Glen Park News Summer 2018
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SUMMER 2018 VOLUME 36, NO. 2 Rafael Mandelman Vows to Bridge Divide afael Mandelman is preparing to take office as Glen Park’s new R District 8 representative on the Board of Supervisors after he won the recent election in a landslide with 60 percent of the vote, by besting incumbent Rachel Supervisor Jeff Sheehy. Gordon Mandelman is expected to take the oath of office in July, once results of the June 5 election are officially certi- fied. His win means that Glen Park will lose one of its own on the Board of Supervisors, with the departure of Sheehy, who lives with his husband and middle- school daugh- ter a short walk from downtown Glen Park. One of Sheehy’s first acts as supervisor was to address a problem he saw Jeff Sheehy firsthand every Rafael Mandelman greets a neighborhood resident in front of Glen Park Hardware on Chenery Street. Photo by Liz Mangelsdorf day: the traffic mess at the busy Bosworth-Diamond whether concerning the citywide “If there are events or meetings in Glen the campaign trail, knocking on doors intersection. He convinced the San challenges of affordable housing and Park that folks want me to be there, and greeting commuters at the BART Francisco Municipal Transportation homelessness as they affect the neigh- they should please let me know.” station. He may not have the same Agency to assign traffic control officers borhood or the more mundane con- After all, he said, supervisors are intimate familiarity with the neigh- to help tame the commute-hour chaos cerns of potholes and stop signs. “judged first by their constituent borhood that Sheehy has, but he has in the area. “You want my attention, you have response.” done his homework. Mandelman, who lives near 25th it,” Mandelman said in a recent Sunday Mandelman, an attorney special- One topic: the potential develop- and Valencia streets, vowed to keep morning interview with the Glen Park izing in housing and development, ment of the BART parking lot across the needs of Glen Park in sharp focus, News at the Bello Coffee & Tea café. spent a lot of time in Glen Park on CONTINUED ON PAGE 8 GLEN PARK ASSOCIATION Glen Park Businesses: Longevity Rules QUARTERLY MEETING ne family. Three locations. operation of the shop to her daughter March 1975, it moved to its current Fifty years. Marian, who runs the two-chair salon location when Glory Dalere and her Thursday July 26 O Even for tiny Glen Park, part-time, by appointment only. Six late husband bought the building at 7 p.m. where a surprising number of businesses years ago, the Chenery Street operation 660 Chenery, with its storefront shop. Glen Park Recreation Center are in their second, was moved upstairs from the ground Young Marian loved the move. On by third or even fourth floor, in order to make room for Cheese Diamond Street, she had to get a Gail AGENDA decade under the same Boutique to relocate from next door. grown-up to help her across the street to • SFMTA — Diamond & Bosworth Bensinger intersection update ownership, Dalere’s That was the third location for buy candy at Diamond Super Market, • Fix-it Team — Work plan status Beauty Salon stands out for longevity. the salon, which opened in October but on Chenery she could go next • Supervisor Rafael Mandelman Glory Dalere is 83 now, a widow, 1968 on Diamond Street, in the space door to the Italian deli (later the first and has long since turned over the where La Corneta Taqueria is now. In CONTINUED ON PAGE 14 ODE TO GLEN PARK ~ PG. 4 REC CENTER SUMMER PROGRAM ~ PG. 9 TRIBUTE TO THELMA WILLIAMS ~ PG. 11 2 Glen Park News | Summer 2018 GLEN PARK S GLEN PARK ASSOCIATION S f you’ve accessed www. home page, as soon as the NEWS glenparkassociation.org information is available. recently, you might have The Glen Park News is I One thing we’re really been shocked at the sudden excited about is the link to published quarterly by the Glen transformation of the GPA the Glen Park Association Park Association. Signed articles website. Facebook page (did you know are the opinions of the authors Where once there existed we had one?), where you’ll find and not necessarily those of the a clunky page that put the posts about GPA activities, Glen Park Association. scroll bar such as Greenway plantings, by Editor-in-Chief Rachel Gordon to the ulti- and where the mayor’s Fix-It Bonnee mate test of Team has been beautifying Waldstein Deputy Editor Gail Bensinger endurance, and improving Glen Park. You now appears might be inspired to partici- Copy Editor Denis Wade a sparkling page with mul- pate in one of the many com- tiple stories and photos to munity activities that are