BRIEFLY.1,500 volunteers sought by county Los Angeles County officials are looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. 1,500 volunteers to participate in an emergency preparedness exercise to be held next week. The annual Cities Readiness Initiative Plan tests how local municipalities respond to bioterrorism, including the release of anthrax anthrax (ăn`thrăks), acute infectious disease of animals that can be secondarily transmitted to humans. It is caused by a bacterium (Bacillus anthracis and dispensing antibiotics within 48 hours, officials said. Officials say that while the focus of the simulation is on bioterrorism, the program also applies to a pandemic pandemic /pan·dem·ic/ (pan-dem´ik) 1. a widespread epidemic of a disease. 2. widely epidemic. pan·dem·ic adj. Epidemic over a wide geographic area. n. flu outbreak scenario. The program is funded by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), agency of the U.S. Public Health Service since 1973, with headquarters in Atlanta; it was established in 1946 as the Communicable Disease Center. and will be held in Glendale and Long Beach from 7 a.m. to noon on Feb. 2. For more information go to http://www.vcla.net/disaster-ex.htm or contact Linda Underwood for www.cert-la.com. - Daily News Ribbon-cutting at Valley campus PANORAMA CITY- Los Angeles Unified officials held a ribbon-cutting ceremony Wednesday to formally open an 800-student elementary school. Noble New Elementary School No. 1, at 8600 Kester Ave., includes 32 classrooms, a library, multipurpose room, food service, lunch shelter, and playground facilities on nearly 4 acres. The school relieves overcrowding overcrowding overcrowding of animal accommodation. Many countries now publish codes of practice which define what the appropriate volumetric allowances should be for each species of animal when they are housed indoors. Breaches of these codes is overcrowding. at nearby Noble and Langdon elementary schools. - Daily News Hunting proposal faces opposition VENTURA - The Board of Supervisors has voted to fight a plan calling for transfer of Santa Rosa Island Santa Rosa Island, narrow barrier beach between the Gulf of Mexico and Santa Rosa Sound, NW Fla. in the vicinity of Pensacola, extending c.50 mi (80 km) parallel to the coast. It is the site of Fort Pickens and of a missile-launching station. The island is also a resort area. to the military for recreational hunting. Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-El Cajon, who proposed the idea twice last year, was criticized supervisors, who voted unanimously Tuesday to fight transfer of the National Park Service island. Supervisor Judy Mikels said that if Hunter wants to create hunting grounds he should be ``straight up'' about it and ``not hide behind the men and women in uniform.'' The military hasn't proposed a change in use of the island. ``This has nothing to do with the military,'' Mikels said. ``This is a ploy.'' Santa Rosa Island has been a national park since the mid-1980s, when the Vail & Vickers Cattle Co. sold it to the federal government for $29.5 million. The company won the right to continue ranching and hunting deer and elk, but that is due to end in 2011. - Associated Press 68-year-old kept in Twin Towers GLENDALE - A 68-year-old Glendale grandmother remained in custody Wednesday after allegedly intimidating four witnesses outside a court hearing for her grandson, who is charged with second-degree murder in the vehicle-related death of a teenager. Marusya Zatkyan was arrested Friday, was formally charged with four counts of witness intimidation this week and pleaded not guilty Tuesday, a prosecutor said. She was transferred from Glendale jail to the county's Twin Towers Correctional Facility The Twin Towers Correctional Facility, also referred to in the media as Twin Towers Jail, is a complex erected in Los Angeles, California to house inmates of the Los Angeles County Courts. It is the world’s largest jail. , where she is being held on $100,000 bail, according to the Sheriff's Department. Zatkyan's case is scheduled for a hearing on Feb. 6. - Daily News LADWP LADWP Los Angeles Department of Water and Power has many ways to pay bills The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) is the largest municipal utility in the United States, serving 3.9 million residents in 2006. It was founded in 1902 to deliver water and electricity supplies to residents and businesses in Los Angeles. is offering easier ways to pay bills, officials said Wednesday. Customers can pay bills using an automated debit plan, which allows the LADWP to deduct the amount due from a credible checking or savings account Savings Account A deposit account intended for funds that are expected to stay in for the short term. A savings account offers lower returns than the market rates. Notes: 10 days after a billing statement is sent. Customers can also pay bills via the Internet or an automated telephone system, using a checking or savings account that is enrolled in the plan. However, those using a credit card will be charged a $5.95 transaction fee. For more information or to sign up, call 1-800-342-5397 or log on at www.ladwp.com. - Daily News |
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