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needed funds for a mother of a student week bulletin board across the hall
who became seriously ill, Girling, a from his office.
member of the school site council, Machado’s test scores aren’t the
says: “The best thing about Fairmont only thing that spiked at Miraloma. So
is its multilingual parents and the staff did his hair. As a challenge, Machado
building a community that respects and offered his kids a deal they couldn’t
understands each other.” refuse. He permitted one of them to
Sophia Schuler’s Hello Kitty ther- shave his hair in a Mohawk “do” if the
mos-laden back pack weighs almost as school’s CST scores rose. In September,
much as the 5-year old kindergartner Machado ran a gauntlet of giggling chil-
does. She and her brother, Marty, 6, dren, looking more like James Fenimore
a Miraloma Elementary first grader, Cooper’s last Mohican than a popular
are accompanied most mornings by elementary school principal.
their father, Ben, to their 350-student “Teachers love him,” says parent
school, which was built in the early Ben Schuler. It wouldn’t be a stretch to
1950s among the circuitous streets attribute the same sentiment to Schuler’s
below Mt. Davidson. diminutive daughter, Sophia. “I like the
Waiting to leave his Miraloma sing-a-longs,” Sophia says.
The Blue School: Glen Park Elementary. Photo by Elizabeth Weise Park home one morning, hopping from So does Nancy Schlenke, principal
Four Schools,
one foot to another, Marty says, “I of Sunnyside Elementary on Foerster
like recess.” Exercise aside, Miraloma Street, a school built in 1926 that has
principal Ron Machado and his staff are 275 students. “I want to see engaged
1,315 Kids
modeling more than physical fitness. students,” Schlenke says, beginning her
Last year, Miraloma CST scores fifth year as Sunnyside principal and
were more than impressive. English her 22nd year in the SFUSD. “I want
language arts scores skyrocketed, with to balance academics with enrichment.”
Glen Park, Fairmount, Miraloma and teacher collaborative time from state- 50 percent of the students scoring pro- Schlenke doesn’t have to walk a tight-
Sunnyside Elementary schools began mandated instructional minutes. “For an ficient or advanced, a 12 percent jump rope to accomplish this or cash parental
their year in August, each meeting their hour each day,” she says, “teachers meet from the year before and nine points vouchers to balance her budget.
enrollment projections, in grade levels and plan standards-based ahead of other California elementary Sunnyside boasts programs focus-
by improving their Cali- lessons.” schools. A similar bounce occurred ing on vocal and instrumental music,
Murray fornia Standards Tests Grady and her staff, as a result, have with mathematics scores. drama and ballet, while the school’s
Schneider (CST) scores, and wit- watched Glen Park’s API score exceed While he is happy with his students’ CST science test scores have jumped
nessing their California the enviable 800 mark. test scores, Machado, who has been at nine points in one year. Looking for
Academic Performance Index (API) Collaboration also works for 27 Miraloma’s helm for three years, also a school that is clean, safe and within
rankings stabilize or rise. teachers at Fairmont Elementary on factors in less quantitative indicators walking distance from her home, Sun-
Each K-5 kindergarten is filled, one Chenery Street, a Spanish-immersion in measuring his school’s success. The nyside PTA parent Kari Gray—whose
indicator that Glen Park parents and school of 365 students that was built number of smiling faces, he believes, second-grade daughter, Fiona, takes
guardians, consumers in a No Child in the early 1970s. Constructed on speaks volumes. “We have happy chil- movement, a pre-requisite to dance—
Left Behind competitive market place, various levels, with scenic views of dren and families,” he says, referencing appreciates Sunnyside’s emphasis upon
are satisfied with their neighborhood the city’s eastern skyline, Fairmont has the music program his staff offers. the arts.
