HOLMBY NEWS
August 31, 2018
From the Holmby Westwood Property Owners Association, serving the Holmby Westwood community since 1960.
1. Garbage Collection – Holiday Schedule
2. Relaxed Parking During the Jewish Holidays
3. Attic Insulation Rebate Program
4. Veterans “Stand Down” – Help Needed
5. Westwood Library – September Happenings
6. What’s New at LAX Airport
7. Be a Monarch Butterfly Host
8. Upcoming Community Events
9. HWPOA Communication and Ad Policy
10. Resident Ads
11. HWPOA Contact Information
1. GARBAGE COLLECTION – HOLIDAY SCHEDULE
Due to the Labor Day holiday, our offices will be closed, and there will be no collection service on Monday, September 3. Garbage collection services will be delayed by one day, all week long. Please note that social media will not be monitored over the weekend or on Monday, September 4. However, our 24-hour Customer Care Center will be available to assist you at 1-800-773-2489.
If your normal collection day is Monday, your bins will be serviced Tuesday. Tuesday collections will happen Wednesday, Wednesday collections will happen Thursday, Thursday collections will happen Friday, and Friday collections will happen Saturday.
Please visit our Holiday Collections page at www.lacitysan.org/holidayschedule for more information or call our 24-hour Customer Care Center at 1-800-773-2489 if you have any questions.
We wish you a happy, safe, and sustainable Labor Day weekend!
LA Sanitation
1-800-773-2489
www.lacitysan.org
2. RELAXED PARKING DURING THE JEWISH HOLIDAYS
The Council Office has notified us that parking will be relaxed in our community during the upcoming Jewish holidays. For a complete list of dates and locations where the parking rules will be relaxed, please CLICK HERE.
Please note that portions of Strathmore and Westholme near Hillel will not have relaxed parking, per Hillel’s conditional use permit.
We wish you a happy and sweet New Year! L’ Shanah Tovah!
3. ATTIC INSULATION REBATE PROGRAM
This week, Mayor Eric Garcetti and the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) announced a five-year, $100 million insulation rebate program to help Angelenos better control temperatures in their homes, reduce energy use, and save money.
The program will provide homeowners with a rebate that covers $1 per square foot of insulation up to 80% of the total project cost. Installing attic insulation might seem daunting and expensive, but the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) can help pay for insulating your attic. Customers who install attic insulation can see energy reduction and savings of $200 to $374 in a year, depending upon the size of the home and its location.
This is only the latest addition to a roster of rebates offered through LADWP’s Consumer Rebate Program, including:
- A/C Optimization Program: provides basic air conditioning diagnostic and maintenance services which can reduce heating and cooling costs up to 25%.
- Cool Roof Rebate: subsidizes the costs to install a roof designed to reflect heat from the sun, which can reduce cooling costs by 7-15%.
- Smart Thermostats: automatically optimizes home temperature settings to maximize energy savings, saving customers $180 per year on their utility bill.
- Refrigerator Exchange Program: exchanges qualified older model refrigerators with Energy Star®-rated refrigerators for low-income residents, free of charge.
- Home Energy Improvement Program: offers a free home assessment to identify potential cost-effective energy efficient upgrades and repairs.
- Clothes Washer Rebate: provides a $400 rebate on energy and water efficient washing machines, which can reduce water use by 11,000 gallons per year.
To learn more about the insulation rebate and how to apply, please visit LADWP.com/CRP
4. VETERANS “STAND DOWN” – HELP NEEDED
The 4th Annual Veteran’s Stand Down is October 26, 2018 at the VAGLAHS in West L.A. This one day fair offers a wide variety of services for homeless Veterans – see information below!
We need Volunteers and Donations from the community. Say thank you to our most vulnerable Veterans, our homeless and struggling Veterans, with your donation. Take the hand of a homeless Veteran by volunteering at the Stand Down.
Each volunteer assignment is two hours in length. Serve food, volunteer at registration or information desks, help to style women Veterans in the AmVet clothing tent. Discover the fulfillment of extending a helping hand to our soldiers as they struggle to find housing and overcome hardship.
The Stand Down is Friday, October 26th, 2018 at the Welcome Center, Building 257, at the VAGLAHS campus in West L.A., 11301 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90073
Contact us to volunteer and/or to provide donated goods at info@villageforvets.org.
Click the DONATE button below and help us to continue to serve Homeless Veterans at the VA Campus!
5. WESTWOOD LIBRARY – SEPTEMBER HAPPENINGS
The Westwood Branch Library has a busy month of events and activities for adults, teens and children. Some of the programs include:
- Short Story Master Class
- Opera Talk: Don Carlo
- Movie Night – West Side Story
- Baby & Toddler Storytime
- MS Office for Job Seekers
- Building Bricks Club (Legos!)
