Please sign up now to help organize your block in preparation for emergencies. Send your name, email, telephone, address and name of your neigbhborhood to:daryl.barnett@yahoo.com or
Vice-President@Venicenc.org to be added to the list. Materials to help will be sent to help you.

If you are sick of the RV's and truck people we can do something.

Force the city to enforce those laws already on the books about living in cars, trucks, RV and parking lots.

These people have got to go.

Rosendahl should not be reelected to office-he does not listen to the majority. He has really done nothing about this blight.

Email the LAPD Captain for VENICE. His name is Captain Hiltner

His email is

joseph.hiltner@lapd.lacity.org

Tell him what you demand to be done!!

JKM

The Neighborhood Committee of the VNC is seeking neighborhood organizations and residents on each block to agree to help "map" each block: residents in each home or apartment (children, seniors, pets); Do you where to find your gas shut off valve location? Do you have enough water, generator, food for 3 days?) Sign up at Friday Farmer's Market, VNC meeting or watch this web site for more details.
You may also send your name, email/telephone and address to: daryl.barnett@yahoo.com

Look for more information about the LA "Big Shake Up" earthquake drill on 11/13/08

I have been seeing all sorts of mice/rats around the houses and lofts near the farmer's market parking lot in Venice. I am not sure what they are exactly (mice, very big mice or rats!) So gross I can't look. They aren't in our property (yet), but I saw a cat with a mouse in its mouth a week ago outside the gate, and than I saw a pretty big "mouse" or whatever it was running on the wall in the parking lot.

From: rcd
Sent: May 7, 2008 9:12 AM

Subject: URGENT. I need just five minutes of your time.

Hi Neighbors:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Nate Kaplan - 213-473-7011(office), 213-400-1142(cell)

ROSENDAHL, LAPD STEP UP POLICE PRESENCE AT VENICE BEACH

Patrols Will Work Nights, Partner with Community

VENICE - Taking proactive steps to enhance public safety, the Los
Angeles Police Department will begin beefing up patrols in the Venice
Beach area, Councilmember Bill Rosendahl and Captain Joseph Hiltner
announced today.

The immediate redeployment of officers in the beach and neighboring
areas will allow for nighttime patrols, special task forces to target

Suite 800, City Hall East
Los Angeles, CA 90012
Phone: 213-978-8340 Fax: 213-978-2093
http://www.cityofla.org/atty/

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19. 2008
Contact: City Attorney’s Office: Cindy Shin (213) 978-2702
LAPD: Lee Sands (213) 485-3586

FEDERAL AND LOCAL AUTHORITIES TARGET

VENICE-AREA GANGS

LOS ANGELES – Over the past six months, officers from the Los Angeles Police
Department (LAPD), agents from the Department of Alcohol, Tobacco and
Firearms and Explosives (ATF), and prosecutors from the City Attorney’s Office

The Disaster Preparedness Task Force, of the Neighborhood Committee, of the Venice Neighborhood Council, is presenting a brochure to be distributed to all Venetians as a function of our Mission to identify the best ways to educate and encourage the stakeholders of Venice to take action and develop family emergency plans.

Police raid in Oakwood

At least 19 members and associates of the Venice Shoreline Crips, the dominant gang in the Oakwood area, were arrested by the LAPD this morning in that area, Richard Winton will soon report. Police say the sweep was one of the biggest Westside anti-gang operations in years.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2008/02/police-raid-in.html#more
http://mobile.latimes.com/detail.jsp?key=145769&rc=local&full=1

http://www.lapdonline.org/newsroom/news_view/37497

Los Angeles: A man was stabbed to death and another injured during a fight yesterday evening in Venice Beach.

At 7:00 p.m., police were dispatched to an assault with a deadly weapon radio call in the 100 block of Rose Avenue. When the officers arrived, they found a 50-year-old man, whose name is being withheld, stabbed to death.

According to police, a fight broke out between two men on a sidewalk. During the altercation, the victim was stabbed.