$2,300 DONATED TO REPLACE TREES.Byline: Karen Maeshiro Staff Writer LANCASTER - Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. County Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich Michael Dennis Antonovich (born 1939 in Los Angeles, California) is a member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors representing the Fifth District, which covers northern Los Angeles County, the Antelope, Santa Clarita, Pasadena, and parts of the San Fernando and San will give $2,300 to Lancaster and Quartz Hill high schools Quartz Hill High School is a public, co-educational high school located in Lancaster, California. Founded in 1964, it is the third oldest comprehensive high school in the Antelope Valley High School District (AVHSD). to replace nine trees that were felled by chain saw-wielding vandals. A 40-foot-tall pine and eight other trees were lopped off at their trunks at the two schools a month ago. ``He said this is a senseless sense·less adj. 1. Lacking sense or meaning; meaningless. 2. Deficient in sense; foolish or stupid. 3. Insensate; unconscious. act of vandalism,'' said Tony Bell, an Antonovich spokesman. ``When something like this happens, it's a shock to the community, and the supervisor wanted to help the schools to remedy the problem.'' Antonovich wanted to offer the money either for a reward for finding the culprits or to pay for replacing the trees. The principals at both schools said they would prefer new trees. The money is coming from the supervisor's discretionary fund. ``Supervisor Antonovich's office has graciously approved of helping us purchase new trees and planting them. They saw the paper as well and wanted to step in and help,'' said Brett Neal, principal of Quartz Hill High. No arrests have been made in the case, Neal said. The vandalism, which occurred June 8, disgusted teachers and other staff members at the two schools. Employees at Lancaster High raised $300 in a few hours to offer as a reward for finding the culprits. The lopped-off trees were left where they fell: in the parking lot and on a lawn beside Quartz Hill High and on the lawn in front of Lancaster High. The pine tree at Lancaster High had measured about a foot in diameter; smaller sycamore sycamore: see plane tree. sycamore Any of several distinct trees called by the same name though in different genera and families. In the U.S. the term refers to the American plane tree or buttonwood (Platanus occidentalis), a hardy street tree. trees were about 4 inches in diameter. Before the vandals struck,, students waiting to be picked up by their parents found shade under the 20-foot almond almond, name for a small tree (Prunus amygdalus) of the family Rosaceae (rose family) and for the nutlike, edible seed of its drupe fruit. The "nuts" of sweet-almond varieties are eaten raw or roasted and are pressed to obtain almond oil. tree that was brought down in the Quartz Hill High parking lot. Other trees destroyed at Quartz Hill were pine, mimosa and mulberry mulberry, common name for the Moraceae, a family of deciduous or evergreen trees and shrubs, often climbing, mostly of pantropical distribution, and characterized by milky sap. Several genera bear edible fruit, e.g. , located near the school's flagpole. A year ago, vandals had used an ax to cut down four small trees that bordered Lancaster High along Lancaster Boulevard. KarenMaeshiro, (661) 267-5744 karen.maeshiro(at)dailynews.com |
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