I got “another” reminder from Supervisor Carmen Chu’s office today about an upcoming cleaning event at Sunset Blvd this coming weekend.  It’s a good thing I got “another” reminder, because the first one never made it to my inbox. 

From Carmen:

We will be working along 36th & 37th Ave, on Noriega, Moraga and Ortega to clean up brush and debris along the corridor and help clear walking paths for safe walking and jogging. The event on Saturday is a kick-off to our ongoing efforts to improve Sunset Boulevard, and the work will continue beyond Saturday with crews removing dead tree parts and pruning dense trees and bushes all along Sunset Blvd.

Sunset Blvd Clean Up

When: Saturday, June 21                    Time: 10:00am – 12:00pm

Location: Meet at Noriega & 37th Ave (NW corner)

Supplies will be provided through the Department of Public Works. Please dress in comfortable clothing and shoes.

If you plan on attending the clean-up, please email chustaff@sfgov.org.

Hope to see you all out there on Saturday!

 

I have to say, so far, I’ve been very pleased with Carmen’s office and with her communication with the neighborhoods.  And I’m still hoping that Supervisor Sean R. Elsbernd will jump on the technological bandwagon and learn to email his constituents as well.  We might hear more about what’s happening in the Northern portion of the Avenues if he was able to do so. 

Anyhow – hope you have a chance to stop by and help clean up the hood!

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I have a bit of an addiction that I don’t really like to talk about.  I’m addicted to reality TV.  And usually, it’s really bad reality TV.  Out of the reality TV shows that really feed my addiction, the cop/criminal shows are the ones that really do it for me.  But the TV shows just aren’t local enough, and I’d like at least part of my dose of reality to be located close to home. 

So I depend on my local police departments to feed my addiction to reality!

Depending on where you live, your local police department will email you a crime report, either on a daily, or a weekly basis. 

If you live in the Sunset or Parkside districts, Captain Paul Chignell of the Taraval police station will send you a fairly complete daily report of arrests and criminal incidents throughout the neighborhood, sometimes with a little bit of entertaining commentary to go along with it.  These reports are pretty thorough, but you will sometimes receive a few days worth of emails at a time when the Captain dares to take a day off.

If you live in the Richmond district, you receive an email from Captain Anthony Fotinos of the Richmond police station every Friday afternoon with a “greatest hits” style email that covers the highlights of crime (if you can call them that) that have occurred in the past week.  This newsletter also adds events from the Safety Network calendar to the email – which gives a nice balance of the good and the bad, or yin and yang, so to speak, but they’re definitely less thorough than the Taraval district’s daily updates.  Which makes me wonder exactly what qualifies for the weekly greatest hits list? :-/

If you want to get the Taraval station’s daily update, email the captain to request it. 

And if you want to get the Richmond station’s daily update, email the station to request it.

And even if you’re not a reality junkie like me, you might find these reports useful to know what’s going on in your neighborhood.   After all – knowing is half the battle!

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