Category: Neighborhood News
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Congrats to Local Scholarship Recipient
Congratulations to Hollywood Park’s own Magdalena Bowen, second place winner of the 2020 Sacramento Master Singers scholarship for Young Choral Singers. Magdalena is an alumni of St. Robert Catholic School, and a sophomore at Christian Brothers High School.
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Update from Sowing Solidarity Urban Farm
The following is an update letter from our own Urban Farm. This content is provided as a replacement for the presentation scheduled for the Cancelled HPNA March General Meeting.
Update from Sowing Solidarity Urban Farm
The plants are thriving at the farm! Walk by the farm on 23rd Street at Anita Way and you may see Gina Anderson tending to the crops as usual, all while wearing a mask and following precautionary practices mandated by the coronavirus pandemic. A few brief notes from her about the state of the farm:
The “green crops” are coming in: kale, lettuce, and chard.
Because of the pandemic the farm must adjust to a new model at this time. Bags of green produce will be for sale on a pre order basis for $10. Check the website at www.sowingsolidarity.org or email sowingsolidarity@gmail.com for information on availability, orders, payment, and pick-up options.
One goal this year is to support the South Sacramento Interfaith Partnership Food Bank located near the corner of 24th Street and Fruitridge Road. Contact information for donations and/or volunteering is ssipfc1@att.net or call (916)428-5290.
Gina thanks all for the support and patience shown while the farm adjusts to meet the restrictions resulting from the current health crisis.
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Update letter from Freeport Blvd Transportation Safety Committee
The following is an update letter from the Chair of the Freeport Blvd. Transportation Safety Committee. This content is provided as a replacement for the presentation scheduled for the Cancelled HPNA March General Meeting.
Greetings, neighbors:
We hope you are all coping as best as possible with the changes thrust upon us during these unprecedented times. As a silver lining to all of this, it seems at least in my observations, more and more of our neighbors are out walking and vehicle travel has been drastically reduced. It seems as if its a good time to reflect on how our roads might better serve us as not only drivers, but as walkers and bicyclists. The world will be changing in ways we can’t even begin to imagine, but as it does we must do our best to imagine and create the changes we want for our own community.
With that, we are super happy to release the final version of the Freeport Boulevard Walk Audit Report (click on link here to download). This report includes a description of the May 2019 walk audit and the findings and recommendations of WalkSacramento based on the community input from that event. In addition, the report also includes a summary of the findings from the Freeport Blvd. Transportation Survey. Special thanks goes out to all of you who could attend the walk audit and to all of the FBTSC members that attended meetings and were able to assist in developing and analyzing the survey and reviewing and editing the report.
A draft of the walk audit report, along with a plethora of letters from many of you, was submitted by the city as part of an grant application to seek funding to study, among other areas, the Freeport Blvd. commercial corridor from Sutterville Road to Blair Avenue to develop a transportation plan focusing on safety, mobility, and access along the corridor.
We are expecting to hear back about whether the city is awarded the grant sometime this spring. We’ll keep you all posted. Also, as soon as we are all feeling comfortable and safe enough to have public meetings, I hope to present the walk audit report to our neighborhood associations.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me.
John Maradik-SymkowickChair,
Freeport Blvd. Transportation Safety Committee
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Raley’s New Store Opening in Land Park
Raley’s has shared the following information regarding the opening of the new store on Freeport Boulevard with HPNA.
Raley’s is set to open our new location in Land Park on Wednesday, April 15th.
Given the realities of COVID-19, this opening will not include any traditional celebration. But we do plan on properly celebrating with the community at a later date.
We ask that customers abide by the shelter-in-home mandate and only come to the store when they need food and essential items. If you do come to the new store, be aware of the following safeguards:
- We have added new signage to help guide customers on where to gather in line at common areas like the check-stands, coffee bar, meat counter and pharmacy.
- We have also included signage to enforce social distancing, including marks on the floor.
- We will be monitoring the number of people in store and if needed, will limit the number of customers in at any given time.
- While the shelves are fully stocked, we will limit the number of products to a maximum of two items per family per visit, on the following products: milk, eggs, water, fresh packaged chicken and paper products.
- The new store will have Raley’s eCart curbside and delivery options available. The new curbside pick-up is located on the north side of the store and includes covered parking spots. You can order online at www.raleys.com/shop.
*PLEASE NOTE: no other retailers/stores in the Park will be open as of 4/15.Both stores will be open for a few days
The old store will close on Saturday, April 18th at 7pm.
All items in the old store will be discounted as of April 15th.
Plans for the old store
- It was our intent to share a new tenant as a part of our opening. Given the COVID-19 outbreak, our lease agreement with a new tenant has been put on hold.
- Our new plan, given the additional time, is to prepare the store for a new tenant.
- This includes clearing inventory and fixtures, cleaning up the building and making necessary repairs.
- We hope to resume negotiation talks, post COVID-19.
- The old store will be secured with new fencing, lighting and security as needed.