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schools’ progress. classrooms surrounding central indoor Building self-esteem is no small “Fiona will test well academically
Still two years from when she must “pods.” In these smaller learning com- part of “educating the whole child,” wherever she attends. A school’s envi-
make her own choice, Hilary Ware, a munities, Fairmont teachers confer on Machado believes. While he’s proud ronment is more important to me,” Gray
Google attorney, is shopping kindergar- the school’s patented bilingual and that his school’s API score is now 823, says.
tens for Nicholas and Eva, her 3-year bicultural curriculum. a 150-point spike since he became prin- Schlenke gets the most satisfaction
old twins. More interested in a school’s Fairmont Principal Ana Lunardi, cipal, Machado is just as impressed with from putting teachers together in col-
programs and its parental commitment a teacher in the SFUSD for 19 years, weekly photographic student “shout- legial grade-level teams and letting her
than test scores, Ware, a former high has just taken on the leadership role at outs” displayed on a student-of-the- CONTINUED ON PAGE 8
school guidance counselor, believes Fairmont. The school has a 60 percent
schools are measured in myriad ways. Hispanic population and has seen its
“It is shortsighted to think standard- CST English language arts, math and
ized test scores are the end-all and be- science scores rise in the last year.
all,” Ware says. While only in her first year as Fair-
Glen Park Elementary sits atop Lip- mont principal, Lunardi recognizes the
pard Street. Marion Grady has taught mercurial nature of test scores and
for 48 years, the last 24 years serving refuses to be branded by them. “I am
as Glen Park principal. “When I came proud,” Lunardi says, “that my English
to Glen Park,” Grady says, “I wanted speaking students learn a second lan-
to devote myself to making something guage, that my teachers have a passion
happen here.” for teaching, and that my staff is creat-
And something has happened at ing a nurturing environment.”
her 1930s-built school. While serving Richard Girling, whose son Ruary
a diverse 325-student population with is currently in the fifth grade, agrees
a showcase Demonstration Reading with Lunardi’s take on his 9-year
First program, Grady also supports a old son’s school. Recalling how the
staff development program that fashions Fairmont “familia” rallied to provide
Winter 2008 Page 5 Glen Park News
Wa s t e N o t Wa nt Not
W h e r e D o e s I t All Go,
Anyway?
At first, I thought of discovering just
which of several Glen Park discards
tion center. Here, they are gathered two
days in advance, trucked to the Tracy
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by
might be the most reward-
ing to investigate. Look-
center—only one day from expira-
tion—then distributed to the poor! The ����������������������
Dolan ing around, I came upon store also features two green food bank
Eargle the startling (to me, any- bins for customer donations.
way) realization that we Safeway doesn’t allow the staff or ������������������������
have a lot of food establishments right employees to carry home unused food,
here in Glen Park, with a concentration either prepared or fresh leftovers. The ����������������������������������������
around Chenery and Diamond—23 in managers of each of the prepared food
all. Restaurants, groceries, specialties, sections ascertain by experience the
school lunchrooms. Food prepared on popularity of each dish—each soup, ��������������������������������������
the site, take-out, fresh food and pre- meat, roasted chicken, etc. As counter
packaged food. offerings dwindle, they are replenished �����������������������������������
I set out to query the proprietors or allowed to become depleted.
or managers of all these places—“Just I was pleased to discover the
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what do you do with your unsold or thoughtful efficiency of our markets
unused food?” and food providers. But there are
Each of these categories gener- exceptions. The San Francisco Unified ��������������������
ates its own waste stream, both trash School District lunch program decides
and recycling. I found a remarkable from on high what all the school lunch-
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and consistent effort to put to use just rooms will serve each day. All the kids ���������������������
about everything that might spoil and get the identical meal, prepared else-
not waste anything. Waste doesn't make where and trucked to the schools, where
money. the little boxes are heated or arranged.
What to do with leftover prepared One monitor I spoke to said some
food? More than one establishment 65–75 pounds of edible food a day are
that sometimes has perfectly good left- discarded by children at his school.
over prepared items can find new uses Our one private school, St. John’s,
for some items in tomorrow's stews, has its own lunchroom and cooks—pre-
sandwiches or mixed vegetables. Some paring food for kids with special diets
offer it to their employees. All relegate as well as regular diets. It serves 200
anything that spoils easily to the com- meals a day.
