FAME Hosts MLK Day of Prayer and Reflection to Unite South L.A. Community
Various city officials and esteemed members of the faith community joined in a citywide Day of Prayer and Reflection at First AME Church in South Los Angeles on Jan. 20.
Various city officials and esteemed members of the faith community joined in a citywide Day of Prayer and Reflection at First AME Church in South Los Angeles on Jan. 20.
Councilwoman Heather (CD 10) Hutt hosted Leimert Park Snow Night turning the park into a Winter Wonderland — Winter Huttland actually – on Dec. 20 complete with a Ferris wheel, food trucks, 360 camera booth and 100 tons of snow.
Free food, carnival rides, ice skating and more will be available at the Leimert Park Snow Night on Friday, Dec. 20, from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Councilwoman Heather Hutt will host a community swearing in ceremony on Dec. 13, at 7 p.m. at First AME Church.
Hundreds of customers and community members gathered to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Mobile gas station on the corner of Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd. and Buckingham Road, owned by James Lee, a Korean immigrant who purchased the business in 1974, and has lasted in a predominately Black neighborhood.
Over 430 Angelenos attended the Cool LA Heat Relief for Seniors events on Oct. 30 and 31 for a chance to receive a free portable air conditioner courtesy of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) and the Los Angeles Department of Aging, in partnership with the Offices of Los Angeles City Councilwoman Heather Hutt, 10th District, and Los Angeles City Council President Marqueece Harris-Dawson, 8th District, respectively.
The mix-use development is the first in the nation and will be located on Coliseum St. in Baldwin Village. Recently, city and community leaders gathered in the Baldwin Village community in South Los Angeles for the groundbreaking of a new Costco Wholesale on Coliseum St. The mixed-use project will feature a store at the street level with 800 units of rental housing above. This is the first mixed-use development in the nation to have Costco as the anchor retail tenant. “The status quo is over, waiting around for projects to get started and to fail and for opportunities to die,”
Los Angeles City Councilman Tim McOsker on Tuesday, August 27 called for immediate testing, reporting and remediation to address alarming levels of lead contamination in drinking water found in homes in the Watts area.
Councilwoman Heather Hutt, in partnership/collaboration with the Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks, will present a free screening of “Love & Basketball” in Leimert Park on Friday, Sept. 6 at 6 p.m.
The community came together this weekend for a Jazz Luncheon event that honored student athletes who received scholarships as part of a partnership between Cedars-Sinai and Team HEAL.
To celebrate Father’s Day, L.A. Councilwoman Heather Hutt hosted “Playdate with Dad” on Saturday, June 15, at Baldwin Hills Recreation Center.
There were flashbacks to the days of Soul Train during a special presentation at Los Angeles City Hall in celebration of Black Music Month. Councilwoman Heather Hutt (CD 10) presented The Whispers with a certificate of recognition on June 14 for its legendary contributions to the genres of R&B and Soul.
Tributes continued this week for the Rev. James Lawson Jr., an icon of the Civil Rights Movement and the longtime pastor of Holman United Methodist Church in South Los Angeles, with President Joe Biden saying on June 11 that Lawson dedicated his life to “our country’s ideals.” Lawson died June 9 in Los Angeles after a brief illness at age 95.
Longtime political operative Peggy Moore and her wife, Hope Wood, died Friday, May 10, in a car crash at Pala Rd., just east of Horse Ranch Creek Road in San Diego County.
Councilwoman Heather Hutt (CD10) gathered with Councilmembers Eunisses Hernandez (CD1) and Hugo Soto-Martinez, along with Community Coalition President Alberto Retana, and Jenesse Center Director of Compliance Leslie Belt for a press conference on April 30, that called for the City of Los Angeles to ban businesses from going cashless.