BRIEFLY.2 killed, 1 hurt in Valley shooting PACOIMA - Two people were killed and a third was wounded Monday night in an apparent gang-related shooting on the 13200 block of Kelowna Street near Laurel Canyon Boulevard Laurel Canyon Boulevard is a major street in the city of Los Angeles, California. It starts off at Polk Street in Sylmar in the northern San Fernando Valley near the junction of the San Diego (Interstate 405) and the Golden State Freeways (Interstate 5). , police said. Officer Mike Lopez said the shooting, possibly from a passing vehicle, occurred at about 7 p.m. Monday. Police arrived at the location to find two male Latinos dead from gunshot wounds. Another shooting victim was taken to a local hospital in a private vehicle, Lopez said. No other information was available. -Daily News Bradley Landfill to be discussed SUN VALLEY - Waste Management Inc. will host two community meetings this week to discuss its proposal to expand Bradley Landfill and build a trash transfer station at its Sun Valley site. An English-language meeting will be held at 7 tonight at Francis Polytechnic High School, 12431 Roscoe Blvd. A Spanish-language meeting, with English interpretation available, will be held at 7 p.m. Thursday at Polytechnic High. Waste Management has proposed raising the height of the landfill by 43 feet and building a facility, capable of taking 7,500 tons per day, for trash sorting, trash transfer and green- waste processing. More information on the project is available athttp://cityplanning.lacity.org/EIR/BradleyLandfill/DEIR/Bradley%20Landfill.htm. - Daily News Health poll adds violence queries Questions on domestic violence are being added to UCLA's statewide health survey, thanks to a $450,000 grant from the Blue Shield of California Blue Shield of California is a not-for-profit health insurance provider headquartered in San Francisco, California. An independent licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, Blue Shield of California is an incorporated, wholly owned subsidiary of California Physicians' Foundation, it was announced Monday. Researchers at the Center for Health Policy Research at the University of California, Los Angeles UCLA comprises the College of Letters and Science (the primary undergraduate college), seven professional schools, and five professional Health Science schools. Since 2001, UCLA has enrolled over 33,000 total students, and that number is steadily rising. , will use the funding to add domestic violence data to the California Health Interview Survey. ``National and state survey data that focuses on domestic violence is sorely lacking,'' said Crystal Hayling, president of Blue Shield of California Foundation. ``Adding a domestic violence element to the California Health Interview Survey will provide invaluable information and understanding about the issue so that it can be addressed more effectively at the state and local level,'' Hayling said. Since 2001, the statewide survey has been conducted every two years by 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 , working in cooperation with the California Department of Health Services Department of Health Services may refer to:
- City News Service City panel favors sessions in Valley A second committee recommended Monday that the Los Angeles City Council  The Los Angeles City Council is the governing body of the City of Los Angeles, California, United States. meet one Friday a month at Van Nuys City Hall in an attempt to be more accessible to San Fernando Valley San Fernando ValleyValley, 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. residents. The council's Budget and Finance Committee also approved plans to install $150,000 worth of audio and video equipment at Van Nuys City Hall to broadcast meetings. The council's Rules and Elections Committee signed off on the plan on Feb. 8. The matter will now go to the full City Council for a final vote. Staffers from the city's Information Technology Agency said it would be cheaper in the long run to purchase the equipment and have five city workers operate it at a cost of $961 per meeting. - City News Service East L.A. children pledging to read More than 200 East Los Angeles-area schoolchildren schoolchildren school npl → écoliers mpl; (at secondary school) → collégiens mpl; lycéens mpl schoolchildren school pledged Monday to read 1 million words by June 3 in anticipation of the fourth annual Feria fe·ri·a n. pl. fe·ri·as or fe·ri·ae A weekday on a church calendar on which no feast is observed. [Medieval Latin f Del Libro: A Family Book Fair. The million-word campaign and book fair, launched in 2003, promote literacy in the communities of Lincoln Heights, El Sereno, Boyle Heights, East and Central Los Angeles, which lack bookstores. The first year, about 5,000 people showed up for the book fair, said Olga Quinones of the 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. . This year, more than 25,000 are expected to attend the fair on the steps of City Hall, she said. LAUSD LAUSD Los Angeles Unified School District (Los Angeles, CA) Superintendent Roy Romer, City Councilman Jose Huizar and bookseller Rueben Martinez helped kick off the program Monday at Utah Elementary School. - City News Service |
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