BRIEFLY BUREAU TO ADDRESS WATER SANITATION.The Bureau of Sanitation will hold two meetings at its office in Glassell Park on Wednesday to ask people what environmental and quality-of- life issues should be studied as the city develops its 20-year plan for managing wastewater, storm water and drinking water drinking water supply of water available to animals for drinking supplied via nipples, in troughs, dams, ponds and larger natural water sources; an insufficient supply leads to dehydration; it can be the source of infection, e.g. leptospirosis, salmonellosis, or of poisoning, e.g. . Called the Integrated Resource Plan, the project is an effort to meet water demands as the city grows by 700,000 people over the next 20 years. The city has several alternatives on the table, which include plans to enlarge the Tillman Water Reclamation Plant in Sepulveda Basin and Hyperion Treatment Plan in Playa playa or pan or flat or dry lake Flat-bottomed depression that is periodically covered by water. Playas occur in interior desert basins and adjacent to coasts in arid and semiarid regions. del Rey Del Rey may refer to:
The meetings will be held at 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. at 2714 Media Center Drive in Glassell Park. For more information, go to the project's Web site, www.lacity.org/san/irp/index.htm. - Daily News Restaurant sued by disabled man SYLMAR - A quadriplegic quadriplegic /quad·ri·ple·gic/ (-ple´jik) 1. of, pertaining to, or characterized by quadriplegia. 2. an individual with quadriplegia. man has sued a Mexican restaurant in Sylmar that he says forbade him to eat on the premises because he was accompanied by a service dog. The suit filed Thursday in Los Angeles Superior Court alleges Christopher Gabler went to dinner at El Caporal cap·o·ral n. A strong dark tobacco. [French, short for (tabac de) caporal, corporal('s tobacco), from Italian caporale, from capo, head; see capo1.] on May 6. He was allowed to purchase food but was told he could not eat inside with the dog, the suit states. Nelson Solis, the restaurant manager, said service dogs are allowed, but only for the blind, and added that Gabler was accompanied by another person. The restaurant, which has a ``no pets'' sign, is small, with tables close together, making it difficult for people to eat with a dog around, particularly if they can't tell if it's friendly, Solis said. Gabler was asked to leave the dog outside, Solis said. - City News Service Picketing planned at medical center BURBANK - The Service Employees International Union will hold an ``informational picket'' today at Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center is a hospital in Burbank, California, USA. The hospital has 455 beds, and is part of Providence Health & Services. It's adress is: 501 S. Buena Vista St., Burbank, CA 91505. to protest the layoff of 89 workers at the hospital, officials said. The workers, including laundry attendants, technicians, secretaries and clerks, were reportedly given pink slips in June and are scheduled to lose their jobs Aug. 8. The union wants PSJMC PSJMC Provena Saint Joseph Medical Center to do more to find placement for the workers in vacant positions at the hospital, said Blanca Gallegos, a spokeswoman for SEIU SEIU Service Employees International Union SEIU Special Education Intake Unit SEIU Secondary Education Interdisciplinary Unit SEIU Software Engineering Institute Union Local 399. The picket is planned from 2:45 p.m. to 4 p.m. - Daily News |
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