Congratulations to the Eagle Rock girls volleyball team for their historic win of the LA City Open Division Championship.
The Eagles will compete for the State Championships with the first round (today) Tuesday, November 12 @ 6pm at Wilson High School against Palm Desert.
The video clip below shows the Eagle Rock girls volleyball team seconds after the final point for their 3-1 win over Palisades in the CIF L.A. City Section Open Division Championship.
photos by Splash Art Photography
The 3rd Annual Eagle Rock Bark is in full swing this afternoon until 4pm. It’s a Rock’n Rescue event aiming to get rescue pets into foster care. Led by Bark founder, Brian Fitzburgh, thousands are out here this afternoon to support fostering pets, enjoy the music of Piper Madison and (quite a few will) actually adopt a pet.
Happy Sunday! Here's a little taste of the jazz last night at Eagle Rock's Muddy Paw. These sounds are from the first of monthly jazz performances at the "Paw." Enjoy!
Thrilling Finish at Sotomayor: Eagle Rock High’s boys’ basketball team came from behind to defeat the Chatsworth Chancellors last night 79-76 in the quarterfinals of the City Championship.
With 12.9 seconds remaining Chatsworth was up 76-75. Eagle Rock's Mitchell Gravino drew a foul and made both free throws to give Eagle Rock the lead 77-76. The Eagles then held on for an exciting finish. The final score was Eagle Rock 79 Chatsworth 76.
Mitchell Gravino scored 17 of his 23 points in the 2nd half; Jordon Purvis added 20 points, Rayford Turner and Axel Ayes added 9 points each.
Eagle Rock will face the Banning pilots in the semifinals this Saturday at Palisades High School.
(Reporting and Video by Dave Abbott of NELA Sports One for the Boulevard Sentinel.)
Sports Update: The first round of the girls water polo playoffs started Monday, Feb 4, at the Yosemite Pool with #7 seeded Eagle Rock defeating the #10 Kennedy Cougars 25-6 to advance to the quarterfinals on Thursday.
In the video below, Eagle Samantha Acosta scoring with an assist from Kim Vo. Scoring in the match for the Eagles were: Samantha Acosta 13, Kim Vo 4, Sophia Aquirre 3, Jennifer Romero 2, Ashley Campos 2 and Sofia Diaz 1. For more Sports news check our Winter Season Sports Wrap up: http://www.boulevardsentinel.com/the-regular-winter-season-wraps-up/
(Video Courtest Dave Abbott - SplashArtPhotography.com)
Sports Bulletin - Boys Basketball: With 4 seconds to go, a basket in traffic under the boards by Mitchell Gravino, gave a 51-50 victory to Eagle Rock High (7-0) over Lincoln High (7-1) and earned the Eagles their first outright Northern League Championship since 2014. Both teams should have a good run in the Division II playoffs. Here's video of those last seconds by Dave Abbott of NELA Sports One for the Boulevard Sentinel.
Strike Day 5: Sun came out, marchers marched, leaders talked of some progress being made in talks between LAUSD and UTLA being mediated by Mayor Garcetti and, at the same time, there being "a long way to go" to get to an agreement under which LA's 30,000 public school teachers will go back to teaching in the City's schools. Monday is MLK day so that leaves a potential long weekend's 3 days to work on a contract agreement before school will be scheduled to be reopen on Tuesday. (Video by Laura Brady-Allen for the Boulevard Sentinel.)
Day 3, Teacher Strike, Eagle Rock
Day 3 of the Teacher Strike of 2019: Teachers, parents and students, took to the streets in Eagle Rock today. (Video by Laura Brady-Allen for the Boulevard Sentinel)
Glassell Park's Tree Lighting event this evening offered a wonderful combination of musical talent and dance leading up to the lighting of the tree. Here's a clip from the Chamber Orchestra of Renaissance Arts Academy on San Fernando Rd. Enjoy!
Miss the Highland Park Holiday Parade? Here’s some of the great Parade music that thrilled spectators lining both sides of Fig this afternoon: the Franklin High School Band! Enjoy! (Video by Bill Hendrickson of the Boulevard Sentinel)
LAFD responds in Eagle Rock, Nov. 6, 2018
Fair Park Ave in Eagle Rock was closed this morning between Eagle Rock Blvd and Maywood as LAFD investigated the smell of smoke. It turned out to be a smoker bbq in use, according to LAFD Station #42. (Video by Laura Brady-Allen)
Yesterday’s Veterans Day Parade featured a motorcycle brigade, local political dignitaries waving to the spectators from convertibles, fire engines (new and old), seven Grand Marshalls, cheerleaders and a number of marching bands. Here is a clip from the performance by the Franklin HS cheerleaders. Enjoy! (Videos from Sir Michael's reviewing stand by Boulevard Sentinel)
Happy day for the Dodgers - they go up 3-2 in NL Championship series. (Video by Bill Hendrickson for the Boulevard Sentinel)
Here’s a video of the mid-Sunday afternoon warm-up at the Latin Jazz Fest in Sycamore Grove Park in Highland Park. The finale — Selenamos, a Selena Tribute Band goes on tonight at 7:40 p.m. The festival is brought to you by Gil Cedillo, CD1.
