Neighborhood children celebrated Earth Day by planting trees on April 19, 2008, at the new Vista Hermosa Nature Park adjoining the new Edward R. Roybal High School in Pico Union, one of the most park-starved communities in California. The Park will open July 19, 2008!
Vista Hermosa Park is located in Assembly District 45 (DeLeon). There [...]

. . . During his tenure Mr. Hartzog oversaw the acquisition of 72 sites, amounting to 2.7 million acres. The list went beyond national parks to include recreation areas, seashores, river ways and historical monuments.
“He was an empire builder,” Robert M. Utley, a former Park Service historian, said in an interview on Tuesday. Besides Stephen [...]

The Hollywood School for Girls/Woman’s Club of Hollywood was designed by Arthur E. Harvey and constructed in 1948.

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Jesus Sanchez is a great journalist and he is one of my heroes. It is a tragedy that he is leaving the L.A. Times.
We helped spearhead the successful effort to create what is now the Los Angeles State Historic Park at the Cornfield. Mr. Sanchez covered that story in an excellent front page article above [...]

The City Council on July 16, 2008, approved a motion directing City staff to assess the project’s impacts on the local community, and to present their findings and comments to the Council for its consideration before public comments are due to the County Regional Planning Commission on August 19, 2008.
The motion also directs the City [...]

Photo by Nic Garcia.
Built in 1902 and bought by the Janes family, the Janes sisters operated Misses Janes Kindergarten in their home.
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Photo by Nic Garcia.
The old Japanese American National Museum Little Tokyo was formerly the Hompa Hongwanjii Buddhist Temple and designated at Cultural Historical Landmark 313 by the City of Los Angeles. Constructed 1924-25, it was one of the first religious structures serving Asian Americans in Los Angeles. The building has three sections that [...]

City, LAUSD Reach Deal On Access to Facility at High School
by Ryan Vaillancourt
July 14, 2008
Community activists who have been calling on city and school district officials to open the Olympic-sized pool at the Miguel Contreras Learning Complex to the public during the summer got their wish last Monday.
With the July sun beating down and the [...]

Park on Long-Troubled Belmont Learning Center Site to Open This Week
by Anna Scott
July 14, 2008
This week, City West will get a lot greener with the debut of a 10-acre park. If some people thought it might never arrive, that’s understandable: It is opening on a notorious site where construction first began a decade ago.
Still, it [...]

The Golden State Mutual Life Insurance building was home to one of the five largest African-American-owned insurance companies in the United States. In 1928, using all African American design and labor, the company built a two story building at 4261 Central Avenue in South Central Los Angeles where the firm occupied the top floor while [...]