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The Granada Hills South Neighborhood Council will have a booth at the eighth annual Granada Hills Street Faire on Saturday, Oct. 4, on Chatsworth Street, between Zelzah and Encino avenues.

Council representatives will be there to answer any questions and let residents know how they can get involved in their community.

More than 200 local businesses and nonprofit gouprs are expected to participate.

Parking and admission are free.

Also, the Granada Hills South Neighborhood Council's new phone number is 818-668-5969.

Members of the Granada Hills South Neighborhood Council will have a booth at the upcoming Granada Hills Street Faire, to be held from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 4, along Chatsworth Street, between Zelzah and Encino avenues.

They'll be available to answer questions and let people know how they can get involved in the community.

There will also be entertainment, pony rides, a petting zoo and health screenings.

If you have can't make it to the Street Faire, the council's next meeting, which is open to the public, will be at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 9, at First Baptist Church of Granada Hills, 11011 Hayvenhurst Ave., Granada Hills.

For more information, visit www.ghsnc.org.

A ground-breaking ceremony was held recently for the new high school that will be built on the site of the former Granada Hills Community Hospital, according to the Granada Hills South Neighborhood Council Web site.

The new school will create more jobs in the community and relieve overcrowding at Kennedy, Granada Hills, Monroe and Northridge Academy high schools.

The project is set to begin this summer and expected to be completed in the summer of 2011.

Granada Hills Community Hospital closed in 2003 after going bankrupt. LAUSD paid $22.5 million for the 11-acre site at an auction in U.S. Bankruptcy Court, beating out a $21.5 million bid from a Pasadena real estate investment and financial firm that promised to reopen the hospital under a new operator.

For more information, including photos from the ground-breaking ceremony, visit www.ghsnc.org.

At its next meeting, the Granada Hills South Neighborhood Council will discuss whether to give money to the West Valley Alliance to continue to combat graffiti in the area.

The meeting will be held at 7 p.m. Thursday at First Baptist Church of Granada Hills, 11011 Hayvenhurst Ave., Granada Hills.

The West Valley Alliance is the nonprofit contractor assigned to remove graffiti in the West Valley.

The alliance removes the graffiti for free, including on private property, with the owner's permission.

To report graffiti to the West Valley Alliance, call its new phone number, 818-885-8885.

The Granada Hills South Neighborhood Council has started a new program to honor one community stakeholder a month.

The inaugural stakeholder honored is Consuella Mackey, a resident of Granada Hills for more than 24 years.

She is the founder of Operation Confidence, a nonprofit that has helped more than 11,000 physically disabled individuals gain meaningful employment and live independently.

Not only has Consuella been recognized by the neighborhood council, she was selected nearly four years ago as a participant for ABC's "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition," which turned her two-bedroom, one-and-a-half bathroom house into a five-bedroom, four-bath home full of beautiful furniture.

To read more about Consuella's honor or the Granada Hills South Neighborhood Council, visit www.ghsnc.org.

At its next meeting, the Granada Hills South Neighborhood Council will discuss hiring a security company in an effort to reduce graffiti in the community.

The meeting, which is open to the public, will be held from 7-9 p.m. Thursday, April 10, at First Baptist Church of Granada Hills, 11011 Hayvenhurst Ave., Granada Hills.

Input from residents is welcome.

Also, everyone who attends the meeting will receive a free Graffiti Watch magnet with information on how to erase graffiti from their community.

Everyone who comes to the meeting can also get a free Granada Hills tote bag in an effort to keep the community green and clean.

For more information , go to www.ghsnc.org.

Granada Hills South Neighborhood Council's beautification committee is launching a Graffiti Watch program and needs your help! When you see graffiti, contact your local Graffiti Watchers to have the graffiti removed in 48 hours.

You can do any of the following:

• Call 311


• Call your County Supervisor at (818) 993-5170


• Call Councilman Greig Smith's Office at (818) 756-850


• Or submit a graffiti removal request online at www.lacity.org/bpw/OCS/grsr.htm

The Granada Hills South Neighborhood Council will host the 23rd Annual Holiday Parade, with the theme “A Cowboy Holiday,” at 1:30 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 2.

The parade will start at Chatsworth Street and Petit Park Avenue, head west on Chatsworth Street, turn on Zelzah Street, and end at Zelzah and Kingsbury streets, in front of Granada Hills High School.

With more than 4,000 youth participants and 150 different entries, this is the largest holiday youth celebration parade in the San Fernando Valley. It features celebrities, marching bands, youth groups, drill teams and fancy floats.

For more information, go to www.granadachamber.com/par_detail.htm or call at (877) 233-5753.

The Granada Hills South Neighborhood Council's beautification committee has identified abandoned shopping carts as a significant neighborhood nuisance and has proposed a resolution to Councilman Greig Smith's office to take action.

• The resolution to reduce abandoned shopping carts includes:
• Requiring stores to install systems to lock wheels upon removal from the store
• Requiring carts to have store phone numbers on them
• Impound all abandoned carts
• Make it illegal to take a cart from a store