The Noe Valley Voice
is published ten times a year and has been a neighborhood fixture since 1977. Here are highlights from the latest issue. Links are to items we've covered here on NVSF or outside sources as the Voice
doesn't post stories online until mid-month.
December 2010Front Page: "
This is the last edition you'll see until the first week of February 2011." And a pretty picture of fog.
Letters: Dismay over smoking in the parklet at Martha & Bros. (
Ed.--
illegal to smoke in SF parks since 2005 [pdf]); some poor soul can't figure out how to find a print copy of the
Voice.
Features: Interview with Bevan Dufty on his eight years as District 8 Supervisor;
City Guides has been offering Noe Valley tours since 2008 (with fun sketches of Victorian era "bric-a-brac" like
sewer vent grates); Giants fans celebrated on 24th St; brief blurb on page 15 about
24 HoliDAYS on 24th St.
Cost of Living in Noe: 16 Single Family Homes sold in October, 11 of those over asking.
Short Takes: A few events in
Glen Park,
Scottish dancers at the Noe Valley Ministry, fun at the
Randall Museum in Corona Heights, a workshop for public artists at the
SF Arts Commission on Van Ness, a show at the
Marsh Theater on Valencia, and
Paxton Gate in the Mission turns 18. Also a bit about upcoming changes to
Cesar Chavez.
Crime Beat: Turns out there were
two bank robberies last month.
Store Trek:
Design Quarter;
Re:Construction Salon.
Traveling Voice: Not.
Rumors: Election results; Wiener sets priorities (like the
Town Square and
Real Foods); Town Square moves ahead (for more info the Voice suggests "googling '
Noe Valley Town Square'"); the Tech Search Party raised "just over $17,000" for Alvarado Elementary School;
Delano's is closing its "Eureka Valley" location;
Parklets hit 24th St; and this excellent tidbit about the Noe Valley Association:
The NVA, and the 10 members serving on its board of directors, has an annual budget of $230,000, funded by a parcel tax on each of the 179 property owners in the 24th Street/Castro Street shopping area. The board has been quite active this year improving Main Street. They steered the Pavement to Parks process that brought us the parklets. Seven new benches were installed on 24th Street. Few people realize the NVA spends $10,000 a month keeping 24th Street trash-free, maintaining the miniparks in the public parking lot and the Ministry parking lot, tending the many planters and flower baskets and trees, as well as regularly cleaning the Downtown Noe Valley sidewalks. The NVA sponsors, or co-sponsors - in addition to 24 HoliDAYS - the Harvest Festival, the Noe Courts Easter Egg Hunt, and the Summer Solstice.
[The Noe Valley Voice]
