Will visit us, Oct 19 (6:30p-9:00p) to host another exciting Stargazing Party!

Weather permitting (and the forecast looks great) our wonderful friends and volunteer astronomers from LAAS will set-up to share their passion for science during an evening of awe inspiring gazing at the stars.

We’ll attempt to catch Mars to the west as it sets around 7:30p.  The moon is a waxing crescent as it approaches the Quarter Moon and Sagittarius (with its galactic center) should be to the high southwest. We may also be treated to a possible glimpse of our neighboring galaxy Andromeda (M31) overhead in Pegasus.

There’s a good chance of viewing Neptune in Aquarius to the high south and Jupiter’s rising towards the east towards the end of our program.

The annual Orionids meteor shower is scheduled to peak during the early morning hours of Sunday, October 21; however, you just might glimpse one after our Stargazing Party has ended!

This Thursday, Oct 18 (6:00-7:30p) Thomas Starr King Middle School Auditorium

Board Member Kayser would like to cordially invite you to a community town hall meeting to discuss State Propositions 30 & 38.  Speakers include Educate Our State, representatives from Propositions 30 & 38, and LAUSD Budget Staff.  This important event will give the public an opportunity to discuss and ask questions before the critical vote on November 6th.  Please pass this information on to any interested party.  If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact Board Member Kayser’s office, 213-241-5555.  Thank you and hope to see everyone on the 18th at King Middle School. 

Thomas Starr King Middle School Auditorium
October 18, 2012 (Thursday)
4201 Fountain Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90029

-Board District 5
David Estrada, MPP
Senior Policy Advisor
Board Member Bennett Kayser

333 S. Beaudry Ave, 24th Floor
Los Angeles, CA 90017

213-241-5555 (phone) │213-241-8467 (fax)
http://kayser.laschoolboard.org/ 

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Elections_This Saturday_10/13 (10a-4p) Eagle Rock City Hall: 2035 Colorado Blvd_Go Vote!

Share your voice and support your candidate of choice! All board positions are at stake and all candidates are running for a 2 year term. Any Eagle Rock “stakeholder” is eligible to vote.

The following is a list of positions and candidates.  Click here for their respective statements.

President: Nelson Grande II, Robert Guevara, Peter Hilton, Patrick Koppula, Michael Nogueira

Treasurer: Ashley Atkinson, Cecilia Ryder

Civic Director (2): Eddie Ramirez, Irena Seta, Sande Seto

Business Director (2): Anthony Freeney, Elva Grande, Gregory Luke, Liam Roth, Hamilton Yutan, Mark Yutan

Education Director: Jennifer Nutting

Faith-Based Director: Andrea Anderson

Public Safety Director: Jose Posada, Tim Ryder

Sub-District 1 Director: Baker Montgomery, Duy Tran

Sub-District 2 Director: Carolyn Tribe

Sub-District 3 Director: Oren Bitan

Sub-District 4 Director: Michelle Frier

Sub-District 5 Director: Mark Haskell Smith, Matt Harrington

Sub-District 6 Director: David Kofahl,

Sub-District 7 Director: Michael Blanchard, Mark Magallanes

Sub-District 8 Director: David Greene

What’s a stakeholder you ask?

A "stakeholder" is anyone who lives, works, owns property within ERNC or who declares a stake in the neighborhood and affirms a factual basis for it and who is 16 years or older.

Note: Voters may be required to show more than one form of documentation to verify eligibility as a stakeholder. The City of Los Angeles, Department of Neighborhood Empowerment has sole discretion on the acceptability of document presented.  If a voter does not have proof of Stakeholder status, then the voter will vote provisionally.

