BRIEFLY : BELMONT REVIEW PANEL SETS MEETING TIMES.Plunging into a review of the controversial Belmont Learning Center This Belmont Learning Center contains information about a building currently under construction. It may contain information of a speculative nature, and the content may change dramatically as construction progresses and new information becomes available. project, an independent advisory commission voted Monday to meet three times a week beginning next week. At their first meeting since being appointed by the Los Angeles Board of Education last week, the Belmont commissioners decided not to select a chairman until their next meeting at 10 a.m. Thursday. After Thursday's session, which will feature testimony from various figures involved in the Belmont issue, the panel will begin meeting at 2 p.m. Mondays, 2 p.m. Thursdays and 10 a.m. Saturdays. The school board has given the commission 60 days to come up with a recommendation on the Belmont project. - Daily News Burned Russian boy has facial surgery Denis Denis, king of Portugal: see Diniz. Nefedov, the 11-year-old Russian boy undergoing a yearlong series of treatments at the Grossman Burn Center in Sherman Oaks, had surgery to reconstruct his disfigured dis·fig·ure tr.v. dis·fig·ured, dis·fig·ur·ing, dis·fig·ures To mar or spoil the appearance or shape of; deform. [Middle English disfiguren, from Old French desfigurer nose and forehead Monday. Last week surgeons removed scar tissue from those areas. To complete the procedure, early Monday they grafted skin from the boy's right thigh to his face. After several weeks of healing they hope next to operate on his hands, burned in an accidental explosion of gasoline fumes fumes odorous gases and other volatile materials; inhalation of irritating fumes causes coughing and, if sufficiently severe, irreversible pulmonary edema. at his home on Sakhalin Island in the Pacific. - Daily News Team effort rescues cat stuck in juniper Los Angeles police and firefighters joined forces to rescue a cat Monday from a large juniper tree at Lindley Avenue and Karen Drive in Tarzana where it had been stuck since Wednesday. ``It had been keeping the neighbors up because it had been crying all night,'' said Sgt. Corina Hees of the Los Angeles Police Department's West Valley Division. On Sunday, West Valley police Officers Sabrina Kuhn and Dennis Mesa attempted to rescue the cat and then came back with the Los Angeles Fire Department The Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD), also known as the Los Angeles City Fire Department to distinguish it from the Los Angeles County Fire Department. It is the agency that provides fire protection and emergency medical services for the city of Los Angeles. ladder truck Monday, Hees said. ``It was a huge, dense juniper tree. They could hear the cat but they couldn't see it,'' she said. ``It turned out to be a gray-haired tabby cat tabby cat: see cat. named Betsy,'' said Hees after the successful rescue Monday afternoon. ``It was a little dehydrated de·hy·drate v. de·hy·drat·ed, de·hy·drat·ing, de·hy·drates v.tr. 1. To remove water from; make anhydrous. 2. To preserve by removing water from (vegetables, for example). and hungry, but otherwise OK. They returned it to its owner who lives on Lindley.'' - Daily News Coalition sues city over alcohol ad ban A coalition of business associations filed a federal civil rights lawsuit Monday in U.S. District Court against the city of Los Angeles
The city enacted the ordinance to reduce the illegal purchase and consumption of alcohol by minors. The coalition includes alcoholic beverage industry groups and a national organization of outdoor advertisers, who argue that the city cannot sacrifice the rights of adult consumers and legitimate businesses. - Daily News |
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