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Windsor Square Association leader, Mike Genewick
Longtime Windsor Square Association (WSA) board member, treasurer and past president Michael Genewick passed away on Feb. 10. Mike selflessly devoted years of energy to civic involvement. He was generous in supporting projects he felt were a benefit to the neighborhood, and he could always be counted on to step up and volunteer for whatever […]
Troop 10 combines outdoor adventure with community service
Troop 10 is very fortunate to have continued to thrive during the pandemic. After a year of virtual online meetings and activities, the troop returned to in-person outdoor activities last summer and fall. In July, 21 boys from Troop 10 attended summer camp at Camp Cherry Valley on Catalina Island. Troop 10 is especially proud […]
Community welcomes a friendly new Attitude Café
When Melissa Kim and Bill Gordean decided to open a café where Fiddler’s Restaurant used to be on Third Street, neither had any nuts-and-bolts experience running a restaurant. Bill is an antiques dealer who’s owned Villa Melrose Antiques for about 30 years, and Melissa has been running the Park Plaza Lodge, one block away, for […]
Rabbi returns to her roots at Temple Israel of Hollywood
When young Mari Chernow, freshly graduated from rabbinical school at Hebrew Union College in Los Angeles, left in 2003 to take up a position at Temple Chai in Phoenix, she only planned on staying there a couple of years. Eighteen years later, the Southern California native has returned home with her wife Kara and […]
From the Central Library fire 35 years ago, a story just now being told
The shocking April 29, 1986 news broadcasts of the senseless fire ravaging a Downtown building so loved — and then burned and waterlogged — led to a cry for volunteer help from every news source region-wide. I was one of many who heard that cry, and I knew instinctively that, early the next morning, the […]
‘Local’s’ new guidebook to our enormous and wild park
If you’re a local, you will learn a lot by reading Casey Schreiner’s “Griffith Park: A Local’s Guide.” Certainly not limited to “locals” however, this guidebook is a great read for an out-of-towner with even a vague interest in our city’s enormous and wild municipal park. Personally, I first learned about Griffith Park growing up […]
