Monday morning, Steve Lopez of the LA Times and Bon Jovi visited Lamp Community. Read more HERE. Lamp has a new web page and apparently is switching executive directors. Congratulations to Shannon Murray Interim Executive DirectorOther really cool and impressive people to watch at LAMP are: Lawrence Manley Food Services Manager. Great big man who […]
Read More Bon Jovi goes to LAMPMy mom called me this morning to ask where %th and Los ANgeles street was in downtown Los Angeles. I told her is is about a block from the Central Division of the LAPD, why? Early this morning there was a hit and run. One woman in a 1980’s limo dragged another two blocks and […]
Read More Limo Hit and RunLily Burk was 17 years old and found murdered in her car last week. I have been following the story through all the news outlets and my connections on Skid Row. What jumped to my mind was this. I have a 15 year old daughter who also lives in Lily Burk’s hoemtown of North Hollywood […]
Read More Teens and the Homeless – a danger?ART is THERAPY The Lamp Art Project allows members of Lamp and the Skid Row Community as a who;e to enjoy a little art, take a painting class, get tutoring and learn from a real master and from the other painters – and it allows them to showcase their art works and sell them. Darlene […]
Read More Lamp Community: Art on Skid RowShanana Flores, Lamont Ward, and, Richard Luna. These are the names of the people who caused the Lamp Lodge Murder at 660 S Stanford Avenue on Easter Sunday. Ryan Vaillancourt wrote a wonderful story on this in the Los Angeles Downtown News. But, they are not the only people responsible. That portion of Skid Row […]
Read More Skid Row Murder updateWhen Estela Lopez, the executive director of the Central City East Association leads a walk from the Midnight Mission in LA every first wednesday evening of the month at 6 pm. I did not know about the walk . . . I think I will leave work early and try to join them. If you […]
Read More Walking on the RowI follow http://www.change.org on Twitter ad a few days ago, they posted this wonderful article by Tipper Gore. You remember her, wife of the former VP now Nobel Prize Winner Al . . . Tipper wrote on the http://www.takepart.com blog about her memories of working with residents of the street. Personally, I loved it. Here […]
Read More Tipper Gore on her homeless friendsLiving on skid row, even in such a nice apartment, can still be difficult, she said. There are temptations and bad influences all around, but there’s also support. Sometimes, she looks out her apartment window and thinks “that was me four months ago.”
Read More Welcome “Abbey Apartments”Safer City through ticketing people for sitting onteh sidewalks? Nice plan.
Read More LA “Safer City”A video of a Skid Row tenant talking about the Easter Murder
Read More First hand account of being notified of the murder
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