
Eric Garcetti We announced in Echo Park today that we have reached 77% recycling in apartments in just 2.5 years. Visit www.facebook.com/larecycles to sign up or call 311 to get your apartment building signed up!
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The truth is that our City of Angeles is so much more than a company town or a candidate's ATM. With 4 million people living in 469 square miles, we could be considered a modern city-state.

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Please join LA City Council President Eric Garcetti at the annual Community Holiday Party at the brand new Silver Lake Branch Library.
Kids of all ages are welcome! Volunteers will be reading aloud from children's stories inside the library.
Help with the food drive! Please bring non-perishable food items for the needy.
R ...efreshments! Entertainment! Community! See you there!
Please RSVP to (323) 957-4500.
Hora:lunes, 07 de diciembre de 2009 18:00
Lugar:Silver Lake Branch Library

Eric Garcetti The Silver Lake Library, in all its beauty, is now open. Go. It's worth it. Thank you to the community for their help in getting this done and thank you to my deputies who made this happen: Glen, Jim, Shane, Alison, Kabira, Marcel and Ryan!

I recently joined with other state leaders, including the Governor and Assembly Speaker Bass, in calling for $4.7 billion in federal stimulus money to build a high-speed rail project that would connect Los Angeles and San Francisco...

Community service has many benefits for those who give back; a better city, new skills, new friendships, the warm knowledge you’ve made a difference. Now, there’s another benefit: a free visit at Disneyland (or Walt Disney World Resort in Florida, if you don’t mind the plane flight). The ...

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Moby to donate his revenue from CA shows to domestic violence orgs cut by state: http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id =158058062000&id=6028461107&ref=share

Eric Garcetti We submitted our application to the feds for $4.7 billion for CA high-speed rail this morning: http://tinyurl.com/ygcnlnx
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This morning I joined with a broad, multi-partisan coalition of state leaders in showing unity for California's application for federal funding of a high-speed train system. We submitted a request for ...

Eric Garcetti Many have asked how to help the Philippines: Operation USA is sending a lot of aid to the Philippines from LA--help their donations by giving online: http://www.opusa.org
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Every year millions of charitable donations never make it to their destination. When you donate to Operation USA, you immediately start to make a difference in the lives of those who need it most.

Eric Garcetti Check out Historic Filipinotown's PDUB project, which launched the first Jeepney Tour of Hi-Fi this weekend: http://hypercities.com/pdub/
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A sneak peak at the Mobile Jeepney Tour: History comes alive in more ways than oneExperience the history of Historic Filipinotown in our original 1944 Sarao Jeepney. Buy your tickets here.

Eric Garcetti Cool to see San Francisco sharing datasets with the public. We should look at good opportunities to do this in LA: RT @dijitalboy: Municipalities should consider liberating their city data as has #SF http://bit.ly/19nVUY #transparency
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DataSF is a clearinghouse of datasets available from the City & County of San Francisco. While there is plenty of room for improvement, our goal in releasing this site is: (1) improve access to data ...

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My Democratic Municipal Officials fellow board member, Memphis Mayor Pro Tem Myron Lowery, teaches the Dalai Lama te traditional greeting of a fist bump: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/23 /dalai-lama-fist-bumped-by_n_295977.html
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The Dalai Lama arrived in Memphis yesterday to receive the National Civil Rights Museum's Freedom Award. Residents will remember the visit for a number of reasons, including the way the mayor of Memphis greeted his Holiness:

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Owner of yummiest chicken in Echo Park profiled in American Way Magazine: http://www.americanwaymag.com/tigeorges- haiti-georges-laguerre-sr-coffee-process ing-plant
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Tigeorges Laguerre is on a mission to save Haiti — or at least one little part of it — one coffee bean at a time.





