postables bin each night. Good food that The most important recipient of
won't spoil may be kept overnight in cold Glen Park's waste food is the San
storage, but that is surprisingly rare. Francisco Food Bank, at the eastern
Edible leftovers from your plate that foot of Potrero Hill. It is the size and
do not end up in take-out boxes (doggie shape of a large airplane hanger. Inside
bags) and kitchen scraps are disposed of are rows with five-level stacks of huge
immediately. City and state health regu- boxed cans and jars of free food donated
lations are extremely strict—all excess from food factories’ overproduction and
restaurant food must be disposed of. restaurants whose inventory was too
Some small operations with perish- large.
able goods allow take-home by the staff, At the floor level are great bins of ���������������������������������������
but not on a regular basis. Three places hundred-pound sacks of onions, pota- ���������������������������������
keep barrels for used cooking oil, which toes, cabbage and many other fresh
is taken away for biodiesel. foods donated by big farms and gro-
At Safeway on Diamond Heights, ceries stores. One end of the building �������������������������������������
I peeked at the large store service area has a room just for divvying up the huge �����������������������������������������
in the rear. Neatly stacked there are sacks of donated rice into smaller, use-
great masses of wrapped cardboard ful bags. This mass of produce comes
boxes, wooden pallets, some used store from the Central Valley, Salinas Valley
racks, and several grocery carts needing and North Bay farms. Rows of other ������������
mechanical attention. There's a dumpster foods like breads and odd donated cans ������������
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for regular landfill garbage. In addition, and boxes from the numerous green
I saw a great bundle of good-looking grocery store food bank bins line the ���������
bread and rolls. I checked the expira- walls. There's also a great refrigerated ������������
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tion dates—two days after my visit. freezer.
This occasioned a comment to man- The staff calls this extraordinary
ager Marco. These bundles are destined place “Food Bank Costco.” I'd call it
for a food bank at the Safeway distribu- CONTINUED ON PAGE 12
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Glen Park News Page 8 Winter 2008
Sometimes things
don’t work. But
sometimes they do.
Since May 19, San Francisco Police come and cut it on Monday.
Department officers at the Ingleside That day, “he cleared his lunch
������������������ Station, which serves hour and drove behind me as I led him
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Weise
or Taraval Stations after Koeninger had planned on paying
making arrests because Wing double what he usually gets for a
that was the day work started on refur- cut, but when she tried, “he pushed my
bishing Ingleside’s holding cells. hand away, mentioned something about
More than six months later, the cells the holidays and left, after giving both
are still closed. Like all remodels, there my mom and me a hug and a kiss.”
�������� have been delays. They include new fire
codes, rewritten architectural plans,
The cut really perked Colan up.
“She had a shower and it really made
expired building permits and, most frus- her day,” says Koeninger. “She wanted
tratingly, “the State's insistence that the to look her best,” for what’s likely to
cells be Americans with Disabilities Act be her last Thanksgiving with her chil-
compliant (even though our rules do not dren.
allow us to house disabled prisoners),” At a dark time for her family,
according to Captain Denis O’Leary. Wing’s simple act of kindness moved
After a frustrating hiatus, Depart- Koeninger to tears. “With all that seems
ment of Public Works workers finally to be going wrong in our world today,
returned to the station on Nov. 24 to know that there is a lot that is right,” she
resume work on the remodel. When says. “I’ll never forget him.” n
miscreants can stay put at our local
station is unknown.
“We hope that the work will be
completed soon,” says O’Leary.
Schools
But though there are days when CONTINUED FROM PAGE 4
the world seems only to be an ill-run
and frustrating place, sometimes bright young faculty run with the curriculum
spots appear and the right things happen and instruction ball. She says, “I like
even when you aren’t expecting them. to stay behind the scenes and let others
Jennifer Koeninger of Chilton Street shine.”
found experienced one just before Teachers often speak of multiple
Thanksgiving. measures in evaluating their class-
Her mom, Cathy Conlan, lives in rooms. But a teacher’s litmus test for
the outer Richmond but has been get- school success isn’t solely calibrated in
ting her hair cut at Urban Soul salon for statistical quartiles or in scantron-scored
three years now. It was always a nice results. Often it occurs at the end of each
mother-daughter outing for the two. But day when instructors watch children
after a 10-year battle, Conlan’s emphy- leaving school, wearing grins as wide
San Francisco children now have a better option for
sema has been getting worse and now as Glen Canyon.
