The WGNA is a grassroots community organization dedicated to improving life in the Willow Glen neighborhood of San Jose, CA. If you are a resident of Willow Glen, please get involved and join the WGNA.
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WGNA Spring General Meeting
Wed., May 14th, 7 - 9 PM
at
the WG Baptist Church (Minnesota at Hicks)
vote for the WGNA Board for 2008-09
Transportation Plans for WG area,
by the Valley Tr’nspn Ath’rty (VTA)
Candidates Forum:
· Santa Clara Co.
Supervisor D2
· San Jose
Council D6 (uncontested)
· Santa Clara Valley Water
District Board
and more!
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photo of the week:

the VTA site on San Carlos at Sunol
click here for WGNA position on plans for high-rise,
high-density development at the VTA site.
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got a photo to share? email it to webmaster@wgna.net!
(Click here for previous weekly photos)
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Should San Jose move Fire
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New
VTA schedules
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Los Gatos Creek Trail |
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as featured at the WGNA Fall General
Meeting:
the
3-Creeks Trail: click here for
map of trail alignment.
and
Contact Nancy Ianni and Harvey Darnell,
your representatives on the Envision 2040:
San Jose’s General Plan Update Task Force.
(also: contact Stan Ketchum,
City of San Jose)
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Willow Glen Library is taking shape! [photo 7/20/07]
click here plans for
Willow Glen Library;
(click here for
blue-prints)
To be completed by
Fall 2008
Contact
the designer/architect;
Contact the contractor
The books are being packed up and stored or shipped
off to other libraries, and the staff is dispersed throughout the SJ Library
system.
Nearest libraries to Willow Glen:
·
Rose Garden
Library (1580 Naglee Ave. at Dana; 408/808-3070)
·
Biblioteca
Latinoamericana (921 S. First St. at Oak; 408/294-1237), and
·
Main
Library - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (150 E. San Fernando St. at 4th;
408/808-2000)
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Link to Lincoln Avenue Parking Study (2003)
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To
contact the Police:
Emergency: 911 (or 408/277-8911 from a cell-phone);
Non-emergency (open 24/7): 311 (or 408/277-8900).
To email officers serving the Willow Glen area, email to Police@wgna.net.
Want
information about Police activities in your neighborhood? check out their
website at www.sjpd.org.
To set up a Neighborhood Watch, call Crime Prevention at 277-4133, http://www.sjpd.org/crimeprev/neighborhoodwatch.cfm
(click here
to contact WGNA about setting up a BlockMail, for anything from neighborhood
watches to organizing block parties.)
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Monthly
WGNA Board Meeting:
2nd Wed of the Month, 7 PM
except in July and December.
Willow Glen Baptist Church
1292 Minnesota Ave. (corner of Hicks & Minnesota)
Click here for agenda
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click
here for results of 2006 WGNA membership survey
Click here for results of WGNA
Membership Survey (May 2005)
Click here for information on Mosquitos and the West Nile Virus
Click here for
the Adopted Final San Jose Public Outreach Policy
Click
here for the Santa Clara County website on hazardous
waste
notes from the WGNA May 2007 General
Meeting:
Trails in and around Willow
Glen (21 MB), by Yves Zsutty
Bike-paths and
walkable community (7 MB), by John Brazil
General Plan Update and its
Impact on Willow Glen (video: 460 MB), by Laurel Prevetti
Election of 2007-08 WGNA Board
eList Survey Results
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Links for the Feb. 2007 Newsletter: The Sunshine Task Force:
Task Force
website; Code
of Ethics and Conduct;
Live or
archived video of meetings; and Meeting
agenda and minutes.
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to
subscribe to the WGNA eList:
write to "admin@wgna.net".
Put "subscribe eList" in the subject line (for "immediate"
mode),
or "digest eList" in the subject line (for the ~daily compendium
"digest" mode).
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Click here for pictures from
the 2007 Glenn Avenue Block Party
Click
here for pictures from the 2006 Glenn Avenue Block Party
Click here for
pictures from the 2005 Glenn Avenue Block Party
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Comments about the web page? Please email the webmaster.
Questions about your membership? Contact the database manager.
Contact the WGNA President.
Board Meetings
The
WGNA board generally meets on the second Wednesday of each month at 7:00 PM at
the
Willow Glen Baptist Church; 1292 Minnesota Ave, San Jose, Ca 95125
(corner of Hicks & Minnesota).
(Please enter on the Minnesota side, up the front steps of the church.).
The public is invited to attend. Agendas are posted
roughly a week in advance. Please contact us
to put an item on the agenda. Read the agenda of the
most recent board meeting.
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