Portola Planet

04/23/2020

Sharing Portola-made art. 💚 Today's is a dance created and performed on a Portola rooftop by neighbor Jo Kreiter of Flyaway Productions, which typically performs aerial dance performances on the side of buildings. Check out their page for more inspiring performances!

Send us your art and we'll share it!

04/09/2020

A list of businesses that remain open on the San Bruno Ave corridor and beyond during the COVID-19 Shelter-in-Place

03/13/2020

We at the Portola Planet hope you and your families remain well. We are sharing this news from the SF Rec and Park Department about emergency youth care, as schools close and parents still must work. Link below contains full details. Stay safe, everyone!

Beginning Monday, March 16, 36 recreation sites around the city will operate as emergency child care facilities in the wake of public school closures and other safety measures the City is undertaking around COVID-19.

The facilities will serve children of Department of Public Health staff; health care workers from San Francisco hospitals; city employees who have been activated as Disaster Service Workers; and low-income working families. Our facilities will serve grades K through 5, Monday through Friday, from 7:30 a.m. to 6 p.m., through March 31.

Similarly, the San Francisco Public Library will cease regular operations of its branches and provide child care for youth, grades 6-12. The Office of Early Childhood Education will be arranging child care services for pre-school children, ages 0-5. The Department of Children, Youth and Their Families (DCYF) will be providing three meals a day for all children at these facilities.

Detailed information on emergency youth care locations, eligibility and registration can be found at https://www.dcyf.org/.

The San Francisco Department of Children, Youth and Their Families will host eleven We Are the City Family Summits throughout San Francisco! The Family Summits are opportunities for San Francisco residents, particularly youth and families, to make your voices heard. Your stories will play a critical

11/26/2019

Our little 'hood made the New York Times real estate section!

Neighborhood residents relish the quiet streets and are working to resurrect the area’s heritage as a garden district.

09/19/2019

Finally, you can peek into Portola backyards without being labeled a peeping Tom!

Saturday, September 28th.

Event organizer Ruth Wallace talks to Bay Area Focus host Michelle Griego about the Portola Garden Tour and After Party at Ferment, Drink, Repeat, happening ...

07/21/2019

Please vote!

The proposals are in! The Portola Neighborhood Association asked artists to submit proposals for mural projects along the Portola's San Bruno Corridor that will bring fresh ideas and aesthetics to the neighborhood’s current collection of murals.

06/12/2019

Are you an artist or know one? The PNA has issued an open call for mural proposals to bring art to 3 sites on Sam Bruno Ave! Deadline is 7/15, Visit the project website by clicking the link: https://www.portolasf.org/multi-mural-community-art-project

05/28/2019

Check out this newly christened trail across SF, which goes right through the Portola!

A newly mapped urban walking/biking trail across San Francisco has just been born, and the Portola is a part of it! The San Francisco Crosstown Trail crosses San Francisco diagonally from southeast to northwest. The trail begins at Sunrise Point in the Candlestick Point State Recreation Area, then w...

05/02/2019

Ground breaks this month on a new playground nestled in the redwoods of McLaren Park

In the works for years thanks to the guiding hand of Help McLaren Park, construction will soon begin on a new playground near the Group Picnic Area. Situated on the site of a long-gone McLaren Park playground, the new hillside activity space will integrate with the topography of the natural landscap...

04/26/2019

The twirling metal sculpture will not return to Palega Park but the city plans
to replace it with something new to us.

Community meeting May 1st, more details in the post.

No match for Portola’s strong winds, the twirling kinetic sculpture at Palega Park known as “Zephyros” has been in and out of the repair shop pretty much since its inception. Neighbor Jackie Morri, monitored the status of the sculpture with monthly calls to the San Francisco Arts Commission un...

04/25/2019

Checkout these photos of the neighborhood in miniature circa 1938

If you haven’t made it down yet to the Portola Branch Library to checkout the scale model of the neighborhood, there’s still time. In the meantime, we’ve got some photos of it to share. Unfortunately the Portola piece isn’t complete yet, as much of the citywide model is still packed away in ...