BRIEFLY : IMPACT OF JET-BAN PLAN SET FOR DEBATE.VAN NUYS - The Van Nuys Airport Van Nuys Airport (IATA: VNY, ICAO: KVNY, FAA LID: VNY) is a public airport located in Van Nuys, California in the San Fernando Valley, within the Los Angeles city limits. Citizens Advisory Council is set to meet today in a special meeting to debate the economic impact of a proposal to ban noisy Stage 2 jets from the airport. The proposal was laid out in a study by the Airport Corporation of America, which council members said they needed time to review when this debate was postponed two weeks ago at their regular meeting. The study found that the city and companies could lose up to $191 million in revenue and as many as 565 jobs if noisy Stage 2 jets are eliminated from the airport. The meeting will be held at 7 p.m. in the Sherman Room at the Airtel Plaza Hotel The Plaza Hotel in New York City is a landmark 19-story luxury hotel with a height of 250 feet (76 m) and length of 400 feet that (122 m) occupies the west side of Grand Army Plaza, from which it derives its name, and extends along Central Park South in Manhattan. , 7277 Valjean Ave., Van Nuys. - Daily News Residents welcome at forum on courts San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. residents are invited to have a say in the future of the 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 court system by attending a community meeting from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. today. The forum will be held at the San Fernando Courthouse Jury Assembly Room, 900 Third St., San Fernando. It is the second of five such meetings to solicit comments and suggestions from the community for a long-range plan dealing with such areas as jury reform, public accessibility and other areas of court operation and community relations. The public is invited to attend. - Daily News Breakfast to help Encino Scout troop Boy Scout Troop 431 of Encino will serve an old-fashioned pancake breakfast on Saturday to raise funds for the Scouts. The fund-raiser will be held from 8 to 11 a.m. at First Presbyterian Church First Presbyterian Church is a generic church name, and can refer to hundreds of churches within the English speaking world. If you followed a link here, please consider making it more specific by including the city or town in which the church resides. , 4963 Balboa Blvd., Encino, officials said. Donations will be $3.50. - Daily News Newspaper delivery driver shot to death LONG BEACH - A delivery driver for the Press-Telegram of Long Beach was shot to death early Monday while making rounds on his daily route, police said. Huong Ngoc Tran was found about 7:30 a.m. in the back seat of his gray pickup truck in an alley in the central district of the city. He was shot at least once in the upper torso and was pronounced dead at the scene, police spokeswoman Karen Owens said. Tran, 45, of Long Beach was last seen alive picking up Monday's editions at the newspaper's building about three to four hours earlier, Owens said. There was no motive for the shooting and no arrests were immediately made. - Associated Press State's civil rights staff will double The state attorney general will more than double his civil rights enforcement staff, under a five-point plan to crack down on violations and reach out to the public. ``Attorney General (Bill) Lockyer feels that over the last eight years there has been a lack of attention to this issue,'' said Louis Verdugo, who was appointed to oversee the civil rights section at the California Department of Justice. ``We feel that we have been disconnected from the community, that people stopped filing complaints for a variety of reasons. - City News Service CSUN CSUN California State University Northridge dean vying for S. Illinois post A dean at California State University, Northridge CSUN offers a variety of programs leading to bachelor's degrees in 61 fields and master's degrees in 42 fields. The university has over 150,000 alumni. It's also home to a summer musical theater/theater program known as TADW (TeenAge Drama Workshop) that leads teenagers through an , is one of three candidates for the chancellor's job at Southern Illinois University Southern Illinois University, main campus at Carbondale; state supported; coeducational; est. 1869, opened 1874 as a normal school, renamed 1947. It has a center for archaeological investigation and a fisheries research laboratory. There is also a campus at Edwardsville. in Edwardsville, officials there said. Mary Kathryn Tetreault, interim dean and development associate for CSUN's College of Education, is competing with Paul Gaston, provost and executive vice president at Northern Kentucky University Northern Kentucky University is a public, co-educational university located in Highland Heights, Kentucky, seven miles (11 km) southeast of Cincinnati, Ohio. Enrollment is currently about 14,200 students. , and David Potter, vice president for executive affairs at George Mason University Named after American revolutionary, patriot and founding father George Mason, the university was founded as a branch of the University of Virginia in 1957 and became an independent institution in 1972. . Each will spend two days on campus next month to meet with faculty members and school President Ted Sanders. A final choice could be made when the school's trustees meet March 11, officials said. - Associated Press |
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