The Names in Lights Have a Tale to Tell – Part 3
by Ken Katz This is the third and last in a series of articles about the twenty-seven Names in Lights panels in the Splash Pad Plaza that were dedicated in 2004. The first two articles were limited to the six panels that specifically grouped together businesses in the Grand Lake commercial district. This month’s News […]
Odds and Ends – July 2021
Monday morning, we received the following email from Tessa Quintanilla, the Project Manager from EAH Housing, about the building that houses Vegan Mob (formerly Kwik Way). “Thought I should reach out to you to give you a heads-up about some events this weekend at 500 Lake Park, as you may have some questions after going […]
Grand Avenue Merchant News – July 2021
by Ken Katz Things are hopping on Grand Avenue, as business is returning to normal, and we’ve got some big news to report. The other day, Anthony Bennett, the owner of Antiques Collected Four 32 and the spokesperson for the Grand Avenue Business Association, alerted us to a new shop at 474 Santa Clara called […]
The Bounty Boxes Just Keep on Coming
by Ken Katz The Saturday before last, fourteen months after picking up my very first Bounty Box–as a worldwide pandemic loomed–I decided that volunteering in the Grand Lake Bounty Box booth was the very best way to get some first-hand knowledge as to what it takes to assemble a large quantity of local seasonal produce […]
The Short, Flamboyant Reign of Victoria the Corpse Flower
by C. J. Hirschfield In 2017, more than 130,000 people came to see a corpse flower (Amorphophallus titanum) bloom in person at the U.S. Botanic Garden in Washington, DC and more than 650,000 viewers accessed the live web stream. The public’s fascination with this endangered Sumatran rainforest plant is no doubt due to its great […]
Grand Lake Clean-Up Collaboration
by Eric Hughes On Sunday, June 27, over fifty neighbors answered our call to help make the Grand Lake Neighborhood a cleaner, safer place to be. The cleanup was organized by representatives from Grand Lake Neighbors, the Grand Avenue Business Association, the Lakeshore Business Improvement District, the Lakeshore Homes Association, and the District 2 City […]
Splash Pad News – June 2021
Neighbor Mary C. Daly Uses “Escape Velocity” to Increase Economic Mobility
by C. J. Hirschfield Quick—describe what you think the President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco would be like. If you answered a former high school dropout, an enthusiastic texter, someone with a flair for dressing hip, a lesbian podcaster, and a neighbor of the Grand Lake Theater, you’d be right. […]
Grand Avenue Merchant News – June 2021
by Ken Katz As we reported last month, Alyce on Grand owner Alyce Preston was about to move (for about the fourth time) to a new location. This one is two doors up the block at 3231 Grand—the former home of Oak Common. When interviewed on Friday (three weeks after reopening) Alyce confided that this […]