Boulevard Bites

by Toni Locke

### The Laurel/Redwood Heights NCPC, chaired by Bobbie Bond, with aid from Renee Sykes of O.P.D., met in the District 4 Council rooms at Nationwide Insurance in the Laurel on March 11. Reports from Laura Blair from the City Attorney's Neighborhood Law Corps and from Councilmember Jean Quan topped a packed agenda. Fifteen or twenty faithful activists and interested neighbors were present, representing the many and varied useful projects Jean Quan is promoting in this part of her district.

### After six years in process, the revised Laurel streetscape bids are at last being scanned at City Hall. April groundbreaking may begin on a plan now cut down to its underpinnings.

### Brewberries, the original coffee house of the entire Metro area, is gone. The Metro promises to tell the story behind the departure in a future issue when we've got the facts straight.

### Fitness center Curves has opened a Laurel branch at 4158 MacArthur. "I love it," reports our garden columnist, Adina Sara.

### This column turns out to be a Laurel report because we have no Laurel reporter. Nor is there a broad community organization like the Dimond Improvement Association, the High Street Neighborhood Alliance, the Redwood Heights organization. Where is the Laurel? Why is there no Laurel Web site? This is the 21st century.

### The new patrol officers you see cruising the Boulevard are third watch representatives Michael Valladon and Jack Ingbligsten. They were introduced at the March Laurel/Redwood Heights NCPC meeting.