HOLMBY NEWS
February 4, 2022
From the Holmby Westwood Property Owners Association, serving the Holmby Westwood community since 1960.
1. HWPOA Board Meeting – Video Conference
2. LAPD Crime Report
3. Adopt Fire Station #71
4. COVID Testing Information
5. Join LA City’s Advisory Council on Aging
6. City of LA Youth Council – Applications Open
7. Activities & Things to Do
8. HWPOA Communication and Ad Policy
9. Resident Ads
10. Local Discounts & HWPOA Benefits
11. HWPOA Contact Information
1. HWPOA BOARD MEETING – VIDEO CONFERENCE
On Tuesday, February 8 at 7:30 PM, the HWPOA Board of Directors will hold its monthly meeting. Due to social distancing restrictions, the meeting will be a video-conference held online via Zoom. Please click here to see the agenda.
Members of the community are welcome to join the Zoom call. Please let us know if you plan to attend and we will send you the link to access the video-conference. Email Dana at hwpoa@aol.com.
2. LAPD CRIME REPORT
VEHICLE, STOLEN
Incident #: 220805045
10400 BLOCK LINDBROOK DR | 1/27/2022 @ 8:20 AM
File a Police Report Online: click here
EMERGENCY: 911
NON-EMERGENCY: 1-877-275-5273
All other City Services: 311
James Allen, Senior Lead Officer
West L.A. Community Police Station –1663 Butler Ave.Office: 310-444-0741
Email: 39318@lapd.online
West LA Community Police Station Website: click here
LAPD Website: www.lapdonline.org
3. ADOPT FIRE STATION #71
In 1999, a then HWPOA Board member, Leonard McCroskey, brought together 5 homeowner organizations (Bel-Air, Benedict Canyon, Comstock Hills, Residents of Beverly Glen and HWPOA) to raise funds to support our 1st responders at Fire Station #71, located at Beverly Glen and Sunset. Contributions came from the residents to support those things that the City of LA did not provide. While the station looked OK from the outside, there had been NO renovation in 57 years! No central heating or air conditioning, poor lighting, sleeping and eating quarters that were often filled with carcinogenic diesel fumes due to inadequate ventilation. The firefighters pay a daily “house dues” to cover many items they use daily including the food they eat, cooking utensils, cable, and internet but we consider the station their home away from home. They are on 24-hour call several days a week. The station serves an area covering over five and a half sq. miles and answers calls for over 3,000 households.
Over the years, contributions have supported the following:
- commercial washer and dryer
- carpet for the dorm and training room
- gym equipment
- furniture for the recreation room
- large screen TV
- smoker grill, vacuum cleaner, and air compressor
- tool room remodel
- renovation of the air system
- bed dividers
- kitchen remodel
- a generator junction electrical box
There were many other purchases. The station gave a Pancake Breakfast every Spring for neighbors to celebrate their service to the community and to bring families to the station to meet the firefighters, tour their “home away from home,” and to let the children see the fire trucks on display. We hope that once COVID is behind us, the breakfast will return.
Our new venture: Several years ago, the Bel-Air Garden Club initiated a Spring clean-up at the station, pruning the hedges, trees, and creating walkways. The firefighters are involved with weekly maintenance and do a pretty good job with sprinkler problems. The Club not only created a new landscape plan for the station but purchased and planted new bushes, shrubs, and trees, and has continued to maintain it ever since. Beginning this year, The “Adopt FS #71″ Board of Directors voted to collaborate with the Club and to share the yearly cost. We are very much looking forward to this neighborhood endeavor with the Bel-Air Garden Club!
If you would like to contribute, please make checks payable to “Adopt Fire Station #71” and mail to:
Adopt Fire Station #71
c/o HWPOA
P.O. Box 49180
Los Angeles, CA 90049
This is a California non-profit Public Benefit Corporation, 501 (c) (3).
Thank you,
Sandy Brown, President, Adopt Fire Station #71
4. COVID TESTING INFORMATION
New Testing Site in Beverly Hills
911 Covid Testing is excited to announce their newest Mega Testing Site in the City of Beverly Hills. The site is located at 9900 N. Santa Monica Blvd. (just west of the Peninsula Hotel).
Free At-Home Tests – Reimbursement Information
There’s now a way to access at-home COVID-19 tests for free and get reimbursed for those already purchased. Here’s how:
Westwood-Century City Patch article
Getting Free At-Home COVID Tests in Calif.
5. JOIN LA CITY’S ADVISORY COUNCIL ON AGING
The Older Americans Act mandates that the Council on Aging be the principal advocacy body for seniors and disabled individuals in the City of Los Angeles. At this time, LA City’s Department of Aging is seeking to identify civically-minded seniors sixty years of age and older to join our Advisory Council on Aging.
The role of the Advisory Council on Aging is to provide older adults who reside in the City the opportunity to lend their insights into our community planning process, identify emerging needs and make recommendations on how to best serve seniors in the City of Los Angeles.
Flyer – Advisory Council on Aging
If you or someone you know is a civically-minded senior that would be interested in serving as a volunteer on the Department’s Advisory Council on Aging, please contact Zipora Gipson, Social Worker I, at (213) 202-5635 or via email at zipora.gipson@lacity.org to obtain more information and an application.
