BRIEFLY : ARTHRITIS TREATMENTS SET FOR DISCUSSION.GLENDALE - Orthopedist orthopedist /or·tho·pe·dist/ (-pe´dist) an orthopedic surgeon. or·tho·pe·dist or or·tho·pae·dist n. A specialist in orthopedics. Philip O. Meritt will discuss the most effective treatment options for arthritis sufferers Aug. 25 at Glendale Adventist Medical Center Glendale Adventist Medical Center is located in the Los Angeles suburb of Glendale, California. It was founded in 1905. Glendale Adventist Medical Center is a sister institution of Loma Linda University Medical Center and is a part of the Seventh-day Adventist hospital system. . The discussion, to be held from 11:30 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. at 1509 Wilson Terrace, is the first in a series of free seminars offered by the hospital's Joint Replacement Program. For information, call (818) 409-8100. - Daily News Burbank offering pickup of big items BURBANK - The city of Burbank's Bulky Item Pickup will collect furniture, large appliances, old carpeting and other cumbersome items weekly. Burbank residents should call the pickup hotline at (818) 238-3805 two days before their regular trash pickup and leave their name, address, a description of the item and whether it is on the curb or alley. For questions about the Bulky Pickup program, call Burbank sanitation sanitation: see plumbing; sanitary science. at (818) 238-3800 between 6 a.m. and 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. - Daily News Volunteer drivers sought for program BURBANK - The Home Delivered Meals program needs volunteer drivers, age 55 and older, one day a week for two hours. The program, offered at the McCambridge Recreation Center, 1515 N. Glenoaks Blvd., supplies meals to elderly residents who cannot leave their homes. Volunteers must have their own car and are needed to work from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. To volunteer, call Dee Call, director of Burbank's Retired Senior Volunteer Program, at (818) 238-5370. - Daily News Council may step into dispute at USC An abbreviation for U.S. Code. Amid continuing protests by workers at the University of Southern California The U.S. News & World Report ranked USC 27th among all universities in the United States in its 2008 ranking of "America's Best Colleges", also designating it as one of the "most selective universities" for admitting 8,634 of the almost 34,000 who applied for freshman admission , the Los Angeles City Council  The Los Angeles City Council is the governing body of the City of Los Angeles, California, United States. moved on Tuesday to try to intervene by expanding the city's worker-retention law. The council asked the city attorney to draft a measure expanding the ordinance A law, statute, or regulation enacted by a Municipal Corporation. An ordinance is a law passed by a municipal government. A municipality, such as a city, town, village, or borough, is a political subdivision of a state within which a municipal corporation has been to include institutions that have contracts with the city, such as USC, and not just companies such as concessionaires. - Daily News |
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