HOLMBY NEWS
February 5, 2021
From the Holmby Westwood Property Owners Association, serving the Holmby Westwood community since 1960.
1. HWPOA Board Meeting – Video Conference
2. Super Bowl Safety
3. Holmby Westwood Green Team Update
4. HWPOA Lawn Signs
5. Metro Purple Line – Westwood Architecture
6. Activities & Things to Do
7. HWPOA Communication and Ad Policy
8. Resident Ads
9. HWPOA Contact Information
1. HWPOA BOARD MEETING – VIDEO CONFERENCE
On Tuesday, February 9 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. SUPER BOWL SAFETY
#NoSuperSpreaderSunday
From the County of LA:
For sports fans, please plan to enjoy the Super Bowl without putting your friends, your family and your neighbors at risk.
Super Bowl parties have the power to derail our recovery and given the likelihood that there are more infectious variants circulating in our community, let’s not take chances with our own health and the health of others by creating easy opportunities for the virus to spread. Be safe and save lives.
3. HOLMBY WESTWOOD GREEN TEAM UPDATE
The Holmby Westwood Green Team is pleased to announce that we will begin answering questions related to our parkway trees in the HWPOA newsletter. In addition to focusing on our parkway trees, we will address the work of the Green Team, efforts by the City of Los Angeles related to urban trees as well as resources for tree care and maintenance. Please send your questions to Marnie Bodek at mossbodek@msn.com or Allyson Bunting at Allyson.bunting@gmail.com
Does the Green Team still exist? What do they do?
Yes, the Green Team is alive and well. Established in late 2017, the Green Team is composed of 25 neighborhood residents and is dedicated to educating homeowners about the value of our parkway tree canopy and proper tree care and maintenance.
For their first project, the Green Team established a partnership with TreePeople to begin planting missing parkway trees. With the help of residents and volunteers, 46 new trees were planted in three tree plantings in 2019 and early 2020: Coast Live Oaks on Malcolm Avenue, Fruitless Olives on Manning between Malcolm and Hilgard and Canary island Pines on Dalehurst.
Although the pandemic paused tree planting in 2020, the Green Team turned to a new parkway tree inventory and data base project. Last summer, five Green Team members walked the streets of Holmby Westwood and visually surveyed nearly every parkway tree. In addition to confirming the species of existing trees, they identified the location of dead trees, stumps and locations where they believed a replacement parkway tree might be planted based on current City Tree Spacing guidelines. Their visual inspection also included a general non-professional assessment of the tree health and maturity as well as parkway measurements.
The data from the survey is compiled into a cloud-based database of the parkway tees in Holmby Westwood. A companion “Tree Buddy” app has also been developed in order to share the database with residents and other parties in the coming months.
Most recently, members of the Green Team shared the inventory and database with representatives from the City’s Urban Forestry Division. Urban Foresty is scheduled to join us for a walking tour of the Holmby Westwood tree canopy. We’re looking forward to building a working partnership with the City. We will keep you informed of our progress.
The Green Team welcomes interested residents. For more information please contact Marnie Bodek at mossbodek@msn.com
4. HWPOA LAWN SIGNS
As the new year promises a brighter future, HWPOA is actively promoting community awareness of the many activities our homeowner association takes to bind its members together as a vibrant and strong community. To that end, stately lawn signs are available (for free) to display on your property to bring attention to those efforts.
If you would like to have a lawn sign delivered to your door, please contact us at hwpoa@aol.com and leave your address. We will personally deliver it. We would love to see a sea of the lawn signs throughout our beautiful neighborhood indicating that your household is a proud member. Thank you!
NOTE – If you have already requested a sign, THANK YOU! We will deliver it to your door shortly.
5. METRO PURPLE LINE – WESTWOOD ARCHITECTURE
Purple (D Line) Extension pays homage to the designs of Master Architect Paul R. Williams
By Steve Hymon, Metro The Source
With Black History month now underway, we wanted to focus on Paul Revere Williams (Feb. 18, 1894 – Jan. 23, 1980), a leading practitioner of mid-century modern design in Southern California and the first Black architect to become a member of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) in 1923.
Metro’s Purple (D Line) Extension has a unique connection to one of William’s last commissioned works: the Linde Medical Center located at the northeast corner of Wilshire Boulevard and Gayley Avenue. The Linde Medical Center, now referred to as the Westwood Medical Plaza, will be a future entrance for the Purple (D Line) Extension’s Westwood/UCLA Station.
While the 12-story Linde Medical Center has undergone many changes since it was built in 1962, the building has retained some key historic elements of William’s original design. They include the original pipe column balustrade at the roof and portions of the original handrails.
Metro’s senior environmental team has consulted with California’s State Historic Preservation Office and other agencies on efforts to avoid and minimize adverse effects to the Linde Medical Center’s historic features. Although decisions regarding the Purple (D Line) Extension’s Westwood/UCLA station’s final design are pending, project plans include retaining at least some of the Linde Medical Center’s original character-defining features. The features that could be retained are the structure’s overall box-like form, the canted balustrade and the black granite base.
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Conceptual rendering of the Westwood/UCLA northeast entrance.
Read the entire story on Metro The Source
6. ACTIVITIES & THINGS TO DO
Hammer Museum at Home presents:
LUNCHTIME ART TALK – Brandon D. Landers
Wednesday, February 10 at 12:30 PM
Associate curator Erin Christovale leads a live, online discussion of Made in L.A. 2020 artist Brandon D. Landers’ work. Click here for more information
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WINTER CLASSICS FILM FESTIVAL – Presented by the LA Public Library (online via Zoom). The Winter Classics Film Festival meets every other Thursday through April 8, covering films from the silent era through the 1970s.
Up next – The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman on Thursday, February 11 at 7:00 PM. Come and celebrate the life of actress Cicely Tyson with an online discussion of “The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman”. Ms. Tyson, who passed away on January 28, won two Emmy Awards for her role as a former slave who lives to participate in the 1960s Civil Rights Movement. Watch Miss Jane Pittman age to over one hundred years old in this made-for-TV adaptation of the Ernest J. Gaines novel. The movie is available for free on Kanopy with your library card.
Join Zoom Meeting
https://lapl.zoom.us/j/85977453255?pwd=RWMzcHlaRU5wSXNIQzVLSHlMUnJyQT09
Meeting ID: 859 7745 3255
Passcode: Classics
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UCLA Mildred E. Mathias Botanical Garden presents:
PLANT STORIES TRAPPED IN TAR: Paleobotany at the La Brea Tar Pits
Thursday February 25th 5-6pm PST • Free Virtual Event
Join scientists Dr. Regan Dunn, Assistant Curator at La Brea Tar Pits and Museum, and Jessie George, UCLA PhD Candidate, to learn about fossil plants preserved at the La Brea Tar Pits, including: seeds, wood, leaves, needles, cones, pollen and phytoliths. We will detail how these ancient floras reveal a rich history of climatic and environmental change in Los Angeles and Southern California over the last several millennia leading to the formation of our modern day ecosystems. This event is free. Register here.
7. 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.
8. RESIDENT ADS
PAPER SHREDDER NEEDED
I have a boxful of documents that need to be shredded. Can anyone recommend a place where I can get them shredded and dropped off outside? Please respond to ellenwturner@gmail.com. Thanks!
9. 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.