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VG Pitches in to Aid LA Fire Victims

2/12/2025

 
By Director Ashley Fondrevay, Court 14
I know that all of us at the Village Green have felt the trauma of the wildfire disaster here in Los Angeles. This was not the way any of us would have thought 2025 was going to start! But l wanted to highlight the love that many have shown towards our fellow Angelenos during this difficult time.

In conversations with neighbors, I have learned of many selfless acts – from opening up their homes to displaced people, families and animals, to volunteering at pop up clothing and food drives, to donations of money and support, or just acknowledging the trauma of those experiencing the loss of everything with a kind word or a hug.

​In this time of need many of you have shown up in myriad ways and I just wanted to give a shout out to all of those who are helping out during a very challenging  time. All gestures, both large and small, matter. I am humbled by how much our community cares, as I have directly experienced. So, to all Village Greeners, stay strong and keep up the amazing work!


Categories: Board of Directors, Community Contributions


Family Builds a Gingerbread Train and VG Children Happily Destroy It

2/10/2025

 

LIFE ON THE GREEN

By Ted Robbins
Every year, the Creighton family spends days creating a work of gingerbread art. Then, they watch Village Green children demolish it
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Wandering Wildlife

11/10/2024

 
By Charles Darling*, biologist, Court 3
Our overwintering feathered friends of Village Green 

Village Green has long been a haven for migratory birds, attracting warblers, raptors, and other species, much to the delight of birdwatchers. Here’s what to look for this winter season.
 
GREAT HORNED OWLS
As nights grow longer, Great Horned Owls become more active. These owls reuse nests from ravens or hawks. After a windstorm destroyed last year’s nest, this season’s may be in a nearby eucalyptus tree. Males perform dramatic wingbeats, vocalize, and defend their territory while courting females. By spring, their young develop hunting skills, preying on other animals’ springtime offspring.
 
MIGRATORY SONGBIRDS AND PREDATORS
Orange-crowned Warblers, Yellow-rumped Warblers, and Cedar Waxwings—known for their berry-filled antics and high-pitched calls—are arriving en masse. Their predators follow:
  • Merlins, tiny falcons famed for speed and power, hunt in open spaces but are rare here due to limited flight opportunities.
  • Sharp-shinned Hawks, specialists of dense vegetation, are uncommon because Coopers Hawks, their predators, dominate VG’s habitats.
 
ICONIC RED-CROWNED PARROTS
Our Red-crowned Parrots, some as old as 70, form strong social bonds. During warmer months, family units separate to raise young outside VG, but winter reunites the flocks. These bonds, forming here among young parrots, mirror our own children’s friendships.
And just look how social they are! One morning early this month the Green was visited by hundreds and hundreds of birds, cackling wildly and flying in pairs, feeding in the trees for half a day before they flew off.
 
*name has been changed at the request of the author.

Kids on the Green, August 2024

8/24/2024

 
A News Page about your Youngest Neighbors. ​
Compiled by Andrea Hawken
This August, as the summer came to a close, we asked kids
“What was your favorite moment on the green this summer?”

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Political Candidates Can Now Canvass on our Property

2/25/2024

 
By Tad Daley, Court 6
Hello neighbors. In January the Village Green Board, seeking to serve both our own community and the larger civic realm, voted to allow political canvassers to engage with the residents in Village Green on behalf of candidates in upcoming elections.

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A Walk Around the Green

11/21/2023

 
Story and photos by Matthew Archer

This morning I woke up early and started my day as usual. In the kitchen I prepared coffee, carried it upstairs and sat at my desk to check email. Then, I stepped out my front door in Court 10 and joined the concrete footpath leading to West Green. It was my first walk in several weeks, and as I strode into golden sunlight filtering through the olive trees, I felt bathed in a familiar tranquility. With each return to these walking paths, I wonder why I don’t do it more often. Yet here they are when I come back to them.
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Alien Invades Village Green! Community Fights Back!

9/14/2023

 
By Patrick Comiskey
The sound started at night, after dark, interrupting the post-twilight hours in the days after the hurricane, when the whole property, verdant and lush, had been revived by the rains. Travis Lent (Court 5) and his wife Jess were the first to hear it: a weird chirping sound, rhythmic and regular, high pitched, and very, very annoying.

Lent is no stranger to rhythmic sounds—he  plays percussion for a two-person band called 
Mirthquake—but this, like a cross between a birdsong and a smoke alarm, was just irritating. “It sounded electronic, with perfect intervals,” he said, “like a smoke alarm with a dying battery,” adding: “That’s a sound I really hate.” However if it was a smoke alarm, it was acting strangely: the device would chirp for just fifteen minutes and then go silent.

​After two irritating nights he contacted Security, thinking they’d be able to help him track down which of his neighbors was too lazy to change a nine-volt battery.

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