In late September, CWEnder Katie Heaney suggested I meet her at Bell Garden to see the community garden she and neighbor Amy Lewis had recently joined. Another CWEnder, Elana Grayem, has been a member of the garden for about 10 years. Though all three have backyards, there wasn’t enough sunlight to grow much of anything…
Category: Food and Drink
Snapshots from a recent trip to Oakland
In mid-September I flew out to Oakland to visit family. It had been 2 1/2 years since I had traveled anywhere, so I was a little apprehensive about getting on a plane once again but, as is usually the case, once I got there those concerns melted away. I was visiting Oakland’s Uptown District, which…
Snapshots from 2022’s Cocktail Party in the CWE
Following a two-year hiatus, approximately 3,000 people were more-than-ready to experience the CWE’s 5th Cocktail Party on Saturday, June 11. The event has its origins in the discovery that a CWE resident, Clara Walsh, is on record as hosting the 1st-ever cocktail party in her Lindell Blvd. mansion 100 years ago. According to proprietors of…