Residents came out for a morning stroll down the alleyway between 6th and 7th street and Molino and Stanley Avenue on Saturday, May 8th. Residents were asked to stroll the alleyway and provide feedback for future improvements. Special thanks to our wonderful volunteers Caity and Aaron Engel, Ketzie and Chris Diaz, Esmeralda Garcia and Jonathan Raspa, Cody Lusby, Janna Vandenberg, Chris Robson, Dawn Mendelson and Gretchen Swanson who made this event so successful! Thanks to our local businesses Coffee Drunk and 7th Street donuts! We truly loved seeing so many neighbors and stay tuned for another interactive alleyway stroll coming soon! Questions? Email info@rpna.org.
Rose Park Resident Esmeralda Garcia asked attendees for their input about how alleyways feel to walk through and how they can be improved.
Residents gathered in the alleyway.
Rose Park Resident Caity Engel served coffee from Coffee Drunk on 4th Street and donuts from 7th Street Donut Shop.
Rose Park Resident Ketzie Diaz set up a card making station for attendees to make their own Mother’s Day cards.
Rose Park Residents posed for a photo op in front of artist Cody Lusby’s Roses for Rose Park Mural
Rose Park Resident Garry Rothstein won an Ace Hardware gift certificate in the event raffle.
Rose Park Residents, the Archambault’s.
Rose Park Resident and Artist Cody Lusby talking to attendees about Roses for Rose Park.
February 13, 2016- Last night was one of new friendships and lasting relationships as local artists exhibited their art. The silent auction resulted in (not yet completely calculated) important amount of monies for Youth Art programming in the Rose Park Neighborhood. Look for FABRICATE – a workshop for at-risk youth to use re-purposed materials for…
The NE corner of 4th and Cherry is bursting with colorful roses and community love! Neighborhood volunteers showed up to paint a rose mural with artist Cody Lusby of Roses for Rose Park, and his talented assistants George Benitez and Janna Vandenberg. Special thanks to Masaya Store, Good Day Cafe, 4th Street LB, The Breakfast…
Over 150 residents gathered in Rose Park on Sunday, June 22nd for the annual Summertime Picnic! Thank you to Art and Andrew of Safe Refuge for the watermelon contests, Blake of the Good Bar for hot dogs, Serbrina of Happy Lifts for the fitness activities, Erin of Fitzgerald Arts for face painting, Jane and team…
Residents along East 6th Street – now part of the 6th Street Bike Boulevard – participated in the landscaping design for each of the four traffic circles. Here are some elements that should be going in: native roses in each circle. some but not all will have trees due to underground utilities such as crepe…
Rose Park Neighborhood Association (RPNA) and Rebuilding Together Long Beach (RTLB) are teaming up to install solar powered motion-detector lights around the Rose Park Neighborhood this Saturday, February 3rd from 9:30am to noon to help residents and business owners increase safety in their alleyways. Our group of volunteers include Long Beach Eastside Division Commander Erik Herzog, Long Beach Port Police…
