Holmby News 9-13-24

HOLMBY NEWS
September 13, 2024

From the Holmby Westwood Property Owners Association, serving the Holmby Westwood community since 1960.

1.  LAPD Report – Crime Prevention Tips
2.  National Preparedness Month
3.  Dog Owner Etiquette
4.  Seeking Host for Young Families Meet-Up
5.  Activities & Things to Do
6.  Resident Ads
7.  Local Discounts & HWPOA Benefits

1.  LAPD REPORT – CRIME PREVENTION TIPS

The LAPD and the Brentwood Community Council shared a number of safety tips to keep your home safe from burglars.  While no measure is absolutely fool-proof, the more we all do to make it harder to commit a crime in our neighborhood, the sooner criminals will leave.

Harden Your Home:

  • Install an alarm and USE it.  Alarm all windows: burglars will even make ladders out of lawn furniture to gain entry upstairs.  Include motion sensors and glass breakers.
  • Keep your house looking lived in, whether you are home or not.  Lights on, noise from a TV, stereo or radio.  Consider putting lights on timers.
  • Safe or Safes – use it, and have it bolted down.  If a safe is not installed properly, it is not effective. Consult a professional.  Consider multiple safes, potentially one acting as a dummy safe. While a convenient location, burglars are going straight to the master bedroom. Consider installing a safe in a child’s room instead.
  • Windows/Glass doors – consider having safety film installed – this makes glass harder to break.

File a Police Report Online: click here
EMERGENCY: 911
NON-EMERGENCY: 1-877-275-5273
All other City Services: 311
West L.A. Community Police Station –1663 Butler Ave.
James Allen, Senior Lead Officer
Office: 310-444-0741
Email: 39318@lapd.online
West LA Community Police Station Website:  click here
LAPD Website: www.lapdonline.org

2.  NATIONAL PREPAREDNESS MONTH

National Preparedness Month is a national campaign that occurs every September. It aims to educate and empower Americans to respond to natural disasters or potential terrorist attacks.  With the 4.7 earthquake in Malibu earlier this week, it is a good reminder to prepare for potential disasters.

Below you will find links to several documents that could be helpful with emergency preparedness.

For additional information on disaster preparedness, please click here:

American Red Cross – Disaster Preparedness

3.  DOG OWNER ETIQUETTE

HWPOA has recently received several complaints regarding dogs and dog owners:

Pick Up After Your Dog
Please clean up after your dog – always!  Remember that it is illegal, as well as unsanitary, unsightly and un-neighborly to leave your animal’s feces on the sidewalk or neighbors’ lawns.

Use Your Own Trash Bins
While everyone appreciates that you are picking up dog waste, please dispose of it in your own trash bin.  Please be respectful and do not use your neighbors’ bins.

Keep Dogs on a Leash
For the safety of your neighbors, children and other dogs, please keep your dog on a leash at all times when you are outside of your home.  We have had several past reports of dog attacks in the neighborhood, injuring both people and dogs.  Please follow the law and keep your dog on a leash.

Please be sure to remind everyone in your household that walks your dog about these rules – including your children, housekeepers, dog walkers, etc.  Thank you for your cooperation.

4.  SEEKING HOST FOR YOUNG FAMILIES MEET-UP

HWPOA is looking for one or more residents to spearhead a Halloween Meet-up for young families in the neighborhood.  We already have several volunteers but we still need a family who is willing to offer their home or yard to host a small neighborhood event.

With young students in many different schools, it might be a good way to meet neighbors.  The meet-up could be on a weekend afternoon, possibly with costumes, snacks and activities.

If you are interested in hosting or volunteering, please email Dana at hwpoa@aol.com.  Thanks!

5.  ACTIVITIES & THINGS TO DO

Sunday Concert: Fiato Quartet
Sunday, September 15, 2024 from 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm
at Westwood Branch Library (1246 Glendon Ave.)

Westwood Library’s Quartet-in-Residence, the Fiato Quartet, brings us an intriguing concert titled American Harmonies. It celebrates the work of African-American composers in American classical music, including Florence Price, Coleridget-Tayler Perkinson, George Walker, and Jessie Montgomery. There will be time for Q&A at the end of the performance.
 
The library will not be open for regular business; the parking garage will be open at 2 pm.

Cinema Under the Stars: Ratatouille
Saturday, September 14 from 6:00 pm – 10:00 pm
on Broxton Plaza in Westwood Village (1036 Broxton)

Come watch “Ratatouille” with us! Enjoy a family-friendly outdoor movie screening with live music and crafting before the show. 

Event Details:

  • Pre-show Event: 6:00 pm – Sunset
  • Movie Time: 30 min after sunset at 7:30 pm

Highlights:

RSVP and Important Information

6.  RESIDENT ADS

NANNY / HOUSEKEEPER AVAILABLE
Nanny and/or housekeeper available M-F.  Our children are older and now and we want to help Marelin find the next “right family”.  Marelin can cook, clean, drive, speaks English well and most importantly she is very responsible and always has a sunny disposition.

Happy to share more information.  You can call me at 310.650.4442

Best,
Dana Goodman

HWPOA Communication & Ad Policy:
Please direct all comments, questions or issues regarding the Holmby News to hwpoa@aol.com.

HWPOA members are welcome to post free ads (such as ads for plumbers, housekeepers, garage sales, etc.) in the Holmby News.  When placing an ad, please send to hwpoa@aol.com for the Holmby News editor to review.  Responses to ads should be directed to the ad placer, not to HWPOA.

7.  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:

  • ACS Security – $150 account credit towards Patrol or Alarm Monitoring*. Please call 310-446-0527 ext 3 or email  info@acssecurity.com and mention Holmby Hills July 4th.
    *New customers only, agreement required.
  • SSA Security – For new clients, SSA will waive the $110 sign-up fee and the 1st month will be 50% of the going fee. New clients who pay for a full year in advance will receive an additional free month. Valid until the end of 2024.
  • Danny Boy’s Famous Original – Complimentary cheese pizza when you place your first large order over $50.  Valid online through 10/31/24.  Click below for details.
  • Campus Shoe Repair – 10% off any shoe or bag repair

To see offers, click here

Holmby Westwood Property Owners Association, Inc.
P.O. Box 49180
Los Angeles, CA  90049
Phone: (310) 470-1785 (call/text)
Email: hwpoa@aol.com OR info@holmbywestwoodpoa.org
Website: www.holmbywestwoodpoa.org
Pay Membership Dues: https://hwpoa.square.site/

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.