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

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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. Glen Park has given me and my family In addition, the capacity of the new The home page of the new site will such a wonderful community.” our site is much greater, so you don’t hit a always feature the front page of the We hope you’ll enjoy our website Advertisers wall after reviewing the limited num- current issue of the Glen Park News, makeover, and that it will give you ber of older posts on the previous site. clickable to the entire issue, as well as valuable information and insight into Szczepanik notes, “One of the more archives to back issues. our great little corner of the city. v they support us! exciting elements of the site redesign Time and place of the upcoming was ensuring that all the archives of old quarterly Glen Park Association meet- Bonnee Waldstein is corresponding secre- stories transferred—the GPA website/ ing will likewise be viewable on the tary of the Glen Park Association. Summer 2018 | Glen Park News 3

S FROM THE EDITORS S GPA Board of istrict 8 voters elected a new We also want to take this opportunity expected to run for a four-year term in supervisor to represent Glen to thank Supervisor Jeff Sheehy for his the November 2019 election. The race Directors and Officers for D Park: Rafael Mandelman. service on the Board of Supervisors we just got through should be looked 2018 We welcome him to the since January 2017. A Glen Park at as a warm-up. President neighborhood and hope he will resident, Sheehy was picked by the All that maneuvering is captivating Scott Stawicki champion Glen Park and fight for safe late Mayor Ed Lee to fill out the term to political insiders, but the general [email protected] and clean streets, equity and inclusion, of District 8 Supervisor Scott Wiener population is less intrigued—most are Vice President a sane transportation policy that when he was elected to the state Senate. more interested in having a mayor Stephany Wilkes includes a more reliable Muni system, Sheehy showed from the start that he who improves people’s quality of life [email protected] enhancements for people who walk and cares deeply for the neighborhood and and holds true to San Francisco values. Membership Secretary drive, and accommodations for drivers. he worked hard to address constituent Breed has signaled she will do both. Hilary Schiraldi New housing development in Glen concerns. Following Mandelman’s The morning after the polls closed, [email protected] Park should fit with the character of the victory, Sheehy announced that he has Breed trailed opponent Mark Leno by Recording Secretary neighborhood, and our city’s homeless no desire to take on Mandelman again 1,146 votes under the ranked-choice Heather World crisis that is creeping into Glen Park in the fall 2018 election. voting system despite having taken first [email protected] should be tackled with resolve, creativity Not only are we greeting a new place in nine of the 11 supervisorial Corresponding Secretary and a drive toward real results that supervisor, we also welcome a new districts. But as more ballots were Bonnee Waldstein migrate people humanely and quickly mayor. Congratulations to Board of counted the following week she squeaked [email protected] from the streets into shelter and housing. Supervisors President London Breed, through to victory. Now her task is to Treasurer We sat down with Mandelman who came out on top in the June find common ground in tackling some Dennis Mullen after his resounding win in the June election to serve out the remainder of San Francisco’s biggest challenges— [email protected] 5 election, and he expressed his of Mayor Lee’s term, which ends in housing affordability, traffic congestion

commitment to work for and with January 2020. Lee died last December, and homelessness among them. Glen Park News Print Editor Rachel Gordon Glen Park residents. We know his mid-term. Breed, as board president, Breed shouldn’t be immune from [email protected] attention will be pulled toward citywide automatically succeeded him, as City accountability the next time she’s on issues and the other neighborhoods law dictates. But her colleagues had the ballot, but we hope San Francisco Glen Park News Online Editor he represents, including the politically the right to oust her, which they did politics will continue to have at least Elizabeth Weise influential Castro. But we are hopeful less than two months later, and gave the veneer of civility, rather than the [email protected] he will keep his word that Glen Park Supervisor Mark Farrell the job. Voters nastiness and rancor that has roiled Glen Park News Association will not fall off his radar. put Breed back in office and she is Washington. v Webmaster Mary Szczepanik S NEWS FROM CITY HALL S Glen Park News Advertising Rep. Nora Dowley irst and foremost, I want to thank Other initiatives included getting how $250,000 should be spent in our [email protected] my family for their love and sup- funds for a survey of the Greenway, neighborhoods. More than a thousand Health & Environment Chair F port over the past 18 months. the corridor along Bosworth Street neighbors voted on proposals, which Stephany Wilkes Thank you to the late Mayor Ed Lee between Chilton and Elk streets; included neighborhood beautification [email protected] for the incredible honor of my appoint- moving the Greenway project forward and public safety improvements. The Neighborhood Improvement Chair ment as District 8 super- by facilitating the clearance of dead Boundary Survey for the Glen Park John Walmsley by visor. Thank you to all trees; the historic preservation of Glen Greenway project, which will advance [email protected] Jeff my friends and neigh- Canyon; and working closely with the Greenway by supporting the detailed Sheehy bors who supported me residents, merchants and police on design of safe, accessible pathways and Program Chair Carolyn Deacy both in my job and in public safety concerns. restoring native vegetation, won fund- [email protected] my campaign. I am proud to have Work on the dog park in Walter ing through this process. served the residents of District 8 and all Haas Park has begun and should be And in May, I had the privilege to Public Safety Chairs the people of the City and County of completed in a couple of months. We honor the Cheese Boutique and owners Carolyn Deacy, Hilary Schiraldi [email protected] San Francisco. It has been immensely got funds to replace the dirt with an Rick and Nada Malouf as the District 8 rewarding to serve this fantastic city, artificial surface that will be cleaner Small Business Honoree. Recreation & Parks Chair and I could not have done it without and also will avoid dust blowing over I believe that the progress we made Ashley Hathaway all of you. the children’s play area. together will have a profound and [email protected] During my time as supervisor, I have During the past year and a half, I lasting impact on the Glen Park village Transportation Chair been proud to partner with the Glen have worked with the mayor’s Fix-It and outer neighborhoods for years to Scott Stawicki Park community on various projects. Team, led by Sandra Zuniga. The come, and I will continue to advocate [email protected] Street safety was a major concern, and Fix-It Team worked all over District for my Glen Park neighbors in my Zoning Chair I believe we made great headway by 8, and made some great improvements future endeavors. Feel free to say hi if Tania Treis installing stop signs at Diamond Street at the BART station and around the you see me around the neighborhood. [email protected] and Diamond Heights Boulevard neighborhood. Their work will con- Happy summer! v and, critically, getting traffic officers tinue. We worked with DPW to bring The mission of the Glen Park assigned at Diamond and Bosworth, Community Ambassadors to clean in Editor’s Note: This is the final Association is to promote the collective by the BART station, for the evening and around the Village. Glen Park News column by District 8 interests of all persons living in Glen This past spring, I became the Supervisor Jeff Sheehy, who lost his bid Park, to inform and educate about rush hour. These much-needed safety neighborhood and citywide issues, to improvements have and will continue first District 8 supervisor to bring for election on June 5. Sheehy had been promote sociability and friendships and to reduce the number of vehicular and Participatory Budgeting to our com- appointed to the post when his prede- to support beneficial pedestrian accidents. I hope that more munity. Participatory Budgeting is a cessor, Scott Wiener, was elected to the neighborhood projects. of these types of improvements will democratic process where residents have state Senate. Our new supervisor, Rafael continue to be implemented. the opportunity to propose and vote on Mandelman, will take office in July. 4 Glen Park News | Summer 2018 Mom Writes an Ode to Glen Park Before Moving auren Tilston wrote a post on the Glen Park Parents’ online forum that attracted L the attention of a lot of readers. She wasn’t looking for a high chair or asking about an after- school program or seeking a nanny share. The mother of two, ages 6 and 8, was leav- ing the neighborhood and wrote an ode to Glen Park. Her words can serve by as reminders of what makes Glen Rachel Park marvelous. She experienced Gordon what so many of us experience but sometimes take for granted: our downtown offerings, good civic amenities and friendly neighbors. And hers is a story like so many others: A San Francisco family packing up to buy a roomier house with a big yard—something she and her husband, who had been renting, could not get here—in a neighborhood that her kids can explore by bike on their own. Her husband also commuted for eight years from Glen Park to the South Bay, and now he’s only 15 minutes from work. “So commute plus lack of space plus finances are the things that really drove the decision to move,” she said in an interview. It is clear from her letter to Glen Park that the decision, then, was bittersweet; her written tribute to Glen Park speaks Lauren Tilston, her husband Chancey, and their children Xander and Stella. for itself: break out of their shells and talk to you! Little Artistas, thank you for taking in our We have enjoyed the bouncy house and live Dear Glen Park, music at the Glen Park Festival with all of you Our family has lived in Glen Park for eight children and teaching them to love art and and endured the years of reconstruction at wonderful years! In less than two weeks, we Spanish! the park and celebrated the return of a (new will be moving (to San Jose) and we would Glen Park Dental, how in the world will we and improved) playground and rec building. like to say THANK YOU for being our commu- say goodbye? Our closest neighbors, our Hooray for Rec and Park and the people in nity for the last eight years. favorite dentists, our nanny share, smiles this community who were active in planning