BRIEFLY : HELICOPTER RESCUES HIKERS FROM HILLSIDE.GLENDALE - In a daring helicopter rescue Monday afternoon in Brand Park, sheriff's air rescue members saved two hikers stranded on the side of a cliff - one of whom was clinging by a bush 250 feet up the 500-foot hill, authorities said. ``It appeared if the shrubbery had pulled loose, he would have slid down the steep embankment,'' said sheriff's Deputy Dave Martin, the chopper's co-pilot. ``We flew up next to him with the mountain paramedic par·a·med·ic n. A person who is trained to give emergency medical treatment or assist medical professionals. paramedic hanging on the end of the hoist. He reached out and wrapped a horse collar around the victim and then we hoisted them up,'' Martin said. The two hikers - 22-year-old Derek White of North Hollywood and 24-year-old Juan Salazar of Granada Hills - were brought to safety unharmed, said Glendale police Sgt. Sue Hodgman. - Daily News Mechanic finds pot; Glendale man held CALEXICO - A man who took his car to an auto repair shop for new brakes got more than he bargained for - a trip to the Imperial County jail. Michael Von Howard, 59, of Glendale was arrested Saturday while waiting for his car to be fixed at a Pep Boys facility after a mechanic found 68 pounds of marijuana in the trunk, said Calexico police Sgt. Carlos Padilla. The mechanic found two trash bags full of bricks of marijuana when he opened the trunk of the 1989 Cadillac to disconnect the shocks, Padilla said. The mechanic's supervisor called police, who questioned Howard. Howard, on federal probation for drug smuggling smuggling, illegal transport across state or national boundaries of goods or persons liable to customs or to prohibition. Smuggling has been carried on in nearly all nations and has occasionally been adopted as an instrument of national policy, as by Great Britain , denied knowing anything illegal was in the trunk, telling police he borrowed the car from a friend whose last name he didn't remember, Padilla said. Howard was in custody at the county jail Monday for investigation of possession of marijuana for sale and transportation, according to police. - Associated Press Burbank Kiwanians raise refugee relief BURBANK - The Burbank Noon Kiwanis Club has raised more than $5,400 for the Kosovo refugees and will turn the funds over to the American Red Cross American Red Cross: see Red Cross. Burbank Chapter at the Kiwanis Club meeting Wednesday. Club President Stephen Veres, himself a refugee from Hungary, spearheaded the Kosovo Relief Fund effort at the club and has called upon other local clubs to contribute as well. For information on how to donate to the refugee fund, contact Veres at (818) 843-2600. - Daily News Foundation grants help area agencies GLENDALE - Sixteen local charitable organizations and two students received a total of $30,800 in grants from the Glendale Community Foundation. The foundation is a publicly supported charitable endowment that makes grants to local nonprofit organizations. The recent recipients include: The Glendale Chamber of Commerce Foundation, which received a $5,000 matching grant matching grant Academia Non-peer-reviewed funding in which a commercial enterprise, foundation, or philanthropy, federal government, contributes a sum of money that 'matches' a financial contribution made by an institution, university or hospital. for its Character and Ethics program. The Atwater Park Center, which received $3,727 for a new photocopier photocopier Device for producing copies of text or graphic material by the use of light, heat, chemicals, or electrostatic charge. Most modern copiers use a method called xerography. . Foothill Family Service, which received $3,000 toward its Esteem program to provide mental health and intervention services via a bilingual Armenian therapist. Kerry Marshall, who received a $100 award, and Katrina Prosser, who received a $750 scholarship. Other grants went to the Glendale Family YMCA YMCA in full Young Men's Christian Association Nonsectarian, nonpolitical Christian lay movement that aims to develop high standards of Christian character among its members. , YWCA YWCA abbr. Young Women's Christian Association YWCA n abbr (= Young Women's Christian Association) → Asociación f de Jóvenes Cristianas YWCA of Glendale, First United Methodist Church First United Methodist Church is a common name for the first United Methodist church established in a particular locality. Many First United Methodist Churches exist around the world. of Glendale, St. Anne's Maternity Home maternity home Obstetrics Birth center, see there Social medicine A residence for pregnant ♀ , The Salvation Army, the Glendale Foundation for the Retarded, the Alex Regional Theatre Board, the Council on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse, Hollygrove Children's Home, Roosevelt Middle School, the Glendale Concert Association and Phi Beta Kappa Phi Beta Kappa: see fraternity. Phi Beta Kappa Leading academic honour society in the U.S., which draws its membership from college and university students. The oldest Greek-letter society in the U.S. . For information, contact the foundation at (818) 241-8040. - Daily News |
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