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Sun Valley Jose Mier’s Trip to the Magic Kingdom

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Straight Shot South on I-5

One of the things we at Sun Valley Jose Mier like to promote is Sun Valley’s central location. The 5 freeway spans the entire length of the state of California, and it just happens to run right through Sun Valley, California. Because of this it’s easy to get to most places in Southern California in a pretty short amount of time.

Disneyland castle SunValleyJoseMier
Disneyland castle: easy trip from SunValleyJoseMier

If you’re one of those people whose discovered that our Hollywood Burbank Airport is a great alternative to LAX, then flying in to our Sun Valley neighbor in staying with us in our community is a smart option. We won’t even begin to list all the attractions and theme parks there’re only minutes away, but instead we’re going to focus on one of our favorite drives, and one of our favorite destinations: Disneyland.

The drive from Sun Valley to Disneyland is so simple that it hardly warrants the paragraphs we’re writing here. Quite simply, you hop on the south, follow it all the way to Anaheim, get off on Disney Drive. That’s it. Yes, there are some twists and turns that people unfamiliar with Southern California should know about, but with GPS and a sharp eye on freeway signs it really is just a straight shot south.

Just because we’re the nice people we are here at Sun Valley Jose Mier we’re including a map with driving directions from Sun Valley to Disneyland and Anaheim. If you’re thinking about visiting Southern California of course we think sun Valley should be your base of operations. And you can get to places like Disneyland really easily. In fact, without traffic the drive will take about 45 minutes. So stay with us in Sun Valley and enjoy the Magic Kingdom only minutes away.

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Excursions From Sun Valley: Hollywood Sign

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Sun Valley Jose Mier’s Favorite Los Angeles Day Trips

As the Sun Valley Jose Mier’s website always likes to say, Sun Valley, California is a great place to live and to visit. Our location in the San Fernando Valley makes us Centro it just about everything you would want to do in Southern California. Even Orange County and its theme parks are only a short drive away, directly south on the I-5 freeway. But what about sites that are closer to home? There’s a reason that our Sun Valley-close airport is called a Hollywood Burbank airport because the sights of Hollywood are only a few minutes from downtown Sun Valley. And nothing says Hollywood, literally, like the famed Hollywood sign. There are many opportunities to view this iconic landmark but we’re going to share with you our favorite way.

Just hop on the 170 freeway south. Take that to the 101 south and exit on Barham Blvd. Take Barham north a short distance to Lake Hollywood Dr. and just follow the signs to Lake Hollywood Park. You’ll pass Lake Hollywood along the way. This last part involves a lot of twists and turns but it’s worth the effort when you arrive. Lake Hollywood Park has one of the best views of the Hollywood sign. Perfect for photos (with yourself in them, of course).

This is a short excursion which will leave you plenty of time for anything else you want to do in Southern California.

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Defensible Spaces in Sun Valley

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Firefighters battle flames above Sun Valley home

Sun Valley Jose Mier Shares Brush Clearance Information

Sun Valley Jose Mier often talks about the variety of neighborhoods we have in Sun Valley and in particular the Stonehurst neighborhood. But some homes in this area as well as other areas like the Olive Terrace home we profiled earlier are located on hillside. For those Sun Valley residents that live in the more rural parts of our community and in mountainous areas should be reminded about brush clearance. This is especially true now that we are dealing with an extremely volatile fire season in the Southland.

Firefighters battle flames above Sun Valley home
Firefighters battle flames above Sun Valley home

It may be one of those things you don’t think about, like changing the battery in your smoke detector or replacing the filter in your air conditioner. Both of those are kind of important, but when it comes down to it keeping your property safe from fire is more important by far. It seems like every fire season the fire department stresses the importance of clearing the brush away from property and yet some of us either don’t heed the warning or forget about it.

That’s why we at Sun Valley Jose Mier thought it would be a good idea to echo those warnings from the fire department and remind our neighbors to take appropriate steps to keep not only their property but that of their neighbors safe. One of the resources available to us is on the Los Angeles Fire Department website. You can read more detail on the site but in brief they speak about a very high fire hazard severity zone (VHFHSZ) and those of us in Sun Valley who live on hillsides or where brush has become overgrown occupy just such areas. The fire department quotes the fire code which states that property owners have to clear brush year round–meaning all brush, weeds, trees and more—from around their structures whether they’re on your property or a neighbor’s. You also have to clear brush within 10 feet of any combustible fence or roadway including a driveway.

It may seem like a daunting task, especially since we are required to apply these standards throughout the whole year but we need only look at what’s occurring around us right now with fires like the Bobcat fire or El Dorado fire. Both of these are occurring in mountainous or very mountainous terrain making it very hard to fight and contain and both continue to threaten property. Please take a moment to assess your own property and what needs to be done to comply with the fire code. A little work in clearing the brush now may mean the difference between inconvenience and losing everything.
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Smoky Air Causes Cooler Temps, Red Sun

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Red sun in smoky Sun Valley CA sky

Sun Valley Jose Mier on Sun Valley’s Wild Weather

As we reported earlier Sun Valley Jose Mier our area is Being bombarded by smoking hot weather. If There’s a silver lining any of this it’s the the hazy air combined with a few clouds have pushed the temperatures in Sun Valley down more than 30 degrees. Two days ago Sun Valley residence were struggling to contend with 112 degree temperatures.

On Tuesday however it was all the thermometer could do to creep past 80 degrees. That’s a significant drop. If anything, it will allow southern California residents to ease up on the air conditioning and not tax our electricity grid to the breaking point as we probably did over the weekend. It’s evident to the poor air quality in Sun Valley means that susceptible residents should stay inside if possible but in general the rest of us can enjoy the rest from the record breaking heat of recent days.

