Rose, White & Blue Parade

Enjoy a family holiday filled with history, patriotism and roses! Enjoy an old fashioned family-style parade as it winds through the Rose Garden neighborhood ending on the grand avenue of The Alameda. This homespun parade features live bands, dance groups, home-made floats, kids on bikes, antique cars, and more. Following the parade, attendees will enjoy the picnic on The Alameda featuring food and drink from local restaurants under the shade of the trees on The Alameda together with live music.

When: July 4 at 10 a.m.
Where: Shasta Avenue and West San Carlos Street to Randol Avenue and The Alameda in San José

More Information: http://www.rosewhiteblueparade.com

Any requests/offers for the produce share?

What kind of plants or produce would you like to see at the share this Sunday? Do you need lemons for July 4? What can you offer to bring to share with others? It is likely that we will have zucchini to offer.

Music in the Glen starts June 30

The Willow Glen Kiwanis are again sponsoring Music in the Glen this year, a series of weekly free outdoor concerts at Willow Glen Elementary School. The concerts are Thursdays between June 30 and August 4.

Food sales benefit Willow Glen Elementary and Turn Around Scholarship for SJUSD.

For more information, check out the Willow Glen Kiwanis web site.

Report graffiti online with photos

The San Jose Police Department web site now enables citizens to report graffiti via an online form plus add multiple photos to the report. If you see graffiti in our neighborhood, snap a photo and report it to SJPD.

Important: If you are reporting a crime in progress or other emergency in San Jose, do not use this form. Instead, call Emergency dispatch at 911, or (408) 277-8911.

High-Speed Rail Community Working Group Meeting, June 28

City of San Jose High-Speed Train Aerial Alignment Visual Design Guidelines:
San Jose Community Working Group (CWG) Meeting
Date: June 28, 2011
Time: 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.
Location: Willow Glen Community and Senior Center, 2175 Lincoln Avenue

The California High-Speed Rail Authority (Authority), working in coordination with the City of San Jose, is preparing visual design guidelines for the elements of the proposed High-Speed Train project within the city limits of San Jose. Once developed and adopted by the San Jose City Council and the Authority board, the visual design guidelines will guide the development of high-speed train components in San Jose.

To gather community input during the development of the visual design guidelines, the City has formed two Community Working Groups (CWGs), each composed of 10 San Jose residents that represent a cross-section of the San Jose community. The two CWGs will meet several times between March and July to provide input on the visual design guidelines.

The next CWG meeting will be a combined meeting of both groups on Tuesday, June 28, 2011. At the meeting, the project team will present a draft of the visual design guidelines, review the content and organization of the guidelines, and gather initial feedback from CWG members.

How to Get Involved: The members of the two CWGs have already been appointed by the San Jose City Council. All San Jose residents and interested parties are welcome to attend the discussion and provide comment during the public comment period of the meeting.

Please contact Ben Tripousis, City of San Jose Transportation Systems Manager, for more information. Phone: (408) 975-3717, Email: Ben.Tripousis@sanjoseca.gov

To make a request for disability-related accommodations, please email san.jose_merced@hsr.ca.gov or call 1-800-881-5799 at least 72 hours in advance.

Supervisor Ken Yeager's June 24 newsletter

Topics for this newsletter include:

• Supervisors make tough budget decisions
• Supervisors adopt new political boundaries for the county
• County launches new ambulance service on July 1
• Tough standards for E-waste adopted by the county
• County moves forward on plan to protect endangered species
• Senior housing tax break saved
• Solar project markes coming of greener county facilities
• Restaurants take notice of kids' meal ordinances
• Calendar of events

Dancin' on the Avenue - Tonight

The Willow Glen Business Association is hosting the 16th annual Dancin' on the Avenue in Willow Glen, tonight from 4pm to 9pm. Bust out the dancing shoes, call your friends and neighbors, and come to Downtown Willow Glen's annual street party featuring a showcase of Willow Glen's finest eateries, live music stages, dancing, a kids' activities, and lots of happy feet. This event draws around 35,000 residents and guests every year who come to enjoy the best that Willow Glen has to offer.