emergency care. Our Pediatric Emergency Department
“she’s reaching the end” and is hospice Schlenke likes to tell the story
is dedicated to children ages birth to 18. Child-sized
care, says Koeninger. of a kindergartner accompanied to
equipment and private rooms, doctors trained in pediatrics The whole family was set to spend Sunnyside on the first day of school
and emergency medicine, and Child Life staff who help Thanksgiving at Conlan’s house for by his third-grade brother. While
children cope with medical emergencies make all the the last time. She’d been feeling out- their mother completed registration
difference when dealing with a crisis. While an emergency of-sorts because her normally short hair information in Schlenke’s office, the
is never in the plans, plan on us if one happens. hadn’t been cut in quite awhile. Conlan, brothers walked out to the teacher-
63, “wistfully mentioned that she would supervised play yard. Wide-eyed,
love to have it cut one more time by the 5-year-old drifted away from his
���������������������� her hairdresser, Wing Tat,” Koeninger brother, safely sequestered behind
������������������������������� says. protective fences. The bell sounded
������������������������������������������������ So the Saturday before Thanksgiv- and the older sibling went to class,
���������������������������������������������������� ing, Koeninger went in to the Urban leaving his brother to wander into his
����������������������� Soul Salon on Chenery and asked Wing new classroom.
if he could possibly make a house call. Nancy Schlenke believes he is the only
Without even hesitating he said he’d child she has ever left behind. n
Winter 2008 Page 9 Glen Park News
Free-roaming Chickens
Roamed a Little Too Far
Anyone lost three chickens? That was rdChickens.com. Although roosters are
the gist of the message Glen Park resi- not legal in San Francisco (for obvious
dent Grace Clark posted on Nov. 4 to noise reasons), many households keep
three local listservs. hens in backyard coops for eggs. “I
The previous day, Clark had know of at least one other Glen Park
received an unusual phone call from family who raises chickens,” said Clark,
a parent at Glenridge “but Bernal Heights is the hotbed of
by Cooperative Nursery chicken raising in San Francisco.”
Emma School (where Clark’s Besides the thrill of being able to
Bland four-year-old son goes). step into the backyard for a still-warm
Smith Alexandra Nangle and breakfast egg, Clark, says that for her,
her three boys were trying the appeal is the animals themselves.
to catch a chicken they’d “Whenever I visited my parents, my
found on a Glen Canyon trail. Know- kids would ask, ‘When are we going
ing Clark kept chickens in her Chenery to get chickens, too?’ So when I found
Street backyard, they wondered if it was out we could really do it, I thought,
hers. ‘Let’s try!’ For us, they’re pets more
It wasn’t, but in the pouring rain, than anything else. They’re actually
Clark and her two kids joined the Nan- pretty trainable.”
gle family and finally brought home But back to our feathered pro-
a big, juvenile rooster. Forty-eight tagonists. Reluctant to turn them over
hours, many phone calls and several to Animal Control, for fear they’d be
hunts through blackberry thickets later, destroyed, Clark was relieved when
two more roosters had joined Clark’s someone on the SF Chickens Yahoo
increasingly crowded coop. Glenridge group answered her email and took
director Mame Campbell and parent two of the roosters home to his moth-
Gina Ponticello lent a hand. er’s flock. It turned out to be a brief
Despite her shout-outs to the com- sojourn, however. After they turned out
munity, Clark never found out where to be aggressive toward the others, he
the chickens came from. “They were a brought them back to Clark. They ended
high-end heirloom breed, and we found up in Calaveras County, where Clark’s
a box near them with straw in it. Prob- parents live.
ably someone let them go because they Chickens roaming wild in the
were roosters, and they wanted hens,” park, neighbors spreading the word,
she surmised. kids walking down the street with
Small-scale urban chicken farm- flapping roosters under their arms—
ing has become surprisingly popular adventures like these prove that Glen
in recent years, as evidenced by the Park remains a small-town enclave in
birth of websites such as www.Backya a great big city. n
Glen Park News Page 10 Winter 2008
Halloween Story
Glen Park is undergoing a baby boom. Sarah Palin sitting sentry, toting a semi-
The numbers all added up after dark automatic assault weapon and dressed in
on Halloween, and you didn’t have to a designer suit. A bandolier of scarlet-
poll the 750-member tipped ammunition circled her ruby-red
by Glen Park Parents, a jacket. “I wasn’t political last year,” said
Murray four-year-old parents’ Sutter, staring at his two macabre man-
Schneider group, to verify the nequins. “But this was the scariest year
arithmetic. You simply of all.”
