San Fernando Valley

Department of Sanitation is currently collecting data in order to gain a better understanding of the root cause of cleanliness issues in the City, and to better understand the expectations businesses and residents have of the Department. Individual survey responses are anonymous and will be used to create an effective …

The Oakridge Estate, historic home of Barbara Stanwyck, is one of the hidden treasures in our area of Northridge. The Friends of Oakridge are working towards restoring it and making it more available for public use. Meantime they periodically offer tours where you stroll and explore this great estate. If …

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8CWUb8Q26Q[/youtube] Mayor Eric Garcetti’s Budget 101 at Shepherd of Hills in Porter Ranch

Saturday, October 5, 2013 10:00 am – 2:00 pm Fire Station 87—10124 Balboa Bl. (between Devonshire & Lassen) Your Neighborhood Councils will give away 500 Emergency Preparedness Starter Kits (1 per family) Twice-hourly raffle drawings for EP items and prizes Blood drive sponsored by Rotary and Kaiser Hospital Yogi Bear Shakey-Quakey …

Public meetings will be held before the plan goes onto a future ballot. From NorthridgePatch.com Responding to the uproar by Neighborhood Councils and community activists, the City Council Tuesday dropped plans to put a $3 billion road repair bond measure on the May 21 ballot. Councilmembers Mitch Englander and Joe Buscaino, who …

Saturday, October 6, 2012 11:00 am – 3:00 pm at Fire Station 87—10124 Balboa Bl. (between Devonshire & Lassen) The Valley Disaster Preparedness Fair is a joint Whole Community event to help bring awareness to being better prepared for emergencies and disasters.

Are you interested in trying something different? The RACO Program welcomes volunteers to become Reserve Animal Control Officers serving in the same capacity as our Animal Control Officers. The program requires a commitment of 16 hours of volunteer service each month at any one of our six Animal Care Centers …

Granada Hills Charter High School students are back-to-back National Academic Decathlon champions. Preliminary results show that the Granada Hills Charter team has broken many records at the national competition, including the highest ever point total for a school in the history of the National Academic Decathlon competition. The second consecutive …

Performing Arts Workshops, VOTED 2010’s BEST SUMMER CAMP in LA PARENT MAGAZINE, is pleased to announce that through a generous donation, twenty scholarships at each of our Summer Camp locations are now available. These special scholarships have been made available for us to give as a matching fund.  The donor, …

To all Northridge Stakeholders: You are all invited this Saturday 5/28/11 (7AM to 10AM) to join Northridge West Neighborhood Council’s sponsored Operation Clean Sweep along the North side of Chatsworth Street from Vanalden to Tampa Avenue in Northridge. http://bit.ly/l6hjuE Take the plunge for some fun – come and join us make Northridge Shine! This …

To all Northridge Stakeholders: You are all invited this Saturday 5/21/11 (7AM to 10AM) to join Northridge West Neighborhood Council’s sponsored Operation Clean Sweep along the North side of Corbin Avenue from Chatsworth to Devonshire Street in Northridge. http://bit.ly/keGret Take the plunge for some fun – come and join us make Northridge Shine! This …

Join middle-school student Sam Dobry and several of his friends as well as community leaders and volunteers, for a clean-up project these great kids are organizing. Come join these enthusiastic young citizens and help paint over graffiti, clean up trash and maintain recently planted trees in Limekiln Canyon to help …

The Boundary Review Committee for Los Angeles County has launched a website where residents can participate in the reapportionment of supervisorial districts. The website, redistricting.lacounty.gov, informs residents about the reapportionment process and allows them to express their views. It also includes background information on the Boundary Review Committee, which will …

It was announced at the Meeting that the NWNC and PRNC Boards FAILED to pass (voted down) the revised LADOT Wilbur Avenue road diet plan by a written vote of nine (9) in favor (“YES”), three (3) opposed (“NO”) and seven (7) abstained (“ABSTAIN”). The Neighborhood Councils were advised to …

Chatsworth Neighborhood Council joins Northridge West in tackling the last stretches of Corbin Street while Paul Bunion takes on the Grapefruit trees. Last Saturday Chatsworth Neighborhood Council board members Carol Lucas & Jelena Csanyi joined NWNC in cleaning up the remaining stretches of Corbin Street. The combination of councils working …

From L.A. County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky’s blog: Blame it on Natalie Portman. If you want to see “Swan Lake” in L.A. before the Oscars, there’s really only one show in town. And good luck getting tickets to the one-night-only, Feb. 8 performance by the Russian National Ballet. That programming coup—coming …

In August of 2008, Councilman Smith introduced Council Motion 08-2070, a motion to address the issue of abandoned shopping carts in the community. A pilot program was carried out and the City Council decided create a shopping cart ordinance. You can find the full history of this motion at: http://cityclerk.lacity.org/lacityclerkconnect/index.cfm?fa=ccfi.viewrecord&cfnumber=08-2070 …

Northridge West Neighborhood Council, Thank you for your generous donations this past year. We are thrilled to announce that in 2010, because of your generosity, we distributed almost 2 million pounds of food to needy families and individuals. Happy New Year! Thank you again for your contributions! William Hernandez Director, …

After the holidays, please recycle all Christmas trees. You may cut them up and put them in the green bin for pickup, or take the tree to a city recycling location: BALBOA SPORTS CENTER 17015 Burbank Boulevard Encino, CA 91316 FIRE STATION #28 11641 Corbin Ave. Northridge, CA 91326 (818) …

The following is a news release from Councilman Greig Smith’s Office: The Wilbur Ave. working group met for the first time this week and held a highly constructive discussion and review of Department of Transportation’s (DOT) tentative proposals to address traffic and safety questions related to the re-configuration of the …