Destination Bakery, you brought us to Glen in the morning, smiles in the evening, extra for a space that serves the community! We Park, when we used to drive through for a treasures for our kids—our friends! played soccer with you and Coach Shawn! treat on the way to work. Besides that, the Glen Park community: Chenery Street, we will miss you on Canyon Market, you have been a staple, We have borrowed your muffin tins and Halloween! Thank you for your abundant bringing great nutrition and smiles to our your chairs and we have swapped unwanted candy (and wine!) and good times! entire family each day! items—remember when you gave me that Thank you for being the kind of people who SFPL Glen Park Branch, what would we do bottle of Pisco? We made some great Pisco you want to have in your community—people without you? My kids and I LOVE the library, sours! Remember when you needed a car who have got your back and make this life both for the books and the programs! seat and my kids had outgrown theirs? quite a bit more enjoyable! You people are Cafe Bello, your coffee is sublime and your Thank you for your generosity! awesome! Sometimes we ask ourselves why “office space” allowed for concentration Here I found moms with babes with whom we are leaving. (But then we remember the when the house was full of rambunctious I could enjoy (and commiserate) about mom no parking and the stairs! Also, the noise children. life, and they grew to be trusted friends from the bus stop.) Perch, you are the kings of last-minute and with big kids. Thank goodness for you, mom If I have forgotten to express any kind- BEAUTIFUL gifts! friends! I also found Leo from UPS when I ness or greatness you have shown, please Pono, you are my new favorite (and you had a baby and a toddler and no parking and forgive me! I hope you continue to support saved my skin!). Welcome to the neighbor- needed diapers and wipes and other house- each other and bring goodness to the people hood! hold goods that I could not drag from my around you! You've got a good thing going, La Corneta, Gialina, Win Garden (and Osha car, along with the stroller and baby carrier; Glen Park! I feel so fortunate to have been Thai and Chenery Park), thank you for feeding you delivered them right to my stairs without here and from the bottom of my heart would my family when I had no more left to give. even judging, always with a smile. And Rhonda, everyone's favorite crossing like to say thank you! Le P’tit Laurent, your French toast and des- sert wine was our favorite impromptu date guard! Thank you for keeping us safe! And You are the best! night when grandma stayed over with the thank you for your persistence! You have kids. known my children since they were babies We'll miss you! Cuppa, my kids will remember you forever, and it has taken forever for each of them to and probably never stop asking me to go there! Summer 2018 | Glen Park News 5

S CHECK IT OUT AT THE LIBRARY S i! from your friendly play for raffle The Lizard Lady Note that all San Francisco Public neighborhood library. prizes. will show us Library branches will be closed on H Summer Stride has been In addition, snakes, lizards, Independence Day, July 4. v underway since May 19. We have San Francisco tortoises and other a beautiful 46-page guide that can Public reptiles. Cozy up Michelle Waddy is the branch manager of connect you to our 900-plus programs Library’s to some very cool the Glen Park Library. this summer. ongoing part- cold-blooded crit- by Summer Stride nership with ters. Correction: In our spring edition, Michelle connects adults, kids, the National •Saturday, July the last name of Glen Park chief librar- Waddy teens and families Park Service 28, 1–2:30 p.m.: ian Michelle Waddy was misspelled. to free, entertaining, (NPS) has K.J. Landis, We apologize for the error. educational activities all summer long. inspired one author of Happy

Summer Stride helps adults rediscover of our most Healthy You: Your the fun of lifelong learning so that they popular sum- Total Wellness stay engaged with their community. mer programs: the National Park Toolkit For Renewing Body, Soul, and GLEN PARK Summer Stride helps kids connect with Service shuttles. These shuttles are field Mind, will describe the history and the library during the summer so that trips, with transportation included, benefits of all-natural body scrubs. LIBRARY they continue to learn while having fun. that will ferry our patrons to a nearby Space is limited. Patrons who visit the library will national park. There is a ranger walk/ •Sunday, July 29, 3–4 p.m.: Kirk HOURS receive a 2018 Summer Stride game talk, and usually a couple of differ- Waller will blend a mix of spoken Monday/Tuesday card. Summer Stride is inclusive—all ent activities from which to choose word, music and movement.! reading, listening, learning and library upon arrival. Interested parties can sign The library is a lively community 10-6 time counts. When they reach the up on the Eventbrite website: www. center ready to serve the Glen Park Wednesday 12-8 20-hour mile marker, finishers of all eventbrite.com/o/free-community- community. Please pop in and pick ages will receive a tote designed by noted shuttles-from-libraries-to-national- up the Summer Stride Guide or Glen Thursday 10-7 artist and musician Shawn Harris, illus- parks-13763221843. Park monthly calendar to keep up trator of Chronicle Books’ Her Right Here are a few of Glen Park Library’s with what is going on at your local Friday 1-6 Foot, written by Dave Eggers. Each upcoming highlights (check the neighborhood library. Now go out there Saturday 10-6 SFPL location will raffle for both adults Community Calendar on Page 20 for and *Read*Explore*Connect*. (Summer and youth, and they are not required more programs): Stride is funded in part by Friends of the Sunday 1-5 to register for the reading program to •Saturday, June 30, 4:15 –5:15 p.m.: San Francisco Public Library.) Glen Park Festival 2018: Dancing in the Streets T

Crowds enjoy the live music at the Glen Park Festival, which drew thousands of revelers to the neighborhood on April 29. Photo By Rachel Gordon 6 Glen Park News | Summer 2018 + DIGGING THE DIRT +

ongratulations to all Glen Park •Ribes or California currant: vigor- gardeners! We are now receiving ous and useful native shrub. C the recognition we deserve for •Seaside daisy: pretty pink and white helping preserve habitat for all kinds ground cover. of insects and birds. •Toyon: large shrub for background by Kay Many organizations fill. Hamilton understand the •Yarrow or Achillea millefolium: Estey important role of the pale white pincushion flowers, very home gardener. It is prolific bloomer. even possible to have your garden For butterflies: certified as wildlife habitat via the Butterflies like nectar plants as National Wildlife Federation and the adults, but may seek out a different North American Butterfly Association. plant for egg-laying. For an exhaus- One of the greatest threats to the tive list of native butterflies and their diversity of life on our planet is the favorite nectar and larvae plants, go to loss of habitat. Your garden may seem the Yerba Buena Nursery’s super web- small and insignificant in the face site and check out the very useful arti- of this challenge, but collectively we cle, “Establishing a Butterfly Garden.” can recreate a nurturing environment The endangered Mission Blue butterfly. In general, put in a diverse group of for insects and birds and support the brightly flowering plants. Include the rich microbial life of the soil. For for pest management, but always check the good news, be a lazy gardener! Many buckwheats (Eriogonum species), coy- instance, we can plant nectar plants for their effect on bees and beneficial species need a weedy, unkempt area to ote brush (Baccharis species), mallows, for endangered butterflies such as the insects. Remember, a garden does not breed and hide in. Small lizards and Monardella or bee balm, and any of Mission Blue, the Green Hairstreak or have to be perfect. snakes like piles of old wood. A lawn the sages (Salvia species). Plant milk- the gorgeous Swallowtails. Second, look after your soil—garden that is not trimmed down provides food weeds (Asclepias species) in the hope We can create a garden for pollinators the dirt! Add compost and mulch once and shelter for all kinds of tiny crea- of nurturing Monarchs! with plants that attract bees, moths, or twice a year, and your plants will be tures. And those tiny creatures are part Here are some other resources to butterflies and birds. We can design stronger and better able to defeat pests. of the food chain. If they disappear, the explore: an oasis of nectar and water, and a safe Third, provide shrubs and trees for larger, more popular species go as well. California Native Plant Society, San place to reproduce for many species. birds and large insects to hide in, and For instance, don’t clean up all those spi- Francisco. www.cnps-yerbabuena.org Fortunately, this is relatively easy to keep an eye out for predators and com- ders—birds eat them and use the webs Protect Our Pollinators, www. achieve. petitors. for nesting. Perhaps the imperfect wild sfenvironment.org/pollinators Here’s how to get started (and read Fourth, provide a fresh-water source. garden is really perfection. Golden Gate Audubon Society, on for some very good news). People love ponds, but I remember Here are some great plants to drop www.goldengateaudubon.org First, quit with the chemicals! with horror installing a large pond for into your garden. Yerba Buena Nursery, www. Chemical pesticides, herbicides and a client only to find it ripped apart one For pollinators: yerbabuenanursery.com fertilizers will destroy the useful bacte- morning, the expensive water plants •Ceanothus thrysiflorous: large shrub Sunset Western Garden Book ria and fungi in your soil, and kill ben- strewn around the garden and nary a with brilliant blue flowers. New York Times, “Monarchs in My eficial insects, bees and even birds. It is fish to be found—raccoons, of course. •California phacelia: low growing Garden, at Last,” Margaret Renkl, May possible to find some organic products So for our smaller gardens, I prefer a perennial with interesting fuzzy blue 21, 2018 v shallow fresh-water flowers. source in a safe place •Coast buckwheat: delicate, pale Kay Hamilton Estey is the Glen Park to attract small birds pink pincushion flowers. Garden Club columnist. For more and insects. •Hummingbird sage: furry long information about the garden club, Fifth, don’t let leaves with pink whorled flowers held including its activities and lecture series, weird inhabit- on long stems. contact her at [email protected]. ants freak you out. Snakes belong in our gardens. The most common snake seen around here is the striped garter snake, which is completely harmless. Our REVIVE YOUR native possum is an ugly fellow with HEALTH! an impressive set of Schedule an appointment with your pointed teeth, but Glen Park Nutritionist Ashley Hathaway these sharp teeth are Call 415-823-9333 used to kill unwel- come rats, mice, Mention this ad for $25 off your first consultation gophers and large grubs in the garden. San Francisco Nutritional Therapy Learn to love those [email protected] • www.sfnutritionaltherapy.com Coast buckwheat with a black-tailed bumble bee. 661 Chenery Street, Glen Park possums! Finally, and this is Photo courtesy of David A. 