Greetings to all the Friends of Sunnyside Conservatory!

 The Friends of the Sunnyside Conservatory are going to have a workday at the Conservatory on Saturday, June 23^rd. It will run from 9:00 AM until 11:30 AM, and would love to have you join them.

 They will be working under the guidance of a Recreation and Park gardener.

The efforts will be to weed and prune, and make the Sunnyside Conservatory grounds look refreshed and lovely. There may be an option of cleaning out and reorganizing the storage shed in the hope of creating more room (in case you really need a challenge).

 They will have coffee, and something to munch on…yum!

For more information, visit the Friends of the Sunnyside Conservatory website, email info@sunnysideconservatory.org, or call (415) 937-8899

 

Help out our Laguna Honda neighbors to win a tree orchard. Oakland-based Dreyer’s Ice Cream and the nonprofit Fruit Tree Planting Foundation are donating 17 orchards to civic institutions nation wide.

 

They are bringing fresh fruit to deserving neighborhoods across the U.S. The second round of winners will be announced on July 3^rd, so get voting!

 

Even if the neighborhood you entered doesn’t win a full orchard, they will send all approved nominees a smaller, starter orchard of three fruit trees, along with instructional materials at the end of the program.

 

This request was originally discussed at West of Twin Peaks council.  The article below is reposted from the SF Examiner:

 

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.

 

Seventeen communities will get orchards, and Laguna Honda is the only Bay Area entrant. Voting takes place at CommunitiesTakeRoot.com until Aug. 31.

 

Sunnyside is a diverse neighborhood, with some folks having spent 30, 40 or even more years of their life in our corner of the City. As we get older, it can become more difficult to care for our home and ensure its safety. Rebuilding Together SF (RTSF) is a non-profit organization that recruits volunteers to assist in repairing community members’ homes.

In 2010, RTSF launched its new Changing Neighborhoods, Changing Lives campaign. They hope to create partnerships with existing San Francisco neighborhood groups to execute neighborhood improvements, including home repairs, facility and school renovations, community green projects and energy efficiency retrofits. The goal is to support positive changes that have already been initiated by the neighborhood, build on established momentum, and increase the neighborhood’s capacity for growth and change.

Perhaps you know of a senior member could use some assistance and you would like to help out? Visit http://www.rebuildingtogethersf.org/about-us.html. There are guidelines and information on who may qualify and the information on deadlines, etc. While there is no guarantee that one of our neighbor’s homes will be picked, we want to share this information that might help one of our neighbors.

The following message is from Captain Daniel Mahoney, Ingleside Police Department:
First of all–hope everyone has a happy and safe Memorial Day weekend.

Please be advised that as a result of more excellent investigative work on the part of Sergeant Josh Kumli, we have recovered over 115 bicycles from a residence in the Bayview and two storage lockers in Oakland.

I have all the recovered bicycles posted on the Ingleside website and if anyone can find/identify their bike, I would like to return it to them.  If you can advise your community groups, that would be great.  http://www.inglesidepolicestation.com/#!__bike-recovery

Also–I received our first voluntary bicycle registration the other day.

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Captain Daniel J. Mahoney
Ingleside Station
(415) 404-4030
San Francisco Police Department

 

 

Friends of the Urban Forest (FUF) will be conducting a tree planting in Sunnyside on Saturday, July 21^st. 

Neighborhood Tree Planting

FUF will plant trees in any neighborhood of San Francisco where at least 30 trees are requested. Plantings are initially organized by a volunteer Neighborhood Organizer who works to generate interest for the planting and gets local neighbors (property owners) signed up. They do not plant trees in backyards.

The plantings generally happen on Saturday mornings, and are group efforts that involve the neighborhood residents themselves, and FUF volunteers and staff. They are usually finished by noon, and they conclude each planting with a potluck lunch in the neighborhood for everyone involved!

Subsidized Prices

For new trees, the price of the tree planting package is $105 plus a $30 FUF membership (if you’re not already a member). This includes the tree itself, concrete removal, all related stakes and arbor ties, and two tree care visits at 2 and 18 months after the trees have been planted. Additional details here.

Would you like to plant a tree?

If you are interested in planting a tree through FUF, complete the form online on the Request a Tree page. They will let you know if your neighborhood is being organized for a tree planting and how you can get signed up. Also please download and complete the forms on our forms page to get you your tree sooner.

Orders need to by in to FUF by June 21st.  For more information, visit FUF’s website at www.fuf.net or contact Heidi Lakics, Planting Manager at Heidi@fuf.net or 415-268-0782.