- Latino Heritage Month Celebration
For a complete list of upcoming events, please click here:
https://www.lapl.org/branches/westwood
6. WHAT’S NEW AT LAX AIRPORT
Discover Los Angeles recently posted an article that outlines the tremendous airport improvements underway and in store over the next several years. MAJOR changes are coming to the airport, as LAX continue to modernize, without needing to expand.
Read the article at: https://m.discoverlosangeles.com/blog/discover-future-los-angeles-international-airport.
7. BE A MONARCH BUTTERFLY HOST
In recent years, the monarch butterfly populations have plummeted at an alarming rate— especially in California. The count for the western monarch is down by about 97% from 35 years ago. This decline threatens to deprive future generations of the wonder and beauty of the monarch — and is an ominous sign of the worsening health of ecosystems. According to a recent scientific analysis, current extinction risk is 72% within 20 years.
Monarch butterflies, as well as other butterfly species, bees, birds and bats, help move pollen from one plant to another, fertilizing flowers and making it possible for plants to produce the food needed to feed people and wildlife. More than a third of the food that we eat requires pollinators to grow. Yet many of these pollinators are declining, with habitat loss, pesticides and climate change all contributing.
What can you do to help?
Plant Native Milkweed. Monarch caterpillars rely on one host plant for their food—milkweed. Adult monarchs depend on nectar plants.
Become a Certified Wildlife Habitat. By providing food (native plants), water (bird baths, ponds, or shallow dishes of water), cover (places for animals to hide), places to raise young (bird houses, old logs, rock piles), and using sustainable practices such as avoiding poisons in your garden, you will help not only monarchs but all wildlife. For more information, check out the National Wildlife Federation’s Garden for Wildlife checklist here.
Where can I buy California Native Milkweed?
Here are a few places that sell California native plants, including milkweed:
8. UPCOMING COMMUNITY EVENTS
Lawn Bowling Open House at Holmby Park – Saturday, September 1st between 10 AM and noon. You are invited to learn to bowl at the Holmby Park Lawn Bowling Club at Holmby Park. Free snacks, drinks and one hour lessons are offered by members of this friendly group – in your backyard!
For more information, please visit:
www.losangeleslawnbowling.com
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Westwood Village: Cinema Under the Stars – Cinema Under the Stars is a free outdoor family friendly summer movie series in the heart of Westwood Village. This year we’re taking the event to the streets and hosting it on the lower part of Broxton Ave (between Weyburn and Kinross).
Moviegoers bring their own lawn chairs and blankets to enjoy the screenings in a unique outdoor setting.
Attendance is free and the event is open to the public.
Event Location: Lower Broxton
Pre-show Music and DJ Set: 6:30pm – 7:30pm
Movie Time: 7:30pm – 10:00pm
(approx. depending on the movie and sunset)
Movies & Dates:
The Lion King – Friday, August 31, 2018
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Free Concert: Saxaphone and Piano – Thursday, September 6, 2018 from 6:30 to 8:00 PM at the Italian Cultural Institute (1023 Hilgard Ave.). TWO For NEW in Concert – Saxophonist Giovanni De Luca and pianist Francesco Silvestri, the TWO for NEW, will take us on a musical journey through cinematic scores, folk, jazz, descriptive music, minimalism and neo-Romanticism, exploring and developing a new relationship between the two instruments.
RSVP required: https://conta.cc/2MX4g3W
9. 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 coyote sightings, lost and found pets, traffic alerts and similar situations will continue to 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.
10. RESIDENT ADS
PARTY/EVENT PLANNER
I would like to recommend Chef Ruwan to plan your next event, including Bar/Bat Mitzvahs, Shivas, Funerals, etc.
Please contact Ruwan at (310) 963-9522. Excellent Westside references.
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FOOD DRIVE AT SINAI TEMPLE
Sinai Temple’s Men’s Club, in partnership with Jewish Family Service of LA (SOVA), is having a High Holy Day Food Drive. Donations directly benefit the nearly 9,000 people who visit our food pantries each month – people of all ages, races and religions.
Please bring your donations to Sinai Temple’s loading dock on Holmby Ave. (located between Wilshire Blvd. and Ashton Ave.) on September 12, 13, 14 and 17, 2018, in the morning between the hours of 7:30 am and 9:30 am AND in the afternoon between 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm each day. Thank you!
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*
NEXT MEETING – SEPTEMBER 11
- 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 at 8:00 pm at Belmont Village (10475 Wilshire Blvd.). Please confirm prior to attending.