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S (HI)STORIES OF OUR NEIGHBORHOODS S t has been proposed that Fairmount School, a 154-year-old institution I offering a Spanish immersion program, be renamed in honor Dolores Huerta. With César Chávez, Huerta cofounded the United Farmworkers Union in 1962, and she has worked tirelessly as a feminist, by an advocate for children Evelyn and the downtrodden, Rose and as a non-violent civic activist. Huerta is certainly deserving of such an honor. Yet Fairmount School, at Chenery and Randall streets, is a highly visible landmark in Fairmount Heights, and at a recent community meeting about the name change, I expressed concern over the district’s gradual loss of identity. Founded in 1864 during the Civil War, it is one of the oldest neighborhoods beyond the original business district of San Francisco. Chenery and Arlington streets first appeared in the original Fairmount Tract homestead along the winding route of the Old San Jose Road (likely also the route of the Spanish El Camino Real). Over the past century and a half, An 1864 map of the original Fairmount Tract homestead. Map courtesy of the SF History Center, San Francisco Public Library Fairmount Heights has become linked with significant histories Francisco tourism continued to escalate frequency. Zillow’s list of “Recently Sold to the Sunset, and from Ingleside to the associated with agriculture, civil rights, through the 20th century. As a result, Homes in Glen Park” extends from Elk Haight. It serves to reemphasize the immigration, railroads, aviation firsts, identification of neighborhoods became to 30th streets, and from Monterey to importance of the conservation of our post-earthquake recovery, mid-century more of an exception. Maps became Diamond Heights boulevards. neighborhoods’ histories, lest our entire redevelopment and environmentalism. more whimsical, to focus on sights to In a new book by Richard Walker, district may be forgotten with the pas- I provided a brief overview of these see, or utilitarian, to help ease crosstown Pictures of a Gone City: Tech and the sage of time. v histories at a community meeting. navigation. Dark Side of Prosperity in the San While the name change is likely Today, in maps at the San Francisco Francisco Bay Area, Fairmount Heights, Evelyn Rose, project director and founder to proceed, attendees agreed that the Planning Department and the Glen Glen Park, Sunnyside, Diamond of the Glen Park Neighborhoods History histories of Fairmount Heights should Park Association, Glen Park’s boundaries Heights and several other neigh- Project, is documenting the histories of be taught during the name transition extend east and north and incorporate borhoods are no more. This “New Glen Park and nearby neighborhoods. To and to future generations of students. the Fairmount Tract’s original 1864 Urbanism” neighborhood map instead learn more, visit www.GlenParkHistory. The reason why Fairmount Heights borders. Realtors promote Fairmount shows an expanded district called Twin org. To join the mailing list, contact has been gradually losing its identity Heights as Glen Park with growing Peaks—extending from Bernal Heights GlenParkHistory@gmail. appears to be due to neighborhood cartography which, like history, has been changing over time. The original Fairmount Homestead was bounded by Grove Street (today’s 30th Street) on the north, Castro Street on the west, and the San Francisco-San Jose Railroad (later the Southern Pacific) bending southeasterly from 30th Street to Castro along today’s San Jose Avenue. It would continue to be labeled the Fairmount Tract on various maps into the 1890s. The first reference to Fairmount Heights appeared in 1906, when the infamous Gray Brothers quarrymen were accused of obstructing the water supply to residents of Laidley and Beacon San Francisco Planning Department Neighborhoods Map (2018), left, that shows all of Fairmount Heights encompassed by Glen streets. After 1915, fueled by two world Park. A 2018 revisionist map published in Pictures of a Gone City: Tech and the Dark Side of Prosperity in the San Francisco Bay Area fairs, transportation modernization and depicts Fairmount Heights, Glen Park, Sunnyside, Diamond Heights and other neighborhoods as part of a massive “Twin Peaks” the growth of personal wealth, San neighborhood. Images courtesy of SF Planning and PM Press 8 Glen Park News | Summer 2018 Rafael Mandelman Vows to Bridge Divide

CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Bosworth Street from the station. While there are no formal proposals to build on the parcel, the idea has been raised over the years by BART and housing advocates. But any devel- opment there would be sure to spark fierce debate, for the site could sup- port dozens of units, which could change the character of the low-key neighborhood. “Given San Francisco’s housing crisis, I think it gets hard to preserve surface parking lots, particularly right near mass transit,” Mandelman said. But he fell short of a full-throttled endorsement. “I’m open to thinking about the use of a surface parking lot for housing.” He also said there may be ways to reduce the impacts that bringing in a large influx of new residents could have on existing neighbors. One pos- sibility would be to prevent the new residents from obtaining residential parking permits in order to reduce the demand for street parking. “That’s potentially a reasonable accommoda- tion.” Mandelman, a 44-year-old home- New District 8 Supervisor Rafael Mandelman visits Glen Park soon after the election. Photos by Liz Mangelsdorf owner and past president of the Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club, grad- Community College Board in 2012 2018 to retain his seat. Mandelman the eastern edge of the district. But uated from Lick-Wilmerding High and won re-election four years later. decided to challenge him, and now this being San Francisco, the ideologi- School and earned degrees from Yale, Wiener, meanwhile, was elected to must face election again for a full cal differences between progressives Harvard and UC Berkeley. He was born the state Senate seat and left the term this November. Sheehy has said and moderates are not vast. in Laguna Beach and moved to San Board of Supervisors before the end of he will not run. While campaigning, Mandelman Francisco as an 11-year-old. He first his term. Then-Mayor Ed Lee tapped In the June race to fill out the last heard from a lot of people across the ran for District 8 supervisor in 2010, Sheehy to fill the vacancy in January few months of Wiener’s term, Sheehy district about their growing concerns but lost to Scott Wiener. He then suc- 2017. Under the City’s election rules, was cast as the moderate candidate over homelessness and mental illness cessfully ran for a citywide seat on the Sheehy had to run for election in June and Mandelman had the backing and drug use fueling uncivil behavior of the city’s progres- on the streets. sive flank. His win Mandelman’s mother suffered from could give the pro- severe mental illness and was unable to gressives a 6-to-5 take care of him. She ended up home- edge on the Board less at one point and Mandelman, of Supervisors, but whose parents were divorced, bounced Mandelman cau- around, living with relatives, a foster tions against pigeon- family, the family of a classmate and a holing him. high school teacher. That experience, “I am going to work he said, helped shape who he is. really hard to build He favors expanding the system good relations with of conservatorship to better care all of them,” he said for people who can’t take care of of his new colleagues. themselves, increasing the capacity “Coming from this for residential mental health treat- district, it’s going to ment, opening regulated safe injec- be important to not tion sites for intravenous drug users, be too aligned with and removing tent encampments. He any of them.” also wants to see more police officers In District 8, Glen walking beats. Park, Diamond “In terms of getting scary and sick Heights and Noe people off the street, we’re getting an Valley tend to skew a F and we need to do better,” he said. little more moderate “I will work really hard to help make Rafael Mandelman visiting Cafe Bello in Glen Park. than the Castro and that happen.” v Summer 2018 | Glen Park News 9 Lots of Summer Fun on Tap at Rec Center he Glen Canyon Recreation Kickers, a program that offers the Center summer program, already rudiments of traditional and functional T underway, will continue through martial arts, but does not teach fighting Aug. 26. It offers a number of exer- or combat techniques. cise classes, as well as pick-up bas- Kids can also enroll in Petite Bakers, ketball games, pickle- designed for children between 3 and 6. by ball matches and rock- Here they learn the art of baking in the Murray climbing drop-in sched- Rec Center’s new kitchen. Schneider ules. There are fees for classes, and the Qigong, a holistic newly renovated facility is closed exercise system of coordinated body on Sunday and Monday. Check the posture including movement, breathing Community Calendar on Page 20 of and meditation, is offered for seniors this newspaper for class times. interested in a low-impact exercise. The tennis courts and the baseball Tai chi, a Chinese martial arts class for diamond—home to Little League those 18 and older, offers instruction baseball games and soccer matches— in defense training as well as providing remain available through the summer. health benefits. For those interested in hoops, there’s Pilates is also offered once a week. open gym five times a week where the The exercise regimen uses special basketball games of round-the-world, apparatus designed to improve physical horse and three-on-three are played. strength, flexibility and posture while Segueing to the park’s 70 acres of enhancing mental awareness. natural area is always an effortless The Rec Center highlights both transition. Day users can enjoy gentle Hatha yoga and Zumba gold. short walks around Islais Creek or The former emphasizes physical posture challenge themselves on Franciscan and provides a gentle introduction to chert rock outcrops. They can hike the most basic yoga postures, while the along the canyon’s three pristine trails latter offers a lower-intensity workout that provide California wildflowers in that focuses on balance, range of bloom, overhanging arroyo willow that motion and coordination. offer shade on warm summer days, and Kids climb to new heights at Glen Canyon Recreation Center, above, and pickleball enthusiasts, below, take a break from play. Photos by Murray Schneider Vinyasa yoga takes yoga to another an assortment of birds to view. All of it level. “Vinyasa” can be translated as is tended by the Rec and Park Natural “arranging something in a special Areas Program staff and by Friends of way.” This class teaches participants to Glen Canyon Park volunteer stewards. coordinate movement with breath to For more information, call 415- flow from one yoga pose to the next. 831-2700, check www.sfrecpark.org, Children are more than or drop in at the Rec Center office and accommodated. 