Save Elysian Park! Annual Banquet

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Grace E. Simons Lodge in Elysian Park.

The Citizens Committee to Save Elysian Park (CCSEP) is hosting its 48^th Annual Banquet at 5pm on Sunday 5 June on the lawn at Grace E. Simons Lodge.  There will be a dinner, raffle and live music from eco-rock group I See Hawks in L.A.  The menu includes Mediterranean style finger foods, main course, and desserts.  

Proceeds from the event will protect and beautify the park and reservoir.

 

Elysian Park, the oldest park in Los Angeles, is 112 this year. It remains a park in perpetual peril. Bargain hunting, land-grabbers gaze over the green, rolling open space north of Civic Center and dream of putting this “free” land to some “useful” purpose.  

Before the Citizens Committee to Save Elysian Park was formed, in 1965, the Pasadena Freeway had been permitted to split the park, and big-league baseball was lured to Los Angeles by an officially consolidated, unencumbered site, including parts of Chavez Ravine and Elysian Park. When downtown business presented a plan to take the Avenue of the Palms for the Los Angeles Convention Center, the community organized the Citizens Committee with Grace E. Simons as its first president and successfully stopped that development. This Citizens Committee has done its homework and survived over thirty years of voluntary community action. Elysian Park is still here and growing. 

~ Judith Jameson of CCSEP

To reserve a seat, email designdan@yahoo.com.

CCSEP 48th Annual Banquet

Sunday 5 June, 6:30pm • Admission: $35 adults/$15 children

Dinner 6:30pm, Raffle 7:30pm 

More info: (213) 481-2669 • designdan@yahoo.com • http://echopark.net/org/ccsep.html • CCSEP on facebook

Grace E. Simons Lodge

1025 Elysian Park Drive, Los Angeles 90012 [MAP]

(323) 665-1155 • http://www.laparks.org/dos/reservations/grace.htm

Citizens Committee to Save Elysian Park
1403 Macbeth Street, Echo Park 90026 
(213) 481-0815

– content: Office of Ed P. Reyes & echopark.net.  post: R. Nelson. 

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