The next re-visioning meeting for the Anaheim Corridor is this Saturday. This meeting is a little later than the last two. In all likelihood this will focus on what design guidelines should be implemented.
These are the meetings that resulted in the creation of the Sunday Night Market in Cambodia Town set to debut in less than two week.s
Second Town Hall Community Meeting/ Actually The Third Meeting
This Saturday, July 25, 2:30 – 5:00 pm, Mark Twain Library Auditorium, 1401 E. Anaheim St.
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.
A lot of people are pushing for some improvements along the Anaheim
Corridor. It looks like the community garden and a version of a farmers
market to increase pedestrian activity in the area are probably going to
happen. The night market, which runs from 4pm to 9pm, looks like it
needs volunteers and venders. Here's the Facebook Page to keep up on
these two things:
You are also highly encouraged to attend a community meeting to be hosted
by Councilman Dee Andrews on Thursday July 9, 2015 6:00-7:00 pm, at Mark
Twain Library. The Councilman will make a public announcement about a
new community garden and a night market in the heart of Cambodia Town.
Please see the enclosed flyer for details.
Three incidents of vandalism were reported yesterday at 7:24am on Gaviota just north of PCH. Please keep an eye open around Chittick Field, as well as the other three neighborhood parks: MacArthur and Rosa Parks, for tagging and or destruction of property. Other than the continued tagging at 1732 15th street, this week has been quiet so far.
Update: 05/13/2015: Additional tagging on 15th and Walnut last night, buildings and alleys. Note most of the tagging is taking place on streets like Walnut or 15th, and that is a very predictable and reliable prevention pattern to be on the look out for.
The community is invited to attend a special kick-off event to launch
the Anaheim Corridor Design Visioning Process. The free event is on
Saturday, March 28, at 11:00 am, at the Homeland Neighborhood Cultural
Center's Manazar Gamboa Community Theatre at MacArthur Park, 1321 E.
Anaheim St.
In order to attend, I am moving cleaning of 17th street this Staurday up to 8:00am. That way it will be mostly finished by the time the meeting begins.
The official news release: http://www.longbeach.gov/civica/press/display.asp?layout=4&entry=5044
