Archive for June, 2010
by Bruce Felps Our Lake Highlands friend in photography and warped minds, Mark Davis, put together that photo montage you see up there from images he snapped during last year’s Fourth of July fireworks extravaganza. He promises more flicks from this year’s “ooo” and “aaaahh” fest, but consider that one an appetite whetter.
Staff Report Kenneth Durand, who’s spent 27 years as president and CEO of C.C. Young retirement center, today let known his intentions to step down from the post effective Sept. 30. During the three-month lag time, the C.C. Young board of directors will appoint a search committee to work with a national search firm to [...]
by Bruce Felps Although the Fourth of July parades in Lakewood, Lake Highlands, and Little Forest Hills take place July 3, the annual fireworks show from Lakewood Country Club burst forth July 4 starting about 9 p.m. Stake out a vantage point across the street at Whole Foods-Lakewood and partake of a few preliminaries [...]
Staff Report This week’s installment of the East Dallas Networking group takes place tomorrow. Members assemble at 11:30 a.m., July 1, in a meeting room at Highland Park Cafeteria. It all costs $2. The included lunch is a grilled chicken Caesar salad and, since it’s at a cafeteria, the full range of food is available [...]
Last year’s LECPTA float telegraphed the home tour theme. — Courtesy Photo by Bruce Felps Again this year, the Lakewood Early Childhood PTA plans to use the Lakewood Fourth of July Parade stage to reveal the theme of this year’s Home Festival and tour. The theme of the organization’s float directly reflects the theme of [...]
by Bruce Felps Downing Hill, the Lower Greenville Avenue shop that specializes in items for the outdoors and all things green, this week throws a little fundraising party for the Promise of Peace Community Garden. The shop offers a free glass of wine to shoppers during the Life is Good event from 5-9 p.m., July [...]
by Bruce Felps A Hollywood-Santa Monica resident and friend to our little show here sent an e-mail message earlier today about some tom-thievery going on in her neighborhood. An across-the-street neighbor on Vivian Avenue had a potted plant stolen late Sunday-early Monday from his front porch.
by Bruce Felps I relented earlier this year and joined Facebook. It’s provided a few worthwhile connections and communications, but mostly I find it a random assortment of banality like someone posting a “there it is again” non sequitur with no clarifying context. There what is again? What really puzzles me, though — and perhaps some of [...]
This fox was the subject of a story published at Black White Red. Community Contribution The following contribution started as a letter to neighbors from three people concerned about local wildlife: Several of us have observed a mother fox feeding her three babies in the 6900 block of Cornelia Lane. She appears in the [...]
by Bruce Felps Friday I lunched at Mextopia. A couple of people asked my thoughts on the new Tex-Mex place — Greenville Avenue, just a couple of doors north of Prospect Avenue — and overall, I liked it quite a lot. The interior reminds you you’re in a Mexican food place without bludgeoning you about the head [...]