Acceptable form of identification for Factual Basis Stakeholder voting status are:

-Valid CA Driver's License
-Valid CA Identification Card
-Picture ID (work ID, school, gym, club, credit card, etc.)
-Valid Passport
-Self-Affirmation to be eligible to vote for Eagle Rock Neighborhood Council
-Receipts from businesses within the neighborhood

begins this Tuesday, 10/ 9 from 1:45-3:30p.  Theme for the year: “The Magic
of a Moment”

Our ever popular after-school arts program returns with the following schedule:

• Grades 1-2 
    -    10/09, 10/16 and 10/23
• Grades 3-6
    - 10/30, 11/06 and 11/13
• Inspiration Sessions (Note: Day & Time)
    - Grades 1-3 (THURSDAY, 11/01 2:45-4:00p)
    - Grades 4-6 (THURSDAY, 11/08 2:45-4:00p)

is available October 8th-Applicants can choose up to 3 options this year @LAUSDGATE @LASchools

The 2013-2014 CHOICES BROCHURE will be available early this year! If you are interested in applying for a Magnet, PWT, NCLB-Public School Choice Program for the 2013-2014 school year, here are some important dates to remember:

MONDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2012 echoices.lausd.net Opens For Applications.
CHOICES BROCHURES will be available in all LAUSD schools, Educational Service Centers, LAUSD Headquarters, Parent Community Services Branch (PCSB) and Los Angeles City Libraries.

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2012 BY 5:00p-Choices Application Deadline 

Support @EREEF90041-Get great parking at EagleRock Elem School for this year's
Eagle Rock Music Festival.

Parking is $10 and the school is located at 2057 Fair Park Ave, Los Angeles, CA 9004.

Music Festival takes place on Colorado Blvd. between Argus Dr. and Eagle Rock Blvd.  
 
$10 suggested donation (kids under 14 free). Your
contribution supports arts in our community.
 
Want an exclusive preview of this years festival? Make your donation in advance and receive a digital download featuring tracks from 17 different
artists performing at this years ERMF! Double your donation to receive an official Eagle Rock Music Festival T-shirt!

Click here for more information.

To all of our wonderful teachers.  Here's a terrific professional development program to consider offered at LACMA on select Tuesdays. 

This Tuesday, October 2 is "Art and Architecture"

Explore the relationship between art and architecture through the work of LA-born ceramicist and LA-based architect Frank Gehry. Featuring Ken Price Sculpture: A Retrospective, this program will highlight the late artist’s  architectural influences from ancient Pueblo dwellings to contemporary New Mexican landscapes as well as his collaborations with long-time friend and designer Gehry.

For more information visit LACMA at: http://www.lacma.org/programs/education/evenings-educators#panel-tickets

The Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as the Moon Festival or Zhongqiu Festival is a popular harvest festival celebrated by the Chinese dating back over 3,000 years. Farmers celebrate the end of the harvesting season on this date and Chinese family members and friends gather to gaze at the bright harvest moon and eat moon cakes.

As homage to this time of year, Los Angeles Chinatown will host  the 74th Annual Harvest Moon Festival on Saturday, Sept. 29, 2011 from 5 p.m. to 11 p.m.

The 2012 September equinox arrived on September 22, at 7:49 a.m. PDT (14:49 Universal Time).

The word equinox comes from the Latin words for "equal night." The fall and spring equinoxes are the only days of the year in which the Sun crosses the celestial equator. In the USA and some other areas in the northern hemisphere, the autumnal equinox marks the first day of fall (autumn).

On the two equinoxes every year the sun shines directly on the equator and the length of day and night is nearly equal – but not exactly.

Equinoxes are opposite on either side of the equator, so the autumnal (fall) equinox in the northern hemisphere is the spring (vernal) equinox in the southern hemisphere and vice versa.

The Autumnal Equinox signals the end of the summer months and the beginning of winter. At this time of year, days have been shortening since the Summer Solstice some three months earlier, and the Equinox is the point where nights reach the same length as days. After this point, the Sun will shine lower and lower on the horizon until the Winter Solstice in about three months' time.

Equinoxes occur because the Earth's axis of rotation isn't aligned with the plane of its orbit around the Sun: it tilts over by about 23½°. The direction of this tilt is effectively constant, relative to the stars, so that the Earth's north pole always points towards Polaris, the Pole Star, and the south pole always points at the constellation of Octans. (In fact, this direction is not completely constant, and the poles move against the stars by about a fifth of a degree every century).