Cambodia Town Night Market and Community Garden Update

There was a Town Hall meeting at Mark Twain Library this evening. The subject was the Night Market which is slated to start Sundays at MacArthur Park from 4pm to 9pm on August 2nd. The goal of the Night Market, which evolved from the suggestion of a Farmer's Market at the Anaheim Corridor re-visioning meetings was meant to promote affordable, family friendly and fresh produce. There would likely be native Cambodian foods as well as food trucks. This would be the first Farmer's Market in the 6th District and the only one taking place at night. Anyone who would like to be involved can email LBNightMarket@gmail.com or call the organizers at (562) 388-4978. You can also like their Facebook Page to stay informed.

The community garden is planned for the vacant lot at Peterson and Anaheim. The tentative name is the healing fields. The group creating the garden already has a community garden at Dawson and Anaheim [I will show you pictures when I find it]. They plan to remove the cement from the lot, install new fences and add in gas and water meters. The garden will be multicultural with several volunteers working different plots on the garden. The group creating the garden, SCIC, is creating an advisory group to start that organization of volunteers. The location of the garden  is controversial because it was formerly used at the Cambodian Genocide Memorial every April 17th, the date the slaughter of 2 million Cambodians began. And those who held the memorial on that plot expressed strong disappointment that the plot isn't being set aside for that memorial anymore.