had to tally the numbers of elves, fair- Sutter’s Italianate Victorian,
ies and pixies parading along Chenery built in 1888, attracted hundreds of
Street. admiring neighborhood children prior
Probably there were more kids to Halloween, including 5-year old
than the village has seen at one time in Saskia Furtado, who lives across the
a month of baby showers or a year of street. “Saskia loves Glennon’s house at
Walt Disney reruns. night.” says Saskia’s mother, Jennifer.
Paula Bosque, who has lived on So, with ghosts and ghouls stalking
Randall Street since 1982 and raised two Surrey and Sussex streets, followed by
daughters there, taught high school alge- gaggles of bumble bees, cowardly lions
bra for 16 years until a year ago. Bosque and sleeping beauties bringing up the
Hardware Store Photo by Liz Mangelsdorf
believes mathematical proof of the baby rear, Glen Park’s Halloween was in full
bonanza is as simple as one-two-three: swing three days before the presidential
“Hog wild Halloween-decorated house floated from fishing lines and skel- election.
equates to a high the number of children etons wielded broad swords. Each decorations,” said Glenn Rodriguez, Even the sodden weather didn’t
trick-or-treating.” hovered over a treasure chest of faux dressed in piratical pantaloons, hold- dampen the festivities. In colorful
Glenn and Kris Rodriguez, who gold pieces-of-eight. Next to them, a ing a cauldron of candy, ready to offer costumes, legions of spooky specters
live in a 1895 house on Chenery mutineer skeleton walked a plank, prod- treats to the 300 revelers who stepped scurried along Diamond Street, invad-
Street, didn’t go hog wild. They went ded by a brigand swinging a cutlass, as onto his front porch that evening. ing stores and restaurants for sweets,
wild with a domestic pirate theme. A a skull and crossbones unfurled above A couple of houses up Chenery stuffing their confectionary bounty into
marooned buccaneer would have found them. Street, Davy Dalere, whose mother swollen trick-or-treat sacks.
safe harbor dropping anchor near their “There are many new families in owns Dalere’s Beauty Salon, decorated Halloween moms made stops at
goblin-adorned house, where ghosts the neighborhood. They appreciate the his house with 13 grimacing pumpkins home, in order to empty a refinery of
and four ominous-looking tarantulas. “I sugar onto family dining room tables,
was born and raised in this house and ensuring that each sweet was securely
every year we see more kids knocking sealed, tossing out the ones that
on the door,” said Dalere, who has lived weren’t.
in his home for 40 years. Cecilia Fisher, who has lived in her
Glennon Sutter, who lives on 1896 Victorian on Randall Street for
Arlington Street, literally did go Hal- nine years, makes a habit of separating
loween hog-wild. Sutter displayed a candy brought home by Alex, her 4-year
coffin in his front yard, occupied by a old daughter. “I only allow her one or
pig adorned with bright red lipstick that two pieces per house, so it is not a big
shared crypt space with a John McCain problem,” said Fisher, who estimates
facsimile. The defeated candidate, arms she entertained 325 trick-or-treaters
folded funereally across his chest, lay this year.
in permanent electoral repose. The Fishers make Halloween a
The cosmetically enhanced little family affair. This year Alex dressed
pig wasn’t alone. A moose stood guard as Wonder Woman, clothed in comic
from an upper floor bedroom window, book-haute couture. Alex’s father,
Winter 2008 Page 11 Glen Park News
by
By removing patches
of the solid concrete
An inspector makes a site visit,
offering suggestions if modifications Check It Out at the Library!
Alma and replacing them are required or just grants the permits.
