BRIEFLY RETIREE NUMBERS DISPUTED BY UNION.The police union Friday disputed estimates from the Mayor's Office that as many as 400 LAPD 1. LAPD - Link Access Procedure on the D channel. 2. LAPD - Los Angeles Police Department. officers will retire next year, saying the number will likely be less than 200. ``I can honestly tell you the last time I checked, the amount of people we've lost, as of maybe two weeks ago, was 123, and the year ends July 1,''said 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. Police Protective League President Bob Baker. If the league's numbers turn out to be right, the LAPD would end the next fiscal year with 100 to 250 officers more than the current total, bringing it closer to Hahn's goal of increasing the force by 320 next year. Deputy Mayor Matt Middlebrook said Hahn would be pleased by fewer retirements, but added such rosy projections can't be depended upon. - City News Service Cleanup day set for Sunland area SUNLAND - A community cleanup day will be held Saturday in Sunland, Tujunga and nearby areas, city officials said. A drop-off location for bulky items and unwanted household items will operate from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday in the Kmart parking lot at 8040 Foothill Blvd., Sunland. In response to illegal dumping, teams of volunteers including Councilwoman Wendy Greuel and her staff will spread out to identify discarded items in need of pickup by the city Bureau of Sanitation and Street Services. - Daily News Boys & Girls Club will open in fall THOUSAND OAKS - A $1.25 million Boys & Girls Club will open this fall at Los Cerritos Middle School in Thousand Oaks. The Conejo Valley Unified School District's Board of Education unanimously approved the 10,000 square foot club that will share space with Los Cerritos earlier this week. The club, which offers before and after school programs, will be primarily used by those attending the school. The new facility will paid for by the Boys and Girls boys and girls mercurialisannua. Club of Conejo and Las Virgenes. It will include a homework room, a computer lab, a dance studio and an arts and crafts arts and crafts, term for that general field of applied design in which hand fabrication is dominant. The term was coined in England in the late 19th cent. as a label for the then-current movement directed toward the revivifying of the decorative arts. room. It is one of six being proposed in the area. Summer programs will begin on June 16 at the Los Cerritos Middle School. It costs $25 to join and $10 a day. - Daily News Safety from hate is topic of forum ENCINO - The public is invited to a free community forum Monday on hate crimes and terrorism. The 7 p.m. forum will focus on the topic ``Making your community and religious institutions safe.'' It will be held 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. of Encino, 4963 Balboa Blvd., which was the site of a recent arson attack. The gathering is sponsored by the Anti-Defamation League Anti-Defamation League B’nai B’rith organization which fights anti-Semitism. [Am. Hist.: Wigoder, 33] See : Anti-Semitism and co- sponsored by a number of local groups and officials, including Mayor James Hahn; Rep. Howard Berman, D-Van Nuys; and Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky, who will deliver opening remarks at the session. - Daily News Mission students in competition SYLMAR - Eight Los Angeles Mission College Los Angeles Mission College is a two-year community college located in Sylmar, California neighborhood of Los Angeles in the San Fernando Valley, United States. It is part of the Los Angeles Community College District. culinary arts students will be traveling to Las Vegas June 17-20 for a culinary competition. The students, with their coach, Executive Chef Rudy Garcia, AAC (Advanced Audio Coding) An audio compression technology that is part of the MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 standards. AAC, especially MPEG-4 AAC, provides greater compression and better sound quality than MP3, which also came out of the MPEG standard. , will compete in The $2,500 Las Vegas culinary Challenge, sponsored by the Culinary Federation of Las Vegas, at the Las Vegas Convention Center The Las Vegas Convention Center is owned and operated by the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority and is located in Clark County, Nevada. It is one of the largest Convention centers in the world. At the end of 2004, the center had 3. . The competition is the biggest culinary competition in 13-state western region. The Mission team will compete in the area of hot and cold food and the dessert competition. The students are: Karen Brooks, Eva Hicks, Michael Floyde, Scott Sullivan, Jesse Tamoria, Carlton Carlisle, Rafael Lopez and Joseph Perez. - Daily News LAUSD LAUSD Los Angeles Unified School District (Los Angeles, CA) officials offer tests for TB Los Angeles Unified School District The Los Angeles Unified School District (the "LAUSD") is the largest (in terms of number of students) public school system in California and the second-largest in the United States. Only the New York City Department of Education has a larger student population. officials are offering tuberculosis skin tests to students at an undisclosed school in the West 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. after learning that a student there was diagnosed with symptoms of the disease, officials said Friday. Citing privacy rights, LAUSD head nurse Karen Maiorca would not disclose which school the infected student came from. She would only say the student attended school in local District A. District officials are working closely with the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services The Los Angeles County Department of Health Services (DHS) in Los Angeles County's department providing public and personal health services to the over 10 million residents in the County. to investigate the case. Parents with concerns about the tuberculosis case can contact the district's nursing services at (213) 763-8374. - Daily News Fire hits home in Fernwood area TOPANGA CANYON - County firefighters battled a house fire in the Fernwood section of Topanga Canyon late Friday, a fire official said. The blaze in the 20000 block of Valley View Drive was reported at 9:15 p.m., said Los Angeles County Fire Capt. Steve Powell. The a two-story single family home was ``well-involved'' when firefighters arrived, he said. - City News Service |
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