BRIEFLY : STUDIO CITY CLEANUP PLANNED FOR TODAY.STUDIO CITY - Residents plan to clean up trash, paint over graffiti and pull weeds today during Studio City Beautification beau·ti·fytr. & intr.v. beau·ti·fied, beau·ti·fy·ing, beau·ti·fies To make or become beautiful. beau Day. The event, organized by the Studio City Residents Association, is scheduled to begin at 8:30 a.m. at the corner of Blue Canyon Drive and Ventura Boulevard Ventura Boulevard is one of the primary east-west thouroughfares in the San Fernando Valley; as it was originally a part of the El Camino Real (the trail between Spanish missions), Ventura Boulevard is the oldest route in the San Fernando Valley. It was also U.S. . Participants include New Directions for Youth, Studio City Beautification, Clean Sweep clean sweep n to make a clean sweep (SPORT) → arrasar, barrer clean sweep n to make a clean sweep (Sport) → rafler tous les prix and Clean & Green. Organizers plan to attack Ventura Boulevard between Colfax Avenue Colfax Avenue is the main street that runs east and west through the Denver-Aurora metropolitan area in Colorado. As U.S. Highway 40, it was one of two principal highways serving Denver before the Interstate Highway System was constructed. and Lankershim Boulevard. Refreshments will be served. For more information, call the Studio City Residents Association at 509-0230. ?13- Daily News Lawmaker backs Pitchess lease SACRAMENTO - A key state lawmaker has signed off on a deal calling for the state to lease parts of a jail in 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. In a letter to state finance officials, state Sen. Mike Thompson For other persons named Mike Thompson, see Mike Thompson (disambiguation). C. Michael Thompson (born January 24, 1951), American politician, has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1999, representing California's At-large , D-Santa Rosa, said he was withdrawing objections he had made earlier to a plan for the state to lease space in the Peter J. Pitchess Detention Center near Castaic. Thompson, who oversees midyear budget requests for the Legislature, said he was satisfied by changes made in the proposed contract. The state will pay the county $1.2 million for the jail space through the rest of the fiscal year, which ends in June. ?13- Daily News Fund established for slain man's kin SAN FERNANDO - A memorial fund for Arthur Jay Jensen Sr., who was shot to death Easter Sunday, has been set up to help his family with funeral expenses. The 32-year-old Castaic father of four was walking to a market with his 15-year-old son when they were attacked by two people driving by in a car on Kalisher Street. No arrests have been made. Contributions can be made to the Jensen Family Memorial Fund, c/o San Fernando Police Department, 910 First St., San Fernando, CA 91340. Anyone with information on the suspects can reach police at 898-1267. ?13- Daily News FBI probes guard's slaying at prison LOMPOC - The FBI on Friday investigated the stabbing death of a prison guard and the wounding of four others by an inmate at a federal maximum-security prison, the warden said. Scott Williams, 29, a correctional officer at the U.S. Penitentiary penitentiary: see prison. , was pronounced dead at 6:55 p.m. Thursday at Lompoc Valley Community Hospital, said Warden David Rardin. The identity of the inmate was not released. A statement from the prison said ``one inmate believed to have been involved in the assault has been transported to another federal facility.'' Williams had been a guard at the penitentiary since March 1993. Four other guards who came to Williams' assistance were injured by the same inmate, Rardin said. One of them remained hospitalized Friday. ?13- Associated Press Titan II booster launches satellite VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE Vandenberg Air Force Base, U.S. military installation, 3,456 acres (1,399 hectares), SW Calif., near Lompoc; chief Pacific coast launch site for military satellites. - A military weather satellite hitched a ride for the first time on a Titan II booster, a refurbished intercontinental ballistic missile intercontinental ballistic missile: see guided missile. , the Air Force said. The Friday morning launch was successful and polar orbit was expected without complications, Senior Master Sgt. Gordon Van Vleet said. ?13- Associated Press |
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