2020 is finally coming to a close! It's been quite a test for everyone, hasn't it? And, no, we're not out of the woods yet. January 1st, 2021, won't be a magic bullet that wipes away the pandemic and restores the economy. But with the vaccine beginning to be made available, the new year represents a way back. So here's a wish from us for everyone to have a joyous holiday season and a restorative…

Dear Friends and Followers of the Advocates for Arden Arcade and other readers of our social media posts: We are very happy to share our revised website with you all. This is a project that has been long in coming, one that severely challenged the fingertips of our newsroom elves. We hope you will find it much easier to use our site now. for example, there is a search feature that can make it…

The County is continuing with its planning project about “West Arden Arcade”, the one we mentioned last July. Here’s the latest from the County:

Everything we post here on our web site is cross-posted to Facebook and Twitter. This week our Facebook page reached a new milestone - 500 likes! And we got there without ever paying Facebook to purchase new “likes”. Our hearty group of volunteers runs on a shoestring budget; we don’t have any money to buy “likes”. Besides, even if we could afford to purchase “likes”, we wouldn’t because we value…

Mike Grace, General Manager of the Fulton-El Camino Recreation and Park District is retiring. His successor as General Manager is Emily Ballus. The District will be holding several Park Advisory Committee meetings to say good-bye to Mike and hello to Emily and to discuss issues of security, maintenance & park use during the Covid -19 pandemic. The public is invited to attend the meetings, to be…

It’s a busy week:

District 3 Supervisor Susan Peters isn’t running for re-election, but she gets finish out her term this year. And so, she has scheduled 3 more of her famous community meetings in 2020. If you have attended them in the past, you may have you noticed that her “guest speakers” (her employees) take up most of the meeting time to extol the virtues of their departmental programs. It’s a clever way for…