BILLBOARD'S PRAISE NOT FOR PARIS, DESPITE ITS TIMING GROUP MEANT TO THANK SHERIFF FOR WORK TO STOP GANG VIOLENCE.Byline: GIDEON RUBIN Staff Writer PALMDALE -- Memo to baffled Antelope Valley Freeway The Antelope Valley Freeway is a freeway in Los Angeles and Kern counties in southern California. It is signed as California State Highway 14 along its length. It connects Greater Los Angeles to the rapidly developing Antelope Valley. commuters: Forget Paris. That's from the leader of a local grass-roots group who said a new freeway sign his group sponsored lauds Lauds is one of the two "major hours" in the Roman Catholic Liturgy of the Hours. It is to be recited in the early morning hours, preferably near dawn. Structure of the hour 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's embattled sheriff for promoting public safety -- not for temporarily springing a celebrity hotel heiress from county jail. The billboard, visible to motorists traveling north just before the Pearblossom Highway exit, reads: "Sheriff Lee Baca Leroy David Baca (b. May 27 1942, East Los Angeles, California) is the Sheriff of Los Angeles County, California. After graduating from Benjamin Franklin High School (Los Angeles) in 1960, Baca worked his way through East Los Angeles College before starting with the L.A. ... Thank You" with the group's name, Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley War on Gangs and Crime, printed below in a smaller font. The freeway sign was in the works for more than a month to show appreciation for the sheriff, who established the Antelope Valley Crime-Fighting Initiative, said Greg Augusta, the program's executive director. Augusta called Baca's commitment to public safety in the Antelope Valley remarkable, noting the sheriff has honored a promise made at the group's Feb.26 town hall meeting to deploy additional deputies. The program has flooded high-crime areas throughout the valley with out-of-town deputies, producing more than 400 arrests. The billboard went up at the height of the Paris Hilton  Editing of this page by unregistered or newly registered users is currently disabled due to vandalism. controversy
earlier this month when Baca was at the center of a flap for ordering
Hilton out of a Lynwood jail and into house arrest at her estate on
June7 -- a move Superior Court Judge Michael T. Sauer For the American ice hockey player, see .Michael Thomas Sauer (born 1937) is a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge. He is best known for sentencing socialite Paris Hilton to 45 days in jail for violating terms of her probation. overturned a day later. Baca has since been blasted by public figures across the political spectrum, and he is now being targeted in a recall campaign. Brian Robin, a public-relations account executive who commutes to Reseda from Quartz Hill, said he was struck by the timing. "I chuckled at first, but I didn't really give it much thought," Robin said gideon.rubin@dailynews.com (661) 267-7802 CAPTION(S): photo Photo: (color) A billboard seen by northbound motorists before the Pearblossom Highway exit was ordered by an Antelope Valley group before the Paris Hilton flap. Jeff Goldwater/Staff Photographer |
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