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Vision Service Plan accepted 10 Glen Park News | Summer 2018 Thelma Williams: Glen Canyon's Beloved wo Little League teams faced “Give these to the other coach,” Mohr off on the Thelma Williams instructed Morosi. T Diamond in Glen Canyon Park “I walked the balls over,” said Morosi, on a warm Saturday afternoon in April. “but I didn’t see anyone who looked The players were 6 years old, maybe like a coach. Then this lady, Mrs. 7. Parents watched from Williams, says, ‘Nice to meet you,’ then by behind the backstop and she tugs at my cap and she says, ‘You Murray along the base paths. A just gave the baseballs to the coach!’” Schneider father, the pitcher, knelt Morosi returned to his side of the halfway between home diamond. plate and the batter’s box. “Well, Dick,” Mohr asked Morosi, He lobbed baseballs to a first grader. who completed a 42-year career in edu- The boy let one pitch pass, then cation as Westmoor’s principal, “Did another, before he slapped a dribbler to you learn something?” short. The ball As a 10-year-old, Mareth Vedder bounced twice. remembers climbing up and down the The shortstop Sunnyside hills to and from the Glen first booted it, Park Recreation Center. “My mom then picked it up didn’t drive,” Vedder said. “She and and arced a toss I would carry bat bags to the park, to first, where it which meant climbing Baden, then hopscotched in along Martha, down Congo and across front of the first Bosworth to Elk.” baseman. “One afternoon I was collar-boned Thelma Wiliams No surprise, by a line drive at third base,” she said. the runner beat out the throw. “I was so embarrassed, I walked back Behind first base, a mother took it all home by myself.” in. “They’re learning,” she said, “and Little Leaguers play ball on Glen Park's Thelma Williams Baseball Diamond. Williams was the mother of two sons they’re having fun.” Photo by Murray Schneider. and three daughters and, ultimately, Similar scenes have been played out Vedder. “An opposing coach early on High School. On May 19, he talked the grandmother of 13. Vedder’s niece, on tens of thousands of diamonds told her, ‘Go home, wash dishes.’” about Thelma Williams at this year’s Sharon Swanson, recalls her grand- millions of times. For more than four Dick Morosi played against Williams’ Prep Hall of Fame dinner at Patio mother in terms of baseball, too. “She’d decades in Glen Canyon Park, kids’ 1952 Glen Park team. Morosi was Espanol restaurant. bundle us up, stick us on Muni and take league games were overseen by Thelma coached by Grove Mohr, a man ahead “I was 9 years old and playing for us all over the city to baseball games.” Williams, who coached more than of his time regarding gender roles. Portola Playground,” Morosi told his When she wasn’t scheduling games, 2,000 kids very much like like the ones Brought up in the Portola district audience. “Glen Park always played us making batting lineups, reserving dia- who competed on this April. and educated at Sacred Heart High tough.” monds and handing out uniforms Williams, who made her home on School, Morosi went on to coach Not one to ignore a teachable for Babe Ruth and midget leagues or Joost Avenue, ensured that each player varsity baseball at Daly City’s moment, Grove Mohr handed Morosi working her day job at Meyers Safety learned baseball, and enjoyed doing Serramonte High School in the 1970s two pristine baseballs before the Switch, Williams enjoyed sitting in her so: “I want them to have fun playing and later taught civics at Westmoor Glen Park vs. Portola Park first pitch. living room putting thoughts to paper. the game first,” she said early in her “I have a small rustic cottage with an coaching tenure. “That way they will old-fashioned garden in the back, a learn to love it.” small black poodle and a canary,” she A plaque honoring Thelma Williams, wrote in 1966. “I look down upon the installed in 1991, rests on a cement garden at the flowers and the apple platform, testimony to what she tree. It is loaded with green promises donated in both time and energy to of next month’s delicious fruit. I listen generations of neighborhood children. to the birds twittering and I think how “In the early 1950s, my mother wonderfully peaceful it is.” replaced my father as coach in the Rec She wrote “Sandlot Corner,” a col- and Park League. said Mareth Vedder, umn in the old San Francisco Progress Williams’ daughter. “I was 10 years old, devoted to Little League box scores and and I’d accompany her to games.” news. Vedder was sitting on a bench near “I never took batting practice,” the Thelma Williams Diamond left- Williams confessed at 70. “I just didn’t field foul line on April 13, the day want my players to know I couldn’t before the San Francisco Youth Baseball hit.” League game. She shared memorabilia Williams would give her children and photographs of her mother, who a key to her house and leave snacks died in 2000. for them. “Even my grandchildren “My mom was a pioneer, way ahead were used to Nana not being home,” of her time. In 1952, it was an era Williams wrote in her 1966 memoir. before women became coaches,” said Coach Thelma Williams and two of her players. “They figure that if I’m not there, I’m Summer 2018 | Glen Park News 11 Youth Baseball Coach Broke Barriers and she was the reigning queen.” “I guess a lot of people think I’m a little bit cracked, and I can’t handle baseball teams,” Williams wrote, “but after 14 years, the old-timers are now accepting me as their equal and instead of offering me advice, they are sending me promising youngsters or any youngster who wants to play ball.” On April 27, 2018, two such young- sters took to the Thelma Williams Diamond infield, accompanied by their Noe Valley parents. The older, aged 5, selected a bat and stood at home plate; his 3-year-old brother knelt next to his father and mother. The mother underhanded a ball to the boy, who swung from what a baseball scout would liken to a major league batting stance. It was Glen Park, it was a Sunday, it was family, and it was fun. For 40 years Thelma Williams, don- ning a red windbreaker, positioned herself near the on-deck circle on base- Thelma Williams with her Myers Safety Switch team. ball fields across the city. She’d pull at her cap, finger her maroon score book. usually at a ballgame, and they’d think doing and some refuse a tip, saying, the PAL Flying Goose Midgets, riffed She’d peer at the hitter. She’d catch I owned the sporting goods store when ‘Give it to the kids.’” about cleats, too: “Our spikes never her player’s eye as he shouldered his they’d see all the sporting equipment Sometimes she caught a ride in seemingly fit, and our moms and dads pine. If there were a runner on base, there.” a police black-and-white cruiser. wouldn’t purchase the correct size, she’d pantomime a sign. Then she’d For the most part she depended on Recently retired San Francisco and they’d tell us, ‘They cost money echo those dozen words every kid has the team dads to pick up her and her Police Officer Tom Taylor played for and you’re going to grow out of them heard who’s ever laid down a squeeze equipment. Sometimes she called a cab. Williams’ Meyers Safety Switch and quickly.’ So they’d stuff the front part at home, poked a single through the “The cab drivers are generally good Flying Goose teams in the mid-1960s. of the spikes with torn remnants of the hole, or slugged a round-tripper over sports about lifting a heavy bat bag “My partner and I spotted Thelma Chronicle to ensure a snug fit.” a fence. into their trunk,” she wrote. “Most of waiting for the 10 Monterey at 30th “Thelma was a giver,” Taylor said. The same dozen words Dick Morosi the cabbies are interested in what I am and Mission, which would take her “If you didn’t have a bat or a ball, she’d heard in the batter’s box, words that to Big Rec,” Taylor reminisced. “She’d find a way to get them out of her own have held him in good stead ever since. come from work at Meyers Safety pocket. She broke ground, and she The same dozen words Flying Switch and had her green duffel bag learned along the way, and we learned Goose catcher Paul Lowery and Bob filled with bats, balls and bases. We with her.” Williams, Thelma’s son, heard from were heading back to Ingleside Station, More than a half century later, the the coach on a Glen Park baseball field but instead we took Thelma to Golden lessons she taught have stayed with her all those years ago. Gate Park. players. “Don’t take your eye off the ball; “I wouldn’t be surprised to hear that “She matters because we had a joyful watch it hit the bat!” v she got rides from a fire chief’s battalion time when Flying car,” Taylor continued. “Her ‘boys’ Goose played Max turned into firefighters, police officers Sobel on the gentle and teachers. We all played for her.” grass in Glen Park In 2009, San Francisco Police in front of enthu- Athletic League President Rick Bruce, siastic parents,” celebrating the 50th anniversary of the said Little Leaguer PAL, wrote about Williams that she Paul Lowery, used to refer to the ballplayers as her who served in boys. She was inducted that year into Vietnam. “Mrs. the PAL Hall of Fame. Williams mat- One of those “boys” is Steve ters 50 years later Dick Morosi, who played on the Glen Franceschi, who played for her Meyers because she rep- Park baseball diamond at age 9 against a Safety Switch team in 1962. “I didn’t resented a period Thelma Williams-coached team, looks at have any spikes,” Franceschi recalled, when it was fun to the park plaque in her honor. “so Thelma bought me a pair.” be a kid and when Members of the Thelma Williams family pose with the plaque Photo by Murray Schneider Paul Lowery, who played catcher for baseball was king honoring her on Mother's Day 2016. 