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2022 Year End Review & Looking Ahead in 2023

2022 Year End Review

Rose Park Neighborhood’s ArtWorksLBC Director Dawn Mendelson highlights the program’s engagement with nonprofit and community partners, art sessions in Rose Park, and the events we attended in 2022 in the graphic below.

Long Time Volunteer Sylvia Salcedo Joins the Rose Park Neighborhood Board

Pictured: Sylvia Salcedo

Meet Sylvia: “I’m a retiree, having worked as an investigator for the State of California for 20+ years.  I have lived in Long Beach for 24 years with the last 7 years in the unique and welcoming neighborhood of Rose Park.  My husband and I are active members of Rose Park Neighborhood Association since we moved into the area. I enjoy spending time outdoors, spending time with my close friends and family, meeting new people, trying new restaurants (and going back to my favorites), cooking, attending museums, concerts, musicals, traveling, going to the movies (The Art Theatre is my favorite), and indulging in a breathtaking red wine, martini and margarita (not together).  In my spare time, I volunteer at a number of local nonprofit organizations, advocate for seniors, and my husband and I routinely do a neighborhood cleanup in our area. I am passionate about advocating for my neighborhood and for vulnerable and underserved children and seniors, and promoting a greater sense of community within my neighborhood.”

Annual Holiday Party at Rose Park

Volunteers were out the morning of Thursday, December 15th to string up lights and decorations for the annual Rose Park Holiday event.

Special thanks to our set up crew: Sylvia and Ed, Art, Chris and the Safe Refuge team, Eric, Cody, Richard and Gretchen!

Rose Park volunteers decorated the Rose Park gazebo
Rose Park volunteers put up lights and decorations on the Rose Park gazebo

This year, lights illuminated the gazebo and the surrounding walkways of the park. Neighbors, friends and family gathered for hot cocoa, cookies and cider provided by Safe Refuge. Attendees listened to live guitar music performed by Daniel Villa and sang holiday tunes provided by DJ George Benitez.

Lights illuminated the walkways and Rose Park gazebo
Neighbors, friends and family gathered for hot cocoa, cookies and cider provided by Safe Refuge. Attendees listened to live guitar music performed by Daniel Villa and sang holiday tunes provided by DJ George Benitez (Photo credit: Dan Samson)
Guitar music performed by Daniel Villa under the gazebo lights (Photo credit: Dan Samson)
Rose Park Neighborhood Volunteers (Photo credit: Dan Samson)

Thank you to all who attended! We wish everyone a very happy, healthy, and safe holiday season! We hope to see you strolling in and around Rose Park Neighborhood very soon!