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All Hillcrest residents
(renters & owners) are invited to learn about your community
The next neighborhood meeting will
be this Tuesday, May 13th
from 6:30-8pm at the Joyce Beers Community Center (map
6-B).
Hillcrest has been selected one of the
nation’s
top
ten great neighborhoods
Let’s make Hillcrest
even better.
Please share your pedestrian experiences...
The Hillcrest Town Council Development Committee
would like to know about your best and worst experiences while walking around
our community. Our objective is to use your experiences as a pedestrian to
prioritize areas to improve. We want to know about safe/unsafe intersections,
crossing issues, unsafe crosswalks or poor sidewalks. Please
share your experiences and be as specific as possible about the location and time of day of your issue.
We want to make walking through Hillcrest pleasant for all.
“Save Hillcrest” Wins Another Round
The “Save Hillcrest” group, working with the non-profit organization
Friends of San Diego, scored another victory in their year-old lawsuit against
the 301 University project. December 7th, the Superior Court awarded the group
80% of the legal costs incurred from last August’s win when the judge
agreed that the project voliated the law in seven ways. Friends president Tom
Mullaney said this award was made under California laws which recognize the
public benefit received when a citizens’ group sues to uphold state and
local laws. Unfortunately, the 148-foot building planned for our two-lane crosstown
corridor is coming back. For more info or to help with the next legal challenge,
contact “Friends
of San Diego” at (619) 795-1753. (read more at HillQuest,
an Urban Guide)
Hillcrest’s
centennial year...
 Hillcrest’s
Centennial events were organized throughout the year by
volunteers from the Hillcrest
History Guild...the gala dinner banquet
which was held Thursday,
October 4th at
The Prado Ballroom in the heart of Balboa Park was the highlight of the
year. Thank you for joining us at this once-in a lifetime event — featuring
a fabulous dinner and dancing to Sue
Palmer and Her Motel Swing Quintet. An
open air double-decker bus made a wide
swoop through the neighborhood to pick guests. The community donated
fabulous items for a silent auction in the Prado’s
courtyard.
The centennial cruise was held on the Mexican Riviera
(Cabo San Lucas, La Paz, Ensenada and several days at sea) from October 19-25...and
a great time was had by all! Big thanks to Stewart Rennison, Hillcrest’s
own SeaMaster!
Hillcrest boundary signs added to the community
Have you noticed the new blue
and white HILLCREST signs from the city? Councilmember Toni Atkins and members
of the Hillcrest Town Council are responsible for the addition of seven identification
signs marking the entrance to our community and noting Hillcrest’s
first 100 years. The signs were installed before a ceremony to mark the exact
date in 1907 when the “Hillcrest” Company’s office was first
opened by William
Wesley Whitson in what was then known as University Heights.
Cake was served
by five of Whitson’s descendents near the site of his initial sales office
at Fifth & University
on Thursday, August 2, 2007.
Wanna help clean up our neighborhood?
The
next clean-up will be held Saturday, January 12. For more details visit the Hillcrest
Clean Team website. Orange
t-shirts were everywhere on Saturday,
October 13th for another
community-wide clean-up. Volunteers from I Love a Clean San Diego will also
pitched in and Flexcar again donated the use of a truck. The
team concentrated on collecting trash from alleys in the area. Please help
keep our neighborhood clean.
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