12 Glen Park News | Summer 2018 Glen Park Association Meeting Roundup eighbors peppered politicians the Glen Park Association and been and a public utility wonk with invited to speak about the lot at a N questions about everything future meeting, said President Scott from parking lots to poop at the Glen Stawicki. Park Association spring quarterly meet- On another topic, Stawicki said the ing. association is working with BART More than a few neighbors at the officials to hash out plans to beautify April 19 gathering asked about the the Glen Park station, particularly the unofficial parking lot dusty empty planters above the tracks. by on Kern Alley, which The condition of the station has been Heather continues its slide into drawing neighbors’ complaints. World disrepair. The land is Sheehy reminded neighbors of owned by the Hayes BART’s phone app for reporting family (as in San Francisco Fire Chief crimes: “Please use it because it tallies Joanne Hayes-White), which wants to issues and allows BART police to bet- legitimize the lot so they can charge for ter allocate resources,” he said. parking and upgrade it. State Sen. Scott Wiener also was The problem is that half the lot at the meeting, to give a rundown of is zoned for housing, said District 8 news from Sacramento and to defend Glen Park BART Station Diamond Street entrance. Photo by Liz Mangelsdorf Supervisor Jeff Sheehy, who has been his controversial bill that called for working with the family to find a solu- higher density housing along transit housing crisis means in California ary thing,” Wiener said. He agreed that tion. corridors. His proposal stalled in the and what it takes to solve it.” transit must keep pace with housing “I do not think any of us think it Legislature. The prolific lawmaker also has writ- development to maintain quality of should be a permanent parking lot,” “When you have a hard bill doing ten bills to make it easier to prosecute life, citing his efforts: a statewide $3 he said. “We’re trying to save it for something new, sometimes it takes auto burglars, to increase resources for billion regional transportation bond, the short term so for the long term a few years to work through it and homeless youth, and to mandate that a bond to expand the capacities of it could be housing.” So far, Sheehy get something that gets enough sup- the state issue health and safety guide- BART and Caltrain, and the doubling has proposed an amendment to the port—and that’s the way it should lines around recycled water so local of Muni light-rail trains. Planning Code to rezone the lot for be,” Wiener said. “I’m happy that it municipalities don’t have to. Meeting attendees also heard from parking. has sparked a long-overdue conversa- He also has introduced legislation Christina Codero, the director of finan- The Hayes family has approached tion across the state about what the that would allow judges to consider cial planning for the San Francisco the number of times a mentally ill Public Utilities Commission. She was or drug-addicted person has been to there to explain the hike in water the emergency room, psych emer- rates to generate more funding to gency facility or jail, when deciding upgrade the City’s aging wastewater whether to commit them to a con- infrastructure and to accommodate servatorship: “We don’t want mental San Francisco’s population growth. health and substance abuse issues The extra money, she said, will help to become criminal justice issues,” ensure that the system can handle the Wiener said. He said his office is growing demand, improve seismic reli- still working with interested par- ability and incorporate more conserva- ties, including the American Civil tion measures. Liberties Union, to find the right The average single-family home uses balance between civil rights and the 5.3 units of water, costing about $108 health and safety of an individual per month, Codero said. That rate will and the community. go up starting July 1, though the rate Most questions directed to Wiener increase spans four years. By its end, centered on his housing bill, with the average single-family home would neighbors fearful of San Francisco be paying $149, she said. “becoming another Shanghai,” a fast- Dotted throughout the meeting changing and fast-growing metropolis. were smaller announcements: Rec “These are very gradual change over Center Facilities Coordinator Oskar decades, not an overnight revolution- Rosas gave an update on program- ming, and Evelyn Rose of the Glen Law Office of Jonathan McCurdy Legal Services in Your Home Park Neighborhoods Since 1977 History Project announced the dedi- cation of a plaque commemorating Glen Canyon as the location of the coun- try’s first dynamite

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Marian says three original clients still come in regularly for a shampoo and set. One is from Richmond in the East Bay; she gets a hairstyle like Queen Elizabeth’s. Others don’t date back quite so far, but one regular for decades first came to get her hair done for her prom. And Marian makes regular house calls for another long- term client who is 97. Marian and her carpenter husband live in an apartment on the second floor, and she spends part of most days helping Glory, who has steno- sis and cannot walk unassisted. The Dalere matriarch lives in the family home a couple of blocks from the Glory Dalere and her daughter Marian. Glory Dalere started her salon 50 years ago in the space now occupied by La Corneta. shop, with one son and her 5-year- Photos by Gail Bensinger old granddaughter. Her other son lives next door, and also helps out his that category. “My dad would bring babysit Marian and her two broth- Boutique, Tommy Baik of Glen Park mom. “All three of them are really, lunch for her, and would bring enough ers after school and on Saturdays, Dry Cleaners. really good. They help me so I can for everybody,” Marian recalled. “My reading to them and helping them Marian says she used to cut Manhal stay in the house,” Glory said. dad had a garden, and brought fruit with their homework. The kids would Jweinat’s hair until he started shaving It has always been a tight-knit fam- and vegetables for our customers.” run errands for Glory, or go collect his head. Manhal is the proprietor of ily, and customers were included in In return, the customers would cigarettes and put in drinks orders Higher Grounds Coffee House, which that the local bars would provide to he has run since 1982, and Manzoni customers under the dryers. Glory restaurant, which will celebrate its would stay open late to accommo- seventh anniversary in December. He date working women, including the plans to retire, he said, only “when I nuns at nearby St. John School who cannot work anymore.” taught her children. The salon was, Tommy Baik is also a second-gen- and remains, unisex; she cut priests’ eration business owner in downtown hair, too. Glen Park. His parents, Korean immi- Now, Marian’s customers babysit grants, bought an existing cleaners in her niece—the third generation of 1984, and Tommy took over the man- Dalere females, Glory points out. agement from them when he turned Marian says they are still “brain- 21, in 1989. It’s still a family affair. storming” about how and when to Tommy’s wife Ki does the alterations, celebrate the half-century mark. It and their son, who’s attending San will be low-key, she says. But 50 years Francisco State University, sometimes is an impressive record for any neigh- helps out behind the counter on borhood family business. And there weekends. Their daughter used to is no plan to shut the salon anytime help out, too, until she graduated soon. from college. A number of other neighborhood Young Kim, also a Korean immi- business owners still get their hair grant, took over Tyger’s Coffee Shop, Rick and Nada Malouf, along with family memebers and Supervisor Jeff Sheehy. cut at Dalere’s—Paul Park of Buddies at 2798 Diamond St., in 1997. He is Photo courstey of Marian Dalere Market, Rick Malouf of the Cheese the third owner of the breakfast and Summer 2018 | Glen Park News 15 Neighborhood Commercial Corridor lunch spot, where the pancakes and books and accessories fill the middle BLTs and turkey-sausage omelets have of the shop. always been neighborhood favorites At Christmastime, he sells ornate on a menu that seems frozen in time. wreaths and decorations as well as “Most customers say, ‘Don’t change, gifts and stocking-stuffers. And the don’t change,’” he said. imaginative window displays show off His wife used to work alongside wit as well as wares. The one constant him, but she has retired. Young shows is good taste: “I won’t sell what I don’t no signs of slowing down. Has he believe in,” Fages said. taken a vacation? “Not yet.” Optometrist Carrie Lee opened Two other neighborhood enter- her eyeglasses emporium at 2786 prises, Perch and Eyedentity, are cel- Diamond St. on April 8, 2008. She ebrating 10th anniversaries this year. picked Glen Park for her new shop Zoel Fages’s Perch hit the 10-year because “it seemed to be a community mark on Feb. 20. “It’s been an inter- most people want to be a part of.” esting ride,” he said. “Every year is She has noticed an influx of fami- different.” His eclectic stock reflects lies over the past decade. Little kids the preferences of shoppers. The who got their first glasses in her shop bath-body and candle collections are are now growing up and going to more popular than he had expected, high school and college in Eyedentity while jewelry remains a best-seller. glasses. She and another optometrist He started with a wall case of greet- share eye-exam duties, and stylish ing cards, but has since added three frames demand checking out. “We Young Kim became the third owner of Tyger's in 1997. free-standing spinners. Infant clothes, haven’t been a super-trendy office to stuffed animals and kids’ toys occupy begin with, but we try to have a little Married to a pharmacist and the Market (14 years) and Joe Schuver their own corner, while housewares, bit of fun with glasses,” Lee said. mother of a 19-month-old daughter, at Destination Baking Co. (18 years). Lee has opened another optometry But for sheer longevity, no one shop on the Genentech campus in comes close to Dalere’s Salon. South San Francisco, but plans to cel- One family sure to be at the Dalere ebrate her 20th anniversary in Glen celebration of their 50th anniversary Park in another decade—“landlord are Rick and Nada Malouf, owners permitting, yes. I plan to be here for of Cheese Boutique. It was Marian a long time.” Dalere’s idea to lease the salon’s Laurent Legendre will start Year 11 ground-floor shop to the Maloufs in business at Le P’tit Laurent on July when they lost their lease and were 4. He’s back at 699 Chenery full time, forced to move from their previous after a slight detour to 24th Street site next door. in Noe Valley. Last year he opened Marian, with Glory’s assent, decided a second French bistro, called Chez to downsize her own operation to save Marius, but sold it when he got an the beloved neighborhood deli, now unexpected offer at a price too good in its 26th year, six of them in the to pass up, he said. present location. His Glen Park enterprise makes On May 15 the Maloufs attended room for his kids. One daughter is their own celebration, at City Hall, working there until she moves to where they accepted the Small Oregon, and his two sons, 9 and 13, Business of the Year award for District can be seen on the occasional week- 8. They had been nominated for the end supervising their father as he distinction by Supervisor Jeff Sheehy, unloads supplies around back. a Glen Park resident and a regular at Since returning to Glen Park, he’s the shop. started weekday happy hours with Posted prominently on Cheese $1 oysters, among other bargains. “I Boutique’s wall is the framed citation want to be part of the neighborhood,” that took note of their award. There’s Laurent said, welcoming families with also a photo of the Maloufs, stand- kids and older customers