BRIEFLY MEETING TONIGHT ON BOROUGH PLAN.NORTH HOLLYWOOD - A special meeting 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. City Council's Education and Neighborhoods Committee will convene 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. tonight for a public hearing on Councilwoman Wendy Greuel's proposal to break the city up into boroughs. The meeting will begin at 6:30 p.m. at Victory Boulevard Victory Boulevard is a major thoroughfare on Staten Island, measuring approximately 8.0 miles (12.87 km) and stretching from the west shore community of Travis to the upper east shore communities of St. George and Tompkinsville. Elementary School at 6315 Radford Ave. This is the first of three special public meetings of the committee to discuss the borough plan, which was proposed to offer an alternative to secession. The other two sessions will be held in Hollywood and in the Harbor area. - Daily News Costly lobbying on cell phones In terms of money spent on lobbyists, the most expensive issue at Los Angeles City Hall during the first quarter of 2002 involved locations for cellular telephone antennas, the city Ethics Commission reported Monday. From January to March, three lobbying firms reported receiving a combined total of $292,705 for work on the cell-phone antenna issue. The Ahmanson Ranch development project was second at $127,310. The 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. Vista development was third at $125,438. Cell phone antennas have ranked in the top five lobbying matters, based on money spent, since the second quarter of 2000. The issue has generated more than $1.6 million in lobbying fees since then, according to the commission. - Daily News Missile liftoff tests reliability VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE Vandenberg Air Force Base, U.S. military installation, 3,456 acres (1,399 hectares), SW Calif., near Lompoc; chief Pacific coast launch site for military satellites. - An unarmed 70-foot-high Peacekeeper missile was launched early Monday in a reliability test of the country's intercontinental ballistic missile intercontinental ballistic missile: see guided missile. system, the Air Force said. - Associated Press Hearing today for 4 in gunfire Four men who exchanged gunfire with each other during a gang-related altercation over the weekend are scheduled to be arraigned today. Adam Mendoza, 21, of Sun Valley, and Andrew Legaspi, 22, of Los Angeles were booked on suspicion of attempted murder in connection with a Sunday afternoon shooting that occurred in the 400 block of Thompson Avenue, police said. According to Sgt. Kirk Palmer, the two men, who were driving by in a green SUV, issued some type of gang challenge to Edwin Gamez of Glendale and Paul Gonzalez of Los Angeles, both 20. Gamez and Gonzalez, 20, who returned fire after being shot at, were also booked on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon Assault with a Deadly Weapon is the term used to describe the act of threatening to harm one or more people by using a weapon (usually a firearm). Here, assault must be differentiated from battery as they are often confused. Assault is threatening to use force. . - Daily News Yearly safety fair set for Saturday The third-annual North Valley Safety Fair sponsored by the Greater Valley Medical Group and Providence Holy Cross Medical Center Providence Holy Cross Medical Center is a hospital in Mission Hills, California, USA. The hospital has 254 beds, and is part of Providence Health & Services. History will be held Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the medical center. The event will take place in the Indian Hills Parking Lot at the corner of Indian Hills Road and Rinandi Street in Mission Hills. For more information, call (818) 898-4577. - Daily News |
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