6. CITY OF LA YOUTH COUNCIL – APPLICATIONS OPEN
The Los Angeles Youth Development Department is excited to announce the first ever Olivia Mitchell LA City Youth Council. This youth-led council will be comprised of thirty young Angelenos, ages 16 to 25 from all across the City of Los Angeles.
Applications to join the first cohort of youth will be open through February 28, 2022.
If you know youth who have been looking for an opportunity to amplify youth voices please consider sharing the application: youthcouncil.lacity.org.
7. ACTIVITIES & THINGS TO DO
SCAM STOPPER WEBINAR
Wednesday, February 9 from 4 to 5 p.m. (via Zoom)
Hosted by Senator Ben Allen
Seniors, family members, and caregivers — We are pleased to invite you to join us for a Senior Scam Stopper seminar hosted by Senator Ben Allen. This seminar will feature expert panelists from the Contractors State License Board, the Department of Financial Protection and Innovation, and the California Department of Insurance. Our speakers will provide information to seniors and their families about common scams to look out for and how you can protect yourself from becoming a victim.
RSVP required at https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_hvZHFoygSECjYenw5lSAuw
Submit questions to be answered by our panelists at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf91LrTVJQoysEekl7dQvGF8klOPRTbnO3grKu4diec3ewxXg/viewform
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ULYSSES JENKINS: Without Your Interpretation
Feb. 6 – May 15, 2022
at the Hammer Museum
Opens Sunday! The Hammer presents the first major retrospective of the groundbreaking 1970s video and performance artist. A pivotal influence on contemporary art for over 50 years, Ulysses Jenkins (b. 1946, Los Angeles) is a groundbreaking video artist who emerged in the late-1970s. His video and media work is remarkable for its fusion of forms to conjure vibrant expressions of how image, sound, and cultural iconography inform representation. Using archival footage, photographs, image processing, and elegiac soundtracks, Jenkins pulls together strands of thought to construct an “other” history that consistently interrogates questions of race and gender as they relate to ritual, history, and state power.
8. HWPOA COMMUNICATION AND AD POLICY
Please direct all comments, questions or issues regarding the Holmby News to hwpoa@aol.com.
Ads for plumbers, housekeepers, garage sales, etc. will be posted in the weekly News. Emergency situations such as lost and found pets, traffic alerts and similar situations will be published during the week as received.
When placing an ad, please send to hwpoa@aol.com for the Holmby News moderator to review. Responses to ads should be directed to the ad placer, not to HWPOA.
9. RESIDENT ADS
PEST CONTROL – RECOMMENDATION NEEDED
Please send recommendations for pest control, including flying pests and rats. Monthly service needed. Please send recommendations to swy333@gmail.com.
Thank you!
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TRUNKSHOW – ANATOMIE & SHORTYLOVE
Anatomie women’s sportswear and shortyLOVE handbag trunkshow in Little Holmby today through February 10.
The Anatomie collection is perfect for L.A. and these times: casual, comfortable, with most of the pieces made of our exclusive Italian fabric that is wrinkle free, machine washable and SPF50 (great for those walks around Holmby Park!). There are dozens of styles to chose from and I have all the colors and sizes at my home. There are also cashmeres that are perfect for these cooler temperatures, as well as the entire spring/summer collection. Sizes run from XS to XL. First time clients receive 15% off their entire order. You can also view the shortyLOVE handbag collection, designed by the former purse designer for Marc Jacobs. These nylon bags come in a variety of shapes, sizes and colors, are very reasonably priced. There are quite a few that are perfect for walks and hikes (hold an iPhone and keys) and travel (lightweight and pack flat).
Covid precautions: one-on-one appointments, vaccines and masks a must! Call, email or text me for more information: Denise (310) 721-2500; dzbarta@aol.com
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10. LOCAL DISCOUNTS & HWPOA BENEFITS
Below you will find links to discounts and benefits that local businesses have offered to HWPOA members. We hope to add more as often as we can. Please let us know if you would like to submit additional discounts for other Westwood retailers.
Current benefits include:
- Campus Shoe Repair – 10% off any shoe or bag repair
Westwood Village Rewards Program:
You can now earn rewards for shopping and dining in Westwood Village! Exclusive offers, promotions, and other incentives are now available in many restaurants, shops, and businesses in Westwood Village. So easy to use, too, you can access all of these rewards from your mobile device!
Visit www.WestwoodVillageRewards.com and register for a list of promotions, rewards, and other incentives offered by local retailers. No extra steps are required, and no apps to download!
11. HWPOA CONTACT INFORMATION
HOLMBY WESTWOOD PROPERTY OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC.
P.O. Box 49180
Los Angeles, CA 90049
310-470-1785
Email: hwpoa@aol.com
Web site: www.holmbywestwoodpoa.org
Pay Membership Dues: https://squareup.com/store/hwpoa
You Are Invited . . .
- To attend our monthly Board Meetings*
- To let us know your concerns about our community and your ideas about how we might work to improve it
- To become involved in our Association.
*Board Meetings are usually held the second Tuesday of each month. Please confirm prior to attending.