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HOLMBY NEWS

April 11, 2014

From the Holmby Westwood Property Owners Association, serving the Holmby Westwood community since 1960.

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Holmby Westwood honors our Supervisor and former City Councilman, Zev Yaroslavsky on Wed., May 7th, 7:15 pm at the Fellowship Hall, Westwood United Methodist Church. Free parking available. Zev is termed out in Nov. and has been elected time and again to serve our community for 40 years. This is our Annual Meeting and we look forward to seeing our neighbors and friends. Please mark your calendar.

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1. Tutors Needed for Police Cadets

2. Robbery at Westwood Park Rec Center

3. New Concert Series at Westwood Library

4. Beware of Solicitors

5. Please Clean Up After Your Dogs

6. HWPOA Communication and Ad Policy

7. Resident Ads

8. HWPOA Contact Information

1. TUTORS NEEDED FOR POLICE CADETS

The WLAPD is preparing a list of possible tutors to be available to advise and tutor LAPD high school level cadets at the West L.A. municipal building soon. Math and English tutoring a few hours per week between Monday-Thursday, 3:00 to 5:00, will enable these students to continue their studies at a higher level.

Sgt. Scott is the coordinator, and will be assisted by Dick Greenblatt (Holmby Westwood resident). Please call Dick at 310-474-4052 for more information or if you would like to help.

2. ROBBERY AT WESTWOOD PARK REC CENTER

From the LAPD:

1300 block S. Sepulveda Blvd. RD: 855. MO: On 3/29/14, at approximately 1315 hours, while the victim was seated in her vehicle outside of a recreation center, two suspects approached her, produced a handgun and demanded the victim's property. The suspects then fled the area on foot. Suspect: Male, Black, dark hair, 5'9" tall, 170 lbs, 20 yrs.

3. NEW CONCERT SERIES AT WESTWOOD LIBRARY

The Westwood Branch of the Los Angeles Public Library and the Los Angeles Musical Salon are excited to announce the creation of a musical residency at Westwood Library. The new Quartet-in-Residence Program will bring four free, public concerts to the library this year. Concert series starts APRIL 19th, 4 p.m.

All concerts are FREE, with free parking at the library.

The FIATO STRING QUARTET has been appointed as our first Quartet in Residence. Join us for the opening concert in this groundbreaking program—when we kick off with two of the best-known, lively quartets!

SATURDAY, APRIL 19, 2014
4 PM
WESTWOOD LIBRARY
1246 Glendon Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90024
Phone: (310) 474-1739

Program:

Smetana — String Quartet No. 1 (“From My Life”)

Brahms — String Quartet No. 3, Op. 67

For additional info. about other April programs at the Westwood Library, click here: <http://friendsofwestwoodlibrary.org/events.html>

4. BEWARE OF SOLICITORS

From the Christopher Ragsdale, LAPD Senior Lead Officer:

Throughout the city of Los Angeles and the region, we have been receiving many questions and concerns regarding various types of solicitors.

If anyone knocks, calls, emails, texts, or approaches you unsolicited by you, my recommendation is DO NOT OPEN THE DOOR, DO NOT ENGAGE! Respectfully and politely indicate that you are not interested. If the solicitors become persistent or refuse to leave, advise them you are notifying the police and report the details to the Non-Emergency Dispatch at 1-877-275-5273.

Be aware that another trend has been Distraction Burglaries. In these incidents a person posing as a utility worker, roofer or tree trimmer knocks on your front or side door and tells you they need to access your back yard. The suspects will lure you into the back of your residence while a second suspect will enter through the front and quickly ransack areas inside the home seeking small valuables and cash. In most cases the suspects stay in contact and communicate by cellular telephone or two way radios. Other methods of operation have been female suspects who claim their pet or small child went into your backyard.

Recently, I received an email at my LAPD work email indicating that my bank account was compromised and that I needed to log into my accounts to verify my information and credit card information. They provided a format to log in with my user name and password and provided a link. The logos and emblems looked very authentic. This is a phishing scam!

Just to reiterate, if you receive anything from anywhere unsolicited, DO NOT RESPOND!

· Solicitors, regardless of if they are selling a product, seeking a donation or, political in nature, should be turned away.

· If someone knocks on your door and says you have to step out of your home, especially to go to your back yard, CALL 911 Immediately!

· When logging into online accounts always use the saved link on your browser or type in the web address on your own.

· You may report Internet scams and crime to: www.ic3.gov

5. PLEASE CLEAN UP AFTER YOUR DOGS

We continue to receive reports from residents who have said that dog owners have not been responsible in cleaning up after their dogs. In some instances, the dog owners fail to clean up entirely. In other instances, the owner will clean up with a plastic bag, but then leave the plastic bag in the same spot.

If you own a dog, please clean up after your dog, and be sure to tell everyone who walks your dog to do the same (this includes family members, dog walkers, housekeepers, nannies, etc.). Thank you.

6. HWPOA COMMUNICATION AND AD POLICY

Please direct all comments, questions or issues regarding the HOLMBY NEWS tohwpoa@aol.com and not to holmbywestwood@yahoogroups.com.

Residents have complained about too many HWPOA emails during the week so I, as Moderator, try to limit HWPOA messages during the week, ads in particular, to posting in the weekly NEWS. Emergency type situations such as coyote sightings, lost and found pets, traffic alerts and similar emergency type situations will continue to be published during the week as received.

This policy will be published each week preceding the Resident Ads section of the HOLMBY NEWS as a reminder of the policy, how to place the ads and why the policy was established. There is always an exception considered if needed for an emergency type ad situation.

When placing an ad, please send to hwpoa@aol.com for the HOLMBY NEWS Moderator to review. The receipt of the ad will be confirmed. Responses to ads should be directed to the ad placer, not to HWPOA. Do not respond to the holmbywestwood Yahoo email address.

Thank you,

Dana, HOLMBY NEWS moderator/editor

7. RESIDENT ADS

DOG TRAINER NEEDED

Any recommendations for an excellent and affordable dog trainer for our 4 month old labradoodle?

Thanks,
Sharona
sharonay@gmail.com

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LANDSCAPER NEEDED

A resident is seeking recommendations for a good landscaper for his property. Please send recommendations to hwpoa@aol.com and I will forward them to the resident. Thank you.

8. HWPOA CONTACT INFORMATION

HOLMBY WESTWOOD PROPERTY OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC.
914 Westwood Blvd. Suite 573
Los Angeles, CA 90024
310-470-1785
Email: hwpoa@aol.com
Web site: www.holmbywestwoodpoa.org