tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49038085113755202872011-09-19T08:44:29.302-07:00Panorama City -- the view from hereMichelle Klein-Hass, Center-East Renter Member of the Board of the Panorama City Neighborhood Council, blogs about her experiences in her neighborhood.Michelle Klein-Hasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379713170249673023noreply@blogger.comBlogger191100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4903808511375520287.post-56581033258470406992011-02-21T21:55:00.000-08:002011-02-21T22:25:47.219-08:00Happy Birthday to that neighborhood to the south of here...On February 22nd, 1911, William Paul Whitsett, land development tycoon, threw a big party. The Pacific Electric ran trains out from Los Angeles to the middle of nowhere, in the vast expanse of the San Fernando Valley. Barbecue and land auctions...make sure you brought your checkbook! A new town's been built, and this time we did it right! And so went the birth of Van Nuys, California, USA.When myMichelle Klein-Hasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379713170249673023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4903808511375520287.post-14280452940523082011-02-08T14:50:00.000-08:002011-02-08T14:52:37.525-08:00Getting people out of their cars in LA: Yes We Can.Yeah, it's Missing Persons. I grew up on KROQ in the '80s. Guilty as charged. Anyway, we definitely need to change our attitude about things like walking and using public transit in LA. Here in Panorama City, our "Walk Score" is actually quite good. I'm using the address of our Post Office as the starting point for the Walk Score site. One of the most transformative things to happen to our city Michelle Klein-Hasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379713170249673023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4903808511375520287.post-64686394735989855902010-12-21T14:50:00.000-08:002010-12-21T14:56:50.450-08:00Reprinted from the Daily News (Fair use/Educational) $2 Mil grant for Van Nuys Corridor!LOS ANGELES -- An effort to identify ways of making public transit more efficient in the Van Nuys area received a $2 million boost today from the U.S. Department of Transportation.The federal agency awarded a grant to the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which will use the funds to analyze transit alternatives in the San Fernando Valley and pay for support work on other Michelle Klein-Hasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379713170249673023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4903808511375520287.post-46270209907394171102010-12-19T15:45:00.000-08:002010-12-19T15:45:36.812-08:00Flooding problems along Van Nuys Blvd.Today we didn't get really gnarly rain, just off and on showers, but it doesn't matter. Van Nuys Blvd. between Parthenia and Nordhoff becomes a mighty river when it rains.Here, video proof.I'm going to start pushing for something to be done about this. It's been problematic ever since I started living at my apartment (1989) and nobody's done anything concrete about it. If Sun Valley can get a Michelle Klein-Hasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379713170249673023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4903808511375520287.post-1175032831240123532010-09-30T12:49:00.000-07:002010-09-30T12:50:01.963-07:00Mission Tortilla finally opens!MAYOR VILLARAIGOSA JOINS FORCES WITH MISSION FOODS IN ANNOUNCING GRAND OPENING OF NEW LOS ANGELES MANUFACTURING FACILITYLOS ANGELES, September 28, 2010 – Mayor Villaraigosa and Mission Foods® — owned by one of the world’s leading tortilla and corn masa flour producers — announced together the grand opening of a new manufacturing facility in the Panorama City area of Los Angeles. “Mission Foods Michelle Klein-Hasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379713170249673023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4903808511375520287.post-5507569205761145992010-06-29T23:09:00.000-07:002010-06-29T23:11:12.346-07:00Everybody...LET'S MAMBO!!!Love this song, have always loved it since the days of Dr. Demento on KMET. Tweedle-dee!Michelle Klein-Hasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379713170249673023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4903808511375520287.post-80509113355709311212010-06-10T21:15:00.000-07:002010-06-10T21:22:20.064-07:00The Food Desert situationThis is a video from LAANE about two women swapping neighborhoods for a day to find out about each other's access to healthy and fresh foods. One woman is from the Boyle Heights neighborhood of East Los Angeles, the other is from Santa Monica. Guess who has access to the better fruits and vegetables, including organics? Of course, the lady who normally lives in Santa Monica. In the barrio Michelle Klein-Hasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379713170249673023noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4903808511375520287.post-54105719999182498642010-04-30T00:42:00.000-07:002010-04-30T00:44:35.828-07:00We're not dead yet...Stick a fork in DONE, but the only way to get rid of Neighborhood Councils is by changing the City Charter. Very interesting article on a possible way forward.Michelle Klein-Hasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379713170249673023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4903808511375520287.post-36600533546744772292010-04-01T14:11:00.001-07:002010-04-01T14:22:30.707-07:00Busy gal has been busy...OK, the election is over, we're waiting for the results which are probably going to take until next Monday, and it's pretty clear I will be back on the board in some capacity or another.However, I want to say something about the election which was thrown together by the LA City Clerk. It was badly done, I almost had to be a write-in candidate if it weren't for the fact that I had the time at thatMichelle Klein-Hasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379713170249673023noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4903808511375520287.post-37042709640632373242010-01-15T01:12:00.000-08:002010-01-15T01:20:04.172-08:00Here's what I meant about a Solar Roof...This is an aerial view of the