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GENERAL MEETING
Dear Friends and Neighbors, our next Valley Glen Neighborhood Association meeting will be Tuesday, June 15, 2010, Erwin Street School auditorium, 13400 Erwin St. "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. Our special guest for this meeting will be Councilman Paul Krekorian. In preparation for his visit, we would appreciate it if you would take our survey (clicking the underlined words in the next sentence) on how important various Valley Glen issues are to you. Please click here to take the 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 either scan it to jannol6@aol.com or you may e-mail your answers to jannol6@aol.com.
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 VGNA annual yard sale and fundraiser: Time to spring clean and save items for the VGNA yard sale, Saturday, June 12, 8:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m., 13422 Oxnard Street. To volunteer helping that day and to donate items, contact me at judyprice1127@aol.com.
Chef Ueli Huegli of Matterhorn Chef fame is back in Valley Glen. His new restaurant, Swiss Chef is at the old San Remo location, 13727 Victory Blvd., (818) 904-1500. For more information check out his website:
http://www.swisschefusa.com/main.html
Please advise us of any notable updates by clicking the Contact icon in the upper right hand corner.
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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? Your request has been answered.
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.
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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. |
