BRIEFLY L.A. RECREATION DIRECTOR TO LEAVE.The head 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. Department of Recreation and Parks announced this week that she is leaving to take a similar post in San Diego San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. - the fourth general manager to leave since Mayor James Hahn took office last year. Ellie Oppenheim, who has been head of the department for three years, said she would take a pay cut from her annual salary of $187,500 to take the San Diego job. ``This is an offer that came about at the right time for me, personally,'' Oppenheim said. ``I love the city of Los Angeles
Hahn aides said the mayor regretted Oppenheim's departure. - Daily News Abduction Abduction Balfour, David expecting inheritance, kidnapped by uncle. [Br. Lit.: Kidnapped] Bertram, Henry kidnapped at age five; taken from Scotland. [Br. Lit. leads to life sentence One of two men who abducted abducted Distal angulation of an extremity away from the midline of the body in a transverse plane and away from a sagittal plane passing through the proximal aspect of the foot or part, or away from some other specified reference point a couple in an alley in 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. in 1999 and sexually assaulted the pregnant woman was sentenced Tuesday to 51 years to life in state prison, plus a second life term. Van Nuys Superior Court Judge Debre Weintraub imposed the sentence on Brian Richie, 26. The other defendant, Joseph Navar Downey, now 25, was sentenced last May to two life prison terms for the same attack and for a March 29, 1999, assault on another couple in the same block. - City News Service Secession talks set for Tarzana TARZANA - The San Fernando Valley secession movement will be the topic of discussion at the Tarzana Property Owners Association's annual town hall meeting at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday. Panelists invited to discuss secession include Los Angeles County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky; City Councilwoman Cindy Miscikowski; Richard Close, chairman of Valley Voters Organized Toward Empowerment; and Larry Levine, co-chairman of the anti-secession group One Los Angeles. Association members said the public is invited to attend the meeting at the El Caballero cab·al·le·ro n. pl. cab·al·le·ros 1. A Spanish gentleman; a cavalier. 2. A man who is skilled in riding and managing horses; a horseman. Country Club, 18300 Tarzana Dr., in Tarzana. - Daily News Officials get private reviews Despite objections that members of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors is the five member governing board of Los Angeles County, California. Members of the board of supervisors are elected by district, the current members as of April 2006 are:
``County employees who endeavor to provide critical public services at the direction of these department heads are concerned that these evaluations are pro forma As a matter of form or for the sake of form. Used to describe accounting, financial, and other statements or conclusions based upon assumed or anticipated facts. The phrase pro forma , based upon the department head's relationship with the supervisors rather than on well-defined goals and objectives,'' said Ralph Miller, president of the Los Angeles County Probation Officers Union. - Daily News Activists to win college grants High school seniors who are active volunteers can earn college scholarships from the Fernando Award Foundation Inc. The organization will award scholarships of $1,000 each to 10 qualified seniors in June during their campus graduation ceremonies. Any high school senior may apply by filling out an application at a school career center or guidance department. The deadline is May 1. Applications may be sent to the Fernando Award Foundation Inc., Galpin Ford, 15505 Roscoe Blvd., North Hills, CA 91343. - Daily News Quake-tracking network grows Earthquake-monitoring technology developed for Southern California by the California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology, at Pasadena, Calif.; originally for men, became coeducational in 1970; founded 1891 as Throop Polytechnic Institute; called Throop College of Technology, 1913–20. , the U.S. Geological Survey and others will benefit the entire state under an expanded network unveiled Tuesday, scientists said. The network, which can create images known as shake maps, is intended to give emergency workers fast, complete information about areas where damage may have occurred after a temblor. - City News Service |
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