as well as ing on either side of the much taller young professionals. But he does miss supervisor, all three of them smiling a couple of Noe Valley details: wider broadly as Rick holds the citation and sidewalks with benches and baskets of Nada holds a big bouquet of spring flowers. flowers. Other familiar faces have been part After the ceremony for the Maloufs of the neighborhood for the better and the 10 winners from other super- part of two decades: Eric Whittington visorial districts across the city, there at Bird & Beckett Books and Records was a reception with refreshments— Zoel Fages owns Perch, which he opened at 654 Chenery St. 10 years ago. (19 years), Paul Park at Buddies but, Rick noted, “no hummus.” v 16 Glen Park News | Summer 2018 S ELEMENTARY SCHOOL NEWS S Glen Park Merchants Glen Park Elementary School of the Urban Forest and a cadre of It’s official: Liz Zarr was unanimously parent volunteers expanded tree wells approved as our principal by a com- and planted a selection of grasses Elect New Leadership mittee of teachers, parents, staff and on Lippard Avenue and Brompton nder new leadership, the Glen way through the City bureaucracy. SFUSD personnel, and was confirmed Avenue, providing a much-needed break Park Merchants Association is ModernPast, a home furnishings store at the end of April. from all of the concrete. We also contin- regrouping in order to tackle owned by former merchants associa- by ued to develop our Schoolyard Master U Principal Zarr brings problems and help with services that tion president Ric Lopez, is open by Katie a wealth of knowledge Plan, which is in its early stages. Ideas for will aid all of the small businesses appointment only. Ripley about Glen Park School the yard on Brompton Avenue include a that populate the Fages said that while virtually all to the job, having been sports field, outdoor learning spaces and by neighborhood’s busi- businesses here are owner-operated, a fourth-grade teacher here for many a larger garden of edible plants. The Gail ness district. the group would not be opposed to a years. We are looking forward to next future looks bright and green! Bensinger Aaron Esquivel, the small chain branch, as long as it doesn’t year and Ms. Zarr’s leadership, exper- Upcoming: A great way to get to proprietor of Glen Park take commerce away from the existing tise and commitment to students. know other Glen Park School fami- Hardware and one of the newer mer- shops and restaurants. For instance, a Congratulations Ms. Zarr! lies before the school year begins is to chants in downtown Glen Park, has small pharmacy might be welcome, he Spring meant many fun events for the attend one of our playdates. The events been elected president of the group. said, but there are already plenty of Glen Park School community. Our first are scheduled for Saturday, July 14, and Zoel Fages of Perch has assumed the places to get a cappuccino. nighttime Talent Extravaganza featured Sunday, Aug. 12. All playdates will occur vice president’s post. In addition to Esquivel and Fages, performances by an incredible turnout at Glen Canyon Playground from 11 “We are trying to assess what kind of the other officers of the association of 73 students. Gymnastics, violin, a.m. to 1 p.m. services businesses need,” Esquivel said. include Janet Tarlov, of Canyon dance and comedy acts made the night We will see all of our students, new The group is open not only to Market, secretary; Mark Howes, memorable. The final STEAM Night and returning, when school begins on retail businesses, but also to providers who owns a taxes and bookkeeping of the year encouraged our students Monday, Aug. 20. Have a wonderful of services—accountants, medical service, treasurer; and Marian Dalere, v to try on their artistic hats. Students summer! practitioners, lawyers, contractors and of Dalere’s Beauty Salon, and Tony, made books and cards, weaving and the like—with premises within Glen the manager of Critter Fritters, who painting, among many other activities. Katie Ripley is the communications chair Park. “The more the merrier,” Fages goes by only one name, both board The Green Art Workshop was also on of the Glen Park School Parent Teacher said. “We can engage with the rest of members at-large. hand to lead students in an ongoing Organization. For updates on school the merchants in the neighborhood The board plans to meet monthly— Mission Butterfly Project. events, go to glenparkschool.org. Follow and develop a strong alliance.” an organizational meeting was Our greening program continues to us on Facebook at facebook.com/glen- Among the concerns of members scheduled for June 18—and to hold beautify the school grounds. Friends parkschool. old and new are traffic congestion, car quarterly meetings for the general break-ins and petty crime. Generating membership. more foot traffic would benefit the The association is in the process of ST. JOHN CATHOLIC SCHOOL (K–8) local stores, Esquivel said, adding that rewriting its charter, and is in contact where community matters although the neighborhood doesn’t see with the San Francisco Council of “heavy tourism,” the accessibility via District Merchants Associations. BART could help draw more shoppers A strong merchants association, from elsewhere in the city. like those in Noe Valley, the Castro Two closed storefronts in the heart and the Haight, can help revitalize of the Chenery Street shopping block neighborhoods and get more attention create a mini-vacuum. The rebuilding and resources from City Hall. of the Chenery Park restaurant site “We’re all busy operating our own into a ground-level eatery with new businesses,” Esquivel said, “but we’re housing units upstairs is wending its 2”keeping people informed.” v Cheese Boutique IMAGE: SONPHOTO.COM offering traditional faith-based education while incorporating Grades K-8 Fresh Sandwiches Progressive Education Imported Cheeses cutting edge technology Social Emotional Learning Homemade Hummus, Experiential Learning Baba Ganoush, Tabouli 925 CHENERY STREET • SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94131 www.stjohnseagles.com 415.584.8383 1387 Valencia Street - San Francisco 660 Chenery Street www.synergyschool.org 415-333-3390 3 Summer 2018 | Glen Park News 17

S NEWS FROM DIAMOND HEIGHTS S ark your calendar for the 11 projects that were selected. With the second annual “Where in the funding, RDH will be able to purchase M World is Christopher Park supplies for the Neighborhood Support Festival” on Saturday, Oct. 13, 10 a.m. Center and Diamond Heights NERT – 2 p.m. for use after a disaster, provide 100 The Friends of Christopher Park emergency kits for seniors and people received a grant from the City’s with disabilities, and develop training Office of Economic and templates to improve emergency by and Workforce plans for the 13 housing developments Betsy Development for this in Diamond Heights. The emphasis Eddy year’s festival. A huge in emergency situations will be on thank you is due to checking on older people, people with Supervisor Jeff Sheehy for designating disabilities and those who live alone. grant funding for District 8 festivals. Our neighborhood is grateful for Would you be interested in the many improvements that have participating in the festival as an artist, been components of the Diamond business or sponsor? Would you be Heights Improvement Project, funded interested in helping plan the festival and coordinated by Public Works or volunteering during the event? with additional funding from the The festival supports stewardship Metropolitan Transportation Authority and playground improvements for and the Public Utilities Commission. Christopher Park, and volunteering Recently completed improvements on offers the opportunity for neighbors Diamond Heights Boulevard include the The new guardrail on Diamond Heights Boulevard. Photo by Betsy Eddy to connect and for students to obtain mid-block crosswalk with solar-powered community service experience. flashing lights at the Diamond Heights there are the usual drivers who pause The Diamond Heights Community Help is needed with publicity, Shopping Center, and the attractive briefly instead of stopping. Association had a hand in advocacy entertainment, the doggie fashion wooden railing adjacent to Glen Canyon Renovations for the Walter Haas for all of the above. While we are very show and photography contests, Park, between Berkeley Way and Arbor Dog Play Area started in early May proud of our accomplishments, we signage and decorations, children’s Street. Still to be completed is the and will continue through the summer. would love to have more volunteers activities, recycling and set-up. repaving of Diamond Heights Boulevard According to the Recreation and to help with our list of projects! Please Please contact Brynna McNulty at from Berkeley Way to Elk Street. Park Department, the scope includes contact us if you’re interested. v [email protected] Improvements not associated with the installation of synthetic turf; irrigation or visit www.friendsofchristopherpark. overall project are the new stop signs at and drainage improvements; replacing Betsy Eddy is president of the Diamond org for more information. Diamond Heights Boulevard and north the drinking fountain, and replacing Heights Community Association. Contact Thank you to all who voted for Diamond Street, installed in February. the fence screen fabric. her at [email protected]. Resilient Diamond Heights (RDH) for The first few days were touch and go, the participatory budgeting for District since many people sped through the 8, provided by Supervisor Sheehy. new stop signs. Traffic has now settled St. Aidan’s Episcopal Church RDH came in 5th in the voting among into a much safer traffic flow, although A Joyful Community of the Spirit All are welcome including companion animals

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18 Glen Park News | Summer 2018 A Step in the Right Direction: Sussex St. Staircase Completed MARCDICKOW Broker, Realtor, Partner