Target store at Osborne and Laurel Canyon in Pacoima. What's those dark patches on the roof? Why, they're SOLAR PANELS!!! Yes, SOLAR PANELS. Note that the roof isn't COVERED with them...there are a few installed here and there. And those are enough to run the store OFF THE GRID on sunny days. Now go back and look at the aerial view of Panorama City a couple of posts Michelle Klein-Hasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379713170249673023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4903808511375520287.post-67510613161168056682010-01-14T22:45:00.000-08:002010-01-14T22:55:45.256-08:00Does our City Councilman actually LIVE in our district?Apparently it's an open question...http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-alarcon15-2010jan15,0,1432531.storyMichelle Klein-Hasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379713170249673023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4903808511375520287.post-69587996265660910182010-01-05T01:15:00.000-08:002010-01-05T03:00:44.434-08:00Hat, meet ringOK, in the interest of full disclosure, I'm getting ready to run again. My new status as a full-fledged member of the PCNC board, where until recently I was Alternate #1, came rather serendipitously: the at-large board member I replaced had seemingly dropped off the face of the earth and hadn't attended meetings or asked to be excused from meetings due to hardship. We have rules in our by-laws Michelle Klein-Hasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379713170249673023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4903808511375520287.post-58775804958877345692009-10-07T12:00:00.000-07:002009-10-07T12:13:47.581-07:00Local delis get props...Apparently Jewish delis are hurting Back East. However, they are thriving here on the Left Coast. An article in the New York Times actually gives props to two Southland delis: Langer's, just east of McArthur Park in Downtown, and the San Fernando Valley's own Brent's. As a red-blooded Valley girl who was raised Jewish, with family hailing from New York and Chicago, I have grown to appreciate a Michelle Klein-Hasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379713170249673023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4903808511375520287.post-7955558849345699322009-07-08T10:12:00.000-07:002009-07-08T10:18:50.178-07:00Villaraigosa's begging bowl: shame on you, Jackson family and AEG...This is what Mayor Anthony Villaraigosa is reduced to. Basically grovelling on the streets of cyberspace with a begging bowl. It is good that we had a trouble-free Funeral Of The Century (tm), with not even a single drunk-in-public arrest, let alone a violent crime arrest. But that was accomplished by deploying a small army of LAPD: 3,000 cops on foot, in squad cars and on horseback. This kind ofMichelle Klein-Hasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379713170249673023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4903808511375520287.post-87153421454048795142009-05-03T19:00:00.000-07:002009-05-03T19:12:00.564-07:00Eating good, Mexican style, in our neighborhood.Panorama City has an embarrassment of riches with regard to Mexican food. Don't just go to El Torito or Acapulco or another chain to celebrate El Cinco de Mayo, try some local grub.1.)Rincon Taurino, Nordhoff Av. and Van Nuys Blvd, and also Van Nuys Blvd. right next to the Ice Rink.These are the same people. And like Stater Bros. used to say, it's their meat that made them famous. I don't eat Michelle Klein-Hasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379713170249673023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4903808511375520287.post-17444727922243764872009-04-25T09:25:00.000-07:002009-04-25T09:50:13.717-07:00The Sputnik Building revealed: a great way to restart this blog.OK, I've not really known what to do with this blog, but have hung onto it because I knew I was GOING to do something.Anyway, I have been searching for this information for YEARS since I love this local landmark. It's now a furniture store but for most of its existence it was a bank. I think the chain of provenance went this way: it was built for Van Nuys Savings and Loan, it was taken over by Michelle Klein-Hasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379713170249673023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4903808511375520287.post-34585922130106344272008-09-13T10:30:00.000-07:002008-09-13T11:51:23.570-07:00It's on the wrong track and it's headed for you....The second worst trainwreck in the history of the US happened yesterday afternoon in the Valley. Needless to say my trip up North to the Santa Barbara area is cancelled. However, considering that 18 people have lost their life and there are 135 injuries, some critical, I'm not complaining much. The death toll will no doubt rise before this is over. There were over 200 people on the train, and Michelle Klein-Hasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379713170249673023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4903808511375520287.post-61501277811767712082008-07-18T19:07:00.000-07:002008-07-18T19:13:30.042-07:00The Valley, in digital...This is a video by the band Radiohead which was completely done with digital data acquisition techniques. No cameras were used. It was shot in Woodland Hills, I think. It's amazing. It reminds me of another video done with a non-camera technique...this time with heat sensors...ladies and gentlemen, the Rolling Stones...Anyway, I can imagine that we are looking at the infancy of perhaps the next Michelle Klein-Hasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379713170249673023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4903808511375520287.post-25619588833749068452008-06-24T10:12:00.001-07:002008-06-24T10:14:01.153-07:00Keep your arms and legs inside the car and your seatbelt buckledOK, this is my first post here. I am putting this together so I have a semi-official soapbox in my duties for PCNC. Blogger/Blogspot/Google is pretty cool.I don't have much to say here yet, but I will later.Toodles!MichelleMichelle Klein-Hasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379713170249673023noreply@blogger.com0