The Wrigley Association elected three new members to it board and Annie Greenfeld was selected by the board to a second term as the president. All the board members were elected to two-year terms.
Newcomers to the board are Bethel Cope-Vega, Raul Romo and Adriana Martinez. Coleen Vandepas, Sammy Portillo, Gavin Mckiernan and Chris Graeber were re-elected. Incumbent Lisa Wibroe is the first alternate.
Cope-Vega will be vice president; Vandepas, treasurer; Graeber, secretary; Portillo, parliamentarian; and Danny Amat, sergeant-at-arms. Officers serve one-year terms.
Greenfeld said she was excited to take on a second year as president.
"One year isn't enough to do anything," she said. "I'm really just looking forward to completing the community garden and the environmental decisions the board made. We're really on a roll now."
Wrigley recently began work on its first community garden on the 1900 block of Henderson Avenue, for which the group has a two-year lease. When the lease expires, Greenfeld said Wrigley hopes to build another community garden in the city's seventh district.
"I think it will put us back on the map," Greenfeld said of the community garden project.
She is also looking forward to another community garden that is slated for the 2000 block of Pacific Avenue that grew out of the Neighborhood Leadership Program.
Residents can meet the newly minted board members and officers at the Wrigley Association Summer Potluck on Monday, July 6 at 7 p.m. at Veterans Park. Attendees are encouraged to bring a dish to share. There will also be a short presentation on the Harbor Subdivision Transit Corridor Study by Randy Lamm of the Metro South Bay Area Team. He will discuss public transportation plans in and around the San Diego (405) and Harbor (110) freeways that could affect Wrigley and Long Beach.
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