BRIEFCASE CHAMBER OFFICERS TO BE SWORN IN.Byline: - Staff and Wire Services The Agoura/Oak Park/Conejo Valley Chamber of Commerce's officers for 2005 will be sworn in Feb. 3 at the Westlake Inn. The officers elected are Louis Masry, president; Alex Soteras, vice president of government affairs; Marla Lee, vice president of fundraising; Stan Israel, vice president of membership. Limoneira will go retail with goods SANTA PAULA - The largest agricultural operation in Ventura County is going retail. The giant Limoneira Co., the 111-year-old citrus and avocado grower that farms 7,000 acres in the Santa Clara Valley
The Santa Clara Valley is a valley just south of the San Francisco Bay in Northern California in the United States. , San Joaquin Valley Noun 1. San Joaquin Valley - a vast valley in central California known for its rich farmland Calif., California, Golden State, CA - a state in the western United States on the Pacific; the 3rd largest state; known for earthquakes and Santa Barbara County, plans to open Limoneira Mercantile east of the city in February. It will include a six-store retail and food outlet with an open-air farmers market and Limoneira-brand coffee company. The farming company is also creating a master-planned community in east Santa Paula. Company officials stressed Limoneira will continue farming. The ventures are meant to stabilize earnings long subject to the ups and downs ups and downs pl.n. Alternating periods of good and bad fortune or spirits. ups and downs Noun, pl alternating periods of good and bad luck or high and low spirits of the farm economy, Limoneira said. They are also intended to sink even deeper roots into Santa Paula, which helped Limoneira build its fortune and is scrambling now to restore its own economic vitality. FAA to hire more air controllers WASHINGTON - The Federal Aviation Administration Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), component of the U.S. Department of Transportation that sets standards for the air-worthiness of all civilian aircraft, inspects and licenses them, and regulates civilian and military air traffic through its air traffic control announced a plan Tuesday to hire 12,500 air traffic controllers and let some existing workers stay on the job longer than their mandatory retirement age to offset a tidal wave of looming retirements. The plan outlined by FAA Administrator Marion Blakey also calls for speeding up training to get controllers on the job faster and reducing the work force at airports with less air traffic. The genesis for the moves can be traced to 1981, when President Reagan fired more than 10,000 controllers and hired replacements. Nearly three-quarters of those workers will be eligible to retire in the next 10 years. Lawyers bargain broker's future NEW YORK New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of - A stock broker who claimed he managed $1.2 billion for clients who included star athletes and celebrities is trying to negotiate a plea and repay the more than $4 million he allegedly stole, lawyers confirmed Tuesday. The broker, Calvin R. Darden Jr., 30, surrendered last week after he was indicted INDICTED, practice. When a man is accused by a bill of indictment preferred by a grand jury, he is said to be indicted. on grand larceny A category of larceny—the offense of illegally taking the property of another—in which the value of the property taken is greater than that set for petit larceny. At Common Law, the punishment for grand larceny was death. , fraud and other charges related to alleged thefts from Smith Barney, Wachovia, Canadian mutual fund AIC AIC Association des Infermières Canadiennes. Ltd., and an elderly investor. During Darden's appearance Tuesday in Manhattan's State Supreme Court, Justice Renee White said defense and prosecution lawyers were ``working out a disposition'' of the defendant's case. That meant the lawyers were plea bargaining plea bargaining, negotiation in which a defendant agrees to plead guilty to a criminal charge in exchange for concessions by the prosecutor (representing the state). . Cablevision halts plans to spin off NEW YORK - Cablevision Systems Corp., a Long Island-based cable TV provider, said Tuesday it is suspending plans for a spinoff of its money- losing satellite broadcasting business and will consider other alternatives for the unit. The high-definition satellite venture, which is marketed under the brand name VOOM, has had a tough start since being launched more than a year ago and has been a source of major concern among Cablevision's investors. The spinoff of VOOM would have been bundled with several other, more stable Cablevision businesses, including three profitable cable networks - AMC (Advanced Mezzanine Card) See AdvancedTCA. , The Independent Film Channel and WE: Women's Entertainment - as well as the Clearview Cinemas chain of movie theaters. |
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