Reminder: Peace in the Northeast March Aug 16

The Churches of NorthEast LA present:

PEACE in the NorthEast Community March and Resource Fair

Saturday, August 16 10a-5p

Gather: 10:00am Highland Park Senior Center,

March: 11:00am

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Resource Fair: 12:00noon - 5:00pm Victory Outreach

http://www.myspace.com/peaceinthene

Lead by the Churches of NorthEast LA the community will meet to march against violence in the streets. The march is down

York Blvd to

and then down

to the Resource Fair. Snacks and bottled water will be served at the staging area. Bottled water will be available along the march route. Along with the Resource Fair there will be free food and Jarritos, live and DJ music and a Mini Car Show.

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Peace in the NorthEast: Stop the Violence.

The Churches of NorthEast LA presents Peace in the NorthEast Community March

On August 16, 2008 at 10am, lead by the Churches of NorthEast LA, the NorthEast LA community will be meeting at the Highland Park Adult Senior Citizen Center, 6152 N Figueroa St,  to march down York Blvd to Eagle Rock Blvd and down Eagle Rock Blvd to a Resource Fair. Snacks will be served at both the staging area and the Resource Fair. Bottled water will also be available for marchers.

The Resource Fair will end at 5:00pm. Along with the Resource Fair there will be music and a Mini Car Show.

Community groups, families and other local organizations are encouraged to join the march and bring organizational / identificational banners. And, we can still use more help in organizing the Peace March / Resource Fair, so we also encourage you to become involved. Call 626.831.7970 for more information.

At a recent Churches of NorthEast LA Monthly Breakfast Gathering Chief Murphy challenged the churches to become involved in helping to reduce crime in the streets of Northeast L A.  In immediate response the churches and other faith-based community organizations represented at the meeting said “let’s do a peace march” and so was born the Peace in the NorthEast Community March, which we believe will become an annual march.

Currently the Peace March is ending at Victory Outreach, Eagle Rock, one of the many churches involved in putting on this event. We thank them for opening their doors. However, it is our hope that this event will out-grow their facility, which has about a 1,000 person capacity. We encourage you to help us mobilize more of the community so that we need to look for a larger space!!!

 The Mini Car Show will be organized by Jesse Rojas who also developed the Classic Car Show of Figueroa Street.

This event is supported by CD 14 / CD 1  / CD 13 and the Mayor’s Office. Other community organizations currently on board are the Historic Highland Park NC, the Highland Park Chamber of Commerce, the Highland Park Kiwanis, and Peace Over Violence

 To be updated as we have more detailed information, please contact:

 RuthAnne Tarletz SARTE1MEX@aol.com 626.831.7970

Lummis Day Festival June 1

The 3rd annual Lummis Day: The Festival of Northeast Los Angeles event, a free, public celebration of the diverse culture and history of the L.A.’s Arroyo neighborhoods, will take place on Sunday, June 1, featuring musical, visual, culinary and literary artists representing an array of the region’s cultural traditions.

Charles Fletcher Lummis, at age 25, was offered a top position at a new young Los Angeles newspaper, to start as soon as he showed up. He decided to walk to his new job, from Chillicothe, Ohio, to Los Angeles—a trek of 3,507 miles. It was September 12, 1884. He arrived at work on January 31, 1885, quite changed, because he’d lately gotten, as he would proclaim for years to come, a better education than Harvard ever gave him.

ummis book A Tramp Across the Continent records his journey.

Following is an excerpt from the first chapter of Tramp Across the Continent

But why tramp? Are there not railroads and Pullmans enough, that you must walk? That is what a great many of my friends said when they learned of my determination totravel from Ohio to California on foot; and it is very likely it is the question that will first come to your mind in reading of the longest walk for pure pleasure that is on records. But railroads and Pullmans were invented to help us hurry through life and miss most of the pleasure of it — and most of the profit, too, except of that jingling, only half-satisfying sort of which can be footed up in the ledger. I was after neither time nor money, but life — not life in the pathetic meaning of the poor health-seeker, for I was perfectly well and a trained athlete; but life in the truer, broader, sweeter sense, the exhilarant joy of living outside the sorry fences of society, living with a perfect body and a wakened mind, a life where brain and brawn and leg and lung all rejoice and grow alert together. I am an American and felt ashamed to know so little of my own country as I did, and as most Americans do.

Lummis Day takes place at SYCAMORE GROVE PARK, 4702 North Figueroa Street, Los Angeles, CA 90042

More info: http://www.lummisday.org/

Pre-Mother’s Day Party at Rock Rose Gallery

Rock Rose Art Gallery will be hosting a Pre-Mother’s Day Party for Mothers, Mother’s To Be, their families and friends on Sunday, May 4, 2008 from 2 to 4 p.m. Special guest for the event is artist Irma Montelongo, who will introduce her new series of ceramic statues “Las Madres” (Mothers) celebrating motherhood in her own whimsical, feminine fashion. Joining her will be Sigrid Soto, a local artist known for her unique style of jewelry design. Included in her display will be other creations certain to be a hit with mom. This event is free and open to the public, but reservations are requested by calling (323) 635-9125.

Ms. Montelongo, has been a potter for 24 years. She first became interested in working with clay in 1980. She attend East Los Angeles College, taking ceramics classes, but had to postpone her studies due to the birth of her last child. She continued her education at Rio Hondo College as an Art Major taking drawing, painting and ceramic classes. It wasn’t until she attended Baldwin Park Adult School that she was introduced to new throwing techniques and glazing methods that enabled her to be more creative and free with her designs. She has exhibited her work in several galleries around Southern California. She sells her pottery under the business name Playklay. Irma received her Vocational Education Teaching Credential for art and painting in 2000 and is currently teaching at Baldwin Park Adult School.

Artist Sigrid Soto was born in Monterey Park, California and raised by her Costa Rican parents in Long Beach, California.  Her interest in color, texture, and nature led to the creation of her original jewelry. The result is a timeless piece, unique yet versatile for everyday and special occasions.

Since opening it’s door in Historic Highland Park in 2000, Rock Rose Art Gallery’s mission has been to present and nurture visual and performing artists of all ages in an environment that also bridges communities through the arts. Located in the historic Arroyo Section of Northeast Los Angeles at 4108 N. Figueroa Street in Highland Park, the gallery can be reached by the metro Gold Line exiting at the Southwest Museum stop. For more information regarding all arts programs and events offered or produced by Rock Rose, please call (323) 635-9125, email rockroseart@yahoo.com or visit www.rockroseproductions.com.

Pet First Aid & CPR Class, 6/1

Handle With Care Dog Training is thrilled to be hosting a Pet First Aid & CPR Class taught by well known educator and lecturer, Denise Fleck on Sunday, June 1st from 1:00pm -5:00pm.

This 4 hour class covers a vast amount of information and skills needed for emergencies like: muzzling, taking pulses, CPR, bandaging and splinting, plus so much more!!

Class is taught by lecture, demonstration and hands on skill practice with both canine and feline mannequins.  The class will be held at The Glendale Pet Resort located at 3645 San Fernando Road, Glendale CA 91204.

Class is limited to only 20 people. This also includes handbook, certificate and wallet card and the cost is is $80. Please register with us asap! For more info. and to register, please call 323.225.6700

lezle stein-Dog Training & Behavior Specialist, Director of Animal
Welfare/Arroyo Seco Neighborhood Council, Co-President/Friends of Hermon
Dog Park handle with care dog training, pdowntowndogrescue,
http://www.handlewoofcare.com, http://www.downtowndogrescue.com