Farmers' Market, Montecito Heights 'Listening Tour'

Highland Park's weekly Farmers' Market is scheduled today, Tuesday, Oct. 1, from 3 p.m. to 8 p.m., at Avenue 57 and Marmion Way, adjacent to the Metro Gold Line. This is a special kind of market: Proceeds go to the North Figueroa Association, a nonprofit group that will use the money for the security, cleanliness and improvement of the North Fig corridor and community. Questions? Call (323) 255-5030 or visit www.oldla.org.

2. Cedillo's Listening Tour

Councilmember Gil Cedillo's 2013 Listening Tour comes to Montecito Heights today, Tuesday, Oct. 1. A community forum aimed at focusing on key neighborhood issues, the event will be held from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the Montecito Heights Senior Citizen Recreation Center, located at 4545 Homer St., 90031. Attendees are expected to form small groups to brainstorm ideas for projects covering the fields of Public Safety, Economic Development, Arts and Culture, Clean Streets, and the Environment. (Note how the first letters of each of those five areas forms the word "PEACE.")

3. Food Truck Feast

Highland Park’s weekly food truck feast unfolds at 5:30 p.m. today, Tuesday, Oct. 1, in the parking lot in front of the former Figueroa Produce building, located at 6312 N. Figueroa St. Food trucks from across Los Angeles are expected to be there until 9 p.m. Stay tuned for details.

4. 'Violence Girl' Alice Bag book talk

Alice Bag, author of “Violence Girl: East L.A. Rage to Hollywood Stage—A Chicana Punk Story,” a memoir that describes how a first-generation Mexican-American girl from an East L.A. barrio participated in the birth of the 1970s punk rock movement, will talk about her book at the Cypress Park Public Library starting at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 2, at 1150 Cypress Ave., 90065, (323) 224-0039.

5. Neighborhood Council meeting

The Historic Highland Park Neighborhood Council is scheduled to hold its monthly board meeting on Thursday, Oct. 3, from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the Highland Park Adult Senior Citizen Center, located at 6152 N. Figueroa St.