Frances Moore The Quilt Lady
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- Category: Featured Resident
- Published on Tuesday, 06 October 2009 10:58
- Written by Dianne Lawrence
During one of my evening strolls a neighbor pointed out a cute little house set back off the street. She told me that one of the best quilters in Los Angeles lived there.
I caught up with Frances one day as she unloaded groceries from her car and asked if she would mind sharing some of her story with us. She kindly consented.
Fascinated by the process of creating pictures with fabric instead sewing a soon-to-be-forgotten new outfit, Frances Moore began quilting in 1996. In 2003, after her first gallery show in Los
Angeles, Sisters of the Cloth, she began teaching quilting at local quilt shops, at her guild Quilter’s By The Sea in Long Beach and recently at retreats for The Two Wacky Women. She has entered quilts at Road To California and the Pacific International Quilt Festival in Santa Clara. Frances says ‘I also had a quilt at the Houston Show, but that doesn’t count because it was small and in my purse at the time.”
Brent Green, Greening The Neighborhood
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- Category: Featured Resident
- Published on Monday, 09 October 2006 23:00
- Written by Dessie Reese
Brent Green serves as Vice-president to a new Neighborhood Block Club in the area between La Brea Ave and Hauser Ave. south of Washington Blvd., Region 7 of the MINC Neighborhood Association. He is also responsible for the greening of Mid-City.
Very seldom do you meet someone whose love for nature matches his heart, intellect and soul. Brent Green’s love for plants began at the tender age of 6 when his mother cut the branch off of a philodendron plant from a pot in the kitchen window, to demonstrate to her sweet son how nature takes its course and would soon produce another. She would pay him 25 cents to water the plant and take care of it. The philodendron plant did indeed produce another, and another, and so Brent took it upon himself to produce even more plants through cuttings. He thought it was not only a good idea to make stems from the mother plant to watch them grow but he could also put them in Dixie cups and give them to the older women in his neighborhood as Christmas gifts. The accolades and support he received from his friends, family and neighbors was astounding and inspired him to continue his devotion to plants, eventually obtaining a degree in Horticulture from Cal Poly Santa Luis Obispo College.
Regina Jones, A Lifetime Achievement Award Honoree
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- Category: Featured Resident
- Published on Thursday, 05 October 2006 07:00
- Written by Dianne V Lawrence
Regina Jones, a 42 year resident of Country Club Park, was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Black Hollywood Education and Resource Center.
Regina was Founder and Publisher of Soul Newspaper, the first biweekly dedicated to the coverage of Black arts and entertainment in 1966.
During Soul’s sixteen years of publication Regina participated in all aspects of publishing and the magazine was credited with assisting in the launch of many now legendary recording artists. After the newspaper she began a career in the public relations business and coordinated major events including fundraising and publicity for the Reverend Jesse Jackson’s 1984 presidential campaign. Regina was responsible for his appearance (the first presidential candidate to appear) on Saturday Night Live.
In 1986, she started her own independent public relations firm handling press, public relations, event planning and crisis management for diverse clients that included: NAACP Image Awards (13 Annual Shows), Geffen Records (James Ingram), the Bishop Tutu World Peace Concert, Black Women’s Forum, Coca-Cola USA, Orchid Communications, Capitol Records and a number of actors (Cicely Tyson), producers, recording artists and executives. Regina began working with Crystal Stairs, Inc. in 1995 to develop media and public awareness of the agency’s childcare programs and accomplishments and raised $7.5 million.
Regina is currently working on The SOUL Legacy, a nonprofit corporation to preserve, collect, exhibit, and share the rich history and cultural heritage of Black entertainment during the 1960’s and -70’s.
UPDATE APRIL 2016 REGINA RECEIVES AWARD FROM THE CITY
https://theneighborhoodnewsonline.net/news/community/1143-regina-jones-2016-pioneer-woman
Don Lynch, West Adams Historian
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- Category: Featured Resident
- Published on Monday, 09 October 2006 23:00
- Written by Dianne Lawrence
Did you know that West Adams contains the largest concentration of historical monuments in all of Los Angeles?
Find out more about this in the recently published West Adams, part of a series called Images of America published by Arcadia Publishing and co-authored by Western Heights resident historian, Don Lynch, along with West Adam residents Suzanne Tarbell Cooper and John Kurtz,
You will find 1918 aerial shots of both Western Heights and Kinney Heights as well as historic scenes from each neighborhood.
A number of historic pictures of homes in Western Heights are featured such as:
2129 West 21st, 2101 S. Gramercy, 2219 West 20th (contemporary photo, but the shooting in the entryway in 1913 was too good to leave out of the book), 2268 West 20th, 2279 West 20th, and 2267 West 20th.
You can order it from Amazon.com
The perfect Holiday gift!
Roy Readmond
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- Category: Featured Teen
- Published on Friday, 19 October 2018 22:10
- Written by D.V. Lawrence
While grandparents despair that the younger generation has been captured by twitter, instagram, gameboys, selfies, cell phones, celebrity and various other electronic distractions - or that the art of reading a book or writing a poem has been sacrificed to these false gods - they need despair no more. Roy Readmond, a 16 year old Los Angeles native, resident of Kinney Heights and student at Larchmont Charter School is a member ofLarchmont’s “Get Lit” poetry team. These school teams engage in fierce poetry competition throughout the city and Roy's team made it all the way to the Los Angeles City Finals this Spring. “Get Lit” is the largest student poetry organization in the country and Roy's poem wowed everyone.To Grandpa, Who Had Alzheimer's,
and Lost Himself In His Leather Chair.
When you had your last stroke,
when, inescapably
you fell away
from understanding--
Your entire world
reduced to four rooms--
When the final clouds
over the valley of your mind
let go of their last rain,
the ridges of your brain
physically unraveled like your marriage.
In the last few months,
Your stomach never stopped commanding.
Did you still crave
Montana freshwater oysters,
and Cherry Garcia ice cream?
Your eyes inspected the room:
Was it because, when you dropped your plates,
their shattering reminded you
of the firing of a gun--
your soul explosively
Amputated from your body,
a lost hunter
in an overgrown forest of neurosis,
Listening for the sound of a great white stag.
Were you listening for your spirit?
Or was your soul,
Still Inside you?
A bird entangled in the Celtic knot of
Sulci and gyri brain ridges,
a dying grey snake,
Sitting in its own living room,
Losing itself in its leather chair.
I remember in the last few days,
you thought you were a wild horse--
the family, that you had carried for so long,
could not force you to drink water.
You converted your parched body
into a desert as if to prepare yourself
for your final crossing-- sacrifice for migration over--
like the time you rode across
Death Valley with only Poncho,
your favorite mule,
The night that you died,
you came to my father and uncle together
Whom you could no longer love or remember,
In the winter of a dream.
You were a horned owl perched
in the hollow of a cottonwood tree
Before flying out
in a snowstorm
Gone-forever-saying:
“It is time.”
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