BRIEFLY.Mayor nominates 5 for board posts Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa announced Monday that he was nominating a cross section of labor activists and specialists as his appointees to the city's Civil Service Board of Commissioners. Villaraigosa said he was seeking to appoint residents with various backgrounds to the panel, which oversees civil-service rules and disciplinary matters against workers. The five nominees, subject to City Council confirmation, are Sylvia Drew Ivie, a poverty and civil-rights attorney; Yolanda Vega, director of LA Health Action; John Perez, past president of United Teachers Los Angeles; Margaret Leal-Sotelo, a lifetime health policy and labor advocate; and attorney Prosy pros·y adj. pros·i·er, pros·i·est 1. Matter-of-fact and dry; prosaic. 2. Dull; commonplace. [From prose. Abarquez-Delacruz. - Daily News New toys needed for holiday drive The Northeast Valley Health Corp. is collecting toys through Dec. 7 to make the holidays brighter for needy children 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. . New, unwrapped toys for newborns to age 10 are being accepted at the organization's corporate office, 1172 N. Maclay Ave., San Fernando, and at the following locations: Canoga Park Health Center, 7107 Remmet Ave.; Valencia Health Center, 23763 Valencia Blvd; Pacoima Health Center, 12756 Van Nuys Blvd.; San Fernando Health Center, 1600 San Fernando Road San Fernando Road is a major street in the city and county of Los Angeles. It starts off in Castaic as The Old Road, passing through Santa Clarita and the Newhall Pass, where upon its intersection with Sierra Highway near the junction of the Golden State (I-5) and the ; and Van Nuys Pediatric pediatric /pe·di·at·ric/ (pe?de-at´rik) pertaining to the health of children. pe·di·at·ric adj. Of or relating to pediatrics. Health Center, 7138 Van Nuys Blvd. - Daily News Shooting victim is ID'd by police SYLMAR - Juan Borjas, a 20-year-old resident of Canyon Country, was identified by police as the victim in a fatal shooting Friday night on the 1300 block of MacNeil Street. Borjas was shot multiple times in the roadway about 7:30 p.m., and died at 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 , Mission Area Detective Jim Freund said. Police have found no eyewitnesses and have few leads, Freund said. ``It's a real whodunit,'' Freund said. ``We don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. if there was a dispute before this or anything.'' Anyone with information on the shooting is asked to call the Mission Area Police Station at (818) 838-9800. - Daily News Man, 21, charged in carnival death An alleged gang member was charged Monday with murder in the Nov. 13 shooting death of a 14-year-old boy outside a neighborhood carnival in Jefferson Park. Los Angeles Superior Court Commissioner James N. Bianco ordered Jason Robert Walton, 21, held on $2 million bail pending arraignment A criminal proceeding at which the defendant is officially called before a court of competent jurisdiction, informed of the offense charged in the complaint, information, indictment, or other charging document, and asked to enter a plea of guilty, not guilty, or as otherwise permitted , which was postponed to Dec. 5 at the defense's request. - City News Service UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX gets funds for nurse program Newly approved funding will allow UCLA to restore a bachelor's degree program in nursing that fell under the budget ax in the mid-1990s, the university said Monday. In voting to approve $5.2 million to fund the undergraduate program and a new entry-level master's in nursing - to begin in the 2006-07 academic year - the University of California The University of California has a combined student body of more than 191,000 students, over 1,340,000 living alumni, and a combined systemwide and campus endowment of just over $7.3 billion (8th largest in the United States). Board of Regents An independent governing body that oversees a state's public Colleges and Universities. All 50 states have governing bodies that oversee the administration of public education. was responding to the shortage of nurses in California. Admissions to both new programs are expected to begin in fall 2006, and plans call for UCLA to hire 22 new faculty members and five new staff members in the next three years, officials said. - City News Service Suspect arrested in murder attempt STUDIO CITY - A man suspected of attempted murder was arrested Monday after undercover officers spotted him driving a black Mercedes-Benz, police said. The man, whose identity was not released, was spotted in Sherman Oaks. Soon afterward, officers in a patrol car ordered him to stop in the 12600 block of Ventura Boulevard in Studio City, Los Angeles Police Officer Jason Lee said. - City News Service |
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