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Walk to School Week
All families should be able to walk to school feeling safe and experience a healthy environment. For the last day of Long Beach Walk to School Week, Rose Park resident, Sylvia Salcedo and her husband Ed Campbell handed out pastries and coffee to families walking to school along Dawson Avenue and 6th Street. Sylvia, Ed…

Fresh Produce and Art! Plans for weekly evening Farmer’s Mkt at MoLAA
We need your input! The survey – the more responses the better it gets! SURVEY for FARMER’S MARKET Second District neighborhoods/businesses, MOLAA and Council District 2 have partnered together to advocate for a weekly Farmer’s Market at MOLAA. Our goal is to provide access to fresh and healthy foods, build social/community relationship, highlight cultures, and…

Healthy Concerns
Here is a sampling of the comments and thoughts from our recent Community Meeting – What Makes a Healthy Neighborhood. Led by Chris Robson. Social determinants are a key indicator of health disparities Structural, that is, policies are in place that keep unhealthy conditions. To change health experience for the neighborhood, those need to change…

Informed and Ready to Act!
Winter Community Meeting – filled with specific info on our readiness for “the big one”; and the same time we were intro’d to opportunities to volunteer with transformative programming at the LB Public Library and finally the why’s of paying attention as a pedestrian. A new resident to RP Neighborhood remarked “great meeting, it engages…

SAFE REFUGE MURAL KICK OFF!
The Safe Refuge Mural project began with a mosaic prep workshop on Saturday, March 8th with amazing community support. Thank you to everyone who came out to help prep materials and make mosaic. Rose Park Neighborhood Association’s ArtWorksLBC program and Roses for Rose Park will be hosting workshops for individuals and families interested in creating something…

Fabricate! An afternoon of design, construction and conversation
One of the outcomes of our annual BIG heART Show and Fundraiser was the two hour workshop at local Power4Youth mentoring center. On hand was Frau Fiber, a widely recognized fiber arts expert and founder of the Sewing Rebellion. Teens and their mentors got to work side by side with Frau making vintage bicycle caps…