods, cookies, anything, please email social@beverlyglen.org or call Elke @ 818.448-0277
You will have an opportunity to strengthen the community by renewing your Glen membership. The holiday party will be the first benefit you receive from your membership.

Happy Thanksgiving from the Residentst of Beverly Glen.  Wishing you and yours a great holiday, drive safe, eat safe and be safe.

Don’t forget, Annual RoBG Holiday Party coming up December 5th, 5pm, LDRCC, 10409 Scenario Lane.  Bring yourselfs, your neighbors and your kids.

If you can bring anything else, being a potluck, it would be appreciated.  Please contact Elke at social@beverlyglen.org, even 1/2 hour of help is a world of help.

From our friends at the North East Central Alliance of Neighborhood Councils:

Wednesday, Nov, 17, 6-8pm 

CODE ENFORCEMENT TRAINING!!!

All interested community leaders and neighborhood activists are invited to attend the Nov. 17 meeting of NECA — the North East Central Alliance of Neighborhood Councils: 

 The City of Los Angeles’ Bureau of Street Services, Investigation and Enforcement Division, will present a training session to help you learn safe, appropriate, legal and effective ways to work with the City in protecting and improving your neighborhood’s quality of life. 

Find out about the C.L.E.A.N. Team — Community Leaders Educating and Assisting Neighborhoods — helping stakeholders and residents with the identification and documentation of common quality of life problems in their communities, such as illegal signs, illegal dumping, trash can violations, illegal encroachments, and other illegal uses of the public right of way. 

In addition, Luis Bocaletti, (of the Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy and the Alliance for Healthy and Responsible Grocery Stores) will discuss “food deserts” — communities lacking stores that provide affordable, healthy food — and related grassroots and governmental efforts to achieve change.

 Wednesday, November 17, 2010, 6:00 pm – 8 pm
Russian Orthodox Church Meeting Hall
650 Micheltorena Street (in Silver Lake), L.A. 90026
South of Sunset Blvd., between Marathon & Bellevue
Parking is free and available in Church parking lot

If possible, please RSVP with NECA/Paul Michael Neuman by sharing your name and neighborhood affiliation:  pmneuman@yahoo.com or (323) 662-3123.

Glen Holiday Party
Sunday December 5 @ 5pm
LDRCC @ 10409 Scenario LN

 Ring in the holidays at a joyful Gathering for young and old.
There are several activities organized for kids of various age groups in the yard – bring a jacket – and the adults can enjoy Glen comradery with homemade Chilis, and other delicious Glen foods and desserts a swell as wines.
Come chat with your neighbors, old and new, enjoy your wonderful community – we might even drum up a Jingle Bells! If you can contribute anything, a quiche or a pie, fingerfoods, cookies, anything , please email social@beverlyglen.org or call Elke @ 818.448-0277.
You will have an opportunity to strengthen the community by renewing your Glen membership. The holiday party will be the first benefit you receive from your membership.

Due to significant concerns from many community organizations (including RoBG), the City of LA has suspended approval of the Code Simplification Ordinance to have more public workshops

The ordinance is to help simplify the various findings for code modifications. although a good idea in principal, RoBG has concerns about how it can make it easier for developers to get modifications and its conflict with the Baseline Hillside Ordinance.

If you are interested, have concerns or want to express your views, you must attend any one of the three workshops.  You don’t need to stay for all of it but do let the City know what you are thinking.

Public Workshops Schedule

Code Simplification Ordinance

We do our best to keep you informed, up to you to get involved!

A little note that in rememberance of Memorial Day, on Wednesday, November 10th at approximately 10:10am, 2-3 F-22 Raptors will fly over UCLA as part of a ceremony so don’t get frightened, its just a friendly flyover.

Don’t forget to thank any and all veterans for their service, whether they worked in supplies or the frontlines, they put their lives on the line in defence of our democracy.

Come on, come all to the annual Town Hall Meeting at which the upcoming election Propositions will be presented and discussed.

If you would like to be a presenter of one of the propositions, please contact LDRCC President Ron Rosenblatt at rrosen33@aol.com.

For more information, please click on the following link:

L.D.R.C.C. TOWN HALL MEETING FLYER – 10/17/10 at 3:30pm

Hot off the presses, here are the proposed changes to the By-Laws of Residents of Beverly Glen, Inc. that were last updated in 1994:

ROBG By Laws – Proposed Amendments October 2010

As you can see, the Board took on an effort to amend the by-laws for purposes of more accurately describing how the Board conducts business currently as well as establish good foundations for future years.

Please review the proposed changes, if you have any questions, please email Gillian Rose (hillside@beverlyglen.org) or Ramin Kolahi (babcnc@bevelryglen.org).

Lastly, don’t forget the Annual Meeting this Saturday, 4pm at the community center.

ATTENTION ALL GLEN RESIDENTS!

Residents of Beverly Glen, Inc. (RoBG) will be having its Annual Meeting this Saturday at the Les and Dorothy River Community Center (10409 Scenario Lane, Los Angeles, CA 90077) starting at 4:00pm.  As with each Annual Meeting, we’ll have honored guests from our Councilperson’s office to our hard working folks at LAPD and LAFD.

Please make sure you can attend, we’ll be voting in our 2010-2011 Board members listed, which can be found on our website by clicking here:

2010-2011 Board of Directors

Additionally, we will be discussing and voting on proposed amendment changes to the current by-laws of RoBG from 1994 to reflect the way the Board operates currently and to provide a framework for the Board in the future.  The proposed amendments will be available on our website shortly.

If you are not a current member, you can join or renew at the meeting and be able to vote at the meeting, remember, if you join or renew now, you will get membership in 2010 and through 2011.  To check if you are a current member, please visit our Membership page.

As always, we can always use help with the event, if you have a few minutes and can help, please email social@beverlyglen.org

For any questions regarding the proposed business at the Annual Meeting or to put your name on the slate for any position, especially vacant ones, please email president@beverlyglen.org.