See the event web site for the entertainment lineup and venue map.

Zeroing in on Two-Zero-Zero

We started our facebook page back in December 2009 with the goal of better communicating with our neighbors in North Willow Glen. We've steadily grown our way up near 200 lifetime likes. Who will be the one to get us to the double century mark? The lucky person who does will have NWGNA merchandise lavishly heaped upon them.* So spread the word to your friends an maybe they'll be willing to share their glory and merchandise with you!

*As long as they consider a tee shirt as lavish and/or a heap.

Heat advisory issued

The Weather Service has issued a heat advisory for San Jose until 8:00 pm. Please take precautions and watch out for our younger and older neighbors in particular.

More info

Explore What's on Lincoln South of Market

Tree Party Express

The NWGNA Tree Party will be steaming into our neighborhood this Saturday beginning with the Our City Forest tree planting demonstration at 9am at 554 Atlanta, thus igniting our parking strip revolution. Repeat after us, "No transpiration without evaporation!" Have we carried the Tea Party theme too far yet?

Volunteers needed for Dancin' On The Avenue

Dancin' on the Avenue is looking for volunteers to help make the 16th year a success.

Taking place on June 25 from 4 to 9 p.m., DOTA attracts more than 35,000 local residents and visitors each year to Lincoln Avenue.

The Willow Glen Business Association is looking for volunteers for a variety of jobs, from acting as hosts to helping with a survey, working with children or helping with the Community Dance Stage. For additional information or to volunteer, call 408.298.2100.

This week at the WG Farmer's Market...

This week at the Willow Glen Farmer's Market will include:

• A few cars from the Hot San Jose Nights car event
• A new club for stay-at-home moms
• Free trees courtesy of the city

In Search of Street Tree Planting Volunteers

You may recall the efforts that were made to increase the number of street trees in our neighborhood. Figuratively speaking, those efforts will bear fruit on June 18, starting with a tree planting demo at 9am and progressing to the various households immediately thereafter.

Trees are going in on Atlanta (2 households), Delmas (2 households), Fisk (1 household) and Brooks (1 household). We're looking for two teams to lend their hands to the effort; one Fisk/Brooks team and one Atlanta/Delmas team. We can use lots of able bodies to come out and help us and our friends at Our City Forest help plant these trees.

Each of the homeowners will be helping with their own trees and we have 6 other volunteers already lined up. We're looking for up to 9 more to join the effort. Please let us know if you can help. If so, your picture may even be featured on the prestigious NWGNA blog and facebook page!

San Jose High-Speed Train Aerial Alignment Visual Design Guidelines

Community Working Group (CWG) Meeting: June 28, 2011

High-Speed Train Visual Design Guidelines: The California High-Speed Rail Authority (Authority), working in coordination with the City of San Jose, is preparing visual design guidelines for the elements of the proposed High-Speed Train project within the city limits of San Jose. Once developed and adopted by the San Jose City Council and the Authority board, the visual design guidelines will guide the development of high-speed train components in San Jose.

Community Working Groups: To gather community input during the development of the visual design guidelines, the City has formed two Community Working Groups (CWGs), each composed of 10 San Jose residents that represent a cross-section of the San Jose community. The two CWGs will meet several times between March and July to provide input on the visual design guidelines.

How to Get Involved: The members of the two CWGs have already been appointed by the San Jose City Council. All San Jose residents and interested parties are welcome to attend the discussion and provide comment during the public comment period of the meeting. Please contact Ben Tripousis with the City of San Jose for more information.

Ben Tripousis, City of San Jose Transportation Systems Manager
(408) 975-3717
Ben.Tripousis@sanjoseca.gov

Join us at the share!

Yes, today the weather outside was frightful, but our intrepid
gardeners are planning to be out there tomorrow. We're all mostly made of water anyhow, right? We're assured there will be plenty to exchange so get your raincoats staged or get ready to walk between the drops.

Once you get there we'll have canopies to keep you dry-ish. See you at Hummingbird Park on the corner of Bird and Fisk 1-3pm.