BRIEFLY : VALLEY GROUP DRAFTS MAP ON SECESSION.Leaders of Valley Voters Organized Toward Empowerment released a map Thursday of the proposed boundaries for a new city if the 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. breaks away from 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. . The executive board approved the map Wednesday and plans to use it on petitions seeking residents' approval to put the measure on the ballot. The proposed boundaries would follow the Los Angeles city boundaries on the west, north and east. From the eastern city boundary, the proposed boundary would follow south down the eastern edge of Barham Boulevard to the Hollywood Freeway, down the western edge of the Hollywood Freeway to Mulholland Drive For the motion picture, see . Mulholland Drive is a very well-known road in Los Angeles, California named after engineer William Mulholland. A portion of it is also called Mulholland Highway. , then west along the southern edge of Mulholland Drive to Owen Brown Owen Brown (1771-1856) was an Oberlin College trustee from 1835-1844 and the founder of the abolitionist Oberlin Church (“Free Church”). In 1833 he helped to found the Western Reserve Anti-Slavery Society. He was the father of John Brown. Road above Woodland Hills, then south along the eastern edge of Owen Brown until it exists with the present Los Angeles boundary. - Daily News O.C. district gets bilingualism waiver WESTMINSTER - An Orange County school district has received a permanent waiver from providing bilingual education bilingual education, the sanctioned use of more than one language in U.S. education. The Bilingual Education Act (1968), combined with a Supreme Court decision (1974) mandating help for students with limited English proficiency, requires instruction in the native , a decision seen as significant by English-only proponents. The state Board of Education's 6-0 decision Wednesday to grant Westminster School District an ongoing renewal of its bilingual education waiver was seen as a loosening of the regulation that affects 1.4 million students who speak, read and write limited English. The decision overrode o·ver·rode v. Past tense of override. a Department of Education recommendation to grant the district only a two-year renewal of a temporary waiver it has held since 1996. The Westminster district has large numbers of Vietnamese- and Spanish-speaking children among its 9,500 students. - Associated Press Glendale hospital to hold blood drive GLENDALE - Glendale Memorial Hospital and Health Center will hold a blood drive today to help the American Red Cross American Red Cross: see Red Cross. . With blood supplies dwindling dwin·dle v. dwin·dled, dwin·dling, dwin·dles v.intr. To become gradually less until little remains. v.tr. To cause to dwindle. See Synonyms at decrease. , the American Red Cross has been calling for blood donors to donate during and after the holidays when supplies typically diminish. The drive will take place from 10:45 a.m. to 3:45 p.m. in the hospital auditorium today. The hospital is located at 1420 S. Central Ave., Glendale. - Daily News Suspects arrested in bomb threats Two men were arrested Thursday in connection with at least 10 bomb threats primarily in the San Fernando Valley within the past six months, authorities said. Jeffrey Campbell, 36, of Burbank and Justin Bertone, 19, of Sunland were arrested at 7 a.m. on suspicion of terrorist threats, according to Detective Bob Nelson of the Criminal Conspiracy Section of the Los Angeles Police Department "LAPD" and "L.A.P.D." redirect here. For other uses, see LAPD (disambiguation).  This article or section is written like an . . In at least 10 cases, the suspects contacted 911 operators to direct officers to the location of an inactive bomb, Nelson said in a prepared statement. In all cases, the devices were determined to resemble bombs but were inactive. The FBI and agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms assisted in the lengthy investigation, officials said. The suspects were booked at the Jail Division of the Los Angeles Police Department. The two each were being held in lieu of $2.5 million bail. - Daily News |
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