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As a Glen Park resident I really do know how best to market your property. I can help you from preparing your home to put on the market through Neighborhood Organizations the close of escrow and everything in between. Check out my real estate column in this newspaper! —MARC DICKOW Diamond Heights Glen Park Neighborhoods Community Association History Project Contact: Betsy Eddy, 415-8675774 (Glen Park, Glen Canyon, Address: P.O. Box 31529, SF, CA Sunnyside, Fairmount Heights and “Marc did a phenomenal job selling our home!” 94131 Website: www.dhcasf.org Diamond Heights) “Marc and his team did everything to ensure we received top dollar for our home and that it was as painless as possible. He was patient and thorough in all the Meetings: First Thursday, 7:30 p.m. Contact: [email protected] details. His team responded at all hours of the day and no question was too Call for location Website: Glenparkhistory.wixsite. small or silly. He is incredibly professional, responsive, caring, and it’s clear he com loves what he does. Thank you Marc, we truly felt supported throughout this Friends of Glen Canyon Park Meetings: See website for details. Contact whole process.” —J.C., Seller : Richard Craib, 415-648- San Francisco NERT 0862, or Jean Connor, 415-584-8576 “Marc is extremely professional…” Address: 140 Turquoise Way, SF, CA (Neighborhood Emergency “and well-organized. He was also very considerate and patient in answering 94131 Response Team) all of my questions. In addition, he is well-connected, which allowed me the Meetings: Call for details. Contact: Glen Park coordinator opportunity to get a special, personal tour of a beautiful historic building, and a Susanna Russo, [email protected] sneak peak at units before they were about to be listed. I never felt pressured. I Website: http://sf-fire.org/ highly recommend him to anyone who is buying or selling a home, and looking Friends of 30th Street neighborhood-emergency-response- for an experienced, professional, knowledgeable, friendly, and patient real Senior Center estate agent.” —E.W. , Buyer Contact: Marianne Hampton, team-nert Meetings: 415-601-7845 See website for training Address: 225 30th St., SF, CA 94131 schedules. Meetings: Call for details. Sunnyside Neighborhood Association: A portion of each of Marc’s commissions go to fund projects for his Core Concern: Glen Park Association LOCAL SCHOOL MUSIC AND ART PROGRAMS Contact: info@sunnysideassociation. Contact: [email protected] org; voice mail: 415-937-1305 Website: glenparkassociation.org Website: Sunnysideassociation.org Address: P.O. Box 31292, SF, CA Address: P.O. Box 27615, SF CA 94131 94127 Meetings: Quarterly. See website for Meetings: Quarterly. See website details. for details. Summer 2018 | Glen Park News 19 S GLEN PARK REAL ESTATE S have had, for the past couple of tant new tools to protect affordable Single-Family Homes years, the privilege of representing housing. Opponents argue it could I San Francisco and the San Francisco ADDRESS SALE DATE DOM LIST PRICE SALE PRICE SP/LP worsen the crisis. Association of Realtors at the California 156 Arlington St. 2/22/18 11 $1,450,000 $1,865,000 128.62% Costa Hawkins has two main provi- Association of Realtors and the National 10 Chenery St. 3/9/18 6 $1,295,000 $1,700,000 131.27% sions: •It protects a landlord’s right to raise by Association of Realtors 125 Chenery St. 3/13/18 11 $1,750,000 $1,735,000 99.14% Marc conferences. The mid- 51 Sussex St. 3/14/18 11 $1,649,000 $1,950,000 118.25% the rent to market rate on a unit once a Dickow year conferences are 175 Farnum St. 3/21/17 13 $959,000 $1,370,000 142.86% tenant moves out. centered around legisla- •It prevents cities from establish- 121 Mateo St. 3/21/18 14 $1,759,000 $2,020,000 114.84% tive issues. A couple of bills are being ing rent control—or capping rent—on discussed that are of importance to 1223 Bosworth St. 3/29/18 9 $1,995,000 $2,300,000 115.29% units constructed after February 1995. us in San Francisco and California 64 Sussex St. 4/6/18 24 $1,599,000 $1,575,000 98.50% What would happen if Costa as a whole. The first is the proposed 31 Paradise Ave. 4/11/18 7 $1,650,000 $1,650,000 100.00% Hawkins were repealed? It opens up portability initiative, and the second 179 Brompton Ave. 4/12/18 12 $1,495,000 $1,760,000 117.73% all kinds of possibilities. Some cities is the bill that would repeal the Costa 300 Sussex St. 4/13/18 6 $3,668,000 $3,855,000 105.10% might expand rent-control regulations Hawkins Act. to prevent landlords from raising rent 31 Elk St. 4/23/18 5 $1,295,000 $2,105,000 162.55% I’ll discuss both of these in more on a unit to market rate once a ten- detail but first let’s do the numbers! 1783 Noe St. 4/27/18 41 $7,700,000 $7,400,000 96.10% ant moves out as an effort to preserve What an incredible quarter we had 259 Randall St. 5/1/18 42 $2,429,000 $2,100,000 86.46% affordable housing. Cities would still in Glen Park. In all, 18 single-family 278 Chenery St. 5/3/18 13 $1,995,000 $2,625,000 131.58% need to pass new legislation before the homes sold between Feb. 14 and May 86 Whitney St. 5/7/18 4 $2,135,000 $2,450,000 114.75% repeal would have any effect. 20, as well as nine condominiums and 675 Congo St. 5/5/18 4 $1,495,000 $1,850,000 123.75% Opponents of the repeal bill say this five two-unit buildings. Yes, there was could exacerbate a statewide housing 125 Laidley St. 5/10/18 14 $3,695,000 $3,705,000 100.27% more inventory in the first part of the shortage and scare off developers wor- year than there has been in a while, at Condominiums/Multi-Unit Buildings ried about sudden policy changes in least in Glen Park. But there were also ADDRESS SALE DATE DOM LIST PRICE SALE PRICE SP/LP cities with rent control. more eager buyers. It’s still the stron- 46-48 Malta Dr. - 2 units 2/22/18 14 $2,100,000 $2,450,000 116.67% A report by the Legislative Analyst’s gest seller’s market we’ve seen in over Office also predicts that stricter rent 288-290 Randall St. - 2 units 3/6/18 0 $2,400,000 $2,400,000 100.00% a decade. control rules would encourage dis- The median sale price for a single- 12 Chenery St. - 2 units 4/6/18 34 $998,000 $1,240,000 124.25% criminatory behavior on the part of family home hit an all-time high during 8 Joost Ave. #4 4/6/18 66 $1,098,000 $1,235,000 112.48% landlords when selecting tenants. this quarter, coming in at $1,950,000. 125 Randall St. 4/6/18 13 $1,195,000 $1,450,000 121.34% One argument about soaring hous- The median list price was $1,650,000. 346-348 Chenery St. - 2 units 4/13/18 39 $1,850,000 $1,880,000 101.62% ing prices is that the current rent con- The average overbid was 15 percent 53 Wilder St. #401 4/13/18 25 $1,149,000 $1,300,000 113.14% trol laws have contributed to the dra- over asking—though there were some 142 Swiss Ave. 5/1/18 20 $799,000 $950,000 118.90% matic increase in San Francisco rent really aggressive buyers who went as prices over the past few years. Instead 51 Digby St. 5/7/18 42 $1,495,000 $1,540,000 103.01% much as 60 percent over asking! of letting the market control rents, Check out the recent sales on the 1872 Church St. 5/9/18 25 $1,599,000 $1,665,000 104.13% existing rental laws push landlords accompanying list and prepare to be 129 Randall St. 5/9/18 10 $1,995,000 $2,425,000 121.55% to increase rents as much as they can amazed. The average days on market 2922-2924 Diamond St. 5/10/18 49 $1,995,000 $1,810,000 90.73% whenever a tenant moves out, know- was 12, which is pretty consistent with 418 Arlington St. #2 5/15/18 14 $1,049,000 $1,280,000 122.02% ing that whatever rent they set will the city as a whole. Interest rates con- 135 Charles St. 5/18/18 4 $899,000 $1,225,000 136.26% be controlled by the City until that tinue to be very low, even though we’ve DOM - Days on market SP/LP - % over or under list price tenant moves on. Of course, the other seen the Fed raise rates several times side of that argument contends that in the past year. The average rate for a older can currently transfer the base- out action by the voters. But if it is rent control affords tenants the ability 30-year fixed rate loan is 4.47 percent, year value of their home to another stalled, it very well may end up on to stay in their homes without fear of while the rate for a 15 year fixed is home located within the same county. the November ballot. unexpected, enormous rent increases. 3.9 percent—meaning that it is still a In addition, under Proposition 90, Costa Hawkins Rental Housing This proposition is very controversial, fantastic time to buy a home with rates these same homeowners can trans- Act: Another state ballot initiative now to be sure. I encourage you to study it this low. fer the base-year value of their home has enough signatures to appear on carefully before going to the ballot box Now, on to legislative matters. to another county if that county has the November ballot. This proposition in November. There may be a bill on the ballot that opted into the Proposition 90 program; would expand rent-control options I’m pleased that this is an interactive could actually help increase the inven- however, only about 10 counties have for cities across California. It would column, answering questions that you tory of available homes. People are stay- elected to do so. repeal the 1995 Costa Hawkins Rental have and writing about topics that are ing in their homes much longer these AB 1748 would allow homeowners Housing Act, which sets limits on of interest to you as a reader. You can days in San Francisco. Particularly if 55 and older to purchase a home of the kind of rent-control policies cit- send any questions or topic requests you are 55 years of age or older. Why? any price and transfer their prop- ies are able to impose. Right now, 15 to [email protected], Because if you were to sell your home erty tax base-year value to any other California cities have some form of rent [email protected], or The Glen Park that you’ve lived in for, say, 20 years county in the state, and it does control, with San Francisco having one News, 2912 Diamond Street #407, San you are currently paying property tax not impose a limit on the number of the strictest rent control policies. Francisco, CA 94131. v based on the original purchase price of senior homeowner transfers. This Striking the Costa Hawkins law from plus some modest increases over the measure would also allow for a single the books could have a significant Marc Dickow, a Glen Park resident, is years. Here’s a summary of AB 1748: transfer for homeowners under age impact on renters, property owners and the Broker/Owner at Core7 Real Estate. AB 1748 Property Taxation – 55. If the bill passes the Assembly developers. In the midst of a statewide He can be reached at [email protected], or Base Year Value Transfer: Under and Senate and is signed into law by shortage of affordable housing, repeal by phone at 415-722-4018. His website Proposition 60, homeowners 55 and the governor, it will take effect with- supporters say it will give cities impor- is www.altrockrealtor.com. 20 Glen Park News | Summer 2018