fea- Art Director Liz Mangelsdorf entice you further into the tured on our Facebook page. depths of the site. Glen Park sometimes makes Calendar Editor Caroline Mangelsdorf At the January meeting of big headlines. When it does, the Glen Park Association, there are links to stories in the Online Editor Elizabeth Weise President Scott Stawicki Chronicle. There are also links reviewed the GPA’s accom- to random musings from Glen Advertising Manager Nora Dowley plishments in 2017, and its Park on Instagram and Twitter. goals for this year. The newly redesigned Glen Park Association web page. Some things haven’t Distribution Among the goals for 2018 changed, but we have a feel- Manager Murray Schneider was a redesign of the GPA website. blog has been such a great repository of ing many people aren’t aware of all the The old site was based on a WordPress information, we wanted to ensure that longstanding features of the GPA site. Reporters platform that had limited functional- information was preserved.” On the Glen Park Association tab, you Gail Bensinger ity. The new site, still on WordPress, As before, there is a search function, can find board contacts and minutes Rachel Gordon has a much broader range. The most which will bring up any post from of the quarterly general meetings and Brynna McNultry important change, we feel, is that you anytime in the past. monthly board meetings, so you can Murray Schneider can preview several recent posts at one We will be using “categories” on our be in the know about what issues the Heather World time and follow through on any one by posts going forward, so you can focus GPA and the community are working clicking on it. On the old site, you had on a particular topic, such as transit, on. If you have insomnia, you can read Columnists to scroll through an entire story to get crime, environment, education, etc. the GPA bylaws and fall asleep assured Marc Dickow to the next one. Our calendar has been redesigned that our association functions by a set Betsy Eddy This caused headaches for the edi- to be more user-friendly. The linear, of transparent rules. Kay Hamilton Estey tor, who needed to prioritize time- chronological listing of events has If you want funds for a project that Katie Ripley sensitive stories so that they could be been replaced by a monthly calendar will benefit Glen Park, you can go to Evelyn Rose seen immediately upon opening the with events placed on the date of the the “grants” category (full disclosure: Jeff Sheehy site. Depending on the timing of the month. You can get an at-a-glance view it’s currently under construction). And Michelle Waddy posts that came in, some recent posts of everything happening that month. if you’ve ever wondered where the heck Bonnee Waldstein would get buried under older posts. Clicking on a specific event will bring Glen Park is, exactly, you’ll find a Glen Confusing? Yes. up all the details about it. You can Park boundary map. Photographers The new design addresses that prob- advance to future months to plan to Another thing that hasn’t changed: Gail Bensinger lem in an elegant way. Now, featured attend an event or go back to past You can join or renew membership Betsy Eddy stories are splashed on top, followed months to bemoan what you’ve missed. in the GPA online for 10 bucks, and Rachel Gordon by a scroll of older stories for you to As before, new events are added as you can subscribe to the website to get Liz Mangelsdorf preview and access. information becomes available. We the latest post in your email. Please do Murray Schneider The GPA engaged Mary Szczepanik, hope that you will come to rely on the both! a web designer who lives in Glen Park, calendar as your go-to spot to find out Although there were many issues to do the makeover. “When redesign- everything that’s going on in Glen Park. to address and myriad pesky details, ing the website,” she said, “we wanted In an effort to be more interactive it has been rewarding to achieve the 2912 Diamond St. #407 to make it easier to navigate and view and responsive, our contact tab will let functionality of our website that we’ve San Francisco, CA 94131 multiple stories at once, provide an you know whom to address if you want always wanted. “Working on the GPA [email protected] enhanced calendar listing, and generally general information, have an event to website was a super fun project for me,” make the site more visually compel- post on the calendar, or have written Szczepanik said. “It felt great to be able ling—there are so many great photos of something you’d like to have posted on to help with the GPA website, since Please support Glen Park that could be shown.” the site.