The SNA Greening group held a planting and beautifying event on Saturday June 30^th.  Volunteers rolled up their sleeves and planted the 300 and 400 block medians of Monterey.  Next time you drive down Monterey Blvd, check out how amazing the median looks.  Your local Sunnyside volunteers maintain this area.

Special thanks to Keren and Bob Abra for coordinating the SNA Greening group and all their hard work in keeping Sunnyside green and alive.

If you are interested in volunteering, please email greensunnyside@gmail.com.

Sunnyside, give yourself a pat on the back and a mental hug.  Thanks to your efforts, and the efforts of the entire San Francisco Bay Area, Laguna Honda has been selected to receive an orchard.  The contest was sponsored by Dryer’s Fruit Bars in partnership with Fruit Tree Planting Foundation.  They developed Communities Take Root, a program to provide fresh fruit orchards in dozens of communities across the United States.  Laguna Honda received 34,592 votes and was one of the five selected communities in the second round of voting. 

 

 

 

Laguna Honda Hospital and Rehabilitation Center is the country’s most modern skilled nursing facility. A branch of the San Francisco Department of Public Health, we provide acute care, skilled nursing and rehabilitation services to a safety net population of 765 seniors and adults with disabilities.

Congratulations Laguna Honda on your well deserved orchard!

 

Sunnyside 4th of July Block Party

Wednesday, July 4th

200 Block of Edna Street (between Judson and Staples Streets)

9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Celebrate the nation’s birthday with your Sunnyside neighbors.  Enjoy food and fun.  There will be a jumpy house for kids. The street will be closed from 9 am to 5 pm.   Things get started around 10 a.m. and are in full force by noon.   Feel free to bring a dish or refreshments, but contribution is voluntary.

 

This was brought up last night at the West of Twin Peaks Central Council. The next round of winners will be on July 3rd. Laguna Honda hospital is currently in 2nd place, about 1,300 votes shy of 1st place. You can vote once a day, so let’s help out our neighbors!

Register and vote: http://www.communitiestakeroot.com/

San Francisco’s Laguna Honda Hospital is seeking your vote as it competes with other civic institutions around the country to receive a free orchard from an Oakland-based ice cream company.

The prize in the competition — run by Dreyer’s and the nonprofit Fruit Tree Planting Foundation — is an orchard, an irrigation system and a groundbreaking party replete with Dreyer’s fruit bars.

Laguna Honda officials said their 62-acre campus in the West of Twin Peaks neighborhood was the perfect place for an orchard because fruit trees would offer patients and the hospital’s 765 disabled and elderly residents a therapeutic gardening program and organic fruit.

Sunnyside Playground is getting new equipment.  There are several new tables/benches which are still on order.   The project includes replacing the red café tables in the court yard to a similar style but in wood.   There are also two new picnic tables that will installed just below the tennis courts (at the corner of the retaining wall).   These tables will be similar to the tables in the playground area.  (wood with bench seats  approx.  3’ x 6’)   Lastly, we are going to install a new bench at the basketball court.

 

Click here to view the Sunnyside Playground Equipment specifications.