St. Dominic Parish, in Eagle Rock, is holding its annual Fall Fiesta today and tomorrow. I came across the car show being set up early this morning on the school playground. The show is loaded super shiny and customed cars. Francis Fabiculanan, owner of nextdoor Donlyson Auto Concepts has some beauties in the show. He's inspecting one in the video. The Fiesta runs today until 10:30pm and tomorrow from noon to 8pm. All proceeds of the car show Entry fee + $2) go to the St Dominic School.
LAPD in Sprouts parking lot, Eagle Rock 7/19/18
Video of LAPD with guns drawn on Thursday afternoon in the parking lot at Sprouts in Eagle Rock. No shots were fired, according to the witness who took the video, April Azarian. Update: The Boulevard Sentinel received this update from the LADP at 10:38 pm on Thursday: 'NOE [Northeast] responded to a 211 [robbery] in progress in the Atwater Village area where 3 victims were robbed. Suspects fled in a white 4dr sedan. Ofcrs obtained info on Suspects and Suspect vehicle. Ofcrs located Suspects and Suspect vehicle near Fair Park and Yosemite. Susp 1 fled on foot and was detained shortly thereafter. Suspects 1 & 2 in custody as well as Suspect vehicle and firearm.'
Here are the cheerleaders from San Pascual STEAM Elementary School. They certainly added cheer for the already happy crowd at the ribbon cutting ceremony today for the improvements made to the San Pascual Park.
Happy Sunday NELA! And a World Landmark's Quiz: The Boulevard Sentinel's Bill Hendrickson sent in a video from the road. Where's Bill?
Irving STEAM Magnet Robotics Team
The Irving STEAM Magnet Middle School in Glassell Park -- which took the state championship in robotics in March—is shown here demonstrating their work for the Glassell Park Neighborhood Council on Tuesday night. The team, introduced with enthusiasm by school principal, Kirk Roskam, and supported by their coach, Herbert Valdez, operated robots they had built – a fascinating performance and a rewarding one, too: The GPNC granted Irving $5,000 for parts, computers and other materials for its robotics program. The clip below is 51 seconds long. Bet you will watch the whole clip!
With boos and chants of “five’s not fair,” protesters kept interrupting Councilmember Gil Cedillo and other speakers at a meeting in Lincoln Heights on Thursday night to discuss converting five of the neighborhood’s city-owned parking lots into housing. The city is currently evaluating roughly 100 other lots throughout the city for similar development to house the homeless and low-to-middle income renters. Some of the people in the crowd chanted “housing for the homeless,” and some were quiet – probably trying to listen.
At the second public meeting last night of Rock the Boulevard, an effort to improve Eagle Rock Blvd, some 60 attendees broke into 10 groups and focused on ways to improve safety, usefulness and appearance along two-to-three block stretches of the boulevard. Here’s Tyler Locke explaining what his group proposed. At the next meeting on Apr. 26, participants will create a design for the entire street.
Lauren Silverman, Instrumental Music Director, conducted the Eagle Rock High School bands and orchestras last night through a varied and entertaining program titled Dance. The presentations ranged from Latin jazz to Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake (see Video!), and finished with the energetic and exciting Danzas Cubanas by Robert Sheldon. The bands/orchestras composed, in total, of well over one hundred students brought out and made the parents in attendance a happy bunch indeed. Next concert: Beginning Band: Wednesday, April 11th at ERHS Auditorium, 7pm.
Stupendous! Watch the clip of Stephanie Leach, the Principal of Eagle Rock Elementary, announcing that the school has been awarded a $32,000 grant from the Andrew Lloyd Webber Initiative for arts and theater education. The announcement took place at a sun-filled, fun-filled full-school assembly on Friday. Michelle Gunn, a parent at ERES and one of the team who wrote the grant proposal, is at Ms. Leach's left in the video. The money will enable ERES to completely upgrade the lighting and projection system in the school’s 100-year old auditorium. Go Eaglets! (Video by Bill Hendrickson, Boulevard Sentinel)
