Tag: Wilshire Rotary
Neighborhood Valentines tell how they met: Bill and Sandy Boeck
Sandy Larsen was at an after-service coffee hour at All Saints’ Episcopal Church in Beverly Hills on a Sunday afternoon in 1993 when she met a single, orthopedic surgeon named Bill Boeck. “A mutual friend who had been on a prayer team for Bill’s mother introduced me to him,” explains Sandy. In that first conversation […]
Rotary Christmas tree lot returns to Larchmont Blvd.
Fresh-cut evergreens are back and for sale on the Blvd. thanks to the Wilshire Rotary Club tree lot at 568 N. Larchmont Blvd. Delivered from a farm in Oregon, customers will find noble, Fraser, silvertip, Nordmann and Douglas firs, with new shipments arriving each week. In its 10th year on Larchmont Blvd., event organizer Wendy […]
Get fresh Christmas trees at Rotary lot on Larchmont Blvd.
It will begin to look a lot like Christmas when the Wilshire Rotary Club opens its tree lot on Fri., Nov. 25 at 568 N. Larchmont Blvd. Customers will find Noble, Fraser, Silvertip, Nordmann and Douglas firs, according to organizer Wendy Clifford, who says the trees are delivered fresh from a farm in Oregon. “The […]
Community gives Chronicle’s Jane Gilman standing ovation
Community leaders, business owners, government representatives and neighborhood friends all gathered at The Ebell of Los Angeles to celebrate both the retirement and birthday (on her actual birthday) of one of the community’s most beloved stalwarts, Larchmont Chronicle co-founder Jane Gilman. “Jane credits luck, timing, ambition, diplomacy, gregariousness, more luck, and fearlessness as the attributes […]
Retirement comes next for Elsa and Larry Gillham
Elsa and Larry Gillham, Lucerne Blvd., have finally decided to walk away from the accounting, bookkeeping and business management company they built in 1979, called Larchmont Data, Inc. Born in the Philippines, Elsa came to the U.S. to visit Chicago as a graduation gift back in the 1970s. She was supposed to return home and […]
Donate new shoes for a discount at Wilshire Rotary tree lot
If you ask Neal McDonough, there’s no point in looking any further than the Wilshire Rotary tree lot 568 N. Larchmont Blvd. for your annual holiday tree. “My wife Ruvé and I cannot wait to get our tree this year,” said the Hancock Park resident. “It’s a great way to give back to the community […]
