BRIEFLY : DINERS CAN HELP GET COMPUTERS FOR KIDS.AGOURA HILLS - Patrons of two local restaurants can help raise money to buy computers for Las Virgenes Unified School District Las Virgenes Unified School District (LVUSD) is a K-12 school district in north-west Los Angeles County, USA consisting of 14 public schools in the cities of Agoura Hills, Calabasas, Westlake Village, and several small portions of the West Hills section of Los Angeles. campuses by dropping donations into special gum-ball machines. The district's 4-year-old Technology Foundation has set up one of the dispensers at Steve's Deli, 26500 Agoura Road, Calabasas, with another scheduled to go into La Paz La Paz, city, Bolivia La Paz (lä päs), city (1992 pop. 713,378), W Bolivia, administrative capital (since 1898) and largest city of Bolivia. The legal capital is Sucre. next month. Donations will benefit the foundation's program - dubbed Technology Improving Performance in School - to put computers in the 13 Las Virgenes schools and also fund student and teacher training. Contributors will be asked to designate a school, which will help determine which campuses receive the money first. - Daily News Recycling campaign seeks the unwanted THOUSAND OAKS Thousand Oaks, residential city (1990 pop. 104,352), Ventura co., S Calif., in a farm area; inc. 1964. Avocados, citrus, vegetables, strawberries, and nursery products are grown. - The city of Thousand Oaks will hold its annual Community Clean-Up and recycling event Saturday at Conejo Creek Park South. Thousand Oaks residents are invited to dispose of To determine the fate of; to exercise the power of control over; to fix the condition, application, employment, etc. of; to direct or assign for a use. See also: Dispose household trash, appliances, unwanted furniture and usable goods that can be recycled or donated to Goodwill Industries of Ventura County. The program accepts all nonhazardous, unwanted or recyclable residential trash or donations. Proof of residency is required. Last year's event collected more than 300 tons of trash and reusable goods from 1,250 families that participated. About 30 percent was diverted from the landfill. Residents can drop off their hazardous waste Hazardous waste Any solid, liquid, or gaseous waste materials that, if improperly managed or disposed of, may pose substantial hazards to human health and the environment. Every industrial country in the world has had problems with managing hazardous wastes. May 30, and are asked to call the city to make an appointment for the annual drop-off at (805) 449-SAVE. City officials said they expect to collect about 70,000 pounds of toxic waste toxic waste is waste material, often in chemical form, that can cause death or injury to living creatures. It usually is the product of industry or commerce, but comes also from residential use, agriculture, the military, medical facilities, radioactive sources, and from approximately 1,100 participants. Both events are provided as part of the city's recycling plan to help reduce the amount of waste going to the landfill 50 percent by the year 2000. - Daily News |
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