Hecht with planted pervious Next comes the concrete cutting; reus- The Glen Park Branch Library is will also have monthly Preschool
surfaces, you increase ing the pieces as stepping-stones saves now open on Mondays, effective Videos.
your home’s value, diminish storm money and a trip to the landfill. Then Nov. 24. The library is now open Also in the New Year, we will have
water runoff, recharge the aquifer and, it’s time for a block party to lay down every Monday from a computer class focusing on how to
most importantly, add beauty. Another the concrete stepping stones, plant, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. use the Library catalog. It will be at
benefit is eliminating ongoing concrete top-dress the gardens with the gravel by We aren t the only 2 p.m. on Jan. 10. Please call or stop
Denise
repairs caused when tree roots lift the mulch, and water. The gravel looks tidy, location with new in to sign up. On Jan. 31 at 2 p.m. the
Sanderson
pavement. offers easy pick up for dog keepers, is hours. Libraries now San Francisco Shakespeare Festival
Jane Martin founded and runs the economical, and percolates. What was open from 1 p.m. to 5 will present Romeo and Juliet at the
nonprofit Plant*SF, which spearheaded an ordinary grey block in the morning p.m. on Sundays are Bayview, Mer- branch.
the movement. Plant*SF and the San becomes an inviting, colorful garden by ced, Noe Valley, Ortega and Presidio. The Community Calendar on
Francisco Department of Public Works afternoon. n Golden Gate Valley will also be open Page 20 lists our events. Or, to find
co-authored the permeable landscape- on Mondays. out more about our programs and
specific permit that encourages side- This new push now has all the other library news, please visit our
walk plantings by offering a reduced Learn more at http://www.plantsf.org/ branches open at least six days per Glen Park Library blog at http://
fee (sliding scale from $160–$215 Alma Hecht, point person for the 300 week and adds more seven-day-a- glenparklibrarysfpl.blogspot.com.
instead of $800) and a provision for Chenery block gardens and owner of week branches in areas of the city
increased concrete-free areas with a Second Nature Design, will be happy that are otherwise underserved. These We hope to see you at the library this
minimum four-foot-wide Americans to assist you. You can reach her at 586- new days were made possible by winter! n
with Disabilities Act concrete access 6578 or alma@ secondnature.bz. Check passage of the Proposition D library-
without variance. The permit cost is her website http://secondnature.bz/ to funding measure last year. Thank
reduced exponentially by the number see if a blog about the process has been you, people of San Francisco! Glen Park Library
of homes involved. Imagine saving started. The library is happy to announce 2825 Diamond Street (near Bosworth)
money, getting to know your neighbors that we will be having our annual 415-355-2858
and improving your immediate and the Winter Reading clubs again. For the
greater community at one time. Sign Up Now Adult Winter Reading Club, you have
On the 300 block of Chenery Street to read just three books and then you Monday 10-6
and wrapping around the corner onto For Festival Booths will receive a small prize and will be Tuesday 10-6
Mateo, several neighbors are develop- entered in the raffle. We are raffling Wednesday 12-8
ing sidewalk gardens. Initial meetings After a one-year hiatus, the off three $25 gift certificates to The Thursday 1-7
and discussions are moving into mea- Glen Park Festival will once Canyon Market, Eggettes and the Friday 1-6
suring and making simple plans with again fill our streets with Cheese Boutique. For the Children Saturday 1-6
accompanying photos. music, dancing and hundreds s Winter Reading Club, for ages 17 Sunday Closed
A point person, preferably with of neighbors and visitors on and under, kids can read to earn a
landscaping experience, is essential to Sunday, April 26, 2009. small prize. Those who complete the
oversee the process. Each person indi- program will enter the raffle for the
It will be the 11th annual penguin puppet. The program begins Denise Sanderson is the Glen Park
festival in downtown Glen Dec. 13 and ends Jan. 17. Branch Librarian.
Park. To read about what you Users of the library might
can look forward to, check out notice a baby boom of late. Starting
www.glenparkfestival.com. in January, we will be changing
some of children s programming
And to get a booth, along to reflect this. We will now have a
with a festival map, please Baby Rhyme and Playtime program
go to the festival website at on Tuesdays from 10:30 a.m. to 11:
www.glenparkfestival.com/ 30 a.m. It will have rhymes, stories,
vendors. fingerplays and music for ages 0-
3, followed by a Playtime where the
Applications for participants children can have some fun with our
are due no later than March new educational toys.
