I’m the president of the Friends of Elysian Park, a volunteer organization formed in the mid-1960s to prevent a convention center from being built in the city’s oldest public park. Since then, along ...

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Throughout Los Angeles, people stopped to remember the tragic date, Sept. 11, and at the Los Angeles City Fire Department’s memorial in Elysian Park many leaders including Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass ...

I’m the president of the Friends of Elysian Park, a volunteer organization formed in the mid-1960s to prevent a convention center from being built in the city’s oldest public park. Since then, along ...