BRIEFLY WINNETKA COUNCIL IS 75TH TO CERTIFY.A 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. group became the 75th certified Neighborhood Council in the city, it was announced Monday. The new council in the community of Winnetka was approved by the Board of Neighborhood Commissioners and becomes the latest to organize under the new city charter. The council represents more than 45,000 people living and working between Nordhoff Street, 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. , Corbin and DeSoto Avenues. ``This is a community with a special will to bring everyone to the table and give them an opportunity to participate in government,'' Mayor James Hahn For the Iowa politician, see . James Kenneth "Jim" Hahn (born July 3, 1950) is an American politician from the Democratic Party. He was the Deputy City Attorney (1975-1979), City Controller (1981-1985), City Attorney (1985-2001) and Mayor of Los Angeles, California said. - Daily News CYA CYA Cover your ass. See Defensive medicine. coed facility to remove males CAMARILLO - The California Youth Authority is expected to remove males from its only coed facility starting next year. Officials said the move would save the state money and end some chronic problems at the scandal-plagued location, the CYA's only coed facility. Youth authority administrators had urged Gov. Gray Davis to close the male portion of the Ventura County prison long before the California budget crisis loomed. It would save $5.3 million a year. - Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. Suspect to return after Vegas arrest BURBANK - Joong Myung Kim, accused of strangling his wife at their home early Wednesday, was expected to return to Burbank this week after waiving extradition in Nevada, police said Monday. The 53-year-old Burbank resident, who was being held in a Las Vegas Las Vegas (läs vā`gəs), city (1990 pop. 258,295), seat of Clark co., S Nev.; inc. 1911. It is the largest city in Nevada and the center of one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the United States. jail, was arrested Thursday in Las Vegas on suspicion of murder in the death of his wife, Young Sun Cho, 45, whose body was found at their apartment on the 600 block of East Cedar Avenue, police said. - Daily News Van Nuys library closed for months VAN NUYS - The Van Nuys Branch of the Los Angeles Public Library
The Los Angeles Public Library (LAPL) system serves the residents of Los Angeles, California. will be closed for about four months for seismic improvement work. Books borrowed from the Van Nuys Branch can be returned to any Los Angeles Public Library branch, officials said. - City News Service Grants to provide education in arts The California Community Foundation The California Community Foundation, located in Los Angeles, California serves all of Los Angeles County and is the United States' second-oldest community foundation. It has assets of over $1 billion and makes grants for several different charitable purposes. announced Monday that it awarded $178,630 in grants to eight Los Angeles nonprofit organizations that provide disadvantaged children with arts-based education and child care services. The grants included $20,000 to City Hearts in Topanga Canyon for an after-school arts education program and $25,000 for the Woodcraft wood·craft n. 1. Skill and experience in matters relating to the woods, as hunting, fishing, or camping. 2. The act, process, or art of carving or fashioning objects from wood. Noun 1. Rangers to launch after-school programs at Olive Vista and Maclay Middle schools in the San Fernando Valley. - Daily News No decision yet in rape victim's suit VENTURA - A Ventura County Superior Court offered no decision Monday in a lawsuit by a victim of convicted rapist Andrew Luster who is seeking millions from the Max Factor heir. The woman, identified as Shawna Doe, is suing Luster for emotional damages as one of three women he was convicted of drugging, raping and videotaping. Luster, a fugitive before his capture in Mexico earlier this summer, is serving what amounts to life in prison. Shawna Doe's lawyer, Barry Novack, said a copy of a videotape he submitted of the unconscious rape victim speaks for itself: ``I don't have to argue the graphicness of the case.'' - Daily News |
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