One of the other effects of this smoky air is that as the sunsets it appears like a bright red fireball very large in the sky. The air may not be good to breathe but it’s going to make some spectacular photographs for those who wish to do so.

Red sun in smoky Sun Valley CA sky
Sun Valley Jose Mier observed a red sun in the smoky Sun Valley CA sky

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Sun Valley is Home to Center for Enriched Studies

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Academic Excellence in Our Backyard

Sun Valley Jose Mier is very proud of our community. As you know we promote all aspects of Sun Valley California in one of those is in the field of education. If you’re not familiar with the Center for enriched studies you should be. It’s part of the Los Angeles unified school district and it’s made up of several different schools. One of those is the Valley oaks Center for enriched studies, or CES.

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LA Magnet Schools website – including our SUn Valley school

Valley Oaks CES is located at 9171 Telfair Ave. in Sun Valley. It’s just a few blocks north east of the Fernangeles recreation Center.

You can find out more about the Centers for Enriched Studies on the Los Angeles megnet schools website, but these special schools cater to a diversity of Los Angeles area students who come from many different types of backgrounds. However each of the students possesses special abilities and these specials S\schools are set up to provide the appropriate learning environment for the students.

As the website states the Los Angeles Center For Enriched Studies provides challenging curricula and an environment which offers personal involvement by teachers as well as parents and students. The course is at these schools he’ll our Sun Valley students develop better academic abilities as well as talents in the arts and in the field of athletics.

We at Sun Valley Jose Mier are proud that we have a center for enriched studies right here in our own hometown.
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Sun Valley Youth Baseball

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Sun Valley Ca Youth Baseball

Youth Sports Important to Sun Valley Jose Mier

We at Sun Valley José Mier want to get the word out that Sun Valley is an attractive place to live and work. 99% of the time our are geared to the adult community and business people. But we can’t forget the part of our son Valley community, in fact the most important part, for the families that live here. And having family means children.

Sun Valley Ca Youth Baseball
Sun Valley Ca Youth Baseball

It’s important for a number of reasons children have an opportunity to participate in sports. They can gain important skills, social, athletic and otherwise. And basically they can just have fun. One of the sporting opportunities near Sun Valley is the East Valley Baseball League. There are seven different divisions in the league, each one geared to a specific age group. The earliest age allowed is three and four years old, but divisions go up to 16 years old just before student would enter high school. Each division has different rules specific to that age group. You can see the different divisions listed below:

The divisions are:

Spirit – ages 3 & 4. Straight T-Ball. One base at a time. Learning the basics.
Shetland – ages 5 & 6. Manuel Machine Pitch w/ Tee, if needed. 50′ bases;
Pinto – ages 7 & 8. Introduction to kid pitch (with limitations). 40′ mound and 60′ bases;
Mustang – ages 9 & 10. Metal cleats; Major league baseball rules (for kids, of course). Lead offs, dropped thrid strikes, infield fly rule. 46′ mound and 60′ bases.
Bronco – ages 11 & 12. Major league rules; 50′ mound and 70′ bases.
Pony – ages 13 & 14. 54′ mound and 80′ bases.
Colt/Palomino – ages 15 & 18. 60′ 6″ mound and 90′ bases. Get ready for High School.

Youth baseball is a great opportunity for kids to Learned something new, to show what they’re made of, and as we said to just have fun. The East Valley baseball league meet sit Strathern Park North in North Hollywood. You can get more details on their website. So to all the kids in Sun Valley, Sun Valley José Mier says, “Play ball!”

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Stonehurst Elementary Back to School (Sort Of)

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Sun Valley Jose Mier Addresses Distance Learning

As you know one of our cherished neighborhoods in Sun Valley is Stonehurst. We profiled the Stonehurst neighborhood on the Sun Valley Jose Mier website before and one of the key features of this neighborhood is Stonehurst Elementary school.

Stonehurst Elementary School website Sun Valley Jose Mier
Stonehurst Elementary School website profiled by Jose Mier

Stonehurst, like just about every other school in Los Angeles County has begun classes for the new school year. However, like those other schools these classes will be held online through zoom meetings.

It’s an unfortunate situation that our youth are prevented from learning physically in a classroom and must instead learn while sitting in front of their computer at home. We know this is kind of an err-on-the-side-of-caution approach and that community leaders as well as the state government feels it’s best and safer to keep students away from schools. This may or may not be a wise decision given that it seems very unlikely that young children will contract the coronavirus. But there are other concerns.

Anecdotal evidence has shown that it’s more difficult to keep children engaged when they have to sit in front of a computer screen at home rather than being in the classroom physically. Some may not even log on at all. It also causes problems for parents. What does a parent do if he or she has to go to work but his or her child or children must stay at home to attend school virtually? This is an extra hardship on parents who may either have to forgo working to be with their children or to try to find some solution such as having another family member watch the kids or hiring someone to do it. That latter option may not be feasible since families may not want to invite a so-called stranger into their house for fear of the spread of the coronavirus.

Regardless, schools such as Stonehurst elementary are forging ahead with their online class schedule. For those whose children are enrolled at Stonehurst you can view their schedule and all the online meetings and classes on their website.

Sun Valley Jose Mier does not have a solution for all the difficulties online learning may cause but we think it’s important to point these out for the purposes of discussion. If you have a child enrolled in a local school and are dealing with the same problems we’d love to hear any input from you and any possible solutions. And let’s hope and pray that we see a tapering off or an end to the coronavirus soon.

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