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Upward Bound brings smiles to elementary students

Creating social change- Traditionally, Upward Bound (UB) is known for providing participants with academic advisement, college tours, enrichment courses and much more. UB is ensuring students become more cultural oriented by a community service component to our rigorous program. Thus, on Saturday November 21, 2009, USC Upward Bound students and staff partnered, with the City Year Organization and participated in the Service day “Community Beautification” Day at Florence Avenue… Continue

Added by Adriana Gutierrez on December 2, 2009 at 4:30pm — 1 Comment

Class Helps City’s Gang Prevention Efforts

Students enrolled in Adolescent Gang Intervention, one of the USC School of Social Work's more popular undergraduate courses, have been instrumental to Los Angeles city officials working on gang prevention and intervention strategies.



The year-old class focuses on providing foundational knowledge on gang life and culture, theories of gang involvement, historical context of gangs in Los Angeles, and current intervention and policies in areas addressing the gang… Continue

Added by Meaghan Hardy on October 26, 2009 at 12:03pm — No Comments

Youth Orchestra Takes Center Stage / La Orquesta Juvenil brilla sobre el escenario

Caption: Students from St. Agnes Parish School participate in YOLA.

Dudamel fever spreads to EXPO Center

When Gustavo Dudamel, the new music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, made his “welcoming” appearance at the Hollywood Bowl on October 3, on hand were some lucky young musicians.



The EXPO Center Youth Orchestra, which is the first project of the Philnarmonic’s Youth Orchestra L.A. (YOLA), gave a rousing… Continue

Added by Kathy Diaz on October 29, 2009 at 12:30pm — No Comments

Walking in Los Angeles, and University Park and West Adams neighborhood

The Great L.A. Walk, a developing tradition that takes place the Saturday before Thanksgiving, started at the Shrine Auditorium this year before going through West Adams to Venice all the way to the sea.



The 14-mile trek attracted about 250 other Angelenos, according to Siel Ju on the Mother Nature Network.



“There’s no special reason, no charity, no protest, no issue we’re promoting — other than… Continue

Added by University Park Family on November 25, 2009 at 10:24am — No Comments

Future of Vermont Boulevard thoroughfare in University Park discussed

City officials and business groups continue to reach out to the USC Universtiy Park neighborhood to gauge the community's desires for the area's future.



“We want the people behind the plan,” Gabriela Garcia, a community organizer for the Neighborhood Land Trust, told Ariele Pratt of the Daily Trojan



That means… Continue

Added by University Park Family on November 19, 2009 at 11:30am — No Comments

The Mystery of the rose in the Garden and other tales of Esperanza

The Art & Science program, working with the Health Program is planning a series of public garden projects.

These will involve:

• Creating an organic food garden in Estrella Park. This will provide healthy produce to those who might not otherwise be able to afford it. It will also promote a connection with the Earth and growing plants, which is often lacking in the city.

We also want to use companion planting to create a biologically healthy garden.

Companion planting… Continue

Added by Elizabeth Eve King on October 30, 2009 at 11:36pm — No Comments

Renaissance at Hoover and Union

 

There’s a new destination for din

ner, drinks and a show. Call it Ho-Un, in the tradition of No-Ho for North Hollywood. Or perhaps it one day will be called “The H-U,” like “The U-V” refers to University Village. For now, it’s simply…

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Added by University Park Family on September 9, 2009 at 5:00pm — No Comments

Fast Food Ban in South Los Angeles: Study says the restaurants lead to obesity (duh)

A decade-long study of thousands found that students whose schools are within a block of a fast-food outlet are more likely to be obese than students whose schools are a quarter of a mile or more away.



“Neighborhoods that choose to zone out fast-food restaurants are probably taking a step to protect the future health of their children,” Kelly Brownell, director of the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale University, told the… Continue

Added by University Park Family on May 11, 2009 at 4:08pm — No Comments

Los Angeles Lakers Parade

The magnet that is a championship trophy drew the gold and purple jerseys walking from all directions toward University Park and the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in Exposition Park.



Call me a skeptic. I just didn't think it would be that bad. But I rode my bike from Leimert Park to work just in case.



250,00 are supposed to line the route and 95,000 will be squezzd into the Coliseum - which is already about 2/3 fulls - the the Lakers wood basketball court is in the middle… Continue

Added by University Park Family on June 17, 2009 at 9:30am — 1 Comment

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