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Mondays T(w)een Time Sunday, June 24 Sunday, July 15 Family Storytime and Playtime Every Week, 3-5 p.m., New! The Southern Boundaries of LEGO Every week, 4-5:30 p.m., Glen Park Library Sunnyside: The Wild 1890s, the Jail 2-4 p.m., Glen Park Library Glen Park Library Rock Climbing Next Door, & the Making of City Engineers of the future can unleash their design Books, songs, rhymes, and fun for children of all Every week, 6:30-8:30 p.m. (through August 16), College imaginations with LEGO and other creative materi- ages. Glen Canyon Rec Center 11 a.m.-1 p.m.; Meet at CUP Café, 6 Monterey als. Part of the library’s drop-in STEM program. Poetry with Open Mic Ages 6+, drop-in, $10 fee. Blvd., just around the corner from the Glen Park First and Third Monday of the month, 7-9 p.m. Gold Zumba BART station. Wednesday, July 18 Bird & Beckett Every week, 1-2 p.m. (through August 16), Glen On this 2-mile walk with local historian Amy Bubbleology Poets read, followed by open mic. See Birdbecket. Canyon Rec Center Gym O’Hair, hear about Sunnyside’s rough beginnings, 12:30-2:30 p.m., Glen Park Library from the county jail, a reservoir that was never filled, com for more details. Ages 55+, free. Form pipe cleaners into bubble wands or make ten- and the forest at the end of the road. Moderate, 2 sile bubbles out of straws and pipe cleaners. Make Tuesdays miles, with hills. Suggested minimum donation $10. bubbles big and small. Impress your friends and dis- Fridays RSVP: [email protected]. Family Storytime Pickleball cover how absorbent our rugs are. Every week, 10:15-10:45 a.m. and 11-11:45 Lip Balm Every week, 5-8:45 p.m., Glen Canyon Rec Center 2-4 p.m., Glen Park Library Thursday, July 19 a.m., Glen Park Library Ages 18+, drop-in, free. Books, songs, rhymes, and fun for children of all Chapped lips? Make your own lip balm! Ideally The Magic of Germar the Magician ages. Food Pantry suited for ages 7-12. Part of the library’s drop-in 11 a.m.-12 noon, Glen Park Library SFPD Community Meetings Every Week, 1-2 pm, STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) This bilingual performance in English and Spanish is Third Tuesday of the month, 7-8 p.m., St. Aidan’s Church, 101 Gold Mine Dr. program. full of awesome tricks, music, live animals, and lots location varies Volunteers run this free food pantry for low-income Caili O'Doherty Quartet of help from the audience! Ingleside Station’s commanding officer, Capt. John and disabled clients who live in the 94131 area code. 7:30-9:30 p.m., Bird & Beckett Hart, hosts a Community Relations Forum. Keep This is just one of the many activities St. Aidan’s Wednesday, July 25 up to date on neighborhood police issues, get hosts. Others include yoga, AA, Al-Anon, Overeaters Saturday, June 30 Aaron Johnson/Smith Dobson acquainted with the dedicated people who keep our Anonymous, and other community groups. For details, Lizard Lady Reptiles Quartet neighborhood safe. For information, visit the website visit www.staidansf.org or call 415-285-9540, ext 3. 4:15-5:15 p.m., Glen Park Library 7:30-10 p.m., Bird & Beckett at InglesidePoliceStation.com or call 415-404-4050. Jazz in the Bookshop Cozy up to some cool cold-blooded critters. The Rock Climbing Every week. 5:30-8 p.m., Lizard Lady will show us snakes, lizards, tortoises Thursday, July 26 Every week, 6:30-8:30 p.m. (through August 14), Bird & Beckett, 653 Chenery St. and other reptiles. Glen Park Association Fall Quarterly Glen Canyon Rec Center A neighborhood party every week, with live jazz. $10 Meeting Ages 6+, drop-in, $10 fee. per adult suggested donation; kids welcome and free! Sunday, July 1 7-8:30 p.m., Glen Canyon Park Rec Center Pickleball See birdbeckett.com for performers. St. Aidan’s Summer Picnic Every week, 5-8:45 p.m., (through August 14) Rock Climbing 12 Noon, Christopher Playground (behind Saturday, July 28 Glen Canyon Rec Center Gym Every week, 6:30-8:30 p.m. (through August 17), Diamond Heights Safeway) Sugar Scrubs Ages 18+, drop-in, free Glen Canyon Rec Center St. Aidan’s Episcopal Church in Diamond Heights 1-2 p.m., Glen Park Library Ages 6+, drop-in, $10 fee. will host its summer picnic. St. Aidan’s will supply Low Impact QiGong for Seniors Join celebrated author KJ Landis as she shares with Pickleball soft drinks and fried chicken. Sign-up board at St the history and benefits of all-natural body scrubs. Every week, 1:30-3:30 p.m. (through August 14), Aidan’s to bring sides, salads and desserts. Games, Glen Canyon Rec Center Every week, 5-8:45 p.m., Call the library at 415-355-2858 to register. Glen Canyon Rec Center Gym prizes and lots of fun times. All are welcome. For ages 55+, free. Ages 18+, drop-in, free LED Squishy Circuits Sunday, July 29 Tai Chi for Ages 18+ 2-4 p.m., Glen Park Library Storyteller Kirk Waller Wednesdays Make simple electrical circuits on insulated and Friends of Glen Canyon Park Every week, 7-8 p.m. (through August 3), Glen conductive play dough in our open lab. Added LED 3-4 p.m., Glen Park Library Work Parties Canyon Rec Center lights will allow you to create lit sculpted animals or Masterful storyteller, Kirk Waller, mixes spoken Every week, 9 a.m.-noon. The Late Show items. Part of the library’s drop-in STEM (science, word, music and movement for an unforgettable sto- Meet behind the Rec Center off Elk St. Every week, times vary. Bird & Beckett technology, engineering, and math) program. rytelling experience. All are welcome! Volunteers are welcome to work in the canyon with Glen Park Neighborhoods History Monday, August 6 the Recreation and Park Department’s Natural Project Saturdays Sunnyside Neighborhood Association Areas Program staff. To join Friends of Glen Canyon Family Playtime 2:30-4:30 p.m., Glen Canyon Recreation Center Quarterly Meeting Park, or for more information about the park, inter- Every week, 10 a.m.-noon, Glen Park Library Multi-Purpose Meeting Room 1 pretive walks, and volunteer activities, contact Jean Join Evelyn Rose as she leads an exploration into the 7-8:30 p.m., St. Finn Barr Community Room, Conner at 415-584-8576. Jazz Club Glen Park and Fairmount Heights connection to two 415 Edna Street California Native Plant Society Every Week, 7:30-10 p.m., Bird & Beckett aviation pioneers whose contributions over a century Work Parties Jazz concert series. $10-$20 cover charge. Free food ago have been largely forgotten. Plus, more newly Thursday, August 9 Every week, Noon-3 p.m., Glen Canyon Park at the break; wine and beer available. See birdbeck- rediscovered history of the Sunnyside. Free. Peter Zak - Essiet Essiet - Sylvia Volunteer activities include weeding, planting and ett.com for performers. Cuenca Trio general maintenance. Please wear closed-toe shoes, Rock Climbing Thursday, July 5 7:30-9:30 p.m., Bird & Beckett long pants and layers. The event will occur rain or Every week, 10 a.m.-12 noon and 2:30-4:30 Lisa Mezzacappa Six: COSMICOMICS shine. To RSVP, email [email protected] or p.m. (through August 18), Glen Canyon Rec - Salon #3 Saturday, August 11 call 415-831-6333. Center 7:30-9:30 p.m., Bird & Beckett A Trestle Ran Through It: Early Days Pickleball Ages 6+, drop-in, $10 fee. in Glen Park Village Every week, 1-3 p.m., Glen Canyon Rec Center Habitat Restoration Work Parties Saturday, July 7 9 a.m.-12 noon; meet at Glen Park BART Ages 18+, drop-in, free. Third Saturday of the month, 9-11:30 a.m. Meet DIY Duct Tape Ziploc Pencil Pouch Take this 1.8-mile walk with historian Evelyn Rose Book a Librarian at the Glen Canyon Rec Center off Elk Street 2-3:30 p.m., Glen Park Library back through time to learn about the history of Glen Every Week, 2-3 p.m., Glen Park Library, Join the Friends of Glen Canyon Park and SFRPD Make your own decorative pencil case with a Ziploc Park that would set the foundation for the endearing Computer/technology assistance. Call 415-355-2858 gardeners for a monthly volunteer work party of plastic bag & duct tape. Materials provided, but character of neighborhood today. Suggested donation for an appointment. weeding, pruning and occasional planting. For more space is limited to 20 participants. Call 415-355- $10. RSVP: [email protected]. information, email [email protected] or 2858 or email [email protected] to register. Diamond Diners Lunch and call 415-831-6333. Registration required. Monday, August 13 Social Hour Sing-a-Song Storytime Sunday, July 8 Jazz Jam - RJAM! First Wednesday of the month, Fourth Saturday of the month, 11-11:30 a.m., The Flying Angels Chinese Dance 7-9:30 p.m., Bird & Beckett Noon-1 p,m. Glen Park Library Company 2nd year! Students in the SF Conservatory of St. Aidan’s Church, 101 Gold Mine Drive 2-2:30 p.m., Glen Park Library Music's "Roots, Jazz & American Music" BMUS Bird & Beckett Book Club Sundays Enjoy original, traditional and contemporary degree program host their peers from Bay Area col- Second Wednesday of the month, DIY Kids Chinese dances. Colorful costumes and vibrant leges and high schools. 7-9 p.m., Bird & Beckett Every week, times vary, Glen Park Library music will take you on a journey through China! Audiences of all ages will enjoy a mini-show that will Thursday, August 16 A book is discussed each meeting. Participants choose Craft program geared for children 7-12. the next month’s book. See Birdbeckett.com for details. dazzle all of the senses. Noses Off - Sara Moore! Which Way West? 7:30-9:30 p.m., Bird & Beckett Lego Free Play 4:30-6:30 p.m., Bird & Beckett, 653 Chenery St. Monday, July 9 First Wednesday of the month, 2-4 p.m., Glen A weekly concert series offering jazz, acoustic Park Library Kentucky Twisters - Fanny Renoir Sunday, August 19 Americana, world, and classical music. $10 per sug- presents... Larry Vuckovich Jazz Lecture gested donation; children free. No one turned away 7-9 p.m., Bird & Beckett Rock Climbing for lack of funds! See birdbeckett.com for performers.. 2-4 p.m., Bird & Beckett Every week, 6:30-8:30 p.m. (through August 15), The Seducers - Classic, Outlaw & Frank Holmes on guitar and vocals, Steve Breen on Glen Canyon Rec Center Honky Tonk Country Music banjo, Tom Cline on dobro, Emil Nishi on bass, Saturday, August 25 Ages 6+, drop-in, $10 fee. Bruno Brandli on mandolin and Lou Felthouse on Second Sunday of the month, 7:30-9:30 p.m., guitar. New! The Northern Boundaries Bird & Beckett of Sunnyside: Dairy Cows, Early Thursdays Saturday, July 14 Speculators and Activists, and the Decorate the Refridgerator Saturday, June 23 Steepest Parks in the City Every Week, 10-11:30 a.m., Glen Park Library NEW! The Glen Park Suffrage Trail 11a.m.-1 p.m., meet location TBD. Mt. Davidson History Stroll 10 a.m.-12 noon; Meet at the Cow Sign, 70 Elk On this 2-1/2-mile walk with local historian Amy Fun and age-appropriate crafts as an introduction to 1-2:30 p.m.; meet at Sherwood Ave and Myra the world of preschool crafts. Dress in your oldest Street entrance to Glen Canyon Park O'Hair, hear stories from Sunnyside’s northern pre-stained clothing. Ages 18 months to 4 years. Way (MUNI 36 Teresita bus shelter/turnaround) Join Glen Park historian Evelyn Rose and rediscover edges: how our two parks were built; a tragic land- Explore the inspired history of San Francisco's high- the women who, in their early 20th century efforts slide disaster; the never-built streets laid out by the Resilient Diamond Heights est hill with Mt. Davidson historian Jacquie Proctor. to achieve a basic civil right – the vote – helped land speculators who created Sunnyside; and dairy Fourth Thursday of the month, This 1-mile, moderately strenuous stroll will take make Glen Park the charming and beloved district it farming. Strenuous with hills. Ages 12 and up. 6-8 p.m., St. Aidan’s Church you to the amazing view and gigantic monument at is today. Moderately difficult 2 mile hike, including Well-behaved pets on leash are welcome. Limited to Dinner and disaster resilience planning. For informa- its 938 ft.-high summit. Suggested minimum dona- several hills. Rain cancels. Suggested minimum dona- 15 people. RSVP: [email protected]. tion, call 415-285-9540, ext. 3. tion $10. RSVP: [email protected]. tion $10. RSVP: [email protected]. Suggested minimum donation $10.