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GENERAL MEETING (New Location)
Dear Friends and Neighbors, our next Valley Glen Neighborhood Association meeting will
be on Tuesday, August 17, 2010 at U.S. Grant High School's Serenity Garden. The school is located at
13000 Oxnard Street but you will enter on Ethel Avenue south of Oxnard Street (500 feet south of Oxnard on the left side of Ethel).
Meeting will be in the classroom at Serenity Garden.
"Meet and greet" will start at 6:30 p.m.
and the meeting will start at 7:00 p.m. As usual, there will be free pizza and door prizes.
Also, be sure to fill out the Valley Glen Survey and bring it to the meeting.
With the City's budget cutbacks, it's important for us to prioritize what's important to us in Valley Glen and let our City
Councilmember Paul Krekorian know. Please take our survey. Please print it out and mail the completed survey to VGNA Survey, 13659 Victory
Blvd. Box # 283, Valley Glen, CA 91401 or you can fax it to Mickey Jannol at (818) 901-1015. Please click here to take the survey.
NOTABLE UPDATES
Here is the Spring Issue of the Valley Glen Voice. Now having crossed 5,000 in print circulation plus over 20,000 electronically,
it is a jam-packed 12-page issue and great reading for all! Please click the Valley Glen Voice link on the left side above.
The deadline for ads and articles for the next issue of the Valley Glen Voice newsletter is Monday, September 13.
For more information or to submit, please send to Editor, Mickey Jannol at jannol6@aol.com
or to VGNA, 13659 Victory Boulevard, PMB #283, Valley Glen, CA 91401.
The issue will be distributed the weeks of September 20 and September 27. If there are happenings in your Grid or with your
Neighborhood Watch, please let us know. We also welcome pictures.
THE VALLEY GLEN ANNUAL PICNIC.
Mark your calendars now. Sunday, 10/10/10
Don't miss this fun family event, the Valley Glen Annual Community Picnic, Sunday, October 10, 2010, 12 Noon - 4:00 p.m., Valley Glen Community Park, Ethel Avenue and Delano Street. Great food, great entertainment, free pumpkins and a moon bounce for the kids. And the raffle prizes and silent auction items are nothing short of fantastic. This is one of two annual fundraiser for the VGNA. Meal tickets are $10. per person, $4. For children under 12. Raffle tickets, $1. Bring a pot luck dish and receive a free raffle ticket.
If you would like to donate items for the raffle/silent auction, or volunteer to help at the picnic, please contact VGNA President and Picnic Chair Judy Price at judyprice1127@aol.com.
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Did you ever need to call a government agency but didn't want to use 3-1-1 because you wished you had a Phone List?
Please click here for a list of popular government contacts.
Did you know that you can promote the Valley Glen name and donate money to the Association at the same time. Valley Glen items
are available for sale including assorted merchandise such as T-shirts, canvas bags, doggie shirts, coasters,
post cards and "I Love Valley Glen" pins. What a great place to buy gifts for
your friends and family. The Association receives a portion of the sales. Click this link to visit
the VGNA Store.
************ SOME BACKGROUND ************
For all of you new to this web site, welcome to the official web site of the Valley Glen Neighborhood Association, an advocate for the interests of the City of Valley Glen.
The goal of our Association is to foster community pride, civic betterment and community beautification, to make our neighborhood a better and safer place to live and work,
to promote businesses and business growth in Valley Glen, and to foster education and the arts in Valley Glen. Over 20,000 of you viewed our web site last month.
Perhaps you would like to know a little more about us.
The City of Valley Glen was created in 1998 by joining parts of southeastern Van Nuys and southwestern North Hollywood. With a population of 29,000,
we are well-located in the San Fernando Valley with ease of access to major employment centers, schools, shopping centers and other amenities.
We're a safe city with many of our members active in neighborhood beautification and neighborhood watch.
We would like to guide you through this web site. First, please go to the History icon to find out how we got here. Then, go to the Map icon and see where we are located.
Finally, read our latest issue of the Valley Glen Voice (link on the left side above) to see what was going on during the last 3 months. If you like what you see, go to the
"Be a VGNA Sponsor" and support our organization including our "Adopt a Family Program." It's a novel and brilliant program that provides gift certificates for food and Holiday
needs during the Holiday Season for poor school children and their families in Valley Glen.
And now for some local pointers:
Where to walk in Valley Glen - Consider a walk on the wild side. Walk along the terrain of the Tujunga Wash Greenway at Coldwater from Burbank to Vanowen and view
the Great Wall of Los Angeles (one of the longest murals in the world), native plants and wildlife of Valley Glen. Or, take a walk in our own Valley Glen Community Park.
Two laps around the Park will get you one mile of exercise. Do not forget to walk or bike along the MTA Orange Line. At our very own Woodman Valley Glen Station, you get
to see transit on one side and plants and trees on the other side.
Where to learn in Valley Glen - Of course, our very own Los Angeles Valley College, with unique features including a planetarium, offers a wide variety of relatively
low cost educational and vocational courses taught by the best professors in Valley Glen. The College is undergoing a $160 million expansion. Valley Glen also boasts four
public schools, Erwin Street and Kittridge Street Elementary Schools, Monlux Middle School and Grant High School. Grant High School is home of the Serenity Garden and
Monarch Butterfly Conservation Project, an acre of suburban garden and wildlife; a work in progress in a busy suburb. Serenity Garden recently won a $10,000 AARP Ethel
Percy Andrus Legacy Award, the only recipient in California, for providing unique gardening opportunities to a diverse community, including those over 50 years old. Notable private
schools include Laurence School; providing elementary school education.
Do you have any questions or comments? Please click the "Contact" icon in the upper right hand corner to send an e-mail to the Association. We will respond. |