1, but organizers expect to be Parents and caregivers also will
fully booked well before that, have an opportunity to socialize
so vendors and organizations and make connections. We won t
should sign up early to ensure be having a Preschool Storytime
that they get a space. time anymore, but we still have
our monthly Family Storytime on
a Wednesday evening. The library
Winter 2008 Page 15 Glen Park News
Community Calendar
Glen Park Association form at our branch library. disabled clients who live in the 94131 (in Bengali with supertitles) with impro-
Quarterly meetings are held in January, For More Information: An online ZIP code. vised incidental music by Biswanath
April, July and October. Everyone is “blog” lists upcoming programs, library Chatterjee and Mamuka Berika.
welcome, members and non-members news and spotlights on books. Visit http: Bird & Beckett Events ¯Jazz in the Bookshop: Every
alike. Annual dues of just $10 (pay- //glenparklibrarysfpl.blogspot.com. The Bird & Beckett Books & Records, Friday, 5:30–8 pm. Dec. 19, Don Prell’s
able at the winter meeting) support the general library web site also has event list- 653 Chenery St., presents a potpourri SeaBop Ensemble with Dan Brown
Association’s important work on behalf ings, at http://sfpl.org. The Glen Park Branch of free literary and musical events. (sax), Michael Parsons (piano), Don
of the neighborhood. has flyers for all its programs, as well as the Donations help support the series. Prell (bass), Chris Bjorkbom (drums).
Next meeting: Wednesday, Jan. 21, monthly newspaper At the Library, which Check online for the latest information ± Poetry with Open Mic: 1st
7 pm, St. John’s School, 925 Chenery St. includes news and events of all the libraries at birdbeckett.com, or call owner Eric & 3rd Mondays, 7–9 pm: Mon. Dec.
Learn what’s new, vote for GPA Board in the San Francisco Public Library sys- Whittington at 586-3733. Shop hours 15, Poets’ Holiday Potluck, featuring
members, meet neighbors. tem. are 10 am–9 pm every day. a reading by poets Jeanne Powell, QR
Live music options are expanding Hand and Giovanni. Bring something
Friends of Glen Canyon Park SFPD Community Forums in Glen Park. Friday evening live jazz, to eat and drink. Open mic follows.
Meetings and Plant Restoration Third Tuesday of each month, 7 pm, a bookshop fixture for six years, is now & Three book groups meet
Work Parties: Third Saturday of each Ingleside Police Station, John Young Way supplemented by regular Sunday after- monthly at 7 pm; everyone is invited.
month, 9 am–noon. Next dates: Dec. off San Jose Avenue. All residents are noon concerts with an eclectic array of Note that some days of the month have
20, Jan. 17, Feb. 21. Meet behind the encouraged to participate in the informa- performers. changed.
Recreation Center. Tools, gloves and tive monthly Community Relations Forum All this culture is presented under Bird &Beckett Book Club: 1st
instruction provided. Learn about bot- hosted by Capt. Denis O’Leary. Drop in and the auspices of the nonprofit Bird & Wednesdays. A book is discussed each
any and ecology, exercise your green get acquainted with the dedicated people Beckett Cultural Legacy Project. Your month; participants choose the next
thumb, enjoy entertaining camaraderie who keep our neighborhood safe. Meetings purchases help the bookstore stay open. month’s selection.
or examine public-lands management are subject to availability of the captain. For Tax-deductible contributions to the Cul- Political Book Discussion Group:
issues. details, call the station at 404-4000. tural Legacy Project help keeps cultural 2nd Thursdays. Call for the title.
Weekly Work Parties: Every Next dates: Dec. 16, Jan. 20, Feb. 17. programming alive in Glen Park Eminent Authors’ Birthdays: 4th
Wednesday, 9 am–noon. For the current Coming Events: Thursdays. For these open readings,
week’s meeting place contact Richard Apiary Open House — Children’s Story Time: Every bring a short piece from the works of
Craib, 648-0862. Sat., Dec. 13, 10 am–2 pm, 194 Lippard Friday, 11 am. Ruth Maginnis and Jenny a favorite writer born during the month
To join Friends of Glen Canyon St. near Joost. Beekeeper Karen Peteros will Gerard, both educators as well as read- to read aloud.
Park or learn more about their activi- show you her colorful backyard hives and ers, read a variety of stories for the ¨ Literary Talks: Last Sundays,
ties, contact Richard Craib at 648-0862 introduce some of the “sweet workers” who preschool set. Ruth was the librarian in 2:30 pm.
or Jean Conner at 584-8576. pollinate the fruit trees in our neighborhood. Glen Park for many years. Special Events:
A demonstration hive with live bees lets you ¯Which Way West?: Every Sun., Dec. 28, 4:30–6:30 pm: A
Talk to Recreation and Park see the hive’s inner activities. Kids get a free Sunday, 4:30–6:30 pm. (Note: No pro- Tribute to Rosetta Reitz: Poet Diane
Meet the Manager: Jared Blu- honey stix, a slender tube filled with clover gram on Dec. 7 or 21, when staff will di Prima reads poems in memory of
menfeld, interim general manager of honey. Jars of honey from Karen’s hives in give personal gift selection guidance.) Rosetta Reitz, founder of Rosetta
the City’s Recreation and Park Dept., Glen Park, Balboa Park, St. Mary’s Park This concert series features Americana Records, and spins recordings of vin-
plans to visit Glen Canyon Park on and Golden Gate Park, each with its own roots bands, jazz groups, world music tage blueswomen issued on that label
Thur., Feb. 26. Double-check the date unique flavor, will be available (bring cash performers, classical music, and more. in the 1980s and 1990s.
and time at www.parks.sfgov.org, or or personal check). Dec. 14: Multilingual South Asian a Fri., Dec. 19, 8:30pm: Writer
contact him for a 10-minute face-to- capella group Kal ki Awaaz sings to Barry Gifford reads from his memoir
face weekday appointment at 831-2700 Noel Stroll set the stage for Chinta-pukur, a troupe “Memories from a Sinking Ship,” with
or Jared.Blumenfeld@sfgov.org. Holiday Evening: Sat., Dec. 13, of U.C. Berkeley linguists performing accompaniment by jazz pianist Michael
5–9 pm, along 24th and Church streets. their play Amader Shishirbheja Golpo Parsons.
Glen Park Branch Library This 3rd annual Noe Valley holiday
Denise Sanderson, Glen Park event promises a boutiques, gift shops
Branch manager, lists a variety of and restaurants hosting an evening of
coming events in her column in this festive libations and special in-store .
issue. Check the library for scheduled promotions; strolling carolers and
programs and events. musicians, hot cocoa, cider and other
Winter Reading Club: Kids 17 and festivities. Santa will be there 5–8 pm
under. Dec. 13–Jan. 17. Prizes. Sign up for wishes (earlier photo ops at Zephyr
now! Real Estate, 11 am–2 pm).Readings
Baby Rhyme & Playtime: Tues- of “A Child’s Christmas in Wales” by
days, 10:30–11:30 am. Ages 0–3. Dylan Thomas at 5:30 pm at Cover To
Preschool Videos: Monthly, check Cover, 6:30 pm at Fima Photography,
for dates. and 7:30 pm at When Modern Was. Info
Family Storytime: Monthly, on a at www.noelstroll.com.
Wednesday evening.
Computer Class: Sat., Jan. 10, 2 St. Aidan’s Food Pantry
pm. Learn how to use the library catalog Food Distribution: Every Friday,
online. 1–2:30 pm, St. Aidan’s Episcopal Beekeeper Karen Peteros’s Lippard Street backyard is abuzz with activity as she
Romeo and Juliet: Sat., Jan. 31, 2 Church, Gold Mine Drive at Diamond and her honey-making helpers prepare for an open house on Sat., Dec. 13. Multi-
colored hives help the bees identify their homes when they return from flights
pm. SF Shakespeare Festival will per- Heights Boulevard, for low-income and around the neighborhood. See Calendar listing for details. Photo by Denis Wade